The Secret of My Success
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Sep 22, 2026
DeeHOST
Yeah.
JasonHOST
So if you like movies like Baby Boom, Working Girl, Secret of My Success, Three Men and a Baby, those workplace comedies, I think you can definitely...
JasonHOST
Even Mr.
JasonHOST
Mom you can trace back to Nine to Five.
Dan FienbergGUEST
Oh, and the lead up to it was all movies.
Dan FienbergGUEST
I'm like, are we really only going to talk about Back to the Future and Secret of My Success? Is that what it is? And, you know, obviously they got some family ties and whatever.
Dan FienbergGUEST
Yeah.
Dan FienbergGUEST
I do wish they had done a little bit better with the acknowledgement of just how important he is in the TV landscape.
MikeHOST
Yeah, yeah.
MikeHOST
And number five, The Secret of My Success, a movie that I watched a lot as a kid for some reason.
MikeHOST
I don't know why.
MikeHOST
Yeah.
Mike MyersHOST
The other two Michael J.
Mike MyersHOST
Fox movies that I like more than Back to the Future is Secret of My Success and Doc Hollywood.
Mike MyersHOST
And I rewatched Doc Hollywood.
Mike MyersHOST
Just about a doctor that's going to be like a plastic surgeon in L.A. and he gets stuck in a small town because the doctor's ill and has to take over for a week.
Harry PickupPANELIST
Um, it was another guy who, um, has been...
Harry PickupPANELIST
He was in, like, in The Secret of My Success with Michael J.
Harry PickupPANELIST
Fox, but I can't really remember his, uh, his name.
Harry PickupPANELIST
But interesting that he was then, you know, Haroun Krabbe was cast as an American-
Harry PickupHOST
It was another guy who has been...
Harry PickupHOST
He was in The Secrets of My Success with Michael J.
Harry PickupHOST
Fox, but I can't really remember his name.
Harry PickupHOST
But interesting that he was then...
ChrisHOST
It's a ballet movie.
ChrisHOST
Then he also did Footloose and The Secret of My Success, both big films in the 80s there.
ChrisHOST
The Secret of My Success is another film that did like a hundred and some odd million dollars.
ChrisHOST
I was like, holy crap.
ScottHOST
I remember how big that movie was, yeah.
ChrisHOST
Plays the teams, as I said, the team's scheming owner with a wonderfully cold sense of humor.
ChrisHOST
Her other credits include The Secret of My Success with Michael J.
ChrisHOST
Fox.
ChrisHOST
She was in Nine and a Half Weeks, Ironweed, and Man Without a Face.
MikeHOST
We got to come up with fun, fun themes.
MikeHOST
So this episode is episode 54, Secret of My Success.
MaxHOST
Yes.
MikeHOST
Which is a classic 1987 movie.
JonathanHOST
So don't do that, but it is a great movie, and we're going to talk about the secrets to our success in getting EMS jobs.
MikeHOST
Well, it was a toss-up for a couple of movie themes.
MikeHOST
Secret of My Success, I think, is a really great example of this particular topic.
MikeHOST
Don't tell mom the babysitter's dead.
Kirk MinihaneHOST
Um, but number seven is a Michael J.
Kirk MinihaneHOST
Fox starring movie, The Secret of My Success, directed by Herbert Ross, our friend from last episode.
Kirk MinihaneHOST
Remember, he directed Footloose.
Kirk MinihaneHOST
Secret of My Success is, it, it feels like it could have been set in the 1950s, right? It's a screwball comedy.
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