00:00:08 Speaker 1: This is the meat-eater podcast coming at you shirtless, severely bug-bitten, and in my case, underwear-less. 00:00:15 Speaker 2: We hunt the meat-eater podcast. You can't predict anything. 00:00:20 Speaker 1: Brought to you by First Light. When I'm hunting, I need gear that won't quit. First Light builds no compromise gear that keeps me in the field longer. No shortcuts, just gear that works. Check it out at firstlight.com. That's F-I-R-S-T.com. L-I-T-E dot com. 00:00:40 Speaker 3: All right, everybody. 00:00:43 Speaker 1: We're joined today by Dan Whitney. He probably knows Larry the Cable Guy. 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. 00:00:57 Speaker 2: That's right. 00:00:59 Speaker 4: Larry makes the money and I spend the money. 00:01:01 Speaker 2: Thank you, Larry. You're welcome. You're welcome. 00:01:04 Speaker 1: Tell everybody what we're at right now. 00:01:05 Speaker 2: 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. Yeah. So, yeah, so we're doing the show from my sweet box. Homecoming. 00:01:34 Speaker 1: You're going to meet someone. 00:01:35 Speaker 2: Homecoming. Oh, that's right. 00:01:36 Speaker 1: Yeah, it's homecoming too. 00:01:37 Speaker 5: We might be crowned king or queen. 00:01:39 Speaker 1: That's great. 00:01:40 Speaker 5: I'm so excited. 00:01:41 Speaker 1: You're going to meet someone in a moment. And I was trying to, I asked her to sell me on the game. 00:01:46 Speaker 2: Right. 00:01:46 Speaker 1: And she did a great job. She laid out this whole epic story about how you guys haven't won anything in decades. 00:01:52 Speaker 2: We've had a rough club. 00:01:53 Speaker 1: 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. 00:01:59 Speaker 2: It really has. 00:01:59 Speaker 1: Even though it's not that important of a game. 00:02:01 Speaker 2: 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, ten 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 going to blow it all this week? In the back of every Nebraskan's head, it's like, even if it's 24 to three, say we got a 21 point lead with five minutes left in the game, still in the back of your head, we're going to blow it. 00:02:36 Speaker 3: Tortured fans. 00:02:36 Speaker 2: It's never over until that whistle goes, you know? So anyway, that's a big, a big deal. I appreciate you coming here to do the, do it. 00:02:46 Speaker 1: Oh, this is a great place to do it. 00:02:47 Speaker 2: I thought this would be a great venue. 00:02:48 Speaker 1: Because Spencer, I was saying, he's an actual football fan. 00:02:50 Speaker 2: He knows all the rules. 00:02:52 Speaker 3: Special place to be. 00:02:54 Speaker 2: It is. It's iconic here. 00:02:57 Speaker 1: He grew up one state off. 00:02:59 Speaker 2: Where at? 00:03:00 Speaker 3: South Dakota, just like 30 minutes from the Nebraska border. 00:03:02 Speaker 2: We got a lot of good players from South Dakota. I got no problem with South Dakota. 00:03:06 Speaker 3: Good, good. 00:03:07 Speaker 1: Here's how we got to start. 00:03:08 Speaker 2: I don't know why South Dakota calls us names. We don't call them names. 00:03:11 Speaker 3: He told me that this morning. 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? 00:03:21 Speaker 2: I've never really looked at people's soil enough to make fun of them. 00:03:26 Speaker 3: That's why you're in Nebraska. 00:03:27 Speaker 5: That's a South Dakota challenge. 00:03:28 Speaker 3: That's a sand lizard thing. 00:03:30 Speaker 4: I understand there's not a lot to do in South Dakota. 00:03:32 Speaker 2: I know, I know. 00:03:33 Speaker 5: But when you're talking about it. 00:03:35 Speaker 2: Your soil's inferior than our soil. That's not really a burn. 00:03:40 Speaker 3: You're right. That's a reflection on us. We need to work on that. 00:03:42 Speaker 1: That's more of a geological observation than a character observation. 00:03:47 Speaker 2: I'm not offended by it. 00:03:48 Speaker 1: Being a football game, we've got to start with something. Now, 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. 00:04:07 Speaker 2: Right. 00:04:07 Speaker 1: With deer meat. 00:04:08 Speaker 2: Okay. 00:04:09 Speaker 1: 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. 00:04:15 Speaker 4: It's like an AI hot dog. 00:04:16 Speaker 2: It's not good. 00:04:17 Speaker 1: So we teamed up with... We were able to send... Come on over, Layla. 00:04:22 Speaker 2: This is Layla, everybody. 00:04:24 Speaker 1: This is Layla Benzor from the Lawful Meat Lab here at. 00:04:27 Speaker 2: University of Nebraska. 00:04:28 Speaker 3: Go Big Red! 00:04:29 Speaker 2: Go Big Red! Yeah, that's right. So she.... 00:04:33 Speaker 1: Is a meat scientist here at this very university. At this very university. Studies hot dogs. 00:04:40 Speaker 2: Can I ask her something? Ask her everything. When you were little, did people come up to you and go, Salela, what do you want to be? 00:04:45 Speaker 5: When you grow up, a meat scientist. 00:04:47 Speaker 2: That's right. 00:04:49 Speaker 1: At what age did you realize you're calling? 00:04:52 Speaker 2: Oh, man. 00:04:53 Speaker 6: When I was little, we used to process hogs in our garage for Christmas. That was kind of my first meat thing. I didn't know I wanted to be a meat scientist then. I thought I was going to be a horse judger and then I went to college and that didn't go well. So I switched over to meat science. So I guess I was about 20 or so. That 20 to 22 age range is a little blurry. 00:05:17 Speaker 2: So I don't know about the timeline. So you grew up on a pig farm? Not exactly. 00:05:22 Speaker 6: 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 and make tamales and that kind of stuff. 00:05:31 Speaker 2: So yeah, we. 00:05:32 Speaker 6: You know, we processed our own meat at home and then it kind of just felt really natural when I went to college and this was an option. 00:05:40 Speaker 1: How do you say hot dog in Spanish? 00:05:42 Speaker 2: Salchicha. 00:05:43 Speaker 1: Tell me again? 00:05:44 Speaker 2: Salchicha. Okay. Salchicha. I mean, that's common knowledge. 00:05:48 Speaker 1: That's common. And then, so we sent the deer meat down. 00:05:51 Speaker 2: Wouldn't it be frio perro? Hot dog, perro caliente. Perro caliente. Perro caliente. Yeah. Frío means cold dog. Yeah, cold dog. I speak a little Spanish. 00:06:02 Speaker 1: I'm catching that. 00:06:03 Speaker 2: Estudiaremos español muy poquito en la escuela. Okay. Wow. 00:06:07 Speaker 1: You were just ketchup, weren't you? 00:06:08 Speaker 2: I'm good here. You got yours. 00:06:10 Speaker 1: This is me. Thin bead. 00:06:12 Speaker 2: See, now they yell at you when you're like, a hot dog is only mustard only. I know. 00:06:16 Speaker 1: I knew all that. 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 in hot dogs. You said it's like a poor people's food. And there's not a lot of research into food that would be like lower economic class foods. 00:06:44 Speaker 2: Yeah, exactly. 00:06:44 Speaker 6: Who am I to tell you what you want on your hot dog? 00:06:46 Speaker 2: You put on anything you want on your hot dog. 00:06:47 Speaker 4: You should let people eat the hot dog as much as they want. 00:06:49 Speaker 2: What kind of hot dog? Exactly. 00:06:52 Speaker 1: Okay, so this is a genuine, this is a University of Nebraska. 00:06:56 Speaker 2: Yep. 00:06:57 Speaker 1: Lawful meat lab with just regular hunter-killed deer meat. 00:07:02 Speaker 2: Yep. 00:07:02 Speaker 1: Dragged out of the woods. 00:07:04 Speaker 2: For real. 100%. 00:07:04 Speaker 1: Yeah, dragged out of the woods. 00:07:06 Speaker 3: This could be the answer. 00:07:07 Speaker 2: My boy shot this. For real? I might try it. Mm-hmm. There we go. 00:07:22 Speaker 1: I can say already you did the impossible. You made a regular hot dog. 00:07:28 Speaker 3: The taste is there. The texture is there. You wouldn't know it's deer. 00:07:33 Speaker 2: No, but you would know it's got a hearty flavor. It's got not a regular hot dog wiener flavor. 00:07:42 Speaker 4: It's a little zhuzhed up. 00:07:45 Speaker 2: Is it like a smokier taste? 00:07:48 Speaker 6: Yeah, so I made these very artisanally in our research kitchen, which is just really like a restaurant-style kitchen, but with things that you could do that you could use at home. And I smoke these at my house in my personal smoker. So that's pecan wood you're tasting there. 00:08:05 Speaker 2: Really? 00:08:05 Speaker 1: But it's got the snap. 00:08:07 Speaker 7: Yep. 00:08:07 Speaker 1: And I'll tell you, when I made deer meat hot dogs in the past, you could bend them over. That's right, yeah. You could fold them like a paper clip. 00:08:15 Speaker 6: It looked like an imitation crab stick instead of a hot dog. 00:08:18 Speaker 1: You could tie it in knots. This has got snap. 00:08:21 Speaker 3: What percentage pork are these? 00:08:23 Speaker 6: Oh, these are about, I believe, 15% fat. 00:08:29 Speaker 3: That's like a winning percentage, too. It's not like this is a pork hot dog. 00:08:32 Speaker 6: Yeah, it's pretty low in fat and water. It's very, very protein heavy. 00:08:37 Speaker 2: You know, I played golf with George Lopez one time. 00:08:39 Speaker 1: Oh, yeah. 00:08:39 Speaker 2: And I believe he said that he smoked stuff in his house as well. 00:08:43 Speaker 1: Yeah. 00:08:45 Speaker 2: We love our smoked meats, man. 00:08:47 Speaker 1: We're going to meet with. 00:08:49 Speaker 2: Man, this is. I like it. No, it's great. 00:08:51 Speaker 1: And we're going to meet. We're meeting very early tomorrow to make hot dogs. Yes. 00:08:54 Speaker 2: Yeah. 00:08:55 Speaker 6: Broad and early. 00:08:55 Speaker 2: 7 a.m. meet up. That's right. 00:08:57 Speaker 1: Hot dog making 7 a.m. 00:08:58 Speaker 2: Tomorrow. 00:08:59 Speaker 1: University of Nebraska. 00:08:59 Speaker 2: That's right. All right, Laila. 00:09:01 Speaker 1: Thanks for bringing us out. 00:09:02 Speaker 2: But I'll say that you won. 00:09:05 Speaker 1: It's got the snap. It's got the taste. It is possible to make a normal deer meat hot dog. 00:09:11 Speaker 6: It is possible. 00:09:11 Speaker 1: It's not easy, but it is possible. 00:09:13 Speaker 2: No, but it is good. I like it. No, I think it's great. No, it brings me into this. Can I do this? This reminds me of one of my only favorite jokes I ever wrote. 00:09:22 Speaker 3: Please. 00:09:22 Speaker 2: It's my wife's favorite joke, and Laila, you remind me of this. I used to do a joke about my sister. 00:09:28 Speaker 4: It was the strangest job on the planet. 00:09:32 Speaker 2: She's a hot dog whisperer. Okay. And I didn't know what it was. Mm-hmm. So I said, what is a hot dog whisperer? And he said, give me a hot dog. I'll show you. She goes, boy, that's a good hot dog. Okay. I know, right? That's good. That's one of my all-time favorites. jokes ever. 00:10:00 Speaker 3: And does that joke kill? Does the audience go crazy for that one? 00:10:04 Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah. 00:10:06 Speaker 3: Can I tell you my favorite Larry the Cable Guy joke? 00:10:08 Speaker 2: Yeah. 00:10:09 Speaker 3: We'll see if you remember it. It's about your wife taking last name. Do you remember this joke? 00:10:15 Speaker 2: Yeah. 00:10:16 Speaker 3: Well, so Steve and I, we both married women who did not take our last name. So will you tell Steve the joke so 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, that's my favorite. 00:10:30 Speaker 2: I love this girl. We were going to get married, but she didn't want to take my name. And I'm like, well, you got to take my name. But besides that, I think it'd be cool, both of us named Larry. I love that. 00:10:46 Speaker 1: I got it. 00:10:48 Speaker 2: I got it. 00:10:49 Speaker 1: You were mentioning it. 00:10:50 Speaker 5: That's a good joke. 00:10:51 Speaker 3: That's a very good joke. 00:10:52 Speaker 2: That's a good one. 00:10:53 Speaker 1: My favorite, see, now that we're getting into this, I think my favorite joke of yours was, this is an old one, but you were explaining how deer, a lot of people don't know of it, deer like the kardashians get a new rack every. 00:11:08 Speaker 2: Year yeah 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 comb they think they think i'm a road comb. 00:11:20 Speaker 1: 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 who is it again jeff a guy named jeff foxworthy just a kind of a you know he's kind of a niche a niche a niche little known comedian named jeff foxworthy This is kind of the genesis of me wanting to talk to you. Jeff Foxworthy was talking about you. And we were kind of talking about deer hunting and everything. But after we got done, Jeff Foxworthy. 00:11:47 Speaker 2: Was saying. 00:11:49 Speaker 1: How his friend Dan has golfed at that time. He said, my friend Dan has golfed 20 years. And he says, in that 20 years, he is no better than the first time he golfed. 00:12:02 Speaker 2: First of all. Yeah. 00:12:05 Speaker 1: And then I soon realized you was talking about you. 00:12:08 Speaker 2: First of all, I've only been golfing for 16 years. Okay. 00:12:15 Speaker 3: That's a good correction. 00:12:19 Speaker 2: 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. Okay. 00:12:34 Speaker 4: Golf is the most frustrating sport on the planet. 00:12:37 Speaker 3: You keep doing it, though. 00:12:38 Speaker 2: I love it. 00:12:39 Speaker 1: What do you like about it? 00:12:40 Speaker 2: 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? 00:12:55 Speaker 4: You can still make a long putt like a pro does. 00:12:58 Speaker 2: Got it. 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 him just as good as he can. I mean, he'll probably make more, but you know what I mean? You can compete. Got it. 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. No, I understand. 00:13:25 Speaker 4: I love baseball. That's my favorite sport. I can't get down on. 00:13:29 Speaker 2: The ground ball anymore. I played in a celebrity softball tournament, and I took my first swing, and I'm not kidding. I mean, my innards were coming out my hind end. I was like, oh, my gosh, why is my butt burning? What did I just do? You know what? 00:13:44 Speaker 4: I'll just coach. 00:13:46 Speaker 2: And I loved it. I love playing baseball, and I love playing league softball. 00:13:51 Speaker 4: Can't do it. Golf, I can do it. 00:13:53 Speaker 2: 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 I had to let five people play through. 00:14:06 Speaker 3: Steve's not going to get that joke. No, I got that joke. Okay, a lot of our audience will, but Steve might not. 00:14:13 Speaker 2: I got that joke, man. And it's fun. You do a lot of celebrity. You do celebrity tournaments, charity tournaments, all for charity, which is fun. So I'm doing something I like, raising money. Man, I did five charity tournaments. Or four. I was going to do five. One was for the Make-A-Wish Foundation, and their wish was for me not to participate this year. So I wanted to make the kids happy. 00:14:39 Speaker 6: Yeah. 00:14:40 Speaker 2: You know, one of my all-time favorites. I got to tell you this joke. This is one of my all-time favorites. This is really stupid. I just joke about. I do this joke about, I was in this golf tournament in Las Vegas, and we get done, and 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 a dang Henry Winkler. 00:15:03 Speaker 5: Why do you need $ 500? 00:15:03 Speaker 2: And he's like, well, I don't want to run upstairs and get my money. Larry, I swear, I'll give you $ 500, and I'll meet you here in an hour, and I'll give you $ 2, 000. I think, all right. So I give Henry Winkler $ 500. I haven't seen Henry Winkler in 30 years since then, you know? So I got the research and it turns out I got caught up in a Fonzie scheme. See, that's what brings in the big dollars. That kind of humor. He's a fisherman. 00:15:36 Speaker 1: I don't even know that. 00:15:37 Speaker 4: Fonzie? 00:15:38 Speaker 1: Yeah, Fonzie's a fisherman. 00:15:39 Speaker 2: He just goes like this and the fish come up. He's a fisherman. 00:15:43 Speaker 4: I heard that he's one of the nicest guys in the business. 00:15:46 Speaker 2: I'd love to meet him. He seems like a nice guy. 00:15:49 Speaker 3: 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 going to do it? 00:15:57 Speaker 2: No. 00:15:58 Speaker 3: You're not going to? Only $ 3, 000. 00:16:01 Speaker 2: I know. I don't think. I remember them urinals. 00:16:06 Speaker 3: You used those urinals. 00:16:08 Speaker 2: 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 Godowski was quarterback. That's the thing about Nebraska fans. You remember every game. You remember the wins. I don't remember a lot about dates or– marriage details but i know where i was sitting my first day right over there and i did use the urinal yes and they're disgusting and i don't want that in my head if it's sitting i mean where would i even put it i don't know hey come on i want to show you my remember this everybody peed. 00:16:40 Speaker 3: They have a lot of recommendations they say you could fill it with flowers uh you could make it a centerpiece in your garage. 00:16:46 Speaker 1: It's porcelain what do they call that enamel. 00:16:48 Speaker 3: Turn it into outdoor decor They got a lot of recommendations on how you can use that. 00:16:53 Speaker 2: Yeah, you could do a planter out of it. As a matter of fact, I think there was some moss growing in it when it was here. 00:16:59 Speaker 3: I bet there was. They look like it. 00:17:02 Speaker 2: They look like it. 00:17:03 Speaker 4: I think there was already stuff growing in it. 00:17:06 Speaker 3: 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. 00:17:13 Speaker 2: Yeah, you know what? Is that really true? 00:17:17 Speaker 4: Look, I love hunting. 00:17:18 Speaker 2: I love to go. I go down south. Here we go. We shoot doves, birds. I love bird hunting. I love shooting critters, coyotes, possums. Deer hunting, I just, man. I don't want to sit in a tree stand freezing all night. I've just never been into that. I grew up on a farm raising pigs and the whole deal. So when I grew up, it was all about fishing. 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. 00:17:54 Speaker 4: God bless Jeff. 00:17:55 Speaker 2: I love Jeff. Jeff always invites me. 00:17:57 Speaker 1: Dude, if you get an invitation to that place, I would be going and doing that. 00:18:00 Speaker 2: Hey, you ought to come. Hey, you want to go with us? We're going to fly you into Canada. Oh, that kind of hunt. They're going to drop us off. We're going to get on horseback, and we're going to hunt, blah, blah, blah, for 10 days. 00:18:11 Speaker 5: I'll be honest. 00:18:13 Speaker 4: I just got off the road. 00:18:15 Speaker 2: 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 that... You give me that, right? Oh, that. That speaks to you. I don't know what I got. What is this? 00:18:32 Speaker 1: For you people just listening, he is pantomiming, hooking into. 00:18:35 Speaker 2: A huge bass. Oh, yeah. You're not. 00:18:37 Speaker 4: Yeah, you're right. You guys, I forgot. This isn't like. Yeah, so just. 00:18:41 Speaker 1: No, a good percentage of the viewers will see it, but the other ones, they need to know that he just hooked a giant. 00:18:46 Speaker 4: I love, I love bass fishing. You know, they jump out of the water. 00:18:51 Speaker 2: When you do the top water and they pop, there's just something about it. And I love fishing. And it's not that I got... Hunt all you want, you know? I'm just... I'd much rather do that. More of an angler. Yeah, I just never... Now, Jeff, when we were on tour all the time, look, 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. We did 276 days a year out on a tour bus. Serious. So when I would get home and I would have 10 days off, the last thing I was going to do was go. No, I like what Jeff does now. 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. 00:19:35 Speaker 4: We used to do it on tour. 00:19:36 Speaker 2: We'd take our bows and Jeff and me and Bill and Ron, we'd shoot stuff, you know, out in the targets in the back. That was Jeff's idea. That ended real quick when one of us missed, hit the cement wall and started flying around the green room he's like maybe we better not bring bows anymore on tour yeah and uh so uh yeah uh bass fishing is uh i i do like that i i also read if i had to pick yeah i. 00:20:02 Speaker 3: 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? 00:20:09 Speaker 2: It was actually a Chevy. It was a Corvair. Oh. It was a pickup Corvair. Okay. My parents were at some concert. I don't know what it was. 00:20:21 Speaker 3: This is real. 00:20:22 Speaker 2: And dad didn't want to go. She's like, my water broke. I got it. He's like, they're going to do an encore. You know, so. No, actually, no, that's not true. I made all that up. I used to say I was a, that was the original joke. Okay. The original joke, the original joke was 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, I was a C-section baby. Oh. I was born in section C of the Leonard Skinner concert. That was my original, the original joke. That's better. 00:21:07 Speaker 1: That makes me want to jump to something I wanted to ask you about, man. I was reading, this might not be true either, on Wikipedia. Someone got in there on Wikipedia, rightly or wrongly, and they said that you identify as an REO Speedwagon fan. 00:21:24 Speaker 2: Yes. 00:21:24 Speaker 1: There are very, very few. 00:21:26 Speaker 2: Of us yeah left alive there's a lot of us because they still they until they broke up recently they packed it out really they were one of the few bands that was still pretty much together from the early 80s they look even though they lost gary richard after guitar player the drummer retired but right after the big you know the big hits the the the album the what was the one uh. 00:21:52 Speaker 1: Well, the last stuff they did that got notoriety, remember that video where he's messing around with that Astro, whatever that thing is, like that little electric ball, what do. 00:22:00 Speaker 2: You call those? I don't know. 00:22:02 Speaker 1: I feel like you touch the outside and it's like the light shooting. 00:22:04 Speaker 4: Was that, I can't fight this heat? 00:22:07 Speaker 2: Okay. That was a big hit. Yeah. But a high infidelity right after that 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. 00:22:23 Speaker 4: So they would pack it out everywhere. 00:22:27 Speaker 2: And Bruce Hall was the original guy that I met, the bass player that had been there since the late 70s. So Bruce had a really good buddy. He plays in my golf tournament all the time. I love him to death. Oh, really? Him and his wife. 00:22:38 Speaker 1: So you got like the inside perspective. 00:22:39 Speaker 3: Yeah. 00:22:40 Speaker 2: So they would all come and he would get everybody out there to play in 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'd put on wigs. We'd put on long hair wigs. I had them go to the pawn shop and buy 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. And we would play 12 hard rock metal songs on stage. That's what we would do. 00:23:14 Speaker 4: And so Bruce knew I did that. So I went, the first. 00:23:18 Speaker 2: Time I went and did something with him was. 00:23:22 Speaker 4: For tornado victims in Illinois. So we did a benefit. 00:23:26 Speaker 2: There's a bunch of people there, Nugent Center and Speedwagon and Styx and Head East and Richard Marks. Head East. I've seen those guys. Yeah, woo. 00:23:33 Speaker 1: God, man, you're throwing back some. 00:23:34 Speaker 3: Old hits, dude. 00:23:35 Speaker 2: Yeah. So I went up and played Roll With The Changes and air-guitared the guitar solo. 00:23:43 Speaker 5: And everybody thought I was playing. 00:23:44 Speaker 2: I got their cameras out, and I'm up there. And the guitar player, Dave, Dave Amato, he's over there. He's really playing. And I'm out front, 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? Please. Yeah, yeah. This is how awesome they were. My dad had a band. My dad did all kinds of things. He was a guidance counselor. He was a pastor of two churches. He had cattle and horses. I did the pigs. 00:24:16 Speaker 4: But on the weekends, he had a band. He was in a band called the Memphis Beats. 00:24:20 Speaker 2: And my dad had been playing guitar since he was a kid. Learned it himself. But my dad... had a, has, gave it to me since he's passed, a 1953 Fender Telecaster. Okay. 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 because 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 cleaned it up a little bit, you know. He goes, oh yeah, sure. 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, and he goes, don't touch this. 00:24:59 Speaker 5: Do you have any clue what you got here? 00:25:01 Speaker 2: Oh, I got it. So anyway, 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. Huh. You want to play it, Willie? Would you play it on a show or something? And he goes, are you kidding me? I would love to. Wow. 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. Hey, Dan. 00:25:39 Speaker 4: You know, he's like, hey, Dan, this guitar. 00:25:41 Speaker 3: Dave doesn't play Fenders. 00:25:43 Speaker 2: I'm a Fender guy. This guitar's got, man, it's got music that just wants to fly. 00:25:48 Speaker 5: Out of it, man. 00:25:49 Speaker 2: I love this guitar. 00:25:50 Speaker 5: You have no idea how cool this guitar is. 00:25:53 Speaker 2: 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 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 looked at me, he goes, you good? I go, yeah. 00:26:17 Speaker 4: He goes, man, okay. And he goes back down. Dude, it was the coolest thing ever. 00:26:21 Speaker 2: Yeah. 00:26:22 Speaker 4: I was so excited about it. 00:26:24 Speaker 1: When I say I'm an REO Speedwagon fan, I should clarify that more and say I'm a riding the storm out, roll with the changes. 00:26:31 Speaker 2: Yeah, no, I hear you. 00:26:32 Speaker 1: The closest I've seen, closest I've come to seeing him 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. 00:26:40 Speaker 2: Right. 00:26:41 Speaker 1: 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. 00:26:49 Speaker 5: And this outfit was called Stormbringer. 00:26:53 Speaker 2: Wow. 00:26:53 Speaker 1: Stormbringer, the REO cover, a REO Speedwagon cover band. 00:26:58 Speaker 2: Yeah, Stormbringer. 00:26:59 Speaker 1: Sat through the whole thing. Sat through the whole thing, and they never did roll the changes. 00:27:04 Speaker 2: No. 00:27:04 Speaker 1: And one of my buddies said, I don't think they have a keyboard player who's up for the task. 00:27:10 Speaker 2: Oh, yeah. 00:27:10 Speaker 1: And so they got to skip that one because they can't do the solo. 00:27:13 Speaker 2: Probably right. That's a tough deal. Yeah. They're pretty good though. 00:27:18 Speaker 1: Stormbringer? 00:27:19 Speaker 2: Yeah. 00:27:19 Speaker 1: I honestly don't remember. I just remember by disappointment they never got to the reason I was there. It'd be like if you went to see Head East. 00:27:25 Speaker 2: Right. 00:27:26 Speaker 1: And they never did... What's their main hits? 00:27:28 Speaker 2: Yeah. 00:27:29 Speaker 5: Without any reason. 00:27:31 Speaker 2: That one? Yeah. No. 00:27:33 Speaker 1: Oh, Save My Life and Going Down for the Last Time. 00:27:34 Speaker 5: Yeah, Save My Life. If you like going to them and not seeing them. 00:27:37 Speaker 2: Then he gets real high. 00:27:38 Speaker 3: Down for the last time. 00:27:40 Speaker 2: Yeah, that's it. Dude. Talented. We could talk about some old tunes, but I want to talk about- Now they're head west. Are they? No. Dude, I used to do jokes. I fell for the joke. Yeah, you used to do jokes. I used to do jokes. Jokes for a living. Tell me about growing up- Wait, I used to do a joke about- 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. That's really good. These hot dogs are good. 00:28:13 Speaker 1: Tell me about, you grew up around agriculture. And you still raise, you still are in the bull, like bucking, what do you call them? 00:28:20 Speaker 2: 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. Oh, really? When I was a kid. When that song, one of my all-time favorite movies is Convoy with Chris Christopherson. 00:28:33 Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah. 00:28:34 Speaker 4: I mean, that was the craze, man. 00:28:36 Speaker 2: I remember the first time I had my little walkie-talkie and a semi was pulling cattle in. I'm like, breaker, breaker. 00:28:42 Speaker 4: I'm just a kid. 00:28:43 Speaker 2: All of a sudden, he goes, ah. I got you, buddy. I got you. I see you over there. 00:28:47 Speaker 5: I was like, oh, mom, they talked to me. They talked to me. 00:28:50 Speaker 4: I mean, this was, I was 30 years old then. 00:28:53 Speaker 5: And no, man. I mean, I loved it. 00:28:57 Speaker 2: So I spent, when I was a little kid, I spent every day of my life at the sale bar loading cattle trucks. Okay. 00:29:04 Speaker 5: And we had a farm. For money or just because you were down there? 00:29:08 Speaker 2: Just because I liked it. And the guy that owned it was like my adopted grandpa. Okay. And he knew I loved that kind of stuff. And I raised pigs. 00:29:15 Speaker 4: I was legitimately a kid pig farmer. I'd buy my own hogs and I'd raise my own hogs. 00:29:21 Speaker 2: Is that right, really? 00:29:21 Speaker 5: Oh, yeah, man. 00:29:22 Speaker 2: 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. Yeah. 00:29:34 Speaker 1: Not like as a 4-H program. you're doing it for sale. 00:29:36 Speaker 2: No, I actually bought the 4-H Durox out, which I'll never do again. She laid on her babies and ate two of them. So Durox aren't very good at that. But yeah, so that was fun. So 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. So yeah, so- I, uh, I've always liked it. And then I moved to Florida and started doing standup, but, uh, I always wanted like a little, I always wanted cattle. And so now I'm able to do it. So I got a little under 180 acres and, and we got, uh, horses and a couple of donkeys and, but I got into the buck and bull business because, uh, I'm a big fan of rodeo. So in the 90s, 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, who was a bull rider. 00:30:38 Speaker 1: That's a real name. 00:30:39 Speaker 2: Yeah, a bull rider. Tater Porter. Tater Porter. And he used to travel with another bull rider named Spud Whitman. I'm not kidding. Tater and Spud. And so I just got into the PBR and bull riding and the NFR. I loved it. Yeah. And so then I found out you can start paying to put your name on bulls, to sponsor bucking bulls. Okay. So I started paying, and I had seven bucking bulls in the PBR, six or seven, that I got to be part owner on. I got it. Because I'm paying for the sponsorship. 00:31:16 Speaker 1: Yeah. 00:31:17 Speaker 2: And so one of. 00:31:18 Speaker 4: My bulls in 2007, chicken on a chain. 00:31:19 Speaker 2: Mm-hmm. one buck and bull of the year. Damn. 00:31:26 Speaker 1: And that makes you money. 00:31:28 Speaker 2: It didn't make me a dime. Okay. 00:31:29 Speaker 4: It gave me just the pridefulness of being able. 00:31:33 Speaker 1: When you're part owner, I don't know if there's money to be made. 00:31:36 Speaker 2: Okay. There can be, depends on what kind of deal you worked out, but I didn't know much about it. 00:31:40 Speaker 4: And I was just like, yeah, take my money. 00:31:42 Speaker 5: So I probably got ripped off. 00:31:43 Speaker 2: I probably could have bought that bull 20 times over. Yeah. 00:31:46 Speaker 3: What makes him the bull of the year? How do they earn that? 00:31:48 Speaker 4: Just the way he bucks. 00:31:49 Speaker 2: Okay. The scores that he gets on it. The scores of Cowboys get on him. uh, that, you know, they score the bulls. So like, Oh, sorry. 00:31:57 Speaker 3: You want like a real mean one or like a medium? 00:32:00 Speaker 2: You want one that bucks, you want one buck, one that twists kicks high. Uh, uh, that's what you want. Okay. 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 85 and a half, 86 and up on him. I mean, that's good bull. 00:32:17 Speaker 3: Okay. 00:32:18 Speaker 2: 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, my partner, AJ, AJ Moss. When my boy started, my boy came to me one day and said, I want to ride basketball. Okay. 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 a, I got a drop down net for hitting balls. Cause I said, my kid's going to come in here and bring all his friends. And they're going to, that I'll know where my kid is at all the time because they'll be over here playing sports. 00:32:55 Speaker 4: Never played sports. And then one day he went, and he's athletic, very athletic. 00:32:59 Speaker 1: He was looking off to the other end of the property. 00:33:01 Speaker 2: Yeah, he was. 00:33:02 Speaker 4: And then he came up to me and he had been going to bull ride since he was a kid. 00:33:05 Speaker 2: So he went to bull ride. So I said, okay, so. I wanted to do it safely because that's a tough sport. You got to 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 told him he wanted to ride bulls. And he said, ah, you know, a lot of these kids, uh, try to do it, make them look tough, or get girls. He goes, it's a dangerous sport. You can get permanently crippled. 00:33:39 Speaker 1: Well, he was just, well. 00:33:40 Speaker 2: Yeah. So he said, I'll tell you what. He says, tell you what, Dan, how tall is he? How big is he? I says, right now he's 5'6, about a buck 17. He goes, well, he's right in the prime. He says, I thought he was going to 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. 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. He had a kind heart. He saw some talent in him. He said, you know, these kids, that they want to do it. And can't stop them they're gonna do without you you know when it's turn 18 they're gonna go do it 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 buck and bulls he had a bull in the pbr like me i'm trying to shorten this story up so i met aj and i took white out to aj and uh he got on his first steer and that's when i started saying. 00:34:52 Speaker 4: You know what Why am I driving all the way out here? 00:34:55 Speaker 2: Yeah. I just put my own bull riding ring in. So I called Eddie Preford up. Eddie Preford cut me a pretty good deal on. I bought the 2000 and 2004. No, I bought the 2024 PBR buck and shoots that they had in the world finals. Oh, okay. 00:35:16 Speaker 1: So you got those instead of the University of Nebraska urinals. 00:35:19 Speaker 2: Yeah, I bought four of those and I bought that. And every time we buck, we get two. I always get two professional bullfighters and I get two EMTs. 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 50 bulls that range from beginner all the way up to nasty. 00:35:40 Speaker 1: But you personally, you don't get on those. 00:35:42 Speaker 2: No, I'm too old. Are you kidding me? Remember? 00:35:45 Speaker 5: I remember almost something come out of my butt. 00:35:48 Speaker 2: I got you. 00:35:49 Speaker 1: I didn't know if there's like a version. I didn't know if there's a bull riding version. It's like a, like a, like a, for, for older fellas. I mean, like, so, so I'm your wife. If I'm 50. 00:36:06 Speaker 2: I mean, no, you don't want to get on those sands. They'll kill you, man. 00:36:11 Speaker 3: You don't ride them, but I assume you name them. 00:36:14 Speaker 2: We name them. It's fun. 00:36:15 Speaker 3: Do you pick the names? 00:36:16 Speaker 2: I pick the names. 00:36:17 Speaker 3: What's the best name you've come up with? 00:36:19 Speaker 2: Right now, my favorite name is the villain from Urban Cowboy. Okay. 00:36:24 Speaker 4: Oh, Wes Hightower. 00:36:26 Speaker 3: Is that the whole name? 00:36:27 Speaker 2: Yeah, I named the bull named Wes Hightower, and he is awesome. 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 west high tower boom he had a 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 it's fun, man. 00:37:03 Speaker 1: And then you lease those out to rodeos? 00:37:06 Speaker 2: No. 00:37:06 Speaker 1: Or you sell them out? 00:37:06 Speaker 2: Yeah, that's pretty much how they do it. They'll be a rodeo. You want to be a contractor with good bulls. Yeah. If you have good bulls, they'll know that you have good bulls. And they'll go, hey, you know what? Call Whitney Marsden. bucking bulls and get their bulls out here. 00:37:22 Speaker 1: Are you to the point now where you can look at one and know he's good just looking at him? 00:37:26 Speaker 4: No, you never know. 00:37:27 Speaker 1: Oh, you don't because you can't tell by looking. 00:37:29 Speaker 4: You don't know at all. You can look at one and go. 00:37:32 Speaker 2: 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 got to take a chance. Sometimes you don't know. You see what they were bred to, who they were bred to. Sometimes you go to the sale barn and you'll buy a bull and all of a sudden he's a great bucking bull. 00:37:48 Speaker 4: You just got to a bull. 00:37:50 Speaker 2: For, you know, cheaply. I see. You never know. It's like the best we've done so far is we bought four bulls from Colorado from a guy. 00:37:59 Speaker 4: Five grand each. 00:38:00 Speaker 2: Okay. So we split it, 10 grand each. And one of them has won four Buck and Bull Futurities for yearlings. And we got offered 50 grand for it. There you go. 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 buckables because he's getting into it, too, and he loves it. And he bought one, put it in the Futurity, won $ 100, 000. Damn. I 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. When I did it, I told my wife, I'm going to budget this much. Here's how much money I can waste on this. And I'm just going to have a good time doing it. And, you know, and it's fun to do. And what I really, what we try to pride ourself in is those bulls that are really rough in the chutes, because some of the most dangerous bull riding is in the chutes. 00:39:03 Speaker 6: Mm-hmm. 00:39:04 Speaker 2: Shoot procedure you need to know because that's the shoe 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 right right so shooters but you see those bulls try to jump out and they'll rare and they'll buck and they'll snort we try to we try to get ones that are nice and gentle in the chute and then you open the door and they're open to shoot 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 they're ready for like a dummy to put on them. We'll put a dummy on them, and then you put cowboys on them. But, you know, we don't have a lot of really crazy ones in the chutes. Most of ours are pretty good in the chutes, so I'm happy with that. 00:39:51 Speaker 3: We got to talk about some of the foundational Larry the Cable Guy stuff. 00:39:55 Speaker 2: Absolutely. 00:39:56 Speaker 3: Fish hook on the hat. Where did that come from? Do you ever use it? 00:39:59 Speaker 4: The fish hook on the hat? 00:40:00 Speaker 2: Did you invent that? 00:40:01 Speaker 3: No. 00:40:01 Speaker 2: The fish hook on the hat was when I was a kid growing up. 00:40:06 Speaker 4: Most of the kids, you know, we grew up on farms. 00:40:08 Speaker 2: So it just was a symbol for outdoorsy. 00:40:12 Speaker 1: But that was pre-clip, though. 00:40:15 Speaker 2: Yeah, you made your own. 00:40:16 Speaker 1: Yeah, that was a hook hooked in your hat. 00:40:18 Speaker 2: Yeah, we made our own clips. Oh, so you did. 00:40:20 Speaker 1: You did mount them on a clip. You didn't just jam it under the thread. 00:40:23 Speaker 2: Yeah, you made your own. You had a real hook and made your own clip. Then Eagle Claw came out. The kids were doing it, so they did it themselves. But it was always just what we did. Who started it? I have no idea. 00:40:36 Speaker 3: I feel like you made it popular, though. Like, you should take some real credit for that. 00:40:39 Speaker 2: Yeah, maybe, you know, I could have. But I remember when I was a kid, you know, a lot of the farm kids, a lot of them did it. And it signified... Back then, if you were fishing a lot, you were a kid that fished. What were you guys fishing for back then? Catfish? Oh, man. Bullheads. Bullheads. Carp. 00:40:58 Speaker 3: City ponds. 00:40:59 Speaker 2: Cricks. You know, anything. Anything you could get on. Yeah. Yeah. 00:41:04 Speaker 3: What about get her done? Where'd that come from? 00:41:06 Speaker 2: Get her done. When I was a kid, we'd go to my grandpa's house. So I was probably four or five years old. But my grandpa, he'd always say, we get in the pickup truck. And we'd either go get gas or go check the cows. And it was, let's go. 00:41:22 Speaker 5: Let's get to getting. 00:41:24 Speaker 2: And then get it done. 00:41:27 Speaker 5: We got to go get it done. 00:41:28 Speaker 2: Let's go. We're going to get to getting. So those phrases were always in my head. I didn't think much of it. But when I did, when I started– I started doing Larry the Cable Guy on stage as just a little funny three-minute bit. Because I always did voices and characters. It was fun. 00:41:47 Speaker 1: Like, you would go from your, in a normal set, you'd jump in to be in Larry. 00:41:51 Speaker 2: I'd go, hey, this guy ever come over to your house? Hi. Hi. Did you order cable? That guy was somebody's order time up here. Because we ain't here for no reason. What's your house number? 2070. 00:42:07 Speaker 5: Oh, dadgummit. 00:42:08 Speaker 2: This is 2614. 00:42:08 Speaker 3: We way off. 00:42:11 Speaker 4: You know, that kind of thing. 00:42:12 Speaker 3: Hey, Pedro! 00:42:13 Speaker 2: Pedro! 00:42:14 Speaker 1: Then you'd go back out of it. 00:42:15 Speaker 2: Yeah, and then they would laugh, and then I'd just go back into a regular routine. Yeah, I see. But a buddy of mine saw that. His name is Ron Bennington. We were really good friends back in the day. And he had a morning show in Tampa 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 just called up and I go, hey. I remember when I called. Hello, YNF. 00:42:54 Speaker 4: I literally started like this. 00:42:57 Speaker 2: Hey, boys. 00:42:59 Speaker 4: Y'all want me to do that hookup today, or you want me to wait until tomorrow? 00:43:03 Speaker 2: Well, we're on the air right now. Oh, shoot, you hear this? 00:43:06 Speaker 5: Dadgummit. 00:43:08 Speaker 2: No, no, who is it? 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. 00:43:28 Speaker 4: God is good. 00:43:28 Speaker 2: That's how it works. 00:43:29 Speaker 3: Are there some characters who didn't survive? 00:43:32 Speaker 2: Oh, yeah. Well, I did an old lady from Boca Raton. 00:43:38 Speaker 1: Her name was Rose. 00:43:40 Speaker 4: Sometimes it was Rose. Sometimes it was Iris. 00:43:42 Speaker 2: This is Iris. 00:43:44 Speaker 4: Hello. 00:43:44 Speaker 7: 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. 00:43:57 Speaker 2: You know, just that. 00:43:58 Speaker 4: You know, because you had that just down there. 00:44:01 Speaker 2: And then there was. 00:44:01 Speaker 1: That doesn't have the range. 00:44:03 Speaker 2: There was old man. I love you. You know, just all kinds of stuff. So when I would go into a morning show, I was part of a morning show down in Orlando. I would keep a phone there. And all I did was pick it up and the main line would ring. And so he, hey, we're getting a call. And then my buddy would pick it up. 00:44:23 Speaker 5: And I'd be like, hey, that last caller, I agree with him. 00:44:26 Speaker 4: And I would just do voices. 00:44:28 Speaker 2: It was fun. And you know what's crazy about that? The first time I was on Jimmy Kimmel, 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 95YNF, right, in Tampa. I go, yeah, he goes, so funny. I literally was calling the radio station across the street doing characters for that radio station. Oh, seriously? 00:44:57 Speaker 5: I'm like, no way, really? 00:44:58 Speaker 2: And I was recently on Adam Carolla's show, and Adam says, yeah, you know, me and Jimmy, we used to call radio stations and do characters, so we all kind of started the same way. 00:45:10 Speaker 4: I'm like, wow, that's crazy. 00:45:11 Speaker 2: I had no idea. 00:45:13 Speaker 4: But, yeah, that's pretty much how it started. 00:45:15 Speaker 1: We got a guy we work with, a dear friend of mine and longtime colleague, and as he gets older, he's gone through two transitions where he's taken to running 100-mile races through the mountains. 00:45:29 Speaker 2: Right. 00:45:30 Speaker 1: And somehow, I feel like it's related, but maybe not, he's begun to go sleeveless. 00:45:34 Speaker 2: Yeah. Okay. Best way to go. Now, if you imagined.... 00:45:41 Speaker 1: Like, if you're going to provide advice to a guy going sleeveless, late 40s, going sleeveless, what are some of the mistakes a guy like that could make? What are some of the wins you could have? 00:45:53 Speaker 2: Well, going sleeveless is the greatest thing you'll ever do in your life. Wow. My going sleeveless as far as stage was an accident. You just forgot your sleeve? No, it was an accident because I did wear– I moved to Florida. Uh-huh. 00:46:11 Speaker 4: So I wore sleeveless t-shirts and cause. 00:46:16 Speaker 2: It's hot and humid all the time. 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. Okay. Okay. And I dressed up and I picked flannel shirt because it hangs or, you know, I'm, I'm not like best shape guy. 00:46:37 Speaker 5: I was a lot thinner then, but you know, I wasn't fat. 00:46:41 Speaker 2: I was, you know, big bone. But that shirt, a flannel shirt, really hangs nice. Got it. It looks good. It makes your butt look good. 00:46:52 Speaker 1: You were thinking about your, like, your svelte appearance. 00:46:55 Speaker 4: I was 30 years old. 00:46:58 Speaker 2: So whatever it was. 00:47:00 Speaker 4: Well, you know, they just look good. 00:47:01 Speaker 2: I understand. Yeah. Well, I did wear sleeves, but when it was summertime, I wouldn't. I would wear no sleeves because then in the summer when it's hot, I'd wear sleeves. And when I would travel around the country, it was cold, I'd put sleeves on. Got it. Well, we just 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'll put my other shirt on. I knew it was TV taping, so I wanted to look. 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. 00:47:34 Speaker 5: We wore a shirt with no sleeves. Where's your, you got sleeves. Well, I'll go change. 00:47:38 Speaker 3: So I'd go change, you know? 00:47:40 Speaker 2: So I just went sleeveless on stage. But going sleeveless is the greatest free thing of all time. 00:47:47 Speaker 3: You're a good ambassador for the lifestyle. 00:47:49 Speaker 2: And the only, here's the thing about it. There's really no rule to it. You just want to, you don't get one that's too tight. 00:47:56 Speaker 1: Cause that's, that's a whole different look, man. 00:47:59 Speaker 2: It defeats the whole purpose of the sleeve. That's a whole different look. It hangs and, is comfortable because it's not touching your sides. You're free with your arms. And it's, you know, and you have two different sleeveless looks. You have the sleeveless 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... warmer shorts. You know what I mean? The more material. 00:48:37 Speaker 5: The thick shorts. Every fat guy's. 00:48:39 Speaker 2: Got a thick pair of shorts and a non-thick pair of shorts for when the weather changes. You always wear the same. Where are we at right now in the calendar? 00:48:51 Speaker 1: It's October. He's hot weather sleeveless right now. 00:48:54 Speaker 2: Right now I'm hot weather sleeveless. 00:48:56 Speaker 5: I'm kind of a cool. 00:48:57 Speaker 2: I wore sleeves up here because 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 there. So for you to. 00:49:08 Speaker 1: Go incognito is to have sleeves. 00:49:10 Speaker 5: Yes. 00:49:12 Speaker 2: For me to not get recognized, I got to dress with sleeves. 00:49:15 Speaker 1: Because a lot of guys go sleeveless to get recognized, but you got to go sleeve. yeah you gotta go sleeves under the radar yeah i wear. 00:49:24 Speaker 2: Sleeves to not get recognized yeah and you know it's really funny one time i wanted to go when we were on the road when my in my heyday when we were doing you know arenas i mean nate brigatti 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 in 2005, 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 bought me a Nike full jogging suit, like you'd see a mobster wear back in the day. 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 said, this is great. I look like an idiot, but this is great. 00:50:34 Speaker 3: As opposed to normally, you don't look like an idiot. 00:50:38 Speaker 1: It looks like a brilliant young guy normally. 00:50:40 Speaker 2: You know what, just for that, I'm farting on the set right now, just because you said that. I'll sit the guy. Some guy goes, hold on. Some guy in front of me nudges me and goes, you Larry the Cable Guy? And I go, yeah, don't tell anybody. He goes. 00:51:00 Speaker 2: What are you wearing 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. 00:51:14 Speaker 1: See, I was going to tell you about it. I was going to 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. 00:51:30 Speaker 2: Yeah. 00:51:31 Speaker 1: When he's out and about, but go on. 00:51:34 Speaker 2: Act like he pees. 00:51:34 Speaker 1: I don't want to blow his deal, you know? 00:51:37 Speaker 2: Act like he pees his pants or something. Brian Haley, my buddy Brian Haley, a comedian, is so funny. He looks like Max Hedren. 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. 00:51:58 Speaker 3: Going, ding dong, ding dong. 00:52:01 Speaker 2: He goes, they'll never come near you. 00:52:02 Speaker 1: Kept him away. 00:52:05 Speaker 3: Dan, I used to watch your show Only in America on History Channel. 00:52:08 Speaker 2: Oh, good show. 00:52:09 Speaker 3: The thing I was most jealous of, you got to do so much cool stuff. 00:52:12 Speaker 2: Oh, it's unbelievable. 00:52:13 Speaker 3: 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. 00:52:24 Speaker 2: 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 somebody's going to think this. And, of course, the guy I was with was kind of goofy himself, the game word guy. So he was fun, you know. So we set this thing up. And I'm making jokes like, yeah, nobody's. 00:52:46 Speaker 5: I mean, look at this. 00:52:47 Speaker 2: 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 would drive. 00:53:00 Speaker 4: And then slow down. 00:53:02 Speaker 2: You see, oh no, they're going by. So after about the 15th car that slowed down, I go, I told you they're not going to 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? 00:53:22 Speaker 3: And he goes, you hear, he goes, He shot. 00:53:26 Speaker 2: Let's go. 00:53:31 Speaker 3: The car. 00:53:34 Speaker 2: The car won't start. And I'm like, well, this has to be the dumbest stake I've ever been on in my life. We finally get it started. We go down there. Yeah. 00:53:42 Speaker 4: And the guy actually. 00:53:44 Speaker 2: Because they can do that down there. 00:53:45 Speaker 5: You can shoot on the side of the road. 00:53:48 Speaker 2: If you see one, you just got to make sure you're on the side of the road safely. 00:53:53 Speaker 1: Can't shoot from, across, or whatever road. 00:53:54 Speaker 2: No, because they live on that. 00:53:56 Speaker 4: They are all appointed. 00:53:58 Speaker 2: 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 because we're doing the show. And I go, later on, Robert was seen down at the JCPenney's hitting on a mannequin. 00:54:18 Speaker 3: I'm impressed you never forget a joke. 00:54:21 Speaker 2: No, because that was funny. You know them all. I'll never forget that, that that guy shot it, that stupid joke. 00:54:27 Speaker 1: Dude, they got sophisticated ones. Now, we interviewed a guy in Idaho that worked on that program. 00:54:32 Speaker 2: Right. 00:54:32 Speaker 1: 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 situation of just outstanding circumstance. That no sane person, right? would be able to resist, so you need to use a more modest buck. 00:54:59 Speaker 2: Wow. 00:55:00 Speaker 1: But I can't remember if that was... I need to go revisit why exactly that was the case. Because I'd put a huge buck, and that'd get all the guys driving by. You'd get every guy that drove by. 00:55:09 Speaker 3: Oh, yeah. Dan's episode had a big bull moose, but you could see where the neck met the body. It was like... 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. 00:55:24 Speaker 2: It was, it. 00:55:25 Speaker 4: Was so pathetic, but it made for a funny show. 00:55:28 Speaker 2: Yeah. That was the point of the show. Yeah. 00:55:31 Speaker 3: Uh, I also loved Blair, the cable guy roast on comedy central is one of the most watched ones they've ever had. Who do you think did the best job of roasting you? 00:55:39 Speaker 2: Oh man, that was, uh, they were all good. 00:55:44 Speaker 3: Um, was there anybody who was too mean? 00:55:47 Speaker 1: Yeah, that's gotta be a hard position to be in, man. Getting roasted by people. 00:55:51 Speaker 2: That are good at roasting. Greg Geraldo was mean. But you gotta understand, when I did that roast, I was the number one guy. 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. And Carrot Top is hilarious. He's clever. One of the nicest comics in the world. but you know, people think pie 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 Geraldo came out to me after the podcast backstage and he goes, he literally said, he goes, Hey Dan, I hope you look, um, 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 should be one of the guys. I should be getting roasted. I should have the career you have. 00:56:49 Speaker 1: Wow. 00:56:49 Speaker 2: But I don't have because of myself because I can't. I do this and I do that and I know I shouldn't do. He was just going into his life basically. Huh. And so he goes, so I hope you're not, I don't want to 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. 00:57:10 Speaker 4: I say, Greg, I know what it is. It's a roast, man. 00:57:14 Speaker 2: I can take a joke. I get it. No hard feelings. I was laughing. It's all good. 00:57:19 Speaker 3: So, so it was an awkward ending. 00:57:21 Speaker 2: It was good. Well, it was good. I mean, I knew I was going to get it from a couple of those guys, but If you're going to be a comedian, you got to take it. I don't really, but I've never, like all my stuff is just nonsense stuff. I don't really pound or bang other comedians or anything. Sure, yeah. You know, but I think Jeff was, I'm always going to say Jeff because Jeff is like my adopted older brother. 00:57:45 Speaker 4: But Jeff was classy and he was funny and he was clever. 00:57:48 Speaker 2: 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. Oh, so I requested certain comedians that I wanted and I wanted it PG 13. I said, I want to do a throwback to the Dean Martin roasts because 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 because he's always there. Jeff Ross, who's a buddy of mine. I love Jeff. I'm glad Jeff was. But there were a few people that I didn't know. Like Warren Sapp. I know Warren. I didn't invite Warren. But Dan Marino could make it, so Warren Sapp took his place, which was nice. I know him, so he wanted to do it because I knew him. 00:58:48 Speaker 3: And did your mom watch it? 00:58:50 Speaker 2: Uh i don't think so i told her not to okay i felt bad after i did it you know. 00:58:55 Speaker 8: Oh it's got me though i can't imagine 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 want to come up with some you can but there's so many people so i just relied on I. 00:59:13 Speaker 2: Take that back I did the Warren Sapp one I did where I said it was Toby Keith and it was I figure it was Toby Keith and who was the other 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. I 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. Yeah. I like her. 00:59:58 Speaker 4: She's a nice girl. She's, you know. Then she went up and hammered me. 01:00:01 Speaker 2: And then I'm like, you know what? Screw her. 01:00:02 Speaker 1: Yeah, you got the first shot. 01:00:03 Speaker 2: Yeah. 01:00:04 Speaker 5: Well, yeah, but I didn't. 01:00:06 Speaker 2: I felt bad doing that. I like Maureen McGregor. They had me doing these. Some of them. And then after that, they just got real hateful. 01:00:12 Speaker 5: The Rose really got hateful. 01:00:14 Speaker 1: Yeah. 01:00:14 Speaker 2: And mean. You know, when I did it, they were still pretty lighthearted. Yeah. But, man, they had started getting really hateful and mean after a while. Well, I will say I was uncomfortable doing those about Maureen McCormick because 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 Bunch. 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. 01:00:47 Speaker 1: It's not even funny. 01:00:48 Speaker 2: I understand. But I did it. 01:00:53 Speaker 1: Tell me about what you're working on now. I know you got this American Mayhem deal coming out. What's that all about? 01:00:57 Speaker 4: Yeah, American Mayhem is cool. 01:00:59 Speaker 2: You know what? It's just in the vein of America's Funniest Home Videos. It's videos that are geared toward me. A lot of fallen, a lot of outdoorsy, a lot of rural, a lot of blue-collar type stuff. A lot of, hey, y'all, watch this type stuff. I host it. And then they show the videos. There's another guy on there talking about, you know, saying what's happening. Yeah. And then there's one, there's a thing called Larry's People where I pick my three favorites. Got it. Because these are my people. I hang out with these people. 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. 01:01:46 Speaker 1: And you're doing a boatload of those. 01:01:48 Speaker 4: We already did. 01:01:49 Speaker 2: We shot 52 episodes. So there'll be one a week now for the next 52 weeks. 01:01:54 Speaker 4: And yeah, I mean, it's going all over the country. 01:01:59 Speaker 2: You never know how it's going to go because I premiered, you know, in September when football started. 01:02:06 Speaker 4: So it's like, you know. Hey, our team's playing. 01:02:09 Speaker 2: Yeah, but hold on. Larry's on. 01:02:11 Speaker 3: Let's see Larry for half an hour. 01:02:13 Speaker 2: We'll go back to the first quarter. But 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. 01:02:22 Speaker 1: Get people warmed up. 01:02:23 Speaker 2: Generally, that's how it works. 01:02:26 Speaker 1: And you got more stuff in the cars world, right? I got to tell you, too. So I've always known your stand-up. 01:02:34 Speaker 2: But to be.... 01:02:37 Speaker 1: The role that you took on in my household, so I have 11. 01:02:43 Speaker 2: 13, 16. Oh, yeah, you're right there. 01:02:47 Speaker 1: Like, listen, I don't want to bother you up too much. The Tomator stuff is genius. I mean, it's just like a genius. It's just like an execution of a character. But to be like 11, 13, 16. 01:02:59 Speaker 2: Yeah. 01:03:02 Speaker 1: The role that Tomator had in my household. I was like, Tomator has said more words in my household than I have. 01:03:10 Speaker 2: Yeah. Oh man. 01:03:12 Speaker 1: I'm just like a huge favorite of our kids, man. 01:03:16 Speaker 2: 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. Oh, just like, it just makes people happy. Yeah. 01:03:28 Speaker 4: And I did, I did it right. 01:03:29 Speaker 2: 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. Yeah, yeah. 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, I would have never thought that it turned into what it turned into. Who would have thought that? So I always do... When they ask me, they'll ask the guys, well... There's video games and toys. Gotcha. And they'll say, do you want to voice these? It doesn't pay much, but this is what they're paying. And, you know, everybody, oh, I'm not going to do it. 01:04:10 Speaker 3: You know, I'll do it. 01:04:12 Speaker 2: I don't want nobody else doing it. 01:04:15 Speaker 1: 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? 01:04:23 Speaker 2: Yeah. 01:04:23 Speaker 1: Oh my God. You can't have some other dude do it until Mater. 01:04:27 Speaker 5: Good luck getting anybody that sounds like me. 01:04:29 Speaker 3: It's a hard deal. 01:04:31 Speaker 2: 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. 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. 01:04:58 Speaker 4: Kids would know. 01:04:59 Speaker 2: Kids, people that grew up with Mater and love Mater, if somebody else did it that wasn't me, they would know. 01:05:05 Speaker 3: Good job, security. 01:05:06 Speaker 2: Yeah. 01:05:07 Speaker 4: And I, you know, and I'm not, but. 01:05:09 Speaker 2: 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. Yeah. So, cause 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 Maynard. 01:05:39 Speaker 1: Oh, I can see that. 01:05:41 Speaker 2: Yeah. You know, so. 01:05:43 Speaker 1: I can see that, man. You typecat. You typecat. I typecast myself. 01:05:46 Speaker 2: Yeah. I'm Newman. 01:05:48 Speaker 1: Hey, this isn't live, obviously. 01:05:51 Speaker 2: Right. 01:05:52 Speaker 1: So the truth will be known when this airs. 01:05:55 Speaker 2: Yeah. 01:05:56 Speaker 1: So you're in a very awkward position when I ask you, what's the score? What's the score going to be? 01:06:01 Speaker 2: Oh, the game? Yeah. Here's the deal. 01:06:03 Speaker 1: So people already know that you're right or wrong. 01:06:06 Speaker 4: I was close last week. I was only three points off. 01:06:09 Speaker 2: I said we'd win 34 to 13. We won 31 to 13. Oh, dang. Wow. 01:06:11 Speaker 6: Yeah. 01:06:14 Speaker 1: Give me as much color, as much detail as you want, and then you'll be reality checked. 01:06:20 Speaker 2: Here's the deal. 01:06:20 Speaker 4: I've got that last 10 years in my head. 01:06:23 Speaker 1: The pessimism. 01:06:24 Speaker 2: Are we going to 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. They fired their coach, Maryland. But evidently, there were so many people that wanted him back player-wise. Okay, you're not fired, but we're going to go game by game. And if we see improvement. So his team is going to play. 01:07:02 Speaker 1: That's the coach's situation. Yes. 01:07:04 Speaker 4: So that team. 01:07:05 Speaker 2: Is going to play really hard for that coach today. I'm going to go 45-24. I think they're going to score some points. 01:07:16 Speaker 1: They got a better mascot. They got a better mascot than you guys. 01:07:20 Speaker 2: Don't ever say they have a better mascot than Herbie. 01:07:23 Speaker 3: You sound like a South Dakotan now talking about their corn. 01:07:26 Speaker 1: Don't we eat terrapins? 01:07:28 Speaker 2: What is a terrapin? 01:07:29 Speaker 1: I never had one, but they used to be quite popular. It's like a little turtle guy. 01:07:33 Speaker 2: I don't know. 01:07:34 Speaker 1: Corn husker? What's that supposed to mean? 01:07:35 Speaker 2: 45 husking corn. That's what we do. We husk corn. 01:07:40 Speaker 1: But that's not like a mascot builder. 01:07:42 Speaker 4: We would husk more corn if our soil was better. 01:07:45 Speaker 2: Than South Dakota. 01:07:46 Speaker 1: It wasn't so damn sandy. 01:07:47 Speaker 2: I'd change it. 45-17. Okay. Okay. 45-17. 01:07:51 Speaker 1: There you have it. Don't even go back and watch the game because that's what happened. All right. 01:07:56 Speaker 2: All right. Thanks, man. Are we done now? We're done. 01:07:58 Speaker 1: You got friends coming. 01:07:58 Speaker 2: Hold on. 01:07:59 Speaker 5: I want to talk more about that. 01:08:00 Speaker 1: You can talk all you want. 01:08:02 Speaker 2: No, I'm only kidding. 01:08:03 Speaker 1: I'll try to be respectful of your time because I know you got this whole thing is like filling up with people. 01:08:07 Speaker 2: What time is it? 12.50. Oh, my God. Your friends are coming at one. Well, how long is your podcast? 01:08:12 Speaker 1: However long we make it. 01:08:14 Speaker 2: Can I say one thing? 01:08:15 Speaker 3: You can say all you want. 01:08:16 Speaker 5: Well, I don't want to go yet. 01:08:17 Speaker 1: I'm trying to end it out of respect for your friends. 01:08:19 Speaker 4: No, no. 01:08:20 Speaker 2: You talk all you want. Okay. They aren't really friends. 01:08:23 Speaker 3: You can send your friends in at your point. 01:08:25 Speaker 2: I literally pay people to hang out with me. Okay, cool. 01:08:27 Speaker 1: So before your employees come in. No, you got as much time as you want. 01:08:30 Speaker 2: I want to tell you this because a lot of, I want to let people know this because some people ask me, you didn't. 01:08:35 Speaker 4: How did I come to do Larry the Cable Guy on stage? 01:08:39 Speaker 2: Well, you told us that. No. 01:08:42 Speaker 4: I just told you how good or not. 01:08:44 Speaker 1: No, you said that you would go into a bit or you would do a minute. 01:08:48 Speaker 4: Yeah, but I was Dan Whitney. 01:08:50 Speaker 3: Oh, okay. 01:08:51 Speaker 2: Yeah, please. All right. 01:08:52 Speaker 1: I want to hear everything. I want to hear all this. 01:08:54 Speaker 2: Because I always want to give him credit, okay? So one day, I'm on the radio station. It's real popular. I got it copyrighted, selling T-shirts, the whole thing. My buddy. 01:09:07 Speaker 1: Off just the radio stuff. 01:09:08 Speaker 2: Yes, off the radio stuff. 01:09:09 Speaker 1: Not having done it on stage. 01:09:10 Speaker 2: No, all off radio. 01:09:12 Speaker 3: When the radio thing is happening, would you get recognized by your voice out and about in Florida or no? 01:09:18 Speaker 2: Uh... No, not yet, because I'd never made a public appearance. Face radio kind of deal. It's all radio. It's all theater of the mind. My buddy, Les McCurdy, McCurdy's Comedy Shop, St. Petersburg, Florida, bills me. Now, I just left this radio station and went to another one in Orlando and got syndicated. 01:09:46 Speaker 4: My buddy, Les McCurdy, goes... I show up. 01:09:51 Speaker 2: It's at the banquet room of the Holiday Inn. That's where his comedy club is. I can't find a place to park. And I'm like, what, they got negative Shriners in town? What's going on, right? You know? 01:10:05 Speaker 4: So I walk in and go, man, Les. I mean, what's going on? 01:10:11 Speaker 2: He goes, I can't find a place to park because they're here to see you. 01:10:14 Speaker 5: I go, I literally, I'm a comedian. I go, What'd I do? 01:10:22 Speaker 1: When you said he billed you, I thought you meant like he sent you a bill. 01:10:25 Speaker 2: No, he booked me. 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, a.k.a. Larry the Cable Guy from the 95 YNAF. And I literally was like, ah, Les... What did you do that for? This is 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. I go, really? 01:10:58 Speaker 4: He goes, dude, I announced Larry the Cable Guy, right? 01:11:02 Speaker 2: You do Larry the Cable Guy. I sold like 600 tickets in like 18 minutes. You've got to be kidding me. So I go up for the first show, right? doing good you know my actors were one line or goofy doing good but they kept yelling get it on then one guy hey do some larry get it done we want to hear larry got it got it so then i go so i did a couple jokes as larry right i come back out of it i can't freaking get any laughs so i go let me do. 01:11:39 Speaker 4: A little bit more larry here So you. 01:11:42 Speaker 1: Switched back to Dan, it would bomb. 01:11:43 Speaker 4: Yeah, so, well, it wouldn't bomb, but it wasn't, I was killing, I was doing great. 01:11:48 Speaker 3: Harder. 01:11:48 Speaker 2: But what would. 01:11:50 Speaker 1: Be a Dan, like, let's say you're in the era where you're doing some Larry. 01:11:53 Speaker 7: Same jokes. 01:11:54 Speaker 1: You're Dan doing Larry. What would be a Dan joke? 01:11:57 Speaker 5: Same jokes. 01:12:00 Speaker 2: Remember that dog whisper? That would be a Dan joke. Yeah, my sister, she's a dog whisperer. 01:12:05 Speaker 5: What's that? 01:12:07 Speaker 4: That's what I would do. I was more physical. 01:12:10 Speaker 2: I would do more like hitting my knee or acting like I fell down or more of that slapsticky. 01:12:17 Speaker 3: Boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom. 01:12:20 Speaker 1: Larry would do better on the joke than Dan. 01:12:22 Speaker 2: Larry the cable guy did social commentaries on the radio. What the hell is this, Russia? What's going on with these damn, you know? And I would, very politically incorrect, total Archie Bunker likable. Not mean, but likable. A guy that had a point to say, but littered it with, you know, poop jokes and that like that, right? Strip clubs, that kind of thing. But it made a little point. Like, the best compliment I ever had was a guy came up to me and 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. 01:13:13 Speaker 5: Make pretty good points. 01:13:14 Speaker 2: Right? 01:13:15 Speaker 3: That kind of thing, right? 01:13:16 Speaker 2: Yeah, that kind of thing. 01:13:17 Speaker 4: So I didn't have any jokes for that. 01:13:20 Speaker 2: So I would just, I was doing great until somebody yelled, get her done. 01:13:25 Speaker 5: And then I did a joke that I normally would do as Larry. And ah! Doubled the laugh. And then I go back into me. 01:13:31 Speaker 2: I was still getting good laughs, but they wanted to hear more Larry. So I get done. And then the next show, Les comes up to me and goes, hey, You ever thought about doing your whole show as Larry the Cable Guy? 01:13:46 Speaker 4: I go, Les, I don't want to have an act for Larry. 01:13:50 Speaker 2: Well, just do what you did. Do your act. 01:13:52 Speaker 1: Switch the whole damn thing over. 01:13:53 Speaker 2: So what I had to do was, I was fast. Fast. Larry's slow, meticulous, drawn out. What took me eight seconds to tell a punchline, Larry... the character tells the same punchline, but double the time. 01:14:12 Speaker 1: You don't need to have as many jokes. 01:14:14 Speaker 3: Good for you, too. 01:14:15 Speaker 1: It's economical. 01:14:16 Speaker 2: Yeah, exactly. Like, I do a joke about it. Like, this would be one of my jokes. Man, I was playing pickleball the other day. Oh, man, I was playing pickleball. That's why I'm walking weird. I threw out my pickle. And then laugh after. Larry would be like, well, y'all didn't play pickleball? I was playing pickleball the other day, and daggum, throwed my pickle out. You believe that? 01:14:43 Speaker 5: Daggum pickle. Come right out the shorts. 01:14:46 Speaker 4: You know, just like that. 01:14:47 Speaker 3: That's better. Yes, it's hilarious. 01:14:50 Speaker 2: The way it is said makes it funny. That's what Foxworthy and Engvall always said to me. Jeff would always say. 01:14:57 Speaker 5: I don't know why that joke's funny. It's the way you tell the joke that makes it funny. 01:15:01 Speaker 2: Yeah, there's a... You remember... Jerry Clower. 01:15:05 Speaker 3: Yes. 01:15:06 Speaker 2: He's awesome. 01:15:07 Speaker 1: He's like a forebear almost. He had said, Jerry Clower had once said, I don't tell funny stories. I tell stories funny. 01:15:18 Speaker 4: Yes, exactly. So it's how you tell it. 01:15:21 Speaker 2: So he said, Les goes, can you talk like that for an hour? 01:15:30 Speaker 5: And I told him. 01:15:31 Speaker 2: I go, Les. I grew up on a daggum 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, because that's how he talked. I said, hey, no problem. He says, well, I'm going to take your name off. Just put Larry the Cable Guy up there. I said, all right, I'm going to go change. And I had pants, you know, I had a nice shirt, not a nice shirt, but I had a button down on, you know. And I went to the car and I said, this is going to be awesome. I don't even have to flip it. I hate dressing up. No. 01:16:17 Speaker 4: Because I wore sleeveless stuff. 01:16:19 Speaker 2: I go to the car, which, by the way, if anybody thinks I'm faking it, I drove over in my car. a 1986 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, a Ropers, pair of jeans, a Nebraska Cornhusker sleeveless T-shirt. 01:16:41 Speaker 3: Uh-huh. 01:16:42 Speaker 2: And a NASCAR hat. 01:16:43 Speaker 4: That's exactly what. 01:16:45 Speaker 2: I drove over. 01:16:46 Speaker 1: So you put your clothes back on. 01:16:49 Speaker 2: I put my clothes, I took off my show clothes and put my driving clothes back on. And I went on stage and it was so fun. And I was making myself laugh. I never had more fun in my life doing standup. then doing what I was doing, watching them laugh, but then adding things, because stuff just comes to you, because you're so into the character. 01:17:13 Speaker 4: And then you're just adding stuff. 01:17:15 Speaker 2: 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 laughing on that one. And then I would write it down so I would remember. And that's how it started. I want to tell you that's how it started, because that's how it started, right there. 01:17:30 Speaker 1: What is it like, let's take the.... 01:17:35 Speaker 2: All the cars stuff, right? 01:17:37 Speaker 1: Like, like just hugely popular and influenced just kid after kid after kid for the longest time and adults. 01:17:44 Speaker 2: But in the title, I've got in the title, 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. 01:17:53 Speaker 3: Is this Dan or Larry? That's a, that's farting. 01:17:56 Speaker 2: No, it's Dan. As many milk duds as I eat, it might be both of us. As you wrestle with that. 01:18:07 Speaker 1: Do you ever if you see like in the credits it says larry the cable guy yeah is there like a degree of separation or is that just you. 01:18:14 Speaker 2: No let me tell you i'm glad that we extended this a few minutes yeah that bugs me a little but at the time when i did cars i wanted dan. 01:18:27 Speaker 5: Whitney you did yes hmm They. 01:18:30 Speaker 2: Wanted Larry the Cable Guy 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 movies. All this stuff, they brought to me. I didn't ask for it. They would bring it to me. So it's like my manager said one time, because you can't use your, like when I did my first movie, it's like you can't use your first name. 01:18:54 Speaker 1: Yeah, people would be like, who the hell is that? 01:18:56 Speaker 2: I don't know who you are. 01:18:57 Speaker 4: Here's the thing. Dan, here's the thing. You're a brand now. It's a brand. 01:19:02 Speaker 2: Get her done. Larry the Cable Guy is a brand. So everything you do has to be under this brand. 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. And I got this distinguished service thing for the army. Like I did stuff for the guard and everything. 01:19:32 Speaker 4: And it says, Oh, It says, to Larry the Cable Guy. 01:19:37 Speaker 2: It's like, oh, what the? 01:19:39 Speaker 1: That felt like a Dan thing, man. 01:19:41 Speaker 2: 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 I got from the troops or I got from a hospital. 01:19:52 Speaker 3: You got a jersey around the corner. 01:19:54 Speaker 2: 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, because I created this thing. 01:20:08 Speaker 1: When you die, man, you might need to get one of them double, like, you know how they see the Ten Commandments on the two stone tablets? 01:20:15 Speaker 2: Yeah. 01:20:15 Speaker 1: When you die, you get a double headstone. 01:20:18 Speaker 2: I should. 01:20:19 Speaker 1: Dan and Larry. 01:20:20 Speaker 2: Absolutely. And, of course, this stone will be nicer than mine. He's got all the money. 01:20:25 Speaker 1: One stone will say he got her done. 01:20:27 Speaker 2: Got her done, got her did. 01:20:30 Speaker 5: Get her done, got her did. 01:20:31 Speaker 2: That's what it is. 01:20:33 Speaker 3: Cable guy is also kind of an old-timey reference by now. I imagine kids, they're like, what's a cable guy? 01:20:38 Speaker 2: Yeah, I know. 01:20:39 Speaker 1: I never even thought of that. 01:20:40 Speaker 2: Yeah, no, yeah. 01:20:41 Speaker 1: It'd be like me trying to explain stuff to my kids from not that long ago. 01:20:44 Speaker 2: Yeah. 01:20:45 Speaker 1: I'm like, dude, when I was a kid, man, you went to do the phone. 01:20:48 Speaker 2: You went. 01:20:49 Speaker 1: They can't even understand what. 01:20:51 Speaker 2: I'm talking about. They don't even need to know. You know what? 01:20:53 Speaker 4: I have no idea. 01:20:55 Speaker 2: It's like one of those things that's just stuck. It doesn't even mean anything anymore. It's just... You know, it's like Cedric the Entertainer. You know? Larry the Cable Guy. I mean, it's just. 01:21:05 Speaker 4: It doesn't even. 01:21:07 Speaker 2: occur to me about being a cable installer. 01:21:10 Speaker 4: It's just like it's Larry the Cable. 01:21:12 Speaker 1: You kind of forgot that detail. 01:21:13 Speaker 2: It makes no sense. And I got irritated at DirecTV one time because they were running those commercials with celebrities. You know? Stupid. I can't remember. 01:21:24 Speaker 1: What commercials? 01:21:25 Speaker 4: DirecTV was running a commercial with. 01:21:27 Speaker 2: That actor, that real good-looking actor back in the day. That one. What's his name? He was part of the troupe. The... You know what I'm talking about? He was in, what was the, I can't remember his name. Anyway, he was a good looking, they were running commercials with him. He was a good looking guy. Yeah, I can't remember. 01:21:48 Speaker 4: And the first thing. 01:21:51 Speaker 1: Your friends are trying to break in. 01:21:52 Speaker 2: I know. They might just wave. The first thing that I thought was, why don't they get me? Larry the Cable Guy is switching to DirecTV. 01:22:02 Speaker 1: Oh, dude, that would have been genius. 01:22:04 Speaker 4: It would have been huge! 01:22:05 Speaker 1: Larry the DirecTV guy. 01:22:07 Speaker 2: And here's what irritates me about corporate. Larry the Cable Guy has switched to DirecTV. Yeah. Right? 01:22:14 Speaker 4: And then I come out, that's right! 01:22:16 Speaker 5: I'm now Larry the DirecTV guy! 01:22:18 Speaker 1: Man! 01:22:18 Speaker 5: And you can get. 01:22:19 Speaker 4: I mean, it was the perfect sales pitch. 01:22:21 Speaker 3: Gotta change your business. 01:22:22 Speaker 2: Because at the time, well, Larry the Cable Guy is only really... for one part of the country, you know, because 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, you know, with women. You know what I mean? 01:22:53 Speaker 1: No, I know exactly what you mean. 01:22:54 Speaker 5: They're getting all kinds of corporate stuff. 01:22:56 Speaker 4: I'm like going, how am I controversial when you got, you know what I mean? 01:23:01 Speaker 2: What's his name? Who's the guy? What's that one rapper that's always out? Snoop Dogg. Yeah. 01:23:06 Speaker 5: I got nothing against Snoop Dogg. 01:23:07 Speaker 1: Dude, he's become like a national spokesperson. 01:23:08 Speaker 5: God bless Snoop Dogg. 01:23:09 Speaker 4: He's done a good job. I'm sure he's a nice guy. 01:23:12 Speaker 5: But I didn't say, you know? And somebody even asked him. 01:23:17 Speaker 2: One time, do you apologize now for some of the things you said about? No, man, because I'll. 01:23:21 Speaker 3: Tell you this. 01:23:22 Speaker 5: And he was like, he doubled down. 01:23:23 Speaker 2: But you were controversial. 01:23:24 Speaker 5: And next thing you know, two Super Bowl commercials. Meanwhile, you know, I'm like. 01:23:30 Speaker 2: Don't get me started. 01:23:31 Speaker 4: That just gets frustrating. 01:23:33 Speaker 2: That would have been the perfect direct TV commercial. 100%. There's a lot of hypocrisy in corporate, who they get and who they don't get. Look, I've had a good career. I ain't worried about it. 01:23:44 Speaker 4: But I'm just saying, that DirecTV pissed me off. 01:23:47 Speaker 1: Yeah, no, that was a missed opportunity. 01:23:48 Speaker 3: Could have been you. 01:23:49 Speaker 1: But listen, Snoop Dogg, he ain't no Tomator, though, man. 01:23:52 Speaker 5: He ain't no Tomator. 01:23:54 Speaker 2: And look, I don't say that. I love everybody. And 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 say you're too controversial, but then they'll put somebody else that's even way more controversial. 01:24:07 Speaker 1: You know what I mean? We need to find that DirecTV person, the exec or whatever agency they use, and we need to say, in hindsight, In hindsight, do you recognize the missed opportunity? And maybe you'll get the comeuppance you deserve. But you'll say, every night as I'm going to bed, I think about that I didn't cast Larry, the DirecTV guy. 01:24:29 Speaker 2: They're never going to do it. 01:24:31 Speaker 4: No, thanks for having me on, guys. Sorry, I wanted to tell you that story, though, because I think that's important. 01:24:36 Speaker 2: Oh, I love the story. A lot of people don't know how I started doing it on stage. That's how I did it. 01:24:42 Speaker 1: That's a great story. 01:24:42 Speaker 3: Excited for the game. 01:24:43 Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm going to have to ask you to get out of here. 01:24:45 Speaker 1: These dudes are looking in from that window now. 01:24:47 Speaker 2: I know, I know. They think we're doing a Husker show. All right, man, thank you very much. 01:24:52 Speaker 4: Yeah, thanks for having me. You guys are hanging for. 01:24:54 Speaker 2: The game, right? Yep. All right. All right, take it easy. And we got hot dogs. 01:24:59 Speaker 3: Get her that! 01:25:19 Speaker 2: Thank you.