E281. Who Should Face A Firing Squad - Jimmy Failla

Walk-Ins Welcome with Bridget Phetasy

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🗓️ 18 April 2024

⏱️ 58 minutes

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Summary

Comedian, former cab driver, and current Host of FOX News Saturday Night and radio program FOX Across America, Jimmy Failla joins Bridget for a hilarious conversation about their respective working class backgrounds, why driving a cab is the original social media, how Trump is the only way 15 year old kids can be counter-culture today, why a lot of people on the Left are intellectually lazy, and why "likes" are the death of everything. They discuss being new enough to media that they genuinely care, how everybody is a prisoner of the moment, the importance of comedy, the lack of self-awareness in society, the shamelessness of today's culture, how most late night shows have abandoned their calling to entertain the masses, how Trump will never quietly go away in the night, why family privilege is so valuable, and why fun conquers all. Check out Jimmy's new book, Cancel Culture Dictionary.

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0:00.0	I don't prep for any of these shows I go on.
0:02.7	Yeah.
0:04.1	As you can tell from watching them, so I'm okay.
0:10.2	You are a very busy man. I don't know how you do it all. How do you manage your time?
0:17.6	So you know it's weird because I spent a lot of time driving a taxi, I don't consider this, I guess, busy and I don't consider it as adverse as it looks.
0:29.0	Because I'm used to driving like 5 a.m. to 5 p.m. doing stand up at night and usually writing before I went to my
0:36.0	taxi garage. So it's like I'm kind of doing that schedule now but I'm not getting
0:41.6	like shot at and choked by Hobbets. You know what I'm not getting like shot at and choked by
0:43.3	Hobbets. You know what I'm saying?
0:45.4	Yeah.
0:46.4	It's like, I interact with less time travelers on a daily basis
0:49.5	that I did in a taxi.
0:51.0	So to answer your question, I think the management thing is like a
0:53.6	perspective thing. Yeah. It's like if you're kind of in like a good head space, you
0:58.6	just kind of keep it in front of you. It's very, like it's incremental. Like I
1:02.1	definitely don't sit down like Monday night and lay out my Tuesday
1:06.0	So much as I just lay out the wake-up process to get to Fox process and then you just kind of you're on the people mover from there.
1:14.3	Yeah, yeah, the it's funny I feel the same way and I feel like we have that similarity of just
1:22.0	having a kind of working class background
1:25.2	which I don't know that that many people in media actually have no
1:30.0	no they have no perspective like I always say that to myself.
1:34.2	Like I could never call up the cab driver me
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