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The Way I Heard It with Mike Rowe

372: Jimmy Failla Loves Fat Elvis

The Way I Heard It with Mike Rowe

The Way I Heard It with Mike Rowe

Society & Culture, History

4.839.1K Ratings

🗓️ 27 February 2024

⏱️ 74 minutes

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Summary

The former New York cabby, current stand-up comic, and perennial philosopher talks hilariously about why he’s keeping politics out of his new show Fox News Saturday Night, why he wrote his bestselling book, Cancel Culture Dictionary, and why he looks at the world like a drug-sniffing dog at the airport.

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0:00.0

Hello friends what you have here is another episode of the way I heard it. Technically

0:09.0

it's number 300 to 72 according to Chuck but from what I can tell you're the only one left on the

0:15.2

planet who cares I care deeply Mike about just about everything but I just don't

0:20.2

want you to say the wrong number like what happened with the Neil McDonough

0:24.0

episode that's out currently. Exactly and I was looking through all the people who

0:27.8

complained about it you know what I found? No nothing no complaints. I don't feel like you looked hard enough, honestly.

0:36.0

Friends, the important thing is the episode is called Jimmy Phela loves fat Elvis.

0:44.0

Because he does. And we love Jimmy Phela.

0:45.0

If you're unfamiliar with this guy, well, you're going to be.

0:49.0

He's a regular over at Fox News, but don't hold that against him.

0:52.0

Really, he's a comedian by way of driving a cab.

0:57.6

He drove a cab for eight years, this guy.

1:00.4

He is all about work ethic. I mean, what he told us about his routine when he was driving for 12 hours and what he else he was doing you know to be a stand-up comic

1:08.4

Writing every morning from like three to five a.m. getting up driving 12 hours in a cab in New York City

1:16.7

going home to his wife whose enormous feet

1:25.0

into it. into it.

1:26.0

he dragged fat Elvis into it.

1:27.0

I can drag his wife's feet into it because he brought it up.

1:30.0

Okay.

1:31.0

I ran into Jimmy like a year ago when I was promoting the scholarship over at Fox and as you'll hear in our conversation I watched him.

1:40.0

You know he didn't know I was watching him he was in a makeup chair in a lonely part of the building getting some

1:45.8

pancakes slathered on to his pasty face and he was so nice. He was so nice to the makeup girl and he had her laughing. He treated her like I think he treats his audiences.

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