The morning show. FOX across America with
Jimmy failla.
>> Oh yes, it company live from
the greatest country in the
world joined now in studio by
someone who is finally back
in the greatest country in the
world to catch it on bad how
ballot superstar correspond she
was in Ukraine she was in
Poland. Now she’s doing
something really brave she’s in
New York City that is crazy
Alex Hogan is here, hey Alex
Hogan hey, thanks for having
me, I mean have a new scene of
chaos without having to come to
New York.
You just addicted now it is a
different city coming, but it
feels great to be back in New
York, it’s just busy constantly
the city that never sleeps it’s
great if you like the energy of
New York. It’s amazing what my
favorite thing about being a
New York.
>> Is this 2 types of drivers,
okay that I’m I’m fascinated
with has got used to drive a
cap.
>> You can always look at a
crowded intersection and see a
guy who’s driving in New York
for the
first time, he’s very
overwhelmed. What’s going on is
too much chaos and reload
stopping for everyone trying to
cross the street everybody,
yeah they’re not doing that
thing where if you want to be a
good driver New York you have
to actively try to commit
vehicular homicide because
that’s the rhythm of the road,
you know I can tell you this is
a cab driver that if I didn’t
run a red light.
>> I would have gotten rear
ended by
a cop because they expected you
to they were going to pull you
over for you have to know the
culture of driving here.
It is a weird are sure but
unlike other places have been
to the government to cities in
Vietnam.
>> Hanoi places like that
you have to trust that they’re
not going to hit you as a
pedestrian you just walk right
out into the middle of traffic
and trust you stop if you doubt
you will get hit
a very different city was that
you know we always use the term
hope is not a in some places it
is Valley, some places as well
I I was like the guy driving
for the first time.
>> There’s also a guy if you
look closely next time you see
traffic you’ll spot a guy was
driving in New York for the
last time. Yeah as a very
animated he’s got a lot to say
to the people in the car.
Yes, it was your idea to come
into a play and now he’s
yelling at us why you know
they’re leaving New York and
it’s not been a good night.
Never ever ever
when they get out of the
garage, they like $427 for like
2 parking more they’re sitting
in the car crying because of
that now you Ukraine make sense
to me yeah now your work I make
sense to me it is a relic stuff
we all everybody back you’re
watching and rooting for you.
But it’s it’s such an same
chaos but I want to start here.
What is OK because the war is
almost approaching 80 days.
It’s got a lot more than I
think anyone thought it would
including putin yeah, what is
morale how you know in Ukraine
obviously they’ve done better
from a military standpoint than
we thought, but at the same
time been physically decimated
a lot of ways where are
they emotionally.
>> Well, mostly I think the
best way for people at home to
really put yourself in this
perspective is think of a time
you’ve been incredibly tired
magnify that draw that out for
months on end and think of
another time when you’ve been
in such deep pain whether it’s
the loss of a loved one, having
to say goodbye to a friend or
losing your job
and now stretch that out for
months on end and then sitting
in that so there’s so much
anger and so much pain
and it’s been so long lasting
and as journalists were able to
go there and tell these stories
but we cut to leave we get to
go home and thankfully I’ve
been home for about a week now.
Other people cannot that’s something they have to live with and as you said people
thought this
would end weeks and months ago
and it’s a completely different
reality it really is like a lot
of ways the Ukraine wars like
this radio show people thought
it would be over in 2 days and
here we are told is timely like
wow what is going on I don’t
even get it.
>> But it is it’s heavy and
I’ve watched so much of your
individual reporting that I
watched you when you were in
Poland, you’re dealing with
such an unprecedented level of
refugees and stuff
you almost feel kuz I find
myself emotionally I really get
sucked into other people
situation. Yeah do you find
yourself trying to offer them
some type of hope or silver
lining when he would you do off
camera I’ve seen on can
definitely make you can’t you
can’t interview someone and
then immediately the second the
camera goes off just walk away,
I mean as a human technically
you could, but you have to be
pretty cold to do that via
social path and also you’re not
going to be able to tell
someone story to the same depth
and do it as much justice.
>> If you don’t get more of a
background so I would usually
sit with someone before
interviewing them on camera,
good to hear their story a
little bit ask them is it okay
if we share this on TV
get their story and then just
sit with them for a little bit
and often that would be
conversations where they just
needed someone to cry to where
they needed someone to listen
and someone who was an
entrenched in it themselves
and get to ration with me and
asked me can you imagine that
this is really taking place.
Yeah, and that’s all people
want at the end of the day is
to be able to talk to I know I
would agree with 1000% a lot of
people don’t realize that I
learned that driving a cab the
talking the talking is so
tremendously important people
need to process what they’re
going through of course people
could see a therapist but also
in the moment you just need
that human connection,
especially if you’ve been on
the road if you haven’t slept,
you just need there’s a reason
that we social creatures are
constantly around her family
around friends on social media
listening to radio.
You need that connection and
people in these environments to
to not a really good point and
it’s so true, you know in any
circumstance. Alex Hogan is in
studio. She’s back in the
mainland for for the time being
she did a little West Coast
swing so the parents did.
>> Headed out the Ukraine it’s
crazy what I hope from all your
reporting as I was watching I
hope on some level of people
here just gain perspective
like I mean you realize coming
back to America like we have it
so could we do and we it’s
important to yell you realize
that try to be as grateful as
possible of course everything
is relative and that’s also
important to realize to I think
there can be this juxtaposition
of thinking.
>> Look how horrible of
conditions it is in places like
Ukraine right now in war and
look how good we have it is it
selfish for us to enjoy these
things and I would say no to
that I think it’s important
when things are good to really
appreciate them to remember go
out to dinner open that bottle
of champagne enjoy the good
when you have to thank you I
need to bring you down to HR
after Explain away a couple of
my expense reports in the last
few is Hogan here would like to
speak on behalf of the But now
you’re absolutely right.
>> I say it a lot
I say we’re all in the
happiness business if you die
the more you can wish you had
more fun in fact it has been
more time being miserable.
But you know in a very
difficult situation and ask you
this is there any indication in
Ukraine that you know maybe as
a means to ending this do they
want to concede some kind of
territory to putin or is their
resolve such that you get
nothing I think at this point,
especially seeing how the
government has responded by
standing firm.
>> And not leaving and
politicians have stayed in
there fighting and seen that
courage people there who are
citizens who are taking up arms
and fighting themselves
are finding ways to support
their country. Yeah, this point
it’s become so deeply personal
and that patriotism that
there’s no chance they want to
give up any inch
of territory. I think it’s it’s
really brave to see that in a
weird way I mean I’m not the
one fighting the battle, so you
know I want to be responsible
in saying this but in a weird
way I understand because you’re
rewarding aggression. Yeah, if
you get think you can.
>> Probably picture both sides
it would be easy to see that
people would want the fighting
to end. 2 weeks ago, so let’s
give up territory but on the
other hand that that pride and
having that sense of I’m not
I’m not giving up anything to
everything you put me through
yeah that makes a lot of sense
and I think at this point what
I feel like we’re all watching
play out is like. It’s a it’s
almost an eagle battle for
putin yeah in that this is
embarrassing to the rest of the
world. But he clearly seems to
be selling it at home like this
is going well or this is
channel his approval ratings
are up well the thing about
polling people at gunpoint feel
that it’s a little misleading
you know you they are polls are
shaking but we’re talking Alex
who of course also.
>> Does spend a great deal of
time over in Let me ask you
this with the queen’s jubilee
coming up, who hate to more
Ukrainians putin British
commoners and
Meghan Markle.
>> I definitely would have to
go with the latter the 1st
quarter for the The lancers but
can we dive in a little deeper,
it’s just you and me now Mike
you turn the Mike. No I do
think that there’s there’s
definitely one within the
country there’s a group of
people who are royalists
who adore every single part of
the tradition of this there’s
also people who don’t
necessarily buy in and who
don’t love all of the fanfare
as much and think that that
money should go to a different
place so there’s a lot so those
2 perspectives but there’s also
a lot of back and forth a new
push on on what is taking place
within the royal family,
especially when we’re talking
about Andrew and everything
that has been in the tabloids
concerning the sexual assault
scandal. That took place.
So there has been a lot of
negative press when it was
supposed to be a year that was
just celebrating that you
believe this year marking 70
years of her being on the
throne, I feel like they’re
doing the Queen dirty a little
bit right now personally right
there’s a lot of talk and I
think especially for people who
are deep-seated royalists they
are so angry that that’s what’s
in the press and those are the
conversations as opposed to the
fact that we’re talking about a
woman in her 90’s who has still
been on the throne and meeting
with the prime minister every
single DJ you really think
about what a bad as she is I
mean it’s just go through the
lineage of American presidents,
she’s hung out with
I was looking at all of the
life events that have taken
place not just since she’s been
alive but just since she’s been
in this one gave job this one
role. It’s amazing to see it
would be incredible if she
could write a book I know that
that is not part of
how the Royals her fumbled to
see the journey that someone
has lived out absolutely and I
think one of the one of the
adjustments they’ve probably
had to make his like there was
a time when they could put
stories to bed.
You know they with the Royals
and you know you report this
whenever going to talk to you
again people wanted that access
yet. It’s weird now because
they don’t have that like she’s
kind of a weird uncharted
waters they do to a certain
extent, there’s definitely
still a very deep-seated
respect for Buckingham Palace
and for having that
relationship and the trust with
the Queen with the royal family
and I do think that that’s just
something that you would never
see here in the States it’s a
very different tradition, it’s
different culture.
And it’s it’s interesting to be
over there and live there and
see all of that even small
things like news agencies need
to have
black suits and black dresses
of fun in the office just in
the event of any kind of
of Royal fatality want to ask
you this Alex Hogan who is back
in America by the way morale is
high on the show it’s a big
deal. You know we always hear
the stories about the Queen has
moves. She’s in mixed company
in she like razor
on bag like you know people
just drag her out of the
conversation or someone gets
thrown into the moat or
whatever does Alex Hogan when
you’re socializing inland and
you have moves to have moves
like it touch your left hearing
want to play I should write
>> I don’t I feel like overall
I’m I’m a pretty happy So you
did say off the air you want to
start a puppy farm I did I did
so if that doesn’t tell you a
little bit about who it should.
But no I I don’t I don’t have
any of those I think overall I
try to pick my my friends, my
close people wisely and people
who are happy an interesting
and passionate about what they
do and that tell so much about
a person if you’re passionate
about what you fill your time
with them and makes you more
interesting and more fun to be
around as well think about this
okay we’re reading a great
self-help book by the way we
are really on really we’ve got
to slap their a P making your
people I mean a lot of days but
to the point of positive energy
yeah, everyone you talk to you
that promises themselves if
they get like super rich they
can open before they are doing
it because the dogs bring so
much positive energy.
Yes, so is and I guess that’s
the best thing we could tack on
to this conversation is that
you should be surrounding
yourself with
dogs haha let’s better hygiene
than most people in the radio
so I can’t even shoot this
down. But you should you should
be surround yourself by
positive energy at all times if
you’re watching this Ukraine
coverage and coverage of so
brilliantly brought a state
that should be the perspective,
everybody comes away with at
the very least and that’s
something that is very easy for
people at home to do anyone
could do that there’s
constantly people that we talk
about that
might bring us either it’s
toxic energy or you might just
go home and feel stressed out
it’s really easy to look at
yourself and think.
>> I got this one life
who do I want to spend my time
with him and my the kind of
person who’s bringing
positivity to other I the
person who’s bringing the
stress as well and that’s
important that’s a great point
I think we just took over for
Ellen said you got to go our
leading a dance number with all
the ladies in the lobby is