Laughing and Loving Small Town Living
Focus on the Family with Jim Daly
Focus on the Family
4.7 • 4.5K Ratings
🗓️ 31 May 2024
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Summary
Clean comedian Jeremy Nunes pokes fun at his “freakish height” (he’s 6’6”), becoming a small-town mayor by accident, and the joys of being with his extended family in rural Illinois. He also riffs on marriage, parenting, and shares a heartfelt story about the power of prayer.
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| 0:00.0 | Today on the family with Jim Daly we have some family friendly comedy from |
| 0:06.9 | husband and father Jeremy Newness. My wife makes me nervous anytime she's |
| 0:11.5 | going to try to get the girl to take a nap my wife says she's going to try to get the girl to take a nap. My wife says she's going to put her down. |
| 0:15.0 | I'm like, last time I heard that my dog didn't come home. |
| 0:23.6 | That is good stuff. |
| 0:28.6 | Jeremy has been working in comedy for over 20 years except for a brief hiatus when he was elected mayor of his small town that's funny and you'll hear more about that in a few minutes |
| 0:39.6 | he and his wife Sandra have a son and a daughter and for our audio only audience let me point out that |
| 0:46.1 | Jeremy is a very tall man about six foot six. |
| 0:49.5 | Yeah and if you want the visuals check out our channel, and the link is in the notes. |
| 0:54.6 | Here now is Jeremy Newness on Focus on the Family with Jim Day. Wow, how cool would it be if I walked into my house and that happened? |
| 1:08.0 | Awesome. So man I appreciate you guys coming out man what a great time this is going to be I'm so |
| 1:13.7 | excited man and and everybody here just made everything so easy for me I am so |
| 1:19.3 | grateful a lot of times we do these shows and it is not easy. |
| 1:24.0 | It's actually just driving a show a couple weeks ago |
| 1:26.5 | and ended up getting lost, I had to stop and ask for directions, |
| 1:29.0 | and I end up in one of these tiny little gas stations |
| 1:32.0 | where it's just the one guy in the |
| 1:33.4 | booth with his microphone and you can't hear anything he says unless he talks right |
| 1:37.8 | into that thing. Tell him where I need to go. He goes, oh yeah, all you got to do |
| 1:42.0 | go to that stop sign there, take a left. |
| 1:44.3 | And then you just go up. |
| 1:47.0 | There's been a string of car jackings. |
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