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Speaker 1 (00:00):
This is a podcast from WOOR from.
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Everywhere, USA. It's Fox Across America with Jimmy Fayler. It's
the best of Fox Across America with Jimmy Fayler.
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Here we go.
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Here we go from the greatest country in the world,
broadcasting from the tippy top of the world famous Fox
News Headquarters in.
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New York City.
Speaker 3 (00:19):
A big Labor Day best of episode of Fox Across
America with Jimmy Fala. Today we salute you the American worker,
you the American listener, by bringing on some of our
favorite hard working Americans, folks who embody everything it means
to be a capitalist, self determining human in the greatest
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country the world has ever known. We're going to talk
to Mike Rowe. We're going to talk to Tim Scott,
We're going to talk to Saturday Night Live alumn Kevin Nealan.
You're even gonna hear from Danny Boy O'Connor from the
iconic rap group Jump Around.
Speaker 1 (00:54):
What do they all have in common?
Speaker 3 (00:56):
They're all in on the joke that if you live
in this country, you hit the low damn it by
the unique fact that you have what we call American privilege.
So as you're having your barbecue, or watching your ball game,
or commuting into work like I am, you will be
joined by a host of some fine Americans, including this
very first one, South Carolina Senator Tim Scott. I was
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told I was interviewing an author, but based on your
tea regiment, am I also interviewing in R and B singer?
Speaker 1 (01:22):
Right?
Speaker 4 (01:22):
You know, let me just say the truth matters. I
tried out, of course, when I was in the tenth grade,
and my course teacher said, son, you are really talented.
You are actually remarkable on a football field. He says, Please,
have you ever heard of lipsiing? This is for Bill, Yeah,
a million MILLI.
Speaker 1 (01:40):
Yeah, he's before those guys. He just lips think the words.
Speaker 4 (01:44):
I mean, so a tenth grade I refused to sing
in public.
Speaker 3 (01:49):
I respect that though, because because no, and you know what,
teachers sometimes can help I giving you a little more honesty.
Something that really helped my creative process is when I
was five years old, I had made my mom a
book and I found it in the garbage that day.
Do you know how bad your art is if your
mom throws it out? That I really had like a
moment of self awareness, like card I could get my
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life together.
Speaker 1 (02:10):
Maybe this is why she helped create this shredder. My
mom was. She interviewed the paper she invented the paper trade.
I love that. I love this. Well.
Speaker 3 (02:18):
We're talking about, you know, persistence and overcoming odds and
everything in between. So much of this book is about
people who've been guided by faith through a lot of adversity.
Speaker 1 (02:26):
Absolutely so.
Speaker 3 (02:27):
A story I wanted to get into was about the
Apollo thirteen mission because where I grew up in Levetown
on Long Island, we weren't far from Grumming, where they
made some of the Gemini space capsules and all that.
And that was another place where I was told on
a school trip I didn't fit in the capsule.
Speaker 1 (02:40):
I was third grade. I was like, you're too chubby
to be an extra kid. Early on you you were
framed poorly. Yeaheah.
Speaker 3 (02:46):
I got to rub you know you're superstar. You know
it worked out for you. You know Rodney Dangerl said
he got no respect. My teacher told me I got
no treadmill. And I was like, all right, well, I
guess I'll work in another field. I don't know what
to tell you. But it was about gym level. It was,
you know, hundreds of thousands.
Speaker 4 (03:00):
Thousand miles away from home lost, not not really lost,
but everything that was supposed to work didn't work. Yeah,
and everything's crashing, oxygen supply running out. He saves the
lives of the astronauts or with him simply by doing
a couple of das number one. If you're at peace
in your heart, your mind can be clear.
Speaker 1 (03:20):
The way he.
Speaker 4 (03:20):
Got that was what we call first few to five
seven Cast your cares upon the Lord.
Speaker 1 (03:23):
How in the world do you cast your cares upon
the Lord?
Speaker 4 (03:25):
You're two hundred thousand miles away from Earth and things
are crashing. I couldn't do that, But he had been
trained as an astronaut for a long time, so he
called upon his expertise. Once his mind cleared, he was
able to put together contraptions to save the lives of
all the astronauts. Hearing that story and how he depended
on prayer and his faith and at the same time
that made room for his expertise is something I think
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we all need to lean on as it relates to
our own tragedies and struggles.
Speaker 3 (03:52):
And I think we're talking to South Carolina Senator Tim
Scott the new book One Nation Always under God, Profiles
and Christian Courage. I think that's a very fancy way
of saying that God has an unlimited data plan.
Speaker 1 (04:03):
A does not don't don't set it through at and
T go to God.
Speaker 3 (04:08):
You go through the God Carrier, So any time minutes
you can do it all. And I think that's what's
so fascinating about this book is there are so many
different facets of people and life experiences, and my takeaway
in reading it is that it's almost like having that
faith simplifies things for you.
Speaker 1 (04:25):
Is that the point you are kind of.
Speaker 4 (04:27):
Because if you think about that the data plan that
God has, the word we use is omniscient, right, which
is all knowing. And the fact of the matter is
God starts the story only after he finishes it, so
for him there are no surprises. For us, it's a
big surprise. I was feeling out of high school. That
was a big surprise to me and my mama, not
to my teacher stuff for some reason. So the fact
of the matter is that we have to figure out
a way that to stitch together our lives in an
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imperfect way, flawed, without question, But if we have this
understanding that there is a bigger plan, that there's an
opportunity for us to have a mid course correction.
Speaker 1 (04:57):
I think we find ourselves on the right path.
Speaker 4 (04:59):
Also, Yeah, and Jim found that path away from Earth.
I found that path through struggle, through challenges, through frankly
losing a political race, failing in business, failing.
Speaker 1 (05:10):
Is what I.
Speaker 4 (05:11):
Found was this imperfect path that led me to the
right place at the right time. And it's unbelievable how
well it works when you have faith that God's plan
will emerge.
Speaker 1 (05:24):
At the right place.
Speaker 3 (05:24):
I love that so much because what I like in
that too, in my own personal belief system, is that
it's giving you this compass that's built for a longer journey. Yes,
and we're back, you know, we're measuring the journeys between
today's business proposition and you know, tomorrow's era. But it's
that it's a larger compass and it's taking you to
this higher thing.
Speaker 1 (05:43):
And it works time and time again.
Speaker 4 (05:45):
When I look back, it works better than what I
look forward, by the way, because listen you and I.
Speaker 1 (05:49):
Mean listen, you can do it.
Speaker 4 (05:49):
I mean, were just talking about this driving cab for
seven years full time, five to five you were talking
about I'm not sure every day that you woke up
and went to drive the cab and then you went
in the comedy at night. Every night at comedy would say, man,
this is the life exactly where the audience wants me,
driving the day, saying away at night and writing my
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material with everybody else is asleep. Well, in so many ways,
the book One Nation Always Undergot It profiles these amazing
people that were actually just ordinary people who believe that
something remarkable could happen because they had no choice but
to believe it.
Speaker 1 (06:26):
Dorothea Dix.
Speaker 4 (06:28):
She challenged the way we dealt with mental health in
her time, and she changed asylums across this nation and
frankly more respect for people who are institutionalized around the
world because she saw an opportunity. She had this passion
for such an issue, and then solved the issue around
dignity and respect for those who are in the institutions.
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Only happened through this voice in this heart she had
for both the Lord and for those who were suffering.
Speaker 1 (06:57):
That is really cool stuff.
Speaker 3 (06:58):
And I get it though, because you need that outbound compassion.
And that's again back to that compass. Give me this
we're talking to South Carolina Senator Tim Scott. Uh, do
you consider it a profile in Christian courage to still
be a Dallas Cowboys fan right now?
Speaker 4 (07:11):
You know, I think it's a profile and longevity and endurance.
I'm a suffering fan. The last time we won a
Super Bowl, I had hair. It's been a long time.
Speaker 1 (07:22):
A brother had an half roll.
Speaker 4 (07:23):
Maybe to of the matter is that it has been
the nineties, uh huh since we were the America's team
that was winning a man. Now we're still America's team
and we're just mediocre. So I'm hoping that the surgery
the time off is serving Dallas Jack Scott really well.
Speaker 3 (07:39):
And you got George Pickens coming in from the Steelers.
That's my son's favorite player.
Speaker 1 (07:42):
Thank God Almighty help your son's Cowboys fan. Yeah, I
don't know.
Speaker 3 (07:45):
I don't know that he's exactly he will root for Pickens.
I will take the over on sportsmanlike conduct penalties if
you're looking for some gambling advice. Piggins got flagged every
down on the Steelers, but he's so talented.
Speaker 4 (07:57):
We're hoping that we have a we'd hardness that energy
and score some time touchdowns.
Speaker 1 (08:00):
We need we have a pretty decent defense. We need
to sign our top players, Michael Parsons. We got to
have them, let them out on the field.
Speaker 4 (08:08):
On the field right and does not make perfect, it
makes permanent. So he needs to be practicing all the
time right now.
Speaker 1 (08:14):
Are you willing to could I know this expensive?
Speaker 3 (08:16):
He's going to make a lot of money, okay, Jerry Jones,
is they're squawking about that?
Speaker 1 (08:20):
Are you willing to donate one book to off Center cast?
Just the one? Jerry?
Speaker 4 (08:26):
If you're listening, listen, we need Parsons on the field.
Will I will donate one book that you can you
can auction it off. If I won't cover one year's salary,
one day salary, you.
Speaker 3 (08:38):
Go, whatever covers, We'll do it. Sign you gotta signed
copy in it. I'll throw in the pigs at him.
Jacket oh man.
Speaker 1 (08:44):
He already responded, he said no to the jack kidding
if he did not. He likes he likes it. He
likes Well, let's stay in the.
Speaker 3 (08:51):
Stand of Texas for a minute, because we're talking about
your new book. One Nation Always Got Under God, Profiles
and Christian Courage. There was this big stunt pulled with
a Jerry mandering protest and the Illinois of the jerry
manderin capital of the world to say they're again Jerry hender.
That's like saying you're against gambling and you flew to Vegas.
Speaker 1 (09:07):
It doesn't quite line up, But don't you think.
Speaker 3 (09:10):
And this is a conversation we've been having for a while,
and I know there are themes of this in your book. Okay,
we all have the same needs as a people, and
the Democrats keep trying to make this reductive identity politics argument.
Speaker 1 (09:20):
Yes, and I find that it's.
Speaker 3 (09:22):
Almost an insult to the communities they care they purport
to care about, and.
Speaker 1 (09:26):
They're leaving them.
Speaker 4 (09:27):
Yes, I mean they're losing their minds because they're losing
their voters. Think about the results of the twenty twenty
four election, especially in the in the eyes of jerry mandering.
What the Democrats want you to believe is that jerry
mandering in Texas is about race. Well, forty eight percent
of Hispanics men voted for Trump.
Speaker 1 (09:44):
Jerry Baby, good luck on that.
Speaker 4 (09:47):
Thirty BLUs percent of African American men, for the first
time in decades voted for Trump, a Republican. We saw
Native Americans over fifty percent voted for Trump. So the
fact of the matter is jerry mandering is about power. Yes,
it is what's happening. It is legal in America. But
jerry manner for more power. That is just what the
Democrats have been doing. What they're really ticked off about
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is that we've torn the page from their book and
we're now applying it to reality in the same way
that they have done decade.
Speaker 1 (10:15):
After decade after decade.
Speaker 4 (10:17):
The difference is, we want to give the American people
their money back, which gives them their power. Democrats want
socialism taking their money and their power.
Speaker 1 (10:26):
Yeah, they ain't giving them money back.
Speaker 3 (10:28):
Up in New York City, let me tell you the
Senator Scott, we have a guy running right now on
actual socialism, Like Elizabeth Warren shut off and endorsed him.
That used to be the kind of cassette tape that
got leaked and destroyed your political career, both in socialism.
Speaker 4 (10:43):
Now they're out there campaigned on it and nothing he
says makes sense. By the way, listen, we're going to
build you more houses while freezing the prices of the
current housing. That means every person who wants to build
they guaranteed not to make a profit. You can build
for nothing, exactly. No, no, no, you have to pay
taxes on what you build.
Speaker 3 (11:00):
Yeah, imagine the free grocery is the freak you know,
will free everything.
Speaker 4 (11:04):
It's called the new The modern day bread line is
New York City's government running grocery stores.
Speaker 1 (11:11):
That's a good point. But you know what about the line?
Will it be endless?
Speaker 3 (11:14):
But one part to that, as wardrobe always tells me,
I need to avoid carbs. So mom, Donnie wins if
I'm gonna bread line for three miles, Yeah.
Speaker 1 (11:22):
You're not gonna hear. You're not gonna worry about cars
on TV.
Speaker 4 (11:25):
The flowers going away, the sugar is going in the
salts point, it's not gonna three deadly ones that this
ends there.
Speaker 1 (11:32):
Oh god, you can't eat Jimmy's gonna be skinny on TV.
Not the way you wanted to.
Speaker 3 (11:37):
Be scared on the good way. Not not in a
good way. All right, So give me one more about
the book One Nation always under So.
Speaker 1 (11:42):
Think about it.
Speaker 4 (11:43):
Say I named Horatio Stafford, who loses his children at sea.
He believes that in spite of the tragedy, the misery
he's going through, there's something that can come out of
it positive. He starts building institutions of foundations for poor
kids and transforms thousands upon thousands of kids' lives. And
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then he pins a hymn that is very popular in
Baptist churches. It is well, it is well with my soul,
he believed Romans eight twenty eight. The somehow, some way,
all these things will work together for good for those
who love God to call according to his purpose. He
found a compass in the middle of tragedy and devastation
that led him to do something for others that he
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would not have.
Speaker 1 (12:26):
Seen had he not lost his kids.
Speaker 4 (12:28):
Didn't make up for the loss of his children, of course,
but he looked for something that would give him purpose
and meaning, and it gave him the chance to strive
again to work for a better, brighter future for himself
and his wife has survived that that that accident.
Speaker 1 (12:42):
That is super powerful stuff.
Speaker 3 (12:43):
Since you quoted Romans, I'm just going to give you
one thing and I'll let you run.
Speaker 1 (12:46):
Okay, it's my favorite. Uh I can hear the drum roller?
Speaker 3 (12:49):
No, no, but it is funny when my favorite player
growing up was Ricky Henterson on the Yankees. Oh yeah,
of course, we had a pitcher named Tommy John who
was the namesake of Tommy John. Ser When Tommy John pitched,
the guys used to hold up John three sixteen and
the stands behind them. And one day after Yankee game,
Ricky Henderson's get an interview and they said, what do
you think of all the John three sixteen's, And Ricky goes,
I don't want to hear about no John hitting three sixteen.
Speaker 1 (13:10):
Ricky's hitting. Love this guy, So you had no idea.
Speaker 3 (13:15):
He thought it was about a bad average pivot. Thank
you the late great Ricky Henderson. But I don't doubt
he is reading One Nation, Always under God right now,
as you.
Speaker 4 (13:24):
Can get today at Amazon dot com. Annybody's where books
are sold. Fine books are sold. Indeed, they're all over
the place. I have to tell you the tea regiment
is working. This was a great interview. You sounded great.
Speaker 3 (13:35):
I don't know that you should commit to the album
launch today because you got a book to sell, but
stick with it.
Speaker 1 (13:39):
They even Josh shook his head in there. You sound good.
They're usually hard.
Speaker 4 (13:42):
Maybe I'll have you on as a guitar.
Speaker 1 (13:45):
I'll give you sound the facts. Jimmy fill out on drums.
Let's go Amazon dot com.
Speaker 3 (13:52):
Uh, there'll be a placeholder there for the album, but
get the book first.
Speaker 1 (13:55):
He's a man. Thank you, God, bless thanks.
Speaker 2 (13:57):
He's the best of funks across America.
Speaker 1 (14:00):
It's the best of.
Speaker 2 (14:01):
Funks across America with Jimmy Falo.
Speaker 3 (14:06):
Shout out to South Carolina Senator Tim Scott. If you've
been listening to this show a long time, you know
I've been talking him up a long time.
Speaker 1 (14:16):
Goes all the way back to twenty twenty.
Speaker 3 (14:18):
He has a phenomenal story about essentially the upward mobility
of life in this country. Yes, he's a superstar senator
and he's close to President Trump.
Speaker 1 (14:29):
But you know, I always tell you the people who.
Speaker 3 (14:31):
Come on this show that are lawmakers only come on
this show a second time, or a fifth time, or
an eightieth time if they're the same guy off camera.
Speaker 1 (14:39):
Meaning it's one thing to get on TV and be like.
Speaker 3 (14:41):
We got to stop the Democrats, we gotta cut the spending.
But then you get off the air and they're like,
we're actually, uh yeah, I got a hot stock tip
and I'm going out to lunch with a lobbyist.
Speaker 1 (14:49):
You're like, wait, what's going on here? What just happened? Okay?
Tim Scott's the guy.
Speaker 3 (14:53):
We just did a fifteen minute interview and he's just
sat around another five minutes because he had stand up
comedy questions. And it's not the It's funny, you know,
the difference between a politician and someone who just has
a genuine intellectual curiosity. Okay, And those are the people
who care about other people. And that's where I find
his book to be so valuable. Okay, went on sale yesterday.
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It's called One Nation, Always under God, Profiles and Christian Courage.
It's a dude who actually is trying to help you. Now,
I say that's my superpower. It's also my kryptonite, because
I'm not here trying to blow the country wide open
and make you hate anybody in your family who doesn't
vote the way you do.
Speaker 1 (15:30):
Okay.
Speaker 3 (15:31):
My superpower is that, you know, I'm trying to be
a force multiplier, positive energy, create an environment where people
can coexist even if they don't agree. And I only
feel that way because I'm new to media and I
am applying myself. Okay, It's really easy to become a
one note show that just tells you everybody else sucks.
But at that point you're not helping the world, You're
just helping yourself.
Speaker 1 (15:51):
Okay. Tim Scott is a guy who genuinely wants to help.
Speaker 3 (15:55):
That's why in Trump's first administration, he of course got
seventy five billion dollars and opportunity zones for low income
black communities. He helped usher in the First Step Prison
Reform Act, which has now freed over three hundred and
fifty thousand non violent black drug offenders who were sentenced under.
Speaker 1 (16:14):
The nineteen ninety four Joe Biden Crime Bill. Go figure,
do you.
Speaker 3 (16:18):
Have a problem figuring out whether you're PREMI or Trump
and you ain't black? Even now as historically black colleges
and universities get their highest recurring funding endowment ever courtesy
of Donald Trump. He is a guy that gets out
there and has the honest conversation about race that we
need because in this country, so many people are being
sold a message of defeat. You know how Obama ran
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on yes we can, Yes we can, Okay, hope and change,
yes we can. Well, the Democrats are now the party
of no we can't. They're telling you if you're a minority,
you can't get ahead, guys. I just interviewed a black
United States center who's a congressman before that, who's been
a best selling author multiple times, telling you the country
systemically racist. One of them was just the first lady
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for eight years. The other was the president for eight years. Okay,
if black people can be president, they can be anything.
Shout out to Tim Scott. I love having him in
the studio because there's a part of him that sort
of thinks I know what I'm doing, and this other
part of him that it's like, you know when your
drunk friend gets into a conversation and you've got to
listen extra in case they say something crazy, and you've
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got to kind of course correct the situation. Tim Scott
is half radio guest, half bouncer, but he's got an
incredible story, a phenomenal book, and he's one of the
things that makes this country great.
Speaker 1 (17:37):
So I couldn't be prouder.
Speaker 3 (17:38):
To have him on, as I feel about the next
guest joining me when we come back, the host of
Dirty Jobs, an American icon in his own right. I
am talking about Iron Mike Rowe.
Speaker 1 (17:50):
Who joins us when we come back.
Speaker 2 (17:54):
The best of Fox Across America, with Jimmy Fayalo and.
Speaker 3 (17:58):
His Fox across America with Jimmy fail to bear with me.
I want to get this intro right. The guest wrote
it himself and slipped it to me. He has a
cultural icon, beloved the world over for his work on
stage and cinema. Please welcome America's Sweetheart, Mike Rowe hot
damn well.
Speaker 5 (18:15):
From a modest from a sweetheart to a cultural icon.
All right, I'll take it. Man, nice job, but it's
hard to be both.
Speaker 3 (18:22):
I really think you worded this well because you're showing
the range of micro It's.
Speaker 1 (18:26):
Hard to be both at the same time. But you
have to know your audience.
Speaker 5 (18:30):
From everything I've read, I think we can settle in
for twelve minutes of America's Sweetheart.
Speaker 1 (18:35):
There it is.
Speaker 3 (18:36):
But yes, he's the multimedia switch hitter. Maybe some would
say the Mickey Mantle of media, and that's based entirely
on his alcohol consumption.
Speaker 5 (18:44):
I was going to say him throw a ball. I
was just going to say the Cookie Rojas of codependency.
There's a reference one of the greatest utility players.
Speaker 3 (18:52):
You dug deep. You want to tell a funny story.
When I started here, I referenced you futility players. Okay,
guy who hired me on FBM was gun named Gary Schreyer.
He said, what do you see a role as Fox?
I said, I'm going to kind of be like a
jose Akendo. Okay, played for the Cardinals. He could play
every position on the field. And he was like, jose
A Kendo was a met and I was like, maybe,
but I knew him as a cardinal in the eighties,
a cardinal, so he was a Met. And it was
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a very contentious point in the interview because you know,
the guy's a Met guy.
Speaker 1 (19:17):
You don't have allowed to hang your hat on. That's right.
Speaker 3 (19:19):
Okay, You've won two things since the moon landing, which
may or may not have happened at this point, but
we'll get into that.
Speaker 5 (19:25):
You beat the Oriols in sixty nine, which I still
carry around. Well, we're going to get to the Orioles.
There's a point to this, okay.
Speaker 3 (19:30):
But on the day I started here at Fox, on
my desk, which I have it to this day, was
a jose A Kendo met card from nineteen eighty five.
Speaker 1 (19:37):
The guy wanted to prove it meant that much to him.
And still you still cling to it. You still have it?
Speaker 3 (19:41):
Well, it's because I I I remember in a pinch
and I need thirteen cents.
Speaker 5 (19:46):
But see the difference is that guy showed up and
he could do virtually anything, and you show up with
a level of enthusiasm that and I think I said
this to you on my podcast when we first sat
down at chat. A level of enthusiasm the borders between
impressive and suspicious. And I really don't know how you
maintain it. But every single time I've seen you, you're.
Speaker 1 (20:07):
Like, can you believe it?
Speaker 5 (20:08):
I'm back, I still have an office, I'm still were
the buildings still here, I'm still here.
Speaker 1 (20:13):
If I have told you this, forgive me. Okay, I
am a dog with a job.
Speaker 3 (20:18):
Have you ever gone to the airport and you see
the dogs sniff in the bags and he's so excited
because he can't believe they're.
Speaker 5 (20:23):
Counting on him to say it's the plane. I can't
believe you nuts is amazing. I thought you were going
with the Seinfeld beat with the dogs.
Speaker 1 (20:29):
Right. All you have to do is come home and
they see you. They're like, there he is. He's done
it again. I don't know where he went. I don't
know what he did, but he's back, and it's amazing.
Speaker 3 (20:39):
You've earned none of this praise, You've earned none of
the pray. You just get through that door. There were
serial killers greeted by dogs throughout the years. Are like,
this guy's amazing. Yeah, and he smells like food.
Speaker 1 (20:50):
For some reason, it's you again. I can't believe it. Man,
does he do it?
Speaker 3 (20:54):
Mike Row is here, the Cookie Rojas of media, So
we any way to get back to your orioles. A
guy who goes back and forth with me a lot
on Twitter, Jim Palmer, legendary Hall of Fame Pitcher, No kidding,
and he's not a huge Fox guy, but he somehow
stumbled across me and likes to take cheap shots at
me and back and forth. Sure, and he ties it.
He filters it through the lens of the Yankees, like
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he wants to be talking to a Fox guy.
Speaker 1 (21:16):
But it's like the movie Ghost.
Speaker 3 (21:18):
He uses the Yankees as the Whoopi Goldberg he has
to jump into to communicate with me, and we go
back and forth.
Speaker 1 (21:23):
There's a lot of jokes about his underwear commercials. So
let me tell you I got a couple. Jim Palmer risks.
Speaker 5 (21:29):
The first is he reached out to me early on
in the Dirty Jobs days because his father in law
has the most elaborate antique gun collection. Oh and he
really wanted to show these to me. So I told him, look,
I'll put it on the list. But you got to
know that my grandmother is walking around with just a serious,
a serious amount of unrequited affection for you, and one
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day I got to get you two together. Yeah, he said,
no problem. Flash forward. My grandmother at ninety falls and
breaks her hip during an Orioles game. She's alone at
my parents and it's condo. She's halfway between the den
where the TV is and the kitchen where she was
going to get herself a high ball. So she's lying
there with a busted hip. The phone's in the kitchen.
She can drag herself to the phone to call nine
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one one, or drag herself back to the den to watch.
Speaker 1 (22:15):
The end of the Orioles game. Stop it.
Speaker 5 (22:17):
She drags herself back to the den. My mother finds
her lying there with a busted hip, writes an open
letter to Peter DeAngelo's and puts it in the Sun Paper.
Three months later, my grandmother throws out the first pitch
at an Oriole game, and I take her up to
the booth and introduce her to Jim Palmer and he
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hugs her and kisses her on the mouth. You stop
it right square, and Filma Noble died and went to heaven.
And that's my contribution to my family tree. Thank you,
Jim Palmer.
Speaker 1 (22:51):
Oh, that's an amazing Jim Palmer story that made the
whole thing up. But no, it's true.
Speaker 5 (23:00):
It was true my hand to God, and it's in
my mom's first book. My mother wrote every day for
sixty years, Jimmy, and finally got a book published at eighty.
Speaker 1 (23:11):
I swear to god. She's had four New York Times
bestsellers since then? Is that?
Speaker 5 (23:15):
And that story's in her first book? Peggy, Peggy Row
that it matters. Yeah, I don't have the writer. I
had a grandma who did that. She ran five miles
a day till she was ninety five. We can't find her.
She's out there, some my grandma faila. She's out there
like Forrest Gump with a smiley face, booking across the bridge.
Speaker 1 (23:36):
We're talking to mic Row.
Speaker 3 (23:37):
He now claims Earl Weaver was his biological father.
Speaker 1 (23:40):
This is a really confusing interview for me. If you
guys can just put me muscle through.
Speaker 5 (23:45):
I just love how you summed this up so far
as an interview. That's hysterical. That's amazing.
Speaker 3 (23:50):
All right, we'll to give me two minutes of press
on your new project, People you Should Know. We discussed
it on an award winning show called Fox New Saturday
Night this past weekend.
Speaker 5 (24:00):
That was an amazing appearance. I'm still waiting through the
comments that have completely lit up all the socials based
on a witty rep parte. The show in question is
called People You Should Know. It airs exclusively on my
YouTube channel. Why because my god, our business is collapsing
and getting a show made today it's a knife fight
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and a phone booth. And so what I did was
I went back and I looked at a show called
Returning the Favor that I did for Facebook once upon
a Time, a celebration of the neighbors you wish you
had right And that show was viewed four hundred and
fifty million times. I won an Emmy for the damn
da you know. And Facebook canceled it and nothing personal.
(24:43):
They just decided they weren't going to compete with Netflix
after all. But I had two million people watching this
show and for three years they've been up my butt
saying when are we going to bring it back? So
the show's back. It's called People you Should Know. And
every episode, you know what, it's going to be called
a feel good show because it kind of is.
Speaker 1 (25:03):
But the truth is it's the making of a feel
good show.
Speaker 5 (25:07):
So it's worts and all right, it's all the mistakes,
it's all the fun of getting this kind of thing
off the ground. You'll laugh, you'll cry, you'll drink, you'll
go to the next town with him, do it again.
Speaker 3 (25:16):
And to be clear, it's village People you should Know.
The hot cop is there, the chief is there.
Speaker 1 (25:23):
Well, we can only had we only had the budget
for one guy, but five constans. So we're mix we're bullish,
that's right. He mixes it up a little bit. We talk.
He's an Indian with a hard day. He does it all.
Speaker 3 (25:34):
This guy he's talking about range, we're talking about your range.
Since see Larry, the one construction worker we have. I'm
dying micro. I think it's funny. I also love that
the Village People got a bit of a rebirth.
Speaker 1 (25:46):
This is a thing.
Speaker 3 (25:46):
I don't have a political conversation, but I have a
take on Trump. Okay, when it comes to dancing, Donald
Trump famously is a teetotaler. He does not drink, correct,
but he does the YMCA like someone who does, meaning
the drunkest person you know can do.
Speaker 1 (26:02):
The y m c A. Interesting.
Speaker 3 (26:04):
The fact that he just does the hands would usually
be a tell to you that your buddy can't drive tonight.
Speaker 1 (26:08):
That's right.
Speaker 3 (26:09):
If your buddy's doing this to ymc A might even
be pukick by the end of the night.
Speaker 5 (26:13):
Isn't that fasting? Well, it's it's it's it's completely backwards.
You're right, you're right. But look the fact that he's
out there doing that with seemingly out it's just he's out,
he's he's out of dams to give.
Speaker 1 (26:27):
Yeah, that's just doesn't care.
Speaker 3 (26:30):
You want to know what, that's a testament to the
fact that he invented a dance for a song that
already has one so beautiful has been the y m
c A for AE hundred and fifty years, seventy five years.
Speaker 5 (26:42):
Right, So, rather than commit to a fairly elaborate expression
of four letters in our alphabet, I'm just going to
move my hips a little Yeah, just do a little
thing yet and that's just this is what you get.
He simplified it for everyone. Is what he did. He
made ym he accessible. He dozed to the.
Speaker 1 (27:03):
You just did it.
Speaker 5 (27:05):
We're gonna lose the vows then to considens. I oh,
all this left of my hips?
Speaker 3 (27:11):
They Dogedyoca. It's got too many letters. Who has time
for that many letters.
Speaker 1 (27:16):
I'd like to buy a valve. We're out.
Speaker 3 (27:19):
The inefficiency is gone, at least at a musical level
in the United States government, I think is the takeaway
from this interview.
Speaker 5 (27:25):
I think we need more music in the government. I
think we need more music in a cabinet.
Speaker 3 (27:29):
I don't think they should be doing anything bus you know,
it's in a weird way. Everyone does so much press
now at a government level that their words have lost
any and all meeting because we're not We're only going
to focus on them for as long as it takes
to get the next statement out of them, which in
this day and age is like thirty minutes.
Speaker 5 (27:47):
I had a meeting last week with the Department of Education,
me lynmock Man and a room full of people, and
it was a great meeting went on for about an hour.
We discussed make education great again. So Mega it's coming.
But in the middle of the meeting, I confess I thought,
what this meeting needs is a is an aria, a
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modest one, but just something. Just we needed a musical
interlude because there was just too much talking fair just
not much, just like like salt, just a little something to.
Speaker 1 (28:22):
Mix it up.
Speaker 3 (28:22):
There's value in that reset, you know, because you get
the back from break energy to the meeting.
Speaker 5 (28:28):
Think about the movies that you used to see when
you were a kid, like when the popcorn came out.
It's not much, it's just a little to you know,
clear the palletpheric exactly.
Speaker 3 (28:41):
That was my biggest criticism of those isis beheading videos
that they put on YouTube. I was like, you know what, guys,
you can't buy a royalty free music bed.
Speaker 1 (28:50):
Just a little something to set the stage, dude, I
don't think. But I'm constantly looking for where the line
is that you found it. Yeah, well, I will.
Speaker 3 (29:00):
Say, okay about the depraved age we're living in is
if something has views, it has advertising. And I'm so
fascinated how there's this overlay between Like I guess that
you know, distinguished products and the most depraved things man
could ever witness now coexist simultaneously in an advertising space.
(29:20):
I don't and I don't think that's good commentary on society.
Speaker 5 (29:23):
Well, look, there's always going to be there's going to
be an eternal dance between entertainment slash artistry versus the
transactional realities of filthy lucra. But I know, like with
this show that I'm going to shamelessly plug again people.
You should know on my YouTube channel. I'm late to
this party, and I ignored YouTube for years whatever, and
(29:45):
so for the last six months, you know, smart people
sat me down and said, Mike, what you need to
do is you need to get a million people on
your YouTube page. So I did. But I hate to
think like that. Yeah, Like I hate to go out
into the world going what can I do today to
do this?
Speaker 1 (30:00):
Yeah?
Speaker 5 (30:00):
But you know something, It's like at Disney the sign
says you must be this tall to get on the ride.
And if you want to play this game today, you
better understand that you work I don't know who signs
your checks, but you don't really work for Fox, dude.
Speaker 1 (30:15):
You work for the people who watch you. Yeah, and
I know you know that.
Speaker 5 (30:18):
Yeah, yeah, but you know that's a bitter lesson to
learn and it's a hard thing to really take to heart.
Speaker 1 (30:23):
But if you want to play, you better understand it.
Speaker 3 (30:27):
So yeah, now that's spot on, and you're right to
say that I do work for the loan sharks from
my taxi days. So we're watching right now and going
it's almost Thursday payday.
Speaker 1 (30:37):
Do taxis still work like that? Like back in the day,
you would give them, what two three hundred bucks and
you'd start your shift. Yeah, and then you'd rent the
cab for a shift. Yes.
Speaker 3 (30:46):
So in the heyday when the medallion was worth money
million one when I started, when you rent a day
shift or for a buck eight, you'd rent a night
for like one thirty six. Weekend was one fifty four, Yeah,
and it was basically yours for twelve hours minus gas
that your take home pay. What two things decimated the
value of the medallion. Bloomberg coming along because they were
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a finite amount of them. They were about eleven thousand
of them. Bloomberg issued ten thousand new ones in the
name of clean energy. They were called green taxis, with
the premise being they were only going to pick up
in the outer burrows to lessen pollution in those neighborhoods.
Speaker 1 (31:21):
But of course, if you pick a guy up.
Speaker 3 (31:22):
In Brooklyn and drove into Manhattan, you're going to pick
up the next fair you see, You're not going to
drive back to Brooklyn empty, of course. So that kind
of killed the medallion value. And then when Uber came along,
you know, basically created more drivers. It didn't increase the
amount of passengers, just created more drivers and gigged out
the gig What about.
Speaker 5 (31:37):
The uh what about the weather? I mean last night,
all of a sudden it's pouring down raining. You know,
it's a twenty minute wait for an Uber. I didn't
even try lyft and there's not a single light on
any of the cabs. Like when it's raining and you're
driving a cab, is this like holiday for you?
Speaker 3 (31:51):
Oh yeah, everybody jumps in, but it's also a lot
of short fares because it might just somebody doesn't want
to go eight blocks. So you actually make a lot
of money though, because I'm turnover, because everybody gets in.
You know what I'm saying, it's you get the three
point fifty on the meter, the dollar surg charge the
fuel thing, you know, thing, and so the turnover is
good if you keep it, if you keep moving short
fair style like that.
Speaker 1 (32:11):
I just like that you've taken over this exchange. You're
now interviewing me. That's the power of micro Do you
think that?
Speaker 5 (32:17):
I often like and the three years I spent in
the middle of the night from nineteen ninety to ninety
three selling things on the QBC cable shopping channel. I
bitched about that for a long time and then I
like just erased it from my memory. And then I
found a video that people had posted of me from
those days, and then I kind of embraced it. And
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then I eventually realized that every worthwhile thing I learned
about my career today, and how did I become America's
sweetheart Jimmy? How did I become a global icon? Every
single thing that was useful I learned there? How much
of what? How much of your success today goes back
to lessons learned in.
Speaker 1 (32:58):
The cash Yeah? I would say like nine percent of it,
did that? Crazy? Yeah?
Speaker 3 (33:02):
Of course, the stuff that you learn at the absolute
bottom because a lot of it's human nature.
Speaker 1 (33:07):
Yeah, And it's the.
Speaker 3 (33:08):
Only thing you can pay attention to because you're not
swimming into any other circles. You know, you're on the
outside of a lot of circles, and you're deducing things
in your observations.
Speaker 5 (33:17):
This is why you're going to go as far as
you want to go. Man, you and I said this
to you before you you either there are two kinds
of people. There are the kind of people that look
at the lower rungs on the ladder with derision and
a smirk, and they're the kind of people who go,
I would never have gotten anywhere without that.
Speaker 1 (33:35):
You need that wrung, man. And that's the thing.
Speaker 3 (33:37):
If someone calls you an overnight success, it just means
you work the overnight shift for like twelve.
Speaker 1 (33:41):
Hours, or it means you're well rung. Hey, Mike Row,
he's still got it.
Speaker 3 (33:47):
That's why he's a married You want to talk about
people you should know.
Speaker 5 (33:50):
You should know Mike Row, You should you know me.
It's almost sort of maybe like that I grow on you.
Speaker 3 (33:57):
Oh fantastic the radio cyst Mike grow It was nice
to have you.
Speaker 1 (34:02):
It's nice to be ahead, but I prefer carbuncle. Yeah. Oh,
you'll always be benign to me. There it goes.
Speaker 2 (34:08):
It's the best of a Fox across America with Jimmy Saylor.
Speaker 1 (34:12):
How about a hand from Mike Rowe.
Speaker 3 (34:15):
Oh you stop at He's the best the film people.
Speaker 1 (34:18):
You should know.
Speaker 3 (34:20):
It is on his YouTube channel. You should follow him
on Twitter. I've said this to you before in the
show he was the He interviewed me on his podcast
if you've never seen it, it's the best thing I've
ever been a part of. It was about eight hours
and twelve. We went at it for a while. It
was really funny, and he was a guy who opened
my eyes to a lot of things that would surface
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because he interviewed me right when I got a TV
show Fox New Saturday Night, and having been a guy
who hosted so many successful TV shows, he had a
really good understanding of what I was going to start
encountering on a day to day basis. Is a guy
who is the face of a TV show on a
channel as big as Fox. And when I tell you everything,
every piece of advice he gave me was like spot on.
(35:05):
It was like a Yoda, you know, like if it
wasn't as good look and as Yoda, I can't come on.
We're having fun over here. He's the man. How about
my man Mike Rowe telling it like it is something
you might not know from listening to that best of interview.
Here on this Labor Day spectacular is my wife's family, huge, huge,
huge micro fans and came up to Fox to meet
(35:26):
him after the interview. Dave and Judy, my in laws,
were in town, which was amazing to me just to
have him out of my house for the day. So
shout out to Mike Rowe for saving my afternoon and
for being a big star of this best of episode.
But in hour number two, it's really gonna get nuts,
So get your game face on. It's a Labor Day
best of episode of Fox Across America with your main man,
(35:49):
Jimmy Fala. You better put the ketchup on that hot
dog now because we're about to get into some conversations
that could very well end with you squirting it on yourself.
Speaker 1 (36:00):
This has been a podcast from wor
This is a podcast from WOOR from.
Speaker 2 (00:03):
Everywhere, USA. It's Fox Across America with Jimmy Fayler. It's
the best of Fox Across America with Jimmy Fayler.
Speaker 1 (00:12):
Here we go.
Speaker 3 (00:12):
Here we go from the greatest country in the world,
broadcasting from the tippy top of the world famous Fox
News Headquarters in.
Speaker 1 (00:18):
New York City.
Speaker 3 (00:19):
A big Labor Day best of episode of Fox Across
America with Jimmy Fala. Today we salute you the American worker,
you the American listener, by bringing on some of our
favorite hard working Americans, folks who embody everything it means
to be a capitalist, self determining human in the greatest
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country the world has ever known. We're going to talk
to Mike Rowe. We're going to talk to Tim Scott,
We're going to talk to Saturday Night Live alumn Kevin Nealan.
You're even gonna hear from Danny Boy O'Connor from the
iconic rap group Jump Around.
Speaker 1 (00:54):
What do they all have in common?
Speaker 3 (00:56):
They're all in on the joke that if you live
in this country, you hit the low damn it by
the unique fact that you have what we call American privilege.
So as you're having your barbecue, or watching your ball game,
or commuting into work like I am, you will be
joined by a host of some fine Americans, including this
very first one, South Carolina Senator Tim Scott. I was
(01:17):
told I was interviewing an author, but based on your
tea regiment, am I also interviewing in R and B singer?
Speaker 1 (01:22):
Right?
Speaker 4 (01:22):
You know, let me just say the truth matters. I
tried out, of course, when I was in the tenth grade,
and my course teacher said, son, you are really talented.
You are actually remarkable on a football field. He says, Please,
have you ever heard of lipsiing? This is for Bill, Yeah,
a million MILLI.
Speaker 1 (01:40):
Yeah, he's before those guys. He just lips think the words.
Speaker 4 (01:44):
I mean, so a tenth grade I refused to sing
in public.
Speaker 3 (01:49):
I respect that though, because because no, and you know what,
teachers sometimes can help I giving you a little more honesty.
Something that really helped my creative process is when I
was five years old, I had made my mom a
book and I found it in the garbage that day.
Do you know how bad your art is if your
mom throws it out? That I really had like a
moment of self awareness, like card I could get my
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life together.
Speaker 1 (02:10):
Maybe this is why she helped create this shredder. My
mom was. She interviewed the paper she invented the paper trade.
I love that. I love this. Well.
Speaker 3 (02:18):
We're talking about, you know, persistence and overcoming odds and
everything in between. So much of this book is about
people who've been guided by faith through a lot of adversity.
Speaker 1 (02:26):
Absolutely so.
Speaker 3 (02:27):
A story I wanted to get into was about the
Apollo thirteen mission because where I grew up in Levetown
on Long Island, we weren't far from Grumming, where they
made some of the Gemini space capsules and all that.
And that was another place where I was told on
a school trip I didn't fit in the capsule.
Speaker 1 (02:40):
I was third grade. I was like, you're too chubby
to be an extra kid. Early on you you were
framed poorly. Yeaheah.
Speaker 3 (02:46):
I got to rub you know you're superstar. You know
it worked out for you. You know Rodney Dangerl said
he got no respect. My teacher told me I got
no treadmill. And I was like, all right, well, I
guess I'll work in another field. I don't know what
to tell you. But it was about gym level. It was,
you know, hundreds of thousands.
Speaker 4 (03:00):
Thousand miles away from home lost, not not really lost,
but everything that was supposed to work didn't work. Yeah,
and everything's crashing, oxygen supply running out. He saves the
lives of the astronauts or with him simply by doing
a couple of das number one. If you're at peace
in your heart, your mind can be clear.
Speaker 1 (03:20):
The way he.
Speaker 4 (03:20):
Got that was what we call first few to five
seven Cast your cares upon the Lord.
Speaker 1 (03:23):
How in the world do you cast your cares upon
the Lord?
Speaker 4 (03:25):
You're two hundred thousand miles away from Earth and things
are crashing. I couldn't do that, But he had been
trained as an astronaut for a long time, so he
called upon his expertise. Once his mind cleared, he was
able to put together contraptions to save the lives of
all the astronauts. Hearing that story and how he depended
on prayer and his faith and at the same time
that made room for his expertise is something I think
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we all need to lean on as it relates to
our own tragedies and struggles.
Speaker 3 (03:52):
And I think we're talking to South Carolina Senator Tim
Scott the new book One Nation Always under God, Profiles
and Christian Courage. I think that's a very fancy way
of saying that God has an unlimited data plan.
Speaker 1 (04:03):
A does not don't don't set it through at and
T go to God.
Speaker 3 (04:08):
You go through the God Carrier, So any time minutes
you can do it all. And I think that's what's
so fascinating about this book is there are so many
different facets of people and life experiences, and my takeaway
in reading it is that it's almost like having that
faith simplifies things for you.
Speaker 1 (04:25):
Is that the point you are kind of.
Speaker 4 (04:27):
Because if you think about that the data plan that
God has, the word we use is omniscient, right, which
is all knowing. And the fact of the matter is
God starts the story only after he finishes it, so
for him there are no surprises. For us, it's a
big surprise. I was feeling out of high school. That
was a big surprise to me and my mama, not
to my teacher stuff for some reason. So the fact
of the matter is that we have to figure out
a way that to stitch together our lives in an
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imperfect way, flawed, without question, But if we have this
understanding that there is a bigger plan, that there's an
opportunity for us to have a mid course correction.
Speaker 1 (04:57):
I think we find ourselves on the right path.
Speaker 4 (04:59):
Also, Yeah, and Jim found that path away from Earth.
I found that path through struggle, through challenges, through frankly
losing a political race, failing in business, failing.
Speaker 1 (05:10):
Is what I.
Speaker 4 (05:11):
Found was this imperfect path that led me to the
right place at the right time. And it's unbelievable how
well it works when you have faith that God's plan
will emerge.
Speaker 1 (05:24):
At the right place.
Speaker 3 (05:24):
I love that so much because what I like in
that too, in my own personal belief system, is that
it's giving you this compass that's built for a longer journey. Yes,
and we're back, you know, we're measuring the journeys between
today's business proposition and you know, tomorrow's era. But it's
that it's a larger compass and it's taking you to
this higher thing.
Speaker 1 (05:43):
And it works time and time again.
Speaker 4 (05:45):
When I look back, it works better than what I
look forward, by the way, because listen you and I.
Speaker 1 (05:49):
Mean listen, you can do it.
Speaker 4 (05:49):
I mean, were just talking about this driving cab for
seven years full time, five to five you were talking
about I'm not sure every day that you woke up
and went to drive the cab and then you went
in the comedy at night. Every night at comedy would say, man,
this is the life exactly where the audience wants me,
driving the day, saying away at night and writing my
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material with everybody else is asleep. Well, in so many ways,
the book One Nation Always Undergot It profiles these amazing
people that were actually just ordinary people who believe that
something remarkable could happen because they had no choice but
to believe it.
Speaker 1 (06:26):
Dorothea Dix.
Speaker 4 (06:28):
She challenged the way we dealt with mental health in
her time, and she changed asylums across this nation and
frankly more respect for people who are institutionalized around the
world because she saw an opportunity. She had this passion
for such an issue, and then solved the issue around
dignity and respect for those who are in the institutions.
(06:50):
Only happened through this voice in this heart she had
for both the Lord and for those who were suffering.
Speaker 1 (06:57):
That is really cool stuff.
Speaker 3 (06:58):
And I get it though, because you need that outbound compassion.
And that's again back to that compass. Give me this
we're talking to South Carolina Senator Tim Scott. Uh, do
you consider it a profile in Christian courage to still
be a Dallas Cowboys fan right now?
Speaker 4 (07:11):
You know, I think it's a profile and longevity and endurance.
I'm a suffering fan. The last time we won a
Super Bowl, I had hair. It's been a long time.
Speaker 1 (07:22):
A brother had an half roll.
Speaker 4 (07:23):
Maybe to of the matter is that it has been
the nineties, uh huh since we were the America's team
that was winning a man. Now we're still America's team
and we're just mediocre. So I'm hoping that the surgery
the time off is serving Dallas Jack Scott really well.
Speaker 3 (07:39):
And you got George Pickens coming in from the Steelers.
That's my son's favorite player.
Speaker 1 (07:42):
Thank God Almighty help your son's Cowboys fan. Yeah, I
don't know.
Speaker 3 (07:45):
I don't know that he's exactly he will root for Pickens.
I will take the over on sportsmanlike conduct penalties if
you're looking for some gambling advice. Piggins got flagged every
down on the Steelers, but he's so talented.
Speaker 4 (07:57):
We're hoping that we have a we'd hardness that energy
and score some time touchdowns.
Speaker 1 (08:00):
We need we have a pretty decent defense. We need
to sign our top players, Michael Parsons. We got to
have them, let them out on the field.
Speaker 4 (08:08):
On the field right and does not make perfect, it
makes permanent. So he needs to be practicing all the
time right now.
Speaker 1 (08:14):
Are you willing to could I know this expensive?
Speaker 3 (08:16):
He's going to make a lot of money, okay, Jerry Jones,
is they're squawking about that?
Speaker 1 (08:20):
Are you willing to donate one book to off Center cast?
Just the one? Jerry?
Speaker 4 (08:26):
If you're listening, listen, we need Parsons on the field.
Will I will donate one book that you can you
can auction it off. If I won't cover one year's salary,
one day salary, you.
Speaker 3 (08:38):
Go, whatever covers, We'll do it. Sign you gotta signed
copy in it. I'll throw in the pigs at him.
Jacket oh man.
Speaker 1 (08:44):
He already responded, he said no to the jack kidding
if he did not. He likes he likes it. He
likes Well, let's stay in the.
Speaker 3 (08:51):
Stand of Texas for a minute, because we're talking about
your new book. One Nation Always Got Under God, Profiles
and Christian Courage. There was this big stunt pulled with
a Jerry mandering protest and the Illinois of the jerry
manderin capital of the world to say they're again Jerry hender.
That's like saying you're against gambling and you flew to Vegas.
Speaker 1 (09:07):
It doesn't quite line up, But don't you think.
Speaker 3 (09:10):
And this is a conversation we've been having for a while,
and I know there are themes of this in your book. Okay,
we all have the same needs as a people, and
the Democrats keep trying to make this reductive identity politics argument.
Speaker 1 (09:20):
Yes, and I find that it's.
Speaker 3 (09:22):
Almost an insult to the communities they care they purport
to care about, and.
Speaker 1 (09:26):
They're leaving them.
Speaker 4 (09:27):
Yes, I mean they're losing their minds because they're losing
their voters. Think about the results of the twenty twenty
four election, especially in the in the eyes of jerry mandering.
What the Democrats want you to believe is that jerry
mandering in Texas is about race. Well, forty eight percent
of Hispanics men voted for Trump.
Speaker 1 (09:44):
Jerry Baby, good luck on that.
Speaker 4 (09:47):
Thirty BLUs percent of African American men, for the first
time in decades voted for Trump, a Republican. We saw
Native Americans over fifty percent voted for Trump. So the
fact of the matter is jerry mandering is about power. Yes,
it is what's happening. It is legal in America. But
jerry manner for more power. That is just what the
Democrats have been doing. What they're really ticked off about
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is that we've torn the page from their book and
we're now applying it to reality in the same way
that they have done decade.
Speaker 1 (10:15):
After decade after decade.
Speaker 4 (10:17):
The difference is, we want to give the American people
their money back, which gives them their power. Democrats want
socialism taking their money and their power.
Speaker 1 (10:26):
Yeah, they ain't giving them money back.
Speaker 3 (10:28):
Up in New York City, let me tell you the
Senator Scott, we have a guy running right now on
actual socialism, Like Elizabeth Warren shut off and endorsed him.
That used to be the kind of cassette tape that
got leaked and destroyed your political career, both in socialism.
Speaker 4 (10:43):
Now they're out there campaigned on it and nothing he
says makes sense. By the way, listen, we're going to
build you more houses while freezing the prices of the
current housing. That means every person who wants to build
they guaranteed not to make a profit. You can build
for nothing, exactly. No, no, no, you have to pay
taxes on what you build.
Speaker 3 (11:00):
Yeah, imagine the free grocery is the freak you know,
will free everything.
Speaker 4 (11:04):
It's called the new The modern day bread line is
New York City's government running grocery stores.
Speaker 1 (11:11):
That's a good point. But you know what about the line?
Will it be endless?
Speaker 3 (11:14):
But one part to that, as wardrobe always tells me,
I need to avoid carbs. So mom, Donnie wins if
I'm gonna bread line for three miles, Yeah.
Speaker 1 (11:22):
You're not gonna hear. You're not gonna worry about cars
on TV.
Speaker 4 (11:25):
The flowers going away, the sugar is going in the
salts point, it's not gonna three deadly ones that this
ends there.
Speaker 1 (11:32):
Oh god, you can't eat Jimmy's gonna be skinny on TV.
Not the way you wanted to.
Speaker 3 (11:37):
Be scared on the good way. Not not in a
good way. All right, So give me one more about
the book One Nation always under So.
Speaker 1 (11:42):
Think about it.
Speaker 4 (11:43):
Say I named Horatio Stafford, who loses his children at sea.
He believes that in spite of the tragedy, the misery
he's going through, there's something that can come out of
it positive. He starts building institutions of foundations for poor
kids and transforms thousands upon thousands of kids' lives. And
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then he pins a hymn that is very popular in
Baptist churches. It is well, it is well with my soul,
he believed Romans eight twenty eight. The somehow, some way,
all these things will work together for good for those
who love God to call according to his purpose. He
found a compass in the middle of tragedy and devastation
that led him to do something for others that he
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would not have.
Speaker 1 (12:26):
Seen had he not lost his kids.
Speaker 4 (12:28):
Didn't make up for the loss of his children, of course,
but he looked for something that would give him purpose
and meaning, and it gave him the chance to strive
again to work for a better, brighter future for himself
and his wife has survived that that that accident.
Speaker 1 (12:42):
That is super powerful stuff.
Speaker 3 (12:43):
Since you quoted Romans, I'm just going to give you
one thing and I'll let you run.
Speaker 1 (12:46):
Okay, it's my favorite. Uh I can hear the drum roller?
Speaker 3 (12:49):
No, no, but it is funny when my favorite player
growing up was Ricky Henterson on the Yankees. Oh yeah,
of course, we had a pitcher named Tommy John who
was the namesake of Tommy John. Ser When Tommy John pitched,
the guys used to hold up John three sixteen and
the stands behind them. And one day after Yankee game,
Ricky Henderson's get an interview and they said, what do
you think of all the John three sixteen's, And Ricky goes,
I don't want to hear about no John hitting three sixteen.
Speaker 1 (13:10):
Ricky's hitting. Love this guy, So you had no idea.
Speaker 3 (13:15):
He thought it was about a bad average pivot. Thank
you the late great Ricky Henderson. But I don't doubt
he is reading One Nation, Always under God right now,
as you.
Speaker 4 (13:24):
Can get today at Amazon dot com. Annybody's where books
are sold. Fine books are sold. Indeed, they're all over
the place. I have to tell you the tea regiment
is working. This was a great interview. You sounded great.
Speaker 3 (13:35):
I don't know that you should commit to the album
launch today because you got a book to sell, but
stick with it.
Speaker 1 (13:39):
They even Josh shook his head in there. You sound good.
They're usually hard.
Speaker 4 (13:42):
Maybe I'll have you on as a guitar.
Speaker 1 (13:45):
I'll give you sound the facts. Jimmy fill out on drums.
Let's go Amazon dot com.
Speaker 3 (13:52):
Uh, there'll be a placeholder there for the album, but
get the book first.
Speaker 1 (13:55):
He's a man. Thank you, God, bless thanks.
Speaker 2 (13:57):
He's the best of funks across America.
Speaker 1 (14:00):
It's the best of.
Speaker 2 (14:01):
Funks across America with Jimmy Falo.
Speaker 3 (14:06):
Shout out to South Carolina Senator Tim Scott. If you've
been listening to this show a long time, you know
I've been talking him up a long time.
Speaker 1 (14:16):
Goes all the way back to twenty twenty.
Speaker 3 (14:18):
He has a phenomenal story about essentially the upward mobility
of life in this country. Yes, he's a superstar senator
and he's close to President Trump.
Speaker 1 (14:29):
But you know, I always tell you the people who.
Speaker 3 (14:31):
Come on this show that are lawmakers only come on
this show a second time, or a fifth time, or
an eightieth time if they're the same guy off camera.
Speaker 1 (14:39):
Meaning it's one thing to get on TV and be like.
Speaker 3 (14:41):
We got to stop the Democrats, we gotta cut the spending.
But then you get off the air and they're like,
we're actually, uh yeah, I got a hot stock tip
and I'm going out to lunch with a lobbyist.
Speaker 1 (14:49):
You're like, wait, what's going on here? What just happened? Okay?
Tim Scott's the guy.
Speaker 3 (14:53):
We just did a fifteen minute interview and he's just
sat around another five minutes because he had stand up
comedy questions. And it's not the It's funny, you know,
the difference between a politician and someone who just has
a genuine intellectual curiosity. Okay, And those are the people
who care about other people. And that's where I find
his book to be so valuable. Okay, went on sale yesterday.
(15:15):
It's called One Nation, Always under God, Profiles and Christian Courage.
It's a dude who actually is trying to help you. Now,
I say that's my superpower. It's also my kryptonite, because
I'm not here trying to blow the country wide open
and make you hate anybody in your family who doesn't
vote the way you do.
Speaker 1 (15:30):
Okay.
Speaker 3 (15:31):
My superpower is that, you know, I'm trying to be
a force multiplier, positive energy, create an environment where people
can coexist even if they don't agree. And I only
feel that way because I'm new to media and I
am applying myself. Okay, It's really easy to become a
one note show that just tells you everybody else sucks.
But at that point you're not helping the world, You're
just helping yourself.
Speaker 1 (15:51):
Okay. Tim Scott is a guy who genuinely wants to help.
Speaker 3 (15:55):
That's why in Trump's first administration, he of course got
seventy five billion dollars and opportunity zones for low income
black communities. He helped usher in the First Step Prison
Reform Act, which has now freed over three hundred and
fifty thousand non violent black drug offenders who were sentenced under.
Speaker 1 (16:14):
The nineteen ninety four Joe Biden Crime Bill. Go figure,
do you.
Speaker 3 (16:18):
Have a problem figuring out whether you're PREMI or Trump
and you ain't black? Even now as historically black colleges
and universities get their highest recurring funding endowment ever courtesy
of Donald Trump. He is a guy that gets out
there and has the honest conversation about race that we
need because in this country, so many people are being
sold a message of defeat. You know how Obama ran
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on yes we can, Yes we can, Okay, hope and change,
yes we can. Well, the Democrats are now the party
of no we can't. They're telling you if you're a minority,
you can't get ahead, guys. I just interviewed a black
United States center who's a congressman before that, who's been
a best selling author multiple times, telling you the country
systemically racist. One of them was just the first lady
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for eight years. The other was the president for eight years. Okay,
if black people can be president, they can be anything.
Shout out to Tim Scott. I love having him in
the studio because there's a part of him that sort
of thinks I know what I'm doing, and this other
part of him that it's like, you know when your
drunk friend gets into a conversation and you've got to
listen extra in case they say something crazy, and you've
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got to kind of course correct the situation. Tim Scott
is half radio guest, half bouncer, but he's got an
incredible story, a phenomenal book, and he's one of the
things that makes this country great.
Speaker 1 (17:37):
So I couldn't be prouder.
Speaker 3 (17:38):
To have him on, as I feel about the next
guest joining me when we come back, the host of
Dirty Jobs, an American icon in his own right. I
am talking about Iron Mike Rowe.
Speaker 1 (17:50):
Who joins us when we come back.
Speaker 2 (17:54):
The best of Fox Across America, with Jimmy Fayalo and.
Speaker 3 (17:58):
His Fox across America with Jimmy fail to bear with me.
I want to get this intro right. The guest wrote
it himself and slipped it to me. He has a
cultural icon, beloved the world over for his work on
stage and cinema. Please welcome America's Sweetheart, Mike Rowe hot
damn well.
Speaker 5 (18:15):
From a modest from a sweetheart to a cultural icon.
All right, I'll take it. Man, nice job, but it's
hard to be both.
Speaker 3 (18:22):
I really think you worded this well because you're showing
the range of micro It's.
Speaker 1 (18:26):
Hard to be both at the same time. But you
have to know your audience.
Speaker 5 (18:30):
From everything I've read, I think we can settle in
for twelve minutes of America's Sweetheart.
Speaker 1 (18:35):
There it is.
Speaker 3 (18:36):
But yes, he's the multimedia switch hitter. Maybe some would
say the Mickey Mantle of media, and that's based entirely
on his alcohol consumption.
Speaker 5 (18:44):
I was going to say him throw a ball. I
was just going to say the Cookie Rojas of codependency.
There's a reference one of the greatest utility players.
Speaker 3 (18:52):
You dug deep. You want to tell a funny story.
When I started here, I referenced you futility players. Okay,
guy who hired me on FBM was gun named Gary Schreyer.
He said, what do you see a role as Fox?
I said, I'm going to kind of be like a
jose Akendo. Okay, played for the Cardinals. He could play
every position on the field. And he was like, jose
A Kendo was a met and I was like, maybe,
but I knew him as a cardinal in the eighties,
a cardinal, so he was a Met. And it was
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a very contentious point in the interview because you know,
the guy's a Met guy.
Speaker 1 (19:17):
You don't have allowed to hang your hat on. That's right.
Speaker 3 (19:19):
Okay, You've won two things since the moon landing, which
may or may not have happened at this point, but
we'll get into that.
Speaker 5 (19:25):
You beat the Oriols in sixty nine, which I still
carry around. Well, we're going to get to the Orioles.
There's a point to this, okay.
Speaker 3 (19:30):
But on the day I started here at Fox, on
my desk, which I have it to this day, was
a jose A Kendo met card from nineteen eighty five.
Speaker 1 (19:37):
The guy wanted to prove it meant that much to him.
And still you still cling to it. You still have it?
Speaker 3 (19:41):
Well, it's because I I I remember in a pinch
and I need thirteen cents.
Speaker 5 (19:46):
But see the difference is that guy showed up and
he could do virtually anything, and you show up with
a level of enthusiasm that and I think I said
this to you on my podcast when we first sat
down at chat. A level of enthusiasm the borders between
impressive and suspicious. And I really don't know how you
maintain it. But every single time I've seen you, you're.
Speaker 1 (20:07):
Like, can you believe it?
Speaker 5 (20:08):
I'm back, I still have an office, I'm still were
the buildings still here, I'm still here.
Speaker 1 (20:13):
If I have told you this, forgive me. Okay, I
am a dog with a job.
Speaker 3 (20:18):
Have you ever gone to the airport and you see
the dogs sniff in the bags and he's so excited
because he can't believe they're.
Speaker 5 (20:23):
Counting on him to say it's the plane. I can't
believe you nuts is amazing. I thought you were going
with the Seinfeld beat with the dogs.
Speaker 1 (20:29):
Right. All you have to do is come home and
they see you. They're like, there he is. He's done
it again. I don't know where he went. I don't
know what he did, but he's back, and it's amazing.
Speaker 3 (20:39):
You've earned none of this praise, You've earned none of
the pray. You just get through that door. There were
serial killers greeted by dogs throughout the years. Are like,
this guy's amazing. Yeah, and he smells like food.
Speaker 1 (20:50):
For some reason, it's you again. I can't believe it. Man,
does he do it?
Speaker 3 (20:54):
Mike Row is here, the Cookie Rojas of media, So
we any way to get back to your orioles. A
guy who goes back and forth with me a lot
on Twitter, Jim Palmer, legendary Hall of Fame Pitcher, No kidding,
and he's not a huge Fox guy, but he somehow
stumbled across me and likes to take cheap shots at
me and back and forth. Sure, and he ties it.
He filters it through the lens of the Yankees, like
(21:14):
he wants to be talking to a Fox guy.
Speaker 1 (21:16):
But it's like the movie Ghost.
Speaker 3 (21:18):
He uses the Yankees as the Whoopi Goldberg he has
to jump into to communicate with me, and we go
back and forth.
Speaker 1 (21:23):
There's a lot of jokes about his underwear commercials. So
let me tell you I got a couple. Jim Palmer risks.
Speaker 5 (21:29):
The first is he reached out to me early on
in the Dirty Jobs days because his father in law
has the most elaborate antique gun collection. Oh and he
really wanted to show these to me. So I told him, look,
I'll put it on the list. But you got to
know that my grandmother is walking around with just a serious,
a serious amount of unrequited affection for you, and one
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day I got to get you two together. Yeah, he said,
no problem. Flash forward. My grandmother at ninety falls and
breaks her hip during an Orioles game. She's alone at
my parents and it's condo. She's halfway between the den
where the TV is and the kitchen where she was
going to get herself a high ball. So she's lying
there with a busted hip. The phone's in the kitchen.
She can drag herself to the phone to call nine
(22:12):
one one, or drag herself back to the den to watch.
Speaker 1 (22:15):
The end of the Orioles game. Stop it.
Speaker 5 (22:17):
She drags herself back to the den. My mother finds
her lying there with a busted hip, writes an open
letter to Peter DeAngelo's and puts it in the Sun Paper.
Three months later, my grandmother throws out the first pitch
at an Oriole game, and I take her up to
the booth and introduce her to Jim Palmer and he
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hugs her and kisses her on the mouth. You stop
it right square, and Filma Noble died and went to heaven.
And that's my contribution to my family tree. Thank you,
Jim Palmer.
Speaker 1 (22:51):
Oh, that's an amazing Jim Palmer story that made the
whole thing up. But no, it's true.
Speaker 5 (23:00):
It was true my hand to God, and it's in
my mom's first book. My mother wrote every day for
sixty years, Jimmy, and finally got a book published at eighty.
Speaker 1 (23:11):
I swear to god. She's had four New York Times
bestsellers since then? Is that?
Speaker 5 (23:15):
And that story's in her first book? Peggy, Peggy Row
that it matters. Yeah, I don't have the writer. I
had a grandma who did that. She ran five miles
a day till she was ninety five. We can't find her.
She's out there, some my grandma faila. She's out there
like Forrest Gump with a smiley face, booking across the bridge.
Speaker 1 (23:36):
We're talking to mic Row.
Speaker 3 (23:37):
He now claims Earl Weaver was his biological father.
Speaker 1 (23:40):
This is a really confusing interview for me. If you
guys can just put me muscle through.
Speaker 5 (23:45):
I just love how you summed this up so far
as an interview. That's hysterical. That's amazing.
Speaker 3 (23:50):
All right, we'll to give me two minutes of press
on your new project, People you Should Know. We discussed
it on an award winning show called Fox New Saturday
Night this past weekend.
Speaker 5 (24:00):
That was an amazing appearance. I'm still waiting through the
comments that have completely lit up all the socials based
on a witty rep parte. The show in question is
called People You Should Know. It airs exclusively on my
YouTube channel. Why because my god, our business is collapsing
and getting a show made today it's a knife fight
(24:20):
and a phone booth. And so what I did was
I went back and I looked at a show called
Returning the Favor that I did for Facebook once upon
a Time, a celebration of the neighbors you wish you
had right And that show was viewed four hundred and
fifty million times. I won an Emmy for the damn
da you know. And Facebook canceled it and nothing personal.
(24:43):
They just decided they weren't going to compete with Netflix
after all. But I had two million people watching this
show and for three years they've been up my butt
saying when are we going to bring it back? So
the show's back. It's called People you Should Know. And
every episode, you know what, it's going to be called
a feel good show because it kind of is.
Speaker 1 (25:03):
But the truth is it's the making of a feel
good show.
Speaker 5 (25:07):
So it's worts and all right, it's all the mistakes,
it's all the fun of getting this kind of thing
off the ground. You'll laugh, you'll cry, you'll drink, you'll
go to the next town with him, do it again.
Speaker 3 (25:16):
And to be clear, it's village People you should Know.
The hot cop is there, the chief is there.
Speaker 1 (25:23):
Well, we can only had we only had the budget
for one guy, but five constans. So we're mix we're bullish,
that's right. He mixes it up a little bit. We talk.
He's an Indian with a hard day. He does it all.
Speaker 3 (25:34):
This guy he's talking about range, we're talking about your range.
Since see Larry, the one construction worker we have. I'm
dying micro. I think it's funny. I also love that
the Village People got a bit of a rebirth.
Speaker 1 (25:46):
This is a thing.
Speaker 3 (25:46):
I don't have a political conversation, but I have a
take on Trump. Okay, when it comes to dancing, Donald
Trump famously is a teetotaler. He does not drink, correct,
but he does the YMCA like someone who does, meaning
the drunkest person you know can do.
Speaker 1 (26:02):
The y m c A. Interesting.
Speaker 3 (26:04):
The fact that he just does the hands would usually
be a tell to you that your buddy can't drive tonight.
Speaker 1 (26:08):
That's right.
Speaker 3 (26:09):
If your buddy's doing this to ymc A might even
be pukick by the end of the night.
Speaker 5 (26:13):
Isn't that fasting? Well, it's it's it's it's completely backwards.
You're right, you're right. But look the fact that he's
out there doing that with seemingly out it's just he's out,
he's he's out of dams to give.
Speaker 1 (26:27):
Yeah, that's just doesn't care.
Speaker 3 (26:30):
You want to know what, that's a testament to the
fact that he invented a dance for a song that
already has one so beautiful has been the y m
c A for AE hundred and fifty years, seventy five years.
Speaker 5 (26:42):
Right, So, rather than commit to a fairly elaborate expression
of four letters in our alphabet, I'm just going to
move my hips a little Yeah, just do a little
thing yet and that's just this is what you get.
He simplified it for everyone. Is what he did. He
made ym he accessible. He dozed to the.
Speaker 1 (27:03):
You just did it.
Speaker 5 (27:05):
We're gonna lose the vows then to considens. I oh,
all this left of my hips?
Speaker 3 (27:11):
They Dogedyoca. It's got too many letters. Who has time
for that many letters.
Speaker 1 (27:16):
I'd like to buy a valve. We're out.
Speaker 3 (27:19):
The inefficiency is gone, at least at a musical level
in the United States government, I think is the takeaway
from this interview.
Speaker 5 (27:25):
I think we need more music in the government. I
think we need more music in a cabinet.
Speaker 3 (27:29):
I don't think they should be doing anything bus you know,
it's in a weird way. Everyone does so much press
now at a government level that their words have lost
any and all meeting because we're not We're only going
to focus on them for as long as it takes
to get the next statement out of them, which in
this day and age is like thirty minutes.
Speaker 5 (27:47):
I had a meeting last week with the Department of Education,
me lynmock Man and a room full of people, and
it was a great meeting went on for about an hour.
We discussed make education great again. So Mega it's coming.
But in the middle of the meeting, I confess I thought,
what this meeting needs is a is an aria, a
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modest one, but just something. Just we needed a musical
interlude because there was just too much talking fair just
not much, just like like salt, just a little something to.
Speaker 1 (28:22):
Mix it up.
Speaker 3 (28:22):
There's value in that reset, you know, because you get
the back from break energy to the meeting.
Speaker 5 (28:28):
Think about the movies that you used to see when
you were a kid, like when the popcorn came out.
It's not much, it's just a little to you know,
clear the palletpheric exactly.
Speaker 3 (28:41):
That was my biggest criticism of those isis beheading videos
that they put on YouTube. I was like, you know what, guys,
you can't buy a royalty free music bed.
Speaker 1 (28:50):
Just a little something to set the stage, dude, I
don't think. But I'm constantly looking for where the line
is that you found it. Yeah, well, I will.
Speaker 3 (29:00):
Say, okay about the depraved age we're living in is
if something has views, it has advertising. And I'm so
fascinated how there's this overlay between Like I guess that
you know, distinguished products and the most depraved things man
could ever witness now coexist simultaneously in an advertising space.
(29:20):
I don't and I don't think that's good commentary on society.
Speaker 5 (29:23):
Well, look, there's always going to be there's going to
be an eternal dance between entertainment slash artistry versus the
transactional realities of filthy lucra. But I know, like with
this show that I'm going to shamelessly plug again people.
You should know on my YouTube channel. I'm late to
this party, and I ignored YouTube for years whatever, and
(29:45):
so for the last six months, you know, smart people
sat me down and said, Mike, what you need to
do is you need to get a million people on
your YouTube page. So I did. But I hate to
think like that. Yeah, Like I hate to go out
into the world going what can I do today to
do this?
Speaker 1 (30:00):
Yeah?
Speaker 5 (30:00):
But you know something, It's like at Disney the sign
says you must be this tall to get on the ride.
And if you want to play this game today, you
better understand that you work I don't know who signs
your checks, but you don't really work for Fox, dude.
Speaker 1 (30:15):
You work for the people who watch you. Yeah, and
I know you know that.
Speaker 5 (30:18):
Yeah, yeah, but you know that's a bitter lesson to
learn and it's a hard thing to really take to heart.
Speaker 1 (30:23):
But if you want to play, you better understand it.
Speaker 3 (30:27):
So yeah, now that's spot on, and you're right to
say that I do work for the loan sharks from
my taxi days. So we're watching right now and going
it's almost Thursday payday.
Speaker 1 (30:37):
Do taxis still work like that? Like back in the day,
you would give them, what two three hundred bucks and
you'd start your shift. Yeah, and then you'd rent the
cab for a shift. Yes.
Speaker 3 (30:46):
So in the heyday when the medallion was worth money
million one when I started, when you rent a day
shift or for a buck eight, you'd rent a night
for like one thirty six. Weekend was one fifty four, Yeah,
and it was basically yours for twelve hours minus gas
that your take home pay. What two things decimated the
value of the medallion. Bloomberg coming along because they were
(31:07):
a finite amount of them. They were about eleven thousand
of them. Bloomberg issued ten thousand new ones in the
name of clean energy. They were called green taxis, with
the premise being they were only going to pick up
in the outer burrows to lessen pollution in those neighborhoods.
Speaker 1 (31:21):
But of course, if you pick a guy up.
Speaker 3 (31:22):
In Brooklyn and drove into Manhattan, you're going to pick
up the next fair you see, You're not going to
drive back to Brooklyn empty, of course. So that kind
of killed the medallion value. And then when Uber came along,
you know, basically created more drivers. It didn't increase the
amount of passengers, just created more drivers and gigged out
the gig What about.
Speaker 5 (31:37):
The uh what about the weather? I mean last night,
all of a sudden it's pouring down raining. You know,
it's a twenty minute wait for an Uber. I didn't
even try lyft and there's not a single light on
any of the cabs. Like when it's raining and you're
driving a cab, is this like holiday for you?
Speaker 3 (31:51):
Oh yeah, everybody jumps in, but it's also a lot
of short fares because it might just somebody doesn't want
to go eight blocks. So you actually make a lot
of money though, because I'm turnover, because everybody gets in.
You know what I'm saying, it's you get the three
point fifty on the meter, the dollar surg charge the
fuel thing, you know, thing, and so the turnover is
good if you keep it, if you keep moving short
fair style like that.
Speaker 1 (32:11):
I just like that you've taken over this exchange. You're
now interviewing me. That's the power of micro Do you
think that?
Speaker 5 (32:17):
I often like and the three years I spent in
the middle of the night from nineteen ninety to ninety
three selling things on the QBC cable shopping channel. I
bitched about that for a long time and then I
like just erased it from my memory. And then I
found a video that people had posted of me from
those days, and then I kind of embraced it. And
(32:39):
then I eventually realized that every worthwhile thing I learned
about my career today, and how did I become America's
sweetheart Jimmy? How did I become a global icon? Every
single thing that was useful I learned there? How much
of what? How much of your success today goes back
to lessons learned in.
Speaker 1 (32:58):
The cash Yeah? I would say like nine percent of it,
did that? Crazy? Yeah?
Speaker 3 (33:02):
Of course, the stuff that you learn at the absolute
bottom because a lot of it's human nature.
Speaker 1 (33:07):
Yeah, And it's the.
Speaker 3 (33:08):
Only thing you can pay attention to because you're not
swimming into any other circles. You know, you're on the
outside of a lot of circles, and you're deducing things
in your observations.
Speaker 5 (33:17):
This is why you're going to go as far as
you want to go. Man, you and I said this
to you before you you either there are two kinds
of people. There are the kind of people that look
at the lower rungs on the ladder with derision and
a smirk, and they're the kind of people who go,
I would never have gotten anywhere without that.
Speaker 1 (33:35):
You need that wrung, man. And that's the thing.
Speaker 3 (33:37):
If someone calls you an overnight success, it just means
you work the overnight shift for like twelve.
Speaker 1 (33:41):
Hours, or it means you're well rung. Hey, Mike Row,
he's still got it.
Speaker 3 (33:47):
That's why he's a married You want to talk about
people you should know.
Speaker 5 (33:50):
You should know Mike Row, You should you know me.
It's almost sort of maybe like that I grow on you.
Speaker 3 (33:57):
Oh fantastic the radio cyst Mike grow It was nice
to have you.
Speaker 1 (34:02):
It's nice to be ahead, but I prefer carbuncle. Yeah. Oh,
you'll always be benign to me. There it goes.
Speaker 2 (34:08):
It's the best of a Fox across America with Jimmy Saylor.
Speaker 1 (34:12):
How about a hand from Mike Rowe.
Speaker 3 (34:15):
Oh you stop at He's the best the film people.
Speaker 1 (34:18):
You should know.
Speaker 3 (34:20):
It is on his YouTube channel. You should follow him
on Twitter. I've said this to you before in the
show he was the He interviewed me on his podcast
if you've never seen it, it's the best thing I've
ever been a part of. It was about eight hours
and twelve. We went at it for a while. It
was really funny, and he was a guy who opened
my eyes to a lot of things that would surface
(34:44):
because he interviewed me right when I got a TV
show Fox New Saturday Night, and having been a guy
who hosted so many successful TV shows, he had a
really good understanding of what I was going to start
encountering on a day to day basis. Is a guy
who is the face of a TV show on a
channel as big as Fox. And when I tell you everything,
every piece of advice he gave me was like spot on.
(35:05):
It was like a Yoda, you know, like if it
wasn't as good look and as Yoda, I can't come on.
We're having fun over here. He's the man. How about
my man Mike Rowe telling it like it is something
you might not know from listening to that best of interview.
Here on this Labor Day spectacular is my wife's family, huge, huge,
huge micro fans and came up to Fox to meet
(35:26):
him after the interview. Dave and Judy, my in laws,
were in town, which was amazing to me just to
have him out of my house for the day. So
shout out to Mike Rowe for saving my afternoon and
for being a big star of this best of episode.
But in hour number two, it's really gonna get nuts,
So get your game face on. It's a Labor Day
best of episode of Fox Across America with your main man,
(35:49):
Jimmy Fala. You better put the ketchup on that hot
dog now because we're about to get into some conversations
that could very well end with you squirting it on yourself.
Speaker 1 (36:00):
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