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Feb 2024
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372: Jimmy Failla Loves Fat Elvis

The Way I Heard It with Mike Rowe
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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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