Rolling onto the “Funky Friday” podcast on August 23rd by Cam Newton, sports journalist Joy Taylor made what would have otherwise been a friendly disagreement between co-workers a public knock-down, drag-out destruction derby of insults, and Jason Whitlock was the wreckage.
The Roast Heard ‘Round Sports Media
Taylor wasn’t here merely to listen to Whitlock’s opinions. Taylor was here for his soul, his shopping, and most of all, his cholesterol. “Whenever somebody says Jason Whitlock, man, I don’t even think he’s alive anymore,” she joked, straight-faced but venomous. “I’m not sure that anything works harder than his cholesterol if he’s being honest.”
That was enough to wrap up the bit, but Taylor came at him with Roast Battle tactics. She waved off his earlier snipes at her body, coming at him with a smorgasbord of fat jokes: “He said something about peanut butter, yeah? What a witty one. Food.”
So she turned to religion. “No, we don’t. Who loves Jason? Does God love Jason? I do not. I do not love Jason.”
Social media was already buzzing by then, half of them exclaiming “Queen!” and the other half exclaiming “Hypocrisy!”
Hiding out in the Shadows
Taylor swung out, describing Whitlock as some kind of hermit who does not walk out the door during the day. “Where are they gonna see him, a hole? He is not going out. Where is he gonna go? You are never gonna see him. He’s hiding, which is where he should stay.”
Not satisfied, she hammered the point home: “I don’t even think he goes grocery shopping. You’re not even going to see him. You’re gonna wait all week, all day, you’re not even going to see him.”
Basically, Joy Taylor declared Whitlock to be extinct in the wild.
