Jimmy Failla Ate WHAT Live On TV?

Summary

Podcast Summary

Podcast: Kennedy Saves the World
Host: Kennedy
Guest: Jimmy Failla
Episode Title: Jimmy Failla Ate WHAT Live On TV?
Release Date: August 10, 2026

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Overview

In this lively, humorous episode of "Kennedy Saves the World," Kennedy is joined by Fox News host and comedian Jimmy Failla to reflect on freedom, adventure, and the wildest things they've eaten—both literally and metaphorically. The duo reminisces about bizarre live TV stunts, eccentric travel stories, and the importance of shaking up adult life. The conversation brims with inside jokes, rapid-fire banter, and witty commentary about parenting, celebrity homes, and the value of travel.

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Key Discussion Points

Eating the Weirdest Things on Live TV

• Stunt Eating on TV: Kennedy and Jimmy recall the time they ate bugs live on air, competing with other on-air antics.
  • Quote (Jimmy, 00:27): "I once ate bugs with you on live TV, so I'll answer the question. Seriously, was that [the weirdest?]"
  • They parody TV rivalries, referencing Trish Regan’s performance mashups and her shifting on-air persona.
• Outdoing Each Other with Strange Foods:
  • Kennedy ups the ante by describing her intake of unusual animal products at foreign restaurants:
    • "I've eaten snakes. I had a pot of boiled entrails at a Japanese restaurant. ...I did drink giraffe's semen." (Kennedy, 01:45–02:05)
  • The guests riff on each other’s exploits, mixing shock with laughter and irreverent circus jokes.

Travel Aspirations and Family Dynamics

• Bucket List Destinations:
  • Jimmy expresses his desire to visit Japan, which surprises Kennedy considering his adventurous spirit (02:26–02:29).
  • Kennedy suggests travel as a cure for impending empty nest syndrome:
    • "You... need to make a point... because you're going to be empty nesters and you, you have to fill the void somehow. Travel is a great way to fill the void." (Kennedy, 02:35)
  • She reassures that kids always return home, often disrupting parents' plans to repurpose their space (02:56).
• Upcoming Trips and Stand-Up Gigs:
  • Jimmy shares plans to travel for comedy shows, including a trip to Jackson Hole post-college-drop-off (03:15).
  • They chat about Lake Tahoe’s beauty and notable celebrity residents (03:32–03:47).

Pilgrimages to Celebrity Homes and Pop Culture Shrines

• Visiting Famous Sites:
  • Jimmy has a penchant for visiting childhood homes of celebrities like Johnny Carson and Chuck Berry (04:15–04:40).
  • He shares details of real estate sightseeing, including Johnny Carson’s Malibu mansion for sale at $110 million (04:45–05:14).
  • Hosts joke about politicians and billion-dollar campaign losses (05:16–05:34).
• TV and Film Nostalgia:
  • Jimmy recently visited the Paradise Apartments from "The Karate Kid" in Reseda, CA, still preserved like in the movie (06:15).
  • Anecdotes about the Alamo prompt a humorous exchange on reality vs. pop culture myths, referencing "Pee Wee’s Big Adventure" and Geraldo Rivera’s confusion (06:44–07:15).

The Importance of Travel and Stepping Outside Routine

• Travel as Growth:
  • Both agree travel offers refreshing perspectives:
    • "You look at the world through an alternative lens for a little while." (Jimmy, 07:25)
  • Jimmy coins the phrase: "It's good to snow globe your existence and shake it up..." (07:30)
  • Kennedy reflects, "When you travel, you imagine, what would your life be like if you live..." (07:35)

Adventures (and Mishaps) in Airports and Family Games

• Comparing Airport Lounges:
  • Jimmy is partial to JFK’s Delta One Lounge, describing its comfort and comparing it to LAX’s new but cramped space (07:53–08:11).
  • They bemoan LAX’s time-consuming logistics, sharing practical travel tips (08:29–08:47).
• ‘The Penis Game’ and Family Travel Mischief:
  • Jimmy details a family game where each person must loudly repeat the word “penis” on public transportation, much to the embarrassment of fellow traveler Jenny (08:52–09:43).
  • This anecdote exemplifies the family's penchant for playful disruption and shared laughter.

Parenting Paradoxes and Pet Antics

• Childhood Antics:
  • Story of Jimmy’s son Lincoln pretending their dog is starving for sympathy and even receiving money from a stranger (09:43–10:03).
  • "She's so hungry. And a woman gave him money. She goes, hey, kid, tell your dad to feed the dog. Gave him $20." (Jimmy, 09:54)
• Dog Humor:
  • Kennedy and Jimmy joke about their pets barking at reflections and “wiener barking,” continuing the good-natured ribbing (10:16–10:54).

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Notable Quotes and Moments

• Shock confession:
  • Kennedy: "I did drink giraffe's semen. Yeah." (02:05)
  • Jimmy: "That's how you got fired from Barnum and Bailey for the circus. She was doing so well." (02:14)
• Travel wisdom:
  • Jimmy: "It's good to snow globe your existence and shake it up and put it back on the shelf." (07:30)
• Penis game explained:
  • Jimmy: "Now whoever's turn it is to go next has to say it louder... we're now screaming like the bus is laughing... jenny's not owning it..." (08:52–09:43)
• Pet and parenting humor:
  • Kennedy: "I have to bring Lemmy back over so Bixby can bark at his wiener." (10:16)
  • Jimmy: "He loves that. Nothing like a good wiener bark." (10:19)

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Timestamps for Key Segments

• Intro & Weirdest Things Eaten: 00:09–02:22
• Travel Dreams and Empty Nesting: 02:22–03:27
• Celebrity Home Visits: 04:00–05:37
• Karate Kid Location & Alamo Story: 06:15–07:20
• Reflections on Travel: 07:20–07:39
• Airport Lounges & LAX Complaints: 07:53–08:47
• Penis Game Story: 08:52–09:43
• Lincoln’s Grocery Store Antics: 09:43–10:03
• Pet Stories & Wrap-up: 10:09–11:00

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Tone & Style

Irreverent, quick, and full of inside jokes—the episode feels like a cross between stand-up and coffee talk, with Kennedy and Jimmy riffing effortlessly about life's weirdest moments, the joys of travel, and not taking yourself (or the news) too seriously. Frequent callbacks and comic exaggerations keep the pace lively and unpredictable.

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This summary captures all the essential content, humor, and heart of the episode—perfect for listeners who want the big laughs and sharp takeaways without missing a beat.

Transcript

[Kennedy]

Hello and welcome to this episode of Kennedy Saves the World, where Jimmy Fayl and I love to recycle our outfits. Every Monday.

[Jimmy Fayl]

We do.

[Kennedy]

Jimmy, what's the weirdest thing you've ever had in your mouth?

[Jimmy Fayl]

You remember the band Chumbawump? I'm kidding. Remember the lead singer from Chum?

[Announcer]

Stop it.

[Jimmy Fayl]

It's a hell of an opener. I once ate bugs with you on live tv, so I'll answer the question. Question. Seriously, was that.

[Kennedy]

Was that the night Trish Regan did like a seven minute video of herself? And she goes, can you top that? And I said, yeah, we're eating bugs. And she's like, no, seriously. I was like, yeah, we're eating bugs.

[Jimmy Fayl]

Yes, cuz. Yeah, I remember that. And. And Trish, who couldn't decide if she wanted to be an opera singer or a. What do you. What is that thing called?

[Kennedy]

Translator.

[Jimmy Fayl]

No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no. She. Ah, man, I want to think of the term. She was like burlesque. Do you remember when. Remember the one night of Trish when she came on and she looked like she got paid in singles?

[Announcer]

Yeah.

[Jimmy Fayl]

Cause, like, one night she sang like, opera.

[Kennedy]

I was like, oh, my gosh. Like, I felt deficient. I was like, do I have to go see a surgeon and get.

[Jimmy Fayl]

It was God bless America. But then the next night, I remember that. I was like, apparently a new contract pays in singles. What's going on? Well, that's an interesting look. But we ate bugs. That was the weirdest. Why?

[Announcer]

Can you top it?

[Jimmy Fayl]

What do you have? Is anything weirder than bugs? Bugs is weird.

[Kennedy]

I've eaten some. I've. I've had some weird, weird stuff. I've had so many species.

[Jimmy Fayl]

Oh. Like animals and snakes and stuff. Really?

[Kennedy]

Yeah, I've eaten snakes. I've. I had a pot of boiled entrails at a Japanese restaurant. Ooh, I did. I'm not proud of this. Well, I am proud because I was the only adventurous one at the table. I did drink giraffes. Semen. Yeah.

[Jimmy Fayl]

Tell us when you're rolling. Okay.

[Kennedy]

And that was just part of my admission here.

[Jimmy Fayl]

Yeah, you know, that's.

[Announcer]

That's the.

[Jimmy Fayl]

That's. That's how you got fired from Barnum and Bailey for the circus. She was doing so well. She was doing so well.

[Kennedy]

What's a country you've not been to but you really want to go to?

[Jimmy Fayl]

I want to go to Japan.

[Kennedy]

You've never been to Japan?

[Jimmy Fayl]

Never been to Japan.

[Kennedy]

Oh, you. You will love Japan.

[Jimmy Fayl]

I've heard it's gorgeous. I've heard it's really clean.

[Kennedy]

So I think when, when Lincoln goes to school here in a few weeks, you and Jenny need to make a point like three times a year because you're going to be empty nesters and you, you have to fill the void somehow. Travel is a great way to fill the void.

[Jimmy Fayl]

Go do things.

[Kennedy]

And let me tell you, I, you know, like, I hate to spoil the mystery. They come back like a lot. Like a lot more than you think they do.

[Jimmy Fayl]

I know.

[Kennedy]

Like I tried so hard to turn Pele's room into a gym. And she comes home and my bike is once again in the living room. And I'm like. And she brought out like what are these snow boots doing in my room? And I was like, oh, you mean the storage closet. They come back.

[Jimmy Fayl]

Yes, they do. There'll be a good amount of traveling this fall because I have a lot of standup to do in the fall and the spring and the winter and everything like that. But we will take a few of those trips. I'm actually going once we drop link it off college. We're going to Jackson Hole.

[Kennedy]

Oh, amazing.

[Jimmy Fayl]

Just to go hang out.

[Kennedy]

I feel like this is the year of your. Your westward expansion.

[Jimmy Fayl]

Listen, I've done a lot of it. I like it though. It's one of my favorite place in the world is to get off the grid where there's mountains. Like I was in Lake Tahoe for summer vacation. Tahoe's amazing.

[Kennedy]

Isn't it? Beautiful.

[Jimmy Fayl]

It's the nicest place in the world. God, it's every one of those roads.

[Kennedy]

Millionaires have homes there.

[Jimmy Fayl]

Yeah, it is true.

[Kennedy]

Stunning.

[Jimmy Fayl]

Where we were in Emerald Bay, like Elon Musk had a house down the block. You know what house is there in Tahoe City? The house from Godfather 2. Oh yes. It's right there in Tahoe City. What are we talking about? The boathouse where they whacked Fredo.

[Kennedy]

Can you drive by it?

[Jimmy Fayl]

Yeah, you can't get like inside it.

[Kennedy]

So I don't know if people know this about you. Maybe they do. If you listen to Jimmy's radio show, you know all of this. But you love going to like famous homes and childhood homes. Yes. Like you origin story in Norfolk, Nebraska. But you did go to Johnny Carson's childhood.

[Jimmy Fayl]

Yeah, I went to. I went to the house he grew up in. It was 130 miles from my show.

[Kennedy]

That is.

[Jimmy Fayl]

But I still got off the plane. I want to go back. Yes, we did in Dixon, Illinois. Do you remember that? That was amaz. So I've been to Chuck berry's house in St. Louis, which is very much a roll them up biohazard shower. Hey, Chuck Berry was into streaming before. A lot of artists were. That's a lot of people don't know. That song was originally called Johnny P. Good, and they made him change it.

[Kennedy]

Yeah, he was real into water sports.

[Jimmy Fayl]

He was a big fan of the Summer Olympics.

[Kennedy]

Stand up paddleboard. Was he ever pissing on people?

[Jimmy Fayl]

All right, there it is. Okay. They don't call him the number one guitar player for nothing. You know what I mean? But hold on a second. I love going to those origin stories. I went to Mickey Mantle's boyhood home in Commerce, Oklahoma, where he learned to play baseball. That mattered. Chuck Berry's house went to Johnny Carson's boyhood home. I also just went to his Point Doom mansion in Malibu, which is on the market for $110 million right now. We tried to talk him down to 98 million. They would not bite. They would not bite.

[Kennedy]

I'm surprised Kamala and Doug didn't buy that.

[Jimmy Fayl]

So where they are, by the way,

[Kennedy]

is that billion dollars had to go somewhere.

[Jimmy Fayl]

Yeah, they're in that same. Yeah, exactly. Because she was only in the race 107 days. She blew a billion and a half. Yeah, that's very hard to do a lot of scratch. Where is that? I would like to know. I think I figured it out. It's down the block from Johnny. Did they say here's Commie? Like, for Kamala, here's Commie?

[Kennedy]

She wishes.

[Jimmy Fayl]

But since we.

[Kennedy]

I would love to be a communist. Don't go anywhere more. Kennedy saves the world right after this.

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[Jimmy Fayl]

You know where I went when I was just out in California? I went to Reseda, to the Paradise Apartments where Daniel Larussa lives in Karate Kid. They're still there as is. Like, the pool is right there in the middle of the carpet. It's actually like the exact same place that it is in the movie.

[Kennedy]

So basically, your adult life is just. It's all set around reliving Your childhood. Have you been to the Alamo yet?

[Jimmy Fayl]

Of course. I'll be there August 15th for stand up. I'll be at the Empire Theater and I will go back to the mo.

[Kennedy]

Oh, that's amazing.

[Jimmy Fayl]

One of my favorite places ever and the home of maybe one of my favorite sound bites in TV history. We were doing the Five, you and I. You know the story. Someone asked, what movie prop would you want more than any other if you could? You said, pee Wee Herman's bicycle. And then I said, you're out of luck. It's in the Alamo in the basement. Because that's how the movie goes. And Geraldo Rivera famously goes, the Alamo in San Antonio. And we go, how many Alamos do you know, Geraldo? Have you ever heard someone go, remember the Alamo? And someone goes, which one? Yeah, which one?

[Kennedy]

We talk about the one in Baghdad, the one in Poughkeepsie. I don't know. There's a few. It's a chain.

[Jimmy Fayl]

But travel is the best. And it's so good for your brain and everything else.

[Kennedy]

Amen.

[Jimmy Fayl]

Yes. Because you go, you look at the world through an alternative lens for a little while.

[Kennedy]

Yeah.

[Jimmy Fayl]

And it's good. It's good to snow globe your existence and shake it up and put it back on the shelf. And that's, I think, the value of that.

[Kennedy]

When you travel, you imagine, what would your life be like if you live.

[Jimmy Fayl]

Yeah. Could you live here? I do that all the time. On the road, I do that all the time. And the only place I'm certain I could live is the Delta One Lounge at jfk. I could live there every time I'm there. Like, I can live here. This is like a masseuse. There's food. It's crazy.

[Kennedy]

Jimmy, do you want a facial or a massage today?

[Jimmy Fayl]

It is so over the top crazy. Do you know? So they just opened the new Delta One Lounge in lax. It is not nearly as nice. Like, it's nice in its opulence and the offerings, but it doesn't have that sprawling vibe. The JFK one has couches everywhere.

[Kennedy]

It's ridiculous.

[Jimmy Fayl]

So it's like everybody's got couches and coffee tables and a spread out vibe. I got there for my flight to the west coast with Jenny and Lincoln like three hours earlier to just hang out and chat. And it was glorious. The LAX one is a little more cramped. Yeah, it's nice, but it's lax. And LAX is from the rental terminal four.

[Announcer]

Yes.

[Jimmy Fayl]

From the rental car to the actual. That rental car. Shuttle to the terminal was 44 minutes.

[Kennedy]

That's why.

[Jimmy Fayl]

That's insane.

[Kennedy]

I fly United when I fly out of lax. And now, because I don't have a car in Los Angeles anymore, which sucks, I still don't have a house. So I get off at Terminal 1 and just walk across to Terminal.

[Jimmy Fayl]

It's actually smarter. And you save a lot of time. Save so much time because that bus doesn't move.

[Kennedy]

No.

[Jimmy Fayl]

I feel so bad for that guy. So this is what happens. Okay? So travel works in the Fayella family. Lincoln plays a game when he's traveling in any form of public transportation. Where the game is, someone says the word penis, okay? Now whoever's turn it is to go next has to say it louder. Okay? So, like, Link gets on the bus. He's like, penis. And now you have to be like, penis. You know what I mean? You have to up it. But what we didn't know in the rental car trip from LAX to the thing being 44 minutes, we're now screaming like the bus is laughing. And I'm like, jenny's not owning it. She's not contributing to this. She's looking the other way. I'm like, jenny, let's go. You're up, babe. Come on, Jenny. Hey, tell her. Sir, can you tell her she's up on the penis game and she's crying. Not from laughing, like, she's so embarrassed. But that's what we do, Travel. It enlightens you and it enlightens those around you.

[Kennedy]

I mean, I still love the story about Lincoln going to the grocery store his entire childhood, asking if he can either, A, please get something for his birthday or the dog, or B, can we please feed the dog?

[Jimmy Fayl]

Please? Just once. I just want to feed the dog. He's so hungry. And a woman gave him money. She goes, hey, kid, tell your dad to feed the dog. Gave him $20.

[Announcer]

That's amazing.

[Jimmy Fayl]

Don't pay him. The dog is. You're not fat. My dog. I have a fat beagle.

[Announcer]

He's fast.

[Jimmy Fayl]

That's so funny.

[Kennedy]

Yeah, Beagles and French bulldogs.

[Jimmy Fayl]

They love each other.

[Kennedy]

They love the food.

[Jimmy Fayl]

Oh, our doggies get along famously. They're good buddies.

[Kennedy]

I have to bring Lemmy back over so Bixby can bark at his wiener.

[Jimmy Fayl]

He loves that. Nothing like a good wiener bark. You know the best part about them? Because they both so stupid together, they're

[Kennedy]

screaming penis as loud as they can in their own way.

[Jimmy Fayl]

Penis. So hold on. I don't even know who started it, but the first time they hung out at my house. We had to put a comforter over Jenny's curio because they were barking at the dogs in the mirror. Like, literally. Second, by the way, there's two dogs over there. What? I don't know.

[Kennedy]

Did he me?

[Jimmy Fayl]

This is our bike. These guys, we had to cover the curio because they wouldn't start barking at themselves.

[Kennedy]

That's how smart they are. We were two people. Genius dogs. All right, Jim, we gotta wrap this up.

[Jimmy Fayl]

Epic.

[Kennedy]

Can't wait to hear about your next adventures we're heading there. And whose famous person's house you're going to stalk next? This has been Kennedy Saves the World along with Jimmy Fala. I'm Kennedy. Listen ad free with the Fox News Podcast plus subscription on Apple Podcasts and Amazon Prime. Members can listen to this show ad free on the Amazon music app. Oh, go ahead and leave me a review while you're there. I'd love to hear what you have do to. You've been listening to Kennedy Saves the World on the Fox News Podcast network.

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