Everyone Had an Animal': Watch Fox's Shepard Smith Explain His 'First Big Break

Ever since Fox set its current lineup in place, we have all come to know the Fox News Anchors almost as though there was never a time when they weren't there, either delivering the news, or commenting on it, or sometimes even screaming about it.

But of course, that's nonsense. We all know that there was a time when Sean Hannity was confined to radio, or Bill O'Reilly had hair and constantly wanted to do his segments live (though that last one may be due more to Youtube). And apparently, there was also a time when Shepard Smith wasn't reporting on the latest breaking nationwide news, but was instead staying up late into the night editing stories about...dogs, kids and Lethal Weapon? What?

Watch Smith explain how he first got recognition in the news business below: