Episode Transcript
Available transcripts are automatically generated. Complete accuracy is not guaranteed.
Speaker 1 (00:00):
This is a podcast from dou Woar.
Speaker 2 (00:03):
From Everywhere USA. It's Fox Across America with Jimmy Fayla.
It's the best of Fox Across America with Jimmy Fayler.
Speaker 3 (00:11):
Out Here we go, Here we Go, our number two
of a Fox Across America Labor Day spectacular. We're running
a best of episode and I know some people say
best of what Jimmy, we listened to this show.
Speaker 1 (00:23):
There are no greatest hits.
Speaker 3 (00:24):
This is like Chumbawamba putting out a double box set. Well, listen,
Like Chumbawamba, the show gets knocked down a lot, but
it gets right back up again. And one of the
reasons why is because we have phenomenal guests like this
gentleman who is joining us at the tippy top of
the hour.
Speaker 1 (00:39):
He is a superstar.
Speaker 3 (00:41):
On the longest running comedy show in cable news. No,
I'm not talking about Jake Tapper show on CNN. I
am talking about Impractical Jokers and James Murr. Murray made
all kinds of headlines the last time he was on
our show, something to do with a train set he
may or may not have opened at his home.
Speaker 1 (01:01):
Here he is now to talk about it.
Speaker 3 (01:03):
Brace yourself, because canons are gonna go off when I
say his name, and then they'll of course do the
pyrotechnics and the doves. He is one of the founding
members of the tender Loins, you know them on TV
as impractical jokers. It is a high honor to have
James Murray on the show Hot damn.
Speaker 1 (01:17):
What's up?
Speaker 4 (01:17):
Man?
Speaker 5 (01:18):
What's up? Buddy?
Speaker 1 (01:19):
Are you better now? You're always good for morale.
Speaker 3 (01:22):
You're one of this very few people in TV that
are universally good for morale. I've never seen you on
a show here at Fox where the staff wasn't happy
you were there.
Speaker 6 (01:31):
Okay, well that's good to know that a good rep
there at the network.
Speaker 3 (01:35):
Well, that's the point is keep handing out those percocets
in the green room.
Speaker 1 (01:38):
It's working, I know, well, you know.
Speaker 5 (01:41):
It works.
Speaker 1 (01:42):
I don't have to say.
Speaker 5 (01:43):
Isn't it funny?
Speaker 4 (01:43):
Though?
Speaker 3 (01:44):
Because his comics were actually not nearly as debauched as
what we thought this was gonna be.
Speaker 1 (01:48):
Like I was at a meeting this morning.
Speaker 3 (01:50):
And I said, I grew up, you know, assuming that
every green room in Hollywood was like cocaine and like
a backstage at a led Zeppelin show, and then you
get there and people are intermittent fasting and talking about
their pilates class. It's actually kind of disappointing behind the scenes,
isn't it.
Speaker 5 (02:06):
It is very funny. I was on tour this weekend.
Speaker 6 (02:08):
I chose in Rochester and uh, before it was show,
I'm just down there.
Speaker 5 (02:11):
Doing like two hundred push ups to get pumped for
the show. That's it. It's just it's just me, my cousin, my.
Speaker 6 (02:19):
Employee Ethan, just sitting around on our cell phones and
I'm doing push ups.
Speaker 3 (02:25):
No, I love that because I don't even for real,
I don't even drink on stage because my drinking brain
isn't as quick as my comedy brain. And it's funny.
I made a joke I was in Reno. I know
nobody likes a show off, but I was in Reno
this past weekend. Uh, and I can't I have a
special reverence for Reno because the movie King Pin End's
there with Yeah, that's probably by the way, Can we
(02:46):
just agree, I think Big Earn McCracken is the best
best Bill Murray Roll.
Speaker 5 (02:52):
Uh you know how.
Speaker 4 (02:55):
You know?
Speaker 5 (02:56):
Am I better than Groundhog Day or or Peter weikman.
Speaker 3 (03:01):
I know, I love big Ern McCracken like, we could,
you know, we could argue this the whole interview. I'm
a big fan of big Ern. I love him as
a villain, you know. And I think big Ern is
probably the closest to the real Bill Murray of all
the characters he's played.
Speaker 6 (03:17):
Oh that's a difficult question, still, connorson Groundhall Day fan
the guy.
Speaker 3 (03:23):
I don't want to be fair fair, that's fine, And
I can't pick a fight with you because I don't
want to lose my.
Speaker 1 (03:27):
Percocets that you hand out the next time you're hear
at Fox. So so this's that.
Speaker 3 (03:31):
But I was in Reno this weekend and it's funny
because I made a joke on stage at the end
of my set. I do like a Fox News Q
and a like what do you want to know about Fox?
And I always say, like, you know, now that the
whiskey kicked in, I have plausible deniability, but I don't
actually drink. And I still got the nasty email after
the show going like how dare you show up to
our amphitheater intoxicated and spill the beats. It's like there's
(03:55):
always one is there not always one.
Speaker 6 (03:58):
There's always one of everything that's statistical, absolute certain.
Speaker 3 (04:03):
We're talking to the Great James Murray his words. He
insists that we call him the great, he wouldn't come on.
That's what actually held up the contract.
Speaker 1 (04:12):
You got to see his rider, man.
Speaker 5 (04:14):
I negotiated hard for that, you did.
Speaker 3 (04:16):
I mean this, this is the writer. People who haven't
seen his rider. It's you call him the great and
you have to have a perfect push up in the
green room.
Speaker 5 (04:23):
And Lucky a.
Speaker 6 (04:25):
Perfect push yeah, and I insist on you doing a
one ass single burpie.
Speaker 3 (04:32):
It's a weird, it's a weird request, but he makes
it and we try to be accommodating on the show.
So here we are. Yes, thank you, So give me this.
Because you're on tour. Where where are they getting tickets?
Speaker 4 (04:46):
Live dot com.
Speaker 6 (04:47):
I'm about to announce my uh my entire fall schedule too,
where I'm all over the place.
Speaker 5 (04:51):
I'll do like thirty more cities.
Speaker 4 (04:53):
In the fall.
Speaker 1 (04:53):
Get out of here.
Speaker 3 (04:54):
Well, if you're off the road, you can see my
producer Mikey at Flash Dancers.
Speaker 1 (04:59):
He'll be appearing there.
Speaker 5 (05:01):
Is he one of the d answers?
Speaker 1 (05:02):
Not quite?
Speaker 5 (05:03):
Not quite?
Speaker 1 (05:03):
I mean the lights are dark.
Speaker 3 (05:05):
Don't get me wrong, They're pretty dark over there, but
I don't know if they're that dark. But yeah, I
just wanted you to know you have some entertainment options yourself.
But as a guy who's torn in the country, this
is what I wanted to ask you. I love I
love the Midwest, I love the South. I have a
theory that no one's ever been offended by a joke
within twenty miles of a cracker barrel. Do you buy
(05:27):
into my theory? I think this is good analysis.
Speaker 6 (05:31):
Dude, everything in America is within twenty miles of a
cracker bar But like, that's not true.
Speaker 5 (05:37):
It's just right now.
Speaker 6 (05:39):
I'm in sure there's three cracker barrels within half a
mile of me.
Speaker 1 (05:43):
Good for you.
Speaker 3 (05:44):
I don't have that in New York City. We don't
actually have cracker brow. I have a guy on the
subway who calls me a cracker every morning when I
get on, But I don't actually have the restaurant. I
don't get the dumplings. I don't get the thirty pound
kit cat like you do, Murray. That's why you're in
a good mood.
Speaker 5 (06:00):
You live by the general idea. I like your general theory. Okay,
I think he was in the wrong establishment. I don't
think it's cracker barrel.
Speaker 6 (06:07):
I think people are play jokes within twenty miles of.
Speaker 3 (06:12):
A waffle house, which is odd because in waffle house
some of the greatest fistfights you'll ever witness are taking place.
Speaker 5 (06:21):
Right now, some of the best comedy going around.
Speaker 1 (06:25):
Killer so you're gonna die.
Speaker 3 (06:28):
So I'm doing events with Sean Hannity here at Fox
because sometimes I try to help the little people get
a start.
Speaker 1 (06:35):
You know what I'm saying. I'm taking him under my wing.
Speaker 3 (06:38):
I could really see this panning out for him if
he sticks with this TV and radio thing. But he
was asking me about going to waffle House because he
loves waffle House. He goes, you go to waffle House
after the show. I go, dude, I don't have the
handspeed to go to waffle House after the show. I'm like,
I can go before the show five o'clock waffle house.
I'm fine, But one am waffle House. I don't have
(06:59):
the jam. Yeah it's great, but I.
Speaker 1 (07:00):
Don't have the jam.
Speaker 5 (07:02):
Do you kind of take it's best night ever?
Speaker 3 (07:05):
You know?
Speaker 5 (07:05):
I don't do the flash chancers anymore.
Speaker 3 (07:09):
Do you remember the late great Kevin Meanie the comedian,
Of course, yeah, the great. So the first time I
opened for Mini, we were in Atlanta and he took
me to waffle house at like two in the morning.
And I don't know what brought this performative enthusiasm out
of him, but he stood on a chair in a
waffle house and did his set for the local waffle
(07:29):
house clientele in Roswell, Georgia at two am. And yes,
it was the greatest night of my life. He might
have been under the influence of I don't know what.
I don't know how Mini rolled, but he performed with
the same level of commitment you'd expect in the theater.
Speaker 1 (07:44):
And what happened is I'm not kidding, Mr.
Speaker 3 (07:46):
He literally did like thirty five minutes and it was
like the crowd had turned over to the point that
it was like the pimps that the pimps are scared
of were starting to come in now. And so I
didn't know how to get myself out of it. I
really did this. I did the old light him with
my phone and he was so committed. He saw the
light and nodded at me like I'll rap and he
(08:07):
got off stage.
Speaker 1 (08:08):
After doing it all month.
Speaker 3 (08:09):
He didn't sing we all the world, but he got
off on one of his John Benet Benet jokes and
we got out of there live.
Speaker 5 (08:15):
You know my bisiness in waffle house. I do it
all the time. Many waffle houses girls America have a
juke box in him, and an old school juke box.
Speaker 6 (08:23):
So what you do is you eat your meal, you
have a lovely waffle, enjoy the show that is waffle house,
and then as you.
Speaker 5 (08:29):
Go to leave, you go up the jukebox. They all
the same tracks on him.
Speaker 6 (08:33):
You put a twenty dollars billion, so you get twenty plays,
and you play twenty times in a row.
Speaker 5 (08:39):
Man, I feel like a woman by Shanaiah twenty And.
Speaker 6 (08:44):
Then you walk out the door as the song starts
to play, and you've ruined everyone's lives and.
Speaker 1 (08:51):
I love that.
Speaker 3 (08:53):
And then somehow a democrat hands you a gold medal
in women's swimming.
Speaker 1 (08:57):
It's his What a time that'll be alive? Woh, it's
so funny, you know what I think? Though, I have
a theory about this too.
Speaker 3 (09:04):
Everybody always says like, oh, you guys, you have it
so good now, because there's so much to work with.
I would almost argue, there's too much to work with,
don't you.
Speaker 1 (09:13):
I almost feel like as.
Speaker 3 (09:14):
A country, we probably peaked like late early mid eighties,
early nineties, like the Chicago Bears Super Bowl Shuffle, when
Cosby was held in the good graces of America pop
culture it at zenith. We probably peaked around the Super
Bowl eighty five run DMC and Aerosmith Walk this Way.
Could we top that as a country? I mean, back
to the Future, Back to the future, Well yeah.
Speaker 6 (09:38):
I mean you had the eight Team on tv mcgivers
all the age Yo, good pee Wee's Big Adventure Mars.
Speaker 5 (09:45):
I just washed the dock today. I fished it.
Speaker 1 (09:47):
Oh, it was so good. Mark Holton.
Speaker 3 (09:50):
Mark Holton, who plays Francis Buxton, the bike Thief, is
a good friend of our show. He listens down in Tulsen.
We drag him on from time to time. He's stole
Peey's bike. So since we brought it up, uh, my favorite.
Probably the best thing that ever happened to me here
at Fox News. One days I was filling I was
on a show with Heroldo Rivera and I did a
lot of shows with him because I was also what
I don't host radio.
Speaker 1 (10:10):
I was the guy that trimmed his mustache. They would
that was like part of you talking about it.
Speaker 5 (10:15):
This is actually what you went to school for.
Speaker 1 (10:16):
Yeah, I went to well Nassau Community.
Speaker 3 (10:18):
I mean it's a little more noble than what I
went to school for. We majored in Nintendo and a
B minor in Heraldo's mustache. So we were on I
was filling it on the five and we were talking
about movie props and a girl said if she could
have any prop from any movie, it would be pee
(10:39):
wee Hermon's bicycle. So I made a joke everyone could make,
which is, well, you're out of luck because it's in
the basement of the Alamo. Ha ha, okay, Haraldo, here's
it and goes Alamo in San Antonio and I go, yo, Horoaldo,
how many Alamos you know?
Speaker 1 (10:56):
Dude?
Speaker 3 (10:57):
You're like a did you ever hear remember the Alamo?
Speaker 4 (10:59):
And the like?
Speaker 1 (11:00):
Which one you know?
Speaker 5 (11:02):
Is that a chain? It's no, it's no waffle house.
Speaker 3 (11:05):
He thought I was shouting out the car rental remember
the Alamo, Andralo's like, yeah, those are some good Toyota corollas.
Speaker 5 (11:13):
I've hurts gold membership. I don't I can't remember.
Speaker 1 (11:16):
The Alamo hurts, they'll get mad. Murray, you still got it, man? Uh,
they gotta go see you, love you gotta come do
my TV show and you're in town.
Speaker 6 (11:24):
Well sure, dude, I'll love to come by anyone of
coross America.
Speaker 4 (11:27):
Get you.
Speaker 6 (11:28):
You get to murder Love dot com and come visit
my train Club, one of America's oldest, longest running model
railroad clubs. We saved the club from extinction. We bought
it the night before it went on public sale. It's
called the CIX Southern Railway. It's flipping awesome.
Speaker 4 (11:44):
All right?
Speaker 3 (11:44):
Can I just jump in here murrhy because that was
in the notes I had for this interview, and I
wasn't sure if you were effing with me.
Speaker 1 (11:52):
I'm here, I know, I'm looking.
Speaker 3 (11:54):
I'm like, it's a real thing, but I wasn't.
Speaker 5 (11:56):
Just unbelievable. They're in the base of Rnault. The layout
was bigger than house asself. I knocked out a phone
and kept going.
Speaker 1 (12:03):
No, no, I love this.
Speaker 3 (12:05):
I love this so much and I would have led
with it, but I wasn't half shore if you were
punking them, because all right, just double check in. But
so everybody knows. Okay, it's the Pacific Southern Railway. It
was nearly shut down. Merrs swooped in and saved the day.
And now the night before it was.
Speaker 6 (12:22):
Being forced to put up for sale, and so i's
gonna take say, get the heck out of the house.
My wife and I bought it and saved the club.
It's in the basement right now below me. It's unbelievable.
It's five thousand square feet of layout, twelve thousand feet
to track.
Speaker 5 (12:36):
It's a nonprofit. You can join, become a member anywhere
in the world. We have virtual memberships. Got to pacificsuthern
dot org. And it's taxaductable because the charity is a charity.
Speaker 6 (12:46):
They donate all their proceeds to fire and EMT workers
here in Jersey.
Speaker 5 (12:51):
It's pretty damn cool.
Speaker 4 (12:52):
Man.
Speaker 1 (12:53):
Well, it's so cool that I should have led with it.
Speaker 3 (12:55):
But I think part of the problem with being a
notorious prankster Murr is some people don't know. No, he's
got the shirt on him watching it on the Fox
Nation cameras. If you're listening on the radio, this is
a real thing. Give oh no, Now he's walking on camera.
Down are you about to show me trains?
Speaker 5 (13:10):
Oh my god, downstairs here.
Speaker 1 (13:13):
Now we're getting a guided towards.
Speaker 5 (13:15):
You see reception. We'll see you are.
Speaker 3 (13:17):
Already losing reception, but you sound good and this is
still amazing.
Speaker 5 (13:21):
It's just miles and miles of model railroads.
Speaker 1 (13:24):
I love this.
Speaker 3 (13:25):
But he still sold this idea to me as if
I was a kid and he pulled up in a
white van.
Speaker 1 (13:30):
He's like, come here, you want to see some trains.
But look at the trains. They're amazing.
Speaker 5 (13:35):
I'm gonna go too far the basement reception, but.
Speaker 1 (13:37):
It's that is amazing. We love it.
Speaker 3 (13:41):
I'm gonna lose you, but we're gonna do this again soon.
James mur Murray has all of those trains. I would
never tell you to go to a man's basement, but
James Murmurray is the one guy. He's the one basement.
I endorse ladies and gentlemen. Great stuff. Brother, Thanks, we'll
catch you up soon, the great James mur Murray. Everybody
(14:06):
awkward situation because he's downstairs looking at all those trains,
and as he's walking through his basement, I saw Joe Biden.
Speaker 1 (14:13):
Was that bizarre?
Speaker 3 (14:14):
It was a come on, man, it's still locked up.
He's in Murr's basement now. I ken'd put a shout
out to Murray, a shout out to impractical jokers, and
a shout out to you for sticking around, and you
better stick around, damn it.
Speaker 1 (14:24):
I need the ratings be back after this. He's the
best of Foxed Across America.
Speaker 2 (14:29):
Bestive Fox Across America with Jimmy Faylor.
Speaker 3 (14:32):
There it is Fox Across America with Jimmy Fayala running
back out to the calls real quick. Hillsdale, Michigan is
where you find John today. Yo, John, Yeah, excuse me, Jimmy, Yes,
I'm here.
Speaker 1 (14:44):
I love it. What's happening out in Hillsdale? My man?
Talk to me.
Speaker 7 (14:47):
I gotta know, hey, hey, I would looking earlier this
morning when you guys were talking about those riots out
in La Yep. And you know we're just gonna Trump
on Trump anytime you get the chance. Just sending two
thousand people in there in National Guard or Marines or whatever.
They should just ten ten thousand troops, grab them all,
(15:08):
take it right to the border, throw them across. Let
the Median see it, let them see they're not messing
around anymore. They just get it done with. They're gonna
bitch no matter what.
Speaker 1 (15:17):
Yeah, they are.
Speaker 3 (15:18):
I mean, listen, the truth is, the guys that are
throwing on the uniforms are already risking their lives to
deport these people and apprehend them. The idea that anyone's
making a case for throwing rocks at them is insane.
But you know what, Listen, if we can somehow manage
to do this without any real casualties, there is a
net benefit to the Democrats going to bat for all
(15:40):
of these illegal criminals because people see it and they
realize where their priorities lie, and they're doing the Republicans
a favor. But my concern is not the Republicans. My
concern is the local business owner. It's the local family
in these towns.
Speaker 4 (15:53):
You know, right, Yeah, That's what I'm saying.
Speaker 7 (15:55):
That the sooner they get it done, the better they're
gonna complain anyhow, Just get it over with.
Speaker 3 (15:59):
So, John, you are saying, yeah, we talked to Tom
Homan a lot on this show. Do you want me
to tell Homan to step on the gas? Is that
what you're telling me?
Speaker 7 (16:08):
I don't think you need I don't think you needs
to be told that. He already knows that.
Speaker 3 (16:12):
I know, Tom, but you want to all hands on that.
Speaker 7 (16:17):
I'm a disabled bet so.
Speaker 4 (16:18):
I know.
Speaker 7 (16:19):
I spent nine years in the military, so I know
I know what these guys are going through and.
Speaker 4 (16:22):
How bad that is.
Speaker 7 (16:23):
But I believe me, they would probably be saying, yes,
get it done, get it over with.
Speaker 4 (16:27):
That's what the people the troup what you're saying.
Speaker 1 (16:29):
Yeah, I know, I think I think they're with you.
Speaker 3 (16:30):
I mean, you put on that uniform because this was
a country worth fighting for. And if citizenship means nothing
and we're all just supposed to fit the foot the
bill for whatever illegal migration the Democrats want to bring in,
then that's kind of a you know, a kick in
the nuts to what you stood.
Speaker 1 (16:43):
For so exactly.
Speaker 7 (16:45):
Yeah, I mean, it's just it's incredible. I remember when
I was stationed in Elmandorf Fair Force Space, and right
after Ronald Reagan got this is going to aige me
got elected his second term. We he came to Alaska,
to Elmendorf. The whole city was nothing but flying flaggs.
I mean, the whole place was just incredible. I mean,
I wish I could have recorded it.
Speaker 1 (17:04):
I'll patriotic. Everything was right now.
Speaker 3 (17:06):
Yeah, I loved good old fashioned civic pride, and yes
I love Reagan too. I was a little younger than
you in that era, but I was drinking like I
was your age, so don't worry about it. Shout out
to James muh murray, although I'm still not going into
that basement with him. I love that guy, but it's
a little weird. I don't accept a lot of basement invites.
Nowhere in the world on this Labor Day, is there
(17:28):
a man who'd be better off if only he spent
more time in stranger's basements? Okay, I just call me
old fashion, but ever since the Biden campaign, I resent
basement life after we elected the guy who was down
there watching Bonanza for a year and a half. That
being said now is not about me, Joe Biden or
James mur murray, because when we come back a Saturday
Night Live superstar that you will undoubtedly remember from the
(17:52):
expertise he wielded at the weekend up Date desk, I
am talking about the great Kevin Nielan, who joins us
after this on Fox.
Speaker 4 (17:59):
Across from.
Speaker 2 (18:05):
It's the Best of Fox Across America. With Jimmy Sali
having read.
Speaker 4 (18:10):
Hair Growing Up? Would did that make you insecure? Yes?
Speaker 1 (18:13):
And I hated the way I looked. I hated having.
Speaker 4 (18:16):
Still I.
Speaker 5 (18:19):
How do you do it?
Speaker 4 (18:20):
What do you do it?
Speaker 1 (18:21):
I'll just try to get through this wall that I
agreed to meet with you. I agreed to meet with
you for just a friendly walk, and then it turned
into this series. I knew this, Yeah, I didn't, you know.
Speaker 3 (18:35):
I thought, Oh, finally Kevin's gonna connect with me as
a human being.
Speaker 1 (18:38):
And you've got a non union camera.
Speaker 3 (18:42):
One part entertainment, one part affordable therapy session for some
famous people we know and love. It is, of course,
Hiking with Kevin. It is streaming on Fox Nation. The
Great Kevin Neelan joins us. Now, Hey man, hey, Jimmy,
how are you good? I love you helping Conan through
the tough times. I thought that was a nice touch.
Speaker 4 (19:01):
Well, he you know, talked about therapy. I mean, you know,
I'm gonna have to start charging pretty soon.
Speaker 1 (19:08):
We love the series.
Speaker 3 (19:08):
We've been watching promos here on the channel on this team,
so we're really excited to get you on. I just
have to give you a little background on that, and
I have to give the audience background because I was told,
I was credibly informed that you're performing in Middletown, Florida,
to the Tracy Performing Arts Center.
Speaker 1 (19:22):
Can you confirm.
Speaker 4 (19:24):
I'm confirming that.
Speaker 1 (19:25):
Indeed, Yes, breaking news. Put the chiron up on the
bottom of the screen.
Speaker 3 (19:29):
We've got Neilan in Middletown and that matters, man, And
I think that is so awesome. And one thing we
should tell the American people is you were did you
you were? You were at the sn L fiftieth reunion.
So there's a good yeah, I know, and there's a
good chance people can still get a contact high from
seeing you tonight.
Speaker 4 (19:45):
Well I think so. I mean they get a contact
high from seeing me and weeds you knownl.
Speaker 3 (19:51):
That's a lot of the six degrees of Kevin Bacon
applies to Kevin Neilan as well.
Speaker 1 (19:57):
I love this. That is hilarious.
Speaker 3 (20:00):
Well, the show is again, as I said, hiking with Kevin.
It's all over Fox Nation. We're really excited about it.
Give me this, Kevin Neelan. Because we've all we all
watched you. We're also super familiar with everything you do
and we love it and it's a thrill to have
you on So I want to know a little bit
of I want to hike with Jimmy for a minute.
Can I get some Neilan origin story out of you?
Speaker 4 (20:17):
Yeah? Yeah? Who was? Yeah?
Speaker 1 (20:19):
Who was your guy?
Speaker 3 (20:21):
Like before you became an international comedy superstar on You're
on SNL. Did you have a guy that you were
watching growing up, like a Rodney d or somebody.
Speaker 8 (20:28):
I had a couple of I've had a couple of
people that I really enjoyed watching, and one of them
was Andy Kaufman because you know, just the insanity and
the psychological warfare he played on stage with the audience,
you know, I just you never knew what was coming
up with him.
Speaker 4 (20:48):
So I like that, and I think that had an
influence on some of my act to this day. And
then there was also Steve Martin at the time, and
Albert Brooks was a fravor of mine, so you know
these I think those three kind of influenced me a lot.
Although you know, I love comedy, so I yeah, I
followed a lot of comics growing up, and I would
read their jokes and listen to them, watching watch them
(21:09):
on all the talk shows. So I was just enamored
with that.
Speaker 1 (21:12):
Yeah, it's it's the coolest thing to immerse yourself.
Speaker 3 (21:14):
And especially if you grew up around like street jokes,
Like I heard a lot of street jokes in my
house and it was just it was just such atmospherically.
If you understand comedy when you're young, it's like the
greatest superpower you could ever take with you in life.
Speaker 1 (21:28):
Oh yeah, yeah, especially.
Speaker 3 (21:30):
For everything else you come up, like in terms of
adversity and stuff. The ability to laugh at yourself and
laugh at things I think is so helpful. But let
me throw this one at you that Kevin Neilan is
on the line, by the way, And if you're down
in Florida and we've got a bunch of stations down there, Middletown, Florida,
you could see Neilan at the Tracy Performing Arts Center.
Bring some singles, little greenery for the scenery. I mean,
there's going to be the dance at the end, right.
Speaker 4 (21:50):
Yes, it Middletown at Sumterville.
Speaker 3 (21:52):
Oh, Dylan, my producer fedbey Middletown. I'll double check this
right now. Dylan will be tried at the Hague if
he got that wrong.
Speaker 1 (22:00):
Don't you dare to decide where.
Speaker 4 (22:02):
I'm driving today is something to do in Middletown.
Speaker 3 (22:06):
You know what always happens, and you know this. If
you're on the road, you're do in a theater or something.
It's very possible that the theater is in one town
and the hotels in another, and you've committed to one
of those towns for both venues.
Speaker 1 (22:18):
In your head, does that make sense?
Speaker 4 (22:21):
H Yeah, it could be in a town that's like
a suburb of the bigger town, you know.
Speaker 3 (22:28):
But you know what to clarify to go full Hollywood squares,
it is Sumterville and it's Middleton in the villages, so
you're there, you go both technically correct. Let's go to
Jim J. Bullock for the block. This is amazing.
Speaker 1 (22:44):
Have you ever done this? This is a funny touring
thing that happens to me.
Speaker 3 (22:48):
Back to the that that point I was making about
putting both venues in the same town, but you haven't, okay,
meaning you were wrong to do it. Last week, I
was in Royal Oak, Michigan, and I had flown into
Detroit to get my hotel was in a town called Troy. Now,
in my head, I thought that meant I was like
three miles from an airport. I was twenty nine miles
(23:09):
away from when I woke up that morning, and it
was Yeah, it was all because of my own like
bombacity of like I know where stuff is, and have
you gotten better at that because you've been touring and
you know, dominating for a while, because I suck at it?
Speaker 4 (23:23):
This is new to me. Well, I'm constantly looking at
my ianuary and constantly rechecking to make sure that it's
not two hours away, you know, instead of four hours away.
Speaker 5 (23:32):
You know.
Speaker 4 (23:33):
So I'm constantly on that.
Speaker 1 (23:35):
But I am not at home.
Speaker 4 (23:37):
I'm not good with that. I will, you know, not
ask for directions and whish to really peas off my wife.
But I think that's a guy thing. But yeah, I'm
totally trying to. Like this morning, my alarm went off
and I jumped out of bed. I literally my whole
body lifted about two feet up in the air. I
was so startled by it, and I kind of looked
at the clock and for some reason, I thought, oh
(23:58):
my god, I was supposed to get up an hour ago,
and I'm hustling to get out of it. And then
I look at the clock again and going no, no, no,
this is right. I will like do everything to make
sure it's right, even like remembering things. Jimmy, I looked
the laptop on a plane once and it just traumatized me.
You know, to this day, I have an i'm OCD.
I'll put things in my in my backpack and I
won't remember I did it, and I'll get back to
(24:19):
the hotel I go, oh, please be in here, Please
be in here. And you know, it's not that I
lose things. It's just that I forget that I did
not lose them.
Speaker 3 (24:25):
Well, I will tell you this right now. I carry
a vial of arsenic around just in case I leave
my laptop on a plane.
Speaker 1 (24:32):
I got I got big problems. That's funny.
Speaker 4 (24:36):
You got it, man, Yeah, you might want to try
instead of arsenic, maybe you know, ease into a little
bit more with some you know, out avand or something.
Speaker 3 (24:47):
Oh my goodness, Hiking with Kevin. It's streaming on Fox Nation.
We're doing some coping with Kevin right now. He's basically
staging an intervention for me. And I appreciate that when
you get out, when you get out there in the
woods on these hikes, right I would have met with
the woods and the hills and everything like that. I
would imagine there's something very liberating about this experience.
Speaker 1 (25:05):
Is it easier to get people to open up in
that forum?
Speaker 4 (25:08):
You know, you're right, it is. And I noticed that
when I was hiking alone before all this, I would
go past these groups of people hiking and I would
hear the most intimate revelations from these people going by them,
and interesting things too. One time, this guy had about
I don't know if seven kids following him, and he
was like a professor who was talking about the black hole,
(25:28):
and it was so interesting. I joined the group. I've
time to with them, but yeah, I think it's a
lot more less intimidating. And they're outside too, so the
endorphins are going and it's just me. And the thing
that kind of surprises me the most is that some
of these people I don't even know, I've never met
them before, and they're willing to go out in the
(25:48):
middle of the woods with me alone. You know what.
Speaker 3 (25:54):
There's something to be said about your personal energy then,
because that is very a very complimentary response to the query,
because I don't doubt we both have mutual friends in
comedy that we wouldn't go to the woods with ourselves.
Speaker 4 (26:07):
Yeah, you know, I would say maybe. Often I'll be
walking with somebody else, say let's get down this little
trail here, and they'll be leading it and they'll turn around.
It's like that movie they say, you're not going to
be whackon me, now, are you? You're not going to
whack me when I'm not looking.
Speaker 1 (26:26):
That's but yeah, most of them are really good.
Speaker 4 (26:28):
I mean I when I asked them to do it.
I've ran out of friends hike with. Some'm just you know,
writing letters to publicists and I'll give a list of
all the people that have hiked with most of them
and they'll see that and they go, well, I guess
they're all still alive. So yeah, I'll do it.
Speaker 1 (26:41):
That's what you put on there.
Speaker 3 (26:42):
It's not even about like this is who's watching the episode.
This is what we've promoted for them. They lived, I
know it.
Speaker 4 (26:50):
And you know, there are some some of the hikers
I went with that have passed on, and it's kind
of nice to have that hikes to, like Bob Sagan
and Parl Webers, so it's kind of like you know,
a living icons. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (27:04):
Yeah, it's amazing, and they're both such badasses.
Speaker 3 (27:08):
It's funny about Carl Weathers's you know, a generation of
people my age, I'm forty eight grew up. Obviously we
knew him as Apollo Creed, but in comedy he's so
lethal in like the Sandler movies and everything.
Speaker 1 (27:18):
Yeah, yeah, next level. He had great comedy chops.
Speaker 3 (27:21):
Give me this because I did see you interviewed Tiffany Hattish,
So Hattish, me and her had a really outrageously funny moment.
There was like a fanatics convention here in New York,
which is you know, sport thing. Tom Brady's there, jay Z.
It's pretty crazy, and Tiffany Hattish was on the red
carpet and just ate me alive over the pink jacket
I was wearing. But in a way that I appreciated
(27:44):
because I try to explain this to people, like we
both trust each other for five minutes, but from the
best angle possible in that it was endearing. But I
try to explain this to people, and I want your
take on this. I always tell folks that comedy is
not an alpha gig, meaning we're supposed to be making
fun of ourselves. We're supposed to welcome being the victim
of a joke. Because I think the guy that showed
(28:06):
me the way, Like my guy really was Rodney Dangerfield,
and like his whole hook was that he got no respect.
He wasn't like positing himself as alpha. He was positing
himself as like the outside looking in. Do you think
that is kind of lost on modern comics or maybe
they know it, but they should be emphasizing it more.
Speaker 4 (28:22):
Well, that's a good point. I think, you know, Rodney
was also kind of self deprecating, and and I think
a lot of comics kind of have that self deprecation now,
but you know, there isn't one that really stands out.
But I think Brad Garrett is kind of like the
Don Rickles of our age, which is difficult, you know,
lying to tread right now with yeah, with all things
(28:42):
on being politically correct and all that there's, but yeah,
I don't I can't think of anybody like Rodney right now.
Speaker 1 (28:49):
No, No, he's a beast.
Speaker 4 (28:52):
There's so many one of the kinds back then, because
there weren't that many comics and now there's you know,
zillion comics and a lot of them are all doing
the same kind of you know, and that's.
Speaker 1 (29:01):
A really good point.
Speaker 3 (29:02):
So give me this because one of the most popular
things on social media, and I'm not posting it is
people are posting crowd work videos and they soar and
I'm actually, you know, I'll do crowd work when I'm live,
and it's fine.
Speaker 1 (29:12):
You know, I find it one of the easier things
to do.
Speaker 3 (29:15):
But I'm always fascinated by people's appreciation for crowd work
when they're not at the show, you know what I mean,
Because you're not in the room and you haven't seen
the back and forth. That one kind of surprised me.
Do you get it or you know, I don't know.
Speaker 4 (29:29):
Well, you know, I started doing some crowd work a
couple of years ago, and it's a lot more fun.
Speaker 1 (29:34):
Than I think, Yeah, because it's so spontaneous.
Speaker 4 (29:36):
There's so much discovery and you hear the laughter is
much harder than your best joke ever in your act,
and so I think it's valuable in that sense, and
it's fun for the whole audience kind of see the
interplay back and forth. Yeah, And it's it's unpredictable. You
don't know what's going to happen. And I think when
you're on stage as a comic, you are at your
sharpest when you interact with an audience member.
Speaker 3 (29:59):
That's fair because it's true in real time, you're taking
live shots on goal and you're probably you probably have
a higher level of awareness who we're learning here, Neilan,
folks the show, by the way, Hiking with Kevin, It's
streaming now on Fox Nation.
Speaker 1 (30:12):
He's down in Florida.
Speaker 3 (30:14):
He's down in several Floridian towns right now getting ready
for a stand up show that's in one of the three.
He's in Middleton in the villages tonight. Listen, we're gonna
let you go in a minute. We're gonna try not
to get emotional. But my only question is, having done
ten minutes of this interview, if you ever find yourself
in New York, would you dare go on my Fox
(30:34):
New Saturday.
Speaker 1 (30:35):
Night TV show?
Speaker 4 (30:36):
Sure?
Speaker 1 (30:37):
Oh, Neilan? You know he can say that though, because
he's on the phone, you don't have to mean it.
I'm kidding old Yeah, I'm never gonna do it, but.
Speaker 4 (30:45):
Good for you.
Speaker 1 (30:47):
But if you ever do, I do.
Speaker 3 (30:48):
I want you to get this because for me personally,
all right, obviously a lot of people like to talk politics,
a comedy and everything like that, and I work on
a news channel. I don't care like I think our
superpowers comedians is not to talk about that stuff because
there's such a wider appetite for what comedy does best,
which is kind of bring people together.
Speaker 1 (31:06):
So I'd love to interview you and just talk comedy.
Speaker 3 (31:09):
So if you're ever in town and you're inebriated and
your publicist has failed you as a person, come on
my TV show.
Speaker 4 (31:15):
Okay, I certainly will. You know. I love your energy
and you're obviously very knowledgeable about comedy and all that,
so yeah, it would be a real pleasure. Expression.
Speaker 3 (31:24):
Oh, come on, we're gonna hike with Kevin right onto
the TV set. We'll give my best at the Villages tonight.
Speaker 4 (31:29):
Uh but you know, but that said, it's not going
to happen.
Speaker 1 (31:36):
That's enough out of you. Go see Kevin Nielan in
Boston tonight. Everybody. I kid, you're the best man. I'll
see assume man. Thanks for this, all right, thanks every boy.
Speaker 3 (31:44):
The great Kevin Kneeling, get him out of here, Get
him out.
Speaker 2 (31:50):
It's the best of a Fox across the Fox across
America with Jimmy Salo.
Speaker 1 (31:56):
Bang there it does. Fox across America.
Speaker 3 (31:57):
Shout out to the great Kevin Nilan, who's it sounded
like he was dying to come on my TV show.
I mean, I think he might have canceled tonight's show
down in Florida and rerooted the jet. But as I
was talking to Nielan, I look into the control room
and I see two staffers on Fox News Saturday night
and apparently they, you know, killing time because the bars
don't open for another seven minutes. But I see my girl,
(32:18):
Jen Cohen. I see Annie Hager, and I think to myself,
you know Annie is deaf, she'd be great for radio.
Speaker 1 (32:23):
Bring her in.
Speaker 3 (32:24):
So I've got a semi sober Gen Cohen.
Speaker 1 (32:26):
And I've got a lovely and talented Annie Hager. I
won't bag on you.
Speaker 3 (32:31):
They're both in the studio now listening to the sound.
It's close through your mic because we didn't set you
up for success, Annie, But you look great, perfect.
Speaker 1 (32:40):
How you doing Okay? So you guys were on the floor.
Speaker 3 (32:43):
Just to be clear, we're trying to give people as
much access as to what we do here as possible.
You were on the floor because someone had sent you
to a liquor store. Correct on behalf of the show. Yes, Now,
no one's gonna believe this, but we were actually buying
the liquor for other people. That is true, story correct, Yes,
thank you, and we're not going to say hell, we
were just giving gifts out. I owed somebody a gift
(33:03):
because they did a classy thing for us, and I
sent them out to buy the gift. And I just
want that clarification in case Fox hees a liquor charge
on the company card. A minute into my radio show,
it was Annie that you ordered the code read God,
what you need to know about Annie? As she hails
from Seattle, Jen Where are you actually from? Because you're
from everywhere New Jersey?
Speaker 1 (33:22):
But yeah, I moved around. Yeah, a Jersey girl at heart.
Speaker 3 (33:25):
Yeah, but she's been everywhere. There's the South gets involved
for months. What happened in Colorado?
Speaker 1 (33:31):
College? College college and college bong hits. Yep, college bomb hits,
the basic stuff.
Speaker 3 (33:37):
Annie co signing that and he's done the bong hits
in every state and he has done drugs in more
states than the Grateful Dead has never I'm kidding, it's
not true. You might not be wrong there, all right,
So give me this. Okay, we're on the air, so
I'm kind of putting you on the spot. Here, there's
millions of people listening on a few hundred stations. Dylan,
Dylan doesn't he doubts us because he's he's not the
(33:58):
regular producer. Mikey's on vacation, he's at the Furry convention.
But whenever I talk about how many stations are on,
Dylan is always.
Speaker 1 (34:05):
Like he's lying. But they're listening, like millions of people
listening right now.
Speaker 3 (34:09):
Okay, do you think there's anyone in media that has
more fun than our TV team does?
Speaker 1 (34:14):
Oh, definitely not. It's not close. You're the funnest team,
the funnest staff, honest people.
Speaker 4 (34:19):
We hang, we.
Speaker 1 (34:20):
Drink, we take nothing seriously.
Speaker 5 (34:22):
We're talk about things seriously.
Speaker 3 (34:23):
And we're giving good advice here by saying that because
everybody listening right now, you know, they consume it's talk radio.
Talk radio sometimes is a little angry. It's not on
this show, but on a lot of shows they're like,
I'm gonna kill him, these freaking liberals.
Speaker 4 (34:34):
Bro.
Speaker 3 (34:34):
We got to get the lives and that's like three
hours a day of most radio shows. But we're distilling
it in a different way. You guys are not political analysts,
but wouldn't you say that regardless of what you're analyzing.
If it was social studies, you probably learned more from
your funnier social studies teacher than you would from the
best teacher. What do you think about that? Like, if
you had shown up to class, you would have learned
a lot.
Speaker 1 (34:54):
Exactly, Thank you.
Speaker 7 (34:55):
Yes, I've learned way more in this year that I
worked on the show than I have in life.
Speaker 3 (35:00):
Not to be fair, most of it was what not
to do. But that's okay, You've learned a lot. That's
not nothing. Jenna and he are in the studio from
my show. We got a minute ago.
Speaker 5 (35:09):
All day I give her advice do you know life?
And she asked questions. She's like, who's Bob doing?
Speaker 7 (35:17):
I know she has a lot of things.
Speaker 3 (35:19):
The other thing we didn't tell you. If you're watching
un Fox Nation, you know this already. And he is
eleven years old. Okay, I don't even know that she's
legally employable in the state of New York. She's the
youngest member of our staff. She's the youngest member of
any staff. Shout out to the great Kevin Neilan.
Speaker 1 (35:32):
How cool was he?
Speaker 4 (35:34):
Really?
Speaker 3 (35:35):
An honor to talk to him? He is an actual
comedic genius, somebody I grew up watching. So the fact
that I'm sitting here talking to you now is sort
of Kevin Nielan's fault. So if you want to start
writing that hate mail during the commercial break, I get it.
But in the next hour, one of my favorite people anywhere,
if you remember the rap song jump Around, Jump Around
that whole song, Danny Boy O'Connor, a founding member of
(35:58):
House of Pain with Everlast and DJ Lethal. He joined
us at the Outsiders Museum in Tulsa for a full
days broadcast. We're going to give you some of those
highlights when we come back on this Labor Day best
of on Fox across America.
Speaker 1 (36:14):
This has been a podcast from WR
This is a podcast from dou Woar.
Speaker 2 (00:03):
From Everywhere USA. It's Fox Across America with Jimmy Fayla.
It's the best of Fox Across America with Jimmy Fayler.
Speaker 3 (00:11):
Out Here we go, Here we Go, our number two
of a Fox Across America Labor Day spectacular. We're running
a best of episode and I know some people say
best of what Jimmy, we listened to this show.
Speaker 1 (00:23):
There are no greatest hits.
Speaker 3 (00:24):
This is like Chumbawamba putting out a double box set. Well, listen,
Like Chumbawamba, the show gets knocked down a lot, but
it gets right back up again. And one of the
reasons why is because we have phenomenal guests like this
gentleman who is joining us at the tippy top of
the hour.
Speaker 1 (00:39):
He is a superstar.
Speaker 3 (00:41):
On the longest running comedy show in cable news. No,
I'm not talking about Jake Tapper show on CNN. I
am talking about Impractical Jokers and James Murr. Murray made
all kinds of headlines the last time he was on
our show, something to do with a train set he
may or may not have opened at his home.
Speaker 1 (01:01):
Here he is now to talk about it.
Speaker 3 (01:03):
Brace yourself, because canons are gonna go off when I
say his name, and then they'll of course do the
pyrotechnics and the doves. He is one of the founding
members of the tender Loins, you know them on TV
as impractical jokers. It is a high honor to have
James Murray on the show Hot damn.
Speaker 1 (01:17):
What's up?
Speaker 4 (01:17):
Man?
Speaker 5 (01:18):
What's up? Buddy?
Speaker 1 (01:19):
Are you better now? You're always good for morale.
Speaker 3 (01:22):
You're one of this very few people in TV that
are universally good for morale. I've never seen you on
a show here at Fox where the staff wasn't happy
you were there.
Speaker 6 (01:31):
Okay, well that's good to know that a good rep
there at the network.
Speaker 3 (01:35):
Well, that's the point is keep handing out those percocets
in the green room.
Speaker 1 (01:38):
It's working, I know, well, you know.
Speaker 5 (01:41):
It works.
Speaker 1 (01:42):
I don't have to say.
Speaker 5 (01:43):
Isn't it funny?
Speaker 4 (01:43):
Though?
Speaker 3 (01:44):
Because his comics were actually not nearly as debauched as
what we thought this was gonna be.
Speaker 1 (01:48):
Like I was at a meeting this morning.
Speaker 3 (01:50):
And I said, I grew up, you know, assuming that
every green room in Hollywood was like cocaine and like
a backstage at a led Zeppelin show, and then you
get there and people are intermittent fasting and talking about
their pilates class. It's actually kind of disappointing behind the scenes,
isn't it.
Speaker 5 (02:06):
It is very funny. I was on tour this weekend.
Speaker 6 (02:08):
I chose in Rochester and uh, before it was show,
I'm just down there.
Speaker 5 (02:11):
Doing like two hundred push ups to get pumped for
the show. That's it. It's just it's just me, my cousin, my.
Speaker 6 (02:19):
Employee Ethan, just sitting around on our cell phones and
I'm doing push ups.
Speaker 3 (02:25):
No, I love that because I don't even for real,
I don't even drink on stage because my drinking brain
isn't as quick as my comedy brain. And it's funny.
I made a joke I was in Reno. I know
nobody likes a show off, but I was in Reno
this past weekend. Uh, and I can't I have a
special reverence for Reno because the movie King Pin End's
there with Yeah, that's probably by the way, Can we
(02:46):
just agree, I think Big Earn McCracken is the best
best Bill Murray Roll.
Speaker 5 (02:52):
Uh you know how.
Speaker 4 (02:55):
You know?
Speaker 5 (02:56):
Am I better than Groundhog Day or or Peter weikman.
Speaker 3 (03:01):
I know, I love big Ern McCracken like, we could,
you know, we could argue this the whole interview. I'm
a big fan of big Ern. I love him as
a villain, you know. And I think big Ern is
probably the closest to the real Bill Murray of all
the characters he's played.
Speaker 6 (03:17):
Oh that's a difficult question, still, connorson Groundhall Day fan
the guy.
Speaker 3 (03:23):
I don't want to be fair fair, that's fine, And
I can't pick a fight with you because I don't
want to lose my.
Speaker 1 (03:27):
Percocets that you hand out the next time you're hear
at Fox. So so this's that.
Speaker 3 (03:31):
But I was in Reno this weekend and it's funny
because I made a joke on stage at the end
of my set. I do like a Fox News Q
and a like what do you want to know about Fox?
And I always say, like, you know, now that the
whiskey kicked in, I have plausible deniability, but I don't
actually drink. And I still got the nasty email after
the show going like how dare you show up to
our amphitheater intoxicated and spill the beats. It's like there's
(03:55):
always one is there not always one.
Speaker 6 (03:58):
There's always one of everything that's statistical, absolute certain.
Speaker 3 (04:03):
We're talking to the Great James Murray his words. He
insists that we call him the great, he wouldn't come on.
That's what actually held up the contract.
Speaker 1 (04:12):
You got to see his rider, man.
Speaker 5 (04:14):
I negotiated hard for that, you did.
Speaker 3 (04:16):
I mean this, this is the writer. People who haven't
seen his rider. It's you call him the great and
you have to have a perfect push up in the
green room.
Speaker 5 (04:23):
And Lucky a.
Speaker 6 (04:25):
Perfect push yeah, and I insist on you doing a
one ass single burpie.
Speaker 3 (04:32):
It's a weird, it's a weird request, but he makes
it and we try to be accommodating on the show.
So here we are. Yes, thank you, So give me this.
Because you're on tour. Where where are they getting tickets?
Speaker 4 (04:46):
Live dot com.
Speaker 6 (04:47):
I'm about to announce my uh my entire fall schedule too,
where I'm all over the place.
Speaker 5 (04:51):
I'll do like thirty more cities.
Speaker 4 (04:53):
In the fall.
Speaker 1 (04:53):
Get out of here.
Speaker 3 (04:54):
Well, if you're off the road, you can see my
producer Mikey at Flash Dancers.
Speaker 1 (04:59):
He'll be appearing there.
Speaker 5 (05:01):
Is he one of the d answers?
Speaker 1 (05:02):
Not quite?
Speaker 5 (05:03):
Not quite?
Speaker 1 (05:03):
I mean the lights are dark.
Speaker 3 (05:05):
Don't get me wrong, They're pretty dark over there, but
I don't know if they're that dark. But yeah, I
just wanted you to know you have some entertainment options yourself.
But as a guy who's torn in the country, this
is what I wanted to ask you. I love I
love the Midwest, I love the South. I have a
theory that no one's ever been offended by a joke
within twenty miles of a cracker barrel. Do you buy
(05:27):
into my theory? I think this is good analysis.
Speaker 6 (05:31):
Dude, everything in America is within twenty miles of a
cracker bar But like, that's not true.
Speaker 5 (05:37):
It's just right now.
Speaker 6 (05:39):
I'm in sure there's three cracker barrels within half a
mile of me.
Speaker 1 (05:43):
Good for you.
Speaker 3 (05:44):
I don't have that in New York City. We don't
actually have cracker brow. I have a guy on the
subway who calls me a cracker every morning when I
get on, But I don't actually have the restaurant. I
don't get the dumplings. I don't get the thirty pound
kit cat like you do, Murray. That's why you're in
a good mood.
Speaker 5 (06:00):
You live by the general idea. I like your general theory. Okay,
I think he was in the wrong establishment. I don't
think it's cracker barrel.
Speaker 6 (06:07):
I think people are play jokes within twenty miles of.
Speaker 3 (06:12):
A waffle house, which is odd because in waffle house
some of the greatest fistfights you'll ever witness are taking place.
Speaker 5 (06:21):
Right now, some of the best comedy going around.
Speaker 1 (06:25):
Killer so you're gonna die.
Speaker 3 (06:28):
So I'm doing events with Sean Hannity here at Fox
because sometimes I try to help the little people get
a start.
Speaker 1 (06:35):
You know what I'm saying. I'm taking him under my wing.
Speaker 3 (06:38):
I could really see this panning out for him if
he sticks with this TV and radio thing. But he
was asking me about going to waffle House because he
loves waffle House. He goes, you go to waffle House
after the show. I go, dude, I don't have the
handspeed to go to waffle House after the show. I'm like,
I can go before the show five o'clock waffle house.
I'm fine, But one am waffle House. I don't have
(06:59):
the jam. Yeah it's great, but I.
Speaker 1 (07:00):
Don't have the jam.
Speaker 5 (07:02):
Do you kind of take it's best night ever?
Speaker 3 (07:05):
You know?
Speaker 5 (07:05):
I don't do the flash chancers anymore.
Speaker 3 (07:09):
Do you remember the late great Kevin Meanie the comedian,
Of course, yeah, the great. So the first time I
opened for Mini, we were in Atlanta and he took
me to waffle house at like two in the morning.
And I don't know what brought this performative enthusiasm out
of him, but he stood on a chair in a
waffle house and did his set for the local waffle
(07:29):
house clientele in Roswell, Georgia at two am. And yes,
it was the greatest night of my life. He might
have been under the influence of I don't know what.
I don't know how Mini rolled, but he performed with
the same level of commitment you'd expect in the theater.
Speaker 1 (07:44):
And what happened is I'm not kidding, Mr.
Speaker 3 (07:46):
He literally did like thirty five minutes and it was
like the crowd had turned over to the point that
it was like the pimps that the pimps are scared
of were starting to come in now. And so I
didn't know how to get myself out of it. I
really did this. I did the old light him with
my phone and he was so committed. He saw the
light and nodded at me like I'll rap and he
(08:07):
got off stage.
Speaker 1 (08:08):
After doing it all month.
Speaker 3 (08:09):
He didn't sing we all the world, but he got
off on one of his John Benet Benet jokes and
we got out of there live.
Speaker 5 (08:15):
You know my bisiness in waffle house. I do it
all the time. Many waffle houses girls America have a
juke box in him, and an old school juke box.
Speaker 6 (08:23):
So what you do is you eat your meal, you
have a lovely waffle, enjoy the show that is waffle house,
and then as you.
Speaker 5 (08:29):
Go to leave, you go up the jukebox. They all
the same tracks on him.
Speaker 6 (08:33):
You put a twenty dollars billion, so you get twenty plays,
and you play twenty times in a row.
Speaker 5 (08:39):
Man, I feel like a woman by Shanaiah twenty And.
Speaker 6 (08:44):
Then you walk out the door as the song starts
to play, and you've ruined everyone's lives and.
Speaker 1 (08:51):
I love that.
Speaker 3 (08:53):
And then somehow a democrat hands you a gold medal
in women's swimming.
Speaker 1 (08:57):
It's his What a time that'll be alive? Woh, it's
so funny, you know what I think? Though, I have
a theory about this too.
Speaker 3 (09:04):
Everybody always says like, oh, you guys, you have it
so good now, because there's so much to work with.
I would almost argue, there's too much to work with,
don't you.
Speaker 1 (09:13):
I almost feel like as.
Speaker 3 (09:14):
A country, we probably peaked like late early mid eighties,
early nineties, like the Chicago Bears Super Bowl Shuffle, when
Cosby was held in the good graces of America pop
culture it at zenith. We probably peaked around the Super
Bowl eighty five run DMC and Aerosmith Walk this Way.
Could we top that as a country? I mean, back
to the Future, Back to the future, Well yeah.
Speaker 6 (09:38):
I mean you had the eight Team on tv mcgivers
all the age Yo, good pee Wee's Big Adventure Mars.
Speaker 5 (09:45):
I just washed the dock today. I fished it.
Speaker 1 (09:47):
Oh, it was so good. Mark Holton.
Speaker 3 (09:50):
Mark Holton, who plays Francis Buxton, the bike Thief, is
a good friend of our show. He listens down in Tulsen.
We drag him on from time to time. He's stole
Peey's bike. So since we brought it up, uh, my favorite.
Probably the best thing that ever happened to me here
at Fox News. One days I was filling I was
on a show with Heroldo Rivera and I did a
lot of shows with him because I was also what
I don't host radio.
Speaker 1 (10:10):
I was the guy that trimmed his mustache. They would
that was like part of you talking about it.
Speaker 5 (10:15):
This is actually what you went to school for.
Speaker 1 (10:16):
Yeah, I went to well Nassau Community.
Speaker 3 (10:18):
I mean it's a little more noble than what I
went to school for. We majored in Nintendo and a
B minor in Heraldo's mustache. So we were on I
was filling it on the five and we were talking
about movie props and a girl said if she could
have any prop from any movie, it would be pee
(10:39):
wee Hermon's bicycle. So I made a joke everyone could make,
which is, well, you're out of luck because it's in
the basement of the Alamo. Ha ha, okay, Haraldo, here's
it and goes Alamo in San Antonio and I go, yo, Horoaldo,
how many Alamos you know?
Speaker 1 (10:56):
Dude?
Speaker 3 (10:57):
You're like a did you ever hear remember the Alamo?
Speaker 4 (10:59):
And the like?
Speaker 1 (11:00):
Which one you know?
Speaker 5 (11:02):
Is that a chain? It's no, it's no waffle house.
Speaker 3 (11:05):
He thought I was shouting out the car rental remember
the Alamo, Andralo's like, yeah, those are some good Toyota corollas.
Speaker 5 (11:13):
I've hurts gold membership. I don't I can't remember.
Speaker 1 (11:16):
The Alamo hurts, they'll get mad. Murray, you still got it, man? Uh,
they gotta go see you, love you gotta come do
my TV show and you're in town.
Speaker 6 (11:24):
Well sure, dude, I'll love to come by anyone of
coross America.
Speaker 4 (11:27):
Get you.
Speaker 6 (11:28):
You get to murder Love dot com and come visit
my train Club, one of America's oldest, longest running model
railroad clubs. We saved the club from extinction. We bought
it the night before it went on public sale. It's
called the CIX Southern Railway. It's flipping awesome.
Speaker 4 (11:44):
All right?
Speaker 3 (11:44):
Can I just jump in here murrhy because that was
in the notes I had for this interview, and I
wasn't sure if you were effing with me.
Speaker 1 (11:52):
I'm here, I know, I'm looking.
Speaker 3 (11:54):
I'm like, it's a real thing, but I wasn't.
Speaker 5 (11:56):
Just unbelievable. They're in the base of Rnault. The layout
was bigger than house asself. I knocked out a phone
and kept going.
Speaker 1 (12:03):
No, no, I love this.
Speaker 3 (12:05):
I love this so much and I would have led
with it, but I wasn't half shore if you were
punking them, because all right, just double check in. But
so everybody knows. Okay, it's the Pacific Southern Railway. It
was nearly shut down. Merrs swooped in and saved the day.
And now the night before it was.
Speaker 6 (12:22):
Being forced to put up for sale, and so i's
gonna take say, get the heck out of the house.
My wife and I bought it and saved the club.
It's in the basement right now below me. It's unbelievable.
It's five thousand square feet of layout, twelve thousand feet
to track.
Speaker 5 (12:36):
It's a nonprofit. You can join, become a member anywhere
in the world. We have virtual memberships. Got to pacificsuthern
dot org. And it's taxaductable because the charity is a charity.
Speaker 6 (12:46):
They donate all their proceeds to fire and EMT workers
here in Jersey.
Speaker 5 (12:51):
It's pretty damn cool.
Speaker 4 (12:52):
Man.
Speaker 1 (12:53):
Well, it's so cool that I should have led with it.
Speaker 3 (12:55):
But I think part of the problem with being a
notorious prankster Murr is some people don't know. No, he's
got the shirt on him watching it on the Fox
Nation cameras. If you're listening on the radio, this is
a real thing. Give oh no, Now he's walking on camera.
Down are you about to show me trains?
Speaker 5 (13:10):
Oh my god, downstairs here.
Speaker 1 (13:13):
Now we're getting a guided towards.
Speaker 5 (13:15):
You see reception. We'll see you are.
Speaker 3 (13:17):
Already losing reception, but you sound good and this is
still amazing.
Speaker 5 (13:21):
It's just miles and miles of model railroads.
Speaker 1 (13:24):
I love this.
Speaker 3 (13:25):
But he still sold this idea to me as if
I was a kid and he pulled up in a
white van.
Speaker 1 (13:30):
He's like, come here, you want to see some trains.
But look at the trains. They're amazing.
Speaker 5 (13:35):
I'm gonna go too far the basement reception, but.
Speaker 1 (13:37):
It's that is amazing. We love it.
Speaker 3 (13:41):
I'm gonna lose you, but we're gonna do this again soon.
James mur Murray has all of those trains. I would
never tell you to go to a man's basement, but
James Murmurray is the one guy. He's the one basement.
I endorse ladies and gentlemen. Great stuff. Brother, Thanks, we'll
catch you up soon, the great James mur Murray. Everybody
(14:06):
awkward situation because he's downstairs looking at all those trains,
and as he's walking through his basement, I saw Joe Biden.
Speaker 1 (14:13):
Was that bizarre?
Speaker 3 (14:14):
It was a come on, man, it's still locked up.
He's in Murr's basement now. I ken'd put a shout
out to Murray, a shout out to impractical jokers, and
a shout out to you for sticking around, and you
better stick around, damn it.
Speaker 1 (14:24):
I need the ratings be back after this. He's the
best of Foxed Across America.
Speaker 2 (14:29):
Bestive Fox Across America with Jimmy Faylor.
Speaker 3 (14:32):
There it is Fox Across America with Jimmy Fayala running
back out to the calls real quick. Hillsdale, Michigan is
where you find John today. Yo, John, Yeah, excuse me, Jimmy, Yes,
I'm here.
Speaker 1 (14:44):
I love it. What's happening out in Hillsdale? My man?
Talk to me.
Speaker 7 (14:47):
I gotta know, hey, hey, I would looking earlier this
morning when you guys were talking about those riots out
in La Yep. And you know we're just gonna Trump
on Trump anytime you get the chance. Just sending two
thousand people in there in National Guard or Marines or whatever.
They should just ten ten thousand troops, grab them all,
(15:08):
take it right to the border, throw them across. Let
the Median see it, let them see they're not messing
around anymore. They just get it done with. They're gonna
bitch no matter what.
Speaker 1 (15:17):
Yeah, they are.
Speaker 3 (15:18):
I mean, listen, the truth is, the guys that are
throwing on the uniforms are already risking their lives to
deport these people and apprehend them. The idea that anyone's
making a case for throwing rocks at them is insane.
But you know what, Listen, if we can somehow manage
to do this without any real casualties, there is a
net benefit to the Democrats going to bat for all
(15:40):
of these illegal criminals because people see it and they
realize where their priorities lie, and they're doing the Republicans
a favor. But my concern is not the Republicans. My
concern is the local business owner. It's the local family
in these towns.
Speaker 4 (15:53):
You know, right, Yeah, That's what I'm saying.
Speaker 7 (15:55):
That the sooner they get it done, the better they're
gonna complain anyhow, Just get it over with.
Speaker 3 (15:59):
So, John, you are saying, yeah, we talked to Tom
Homan a lot on this show. Do you want me
to tell Homan to step on the gas? Is that
what you're telling me?
Speaker 7 (16:08):
I don't think you need I don't think you needs
to be told that. He already knows that.
Speaker 3 (16:12):
I know, Tom, but you want to all hands on that.
Speaker 7 (16:17):
I'm a disabled bet so.
Speaker 4 (16:18):
I know.
Speaker 7 (16:19):
I spent nine years in the military, so I know
I know what these guys are going through and.
Speaker 4 (16:22):
How bad that is.
Speaker 7 (16:23):
But I believe me, they would probably be saying, yes,
get it done, get it over with.
Speaker 4 (16:27):
That's what the people the troup what you're saying.
Speaker 1 (16:29):
Yeah, I know, I think I think they're with you.
Speaker 3 (16:30):
I mean, you put on that uniform because this was
a country worth fighting for. And if citizenship means nothing
and we're all just supposed to fit the foot the
bill for whatever illegal migration the Democrats want to bring in,
then that's kind of a you know, a kick in
the nuts to what you stood.
Speaker 1 (16:43):
For so exactly.
Speaker 7 (16:45):
Yeah, I mean, it's just it's incredible. I remember when
I was stationed in Elmandorf Fair Force Space, and right
after Ronald Reagan got this is going to aige me
got elected his second term. We he came to Alaska,
to Elmendorf. The whole city was nothing but flying flaggs.
I mean, the whole place was just incredible. I mean,
I wish I could have recorded it.
Speaker 1 (17:04):
I'll patriotic. Everything was right now.
Speaker 3 (17:06):
Yeah, I loved good old fashioned civic pride, and yes
I love Reagan too. I was a little younger than
you in that era, but I was drinking like I
was your age, so don't worry about it. Shout out
to James muh murray, although I'm still not going into
that basement with him. I love that guy, but it's
a little weird. I don't accept a lot of basement invites.
Nowhere in the world on this Labor Day, is there
(17:28):
a man who'd be better off if only he spent
more time in stranger's basements? Okay, I just call me
old fashion, but ever since the Biden campaign, I resent
basement life after we elected the guy who was down
there watching Bonanza for a year and a half. That
being said now is not about me, Joe Biden or
James mur murray, because when we come back a Saturday
Night Live superstar that you will undoubtedly remember from the
(17:52):
expertise he wielded at the weekend up Date desk, I
am talking about the great Kevin Nielan, who joins us
after this on Fox.
Speaker 4 (17:59):
Across from.
Speaker 2 (18:05):
It's the Best of Fox Across America. With Jimmy Sali
having read.
Speaker 4 (18:10):
Hair Growing Up? Would did that make you insecure? Yes?
Speaker 1 (18:13):
And I hated the way I looked. I hated having.
Speaker 4 (18:16):
Still I.
Speaker 5 (18:19):
How do you do it?
Speaker 4 (18:20):
What do you do it?
Speaker 1 (18:21):
I'll just try to get through this wall that I
agreed to meet with you. I agreed to meet with
you for just a friendly walk, and then it turned
into this series. I knew this, Yeah, I didn't, you know.
Speaker 3 (18:35):
I thought, Oh, finally Kevin's gonna connect with me as
a human being.
Speaker 1 (18:38):
And you've got a non union camera.
Speaker 3 (18:42):
One part entertainment, one part affordable therapy session for some
famous people we know and love. It is, of course,
Hiking with Kevin. It is streaming on Fox Nation. The
Great Kevin Neelan joins us. Now, Hey man, hey, Jimmy,
how are you good? I love you helping Conan through
the tough times. I thought that was a nice touch.
Speaker 4 (19:01):
Well, he you know, talked about therapy. I mean, you know,
I'm gonna have to start charging pretty soon.
Speaker 1 (19:08):
We love the series.
Speaker 3 (19:08):
We've been watching promos here on the channel on this team,
so we're really excited to get you on. I just
have to give you a little background on that, and
I have to give the audience background because I was told,
I was credibly informed that you're performing in Middletown, Florida,
to the Tracy Performing Arts Center.
Speaker 1 (19:22):
Can you confirm.
Speaker 4 (19:24):
I'm confirming that.
Speaker 1 (19:25):
Indeed, Yes, breaking news. Put the chiron up on the
bottom of the screen.
Speaker 3 (19:29):
We've got Neilan in Middletown and that matters, man, And
I think that is so awesome. And one thing we
should tell the American people is you were did you
you were? You were at the sn L fiftieth reunion.
So there's a good yeah, I know, and there's a
good chance people can still get a contact high from
seeing you tonight.
Speaker 4 (19:45):
Well I think so. I mean they get a contact
high from seeing me and weeds you knownl.
Speaker 3 (19:51):
That's a lot of the six degrees of Kevin Bacon
applies to Kevin Neilan as well.
Speaker 1 (19:57):
I love this. That is hilarious.
Speaker 3 (20:00):
Well, the show is again, as I said, hiking with Kevin.
It's all over Fox Nation. We're really excited about it.
Give me this, Kevin Neelan. Because we've all we all
watched you. We're also super familiar with everything you do
and we love it and it's a thrill to have
you on So I want to know a little bit
of I want to hike with Jimmy for a minute.
Can I get some Neilan origin story out of you?
Speaker 4 (20:17):
Yeah? Yeah? Who was? Yeah?
Speaker 1 (20:19):
Who was your guy?
Speaker 3 (20:21):
Like before you became an international comedy superstar on You're
on SNL. Did you have a guy that you were
watching growing up, like a Rodney d or somebody.
Speaker 8 (20:28):
I had a couple of I've had a couple of
people that I really enjoyed watching, and one of them
was Andy Kaufman because you know, just the insanity and
the psychological warfare he played on stage with the audience,
you know, I just you never knew what was coming
up with him.
Speaker 4 (20:48):
So I like that, and I think that had an
influence on some of my act to this day. And
then there was also Steve Martin at the time, and
Albert Brooks was a fravor of mine, so you know
these I think those three kind of influenced me a lot.
Although you know, I love comedy, so I yeah, I
followed a lot of comics growing up, and I would
read their jokes and listen to them, watching watch them
(21:09):
on all the talk shows. So I was just enamored
with that.
Speaker 1 (21:12):
Yeah, it's it's the coolest thing to immerse yourself.
Speaker 3 (21:14):
And especially if you grew up around like street jokes,
Like I heard a lot of street jokes in my
house and it was just it was just such atmospherically.
If you understand comedy when you're young, it's like the
greatest superpower you could ever take with you in life.
Speaker 1 (21:28):
Oh yeah, yeah, especially.
Speaker 3 (21:30):
For everything else you come up, like in terms of
adversity and stuff. The ability to laugh at yourself and
laugh at things I think is so helpful. But let
me throw this one at you that Kevin Neilan is
on the line, by the way, And if you're down
in Florida and we've got a bunch of stations down there, Middletown, Florida,
you could see Neilan at the Tracy Performing Arts Center.
Bring some singles, little greenery for the scenery. I mean,
there's going to be the dance at the end, right.
Speaker 4 (21:50):
Yes, it Middletown at Sumterville.
Speaker 3 (21:52):
Oh, Dylan, my producer fedbey Middletown. I'll double check this
right now. Dylan will be tried at the Hague if
he got that wrong.
Speaker 1 (22:00):
Don't you dare to decide where.
Speaker 4 (22:02):
I'm driving today is something to do in Middletown.
Speaker 3 (22:06):
You know what always happens, and you know this. If
you're on the road, you're do in a theater or something.
It's very possible that the theater is in one town
and the hotels in another, and you've committed to one
of those towns for both venues.
Speaker 1 (22:18):
In your head, does that make sense?
Speaker 4 (22:21):
H Yeah, it could be in a town that's like
a suburb of the bigger town, you know.
Speaker 3 (22:28):
But you know what to clarify to go full Hollywood squares,
it is Sumterville and it's Middleton in the villages, so
you're there, you go both technically correct. Let's go to
Jim J. Bullock for the block. This is amazing.
Speaker 1 (22:44):
Have you ever done this? This is a funny touring
thing that happens to me.
Speaker 3 (22:48):
Back to the that that point I was making about
putting both venues in the same town, but you haven't, okay,
meaning you were wrong to do it. Last week, I
was in Royal Oak, Michigan, and I had flown into
Detroit to get my hotel was in a town called Troy. Now,
in my head, I thought that meant I was like
three miles from an airport. I was twenty nine miles
(23:09):
away from when I woke up that morning, and it
was Yeah, it was all because of my own like
bombacity of like I know where stuff is, and have
you gotten better at that because you've been touring and
you know, dominating for a while, because I suck at it?
Speaker 4 (23:23):
This is new to me. Well, I'm constantly looking at
my ianuary and constantly rechecking to make sure that it's
not two hours away, you know, instead of four hours away.
Speaker 5 (23:32):
You know.
Speaker 4 (23:33):
So I'm constantly on that.
Speaker 1 (23:35):
But I am not at home.
Speaker 4 (23:37):
I'm not good with that. I will, you know, not
ask for directions and whish to really peas off my wife.
But I think that's a guy thing. But yeah, I'm
totally trying to. Like this morning, my alarm went off
and I jumped out of bed. I literally my whole
body lifted about two feet up in the air. I
was so startled by it, and I kind of looked
at the clock and for some reason, I thought, oh
(23:58):
my god, I was supposed to get up an hour ago,
and I'm hustling to get out of it. And then
I look at the clock again and going no, no, no,
this is right. I will like do everything to make
sure it's right, even like remembering things. Jimmy, I looked
the laptop on a plane once and it just traumatized me.
You know, to this day, I have an i'm OCD.
I'll put things in my in my backpack and I
won't remember I did it, and I'll get back to
(24:19):
the hotel I go, oh, please be in here, Please
be in here. And you know, it's not that I
lose things. It's just that I forget that I did
not lose them.
Speaker 3 (24:25):
Well, I will tell you this right now. I carry
a vial of arsenic around just in case I leave
my laptop on a plane.
Speaker 1 (24:32):
I got I got big problems. That's funny.
Speaker 4 (24:36):
You got it, man, Yeah, you might want to try
instead of arsenic, maybe you know, ease into a little
bit more with some you know, out avand or something.
Speaker 3 (24:47):
Oh my goodness, Hiking with Kevin. It's streaming on Fox Nation.
We're doing some coping with Kevin right now. He's basically
staging an intervention for me. And I appreciate that when
you get out, when you get out there in the
woods on these hikes, right I would have met with
the woods and the hills and everything like that. I
would imagine there's something very liberating about this experience.
Speaker 1 (25:05):
Is it easier to get people to open up in
that forum?
Speaker 4 (25:08):
You know, you're right, it is. And I noticed that
when I was hiking alone before all this, I would
go past these groups of people hiking and I would
hear the most intimate revelations from these people going by them,
and interesting things too. One time, this guy had about
I don't know if seven kids following him, and he
was like a professor who was talking about the black hole,
(25:28):
and it was so interesting. I joined the group. I've
time to with them, but yeah, I think it's a
lot more less intimidating. And they're outside too, so the
endorphins are going and it's just me. And the thing
that kind of surprises me the most is that some
of these people I don't even know, I've never met
them before, and they're willing to go out in the
(25:48):
middle of the woods with me alone. You know what.
Speaker 3 (25:54):
There's something to be said about your personal energy then,
because that is very a very complimentary response to the query,
because I don't doubt we both have mutual friends in
comedy that we wouldn't go to the woods with ourselves.
Speaker 4 (26:07):
Yeah, you know, I would say maybe. Often I'll be
walking with somebody else, say let's get down this little
trail here, and they'll be leading it and they'll turn around.
It's like that movie they say, you're not going to
be whackon me, now, are you? You're not going to
whack me when I'm not looking.
Speaker 1 (26:26):
That's but yeah, most of them are really good.
Speaker 4 (26:28):
I mean I when I asked them to do it.
I've ran out of friends hike with. Some'm just you know,
writing letters to publicists and I'll give a list of
all the people that have hiked with most of them
and they'll see that and they go, well, I guess
they're all still alive. So yeah, I'll do it.
Speaker 1 (26:41):
That's what you put on there.
Speaker 3 (26:42):
It's not even about like this is who's watching the episode.
This is what we've promoted for them. They lived, I
know it.
Speaker 4 (26:50):
And you know, there are some some of the hikers
I went with that have passed on, and it's kind
of nice to have that hikes to, like Bob Sagan
and Parl Webers, so it's kind of like you know,
a living icons. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (27:04):
Yeah, it's amazing, and they're both such badasses.
Speaker 3 (27:08):
It's funny about Carl Weathers's you know, a generation of
people my age, I'm forty eight grew up. Obviously we
knew him as Apollo Creed, but in comedy he's so
lethal in like the Sandler movies and everything.
Speaker 1 (27:18):
Yeah, yeah, next level. He had great comedy chops.
Speaker 3 (27:21):
Give me this because I did see you interviewed Tiffany Hattish,
So Hattish, me and her had a really outrageously funny moment.
There was like a fanatics convention here in New York,
which is you know, sport thing. Tom Brady's there, jay Z.
It's pretty crazy, and Tiffany Hattish was on the red
carpet and just ate me alive over the pink jacket
I was wearing. But in a way that I appreciated
(27:44):
because I try to explain this to people, like we
both trust each other for five minutes, but from the
best angle possible in that it was endearing. But I
try to explain this to people, and I want your
take on this. I always tell folks that comedy is
not an alpha gig, meaning we're supposed to be making
fun of ourselves. We're supposed to welcome being the victim
of a joke. Because I think the guy that showed
(28:06):
me the way, Like my guy really was Rodney Dangerfield,
and like his whole hook was that he got no respect.
He wasn't like positing himself as alpha. He was positing
himself as like the outside looking in. Do you think
that is kind of lost on modern comics or maybe
they know it, but they should be emphasizing it more.
Speaker 4 (28:22):
Well, that's a good point. I think, you know, Rodney
was also kind of self deprecating, and and I think
a lot of comics kind of have that self deprecation now,
but you know, there isn't one that really stands out.
But I think Brad Garrett is kind of like the
Don Rickles of our age, which is difficult, you know,
lying to tread right now with yeah, with all things
(28:42):
on being politically correct and all that there's, but yeah,
I don't I can't think of anybody like Rodney right now.
Speaker 1 (28:49):
No, No, he's a beast.
Speaker 4 (28:52):
There's so many one of the kinds back then, because
there weren't that many comics and now there's you know,
zillion comics and a lot of them are all doing
the same kind of you know, and that's.
Speaker 1 (29:01):
A really good point.
Speaker 3 (29:02):
So give me this because one of the most popular
things on social media, and I'm not posting it is
people are posting crowd work videos and they soar and
I'm actually, you know, I'll do crowd work when I'm live,
and it's fine.
Speaker 1 (29:12):
You know, I find it one of the easier things
to do.
Speaker 3 (29:15):
But I'm always fascinated by people's appreciation for crowd work
when they're not at the show, you know what I mean,
Because you're not in the room and you haven't seen
the back and forth. That one kind of surprised me.
Do you get it or you know, I don't know.
Speaker 4 (29:29):
Well, you know, I started doing some crowd work a
couple of years ago, and it's a lot more fun.
Speaker 1 (29:34):
Than I think, Yeah, because it's so spontaneous.
Speaker 4 (29:36):
There's so much discovery and you hear the laughter is
much harder than your best joke ever in your act,
and so I think it's valuable in that sense, and
it's fun for the whole audience kind of see the
interplay back and forth. Yeah, And it's it's unpredictable. You
don't know what's going to happen. And I think when
you're on stage as a comic, you are at your
sharpest when you interact with an audience member.
Speaker 3 (29:59):
That's fair because it's true in real time, you're taking
live shots on goal and you're probably you probably have
a higher level of awareness who we're learning here, Neilan,
folks the show, by the way, Hiking with Kevin, It's
streaming now on Fox Nation.
Speaker 1 (30:12):
He's down in Florida.
Speaker 3 (30:14):
He's down in several Floridian towns right now getting ready
for a stand up show that's in one of the three.
He's in Middleton in the villages tonight. Listen, we're gonna
let you go in a minute. We're gonna try not
to get emotional. But my only question is, having done
ten minutes of this interview, if you ever find yourself
in New York, would you dare go on my Fox
(30:34):
New Saturday.
Speaker 1 (30:35):
Night TV show?
Speaker 4 (30:36):
Sure?
Speaker 1 (30:37):
Oh, Neilan? You know he can say that though, because
he's on the phone, you don't have to mean it.
I'm kidding old Yeah, I'm never gonna do it, but.
Speaker 4 (30:45):
Good for you.
Speaker 1 (30:47):
But if you ever do, I do.
Speaker 3 (30:48):
I want you to get this because for me personally,
all right, obviously a lot of people like to talk politics,
a comedy and everything like that, and I work on
a news channel. I don't care like I think our
superpowers comedians is not to talk about that stuff because
there's such a wider appetite for what comedy does best,
which is kind of bring people together.
Speaker 1 (31:06):
So I'd love to interview you and just talk comedy.
Speaker 3 (31:09):
So if you're ever in town and you're inebriated and
your publicist has failed you as a person, come on
my TV show.
Speaker 4 (31:15):
Okay, I certainly will. You know. I love your energy
and you're obviously very knowledgeable about comedy and all that,
so yeah, it would be a real pleasure. Expression.
Speaker 3 (31:24):
Oh, come on, we're gonna hike with Kevin right onto
the TV set. We'll give my best at the Villages tonight.
Speaker 4 (31:29):
Uh but you know, but that said, it's not going
to happen.
Speaker 1 (31:36):
That's enough out of you. Go see Kevin Nielan in
Boston tonight. Everybody. I kid, you're the best man. I'll
see assume man. Thanks for this, all right, thanks every boy.
Speaker 3 (31:44):
The great Kevin Kneeling, get him out of here, Get
him out.
Speaker 2 (31:50):
It's the best of a Fox across the Fox across
America with Jimmy Salo.
Speaker 1 (31:56):
Bang there it does. Fox across America.
Speaker 3 (31:57):
Shout out to the great Kevin Nilan, who's it sounded
like he was dying to come on my TV show.
I mean, I think he might have canceled tonight's show
down in Florida and rerooted the jet. But as I
was talking to Nielan, I look into the control room
and I see two staffers on Fox News Saturday night
and apparently they, you know, killing time because the bars
don't open for another seven minutes. But I see my girl,
(32:18):
Jen Cohen. I see Annie Hager, and I think to myself,
you know Annie is deaf, she'd be great for radio.
Speaker 1 (32:23):
Bring her in.
Speaker 3 (32:24):
So I've got a semi sober Gen Cohen.
Speaker 1 (32:26):
And I've got a lovely and talented Annie Hager. I
won't bag on you.
Speaker 3 (32:31):
They're both in the studio now listening to the sound.
It's close through your mic because we didn't set you
up for success, Annie, But you look great, perfect.
Speaker 1 (32:40):
How you doing Okay? So you guys were on the floor.
Speaker 3 (32:43):
Just to be clear, we're trying to give people as
much access as to what we do here as possible.
You were on the floor because someone had sent you
to a liquor store. Correct on behalf of the show. Yes, Now,
no one's gonna believe this, but we were actually buying
the liquor for other people. That is true, story correct, Yes,
thank you, and we're not going to say hell, we
were just giving gifts out. I owed somebody a gift
(33:03):
because they did a classy thing for us, and I
sent them out to buy the gift. And I just
want that clarification in case Fox hees a liquor charge
on the company card. A minute into my radio show,
it was Annie that you ordered the code read God,
what you need to know about Annie? As she hails
from Seattle, Jen Where are you actually from? Because you're
from everywhere New Jersey?
Speaker 1 (33:22):
But yeah, I moved around. Yeah, a Jersey girl at heart.
Speaker 3 (33:25):
Yeah, but she's been everywhere. There's the South gets involved
for months. What happened in Colorado?
Speaker 1 (33:31):
College? College college and college bong hits. Yep, college bomb hits,
the basic stuff.
Speaker 3 (33:37):
Annie co signing that and he's done the bong hits
in every state and he has done drugs in more
states than the Grateful Dead has never I'm kidding, it's
not true. You might not be wrong there, all right,
So give me this. Okay, we're on the air, so
I'm kind of putting you on the spot. Here, there's
millions of people listening on a few hundred stations. Dylan,
Dylan doesn't he doubts us because he's he's not the
(33:58):
regular producer. Mikey's on vacation, he's at the Furry convention.
But whenever I talk about how many stations are on,
Dylan is always.
Speaker 1 (34:05):
Like he's lying. But they're listening, like millions of people
listening right now.
Speaker 3 (34:09):
Okay, do you think there's anyone in media that has
more fun than our TV team does?
Speaker 1 (34:14):
Oh, definitely not. It's not close. You're the funnest team,
the funnest staff, honest people.
Speaker 4 (34:19):
We hang, we.
Speaker 1 (34:20):
Drink, we take nothing seriously.
Speaker 5 (34:22):
We're talk about things seriously.
Speaker 3 (34:23):
And we're giving good advice here by saying that because
everybody listening right now, you know, they consume it's talk radio.
Talk radio sometimes is a little angry. It's not on
this show, but on a lot of shows they're like,
I'm gonna kill him, these freaking liberals.
Speaker 4 (34:34):
Bro.
Speaker 3 (34:34):
We got to get the lives and that's like three
hours a day of most radio shows. But we're distilling
it in a different way. You guys are not political analysts,
but wouldn't you say that regardless of what you're analyzing.
If it was social studies, you probably learned more from
your funnier social studies teacher than you would from the
best teacher. What do you think about that? Like, if
you had shown up to class, you would have learned
a lot.
Speaker 1 (34:54):
Exactly, Thank you.
Speaker 7 (34:55):
Yes, I've learned way more in this year that I
worked on the show than I have in life.
Speaker 3 (35:00):
Not to be fair, most of it was what not
to do. But that's okay, You've learned a lot. That's
not nothing. Jenna and he are in the studio from
my show. We got a minute ago.
Speaker 5 (35:09):
All day I give her advice do you know life?
And she asked questions. She's like, who's Bob doing?
Speaker 7 (35:17):
I know she has a lot of things.
Speaker 3 (35:19):
The other thing we didn't tell you. If you're watching
un Fox Nation, you know this already. And he is
eleven years old. Okay, I don't even know that she's
legally employable in the state of New York. She's the
youngest member of our staff. She's the youngest member of
any staff. Shout out to the great Kevin Neilan.
Speaker 1 (35:32):
How cool was he?
Speaker 4 (35:34):
Really?
Speaker 3 (35:35):
An honor to talk to him? He is an actual
comedic genius, somebody I grew up watching. So the fact
that I'm sitting here talking to you now is sort
of Kevin Nielan's fault. So if you want to start
writing that hate mail during the commercial break, I get it.
But in the next hour, one of my favorite people anywhere,
if you remember the rap song jump Around, Jump Around
that whole song, Danny Boy O'Connor, a founding member of
(35:58):
House of Pain with Everlast and DJ Lethal. He joined
us at the Outsiders Museum in Tulsa for a full
days broadcast. We're going to give you some of those
highlights when we come back on this Labor Day best
of on Fox across America.
Speaker 1 (36:14):
This has been a podcast from WR
Popular Podcasts
NFL Daily with Gregg Rosenthal
Gregg Rosenthal and a rotating crew of elite NFL Media co-hosts, including Patrick Claybon, Colleen Wolfe, Steve Wyche, Nick Shook and Jourdan Rodrigue of The Athletic get you caught up daily on all the NFL news and analysis you need to be smarter and funnier than your friends.
On Purpose with Jay Shetty
I’m Jay Shetty host of On Purpose the worlds #1 Mental Health podcast and I’m so grateful you found us. I started this podcast 5 years ago to invite you into conversations and workshops that are designed to help make you happier, healthier and more healed. I believe that when you (yes you) feel seen, heard and understood you’re able to deal with relationship struggles, work challenges and life’s ups and downs with more ease and grace. I interview experts, celebrities, thought leaders and athletes so that we can grow our mindset, build better habits and uncover a side of them we’ve never seen before. New episodes every Monday and Friday. Your support means the world to me and I don’t take it for granted — click the follow button and leave a review to help us spread the love with On Purpose. I can’t wait for you to listen to your first or 500th episode!
Dateline NBC
Current and classic episodes, featuring compelling true-crime mysteries, powerful documentaries and in-depth investigations. Follow now to get the latest episodes of Dateline NBC completely free, or subscribe to Dateline Premium for ad-free listening and exclusive bonus content: DatelinePremium.com