The Man Behind The Mic w/ Jeff Foxworthy

JEFF FOXWORTHY has been telling JOKES and making people LAUGH for a long time. Which is why it’s so incredible that this week show is one of the DEEPEST and most MEANINGFUL programs I’ve ever done We go deep on LIFE FAITH SUCCESS CANCEL CULTURE THE GOOD OLD DAYS And it’s truly an INCREDIBLE CONVERSATION. One I’m truly GRATEFUL to have participated in and I think you’ll be grateful that you listen to it or watched it You know Jeff best from his BLUE COLLAR COMEDY TOURS with Larry the Cable Guy, Bill Engvall, and Ron White as well as THE JEFF FOXWORTHY SHOW, and the quiz show ARE YOU SMARTER THAN A 5TH GRADER. He’s authored several books and recorded six comedy albums, including two that were certified 3x PLATINUM. But there’s a lot more to Jeff than just being a guy who tells “you might be a redneck” one-liners. This week’s podcast peels back the funny to reveal a DIFFERENT SIDE OF JEFF, from many years of struggles during his early years, to how the BIBLE has shaped and guided his daily life. One of the gifts of being a comedian is that not only are you a great storyteller, but you’re also a great observer of the HUMAN CONDITION. In fact, that’s where your humor often springs from. Jeff has also channeled those observational powers into watching how people deal or don’t deal with their problems. He’s also got great advice about LETTING GO of what you can't control, WHY FAILING A LOT is a key to success, and not putting yourself in situations that will ruin your life. We also get into how comedy has changed in recent years, especially as it relates to comedians and CANCEL CULTURE. Despite these kinds of challenges, Jeff talks openly about the JOYS OF BEING A COMEDIAN and how he remains RELEVANT and MOTIVATED while balancing the ongoing demands of being a celebrity. You’re going to like the hour we all spend together with Jeff. He’s got great stories to tell and great takes to download. And that, my friends, is no joke. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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• 1:40Ed Mylett?

  All right, welcome back to the program, everybody. I'm so excited to have this man here today because I've been a fan of his work for a long time. But as I started to research him, I became a bigger fan of the man behind the microphone, what he stands for and his story and his life. I think there's going to be an amazing amount of lessons on life and success and abundance here today. He's got a new special out that is hilarious on Netflix called The Good Old Days. He also happens to be the number one seller of comedy albums in the history of the planet Earth, like of ever. So that's kind of a big deal. But I'm more impressed with the kind of man, husband and father that he is, as I've learned more about him. So Jeff Foxworthy, welcome to the show, brother.

• 2:22Jeff Foxworthy?

  I'm honored to be here. Thanks for having me, Ed.

• 2:24Ed Mylett?

  Yeah, I gotta tell you, you're special, everyone. You gotta go watch the good old days. It's one of the few things, Jeff, that my wife and I actually agree on when we watch art or comedy. Usually, I'll watch a comedian, I think they're really, really funny. It's like, ah, I just don't get it, you know, and then, you know what I mean? And then there's stuff she loves. I'm like, this is terrible. Turn this off. I can't do an hour of this, right? So I gotta tell you, one, it's clean for everybody who wants to listen to something that's clean, but it's very rare, man, in my house that we both agree something's funny, and this special was definitely it. So, well done.

• 2:54Jeff Foxworthy?

  Yeah, my wife and I have those shows, like, she likes some of them that I go, you know what, I'm on the road next weekend, so why don't you save that till I'm on the road and you can watch that? Because this ain't doing nothing for me. So, yeah.

• 3:07Ed Mylett?

  Same deal, man. So, I want to talk about you a little bit. We'll talk about the special too, but, you know, you're, I'm always fascinated, so is my audience, with people that have become mega successful at something. I call it max out. They've maxed out a particular area of their life, whether that be family, or business, money, their career. You seem to have done that in a bunch of different areas, yet as I dug into you a little bit, you don't really come from that.

• 3:29Jeff Foxworthy?

  Not at all.

• 3:30Ed Mylett?

  So, let's, let's just start with, because I think it gives people hope. I mean, these stats were true, guys. Number one selling comedy album person of all time. It's not like I needed to introduce them. Everybody knows who Jeff Foxworthy is, so something good's happened there. But your dad was kind of an interesting dude, right? Tell them a little bit about your dad and where you come from.

• 3:47Jeff Foxworthy?

  My dad grew up in the country, in Georgia, a little town called Sandersville, and went to work for IBM. And so, he met my mom, they got married. My, my dad was a character in that, he was a good dude, but when he was five years old, his dad literally went out for a pack of cigarettes and never came back. And so, that, you know, that did something to him. And so, he ended up leaving when I was young. He, he ended up being married six times and had a thousand girlfriends in between. My mom went to church five times a week and, you know, didn't smoke, didn't drink, didn't cuss. And so, they were total

• 4:27Jeff Foxworthy?

  polar opposites. But there's something that happens to you as a kid, no matter what your parents say, when, when one leaves you, you feel like you weren't worth sticking around for. And no matter what they say, that's what you feel deep down inside is I wasn't worth sticking around for. And so kind of early in life, I was like, all right, if I ever have kids, my kids aren't going to feel this way, you know, and I didn't, I was always fascinated by comedy.

• 5:01Jeff Foxworthy?

  When I was a kid, I used to buy comedy records and memorize them and go to school and do them. Looking back, it was, I totally believe it's a God given gift. This was the gift that I was given. I'd have no idea why I can do it. But if you said to me, hey, go write me 100 jokes about home security, I could do, I could just take a piece of paper, whatever the subject and I could, I don't know why I can do it. But so that's why it's a gift is the same way other people can create music or the same people, same way people can make a brick wall that just looks beautiful, you know, it's their gift. And so I can't even have ego about it because I mean, I really can't, I don't know why I can do, I love it. I'm so thankful that

• 5:45Jeff Foxworthy?

  I've gotten to make a living doing it and I've worked at it. I mean, I felt like, all right, you've, you've been entrusted with this. You're the steward of this gift. What are you going to do with it? And so I always worked really hard at it, you know?

• 6:01Ed Mylett?

  Well, do you think there's any keys to being a good storyteller? I'm just curious because I think the, the ability to tell a story transcends everything almost. It makes you a better father, mother, business person, salesperson, stand up actor, whatever it might be, telling a story is a really important skill in life that most people, I don't think ever realized they probably should get pretty good at.

• 6:26Jeff Foxworthy?

  I think you're 100% right. We all know somebody at work that's like a great joke teller and somebody that's a terrible joke teller. And I think the good ones, they learn to keep in the things that only the things that are needed. The people that are not good at it, throw in all these ingredients that you don't really need to make it work.

• 6:48Jeff Foxworthy?

  But there is an art to it. And I think part of it is being interested in stories. You know, you're that guy. You're, you want to know somebody's story. Everybody I meet, I'm like, so what's your story? Where are you from? You know, I want to know, where'd you grow up? How'd you grow up? Cause I'm interested.

• 7:05Ed Mylett?

  Yeah, same here. I think that that's especially in sales, I tell people all the time, like less is more. You know, even

• 7:12Jeff Foxworthy?

  Bingo.

• 7:13Ed Mylett?

  Bingo. I think they add too much to their pitch because the more, when you're in business, the more you know, the more you add to the story, the more you think you need to tell them. You know more facts, you know more information. Just, just get to the point, but I want to go back just for a second because I think it was a really powerful thing you said. You said that no matter what happens when you're a parent in this divorce situation, that when you leave, that that child feels something they shouldn't feel. I heard you say that you really grew up feeling like you weren't worth staying for. And I was, I'm honest with you, Jeff, I was driving in my car prepping for this, you know, I'd listen to different stuff. And I started to like get all filled up in the eyes, thinking about, there's probably a lot of men right now, not just men, women too, but they're thinking right now, maybe I'm gonna leave my family.

• 7:59Ed Mylett?

  And, and go get a new one, get something shinier and newer, younger or less drama. What would you say to someone who's thinking about maybe right now, thinking about doing something like that who's got babies or kids at home?

• 8:12Jeff Foxworthy?

  Not even about your spouse. What it does with your kids is it, is it breaks a trust. You know, and, and trust is a weird thing. If I, I'm a visual guy, so I imagine it like a coffee cup. And it's built just a drop at a time, a drop at a time, and it fills up with trust. But when you lose trust, you dump it all out of, it's all gone in one second. And I think that's what happens when parents leave their kids is their kids look at you and go, crap, I thought it was you and I, I thought it was you and I above anything else. And if it's, and you can walk away from me, then even though we might repair this,

• 8:53Jeff Foxworthy?

  you're going to see where the glue was because there was a big trust broken here between you and I. And, um.

• 9:02Jeff Foxworthy?

  I mean, I would encourage people to really think about that before you do it. And I know people get in situations where it's just unbearable. But you, you always think about the husband and the wife. It's the kids that carry the most of it through life. You know, before COVID hit, I had spent 12 years leading a men's group on Tuesday mornings at the homeless shelter in Atlanta. And most people end up in a, in a homeless shelter because of some type of addiction is, but the longer that I worked there and got to know these people, what you realize is something bad happened to them early in life.

• 9:44Jeff Foxworthy?

  They either got abused physically, sexually, they got abandoned, something bad happened to them. And the hurt was so great that they couldn't deal with it on their own. So as they got older, they started numbing to it. Might be with alcohol, might be with drugs, but they started numbing to it. Well, when you're doing that, you're not employable. You're not somebody that a company can depend on. So you're not employable. You can't have your own space because you can't pay for your rent. So you're hanging around with your friends and your family and you're taking from them to the point where they go, no more, I can't do this anymore. And that's how people end up on the street. And so the, the addiction is just the symptom.

• 10:28Jeff Foxworthy?

  The, the diseases that hurt that happened when they were young. And so if you can ever go back and deal with that hurt and, and drag it out of that locked up basement room in the soul and pull it up the stairs and pull it out in the front yard and let the sun hit it and call it what it was, then they had a chance to get better. They had a chance to put their life back together.

• 10:51Ed Mylett?

  By the way, you're welcome, everybody. I told you this is going to be a special conversation today.

• 10:56Ed Mylett?

  By the way, on the divorce, I just want to say everyone, my, I have a book out coming out soon called The Power of One More. My dad was an alcoholic, um, then became sober for 35 years. And he had tried to get sober very, many, many times. And one of the chapters in my book is called One More Try. The reason that it's in there is my dad gave getting sober one more try. And that one more try, when there was no evidence that he probably could, was the time that it worked and he stayed sober for 35 years. Ironically, one day at a time. And my dad was one of those guys with that hurt. I just think if you're thinking of leaving your family, I'm not saying that there's all shame in doing it and there's circumstance where you should, but maybe ought to give it one more try. And I think that's worth saying.

• 11:39Ed Mylett?

  The other thing that just went past there because he has humility, Jeff just sort of barely touched on this, but I want you to imagine you're one of the most famous people on the planet. And you end up what you do on Tuesdays, which is what he started to do. He starts a basically a men's group, a Bible study with homeless people at a shelter. This is what this man's been doing for over a decade to help people. And he just sort of glossed over that, but that's not an everyday thing a celebrity is doing, or really even an everyday person is doing. We're all everyday people. I really researched you, bro. And you walk in there, a friend takes you there, right? I was wanting to have them hear this story because that it sort of changed you. Because we all have judgment, we all make assessments. And by the way, everyone, listen to this, you judge yourself. A lot of you carry a lot of shame with a divorce you've been through or a bankruptcy or a mistake you've made.

• 12:22Ed Mylett?

  And you carry these bags around with you and you think, okay, this disqualifies me from being happy. This disqualifies me from being successful. You know, I don't come from the right family or I left my, all these things you think you've done and you carry them all your life as some barrier between you and your happiness. So you walk into this homeless shelter, if you wouldn't mind telling the story. Your buddy brings you there and you meet this dude, Jason, right? I even remember the guy's name because the story is so powerful.

• 12:47Jeff Foxworthy?

  And you're right on the money with that assessment is, you know, every morning as I'm kind of doing my devotional, I, I, I ask God, I'm like, let me get off the judgment seat. I do not want to judge people. But so, for a long time, my wife and I were like the head of fundraising for the Duke Children's Hospital up in North Carolina. My brother played football at Duke, and so that was the connection. So I was always doing stuff with kids with cancer, and I honestly had nothing to do with homeless people. My, my dealing with homeless people was to roll the window down and have them five bucks, go away. And so a guy invites me to lunch down at the shelter, and, and the first kid I meet is, first person in the shelter is this 21-year-old kid. And I'm looking at

• 13:30Jeff Foxworthy?

  me healthy. I'm like, dude, what the hell are you doing in a homeless shelter? Go get a job. And his name was Jason, and he sat down with us. And like I said earlier, I asked, I said, so Jason, what's your story? You know, why are you here? And Jason said, well, it was me and my mom and dad and my brother. He said, then when I was 12, my mom killed herself. He said, in two years after that, my brother killed himself, and it was me and my dad. And my second year of college, my dad killed himself. And he said, I got to the point, I could not hurt anymore. So I started smoking crack. And then

• 14:11Jeff Foxworthy?

  I'm sitting there going, hell, I would have started smoking crack. I, I don't blame you one bit. You can't, nobody can handle that kind of pain. And that's how we ended up on the street. But, but from being down there, and you know, I kind of did this, and it's all the things that I missed from my dad, and I don't remember the actual moment that it happened. But I just made God my dad because of the prodigal son story. He said, you can't do anything bad enough to make me love you any less. And you can't do anything good enough to make me love you anymore. I just love you with all that I am. That is who I am as a father.

• 14:55Jeff Foxworthy?

  And so my dad wasn't there and I'm like, all right, if you're here every day and you love me, whether I screw up or whether I do good, you're going to be my dad. And so I'm just like, all right, my dad's here and there's, trust me, there's still days. I'm 63 years old that I go, dang, can I just climb up in your lap and you rub my head right now? Cause I don't know what to do. And that's kind of the point that Jason got to. But, but the cool thing was Jason got off crack.

• 15:24Ed Mylett?

  Really?

• 15:26Jeff Foxworthy?

  You know, and Jason went back to college, got his degree and he's been a practicing nurse for almost seven years.

• 15:33Ed Mylett?

  No way. I didn't hear that part of it. No.

• 15:35Jeff Foxworthy?

  Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Think about it. It just makes me want to cry. I mean.

• 15:40Ed Mylett?

  Yeah. Yeah.

• 15:44Ed Mylett?

  You're such an interesting guy to me. All these years I've always sensed the kind of like the Holy Spirit on you. There's just a kindness to you and your work. And I have to tell you, I was watching this talk you gave, I'm driving and I had to go into a meeting. And I think I must study on this guy was really funny. I have to go into this meeting and it's about 30 minutes into about an hour long talk that Jeff gave that you can all get on YouTube. It's called Purpose on Tap. I just think it's special. And I found myself, I'm not getting out of the car. And here I am, a 50 year old man in my car in this parking lot. And I'm late for this meeting and I'm not letting myself go into this meeting until you're finished speaking because it was that big of an impact it made on me. And I'm not, that rarely, something like that happens to anybody. So I just want to acknowledge you for that, man.

• 16:27Ed Mylett?

  I mean, you've made me laugh a lot in my life, but more recently you've really made me think and contemplate and evaluate. And as I was looking at you, I want to make sure I acknowledge that in you. As I was looking at you, I'm thinking, you know, I come from a dad is an alcoholic. Jason comes from this background that's just three billion times worse than you and I. But you are a little guy whose dad leaves, right? And that's a difficult thing. What do you think the difference is? Cause some people use that story as sort of cover to be a victim their entire life for their lack of happiness or success. Other people can come from the same exact household and they make a success of their life or they do something pretty special with their life. What do you think that difference is?

• 17:10Jeff Foxworthy?

  I don't know because my sister has been kind of mad at my dad her, her whole life. And I will say to her, you know, this is a poison you're making, but you're drinking. He's been dead since 1999. Yeah, even if he wanted to change it, he couldn't change it. It's, it's, it's done, but I, I don't know what makes some people deal with it and some people don't. Do you remember, I don't, do you remember like an old Dan Fogelberg song? Run for the roses?

• 17:42Ed Mylett?

  Absolutely.

• 17:43Jeff Foxworthy?

  About the horse that's born in the middle of it. And there's, it is talking about running for the roses in the Kentucky Derby. But there's a line in that song and it used to hit me. I was like a teenager where it said, it's breeding and it's training and it's something unknown. And that something unknown would always make my eyes well up. I'm like, but, but it was like, I had something in my gut that, that said, I'm, I'm going to be okay. I'm gonna, I don't know where I'm going, but I'm going to make it. And, and I mean, not, I'm not even doing this like some kind of prosperity thing. I think this will sit well with you. So a few years ago, I'm, I'm doing an interview and the lady said to me, she said, well, you do stand up comedy.

• 18:28Jeff Foxworthy?

  You write books, you host game shows, you paint, you draw. Which one are you? And I went, wow, that's a weird question. And I said, well, those are all things that I do. I said, and I love what I do and I love the fact that I get to do more than one thing. I said, but when you say which one, it's not who I am. Who I am is I'm a dad and I'm a husband and I'm a brother and I'm a son and I'm a person of this community and I'm a child of God. So as I go through my life, what I do may change dozens of times, but

• 19:07Jeff Foxworthy?

  hopefully who I am stays consistent across all of them. And I just kind of felt that at a young age. It's like to know who you are, you know, I remember, because we came from, you know, it's kind of the wrong side of the tracks. But we had a good baseball team. And one time we went across Atlanta to play the kids at the big private school. And when we got off the bus, they were making fun of us because our uniforms were pretty crappy. And, and, and that stuck in my, my, my mind, my whole life. Because as I'm getting off, I'm like, you don't know anything about me. How can you judge me? All you know is I got a crappy shirt on, you know, and then at the other end of my life where people

• 19:50Jeff Foxworthy?

  go, oh, you're rich. You don't understand. I said, no, still, Jeff, I just got a better shirt on. Still the same guy, you know?

• 19:59Ed Mylett?

  Good brother. Yeah, there's a danger in attaching one's identity to what you do.

• 20:04Jeff Foxworthy?

  Because it's gonna go away.

• 20:06Ed Mylett?

  You got it.

• 20:07Jeff Foxworthy?

  If, if, if it's your beauty, it's gonna go away. If it's your muscles, it's going to go away. And so why attach your identity to something that's not permanent?

• 20:20Ed Mylett?

  It's very conditional. And it's, it's one of the things that robs people from their happiness. Then they also start to think, well, if I can get to this next level of success, then I'll be happy. Or I get this thing, I get this jet, I get this car, I get this house. And they delay what is within them right now that they could experience until some future destination or achievement that may or may not ever happen. And then when they get there, that's not enough. And they've got to get another one. And so it's a, that's so profound that that's what you do. And it's not who you are. And I hope everybody just heard that. You know, you were, You're talking about where you come from a little bit. I just was like thinking about how you got started and just how telling even the first night of your comedic life is like

• 21:01Ed Mylett?

  a pretty big night in your life, right? So just everyone who doesn't know this, this is a guy who's working at IBM. Most of you, most people probably did not know that Jeff Foxworthy worked at IBM, right? That's what he was doing for a living. I think your dad worked there too, if I'm not mistaken.

• 21:17Jeff Foxworthy?

  That's how I got the job. I was, I had flunked out of college. I was working at a grocery store and I think my dad said to one of his buddy, hey, give my kid a job. And so it sounds more glamorous. I was carrying a tool bag and fixing machines. But, but it wasn't singing to me. I knew while I was doing it, I'm like, crap, this isn't my parking space. This isn't my lane. And I worked with a bunch of guys that, that would always went to the local comedy club in Atlanta and they go, dude, you're funnier than those people at the comedy club. You should go up down there. And I'm like, oh, and so they entered me without my knowledge. They entered me in a contest, not an amateur night, a contest for comedians, for working comedians called the Great Southeastern Laugh Off. And they came back and they said, we entered

• 22:01Jeff Foxworthy?

  you in this contest. I'm like, oh crap. So I went and wrote like five or six minutes of material about my family. And I went down and the first night on stage, I was so nervous. I won the contest. A minute and a half into it, and I was like, this is what I want to do. This is what I was made to do. This is my gift. And, and then I came off and this girl came over to talk to me and I was so nervous, I spilled my drink down the front of her sweater. And I, I mean, I made a joke. I said, well, I guess you're never going to go out with me. And she said, well, you didn't even ask me. And that girl, I've been married

• 22:41Jeff Foxworthy?

  to for 37 years. So I met my wife and my career less than five minutes apart.

• 22:48Ed Mylett?

  Unbelievable.

• 22:48Jeff Foxworthy?

  Same place some night.

• 22:50Ed Mylett?

  And by the way, everyone, there's a lesson in that, which is he went and did something he was terrified to do. And sometimes on the other side of things we're super afraid of, that we feel ill-prepared for is our dream. And that's not hokey or corny. Maybe it's even occurring to you right now, listening to me say it, right? Like, how'd this both happen that night? If you don't go do something you're totally terrified to do, not completely prepared for, you don't get your career, which is your dream, the platform to influence people like you're doing right now, nor potentially this amazing thing you're most proud of, which is your family. And it was because you did something you were freaking not ready to do and afraid to do. And on the other side of that was this gift, right?

• 23:31Jeff Foxworthy?

  It's the consequence of saying yes. I think it's, it's just going, yeah, okay, I'll do it. And that mean you're not scared, but, but that's all bravery is, is being scared and doing it anyway. Yeah. You know, so, and I got over being scared to go on stage, but yeah, it's the consequence of, I, I, I, that was how it happened for me at the mission, is the guy looked at me and goes, man, these guys have never been in a small group of men, like to done a small group Bible study, would you lead it? And I was certainly one of the most qualified guy to do it, but I went, yeah, okay, I'll do it. You know, there's five million people more qualified than me, but I'll do it. Yeah.

• 24:11Jeff Foxworthy?

  And it was the consequence of saying yes, that it ended up being one of the most impactful things in my life. And I tell my kids, Ed, I said, you know what I want you to do in life? I want you to fail. I want you to fail a lot. Because if you're failing, you're pushing the boundaries, you're trying to find the boundaries of what you're capable of doing. If you never fail, you've never pushed that boundary and gone too far over it to went, um, that's not my thing. So fail a lot, man, because then you're pushing it.

• 24:43Ed Mylett?

  I love that and God doesn't call to qualify it. He qualifies the call. We all probably heard that saying, but it's true. I've experienced it in my own life. All these things I wasn't ready to do or prepared for. But if people say, well, how do you step into that space? For me, I must just say this to everybody. I know it's true for you too. My business partner is, is, is God. My business partner is Jesus. So for me, I got a good partner who's got my back all the time. So I step into these things with some measure of faith, not really in myself, but in who's got my back and who my partner is and that he'll, if I'll step boldly in faith, some of these answers and thoughts and the words and the whatevers, the people, the places, the relationships sort of appear because I've stepped in faith. When you don't step in faith,

• 25:28Ed Mylett?

  I think oftentimes those people, the thoughts, the circumstances, the meetings, the connections don't show up because you've not stepped into that uncomfortable, unknown place. That's just how I look at it.

• 25:40Jeff Foxworthy?

  I think you're, you're right. And you know, you've got like this light and you're like a porch light where like moths are attracted to it. And so, you, you know, it sounds kind of corny, but, but we live in a world now where people, they want the likes. They want, it's, it's, uh, give me the likes, give me the likes. It's, it's almost important to get to the point where you go, I don't care. I don't care. I, this is what I do. You know, I know like within what I do, I would ne, I, I, I'm not mean spirited about it. If I hurt your feelings with anything I've ever said, please forgive me. I'm sorry. That was not the intent. So if you don't like me as a con, I don't care. I don't care. I mean, I hope

• 26:25Jeff Foxworthy?

  you find somebody that you like, cause laughter is really important. You know, it's kind of like the release valve that keeps the boiler from exploding.

• 26:32Ed Mylett?

  Yeah. Um, but How do you feel about though Jeff? Like lately, yeah, I got, uh, you know, obviously the other night when we're recording this, we'll be out pretty soon, but this is a situation happened with Will Smith and Chris Rock, where Chris Rock's making jokes, right? And you've had this situation. This goes to your special. It's called the good old days. And he just reflects on some of the things that are funny, that are just also beautiful and sometimes better or just different than they are now. But then, you know, you've seen, uh, whether you agree with the messaging or not, but you know, Kevin Hart's had the cancel culture, Chappelle's had major issues and those are just a few. But how do you feel about, cause comedy is art? Right? And so what are your thoughts on this? Like, that's not funny to me. So you're a bad dude type stuff.

• 27:18Jeff Foxworthy?

  It's we have a real hard time as a society of laughing at ourselves now. And within that lies the problem because we have to give up our need to be right. When you have to be right, then the other has to be wrong. And people don't want to engage in any kind of relationship where they have to be wrong all the time. And so they just go the other way. And as a comic, it's kind of our job to just hold things up and go, why do we do this? Why do we do that? We're truth tellers. Why do we do this? Why do we do this? And when people start attacking that and they don't have the ability to laugh at themselves, it means they they think that

• 28:03Jeff Foxworthy?

  they've got it all figured out. And none of us have it all figured out. You've got your lane, and you've got a lot of that figured out. And I got my lane, and I got a lot of that figured out. But there's a lot of other lanes I know nothing about. And so every day, you and I are both coming to 100 forks in the road, and we're having to go, do I go this way or that way? And we're all doing the best we can. But I don't have to be right. There were things that I argued vehemently for when I was 20, that at 60, I go, no, I've kind of changed my mind on that one.

• 28:32Ed Mylett?

  Me too.

• 28:34Jeff Foxworthy?

  So.

• 28:35Ed Mylett?

  Totally agree with you. I got to tell you something. It's interesting that people ask me, the older you get, you know, what have you learned? I said, honestly, one of the things I have learned is how little I know. I thought I knew a lot more at 30 than I know I don't know now at 50. And I'm always concerned when I have a friend who never changes their mind. Right? Mine should change. More information. We should evolve. We should mature, right? Always concerns me when someone never changes their mind. Never says, I'm sorry. Oops.

• 29:01Jeff Foxworthy?

  What that tells me is you haven't researched it at all, or you haven't engaged in conversation on it, you know, because I've changed my mind about a million things. And if I had any advice, I was telling my youngest daughter this the other day, and I love this child so much. But, you know, when she's not the child I want to be with when I have my heart attack, you know, it's my oldest one, who's very common. But I told her, I said, you want to know what? I said, baby girl, the biggest thing that I've learned in like, the most helpful thing that I've learned in life is this. And like I said, I'm visual. I go, let it go.

• 29:38Ed Mylett?

  Let it go.

• 29:39Jeff Foxworthy?

  And I literally, I mean, I know you guys are listening to me, but I'm opening my hand and I go, let it go. I used to be the guy when I was 20 and somebody cut me off in traffic, I'd be on his bumper and I'd be changing lanes, you know, yelling at him and screaming. And now it happens and I go, let it go. Let it go.

• 29:59Ed Mylett?

  Why do you think we don't, you think we're control, we think we think we control everything? You think that's what it is?

• 30:03Jeff Foxworthy?

  Yes. Yeah. And, and something like COVID shows you, you don't have control over anything. You don't have control over where you get this little invisible virus that may or may not kill you. You don't have any control over what's going on in Ukraine right now. You don't have any control over what's going on sadly, in the houses of Congress right now. And you have very little control over things, but that doesn't mean it's hopeless. It's the, the one who spoke the universe into existence has control. And if you will rightly take your place in this and go, hey, I don't have control, but I trust you and you do. So, and you've given

• 30:44Jeff Foxworthy?

  me these gifts. So let me quit wasting time and being pissed off at dad, or let me quit wasting time yelling at the guy in traffic. And let me use these, these gifts and these things, you know, everything, if you look around, I'm looking at your office here behind you. You got a poster on the wall. It was created for a purpose, to promote this book. This chair I'm, I'm sitting in was created for a purpose. So somebody didn't have to stand up. So if you do believe in a creator, and these things, these simple things were created with a purpose, then what about you and me? And it's not my purpose. God, what a waste of time. What a waste of my lap. If I'm going to be

• 31:29Jeff Foxworthy?

  yelling at somebody in traffic, or, or sitting home wrenching my hands over what's going on in, you know, I go, what's going on in places I don't have any control over. Let me deal with what I have control of. I have control over being a good dad. I have control over being a good husband. I have control over being a good steward of this gift that I've been given. I don't have any control over what somebody thinks about me. So I'm letting that go. You know, and I love, but I'm letting it go.

• 31:58Ed Mylett?

  The other thing you've done though, you know, speaking of control, you had longevity. And everybody wants this in their career, like even if you're a business person, I've known so many people who used to be wealthy that no longer are. Cause they had to go in for three or four or five years, right? Or eight years or whatever it might be in their careers. You know this in your industry, someone to last as long as you've lasted is there's a handful. Out of millions and millions, there's a handful that last decades. And I think one of the things that you've done that I'd like you to address is I've tried in my life, by the way, making mistakes every day, made tons of them, many of them I'm very embarrassed by. But I try to protect my dream. I try to protect the momentum. And that means, and I heard you say this, like, I know me.

• 32:44Ed Mylett?

  A little bit. And so I gotta not put myself in situations. That my dumb butt would make a stupid decision on, right? Or a bad thought or a bad thing. And you were talking about, you know, don't make the big mistakes in life. And I think you're referencing like the blue collar tour, just when you've toured in general. Sort of decisions you make, cause you kind of know you a little bit, right? And so, and this is no humans is sort of the, I guess, the, the bigger picture case, but I'd like you to talk about that a little bit.

• 33:12Jeff Foxworthy?

  Well, I mean, it's the cloth that I'm cut from too. You know, my dad was married six times, had a thousand girlfriends. So for me, like alcohol never did it for me, you know, it just, it never was, you know, it just didn't do it. Drugs didn't do it. But I like a pretty girl, always have liked a pretty girl. My, my younger brother likes a pretty girl. But it was, it was, as we talked about at the beginning of this thing, it was important to me, A, to honor my wife, but two, to not break this trust with, with my kids. And so when we would be on the road and the other guys would say after the show, hey, come on, let's go to the bar and have a few drinks. I don't think, I don't think there's anything wrong with having a few drinks.

• 33:56Jeff Foxworthy?

  But this is what I knew about myself. If I got in there and had one and we're having fun and then we have two, and then we have three. And then somebody sits down next to me with a lot of cleavage showing and they smell good. Now I've put myself in a situation where I'm vulnerable to mess up the most precious things in my life. Um, I don't, I would, I, I put myself where I'm vulnerable to break that trust with my kids and to break that trust with my wife. And so what I would say was, you know what, I'm going back to the room. I'm going to order room service and I'm going to call home. Not because I'm a prude, not because I'm a do goodie. It's because I knew where the fly paper was.

• 34:38Jeff Foxworthy?

  And that was the place that I could, I could screw up everything I had worked for. I could break that trust that I wanted to have my, with my kids forever in, in, in a single moment of weakness. So I'm like, I'm, I'm going, I'm walking the other way.

• 34:54Ed Mylett?

  I think that's one of the biggest lessons you'll ever hear on my show is kind of know yourself. I just think it's, I've, I've watched most things not prevail. Not because someone wasn't good at something, but because they've made a decision or a choice at some point. It might even be to spend all the money they make prematurely. It could be just that, your proclivity to spend money. But it's these things that you kind of know intuitively about yourself that you need to avoid, that you don't protect yourself from you often enough. And that's one of the keys to someone like you in your life. The whole thing in the special is about the good old days. What made you do that on that topic? I was just curious because it's hilarious, right? The stuff about the one at the end about you, I don't know, I want to give this away, but.

• 35:35Jeff Foxworthy?

  Well, because my father-in-law, that's just his mantra. He's walking around with his pants up to his nipples, griping about, you know, how the world's gone to hell and it was better than the good old days. And so COVID gave me a chance to, to just really do a deep dive and go, was it really? All right, so let's go back to, you know, for me, my childhood. And I'm going to look at the way education was there and the way education is now and the way communication was there. And, and, and just every aspect, and literally I'd had a big chart and I'm just writing on one side, going back and writing on the other. And like everything in life, there were things back then that. Were better than they are now. You know, we were probably more centered as, as families

• 36:20Jeff Foxworthy?

  and communities because we weren't as spread out then. But then there's things now like communication and all that obviously are, are better now. Um, and, but it was fun because it was multi-generational material. As I've been playing with it, you know, you can see, oh, the older folks are laughing at this, but then let's hit it back. And now the younger people are laughing at this. And then, so it involved, you know, people from 20 to 70. It was, it was fun that way. And you're just kind of looking at life from, you know, from this end of the court.

• 36:53Ed Mylett?

  Have you felt pressure to be relevant this long? I asked Sebastian Maniscalco, who's become a pretty good friend of mine. He was on the show. And, you know, Sebastian right now may be the number one stand-up on the planet, right?

• 37:04Jeff Foxworthy?

  Absolutely.

• 37:06Ed Mylett?

  He's still in all these arenas everywhere he goes. And I said, brother, do you feel pressure for this not to end? You know, for it not to end? He goes, yeah, I do. You know, wakes up and it kind of drives me. It's a, it's a pretty healthy thing, but I'd be lying if I said I wasn't afraid it was going to end. And then people have asked me, have you always been, you know, whatever success I've had, is it all chasing the positive all the time? The truth is, that's the compelling thing. But I've also sort of, I don't, I don't want to be broke. You know, I don't, I don't want to not have a platform where I can serve people and make a difference. So I guess for me, there is a motivator there. How about for you? I'm just curious, what moves you? Has that ever occurred to you?

• 37:49Ed Mylett?

  All this stuff? I mean, the notoriety must have been, something was just shocking to you. And then did you want to keep it and harness it? Or did you not care? You just let go, as you said earlier?

• 37:59Jeff Foxworthy?

  That the notoriety has always kind of embarrassed me. Um, I, I mean, I say that, I don't mean this derogatory, but I was told people, I'm two decisions from drywalling, you know? I mean, I, I know how to drywall and I'm two decisions from doing that for a living. So my goal, when I started this, I wanted to make a hundred thousand dollars a year. I mean, I thought that was the king's ransom, you know? And now I've made twice that in a night, you know, just unfathomable. But.

• 38:36Jeff Foxworthy?

  But, but I find, I mean, I'm, I'm very thankful for things like my farm because land's one of those things you can't really own. You're again, just a steward of it. But I don't want stuff. I'm a guy, I'm a blue jean and T-shirt guy.

• 38:53Ed Mylett?

  Yeah.

• 38:54Jeff Foxworthy?

  I'm not motivated by stuff, but I do want to take care of the people that I love. And I want to take care of the people within my community that don't have the ability to do that for themselves. And so, and I've been blessed by having a job that I still love. I love what I do. I like people. You know, people come in and go, I know you hate this. I go, no, I don't. I like people. I like, um, so never in my mind, when I quit, when I quit my job, my goal was to be a comedian for two years. Cause I thought, I'll have a great story when my, when I'm a granddad one day and go, you know, there was a time I was a comedian for a couple of years. Never in my wildest dreams did I think 38 years

• 39:35Jeff Foxworthy?

  later, not only would I still be doing it, I'm still doing Netflix specials.

• 39:40Ed Mylett?

  Amazing.

• 39:44Ed Mylett?

  How long did it take you to be financially successful? So that night happens, you're onstage, you win that contest. From that day, how many shows do you think you did before you went, wow, I hit my goal of that hundred thousand, let's say?

• 39:56Jeff Foxworthy?

  Uh, well, I can tell you, so when I quit IBM, I was, this is 1984. I was making $32,000 a year. My first year in comedy, I did, and I know this because I've got the little notebook, the pocket calendar thing. My first year in comedy, I did 406 shows and I made $8,300 for the year.

• 40:17Ed Mylett?

  My God.

• 40:18Jeff Foxworthy?

  So I made a quarter of what I was making at my other job. But I knew that this was the thing I was gifted in. I knew if I, if I put in the work, I had a chance here. And it was making my heart sing. So I didn't even think about the money. My wife, God bless her, she was acting, she quit acting and, and took a job for a milk company. So we weren't starving to death. Cause she believed in me. She was the one that told me to quit IBM. She goes, you've got all this creative stuff inside of you. And if you sit in a cubicle, the rest of your life, you're going to explode. Do it. Hold your nose and jump. And I tell all my, my friends, I'm like, your life needs a few hold your nose and jump moments, you know?

• 41:03Ed Mylett?

  Yeah.

• 41:04Jeff Foxworthy?

  And so even though I wasn't making money, I'm like, this is what I was made to do. I, I, and you're not, I'm gonna work hard at it. I'm not gonna, you know, be chasing waitresses and all. This is what I want to do. And, and when I look back, that is the common denominator for everybody when I was starting, whether it was Jerry Seinfeld, or Jay Leno, or Judd Apatow, or Chris Rock, or whoever, they all worked at it. They worked, you know, it doesn't just, and I'm sure it's that way in, in every business, in every creative business. It was the people that put in the work that, and, and not all of them, like Judd ended up being stand up comics.

• 41:45Ed Mylett?

  Yeah, right.

• 41:46Jeff Foxworthy?

  You know, but.

• 41:47Ed Mylett?

  Is it all cracked up to me?

• 41:50Jeff Foxworthy?

  It is. No, no better feeling in the world when, you know, it was funny early on, because my wife used to love acting. And, and I would say, let me write you five minutes. So you can, you can know what it's like for me. And she goes, nah, she goes, you know, if I'm in a bad play, there's somebody else to blame it on. I can blame it on the director, or the writer, or, and she said, when you're, when you're going down the toilet doing stand up, it's just you. And I said, yeah, but when it's going good, there's no better feeling in the world.

• 42:22Ed Mylett?

  I wish everybody could see your faces. You just said that. Some of these folks will watch it on YouTube, but most are audio. And your face changed even when you just said that, like you just lit up.

• 42:30Jeff Foxworthy?

  Somebody told me early on, they said, you know, when it's going good, is when you stop to take a sip of water, and there ain't one sound in the room. They're just waiting to, it's silenced, waiting on whatever you have to say next.

• 42:44Ed Mylett?

  Is that part of being funny, by the way? So I speak on stages and I tell, you know, blessed to be on some pretty big ones. And, oh, people ask me all the time, how do you refine your speaking? I said, I watch stand ups, because I think that's the hardest form of communication in the world, is to walk out to a group of strangers and say something funny. Oh, that's a little bit of preachers. I watch preachers, some of the good ones, and I watch stand ups. Those are the two that I've sort of modeled myself after. But I think in communication, the funny sometimes, the emphasis is in the pause, is in the silence. And this is true for sales. I think this is a lesson for everybody. It's true for sales, stand up, public speaking, all kinds of communication. Most people are afraid of silence, and you just hit on this. They're afraid of silence because that's the awkward

• 43:24Ed Mylett?

  time, even in a dinner with somebody. You know, when you're with your really good friend, you can ride in the car for three hours and not say a word. And you kind of know, right? When you're with a stranger.

• 43:35Jeff Foxworthy?

  Not my wife.

• 43:39Jeff Foxworthy?

  But I do it all the time. Yeah.

• 43:41Ed Mylett?

  Hey, that is, everyone, just so you know, for me, that is the funniest part of this special, is the part where he talks about it. You just got to go see this. I'm not, I'm gonna make everybody go see it. It is, I had tears pouring down my face, and my wife is staring at me with like daggers the whole time because it was the funniest damn thing I've heard in years, is that part of the special. I'm telling you, everybody, it's worth, even just that part is hilarious. Were you reading that off a cue card? Did you remember all that?

• 44:08Jeff Foxworthy?

  No, Ed, I have a, I, I, I see it in my head. I, I learned a long time ago, if you write things with, long-handed, not computer, long-handed, you have an 80% better chance of memorizing it. So, many years ago, I did a thing on one of the CDs or whatever, where I was talking about them advertising prescription drugs. And I said, in 90% of the time, the side effects are 10 times worse than whatever the drug's supposed to cure. It'd be like, try new FloraFlor for itchy, watery eyes. It's FloraFlor. Side effects may include nausea, vomiting, water weight, gain, lower back pain, receding hairline, exuberance, period

• 44:47Jeff Foxworthy?

  , and I go and I rattle off 80 things in a row, the side effects from this thing. But in my mind, people go, how do you remember that? I said, I'm not remembering it. I see the paper, and so I'm just reading it. I'm just reading it off the paper. So it's not even like a big memory thing. I just see it.

• 45:08Ed Mylett?

  That's amazing to me. I'm telling you, you guys, this, it's so damn funny. If you're married, actually, if you just have a girlfriend or a boyfriend, it is so dang funny. Actually, even if you have a mom.

• 45:21Ed Mylett?

  I actually thought about my mom, too, when you were doing that. Oh, my goodness. But, but what about the pause? Like, did you have to become comfortable with silence? You know what I mean, right? That is part of nuance.

• 45:32Jeff Foxworthy?

  Yeah, I used to my, I used to just wanna just not give them a chance to breathe and just beat the snot out of them. And then I realized the silence is even more powerful. Because if you stop and nobody's getting up to go to the bathroom, nobody's shuffling, you don't hear drinks, then what the silence does is it puts the ball in their court. And it goes, what are you gonna do with this?

• 45:57Ed Mylett?

  Yeah.

• 45:59Jeff Foxworthy?

  You're gonna give it back to me? Or are you gonna try to do something with it? And so when you really got them, they go, I don't want it. You take it. You take it. You get the ball.

• 46:08Ed Mylett?

  So, so good. I got a few more things for you. By the way, I am thoroughly enjoying this.

• 46:14Jeff Foxworthy?

  I am too.

• 46:15Ed Mylett?

  Yeah, thank you. I admire you. And one of the things you talked about that I already talked about is don't make the big mistakes. What are some of those? Help us, help us avoid them, or what you see as some of the big mistakes. What does that mean?

• 46:32Jeff Foxworthy?

  Well, I, you know, most of the time when, when we go off the road and blow our lives up, we don't take a 90 degree turn off the road. We don't just turn. It's like that slow drift, you know? And so the big mistakes are having the affair that blows your family up. Well, you don't just walk in one day and see somebody and go, hey, you wanna, you wanna screw? It's, it's, you start hanging out with them. Then you start, you know, making sexual references with them. And then you joke, and then you start being left alone with them. And so it's that slow, it's not that 90 degree turn. You're just

• 47:13Jeff Foxworthy?

  kind of breaking little bitty trust along the way, you know? And I, man, we're all good. We're all fallible. I mean, I'm, I have such the potential to do that, that I gotta, I gotta put up a little guardrail for myself to go, no, can't do that. Can't, can't be alone with them. Can't. Um, cause it's the big mistake. I used to tell my kids that, don't make the big mistakes. Don't, don't get in a car with somebody that's drunk driving. Because.

• 47:43Jeff Foxworthy?

  You can die from this, or you can be crippled from this, or you know, those are the life changers. You know, don't get pregnant when you're in the 10th grade because I want you to have a full life. Not that having a baby is not a wonderful thing, but there's a season for that. And this ain't it.

• 48:03Ed Mylett?

  Do you think this group, so there's two groups with you, though. So you got the group that you lead before COVID with the homeless folks. And that's just beautiful work you've done. And that grew to from like a few to like 100 people, I think. Right?

• 48:17Jeff Foxworthy?

  So Started with 12. Yeah.

• 48:19Ed Mylett?

  Well, not interesting that it started with 12.

• 48:21Jeff Foxworthy?

  Yeah, ironically. Yeah.

• 48:23Ed Mylett?

  What an interesting number. But it grew. But I think the other thing for me has been who I'm around is my friendship circle. And this power of association, people don't take it seriously enough. If you really look at the lives of the five people you're around the most, I mean, really look at their, not just their material success, but you know, their bliss, their happiness, their peace, right? Their contribution, like really evaluate them. Their emotional maturity is another thing. Like, people always want to be around people that accept them. These people accept me as I am. I don't want people, I want to have a few friends of my, hey, let's pick up before they come over. I want to have a few friends where like, we laugh our tails off. But I'm kind of accountable to them too. Right? Like, that to me has been huge. And I have to think for you to have this

• 49:07Ed Mylett?

  kind of longevity and not make the big mistakes. There's this other group that I think you meet with on Thursdays, or were used to, that like, has been in your life forever. So discuss this, because it may not be a Bible study for everybody. Most, some people might not want to read the Bible. Some people may not be people of faith. But having a group, right? So talk about that a little bit.

• 49:26Jeff Foxworthy?

  Yeah, it's having a, having a group of guys, you know, and I don't mean this sexist at all. But for me, it was having a group of guys that you could be accountable to, that you could, that some guy could look at you and go, hey dudes, I'm struggling at home right now. Man, I'm, you know, I'm been flirting with this girl at work where somebody else can speak some wisdom into you and go, dude, be careful, because you're gonna mess this whole thing up. You're not gonna have your kids. And so, yeah, there was a group we met for breakfast Thursday mornings in a barbecue, back of a barbecue restaurant for 18 years. And so what we did was we did life together. You know, when somebody was having kids, then you're sitting there like,

• 50:08Jeff Foxworthy?

  Praying that night, man, please, please let this kid be safe. Please let the mom be safe. When somebody's mom died, you're there with them. If for no other reason, just I'm here, you know, while you bury your mom. But we were doing life together, going through work struggles together. And I think it's real important in your life. We weren't created to live in isolation. That's, that's been the really weird thing with COVID is, is this isolation. I saw a study where they were, they were studying people that lived in isolation, but had totally healthy habits. I mean, like vegan, exercised every day and all. The people that lived in community, like had that group of friends, didn't matter if they smoked, drank, whatever. They lived

• 50:52Jeff Foxworthy?

  longer and happier lives than the people that, that lived in isolation, no matter what their health habits were. Because we weren't create, you need people around you. I always said Elvis needed somebody around him to go, drop the cape and the hat. Stop, stop. You're acting like an idiot. Stop. Michael Jackson needed somebody to go, dude, don't be taking this stuff to go to sleep. Stop. And you need people speaking truth into your life. And, and the people that are telling you what you want to hear, that's not your friends. Your friends are telling, are the people that are telling you things that you don't necessarily want to hear. You know, to go, hey buddy, I love you, but you need to be careful here. Or you need to watch this.

• 51:35Jeff Foxworthy?

  And so you need people that care, that love you enough to speak truth to you.

• 51:40Ed Mylett?

  Yeah, yeah. So good, Jeff. All right, last question. It's actually, I hope, I hope you remember this story or this analogy. So I've been around faith all my life. And well, not all my life, that's not right. But I've been around faith most of my adult life. And very rarely does somebody say something. At Erwin McManus, who's a pastor on my show, he was a pastor, he came on my show. And he said something I had never heard before that stuck with me, which was that all other faiths about are basically about what you need to do to get to God. And he said, what I love about my Christian, Christian faith is that my faith is all about what Jesus did to get to me. And it just has always stuck with me. It's that's, that stayed on my heart. There's a second time, and it happened yesterday, and

• 52:25Ed Mylett?

  it came from you. So there's pressure on you to remember this. But you talked about, we've all sinned in our lives, guys. We've all made mistakes. And

• 52:35Ed Mylett?

  We carry this stuff with us because we do want to be better people. We should try to aspire to be better. We should try to do good in our lives. That's the whole, we were put here to do something great with our lives, but we fail often. And it was the defense attorney analogy. Do you remember that? Please tell me that you remember it because it's

• 52:56Jeff Foxworthy?

  I do, I do remember that. And then to me

• 52:58Ed Mylett?

  And it's not, it's not going to leave me, Jeff. So would you just share that with everybody in the last couple of minutes here, that whole concept and thought?

• 53:06Jeff Foxworthy?

  And, and so here's the other thing, Ed. So for me, that there's a lot of things that happen in organized religion that I'm not a fan of at all, but I'm, but I'm, but I'm really big on faith. And, and it's this one, the amazing thing about it to me is it's not based on how good we are. Because you say we all make mistakes. I, I, hell, I'm gonna make them today. I'm gonna make them tomorrow. And I'm, no matter how bad in my heart, I don't want to do it. I'm gonna make them.

• 53:36Jeff Foxworthy?

  So it's not based on how good I am, it's how good he is. And so what, what, and that's what happened at the cross was, was he goes, hey, I love you enough that there's got to be justice for all this bad stuff that you've done, but I'm gonna pay the price for it. And so being the visual guy, it's like sitting in a court and they're going through your life and going, all right. And what about the, you know, the time you drove drunk and, you know, had sex with your buddy's sister in the back of your car? And, and, and it's, I just depicted the defense attorney's just being Jesus and he stands up, holds up that hand with a hole in it and he goes, already paid for that. And what about the time you did this? Already paid for that. You know, and that's, what

• 54:20Jeff Foxworthy?

  is, what about that is not attractive to somebody? To, to be loved? Because that's, that's what we all want. And as a comic, you're always looking, what do we have in common? We all want to be loved. We all want to be heard, but we all want to be significant. You know, we all, we want to mean something. We all search for significance. And, and to me then, then the, the story of Jesus is, he goes, not only do you mean something to me, you mean everything to me. You, you meant, I let him do this and I could have just held up my hand and then a band of angels was, I let him do, I let him beat me and I let him nail me to a cross

• 55:03Jeff Foxworthy?

  because I love you this much. So you don't mean something, you mean everything to me. And, and, and, and this is not, I'm not a preachy guy. And if you don't have faith, you and I can still be friends and we can still hang out and we can still laugh. You know, this is just for me. This is, this is my lane and, and it works. And, and, and I, and I, and I don't want to sit in judgment of anybody's faith or lack of it. That's not my job. It's, I'm just telling you my story.

• 55:33Ed Mylett?

  Yeah. I love your story and I'm, I could feel it right now. My audience wished we were going another hour, but you got a busy day and I enjoyed this. I, I 10 out of 10 tremendously, brother.

• 55:45Jeff Foxworthy?

  Well, and I, and I love your heart for other people to want to mentor to, you know, to, to, it's, it's like holding, helping somebody else hold their heavy rock, you know, to go, here, man, give me that side of it. I'll help you hold it for a minute. And that's, I, I think that's awesome that you just got a heart to mentor people that way.

• 56:04Ed Mylett?

  Thank you, brother. And I, I love your heart as well. So everybody, listen to me. I know you enjoyed today's show. Number one thing I'm going to ask you to do is share the heck out of it because this is going to change people's lives. The second thing I'm going to ask you to do is go watch the good old days on Netflix and get to Jeff Foxworthy.com or his Instagram or wherever to get all the stuff that he's doing all the time. But you got to go watch the good old days on Netflix. No matter who you're with, you're all going to love it. You're all going to laugh. It's one of the rare pieces of art that I think everybody can agree is just dad gum funny stuff. So.

• 56:36Jeff Foxworthy?

  Thank you. Yeah. Cause I got a new grandson. I got to buy him some more toys. So yeah, go watch this thing.

• 56:43Ed Mylett?

  I think a lot of people would like to be their grandson right about now.

• 56:47Ed Mylett?

  But brother, thank you. You're absolutely wonderful, man, and I'm very grateful for our time today.

• 56:51Jeff Foxworthy?

  Well, I thank you for having me. I appreciate, I appreciate this forum so much. It's, it's kind of fun to step out and kind of, you know, tell part of your story that you don't get to tell very often. So thanks.

• 57:01Ed Mylett?

  I'm grateful you did it. And hey, everybody, you know this, the power of one more. Go get my book. Go preorder it, order it, depending on when you're listening to this thing. It'll change your life as well. All right, everybody. God bless you. Max out your life.