From Everywhere USA, it's Fox Across America with Jimmy Fela.

This is Fox Across America with Jimmy Fala filling in for him today.

Your humble DC correspondent and co-host of Fox & Friends Weekend, Griff Jenkins, Josh and Mike opening the show.

I love Jimmy Fela.

And this is reason number 99 that I love him even more is Van Halen is a kid from Memphis that grew up with that giant diver-down tapestry hanging a six-by-six tapestry, hung it over my bed.

My parents thought I was crazy in the 80s growing up. Man, what I would do to have that back. It's great to be with you. Jimmy, unfortunately, was able to find five forms of ID, and you can't blame a guy for a side hustle. He took the mayor, Zora and Mom Donnie up on doing a little bit of volunteer shoveling. I think he's getting paid like 30 bucks an hour. So good for him. None of the rest of us could find five forms of ID.

So we had to come to work today. So good for Jimmy. Got a day off. This is Griff Jenkins filling in. And just for the listeners that I'm so honored to be sitting in for the first time filling in for Jimmy.

You know, I go back to my roots, which are talk radio.

In the 90s, this kid from Memphis and a vowed Van Halen fan was launching the Oliver North radio show, Common Sense Radio with Ali North, we called it.

It was in 1995.

And every day we addressed the political and social issues of the day with a little bit of a gear towards common sense.

Now, I'll come back to common sense in just a minute.

But after that, my radio career didn't end there because I helped launch, actually, Fox Radio here,

the greatest radio network ever in the history of America.

And I was the producer for the late great Tony Snow, the former Fox News Sunday host,

my colleague, my mentor, and he obviously, many will remember, went on to be the press secretary

for George W. Bush. And, you know, I tell you what I would do to hear what Tony Snow thinks about the state of America and the state of Democrats.

But one thing I've learned from both my experience, and by the way, I'm happy to talk to you.

I've got to give out the number here because any of you have any questions about those days or anything else you want to ask Griff Jenkins.

I will do my best to muster up enough IQ to answer your questions. Call in number 888-88-98-98-98-98-98-88-88-98-8-8-8-8-8-8-8-8-8-8-8-8-8-9-1-0. So Tony Snow, before being a Fox News star and going on to be George W. Bush's press secretary,

he was the head speechwriter for Bush 41, George H.W. Bush.

And every year when we would cover the state of the union, he would talk about why that is the most difficult speech to write

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