The Last Meal Roy Wood Jr. Made For His Father

The Sporkful

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4.6 • 3.8K Ratings

🗓️ 17 November 2025

⏱️ 35 minutes

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Roy Wood Jr. has long used humor to discuss topical issues and get at deeper truths. As a correspondent for The Daily Show, and now as the host of Have I Got News For You on CNN, he brings his own unique sensibility to political comedy. In his new memoir, The Man Of Many Fathers, he goes deep on his complicated relationship with his father, and the role food played in crucial moments of his childhood.

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0:00.0	Sirius XM Podcasts.
0:11.0	This episode contains explicit language.
0:15.0	R.B. Steak nuggets? Not going to try them? No, you're not going to try them?
0:18.5	Steak isn't something you just eat loose like dice.
0:23.2	It's funny, there's a psychological thing because in theory, why should it be so different
0:26.3	from chicken nuggets?
0:27.5	But it feels different.
0:29.0	Yeah, yeah.
0:31.0	It's like beef fingers.
0:32.8	We should have those.
0:34.8	I don't know if you went to public school, but in Birmingham public schools,
0:39.5	beef fingers were a staple.
0:41.3	Really?
0:41.9	Yeah, breaded chicken finger.
0:44.2	Chicken fingers of a beef.
0:45.0	Well, you have chicken fried steak in the shower.
0:46.7	Yeah, but that's shaped different, and it makes sense.
0:50.7	When you cut it in the strips, psychologically, your mind says chicken. Yeah, that's right.
0:55.2	And I like beef finger, like that sounds weird. Chicken fried straight. Mmm. Same gravy to dip it in, too.
1:02.6	The weird thing is that neither chickens nor cows have fingers. No. I'm going to raising canes
1:09.9	up for this.
1:14.2	This is the Sporkful.
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