Ep. 945: Larry the Cable Guy

Steven Rinella is joined by Dan “Larry the Cable Guy” Whitney in his box seat at the Nebraska Cornhuskers homecoming game. They discuss: making the perfect venison hot dog with a meat scientist; Larry’s favorite one-liners; pig farming and bucking bulls; bass fishing; the “git-r-done” origin story; behind the scenes of his comedy central roast; being Tow Mater from Cars; and more. Connect with Steve https://www.themeateater.com/authors/steven-rinella and The MeatEater Podcast Network https://www.youtube.com/@MeatEaterPodcastNetwork Steve on Instagram https://www.instagram.com/stevenrinella and Twitter https://twitter.com/stevenrinella?lang=en MeatEater on Instagram https://www.instagram.com/meateater, Facebook https://www.facebook.com/StevenRinellaMeatEater/, Twitter https://twitter.com/MeatEaterTV?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Eauthor, and YouTube https://www.youtube.com/@MeatEaterPodcastNetwork See omnystudio.com/listener https://omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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• 2:20Speaker 03

  All right, everybody, we're joined today by Dan Whitney, who you probably know as Larry the Cable Guy.

• 2:24Speaker 05

  Woo-hoo.

• 2:25Speaker 03

  We were laughing this morning because we caught a quote from you, Spencer and I. We caught a quote from you where you said, Larry makes the money.

• 2:34Speaker 05

  That's right.

• 2:35Speaker 03

  Dan Spencer.

• 2:35Speaker 05

  Larry makes the money and I spend the money. Thank you, Larry. You're welcome. You're welcome.

• 2:41Speaker 03

  Tell everybody what we're at right now.

• 2:42Speaker 05

  We are in my sweet box, by the way, the best sweet box in the stadium. For the University of Nebraska, taking on Maryland. We're about to go 5-0 for the first time in like 12 years. Trying to build us back into the great program that we once were that you know and love from the 70s, 80s, and 90s. So, yeah, so we're doing the show from the, from my sweet box.

• 3:10Speaker 03

  You're homecoming.

• 3:11Speaker 05

  Homecoming.

• 3:12Speaker 03

  Oh, that's right. Yeah, it's homecoming too.

• 3:13Speaker 05

  We might be crowned king or queen. So excited.

• 3:18Speaker 03

  You're gonna meet someone in a moment, and I was trying to, I asked her to sell me on the game.

• 3:23Speaker 05

  Right.

• 3:23Speaker 03

  And she did a great job. She laid out this whole epic story about how you guys haven't won anything in decades.

• 3:28Speaker 05

  We've had a rough.

• 3:29Speaker 03

  And now you've got four. If you win today, it's five in a row. And she made it seem like the most important game that could possibly happen. Even though it's not that important of a game.

• 3:38Speaker 05

  You just want us to pull out of this slump so bad. So we're like, oh my gosh, we could be 5-0. And then in the back of your head, it's like the last nine, 10 years, anyway. 2016, we had a good year, but you're like, oh my gosh, is this really, are we really playing this well? Or is this a fluke? Are we gonna blow it all this week? In the back of every Nebraskan's head, it's like, even if it's 24 to 3, say we got a 21-point lead with five minutes left in the game, still in the back of your head, we're gonna blow it.

• 4:13Speaker 03

  Tortured fans.

• 4:13Speaker 05

  It's never over till that whistle goes, you know? So anyway, it's a big, a big deal. I appreciate you coming here to do the, do it.

• 4:22Speaker 03

  Oh, this is a great place to do it.

• 4:23Speaker 05

  I thought this would be a great venue.

• 4:25Speaker 03

  Spencer, I was saying, he's an actual football fan.

• 4:27Speaker 06

  Very excited.

• 4:28Speaker 03

  Knows all the rules.

• 4:29Speaker 06

  Special place to be.

• 4:30Speaker 05

  It is. It's one of the, it's iconic here.

• 4:33Speaker 06

  Absolutely.

• 4:34Speaker 03

  He grew up, he grew up one state off.

• 4:36Speaker 05

  Where at?

• 4:36Speaker 06

  Uh, South Dakota, just like 30 minutes from the Nebraska border.

• 4:39Speaker 05

  We got a lot of good players from South Dakota. I got no problem with South Dakota.

• 4:43Speaker 06

  Good, good.

• 4:44Speaker 03

  Here's how we gotta start.

• 4:45Speaker 05

  I don't know why South Dakota calls us names. We don't call them names.

• 4:48Speaker 06

  He told me that this morning. I was, well, I wasn't sure if you guys were aware that in South Dakota, we'd call you sand lizards because of your inferior soil. Is that something you were aware of, that you're a sand lizard?

• 4:58Speaker 05

  I've never really looked at people's soil enough to make fun of them.

• 5:03Speaker 06

  That's why you're a Nebraskan.

• 5:04Speaker 03

  That's a South Dakota mentality.

• 5:07Speaker 05

  I understand there's not a lot to do in South Dakota. But when you're talking about, your soil's inferior than our soil. That's kind of, I don't, that's not really a burn.

• 5:17Speaker 06

  You're right. That's a reflection on us. We need to work on that.

• 5:20Speaker 03

  Geological observation than like a character association.

• 5:23Speaker 05

  Yeah, so I'm not offended by it.

• 5:25Speaker 06

  Okay, good.

• 5:25Speaker 03

  Being in a football game, we gotta start with something. Now, we've been, we've been engaged in this very long process that you haven't been involved in of trying to find a way to make, this might seem trivial, but hear me out. Trying to find a way to make a regular, normal hot dog.

• 5:43Speaker 05

  Right.

• 5:44Speaker 03

  With deer meat.

• 5:45Speaker 05

  Okay.

• 5:46Speaker 03

  People are always passing off venison hot dogs, and you eat it, and you're like, it's just not a hot dog. You made a sausage.

• 5:52Speaker 05

  Don't get an AI hot dog. It's not good.

• 5:54Speaker 03

  So we teamed up with, we were able to send, come on over, Leila.

• 5:59Speaker 05

  This is Leila, everybody.

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  This is Leila Venzor from the Lawful Meat Lab here at University of Nebraska.

• 6:05Speaker 07

  Go Big Red. Yeah, that's right.

• 6:08Speaker 03

  So she is a meat scientist here at this very university.

• 6:13Speaker 05

  A meat scientist.

• 6:13Speaker 03

  At this very university. Studies hot dogs.

• 6:17Speaker 05

  Can I ask her something?

• 6:18Speaker 03

  Ask her everything.

• 6:19Speaker 05

  When you were little, did people come up, you go, so Leila, what do you want to be? When you go up, a meat scientist.

• 6:24Speaker 07

  That's right. That's right, you know?

• 6:26Speaker 03

  Yeah, at what age did you realize you're calling?

• 6:28Speaker 07

  Oh, man, you know, the, when I was like little, we used to, you know, process hogs in our garage for Christmas. Yeah, that was kind of my bit, my first meat thing. I didn't know I wanted to be a meat scientist then. I thought I was gonna be a horse judger, and then I went to college and that didn't go well. So switched over to meat science. So I guess I was about 20 or so. It was a little, that 20 to 22 age range is a little blurry, so.

• 6:54Speaker 03

  Okay.

• 6:55Speaker 07

  I don't know about the timeline.

• 6:55Speaker 05

  So you grew up on pig farm?

• 6:57Speaker 07

  Uh, not exactly. So I grew up in North Texas, but I'm Hispanic, and it's really traditional for us to slaughter a hog around Christmas time to make tamales and that kind of stuff. So, yeah, we, you know, we processed our own meat at home. And, and then it kind of just felt really natural when, when I went to college and this was an option.

• 7:17Speaker 03

  How do you say hot dog in Spanish?

• 7:19Speaker 07

  Uh, salchicha.

• 7:20Speaker 03

  Tell me again.

• 7:21Speaker 07

  Salchicha.

• 7:22Speaker 03

  Okay.

• 7:23Speaker 05

  Salchicha. I mean, that's common knowledge.

• 7:25Speaker 03

  It's common. And then, so we sent the deer meat down.

• 7:28Speaker 05

  Wouldn't it be frio perro? Hot dog?

• 7:32Speaker 07

  Perro caliente. Perro caliente.

• 7:34Speaker 05

  Perro caliente.

• 7:35Speaker 07

  Yeah, frio means cold dog.

• 7:36Speaker 03

  Yeah, cold dogs.

• 7:37Speaker 05

  I can do, I speak a little Spanish.

• 7:38Speaker 03

  I'm catching that.

• 7:40Speaker 05

  Estoy hablando español muy poquito en la escuela.

• 7:43Speaker 07

  Okay.

• 7:44Speaker 03

  Wow. You were just ketchup, weren't you?

• 7:45Speaker 06

  I'm good here. I got mine.

• 7:47Speaker 03

  What do you got yours?

• 7:47Speaker 07

  Yep, that's yours.

• 7:48Speaker 03

  Thin bead.

• 7:49Speaker 05

  See, now they yell at you when you're like, a hot dog is only mustard on.

• 7:53Speaker 03

  I know, I knew all that. You know, I thought about that. I thought about, when you asked me what I wanted on it, I didn't want to insult your, like insult you by doing the ketchup thing. So I thought maybe you were a snob. But then you told me you've also, early on, had an interest in research and hot dogs. You said it's like a, it's like a poor people's food. And there's not a lot of research into food that is, would be like lower economical, lower economic class food.

• 8:21Speaker 07

  Yeah, exactly. Who am I to tell you what you want on your hot dog? You put on anything you want on it.

• 8:24Speaker 05

  You let people eat the hot dog as much as they want. Where do you get a hot dog? Copying they want.

• 8:29Speaker 03

  Okay, so this is a genuine, this is a University of Nebraska.

• 8:33Speaker 07

  Yep.

• 8:33Speaker 03

  Lawful Meat Lab with just regular hunter-killed deer meat.

• 8:39Speaker 07

  Yep.

• 8:39Speaker 03

  Dragged out of the woods.

• 8:41Speaker 05

  For real.

• 8:41Speaker 07

  100%.

• 8:42Speaker 03

  Yeah, dragged out of the woods.

• 8:43Speaker 06

  This could be the answer.

• 8:44Speaker 03

  My boy shot this.

• 8:46Speaker 05

  For real? Let's, I might try it.

• 8:50Speaker 03

  Mm-hmm.

• 8:56Speaker 07

  There you go.

• 8:58Speaker 03

  I can see already you did the impossible.

• 9:02Speaker 03

  You made a regular hot dog.

• 9:04Speaker 06

  Hmm, the taste is there, the texture's there.

• 9:07Speaker 05

  It's got a.

• 9:07Speaker 06

  You wouldn't know it's deer.

• 9:09Speaker 05

  No, but you would know it's got a hearty flavor. It's got not a regular hot dog wiener flavor.

• 9:19Speaker 07

  It's a little, it's a little zinged up, yeah.

• 9:22Speaker 05

  It's got a smoky, is it like a smokier taste?

• 9:25Speaker 07

  Yeah, we, so I've made these very artisanally in our research kitchen, uh, which is just a really, like a restaurant-style kitchen, but with things that you could do, that you could use at home. And I smoked these at my house in my personal smoker. So that's, that's pecan wood you're, you're tasting there.

• 9:42Speaker 03

  Really? But it's got the snap.

• 9:44Speaker 07

  Yep.

• 9:44Speaker 03

  And I'll tell you, when I made hot, when I made deer meat hot dogs in the past, you could bend them over.

• 9:49Speaker 07

  That's right, yeah.

• 9:49Speaker 03

  You could fold them like a clothes, like a, like a paperclip.

• 9:52Speaker 07

  It looked like an imitation crab stick instead of a hot dog.

• 9:55Speaker 03

  You could tie it in knots. This has got snap.

• 9:58Speaker 06

  What percentage pork are these?

• 10:00Speaker 07

  Oh, these are about, I believe, 15% pork fat.

• 10:06Speaker 06

  That's like a winning percentage too. It's not like this is a pork hot dog.

• 10:09Speaker 07

  Yeah, it's pretty low in fat and water. It's very, very protein-heavy.

• 10:14Speaker 05

  You know, I played golf with George Lopez one time, and I believe he said that he smoked stuff in his house as well.

• 10:20Speaker 07

  Yeah.

• 10:22Speaker 07

  We love our smoked meats, man.

• 10:24Speaker 03

  We're gonna meet with.

• 10:26Speaker 05

  Man, this is, I like it.

• 10:27Speaker 03

  No, it's great. And we're gonna meet, we're meeting very early tomorrow to make hot dogs.

• 10:31Speaker 07

  Yes, yeah, broad and early.

• 10:33Speaker 03

  7:00 AM meetup.

• 10:34Speaker 07

  That's right.

• 10:34Speaker 03

  Hot dog making, 7:00 AM tomorrow, University of Nebraska.

• 10:36Speaker 07

  That's right.

• 10:37Speaker 03

  All right, Leila, thanks for bringing us out. But I'll say that you, you like, you won. It's got the snap. It's got the taste. It is possible to make a normal deer meat hot dog.

• 10:48Speaker 07

  It is possible. It's not easy.

• 10:49Speaker 03

  Not easy, but possible.

• 10:50Speaker 05

  No, but it is good. I like it.

• 10:52Speaker 03

  No, I think it's great.

• 10:53Speaker 05

  Now, it brings me to this. Can I do this? This reminds me of one of my all favorite jokes I ever wrote.

• 10:59Speaker 03

  Please.

• 11:00Speaker 05

  It's my wife's favorite joke, and Leila, you remind me of this. I used to do a joke about my sister. This is the strangest job on the planet. She's a hot dog whisperer.

• 11:12Speaker 03

  Okay.

• 11:12Speaker 05

  And I didn't know what it was. So I said, what is a hot dog whisperer? And he said, give me a hot dog, I'll show you. She goes.

• 11:25Speaker 05

  Boy, that's a good hot dog.

• 11:31Speaker 06

  Good.

• 11:33Speaker 05

  I know, right?

• 11:34Speaker 06

  That's good.

• 11:35Speaker 05

  That's one of my all time favorite jokes I've ever wrote.

• 11:37Speaker 06

  And does that joke kill? Does the audience go crazy for that one?

• 11:41Speaker 05

  Yeah, it gives a huge laugh.

• 11:42Speaker 06

  Yeah, yeah. Can I tell you my favorite Larry the Cable Guy joke?

• 11:45Speaker 05

  Yeah.

• 11:45Speaker 06

  Uh, we'll see if you remember it. It's about, uh, your wife taking last name. Do you, do you remember this joke?

• 11:52Speaker 05

  Yeah.

• 11:53Speaker 06

  We, well, so Steve and I, we both married women who did not take our last name. So will you tell Steve the joke?

• 11:58Speaker 03

  So embarrassing.

• 11:59Speaker 06

  So he can, Steve can enjoy it? This is really good. I don't think it was my favorite joke when I was a kid, but when I got older, I was like,

• 12:05Speaker 03

  You came to appreciate it.

• 12:06Speaker 06

  That's my favorite Larry the Cable Guy.

• 12:08Speaker 05

  I love this girl, we're gonna get married, but, uh, she didn't want to take my name. And I'm like, whatever, you gotta take my name. But besides that, I think it'd be cool, both of us named Larry.

• 12:22Speaker 06

  I love that.

• 12:23Speaker 03

  Yeah, I got it.

• 12:25Speaker 03

  I got it, I got it.

• 12:26Speaker 05

  Thank you.

• 12:26Speaker 03

  You, you were mentioning.

• 12:27Speaker 05

  See, that's a good joke.

• 12:28Speaker 06

  That's a very good joke.

• 12:29Speaker 03

  That's a good one. My favorite, see now that we're getting into this, uh, I think my favorite joke of years was, this is an old one, but you were talking, you were explaining how deer, a lot of people don't know that deer, like the Kardashians, get a new rack every year.

• 12:46Speaker 05

  Yeah, get a new rack every year. And then when I hunt, I dress in orange and stand by the highway, they think I'm a road gum.

• 12:54Speaker 05

  They think I, they think I'm a road gum.

• 12:57Speaker 03

  How we got on to? I want to tell you how, uh, I want to tell you something Jeff Foxworthy said about you. And this, this is a Jeff.

• 13:03Speaker 05

  Who is it again?

• 13:03Speaker 03

  Jeff, a guy named Jeff Foxworthy. Just a, just kind of a, you know, he's kind of a niche, a niche, a niche, little known comedian named Jeff Foxworthy. He, this is, this is kind of the genesis of me wanting to talk to you. Jeff Foxworthy was talking about you and we were, we were kind of talking about deer hunting and everything, but after we got done, Jeff Foxworthy was saying how his friend Dan has golfed. At that time, he said, my friend Dan has golfed 20 years. And he says, and in that 20 years, he is no better than the first time he golfed.

• 13:39Speaker 05

  First of all.

• 13:42Speaker 03

  And then I soon realized you was talking about you.

• 13:45Speaker 05

  First of all, I've only been golfing for 16 years.

• 13:52Speaker 06

  Okay. Good, it's a good correction.

• 13:56Speaker 05

  But Jeff is pretty close to that. I tell everybody, I go, my handicap has improved five point, five strokes, and it's only cost me three and a half million dollars.

• 14:11Speaker 05

  Golf is the most frustrating sport on the planet.

• 14:14Speaker 06

  You keep doing it though.

• 14:15Speaker 03

  Well, yeah, what, what do you, what do you like about it?

• 14:16Speaker 05

  It's just, I love it, it's relaxing and when you get older, it's the only sport where you can actually still hit, play and have a shot like a professional can do. You know what I mean? You can still make a long putt like a pro does.

• 14:35Speaker 03

  Got it.

• 14:35Speaker 05

  You can have the best putter in the world out there and if you're both hitting 20 foot putts and you're a good putter, you can hit them just as good as he can. I mean, he'll probably make more, but you know what I mean? You can compete.

• 14:46Speaker 03

  Got it.

• 14:47Speaker 05

  Every now and then you'll be 145 yards out, you'll take your nine iron and you'll drop it three feet from the pin. That's what pros do. You can't do that anywhere else. I can't play football anymore. I can't play basketball anymore.

• 15:02Speaker 03

  No, I understand.

• 15:02Speaker 05

  I love baseball, that's my favorite sport. I can't get down on a ground ball anymore. I played in a celebrity softball tournament and I took my first swing and I, I'm not kidding, I mean, my innards were coming out my hind end. My, it was like, oh my gosh, why is my, why is my butt burning? What did I just do? You know what? I'll just coach. You know, and I loved it. I love playing baseball and I love playing league softball, can't do it. Golf, I can do it. And I used to hate golf. I used to hate it. But I'm getting a little better. You know, I got a simulator, I bought a simulator and, uh, hmm, I, uh, had to let five people play through.

• 15:45Speaker 06

  Steve's not gonna get that joke.

• 15:46Speaker 03

  No, I got that joke.

• 15:47Speaker 06

  A lot of our audience will, but Steve might not.

• 15:50Speaker 03

  I got that joke, man.

• 15:51Speaker 05

  I do, and it's fun, you do a lot of celebrity, you do celebrity tournaments, charity tour, all for charity, which is fun. So I'm doing something I like, raising money. I got, I'd man, I did five charity tournaments, uh, or four. I was gonna do five. Uh, one was for, uh, the Make-A-Wish Foundation and, uh, their wish was for me not to participate this year. So I wanted to make the kids happy.

• 16:14Speaker 06

  Yeah.

• 16:16Speaker 05

  Yeah, you know, one of my all time favorite, here's another, I gotta tell you this joke, this is one of my all time favorite, this is really stupid. I just joke about, I just joke about, I was in this golf tournament in Las Vegas and we get done, I'm in the lobby of the hotel and here comes Henry Winkler from Happy Days wanting to borrow $500. And I'm thinking, well, you're not gonna, Henry Winkler, why you need 500? And he's like, well, I don't want to run upstairs to get my money. Larry, I swear, I'll give you 500 bucks and I'll meet you here in an hour and I'll give you $2,000. They, alright, so I give Henry Winkler $500.

• 16:55Speaker 05

  I haven't seen Henry Winkler in 30 years since then, you know? So I got to researching it, turns out I got caught up in a Fonzie scheme.

• 17:08Speaker 05

  See, that's what brings in the big dollars, that kind of humor.

• 17:12Speaker 03

  He's a fisherman. I don't even know that.

• 17:14Speaker 05

  Fonzie?

• 17:15Speaker 03

  Yeah, Fonzie's a fisherman now.

• 17:17Speaker 05

  He just goes like this and the fish come up.

• 17:18Speaker 03

  Yeah, he's, he's a fisherman.

• 17:20Speaker 05

  I heard that he's one of the nicest guys in the business. I'd love to meet him, he seems like a nice guy.

• 17:26Speaker 06

  Uh, Dan, I know something you could spend Larry's money on. I'm guessing you've seen that you can buy a urinal from the old stadium. Are you gonna do it?

• 17:34Speaker 05

  Uh, no.

• 17:35Speaker 06

  You're not, you're not, you're not? Only $3,000.

• 17:38Speaker 05

  I know, I don't think, uh, I, I remember them urinals.

• 17:43Speaker 06

  You use those urinals?

• 17:45Speaker 05

  I did, I think, first game I ever came, I sat right over there with a friend of mine and it was an Oklahoma game. We won, I remember, Jerry Gudowski was quarterback. That's the thing about Nebraska fans, you remember every game. I don't remember a lot about dates or marriage details, but I know where I was sitting my first game.

• 18:06Speaker 03

  Right over there.

• 18:07Speaker 05

  And I did use the urinal, yes, and they're disgusting and I don't want that in my head if it's in, I mean, where would I even put it?

• 18:14Speaker 03

  I don't know.

• 18:14Speaker 05

  Hey, come on, I want to show you my, my, this, everybody peed.

• 18:17Speaker 06

  They have a lot of recommendations, they say you could fill it with flowers. Uh, you could make it a centerpiece in your garage.

• 18:23Speaker 03

  It's porcelain, what do they call that, enamel?

• 18:25Speaker 06

  Turn it into outdoor decor, they, they got a lot of recommendations on how you can use it.

• 18:29Speaker 05

  Yeah, you could do, you could do a planter out of it. Yeah, as a matter of fact, I think there was some moss growing in it when it was here.

• 18:37Speaker 06

  Bet there was, they look like it, they look like it.

• 18:40Speaker 05

  I think there was already stuff growing in it.

• 18:42Speaker 06

  Yeah. Uh, Dan, I read in a 2014 interview that you said, okay, we'll find out. You said you'd rather bass fish than deer hunt any day of the week.

• 18:50Speaker 05

  Yeah, you know what? I grew up, I, look, I, I did nothing to get, I love hunting, I love to go, I go down south here, we go, we shoot doves, birds. I love bird hunting, I love shooting critters, you know, coyotes, uh, possums, you know? Uh, deer hunting, I just, man, I don't want to sit in a tree stand freezing all night, you know? I just never been into that. I, I grew up on a farm, raising pigs and a whole deal. So when I grew up, it was all about fishing. I, when I was a kid, I went fishing all the time. And so, you know, I just grew up with that. Now, do I hunt? Yeah, I've gone hunting a lot. Jeff always invites me, God bless Jeff, I love Jeff, Jeff always invites me, hey, you gotta.

• 19:34Speaker 03

  If you get an invitation to that place, I would be going and doing that.

• 19:37Speaker 05

  Hey, you ought to come, hey, you wanna go with us? We're gonna fly into Canada and then they're gonna.

• 19:42Speaker 03

  Oh, that kind of hunt.

• 19:42Speaker 05

  They're gonna drop us off and we're gonna get on horseback and we're gonna hunt blah, blah, blah for 10 days. I'll be honest, I just got off, I just got off the road. I don't want to go flying into Canada and sitting on a horse and sitting in a cabin. Jeff likes it, which I love and that he does like it, I'm glad people do. So you give me, you give me that, you give me that, right, all that.

• 20:06Speaker 06

  That speaks to you.

• 20:07Speaker 05

  I don't know what I got, what is this?

• 20:09Speaker 03

  For you people just listening, he is pantomiming, hooking into a huge bass.

• 20:13Speaker 05

  Yeah, you're not, yeah, you're right, you guys, I forgot, this isn't like, yeah, so just.

• 20:18Speaker 03

  No, a good percentage of the viewers will see it, but the other ones, they need to know that he just hooked a giant.

• 20:23Speaker 05

  I love, I love bass fishing, you know, they jump out of the water, they grab, when you do the top water and they pop, there's just something about it. And I, and I love fishing. And, uh, and it's not that I got, hunt all you want, you know, I'm just, I'd much rather do that.

• 20:39Speaker 03

  More of an angler.

• 20:40Speaker 05

  Yeah, I just never, now Jeff, when we were on tour all the time, look, I was on, I was gone all the time. I lived on a tour bus, me, my wife, then we had kids. So I lived on a tour bus, I was, we did 276 days a year out on a tour bus.

• 20:56Speaker 03

  Serious.

• 20:56Speaker 05

  So when I would get home and I would have 10 days off, the last thing I was gonna do, was go, no, no, I like what Jeff does. Now, if, I like going out, we got targets, me and my kid, my kid loves to hunt. So we'd go out and, you know, take your bow and you shoot. We used to do it on tour, we'd take our bows and Jeff and me and Bill, Ron, we'd shoot stuff, you know, the targets in the back. That was Jeff's idea. That ended real quick when one of us missed, hit the cement wall and then started flying around the green room. He's like, maybe we better not bring bows anymore on tour.

• 21:28Speaker 06

  Yeah.

• 21:28Speaker 05

  And, uh, so, uh, yeah, uh, bass fishing is, uh, I, I do like that.

• 21:36Speaker 06

  I, I also read.

• 21:37Speaker 05

  If I had to, if I had to pick.

• 21:39Speaker 06

  Yeah. I also read in your bio, uh, do you know this? You were born in the back of an El Camino. Who came up with that detail?

• 21:46Speaker 05

  It was actually a Chevy, uh, it was a, uh, a Corvair.

• 21:51Speaker 06

  Oh.

• 21:52Speaker 05

  So pickup, Corvair.

• 21:52Speaker 06

  Okay.

• 21:54Speaker 05

  Is a, my parents were at some concert, I don't know what it was.

• 21:58Speaker 06

  This is real?

• 21:59Speaker 05

  And dad didn't want to go and she's like, my water broke, I got, he's like, okay, they gotta get, they're gonna do an encore, you know, so.

• 22:10Speaker 05

  No, actually, no, that's not true. I made all that up. I used to say I was a, that was the original joke.

• 22:18Speaker 06

  Okay.

• 22:18Speaker 05

  The original joke, the original joke was, uh, from my bio, I wrote a long time ago, I say, he was born in the backseat of a, you know? The original joke to that was, I was born in, uh, I was a C-section baby.

• 22:33Speaker 06

  Oh.

• 22:33Speaker 05

  I was born in section C of the Lynyrd Skynyrd concert. That was my original, the original joke.

• 22:40Speaker 06

  That's better.

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• 24:12Speaker 03

  Oh, that that makes me want to jump to something I wanted to ask you about, man. I was reading, and this might not be true either, on Wikipedia.

• 24:18Speaker 05

  Wikipedia's never right.

• 24:19Speaker 03

  Someone got in there on Wikipedia, rightly or wrongly, and they said that you are, that you like identify as an REO Speedwagon fan.

• 24:29Speaker 05

  Yes.

• 24:29Speaker 03

  There are very, very few of us.

• 24:32Speaker 05

  Yeah.

• 24:33Speaker 03

  Left alive.

• 24:34Speaker 05

  There's a lot of us because they still played until they broke up recently.

• 24:38Speaker 03

  Mm hmm.

• 24:38Speaker 05

  They packed it out.

• 24:40Speaker 03

  Really?

• 24:41Speaker 05

  They were one of the few bands that was still pretty much together from the early eighties. They, look, even though they lost Gary Rich, after guitar player, the drummer retired, but right after the big, you know, the big hits, the, the, the album, what was the one, uh, you?

• 24:58Speaker 03

  Well, the last stuff they did that got, got notoriety, remember that video, he's messing around with that like Astro, whatever that thing is, like that little electric ball, what do you call those?

• 25:06Speaker 05

  I don't know.

• 25:07Speaker 03

  You know, you touch the outside and it's like the light shooting.

• 25:10Speaker 05

  Was that, I can't fight this beat? Okay. That was a big hit.

• 25:13Speaker 03

  Yeah.

• 25:14Speaker 05

  But

• 25:16Speaker 05

  a high infidelity, right after that.

• 25:19Speaker 03

  Yeah.

• 25:20Speaker 05

  Is when they got a new guitar player. And so for the last 45 years, it's been the same band right after pretty much that. So they would pack it out everywhere. And Bruce Hall was the original guy that I met.

• 25:36Speaker 03

  Okay.

• 25:36Speaker 05

  But the bass player that had been there since the late seventies. So Bruce had a really good buddy. He plays my golf tournament all the time. I love him to death.

• 25:42Speaker 03

  Oh, really?

• 25:43Speaker 05

  Wife.

• 25:43Speaker 03

  So you got like the inside perspective.

• 25:45Speaker 05

  Yeah. So they would all come and he would get everybody out there to play my golf tournament. The only one didn't play was Kevin. Kevin didn't really golf, so Kevin never came out. But I would go to their concerts and I used to have, when I was on tour, I used to have an air guitar band called Air Disaster. So we put on, we put on wigs, we put on long hair wigs. I had them go to the pawn shop and bought three boom mics, two guitars, a drum set, and we put the padding on it so you couldn't really hear you play, but you're playing.

• 26:13Speaker 03

  Yeah.

• 26:14Speaker 05

  And we would play 12 hard rock metal songs onstage. That's what we would do. And so Bruce knew I did that. So I went, the first time I went and did something with him was a, a, a, it was for tornado victims in Illinois. So we did a benefit. There's a bunch of people there, Nugent Center and Speedwagon and Sticks and Head East and Richard Marx.

• 26:37Speaker 03

  Head East, I've seen those.

• 26:37Speaker 05

  Yeah.

• 26:38Speaker 03

  Woo. God, man, you're throwing back.

• 26:39Speaker 05

  Yeah.

• 26:41Speaker 03

  Yeah.

• 26:41Speaker 05

  So I went up and played Roll With The Changes and air guitar, the guitar solo. And everybody thought I was playing. They got their cameras out and I'm up there, wow, wow. And the guitar player, Dave, Dave Amato, he's over there and he's really playing and I'm out front, ah, not even playing. I did that like four or five times with him. It was great. But here's the coolest story. Can I tell you this?

• 27:02Speaker 03

  Please, yeah, yeah.

• 27:03Speaker 05

  This is how, um, how awesome they were. Um, my dad had a band. My dad did all kinds of, he was a guidance counselor. He was a pastor of two churches. He was a farm, he had cattle and horses. I did the pigs. Um, uh, and, uh, but he, on the weekends, he had a band. He was in a band called the Memphis Beats.

• 27:25Speaker 03

  Huh.

• 27:25Speaker 05

  And my dad had been playing guitar since he was a kid, learned it himself. But my dad, uh, had a ninth, has, has, gave it to me since he's passed, a 1953 Fender Telecaster.

• 27:39Speaker 03

  Okay.

• 27:39Speaker 05

  I mean, it's like, you know, this is how cool the guitar is. I remember I wanted to get it refurbished for him one time. Cause I didn't know, you know, I'm not a guitar guy. So I took it to my buddy that ran a guitar shop. I said, hey, I want to get this refurbished for my dad, kind of clean it up a little bit, you know? He goes, oh, yeah, sure. What, is that the original case? I go, yeah, well, that's an old case. And he opens it up and he, he looks and he's got this look on his face. He looks at me and goes, don't touch this. Do you have any clue what you got here?

• 28:06Speaker 03

  Oh, I got it.

• 28:07Speaker 05

  So anyway, uh, Dave Amato, I showed it to him from Speedwagon. He goes, man, that thing. I go, hey, Dave, that thing has not been plugged into an amp and played on a stage since 1977.

• 28:21Speaker 03

  Huh.

• 28:22Speaker 05

  You want to play it? Will it, you think, would you play it on, at a show or something? And he goes, are you kidding me? I would love to.

• 28:28Speaker 03

  Wow.

• 28:28Speaker 05

  So that night, sold out show in Omaha, REO Speedwagon and Def Leppard and Tesla, sold out show, right? And I get a phone, I'm about to leave to go up to the concert. I get a phone call. It's Kevin Cronin. He did, you know, he, he did this guitar. Dave doesn't play Fenders. I'm a Fender guy, but this guitar's got, man, it's got music that just wants to fly out of it, man. I love this guitar. You have no idea how cool this guitar is. It's all, so anyway. So I went to the concert and Kevin Cronin, sound tech, takes my guitar out halfway through the show and Kevin Cronin tells a story about my dad's guitar and played Riding the Storm Out.

• 29:12Speaker 03

  Oh, my goodness.

• 29:13Speaker 05

  With my dad's guitar. And then he'd come over to the side of the stage during the instrumental, so I could get pictures of it. And then he looks at me, he goes, you good, you good? And I go, yeah. He goes, man, okay. And he goes back down, but dude, it's the coolest thing ever.

• 29:26Speaker 03

  Yeah.

• 29:27Speaker 05

  I was so excited about it.

• 29:29Speaker 03

  When I, when I say I'm an REO Speedwagon fan, I'm a, I should clarify that more and say I'm a Riding the Storm Out, Roll With The Changes.

• 29:37Speaker 05

  Yeah, no, I hear you.

• 29:38Speaker 03

  The closest I've seen, closest I've come to seeing them is one time we were down fishing in Florida, and this is when I used to drink, and we were out looking for a liquor store.

• 29:45Speaker 05

  Right.

• 29:46Speaker 03

  And in our wanderings looking for a liquor store, we wound up at a REO Speedwagon cover band concert in the back of a liquor store. And this outfit was called.

• 29:56Speaker 05

  That's so good.

• 29:57Speaker 03

  Stormbringer.

• 29:58Speaker 05

  Wow.

• 29:59Speaker 03

  Stormbringer, the REO cover, uh, a REO Speedwagon.

• 30:03Speaker 05

  Yeah, Stormbringer.

• 30:05Speaker 03

  Whole thing. Sat through the whole thing and they never did Roll With The Changes.

• 30:10Speaker 05

  No.

• 30:10Speaker 03

  And one of my buddies said, I don't think they have a keyboard player who's up for the task. And so they got to skip that one. Cause they can't do the solo.

• 30:19Speaker 05

  Probably right. That's a tough, that's a tough deal.

• 30:21Speaker 03

  Yeah.

• 30:22Speaker 05

  They're pretty good though.

• 30:23Speaker 03

  Stormbringer?

• 30:24Speaker 05

  Yeah.

• 30:24Speaker 03

  I honestly don't remember. I just remember I disappointed with, they never got to the reason I was there. It'd be like if you went to see Head East.

• 30:31Speaker 05

  Right.

• 30:31Speaker 03

  And they never did, um, what's their main hits?

• 30:34Speaker 05

  Yeah. Without any reason. That one, yeah.

• 30:37Speaker 03

  No, uh, oh, Save My Life and Going Down For The Last.

• 30:40Speaker 05

  Yeah.

• 30:40Speaker 03

  If you're like going to them and not seeing them.

• 30:42Speaker 05

  And he just real high.

• 30:45Speaker 05

  Yeah, that's it.

• 30:46Speaker 03

  Dude, we could talk about some old tunes, but I want to.

• 30:49Speaker 05

  Now they're, now they're Head West.

• 30:51Speaker 03

  Are they?

• 30:51Speaker 05

  No. I used, I used to do jokes.

• 30:54Speaker 03

  For the joke. Yeah, you see the, you see jokes.

• 30:56Speaker 05

  I used to do.

• 30:56Speaker 03

  Jokes for a living.

• 30:57Speaker 05

  Do jokes about.

• 30:58Speaker 03

  Growing up.

• 30:59Speaker 05

  Wait, I used to joke about, uh, uh, what was it? I wanted to get Molly Hatchet for a party I was having. I was going to get a Molly Hatchet tribute band. They were too expensive, so I ended up getting Molly Hatchet.

• 31:15Speaker 03

  That's really good.

• 31:16Speaker 05

  Hot dogs are good.

• 31:18Speaker 03

  Tell, tell me about, so you grew up around agriculture and you still raid and you raised, you still in the bull, like bucking, what do you call them?

• 31:26Speaker 05

  Look, bucking bulls. Look, when I was a kid, I grew up right next to the sale barn. I wanted to be a cattle auctioneer.

• 31:32Speaker 03

  Oh, really?

• 31:32Speaker 05

  When I was a kid. When that song, one of my all time favorite movies is Convoy with Chris Christopherson.

• 31:39Speaker 03

  Yeah, yeah.

• 31:39Speaker 05

  I mean, that was the craze, man. I remember the first time I had my little walkie talkie in a semi was pulling cattle in. I'm like, breaker, breaker, what? I'm just a kid. And all of a sudden he goes, I got you, buddy. I got you. I'll see you over there. I was like, no, mom, they talked to me. They talked to me. I mean, this was like, I was 30 years old then. And, uh, no, man. I mean, I loved it. So I spent, when I was a little kid, I spent every day of my life at the sale barn, loading cattle trucks.

• 32:09Speaker 03

  Okay.

• 32:09Speaker 05

  And we had a farm. I raised.

• 32:11Speaker 03

  For money or just because you were down there?

• 32:13Speaker 05

  Just because I liked it. And the guy that owned it was like my adopted grandpa.

• 32:17Speaker 03

  Okay.

• 32:17Speaker 05

  And he knew I loved that kind of stuff. And I raised pigs. I was legitimately a kid pig farmer. I'd buy my own hogs and I'd raise my own hogs.

• 32:26Speaker 03

  Is that right, really?

• 32:27Speaker 05

  Oh, yeah, man. I, man, at the most, I probably was looking after a little over 200 head, you know, just as a kid. I was the only, you know, seventh grader with a good bank account.

• 32:38Speaker 03

  Yeah.

• 32:38Speaker 05

  Cause I was.

• 32:39Speaker 03

  And not, not like as a 4H program, you're doing it for sale.

• 32:42Speaker 05

  No, I actually bought the 4H Durrocks out, which I'll never do again. She laid on her babies and ate two of them. So Durrocks aren't very good at that. But yeah, so that was fun. So, um, and my wife, I met my wife, I met, she's from a small town in Wisconsin. She grew up on a big old Black Angus cattle ranch.

• 33:00Speaker 03

  Okay.

• 33:01Speaker 05

  So, uh, yeah, so I, I've always liked it. And then I moved to Florida and started doing stand up. But, uh, I always wanted like a little, I always wanted cattle. And so now I'm able to do it. So I got about a little under 180 acres and, and we got, uh, horses and a couple of donkeys. And, but I got into the bucking bull business because, uh, I'm a big fan of rodeo. So in the nineties, when I started making a little bit of money, finally Larry started making money for me. I started sponsoring a buddy of mine named Tater Porter.

• 33:42Speaker 03

  Okay.

• 33:43Speaker 05

  Who was a bull rider.

• 33:43Speaker 03

  That's a real name.

• 33:44Speaker 05

  Yeah, a bull rider.

• 33:45Speaker 03

  Tater Porter.

• 33:46Speaker 05

  Tater Porter. And he used to travel with another bull rider named Spud Whitman. I'm not getting taters, but and so I just got into the PBR and the NFR. I loved it.

• 34:00Speaker 03

  Yeah.

• 34:00Speaker 05

  And so then I found out you can start paying to put your name on bulls to sponsor bucking bulls.

• 34:08Speaker 03

  Okay.

• 34:08Speaker 05

  So I started paying and I had, uh, seven bucking bulls in the PBR, six or seven that I've got to be co-part owner on.

• 34:19Speaker 03

  I got it.

• 34:19Speaker 05

  I'm paying for the sponsorship.

• 34:21Speaker 03

  Yeah.

• 34:22Speaker 05

  And, uh, so one of my bulls in two thousand seven, chicken on a chain.

• 34:28Speaker 03

  Uh huh.

• 34:29Speaker 05

  Won bucking bull of the year.

• 34:31Speaker 03

  Damn, and that makes you money.

• 34:32Speaker 05

  It didn't make me a dime.

• 34:34Speaker 03

  Okay.

• 34:35Speaker 05

  It gave me, it just the pridefulness of being able to.

• 34:38Speaker 03

  When you're part owner, I don't know if there's money to be made and okay.

• 34:41Speaker 05

  There can be, depends on what kind of deal you worked out, but I didn't know much about it. And I was just like, yeah, take my money. So I probably got ripped off. I probably could have bought that bull twenty times over.

• 34:51Speaker 03

  Yeah.

• 34:51Speaker 06

  What makes him the bull of the year? How do they earn that?

• 34:53Speaker 05

  Just the way he bucks.

• 34:54Speaker 03

  Okay.

• 34:55Speaker 05

  The scores that he gets on it, the, the scores the cowboys get on him, uh, that, you know, they score the bulls.

• 35:02Speaker 06

  So like you want, oh, sorry.

• 35:03Speaker 03

  You want like a real mean one or like a medium?

• 35:05Speaker 05

  You want one that bucks. You want one buck, one that twists, kicks high.

• 35:09Speaker 03

  Uh.

• 35:10Speaker 05

  Uh, uh, that's what you want.

• 35:12Speaker 03

  Okay.

• 35:13Speaker 05

  You want a cowboy to get a good score on him. So if you have a bull and every time he goes out, you know, the cowboys are getting eighty-five and a half, eighty-six it up on him. I mean, that's good bull.

• 35:23Speaker 03

  Okay.

• 35:23Speaker 05

  Um, uh, you know, and I just started learning about that process of it. I was just, I just loved it and, but then I started learning about it and I met a guy here, uh, my partner AJ, AJ Moss. When my boy started, my boy came to me one day and said, I want to ride bucking bulls.

• 35:39Speaker 03

  Good.

• 35:40Speaker 05

  And I'm like, man, that's unbelievable. Here's this kid. I put in, I got a whole facility for sports. I got a basketball court and I got, you know, I got, I got, I got a drop down net for hitting balls. Cause I said, my kid's gonna, come in here and bring all his friends and they're gonna, that, that I'll know where my kid is at all the time because they'll be over here playing sports. Never played sports.

• 36:01Speaker 03

  Uh huh.

• 36:02Speaker 05

  And then one day he went, and he's athletic, very athletic.

• 36:04Speaker 03

  He was looking off to the other end of the property.

• 36:06Speaker 05

  Yeah, he was. And then he came up to me and he had been going to bull ride since he was a kid. Said he wanted to bull ride. So I said, okay, so I wanted to do it safely.

• 36:16Speaker 03

  Uh huh.

• 36:16Speaker 05

  Cause that's a tough sport. You gotta be safe. And I didn't know who around there, how to get him started or anything. So I called, uh, uh, I called my buddy, uh, Cody Lambert, who started the PBR.

• 36:31Speaker 03

  Mm hmm.

• 36:32Speaker 05

  Told him he wanted to ride bulls. And he said, ah, you know, a lot of these kids, try to do it, make them look tough or get girls. He goes, it's a dangerous sport. You can get permanently crippled.

• 36:44Speaker 03

  Well, he was just, well.

• 36:45Speaker 05

  Yeah. So I, he said, I'll tell you what. He says, tell you what, Dan, how tall is he? How, how big is he? I says, he's, he's right now, he's five, six, about a buck seventeen. He goes, well, he's right in the prime.

• 36:59Speaker 03

  Yeah.

• 36:59Speaker 05

  He says, I thought he was gonna be a big fat guy like you. I'm like, come on, Cody. So he goes, I'll tell you what, bring him down. He says, bring him down to me for three days.

• 37:08Speaker 03

  Uh huh.

• 37:08Speaker 05

  Give him to me for three days. I'll find out if he wants to bull ride or not. So right then I'm thinking, oh boy, here we go. And he came up to me and said he liked him. He reminded him of his grandson, had a kind heart. Uh, he saw some talent in him.

• 37:24Speaker 03

  Mm hmm.

• 37:25Speaker 05

  He said, you know, these kids that they want to do it and can't stop them. They're gonna do it without you, you know, when it's, when it's turn eighteen, they're gonna go do it.

• 37:33Speaker 03

  Mm hmm.

• 37:34Speaker 05

  So if they're gonna do it, just find a place and do it safe. Get him on steers and slowly move up. I said, okay. So there was really, uh, I met this guy AJ Moss and I found, he had bucking bulls. He had a bull in the PBR like me. I'm trying to shorten this story.

• 37:49Speaker 03

  Hmm.

• 37:50Speaker 05

  So I met AJ and I took Wyatt out to AJ and, uh, he got on his first steer. And that's when I started saying, you know what? Why am I driving all the way out here?

• 38:01Speaker 03

  Yeah.

• 38:01Speaker 05

  I just put my own bull riding ring in. So I called Eddie Preford up. Eddie Preford cut me a pretty good deal on, uh, I bought the two thousand and, two thousand and four, no two, I bought the two thousand twenty-four PBR, uh, bucking shoots that they had in the world finals.

• 38:20Speaker 03

  Okay. So you got those instead of the ur, the University of Nebraska urinals.

• 38:24Speaker 05

  Yeah, I bought four of those and I bought that. And every time we buck, we get two, uh, I always get two professional bullfighters and I get two EMTs.

• 38:34Speaker 03

  Okay.

• 38:34Speaker 05

  And so it's invite only kids that are serious about bull riding that have done it and they want to come get on good stock. We have fifty bulls that range from beginner all the way up to nasty.

• 38:45Speaker 03

  But you, you personally, you don't get on those.

• 38:47Speaker 05

  No, I'm too old. Are you kidding me? Remember?

• 38:51Speaker 03

  Well, yeah.

• 38:51Speaker 05

  I remember almost something come out of my butt, play softball.

• 38:54Speaker 03

  I got you. I didn't know if there's like a version, I didn't know if there's a bull riding version. That's like a, like a, like a, for, for older fellers.

• 39:03Speaker 05

  Hmm.

• 39:04Speaker 03

  Do you know what I mean? Like so, so I'm.

• 39:05Speaker 05

  Your wife.

• 39:06Speaker 03

  If I'm fifty.

• 39:12Speaker 05

  I mean, no, you don't want to get on those things. They'll kill you, man.

• 39:17Speaker 06

  You don't ride them, but I assume you name them.

• 39:19Speaker 05

  We name them. It's fun.

• 39:21Speaker 06

  Do you pick the names?

• 39:22Speaker 05

  I picked the names.

• 39:22Speaker 06

  What's the best name you've come up with?

• 39:24Speaker 05

  Right now, my favorite name is the villain from Urban Cowboy.

• 39:28Speaker 06

  Okay.

• 39:29Speaker 05

  Um, uh, oh, Wes Hightower.

• 39:32Speaker 06

  Is that the whole name?

• 39:33Speaker 05

  Yeah.

• 39:33Speaker 06

  The villain from.

• 39:34Speaker 05

  Bull named Wes Hightower and he is awesome.

• 39:37Speaker 06

  Okay.

• 39:37Speaker 05

  Yeah. He actually got in his first NFR rodeo. Uh, I put on an extreme bull. So, part of, I asked, I said, look, if I'm gonna pay, put it, put it on, I want to get some bulls in it. So they let me bring a couple bulls. So, I got Wes Hightower, boom. He had that guy off two seconds. It was awesome. But it's fun, you know? I'm learning about it more and more myself. Uh, all, all our bulls are at my buddies because he's got the facilities for the bulls and he's got the bull. But we buy bulls together and, and, uh, it's fun, man.

• 40:08Speaker 03

  And then you lease, you lease those out to rodeos or you sell them out?

• 40:12Speaker 05

  Yeah, that's pretty much how they do it. There'll be a rodeo. You want to be a contractor with good bulls.

• 40:16Speaker 03

  Yeah.

• 40:17Speaker 05

  If you have good bulls, they'll know that you have good bulls and they'll go, hey, you know what? Call, blah, blah, call, uh, Whitney Moss, bucking bulls and get their bulls out here.

• 40:27Speaker 03

  And then could you, are you to the point now where you can look at one and know he's good just looking at him?

• 40:31Speaker 05

  No, you never know.

• 40:32Speaker 03

  Or you don't, cause you can't tell by looking.

• 40:34Speaker 05

  You don't know at all. You can look at one and go, when you buy them, sometimes you buy them and they go, look, these are bucked a few times. There's three good ones, one bad. You gotta take a chance. Sometimes you don't know. You see what they're bred to, who they were bred to.

• 40:48Speaker 03

  Hmm.

• 40:49Speaker 05

  Sometimes you go to the sale barn and you'll buy a bull and all of a sudden he's a great bucking bull. You just got a, a bull for, you know, cheaply.

• 40:57Speaker 03

  I see.

• 40:58Speaker 05

  You never know. It's like, the best we've done so far is we bought four bulls from Colorado from a guy, five grand each.

• 41:05Speaker 03

  Okay.

• 41:06Speaker 05

  So we split it, ten grand each. And one of them has won four bucking bull futurities for yearlings. And we got offered fifty grand for it.

• 41:15Speaker 03

  Uh, there you go.

• 41:15Speaker 05

  So, you know, it's like Austin Dillon does it too in auto racing. Austin Dillon, I call him every now and then. I called him actually when he locked out. He bought these buckable because he's getting into it too, and he loves it. Uh, and, uh, he bought one, put it in the futurity, won a hundred thousand dollars.

• 41:33Speaker 03

  Damn.

• 41:33Speaker 05

  I know. It's, you know, it's the way it is. Look at that. So it's fun. It's a fun thing to do. It's a hobby for me. I don't make any money at it. I don't really, that's not why I do it. And when I did it, I told my wife, I'm gonna budget this mu, here's how much money I could waste on this. And I'm just gonna have a good time doing it. And, you know, uh, and it's fun to do. And, what I really, what we try to pride ourselves in is those bulls that are really rough in the shoots. Cause some of the most dangerous bull riding is in the shoots.

• 42:08Speaker 03

  Hmm.

• 42:09Speaker 05

  Shoot procedure, you need to know, cause that's the shoot procedure and the get off. Once the ride's over, you really got to learn. Those are the two most dangerous things. The ride's fun if you're riding, right? So shoot procedure, but you see those bulls try to jump out and they'll rear and they'll buck and they'll snort and they'll. We try to, we try to get ones that are dice and gentle in the chute.

• 42:32Speaker 03

  Got it.

• 42:32Speaker 05

  And then you open the door and they're, uh, open the chute and they go nuts. So, you know, when we train them, we run them through, get used to what they're doing. We run them through as many times and we feel really ready for a, like a dummy to put on them. We'll put a dummy on them.

• 42:45Speaker 03

  Oh.

• 42:46Speaker 05

  And then you put cowboys on them. But, you know, we don't have a lot of really crazy ones in the shoots. Most of ours are pretty good in the shoots. So I'm, I'm happy with that.

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• 44:25Speaker 06

  We gotta talk about some of the foundational Larry the Cable Guy stuff.

• 44:29Speaker 05

  Absolutely.

• 44:29Speaker 06

  Fish hook on the hat. Where did that come from? Do you ever use it?

• 44:32Speaker 05

  The fish hook on the-

• 44:33Speaker 03

  Did you invent that?

• 44:34Speaker 05

  No, the fish hook on the hat was when I was a kid growing up. They were, most of the kids, you know, we grew up on farms. So it was just, it just was a symbol for outdoorsy.

• 44:46Speaker 03

  But it was, that was pre-clip though. That was a-

• 44:49Speaker 05

  Yeah, you made your own.

• 44:50Speaker 03

  Yeah, that was a hook, hooked in your hat.

• 44:51Speaker 05

  Yeah, we made our own clips. It was all-

• 44:53Speaker 03

  Oh, so you did, you did mount them on a clip?

• 44:55Speaker 05

  Yeah.

• 44:55Speaker 03

  You didn't just jam it under the thread?

• 44:57Speaker 05

  Yeah, you made your own. You had a rail hook and made your own clip. Then Eagle Claw came out and they knew kids were doing it, so they did it themselves. But it was always, that's just what we did. Who started it? I have no idea.

• 45:10Speaker 06

  I feel like you made it popular though. Like you should take some real credit for that.

• 45:13Speaker 05

  Yeah, maybe, you know, I could have, but I remember when I was a kid, you know, all, a lot of the farm kids, a lot of the, did it. And it signified that back then, if you were fishing a lot, you were a kid that fished.

• 45:26Speaker 03

  What were you guys fishing for back then? Catfish?

• 45:28Speaker 05

  Oh, man, bullheads, bullheads, carp, city ponds, cricks, you know, anything.

• 45:35Speaker 03

  Anything you could get on.

• 45:36Speaker 05

  Yeah.

• 45:37Speaker 06

  Yeah, what about get it done? Where'd that come from?

• 45:39Speaker 05

  Get it done. When I was a kid, we'd go to my grandpa's house. So I was probably four, five, four, five years old, but my grandpa, uh, he'd always say, we get in the pickup truck and he'd either go get gas or go check the cows. And it was, let's go, let's get to getting. And then, uh, get it done. We gotta go get it done. Let's go. We're gonna get to getting. So those phrases were always in my head. I didn't think much of it. But when I did, I, when I started, uh, I started doing Larry the Cable Guy on stage as just a little funny three-minute bit. Cause I always did voices and characters. It was fun.

• 46:21Speaker 03

  Like you would go from your, in a normal set, you'd jump in to be in Larry.

• 46:25Speaker 05

  I'd go, hey, this guy ever come over to your house? Hi, hi, uh, did you order cable?

• 46:32Speaker 05

  That guy was somebody's order, try my period. Cause we ain't here for no reason. What's your house number? 2070. Oh, that gummit. This is 2614. We way off. You know, that kind of thing. Hey, Pedro, Pedro.

• 46:47Speaker 03

  And then you'd go back out of it into your-

• 46:49Speaker 05

  Yeah, and then they would laugh and then I'd just go back into a regular routine.

• 46:54Speaker 03

  Yeah.

• 46:54Speaker 05

  But a buddy of mine saw that, his name is Ron Bennet, and he saw, we were really good friends back in the day. And, uh, and, uh, he had a morning show in Tampa.

• 47:03Speaker 03

  Hmm.

• 47:04Speaker 05

  Uh, called the Ron and Ron Show. And so he said, man, we need characters over there. One night at the Comedy Corner in West Palm Beach, we got to talk and laugh and have fun. You should call our show and do that character. That's so funny. So I remember I called up and I didn't even have a name. I used to call them and go, hey. I remember when I called, uh, hello, D I Z or, uh, Y and F. Hey, y'all want me, I literally started like this. Hey, boys. Y'all want me to do that hook up today or you want me to wait till tomorrow?

• 47:37Speaker 05

  Well, we're on here right now. Oh, shoot, yes. That gummit. I, I, no, no, who is this? It's Cable Guy. Oh, yeah, Ronnie, remember we wanted to put cable in? Oh, yeah, Cable Guy, well, what's your name? Larry. The first thing I thought of was my buddy with his belt with Larry on the back, right? And so I just said Larry and the rest is radio history. I'm not lying. God is good. That's how it works.

• 48:03Speaker 06

  Are there some characters who didn't survive?

• 48:06Speaker 05

  Oh, yeah. Well, I did an old lady from Boca Raton.

• 48:12Speaker 03

  What the-

• 48:12Speaker 05

  Her name was Rose. Sometimes it was Rose, sometimes it was Iris. This is Iris. Hello? I love your program. We've been listening down here in Boca. Just a wonderful program. My husband is in the hospital. He drove the truck through Publix. You know, just that, you know, cause you had that just down there. And then there was-

• 48:35Speaker 03

  That doesn't have the range.

• 48:36Speaker 05

  There was, there was, oh, man, there was like, I love your show. You know, just all kinds of stuff. So I would, when I would go into a morning show, I was part of a morning show down in Orlando. I would keep a phone there.

• 48:48Speaker 03

  Hmm.

• 48:49Speaker 05

  And alls I did was pick it up and the, and the main line would ring. And so he, hey, we're getting a call. And then my buddy would pick it up, you know, and I'd be like, hey, that last caller, I agree with him. You know, and I would just do voices. It was fun. And you know what's crazy about that? The first time I was on Jimmy Kimmel, uh, we went to a commercial, he goes, hey, you don't know this, but you and I started pretty much the same way. I go, what do you mean? He goes, well, you were doing characters on 95 Y and F, right? In Tampa? I go, yeah. He goes, huh, so funny. I literally was calling the radio station across the street.

• 49:27Speaker 03

  Wow.

• 49:28Speaker 05

  Doing characters for that radio station.

• 49:30Speaker 03

  Oh, seriously?

• 49:31Speaker 05

  I'm like, no way, really? And I was recently on Adam Corolla's show and Adam says, yeah, you know, me and, uh, me and, uh, and, and Jimmy, we used to call radio stations and do characters. So we all kind of started the same way. I'm like, wow, that's crazy. I had no idea. But yeah, that's pretty much how it started.

• 49:49Speaker 03

  We got a, we got a guy we work with, uh, dear friend of mine and longtime colleague. And as he gets older, he's, he's taken, he's gone through two transitions where he's taken to running 100-mile races through the mountains.

• 50:02Speaker 05

  Right.

• 50:03Speaker 03

  And somehow, I feel like it's related, but maybe not, he's begun to go sleeveless.

• 50:08Speaker 05

  Yeah.

• 50:09Speaker 03

  Okay.

• 50:09Speaker 05

  Best way to go.

• 50:10Speaker 03

  Now, if you like, if you imagine, like, if you're gonna provide advice to a guy going sleeveless, late 40s, going sleeveless.

• 50:21Speaker 05

  Yeah.

• 50:22Speaker 03

  What do you, what are some of the mistakes a guy like that could make? What are some of the wins you could have?

• 50:27Speaker 05

  Well, go sleeveless is the greatest thing you'll ever do in your life.

• 50:30Speaker 03

  Wow.

• 50:32Speaker 05

  My going sleeveless, uh, as far as stage was an accident.

• 50:37Speaker 03

  You just forgot your sleeve?

• 50:38Speaker 05

  No, it was an accident because I did wear, uh, I moved to Florida.

• 50:44Speaker 03

  Uh huh.

• 50:45Speaker 05

  So I wore sleeveless T-shirts and, cause it's hot and humid all the time.

• 50:51Speaker 03

  Yeah.

• 50:51Speaker 05

  I'd only wear sleeves if I was going, I'd go to school or had to do, you know? Uh, and then when I did stand-up, that's when I'd go on stage in a flannel shirt.

• 51:02Speaker 03

  Okay.

• 51:03Speaker 05

  Okay.

• 51:04Speaker 03

  You'd get dressed up.

• 51:05Speaker 05

  And I picked flannel shirt because it hangs, you know, I'm, I'm not like best shape guy. I was a lot thinner then, but.

• 51:13Speaker 03

  Yeah.

• 51:14Speaker 05

  I wasn't fat. I was, you know, big bone. But that shirt, a flannel shirt really hangs nice.

• 51:22Speaker 03

  Got it.

• 51:23Speaker 05

  Looks good. Makes your butt look, the flannel shirt-

• 51:26Speaker 03

  So you were thinking about your like, your svelte appearance.

• 51:29Speaker 05

  I was, yeah, I was 30 years old.

• 51:31Speaker 03

  Yeah.

• 51:31Speaker 05

  So whatever I was. Uh, well, you know, they just looked good.

• 51:35Speaker 03

  I understand, yeah.

• 51:36Speaker 05

  Well, I did wear sleeves, but when it was summertime, I wouldn't. I would wear no sleeves. Cause then the summer was hot, I didn't wear sleeves. So when I would travel around the country, it was cold, I'd put sleeves on.

• 51:46Speaker 03

  Got it.

• 51:47Speaker 05

  Well, we just so happened to film Blue Collar TV, the first one, and it was flipping hot. It was in Phoenix and I had no sleeves on. I said, I'm putting my other shirt on this. I knew it was TV taping, so I went to look, like, you know, I'm not wearing sleeves. So I didn't wear sleeves. So every time I did a show after that, people would go, if I had sleeves, they'd go, dude, we wore a shirt with no sleeves. Where's your, you got sleeves? Well, I'll go change. So I'd go change, you know? So I just went sleeveless on stage. I had, but going sleeveless is the greatest free thing of all time.

• 52:21Speaker 06

  You're a good ambassador for the lifestyle.

• 52:22Speaker 05

  And the only, here's the thing about it, there's really no rule to it. You just wanna, you don't get one that's too tight, cause it, that's-

• 52:31Speaker 03

  That's a whole different look, man.

• 52:32Speaker 05

  It defeats the whole purpose of the sleeveless.

• 52:34Speaker 03

  That's a whole different look.

• 52:35Speaker 05

  Sleeveless shirt hangs and is comfortable, cause it's not touching your sides. You're free with your arms and it's, uh, you know, you, and you have two different sleeveless looks. You have the sleeveless shirt, shorts look for the spring and summer. And then once it turns cold in the fall and the winter, you have your sleeveless shirt and your, um, uh-

• 53:05Speaker 05

  Warmer shorts. You know what I mean? You're baggy, you're the more material. Every fat guy's got a thick pair of shorts and a non-thick pair of shorts for when the weather changes.

• 53:20Speaker 05

  He always wear the same.

• 53:23Speaker 06

  Where are we at right now in the calendar? It's October.

• 53:25Speaker 03

  He's hot weather, he's hot weather sleeveless right now.

• 53:28Speaker 05

  Yeah, right now I'm hot weather sleeveless. I'm kind of a cool, yeah. I wore, now I wore sleeves up here. Cause there's kids down there. So as soon as I walk by and I hear, hey, there's Mater, then I'm stuck. So I zipped up here.

• 53:41Speaker 03

  So for you to go incognito is to have sleeves.

• 53:44Speaker 05

  Yes. For me to not get recognized, I gotta dress with sleeves.

• 53:49Speaker 03

  Cause a lot of guys go sleeveless to get recognized, but you gotta go sleeves. You gotta go sleeves for the under the radar.

• 53:57Speaker 05

  I wear sleeves to not get recognized. And you know, it's really funny. One time I wanted to go, when we were on the road, in my heyday, when we were doing, you know, arenas, I mean Nate Bargatze crap, we all did it. You know, and uh, but back in those days. I remember I wanted to go out to eat, my wife was there and we're all out on the buses and, and they were going to this really good restaurant and I'm like, I mean, I literally couldn't go anywhere. I mean, it was crazy.

• 54:27Speaker 03

  Oh, yeah.

• 54:27Speaker 05

  In two thousand five, six and seven and it was nuts, you know, and then uh, so, my buddy goes, hey, you should buy the jogging suit they bought you for a joke. I go, what? Yeah, it's a good idea. So somebody, who was, bought me a Nike, full jogging suit, like you'd see a mobster wear back in the day, you know? So I put on the mobster jogging suit and I had my hat on backwards and a pair of sunglasses. And we go to this restaurant, we're waiting in line, just waiting in line. Nobody's saying, this is great. I look like an idiot, but this is great.

• 55:08Speaker 06

  As opposed to normally, you don't look like an idiot. The other days.

• 55:12Speaker 03

  Looks like a brilliant young guy normally.

• 55:14Speaker 05

  You know, just for that, I'm farting on the set right now, just cause you said that.

• 55:18Speaker 03

  I'll sit the guy.

• 55:19Speaker 05

  Some guy goes, hold on, some guy in front of me nudges me and goes, you Larry the Cable Guy? And I go,

• 55:31Speaker 05

  yeah, don't tell anybody. He goes, what do you wear next? I was trying not to get recognized. He goes, well, take it off, you look like an idiot. I said, I agree. And then we both laughed and that was it.

• 55:48Speaker 03

  I don't, see, I was gonna tell you about it, I was gonna tell you about a public figure. And what they do when they're, I can't do it. A public figure the other day was sharing with me a very simple move he does to never get recognized.

• 56:04Speaker 05

  Yeah.

• 56:04Speaker 03

  When he's out and about, but I, uh, go on.

• 56:07Speaker 05

  Act like you pee.

• 56:08Speaker 03

  I don't wanna blow his deal, you know?

• 56:10Speaker 05

  Oh, wax like he pees his pants or something. Yeah. Brian Haley, my buddy Brian Haley, a comedian, so funny, he looks like Max Headren. He used to do a joke about walking at home after comedy clubs in bad parts of town. He goes, I found a way that they'll never bother you. First thing you do is you wet your pants. And then you walk home like this, he started doing high kicks going ding dong, ding dong. He goes, they'll never come near you.

• 56:36Speaker 06

  Kept him away. Uh, Dan, I used to watch your show Only in America on, on History Channel.

• 56:42Speaker 05

  Uh, good show.

• 56:43Speaker 06

  The thing I was most jealous of, you got to do so much cool stuff.

• 56:46Speaker 05

  Oh, it's unbelievable.

• 56:46Speaker 06

  Uh, I felt like I saw you break character one time because you were so giddy. When you were with some game wardens in Alaska who set up a moose decoy off the highway. And then you saw somebody shoot it.

• 56:58Speaker 05

  Yeah, one of my favorite episodes. Alaska was awesome, but we set this decoy up and it was the dumbest looking decoy. And I'm thinking, there's no way.

• 57:08Speaker 03

  Yeah, yeah.

• 57:09Speaker 05

  Somebody's gonna think this, and of course, the guy I was with was kinda goofy himself, the game word guy. So he's fun, you know? So we set this thing up and I'm making jokes like, yeah, nobody's, I mean, look at this, it looks like, it was the dumbest thing you've ever seen, right on the side of the road. Well, first of all, now we have to go sit. So we sit in the guy's car. Waiting for somebody to shoot this stupid thing. And by gosh, people were driving then slowed down.

• 57:35Speaker 06

  Mm-hmm.

• 57:35Speaker 05

  You see, oh no, they're going by. So after about the fifteenth car that slowed down, I go, I told you they're not gonna believe that's the dumbest thing I ever seen in my life. I look and some guy stops, gets out of his truck and we see him pulling a rifle out. And I go, you gotta be kidding me. Really, this guy? And he goes, you hear, he goes, he shot, let's go.

• 58:05Speaker 05

  The car,

• 58:08Speaker 05

  the car won't start. And I'm like, well, this has to be the dumbest thing I've ever been on in my life. We finally get it started, we go down there, yeah. And the guy actually, cause they can do that down there. You can shoot, you, on the side of the road, if you see one, you just gotta make sure you're on the side of the road safely.

• 58:26Speaker 03

  Can't shoot from across or whatever the road.

• 58:28Speaker 05

  No, because they live on that. They are all appointed, they all can get one per family, I guess, and something like that. And so then we went down there, but I thought the funniest part of the whole thing was, we let him go. Just give him a warning, cause we're doing the show. And I go, later on, Robert was, later on, Robert was seen down at the JCPenney's hitting on a mannequin.

• 58:52Speaker 06

  I'm impressed you never forget a joke.

• 58:54Speaker 05

  No, cause that was funny.

• 58:56Speaker 06

  You know him all.

• 58:56Speaker 05

  I'll never forget that, that that guy shot at that stupid.

• 59:01Speaker 03

  Dude, they got sophisticated ones. Now, we, we interviewed a guy in Idaho that worked on that program.

• 59:05Speaker 05

  Right.

• 59:06Speaker 03

  And they got him to turn their head now. He was telling me that you can't use too big of a buck. If you use a giant buck, it enters into this whole like, basically like entrapment, or you've created a, a, a situation of just outstanding circumstance. That no sane person, right? Would be able to resist, so you need to use a more modest buck.

• 59:33Speaker 05

  Wow, wow.

• 59:34Speaker 03

  But I can't remember if that was, I need to go revisit why exactly that was, cause I'd put a huge buck and I'd get all the guys driving by.

• 59:41Speaker 05

  Right.

• 59:41Speaker 03

  You get every guy that drove by.

• 59:43Speaker 05

  Oh, yeah.

• 59:43Speaker 06

  Dan's episode had a big, big bull moose, but you could see like where the neck met the body. It was like, and, and I think, I remember somebody even pulling over to your vehicle and being like, did you guys know there's a mannequin in the woods over there? Like it was, it was that obvious to some.

• 59:58Speaker 05

  It was, it was so, but it made for a funny show.

• 1:00:01Speaker 06

  Yeah.

• 1:00:02Speaker 05

  That was the point of the show.

• 1:00:04Speaker 06

  Uh, I, I also loved Larry the Cable Guy roast on Comedy Central. It was one of the most watched ones they've ever had. Who do you think did the best job of roasting you?

• 1:00:12Speaker 05

  Oh man, that was uh,

• 1:00:16Speaker 05

  they were all good.

• 1:00:18Speaker 06

  Was there anybody who was too mean?

• 1:00:21Speaker 03

  Yeah, that's gotta be a hard position to be in, man. Getting roasted by people that are good at roasting.

• 1:00:25Speaker 05

  Greg Giraldo was mean, but you gotta understand, when I did that roast, I was the number one guy.

• 1:00:30Speaker 06

  Yeah.

• 1:00:31Speaker 05

  So the number one guy's always the target. You know, especially a one liner guy like me and, you know, doing a character and, you know, like Scott Tom, like Carrot Top. Carrot Top's been a punching bag forever.

• 1:00:44Speaker 03

  Oh, yeah.

• 1:00:45Speaker 05

  And Carrot Top is hilarious, he's clever, one of the nicest comics in the world. But you know, people take pot shots. So that was when I was, so yeah, some of the, so there was a couple of roasters that they, matter of fact, Greg Giraldo came up to me after the podcast backstage.

• 1:01:01Speaker 03

  Yeah.

• 1:01:02Speaker 05

  And he goes, he literally said, he goes, hey Dan, I hope, you look, um, I, I hope you're not mad at some of those jokes and I just, uh, but, you know, and I'm not mad at you, I'm mad at myself. Because I'm, I should be one of the guys, I should be getting roasted, I should have the career you have.

• 1:01:22Speaker 06

  Wow.

• 1:01:23Speaker 05

  But I don't have, because of myself, because I can't, as I, I do this and I do that and I know I shouldn't do. He was just going into his life, basically. And so he goes, so I hope you're not, I, I don't wanna, look, you're a nice guy and I don't hope you're not mad at me, but, when I was venting up there, I was more venting at myself than I was at you. I say, Greg, I know what it is, it's a roast, man. I can take a joke, I get it, no hard feelings, I was laughing, it's all good. So, so it was.

• 1:01:54Speaker 06

  It's an awkward ending though.

• 1:01:54Speaker 05

  It was good, well, it was good. I mean, I knew I was gonna get it from a couple of those guys, but, if you're gonna be a comedian, you gotta take it. I'm, I don't really, but I'm never, like, all my stuff is just nonsense stuff. I don't really pound or bag other comedians or anything.

• 1:02:10Speaker 03

  Sure, yeah.

• 1:02:10Speaker 05

  You know, um, but I think Jeff was, I, I'm always gonna say Jeff, cause Jeff is like my adopted older brother. But Jeff was classy and he was funny and he was clever and that was what I wanted. That was good, you know? Toby did a good job, Toby Keith. The thing about that was, I knew what they were like. And I didn't want my mom watching.

• 1:02:33Speaker 03

  Oh.

• 1:02:34Speaker 05

  So I requested certain comedians that I wanted. And I wanted it PG thirteen. I said, I wanna do a throwback to the Dean Martin roasts.

• 1:02:45Speaker 03

  Yeah.

• 1:02:46Speaker 05

  Cause I grew up with the Dean Martin roasts. So Jeff and I, Dan Marino, and Dan Marino had to end up canceling out and, and then of course, uh, Marsha Bray, Maureen McCormick was there. I didn't ask for Maureen McCormick and Greg Giraldo, the guy to have, cause he's always there and, uh, uh, Jeff Ross, who's a buddy of mine, I love Jeff, I'm glad Jeff was, but then a few people that I didn't was, like Warren Sapp. I know Warren, I didn't invite Warren, but Dan Marino couldn't make it, so Warren Sapp took his place. Which was nice, I love, you know, I know him, so he wanted to do it, cause I knew him.

• 1:03:22Speaker 06

  And did your mom watch it?

• 1:03:23Speaker 05

  Uh, I don't think so, I told her not to.

• 1:03:26Speaker 06

  Okay.

• 1:03:26Speaker 05

  I felt bad after I did it, you know?

• 1:03:29Speaker 03

  Oh, it's gotta be the, I, I can't imagine you going in a situation like that.

• 1:03:33Speaker 05

  And I'll tell you what, and I'm not a mean, like, so they, you know, they write you jokes. And then you, if you wanna come up with some, you can, but there's so many people, so I just relied on, um, uh, I take that back. I did the Warren Sapp one I did where I said it was Toby Keith and it was, I forget it was Toby Keith and who was the other?

• 1:04:01Speaker 05

  I can't remember. There was Toby somebody in Warren Sapp. I go, man, they brought all the stars out tonight. Toby Keith and blah, blah, blah. And look at that, Aretha Franklin. Remember I did that. But I felt bad because they wrote, they had a joke and I saw some of them I saw for the first time. I go, hey, it's nice to have Marsha Brady here. Man, Marsha Brady, I was in love with you when I was a kid. You were so beautiful. What happened? You know, everybody laughed. And in my head, I'm going, man, that's so mean. I like her. She's a nice girl. She's, you know, then she went up and hammered me. Then I'm like, you know, screw her.

• 1:04:36Speaker 03

  Yeah, you got the first shot, yeah.

• 1:04:37Speaker 05

  Well, yeah, but I didn't, I felt bad doing that. I like Maureen McCorr. They had me doing these, some of them. And then after that, they just got real hateful. The Rose really got hateful and mean. You know, when I did it, they were still pretty lighthearted. But man, they started getting really hateful.

• 1:04:55Speaker 03

  Be uncomfortable.

• 1:04:56Speaker 05

  Well, I will say, I was uncomfortable doing those about Maureen McCormick. Cause I really, she was like, you know, I don't get starstruck by people except for people that I grew up as a little kid. And I always liked the Brady Funch. I always liked Maureen McCormick. Here I am bashing her because, you know, she's older and doesn't look like she used to look. And that's horrible.

• 1:05:20Speaker 03

  Yeah, no, I understand.

• 1:05:21Speaker 05

  Not even funny.

• 1:05:22Speaker 03

  I understand.

• 1:05:23Speaker 05

  But I did it.

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• 1:06:55Speaker 03

  Tell me about what you're working on now. Like, I know you got this American Mayhem deal coming out. What's that all about?

• 1:06:59Speaker 05

  Yeah, American Mayhem is cool. It's shit. You know what? It's just in the vein of America's Funniest Home Videos. It's just, it's videos that kind of are geared kind of toward me, you know? Lot of fallen, lot of outdoorsy, lot of rural, lot of blue collar type stuff. Lot of, hey, y'all, watch this type stuff. And I host it. And then they show the videos. There's another guy on there talking about, you know, saying what's happening. And then there's one, there's that thing called Larry's People, where I pick my three favorites. Because these are my people. I hang out with these people.

• 1:07:40Speaker 05

  And so I narrate those. And then I close it out. So it's just, it's just me, green screen, and showing funny videos.

• 1:07:48Speaker 03

  And you're doing, you're doing a boatload of those.

• 1:07:50Speaker 05

  We already did. We shot 52 episodes. So there'll be one a week now for the next 52 weeks. And yeah, I mean, it's going all over the country. You never know how it's gonna go because I premiered, you know, in September when football started. So it's like, you know, hey, our team's playing. Yeah, but hold on, Larry's on. You gotta have a, let's see Larry for a half hour. We'll go back to the first quarter. But they, I think they air me now. It's at all different times, but generally I'm aired a half an hour before a football game starts.

• 1:08:24Speaker 03

  Get people warmed up.

• 1:08:25Speaker 05

  Generally, that's how it works.

• 1:08:27Speaker 03

  And what, and you, you got more stuff in the cars world, right? I gotta, I gotta tell you too, like, I, so I've always known your stand-up. But, but to be the role that you took on in my household, because I, so I have 11, 13, 16.

• 1:08:48Speaker 05

  Oh, yeah. You're right there.

• 1:08:49Speaker 03

  Like, listen, like, I don't want to butter you up too much. The Tomater stuff is genius. I mean, like, it's just like a genius, yeah, just like an execution of a character. But to be like, 11, 13, 16, the role that Tomater had.

• 1:09:07Speaker 05

  Oh, that's so awesome.

• 1:09:08Speaker 03

  In my household, it's like, Tomater has said more words in my household than I have.

• 1:09:12Speaker 05

  Yeah. Oh, man. I'm, I'm blown away.

• 1:09:16Speaker 03

  Huge favorite of our kids, man.

• 1:09:18Speaker 05

  I am blown away by that whole thing. I'm so thankful. I mean, I would have never thought in a million years, you know, but it just continues to go and.

• 1:09:27Speaker 03

  Oh, just like, it just makes people happy.

• 1:09:29Speaker 05

  Yeah. And I did, I did it right. You know, I'm not, look, I'm not Hollywood at all. I don't live out there. I don't like, so when they said, I was proud of it. I was proud of Mater breathing life into that little truck. It's fun. And it's close to my personality. It's my personality, really. I'm just being me in that thing, but faking the accent. But it's just like, man, that, I would have never thought that it turned into what it turned into. Who would have thought that in a million? So I always do, when they ask me, like, they'll ask the guys, well, there's video games and toys.

• 1:10:04Speaker 03

  Gotcha.

• 1:10:04Speaker 05

  And they'll say, do you want to voice these? Doesn't pay much, but this is what they're paying. And then, oh, I'm not gonna do it, you know? I'll do it. I don't want nobody else doing Mater.

• 1:10:17Speaker 03

  Yeah, I can imagine, man. It'd be like when they got like, remember when you were a kid and they switched Bo and Luke Duke out for those cousins?

• 1:10:23Speaker 05

  Yeah.

• 1:10:24Speaker 03

  Vance and whatever the hell.

• 1:10:25Speaker 05

  That didn't work.

• 1:10:25Speaker 03

  Oh, my God. Yeah, you can't have some other dude doing Tomater.

• 1:10:29Speaker 05

  Good luck getting anybody that sounds like me. It's a hard deal, you know? So I have done every toy, every game, every video game, every commercial, anything where Mater is talking is me. Other than the foreign films, you know?

• 1:10:45Speaker 05

  I've done all those things. And so even if they wanted to get somebody else to do it, you would know. Because you would know. Because I have certain inflections. I have a certain sound to it. I would know. Kids would know. Kids, people that grew up with Mater and love Mater, if somebody else did it that wasn't me, they would know.

• 1:11:07Speaker 03

  Good job, security.

• 1:11:08Speaker 05

  Yeah. And, you know, and I'm not, but here's the thing. I'm not a jerk and I'm not, I like doing it. So I'm not hard to work with. I'm like, yeah, you know what? If you can get more, get more. If not, I'll do it. So, because I like doing it. It's fun for me. I like the people I work with, the people in the studio. We've done it for years. I just have a good time doing it. And it's fun. So, yeah, that thing was awesome. But the thing that sucks about it is now whenever they want me to audition to do another cartoon voice, everybody sounds like Mater.

• 1:11:41Speaker 03

  Oh, I can see that. Yeah.

• 1:11:43Speaker 05

  You know, so.

• 1:11:45Speaker 03

  I can see that, man. You typecast, you typecast.

• 1:11:47Speaker 05

  I typecast myself. I'm Newman.

• 1:11:50Speaker 03

  Hey, this isn't live, obviously.

• 1:11:53Speaker 05

  Right.

• 1:11:54Speaker 03

  So the truth will be known when this airs.

• 1:11:57Speaker 05

  Yeah.

• 1:11:58Speaker 03

  So you're in a very awkward position when I ask you, what would be the, what's the score? What's the score gonna be?

• 1:12:02Speaker 05

  Oh, of the game?

• 1:12:04Speaker 03

  Yeah.

• 1:12:04Speaker 05

  Here's the deal.

• 1:12:05Speaker 03

  So people already know that you're right or wrong.

• 1:12:08Speaker 05

  I was close last week. I was only three points off. I said we'd win 34 to 13. We won 31 to 13.

• 1:12:14Speaker 03

  Oh, dang. Wow.

• 1:12:15Speaker 05

  Yeah. So.

• 1:12:17Speaker 03

  Give me as much color, much detail as you want. And then we'll, then we'll, you'll be reality checked.

• 1:12:22Speaker 05

  Here's the deal. I've got that last 10 years in my head.

• 1:12:25Speaker 03

  The pessimism.

• 1:12:26Speaker 05

  Are we gonna blow it? Is this the day? Here's what scares me about Maryland. At the beginning of the year, they were supposedly a pretty good team. They've been tanking. They got blown out by UCLA. Some people say UCLA is the best team in the Big Ten. I don't know. It's too early.

• 1:12:47Speaker 05

  They fired their coach, Maryland.

• 1:12:49Speaker 03

  Yeah.

• 1:12:49Speaker 05

  But evidently, there was so many people that wanted him back, player wise. Okay, you're not fired, but we're gonna go game by game. And if we see improvement.

• 1:13:01Speaker 03

  Huh.

• 1:13:01Speaker 05

  So the, his team is gonna play.

• 1:13:04Speaker 03

  That's the coach's situation.

• 1:13:05Speaker 05

  Yes, so that team is gonna play really hard for that coach today. I'm gonna go, uh, forty-five to twenty-four.

• 1:13:16Speaker 03

  Wow.

• 1:13:16Speaker 05

  I think they're gonna score some points.

• 1:13:18Speaker 03

  They got a better, they got a better mascot. They got a better mascot than you guys.

• 1:13:22Speaker 05

  Don't ever say they have a better mascot than.

• 1:13:24Speaker 03

  Like a terrapin?

• 1:13:25Speaker 06

  You sound like a South Dakotan now, talking about their corn.

• 1:13:28Speaker 03

  Yeah, terrapin.

• 1:13:29Speaker 05

  Don't we eat terrapins? What is a terrapin?

• 1:13:31Speaker 03

  I never had one, but they used to be quite popular, yeah. It's like a little turtle guy, you know, I don't know, corn husker. That's what's mean.

• 1:13:37Speaker 05

  Forty-five, husking corn, that's what we do. We husk corn, because, but.

• 1:13:43Speaker 03

  But that's not like a mascot builder.

• 1:13:44Speaker 05

  We would husk more corn if our soil was better than South Dakota.

• 1:13:48Speaker 03

  It wasn't the damn sand.

• 1:13:49Speaker 05

  I change it forty-five seventeen.

• 1:13:51Speaker 03

  Okay. Okay, forty-five seventeen, there you have it. Don't, no need even go back and watch the game, that's what happened. All right, all right, thanks, man.

• 1:13:59Speaker 05

  Are we done now?

• 1:13:59Speaker 03

  We're done, you got friends coming.

• 1:14:01Speaker 05

  Hold on, I wanna talk more about that.

• 1:14:03Speaker 03

  You can talk all you want.

• 1:14:04Speaker 05

  No, I'm only kidding.

• 1:14:05Speaker 03

  I'm trying to be respectful, your time, so I know you got this whole thing is like filling up with people.

• 1:14:09Speaker 05

  What time is it?

• 1:14:10Speaker 03

  Twelve fifty. Your friends are coming at one.

• 1:14:12Speaker 05

  Well, how long is your podcast?

• 1:14:14Speaker 03

  However long we make it.

• 1:14:16Speaker 05

  Can I say one thing? Well, I don't wanna go yet.

• 1:14:19Speaker 03

  I'm trying to end it out of respect for your friends.

• 1:14:21Speaker 05

  No, no.

• 1:14:22Speaker 03

  You talk all you want.

• 1:14:23Speaker 05

  Yeah.

• 1:14:23Speaker 03

  Okay, okay.

• 1:14:24Speaker 05

  They aren't really friends.

• 1:14:25Speaker 06

  You can send your friends in at this point.

• 1:14:27Speaker 05

  I literally pay people to hang out with me.

• 1:14:29Speaker 03

  Okay, cool. So before your employees come in, no, you got as much time as you want.

• 1:14:32Speaker 05

  I wanna tell you this, because a lot of, I wanna let people know this, because some people ask me, you did. How did I come to do Larry the Cable Guy on stage?

• 1:14:41Speaker 03

  Well, you told us that.

• 1:14:43Speaker 05

  No, I just told you who get or not.

• 1:14:45Speaker 03

  Mm-hmm. No, you said that you would go into a bit.

• 1:14:49Speaker 05

  Yeah, but that's.

• 1:14:50Speaker 03

  Do a minute.

• 1:14:50Speaker 05

  Yeah, but I was Dan Whitney.

• 1:14:52Speaker 03

  Oh, okay, yeah, please.

• 1:14:54Speaker 05

  All right.

• 1:14:54Speaker 03

  I wanna hear everything, I wanna hear all this.

• 1:14:56Speaker 05

  Cause I always wanna give him credit, okay? So one day, I'm on the radio station, it's real popular, they're selling, I got it copyrighted, selling t-shirts, the whole thing.

• 1:15:07Speaker 03

  Uh-huh.

• 1:15:08Speaker 05

  My buddy.

• 1:15:09Speaker 03

  Off just the radio stuff?

• 1:15:10Speaker 05

  Yes, off the radio.

• 1:15:11Speaker 03

  Not having done it on stage?

• 1:15:12Speaker 05

  No, all off the radio.

• 1:15:14Speaker 06

  When the radio thing is happening, would you get recognized by your voice out and about in Florida or no?

• 1:15:19Speaker 05

  Uh...

• 1:15:22Speaker 05

  No, not yet, cause I'd never made a public, I'd never made a public appearance, you know?

• 1:15:26Speaker 03

  Face for radio.

• 1:15:27Speaker 05

  Right, it's just all radio, it's all theater of the mind. My buddy, Les McCurdy.

• 1:15:35Speaker 05

  McCurdy's Comedy Shop, St. Petersburg, Florida.

• 1:15:38Speaker 03

  Okay.

• 1:15:39Speaker 05

  Bills me. Now, I just left this radio station and went to another one, right? In Orlando and got syndicated. My buddy Les McCurdy goes, I show up. It's at the banquet room of the Holiday Inn, that's where his comedy club is.

• 1:15:58Speaker 03

  Okay.

• 1:15:59Speaker 05

  I can't find a place to park. What, and I'm like, what, they got, they got Shriners in town, what's going on, right? You know? So, uh, I walk in, I go, man, Les, I mean, what's going on?

• 1:16:13Speaker 03

  Uh-huh.

• 1:16:13Speaker 05

  He goes, I can't find a place to park, he goes, they're here to see you. I go, I literally, I'm a comedian, I go, what'd I do?

• 1:16:23Speaker 05

  I'm not lying.

• 1:16:24Speaker 03

  When you said he billed you, I thought you meant like he sent you a bill, like he booked you.

• 1:16:29Speaker 05

  No, he booked me, booked me.

• 1:16:30Speaker 03

  Yeah, I got it.

• 1:16:31Speaker 05

  He goes, I hope you don't mind, I know you had a falling out with that radio station, but I billed you as Dan Whitney, AKA

• 1:16:39Speaker 03

  Mm.

• 1:16:39Speaker 05

  Larry the Cable Guy from the ninety-five lineup. And I literally was like, ah, Les, what'd you do that for? Is this all theater of the mind? I don't have an act for Larry the Cable Guy. He's like, well, it's selling tickets. That's all I know.

• 1:16:58Speaker 03

  Hmm.

• 1:16:59Speaker 05

  I go, really? He goes, dude, I announced Larry the Cable Guy, right, that you do Larry the Cable Guy. I sold like six hundred tickets in like eighteen minutes.

• 1:17:10Speaker 03

  Uh-huh.

• 1:17:11Speaker 05

  You gotta be kidding me? So I go up for the first show, right? Doing good, you know, my act is real one liner goofy, doing good, but they kept yelling, get it done! Then one guy, hey, do some Larry, get it done, we wanna hear Larry!

• 1:17:28Speaker 03

  Got it, got it.

• 1:17:29Speaker 05

  So then I go, so I did a couple jokes, there's Larry. Ah, it's the funniest thing ever, right? I come back out and I can't freaking get any laughs. So I go, let me do a little bit more Larry here.

• 1:17:43Speaker 03

  So if you switch back to Dan, it would bomb.

• 1:17:45Speaker 05

  Yeah, so, well, it wouldn't bomb, but it wasn't, I, I was kill, I was doing great.

• 1:17:50Speaker 03

  But what would be, but what would be a Dan, like, let's say you're in the era where you're doing some Larry.

• 1:17:56Speaker 05

  The same jokes.

• 1:17:57Speaker 03

  Doing Larry, what, what would be a Dan joke?

• 1:17:59Speaker 05

  Same jokes.

• 1:18:02Speaker 05

  Remember that dog whisperer? That would be a Dan joke.

• 1:18:05Speaker 03

  I got it.

• 1:18:05Speaker 05

  Yeah, my sister, she's a dog whisperer, what's that, who? Ah, it's good, I don't know. That's what I would do. More, I was more physical, I would do more like hit my knee or like acting like I fell down or

• 1:18:17Speaker 03

  Okay.

• 1:18:17Speaker 05

  More of that slap sticky.

• 1:18:19Speaker 03

  Yeah, yeah, yeah.

• 1:18:20Speaker 05

  Boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom.

• 1:18:21Speaker 03

  So Larry would get, Larry would, would do better on joke than Dan.

• 1:18:25Speaker 05

  The Cable Guy did social commentaries on the radio.

• 1:18:29Speaker 03

  Uh.

• 1:18:30Speaker 05

  What the hell is this, Russia? What's going on with these damn, you know, and I would, very politically incorrect.

• 1:18:41Speaker 05

  Total Archie bunker.

• 1:18:44Speaker 03

  Yeah.

• 1:18:45Speaker 05

  Likeable, not mean, but likeable, a guy that had a point to say, but littered it with, you know, poop jokes and that like that, right, strip clubs, that kinda thing. But made a little point, like, the best compliment I ever had was a guy came and he goes, hey, I know you're trying to be funny and you're like doing these commentaries and you're putting these stupid jokes in there, but if you listen to what you're saying at the end of it, you make pretty good point.

• 1:19:16Speaker 03

  Mm.

• 1:19:17Speaker 05

  Right, that kinda thing, right? Yeah, that kinda thing, so, um, I didn't have any jokes for that, so I would just, I was doing great. Until somebody'll get it done, then I did a joke that I normally would do as Larry, and ah, doubled the laugh. And then I go back into me, I was still getting good laughs, but they wanted to hear more Larry.

• 1:19:36Speaker 03

  Yeah.

• 1:19:36Speaker 05

  So I get done, and then the next show, Les comes up to me, he goes, hey, you ever thought about doing your whole show?

• 1:19:46Speaker 03

  Mm-hmm.

• 1:19:46Speaker 05

  As Larry the Cable Guy? I go, Les, I don't wanna have an act for Larry, well, just do what you did, do your act.

• 1:19:54Speaker 03

  Switch the whole damn thing off.

• 1:19:56Speaker 05

  So what I had to do was, I was fast, fast. Larry's slow, meticulous, drawn out, you know? What took me eight seconds to tell a punchline, Larry, the character, tell the same punchline, but double the time.

• 1:20:14Speaker 03

  Mm. You don't need to have as many jokes.

• 1:20:16Speaker 06

  Good for you too, yeah.

• 1:20:17Speaker 05

  Yeah.

• 1:20:17Speaker 06

  It's economical.

• 1:20:18Speaker 05

  Yeah, exactly, like, uh, like I do a joke about it, yeah, it's playing, like, this would be one of my jokes. Man, I was playing pickleball the other day, you ever play pickleball? Oh, man, I was playing pickleball, that's why I'm walking weird, I threw out my pickle, ah, you know, and then laugh after. Larry'd be like, oh, y'all ain't play pickleball? Heck yeah, I was playing pickleball the other day and dang gum, throwing my pickle out. You believe that? Dang gum pickle, come right out the short. You know, just like that.

• 1:20:49Speaker 06

  That's better.

• 1:20:50Speaker 05

  Yeah, it, yes, it's hilarious. The way it is said makes it funny, that's what Foxworthy Ingle always said to me. Jeff would always say, I don't know why that joke's funny, it's the way you tell the joke that makes it funny.

• 1:21:03Speaker 03

  Yeah, there's a, you, you remember, um, Jerry Clower?

• 1:21:08Speaker 05

  Yes, he's awesome.

• 1:21:09Speaker 03

  Yeah, like, he's like a four bearer almost, you know?

• 1:21:11Speaker 05

  Hey, come down on, yeah.

• 1:21:13Speaker 03

  He, he had said, he, Jerry Clower had once said, I don't tell funny stories. I tell stories funny.

• 1:21:20Speaker 05

  Yes, exactly, so it's how you tell it. So he said, Les goes, can you do, can you talk like that for an hour? And I told him, I go, Les, I grew up on a dang gum pig farm in southeast Nebraska. All my friends, I went to college in Georgia, I said, all I do is hang out in country bars all the time. I can talk like a redneck all day long. I was talking like a redneck before I come here, hanging out with my buddy Brad, cause that's how he talks.

• 1:21:56Speaker 03

  Yeah.

• 1:21:56Speaker 05

  I said, hey, ain't no problem, he says, well, I'm gonna take your name off and just put Larry the Cable Guy up there. I said, all right, I'm gonna go change. And I had pants, you know, you know, I had a nice shirt, not a nice shirt, but I had a, I had a button down on, you know? And, uh, uh, I went to the car and I said, this is gonna be awesome, I don't even have to flip it, I hate dressing up.

• 1:22:19Speaker 03

  Yeah.

• 1:22:19Speaker 05

  Cause I wore sleeveless stuff.

• 1:22:21Speaker 03

  Mm.

• 1:22:21Speaker 05

  I go to the car, which by the way, if anybody thinks I'm faking it, I drove over in my car, nineteen eighty-six Trans Am with t-tops with a big old blue bird that I just was so proud I had painted on the front of it. And I changed, and I put on my lace up, ropers, pair of jeans, a Nebraska corn husker, sleeveless t-shirt.

• 1:22:43Speaker 03

  Uh-huh.

• 1:22:44Speaker 05

  And a NASCAR hat, that's exactly when I drove over.

• 1:22:49Speaker 03

  So you put your clothes back on?

• 1:22:51Speaker 05

  I put my clothes, I took off my show clothes and put my driving clothes back on.

• 1:22:56Speaker 03

  You put your uniform back on.

• 1:22:58Speaker 05

  Stage, and it was so fun, and I was making myself laugh.

• 1:23:03Speaker 06

  It's great.

• 1:23:03Speaker 05

  I never had more fun in my life doing stand-up than doing what I was doing, watching them laugh, but then adding things, cause stuff just comes to you, cause you're so into the character.

• 1:23:14Speaker 03

  Yeah.

• 1:23:15Speaker 05

  And then you're just adding stuff, and I would laugh on stage a couple times, and then I'd tell them, oh man, that's funny, I don't care who you are, I just put myself laugh on that one, and then I would write it down so I would remember, and that's how it started. I wanna tell you that's how it started, cause that's how it started, right there.

• 1:23:32Speaker 03

  What, what is it like?

• 1:23:35Speaker 03

  Let, let's take the, um, all the cars stuff, right? Like, like just hugely popular and influenced, just kid after kid after kid for the longest time, and adults. But in the title.

• 1:23:48Speaker 05

  I've got.

• 1:23:48Speaker 03

  In the title.

• 1:23:49Speaker 05

  I literally have a Milk Dud fart about to come out, I apologize, but I, it may come out, I've been trying to hold it.

• 1:23:55Speaker 06

  Is this Dan or Larry that's, uh, that's farting?

• 1:23:58Speaker 05

  No, it's Dan.

• 1:23:59Speaker 03

  Yeah.

• 1:24:00Speaker 05

  As many Milk Duds as I eat, it might be both of us.

• 1:24:05Speaker 03

  As you wrestle with that.

• 1:24:09Speaker 03

  Do you ever, if you see like in the credits, it says Larry the Cable Guy.

• 1:24:12Speaker 05

  Yeah.

• 1:24:13Speaker 03

  Is there like a degree of separation or is that just you?

• 1:24:16Speaker 05

  No, let me tell you, I'm glad that we extended this a few minutes.

• 1:24:19Speaker 03

  Yeah.

• 1:24:20Speaker 05

  That bugs me a little, but at the time, when I did Cars, I wanted Dan Whitney.

• 1:24:30Speaker 03

  You did?

• 1:24:30Speaker 05

  Yes. They wanted Larry the Cable Guy.

• 1:24:34Speaker 03

  Yeah.

• 1:24:34Speaker 05

  Name because it was a brand. At that point in my career, I was just a stand-up. I don't know about all the, the movies, all this stuff they brought to me. I didn't ask for it. They would bring it to me.

• 1:24:47Speaker 03

  Yeah.

• 1:24:48Speaker 05

  So it's like my, like my manager said one time, he goes, you can't use your, you can't, like when I did my first movie. It's like, you can't use your first name.

• 1:24:56Speaker 03

  Yeah. People be like, who the hell's that?

• 1:24:58Speaker 05

  They don't know who you are. Here's the thing, they go, Dan, here's the thing, you're a brand now. It's a brand. Get her done. Larry the Cable Guy is a brand. So everything you do has to be under this brand.

• 1:25:11Speaker 03

  Yeah.

• 1:25:11Speaker 05

  I'm like, okay, so everything's under that brand. So now I kind of wish there was a few things it would be. Especially when people give me stuff like, I got like the coolest thing from, like I do a lot of stuff with the troops, right?

• 1:25:26Speaker 03

  Uh huh.

• 1:25:26Speaker 05

  And I got this, uh, distinguished service thing for the army. Like I did stuff for the guard and.

• 1:25:33Speaker 03

  Yeah.

• 1:25:33Speaker 05

  And everything. And it says, uh, it says to Larry the Cable Guy. It's like, oh, what the?

• 1:25:41Speaker 03

  Yeah. Like that felt like a Dan thing, man.

• 1:25:43Speaker 05

  Well, some people, some of those things like that do say Dan Whitney, but there's some things that I wish they didn't say. That, that I got from like the troops or I got from a hospital or I got, you know, cause those are.

• 1:25:55Speaker 03

  Jersey around the corner.

• 1:25:56Speaker 05

  Those are cool things. And when they put Larry the Cable Guy, I'm thinking, well, I get it. I get it. I'm Larry. I get it. But sometimes it's like, oh, I just wish you'd put my real name on it. Cause I created this.

• 1:26:09Speaker 03

  Yeah. When you die, man, you might need to get one of them double, like, you know, like how they see the 10 commandments on the two stone tablets?

• 1:26:17Speaker 05

  Yeah.

• 1:26:17Speaker 03

  When you die, you get a double headstone.

• 1:26:19Speaker 05

  Yeah, I should.

• 1:26:21Speaker 03

  Dan and Larry.

• 1:26:21Speaker 05

  Absolutely. And of course his stone will be nicer than mine. He's got all the money.

• 1:26:27Speaker 03

  One, one stone will say he got her done.

• 1:26:29Speaker 05

  Got her done, got her did. Get her done, got her did. That's what it is.

• 1:26:35Speaker 06

  Cable guy's also kind of an old timey reference by now. I imagine kids, they're like, what's a cable guy?

• 1:26:40Speaker 05

  Yeah, I know.

• 1:26:41Speaker 03

  I never even thought of that.

• 1:26:42Speaker 05

  Yeah, no. Yeah.

• 1:26:43Speaker 03

  It'd be like me trying to explain stuff to my kids from not that long ago.

• 1:26:46Speaker 05

  Yeah.

• 1:26:47Speaker 03

  I'm like, dude, when I was a kid, man, you went to do the phone, you went, they can't even understand what I'm talking about.

• 1:26:55Speaker 05

  You know what? I have no idea. It's just, it's like one of those things that's just stuck. It doesn't even mean anything anymore. It's just a, you know, it's like Cedric the Entertainer.

• 1:27:04Speaker 03

  Hmm.

• 1:27:04Speaker 05

  You know, Larry the Cable Guy. I mean, it's just, it doesn't even occur to me that I'm about being a cable installer. It's just like, it's Larry the Cable.

• 1:27:14Speaker 03

  You kind of forgot that detail.

• 1:27:16Speaker 05

  It makes no sense. And I got irritated at DirecTV one time. Cause they were running those commercials with celebrities, you know? Stupid, yeah, I forget, I can't remember.

• 1:27:26Speaker 03

  What commercials?

• 1:27:27Speaker 05

  Remember they were, DirecTV was running a commercial with that actor, that real good looking actor that back in the day.

• 1:27:33Speaker 03

  That one.

• 1:27:34Speaker 05

  What's his name? He was part of the, the troupe, the, the, uh, you know what I'm talking about? He was in, uh, what was the, uh, I can't remember his name. Anyway, he was a good looking, they were running commercials with him.

• 1:27:47Speaker 03

  With a good looking guy.

• 1:27:48Speaker 05

  And yeah, I can't remember. And the, the first thing, uh.

• 1:27:53Speaker 03

  Your friends are trying to break in. I think they might just wave in, but no.

• 1:27:56Speaker 05

  The first thing that I thought was, why don't they get me? Larry the Cable Guy is switching to DirecTV.

• 1:28:05Speaker 03

  Oh dude, that would've been genius.

• 1:28:06Speaker 05

  It would've been huge.

• 1:28:07Speaker 03

  Larry the DirecTV guy.

• 1:28:09Speaker 05

  And here's what irritates me about corporate. Larry the Cable Guy has switched to DirecTV.

• 1:28:15Speaker 03

  Yeah.

• 1:28:16Speaker 05

  Right? And then I come out, that's right. I'm now Larry the DirecTV guy. And you can get, I mean, it was the perfect sales pitch.

• 1:28:23Speaker 06

  Gotta change their business.

• 1:28:24Speaker 05

  Because at the time, well, Larry the Cable Guy is only really for one part of the country. You know, cause of the southern accent and sometimes he says things that are a little controversial. Meanwhile, you got fricking rappers, you know, singing about killing cops and fricking, uh, you know?

• 1:28:50Speaker 05

  You know, with women and.

• 1:28:53Speaker 03

  Yeah.

• 1:28:54Speaker 05

  You know what I mean?

• 1:28:55Speaker 03

  No, I know exactly what you mean.

• 1:28:56Speaker 05

  They're getting all kinds of corporate stuff. I'm like going, how am I controversial when you got, you know what I mean? What's his name? Who's the guy? What's that one rapper that's always out? Snoop Dogg.

• 1:29:07Speaker 03

  Yeah.

• 1:29:08Speaker 05

  I got nothing against.

• 1:29:09Speaker 03

  Dude, he's become like a national.

• 1:29:10Speaker 05

  God bless Snoop Dogg. He's done a good job. His career, I'm sure he's a nice guy, but I didn't say.

• 1:29:16Speaker 03

  Yeah.

• 1:29:16Speaker 05

  You know? And somebody even asked him one time, do you apologize now for some of the women, that things you said about? No, man. Cause I'll tell you this. And he was like, he doubled down.

• 1:29:25Speaker 03

  But you were controversial.

• 1:29:27Speaker 05

  Two Superbowl commercials. Meanwhile, you know, I'm like, it, it, don't get me started. That's just things that gets frustrating. That would've been the perfect DirecTV commercial.

• 1:29:38Speaker 03

  Uh huh. Hundred percent.

• 1:29:40Speaker 05

  There's a lot of hypocrisy in corporate, who they get, who they don't get. Look, I've had a good career. I ain't worried about it. But I'm just saying, that DirecTV pissed me off.

• 1:29:49Speaker 03

  Yeah, no, that's a missed opportunity. Could've been you. But listen, Snoop Dogg, he ain't no Tomator though, man.

• 1:29:54Speaker 05

  He ain't no Tomator. And, and, and look, I don't say that. I'm, I love everybody and I'm, I'm happy for everybody's career. I'm not like, I'm not mad at them. I'm upset at the corporations that would like, say you're too controversial, but then they'll put somebody else that's even way more controversial.

• 1:30:09Speaker 03

  What we need to do is find that, we need to find that DirecTV person, the exact or whatever agency they use. And we should, we need to say, in hindsight, in hindsight, do you recognize the missed opportunity? And maybe you'll get the comeuppance you deserve, but she'll say, every night as I'm going to bed, I think about that I didn't cast Larry the DirecTV guy.

• 1:30:31Speaker 05

  They're never gonna do it. No, thanks for having me on guys. So I wanted to tell you that story though, cause I think that's important, how I got.

• 1:30:38Speaker 03

  Oh, I love the story.

• 1:30:39Speaker 05

  A lot of people don't know how I started doing it on stage. That's how I did it. So.

• 1:30:44Speaker 03

  That's a great story.

• 1:30:44Speaker 06

  Excited for the game.

• 1:30:45Speaker 05

  Yeah. I'm gonna have to ask you to get out of here.

• 1:30:47Speaker 03

  These dudes are looking in from that window now.

• 1:30:49Speaker 05

  I know, I know. They think we're doing a Husker show, you know?

• 1:30:53Speaker 03

  All right, man. Thank you very much.

• 1:30:54Speaker 05

  Yeah. Thanks for having me. You guys are hanging for the game, right?

• 1:30:57Speaker 03

  Yep.

• 1:30:58Speaker 05

  All right.

• 1:30:58Speaker 03

  All right. Take it easy.

• 1:30:59Speaker 05

  You've got, and we got hot dogs. Get her done.

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