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Ep. 945: Larry the Cable Guy · The MeatEater Podcast

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  Speaker 3: All right, everybody.
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  Speaker 1: We're joined today by Dan Whitney. He probably knows Larry
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  Speaker 1: the Cable Guy. We were laughing this morning because we
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  Speaker 1: caught a quote from you, Spencer and I. We caught
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  Speaker 1: a quote from you where you said, Larry makes the money.
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  Speaker 2: That's right.
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  Speaker 4: Larry makes the money and I spend the money.
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  Speaker 2: Thank you, Larry. You're welcome. You're welcome.
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  Speaker 1: Tell everybody what we're at right now.
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  Speaker 2: We are in my sweet box, by the way, the
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  Speaker 2: best sweet box in the stadium, for the University of Nebraska.
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  Speaker 2: Taking on Maryland. We're about to go 5-0 for the
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  Speaker 2: first time in like 12 years. Trying to build us
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  Speaker 2: back into the great program that we once were, that
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  Speaker 2: you know and love from the 70s, 80s, and 90s. Yeah. So, yeah,
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  Speaker 2: so we're doing the show from my sweet box. Homecoming.
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  Speaker 1: You're going to meet someone.
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  Speaker 2: Homecoming. Oh, that's right.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, it's homecoming too.
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  Speaker 5: We might be crowned king or queen.
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  Speaker 1: That's great.
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  Speaker 5: I'm so excited.
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  Speaker 1: You're going to meet someone in a moment. And I
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  Speaker 1: was trying to, I asked her to sell me on
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  Speaker 1: the game.
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  Speaker 2: Right.
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  Speaker 1: And she did a great job. She laid out this
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  Speaker 1: whole epic story about how you guys haven't won anything
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  Speaker 1: in decades.
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  Speaker 2: We've had a rough club.
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  Speaker 1: And now you've got four. If you win today, it's
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  Speaker 1: five in a row. And she made it seem like
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  Speaker 1: the most important game that could possibly happen.
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  Speaker 2: It really has.
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  Speaker 1: Even though it's not that important of a game.
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  Speaker 2: You just want us to pull out of this slump
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  Speaker 2: so bad. So we're like, oh my gosh, we could
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  Speaker 2: be 5-0. And then in the back of your head,
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  Speaker 2: it's like the last nine, ten years anyway. 2016, we
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  Speaker 2: had a good year. But you're like, oh my gosh.
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  Speaker 2: Is this really, are we really playing this well? Or
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  Speaker 2: is this a fluke? Are we going to blow it
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  Speaker 2: all this week? In the back of every Nebraskan's head,
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  Speaker 2: it's like, even if it's 24 to three, say we
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  Speaker 2: got a 21 point lead with five minutes left in
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  Speaker 2: the game, still in the back of your head, we're
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  Speaker 2: going to blow it.
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  Speaker 3: Tortured fans.
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  Speaker 2: It's never over until that whistle goes, you know? So anyway,
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  Speaker 2: that's a big, a big deal. I appreciate you coming
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  Speaker 2: here to do the, do it.
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  Speaker 1: Oh, this is a great place to do it.
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  Speaker 2: I thought this would be a great venue.
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  Speaker 1: Because Spencer, I was saying, he's an actual football fan.
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  Speaker 2: He knows all the rules.
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  Speaker 3: Special place to be.
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  Speaker 2: It is. It's iconic here.
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  Speaker 1: He grew up one state off.
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  Speaker 2: Where at?
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  Speaker 3: South Dakota, just like 30 minutes from the Nebraska border.
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  Speaker 2: We got a lot of good players from South Dakota.
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  Speaker 2: I got no problem with South Dakota.
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  Speaker 3: Good, good.
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  Speaker 1: Here's how we got to start.
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  Speaker 2: I don't know why South Dakota calls us names. We
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  Speaker 2: don't call them names.
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  Speaker 3: He told me that this morning. Well, I wasn't sure
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  Speaker 3: if you guys were aware that in South Dakota we'd
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  Speaker 3: call you sand lizards because of your inferior soil. Is
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  Speaker 3: that something you were aware of, that you're a sand lizard?
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  Speaker 2: I've never really looked at people's soil enough to make
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  Speaker 2: fun of them.
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  Speaker 3: That's why you're in Nebraska.
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  Speaker 5: That's a South Dakota challenge.
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  Speaker 3: That's a sand lizard thing.
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  Speaker 4: I understand there's not a lot to do in South Dakota.
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  Speaker 2: I know, I know.
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  Speaker 5: But when you're talking about it.
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  Speaker 2: Your soil's inferior than our soil. That's not really a burn.
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  Speaker 3: You're right. That's a reflection on us. We need to
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  Speaker 3: work on that.
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  Speaker 1: That's more of a geological observation than a character observation.
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  Speaker 2: I'm not offended by it.
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  Speaker 1: Being a football game, we've got to start with something. Now,
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  Speaker 1: we've been engaged in this very long process that you
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  Speaker 1: haven't been involved in of trying to find a way
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  Speaker 1: to make, this might seem trivial, but hear me out,
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  Speaker 1: Trying to find a way to make a regular, normal
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  Speaker 1: hot dog.
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  Speaker 2: Right.
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  Speaker 1: With deer meat.
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  Speaker 2: Okay.
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  Speaker 1: People are always passing off venison hot dogs, and you
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  Speaker 1: eat it, and you're like, it's just not a hot dog.
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  Speaker 1: You made a sausage.
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  Speaker 4: It's like an AI hot dog.
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  Speaker 2: It's not good.
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  Speaker 1: So we teamed up with... We were able to send...
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  Speaker 1: Come on over, Layla.
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  Speaker 2: This is Layla, everybody.
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  Speaker 1: This is Layla Benzor from the Lawful Meat Lab here at.
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  Speaker 2: University of Nebraska.
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  Speaker 3: Go Big Red!
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  Speaker 2: Go Big Red! Yeah, that's right. So she....
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  Speaker 1: Is a meat scientist here at this very university. At
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  Speaker 1: this very university. Studies hot dogs.
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  Speaker 2: Can I ask her something? Ask her everything. When you
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  Speaker 2: were little, did people come up to you and go, Salela,
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  Speaker 2: what do you want to be?
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  Speaker 5: When you grow up, a meat scientist.
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  Speaker 2: That's right.
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  Speaker 1: At what age did you realize you're calling?
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  Speaker 2: Oh, man.
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  Speaker 6: When I was little, we used to process hogs in
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  Speaker 6: our garage for Christmas. That was kind of my first
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  Speaker 6: meat thing. I didn't know I wanted to be a
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  Speaker 6: meat scientist then. I thought I was going to be
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  Speaker 6: a horse judger and then I went to college and
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  Speaker 6: that didn't go well. So I switched over to meat science.
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  Speaker 6: So I guess I was about 20 or so. That
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  Speaker 6: 20 to 22 age range is a little blurry.
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  Speaker 2: So I don't know about the timeline. So you grew
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  Speaker 2: up on a pig farm? Not exactly.
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  Speaker 6: So I grew up in North Texas, but I'm Hispanic
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  Speaker 6: and it's really traditional for us to slaughter a hog
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  Speaker 6: around Christmas time and make tamales and that kind of stuff.
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  Speaker 2: So yeah, we.
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  Speaker 6: You know, we processed our own meat at home and
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  Speaker 6: then it kind of just felt really natural when I
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  Speaker 6: went to college and this was an option.
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  Speaker 1: How do you say hot dog in Spanish?
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  Speaker 2: Salchicha.
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  Speaker 1: Tell me again?
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  Speaker 2: Salchicha. Okay. Salchicha. I mean, that's common knowledge.
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  Speaker 1: That's common. And then, so we sent the deer meat down.
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  Speaker 2: Wouldn't it be frio perro? Hot dog, perro caliente. Perro caliente.
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  Speaker 2: Perro caliente. Yeah. Frío means cold dog. Yeah, cold dog.
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  Speaker 2: I speak a little Spanish.
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  Speaker 1: I'm catching that.
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  Speaker 2: Estudiaremos español muy poquito en la escuela. Okay. Wow.
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  Speaker 1: You were just ketchup, weren't you?
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  Speaker 2: I'm good here. You got yours.
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  Speaker 1: This is me. Thin bead.
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  Speaker 2: See, now they yell at you when you're like, a
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  Speaker 2: hot dog is only mustard only. I know.
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  Speaker 1: I knew all that. I thought about that. I thought
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  Speaker 1: about when you asked me what I wanted on it,
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  Speaker 1: I didn't want to insult your like insult you by
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  Speaker 1: doing the ketchup thing. So I thought maybe you were
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  Speaker 1: a snob. But then you told me you've also early
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  Speaker 1: on had an interest in research in hot dogs. You
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  Speaker 1: said it's like a poor people's food. And there's not
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  Speaker 1: a lot of research into food that would be like
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  Speaker 1: lower economic class foods.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, exactly.
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  Speaker 6: Who am I to tell you what you want on
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  Speaker 6: your hot dog?
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  Speaker 2: You put on anything you want on your hot dog.
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  Speaker 4: You should let people eat the hot dog as much
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  Speaker 4: as they want.
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  Speaker 2: What kind of hot dog? Exactly.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, so this is a genuine, this is a University
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  Speaker 1: of Nebraska.
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  Speaker 2: Yep.
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  Speaker 1: Lawful meat lab with just regular hunter-killed deer meat.
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  Speaker 2: Yep.
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  Speaker 1: Dragged out of the woods.
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  Speaker 2: For real. 100%.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, dragged out of the woods.
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  Speaker 3: This could be the answer.
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  Speaker 2: My boy shot this. For real? I might try it. Mm-hmm.
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  Speaker 2: There we go.
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  Speaker 1: I can say already you did the impossible. You made
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  Speaker 1: a regular hot dog.
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  Speaker 3: The taste is there. The texture is there. You wouldn't
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  Speaker 3: know it's deer.
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  Speaker 2: No, but you would know it's got a hearty flavor.
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  Speaker 2: It's got not a regular hot dog wiener flavor.
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  Speaker 4: It's a little zhuzhed up.
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  Speaker 2: Is it like a smokier taste?
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  Speaker 6: Yeah, so I made these very artisanally in our research kitchen,
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  Speaker 6: which is just really like a restaurant-style kitchen, but with
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  Speaker 6: things that you could do that you could use at home.
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  Speaker 6: And I smoke these at my house in my personal smoker.
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  Speaker 6: So that's pecan wood you're tasting there.
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  Speaker 2: Really?
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  Speaker 1: But it's got the snap.
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  Speaker 7: Yep.
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  Speaker 1: And I'll tell you, when I made deer meat hot
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  Speaker 1: dogs in the past, you could bend them over. That's right, yeah.
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  Speaker 1: You could fold them like a paper clip.
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  Speaker 6: It looked like an imitation crab stick instead of a
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  Speaker 6: hot dog.
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  Speaker 1: You could tie it in knots. This has got snap.
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  Speaker 3: What percentage pork are these?
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  Speaker 6: Oh, these are about, I believe, 15% fat.
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  Speaker 3: That's like a winning percentage, too. It's not like this
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  Speaker 3: is a pork hot dog.
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  Speaker 6: Yeah, it's pretty low in fat and water. It's very,
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  Speaker 6: very protein heavy.
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  Speaker 2: You know, I played golf with George Lopez one time.
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  Speaker 1: Oh, yeah.
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  Speaker 2: And I believe he said that he smoked stuff in
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  Speaker 2: his house as well.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: We love our smoked meats, man.
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  Speaker 1: We're going to meet with.
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  Speaker 2: Man, this is. I like it. No, it's great.
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  Speaker 1: And we're going to meet. We're meeting very early tomorrow
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  Speaker 1: to make hot dogs. Yes.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 6: Broad and early.
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  Speaker 2: 7 a.m. meet up. That's right.
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  Speaker 1: Hot dog making 7 a.m.
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  Speaker 2: Tomorrow.
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  Speaker 1: University of Nebraska.
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  Speaker 2: That's right. All right, Laila.
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  Speaker 1: Thanks for bringing us out.
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  Speaker 2: But I'll say that you won.
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  Speaker 1: It's got the snap. It's got the taste. It is
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  Speaker 1: possible to make a normal deer meat hot dog.
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  Speaker 6: It is possible.
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  Speaker 1: It's not easy, but it is possible.
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  Speaker 2: No, but it is good. I like it. No, I
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  Speaker 2: think it's great. No, it brings me into this. Can
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  Speaker 2: I do this? This reminds me of one of my
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  Speaker 2: only favorite jokes I ever wrote.
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  Speaker 3: Please.
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  Speaker 2: It's my wife's favorite joke, and Laila, you remind me
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  Speaker 2: of this. I used to do a joke about my sister.
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  Speaker 4: It was the strangest job on the planet.
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  Speaker 2: She's a hot dog whisperer. Okay. And I didn't know
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  Speaker 2: what it was. Mm-hmm. So I said, what is a
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  Speaker 2: hot dog whisperer? And he said, give me a hot dog.
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  Speaker 2: I'll show you. She goes, boy, that's a good hot dog. Okay.
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  Speaker 2: I know, right? That's good. That's one of my all-time favorites.
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  Speaker 2: jokes ever.
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  Speaker 3: And does that joke kill? Does the audience go crazy
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  Speaker 3: for that one?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah.
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  Speaker 3: Can I tell you my favorite Larry the Cable Guy joke?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: We'll see if you remember it. It's about your wife
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  Speaker 3: taking last name. Do you remember this joke?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: Well, so Steve and I, we both married women who
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  Speaker 3: did not take our last name. So will you tell
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  Speaker 3: Steve the joke so Steve can enjoy it? This is
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  Speaker 3: really good. I don't think it was my favorite joke
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  Speaker 3: when I was a kid, but when I got older,
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  Speaker 3: I was like, that's my favorite.
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  Speaker 2: I love this girl. We were going to get married,
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  Speaker 2: but she didn't want to take my name. And I'm like, well,
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  Speaker 2: you got to take my name. But besides that, I
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  Speaker 2: think it'd be cool, both of us named Larry. I
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  Speaker 2: love that.
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  Speaker 1: I got it.
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  Speaker 2: I got it.
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  Speaker 1: You were mentioning it.
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  Speaker 5: That's a good joke.
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  Speaker 3: That's a very good joke.
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  Speaker 2: That's a good one.
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  Speaker 1: My favorite, see, now that we're getting into this, I
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  Speaker 1: think my favorite joke of yours was, this is an
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  Speaker 1: old one, but you were explaining how deer, a lot
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  Speaker 1: of people don't know of it, deer like the kardashians
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  Speaker 1: get a new rack every.
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  Speaker 2: Year yeah a new rack every year and then when
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  Speaker 2: i hunt i dress in orange and stand by the
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  Speaker 2: highway they think i'm a road comb they think they
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  Speaker 2: think i'm a road comb.
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  Speaker 1: How we got on to i want to tell you
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  Speaker 1: how uh i want to tell you something jeff foxworthy
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  Speaker 1: said about you and this this is who is it
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  Speaker 1: again jeff a guy named jeff foxworthy just a kind
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  Speaker 1: of a you know he's kind of a niche a
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  Speaker 1: niche a niche little known comedian named jeff foxworthy This
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  Speaker 1: is kind of the genesis of me wanting to talk
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  Speaker 1: to you. Jeff Foxworthy was talking about you. And we
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  Speaker 1: were kind of talking about deer hunting and everything. But
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  Speaker 1: after we got done, Jeff Foxworthy.
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  Speaker 2: Was saying.
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  Speaker 1: How his friend Dan has golfed at that time. He said,
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  Speaker 1: my friend Dan has golfed 20 years. And he says,
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  Speaker 1: in that 20 years, he is no better than the
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  Speaker 1: first time he golfed.
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  Speaker 2: First of all. Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: And then I soon realized you was talking about you.
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  Speaker 2: First of all, I've only been golfing for 16 years. Okay.
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  Speaker 3: That's a good correction.
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  Speaker 2: But Jeff is pretty close to that. I tell everybody,
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  Speaker 2: I go, my handicap has improved five point, five strokes,
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  Speaker 2: and it's only cost me three and a half million dollars. Okay.
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  Speaker 4: Golf is the most frustrating sport on the planet.
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  Speaker 3: You keep doing it, though.
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  Speaker 2: I love it.
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  Speaker 1: What do you like about it?
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  Speaker 2: It's just, I love it. It's relaxing, and when you
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  Speaker 2: get older, it's the only sport where you can actually
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  Speaker 2: still hit, play, and have a shot like a professional
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  Speaker 2: can do. You know what I mean?
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  Speaker 4: You can still make a long putt like a pro does.
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  Speaker 2: Got it. You can have the best putter in the
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  Speaker 2: world out there, and if you're both hitting... 20 foot
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  Speaker 2: putts and you're a good putter, you can hit him
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  Speaker 2: just as good as he can. I mean, he'll probably
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  Speaker 2: make more, but you know what I mean? You can compete.
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  Speaker 2: Got it. Every now and then you'll be 145 yards out.
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  Speaker 2: You'll take your nine iron and you'll drop it three
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  Speaker 2: feet from the pin. That's what pros do. You can't
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  Speaker 2: do that anywhere else. I can't play football anymore. I
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  Speaker 2: can't play basketball anymore. No, I understand.
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  Speaker 4: I love baseball. That's my favorite sport. I can't get
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  Speaker 4: down on.
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  Speaker 2: The ground ball anymore. I played in a celebrity softball tournament,
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  Speaker 2: and I took my first swing, and I'm not kidding.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, my innards were coming out my hind end.
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  Speaker 2: I was like, oh, my gosh, why is my butt burning?
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  Speaker 2: What did I just do? You know what?
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  Speaker 4: I'll just coach.
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  Speaker 2: And I loved it. I love playing baseball, and I
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  Speaker 2: love playing league softball.
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  Speaker 4: Can't do it. Golf, I can do it.
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  Speaker 2: And I used to hate golf. I used to hate it.
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  Speaker 2: But I'm getting a little better. You know, I got
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  Speaker 2: a simulator. I bought a simulator. And I had to
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  Speaker 2: let five people play through.
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  Speaker 3: Steve's not going to get that joke. No, I got
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  Speaker 3: that joke. Okay, a lot of our audience will, but
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  Speaker 3: Steve might not.
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  Speaker 2: I got that joke, man. And it's fun. You do
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  Speaker 2: a lot of celebrity. You do celebrity tournaments, charity tournaments,
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  Speaker 2: all for charity, which is fun. So I'm doing something
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  Speaker 2: I like, raising money. Man, I did five charity tournaments.
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  Speaker 2: Or four. I was going to do five. One was
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  Speaker 2: for the Make-A-Wish Foundation, and their wish was for me
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  Speaker 2: not to participate this year. So I wanted to make
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  Speaker 2: the kids happy.
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  Speaker 6: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: You know, one of my all-time favorites. I got to
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  Speaker 2: tell you this joke. This is one of my all-time favorites.
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  Speaker 2: This is really stupid. I just joke about. I do
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  Speaker 2: this joke about, I was in this golf tournament in
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  Speaker 2: Las Vegas, and we get done, and I'm in the
• 14:52
  Speaker 2: lobby of the hotel, and here comes Henry Winkler from
• 14:55
  Speaker 2: Happy Days wanting to borrow $ 500. And I'm thinking, well,
• 15:01
  Speaker 2: you're a dang Henry Winkler.
• 15:03
  Speaker 5: Why do you need $ 500?
• 15:03
  Speaker 2: And he's like, well, I don't want to run upstairs
• 15:05
  Speaker 2: and get my money. Larry, I swear, I'll give you $ 500,
• 15:09
  Speaker 2: and I'll meet you here in an hour, and I'll
• 15:11
  Speaker 2: give you $ 2, 000. I think, all right. So I give
• 15:15
  Speaker 2: Henry Winkler $ 500. I haven't seen Henry Winkler in 30
• 15:20
  Speaker 2: years since then, you know? So I got the research
• 15:24
  Speaker 2: and it turns out I got caught up in a
• 15:26
  Speaker 2: Fonzie scheme. See, that's what brings in the big dollars.
• 15:34
  Speaker 2: That kind of humor. He's a fisherman.
• 15:36
  Speaker 1: I don't even know that.
• 15:37
  Speaker 4: Fonzie?
• 15:38
  Speaker 1: Yeah, Fonzie's a fisherman.
• 15:39
  Speaker 2: He just goes like this and the fish come up.
• 15:42
  Speaker 2: He's a fisherman.
• 15:43
  Speaker 4: I heard that he's one of the nicest guys in
• 15:45
  Speaker 4: the business.
• 15:46
  Speaker 2: I'd love to meet him. He seems like a nice guy.
• 15:49
  Speaker 3: Dan, I know something you could spend Larry's money on.
• 15:52
  Speaker 3: I'm guessing you've seen that you can buy a urinal
• 15:55
  Speaker 3: from the old stadium. Are you going to do it?
• 15:57
  Speaker 2: No.
• 15:58
  Speaker 3: You're not going to? Only $ 3, 000.
• 16:01
  Speaker 2: I know. I don't think. I remember them urinals.
• 16:06
  Speaker 3: You used those urinals.
• 16:08
  Speaker 2: I did. I think first game I ever came, I
• 16:11
  Speaker 2: sat right over there with a friend of mine. And
• 16:13
  Speaker 2: it was an Oklahoma game. We won. I remember. Jerry
• 16:16
  Speaker 2: Godowski was quarterback. That's the thing about Nebraska fans. You
• 16:19
  Speaker 2: remember every game. You remember the wins. I don't remember
• 16:21
  Speaker 2: a lot about dates or– marriage details but i know
• 16:27
  Speaker 2: where i was sitting my first day right over there
• 16:30
  Speaker 2: and i did use the urinal yes and they're disgusting
• 16:33
  Speaker 2: and i don't want that in my head if it's
• 16:35
  Speaker 2: sitting i mean where would i even put it i
• 16:37
  Speaker 2: don't know hey come on i want to show you
• 16:38
  Speaker 2: my remember this everybody peed.
• 16:40
  Speaker 3: They have a lot of recommendations they say you could
• 16:42
  Speaker 3: fill it with flowers uh you could make it a
• 16:45
  Speaker 3: centerpiece in your garage.
• 16:46
  Speaker 1: It's porcelain what do they call that enamel.
• 16:48
  Speaker 3: Turn it into outdoor decor They got a lot of
• 16:51
  Speaker 3: recommendations on how you can use that.
• 16:53
  Speaker 2: Yeah, you could do a planter out of it. As
• 16:57
  Speaker 2: a matter of fact, I think there was some moss
• 16:58
  Speaker 2: growing in it when it was here.
• 16:59
  Speaker 3: I bet there was. They look like it.
• 17:02
  Speaker 2: They look like it.
• 17:03
  Speaker 4: I think there was already stuff growing in it.
• 17:06
  Speaker 3: Dan, I read in a 2014 interview that you said, okay,
• 17:10
  Speaker 3: we'll find out. You said you'd rather bass fish than
• 17:12
  Speaker 3: deer hunt any day of the week.
• 17:13
  Speaker 2: Yeah, you know what? Is that really true?
• 17:17
  Speaker 4: Look, I love hunting.
• 17:18
  Speaker 2: I love to go. I go down south. Here we go.
• 17:21
  Speaker 2: We shoot doves, birds. I love bird hunting. I love
• 17:23
  Speaker 2: shooting critters, coyotes, possums. Deer hunting, I just, man. I
• 17:32
  Speaker 2: don't want to sit in a tree stand freezing all night.
• 17:36
  Speaker 2: I've just never been into that. I grew up on
• 17:39
  Speaker 2: a farm raising pigs and the whole deal. So when
• 17:42
  Speaker 2: I grew up, it was all about fishing. When I
• 17:45
  Speaker 2: was a kid, I went fishing all the time. And so,
• 17:49
  Speaker 2: you know, I just grew up with that. Now, do
• 17:51
  Speaker 2: I hunt? Yeah, I've gone hunting a lot. Jeff always
• 17:53
  Speaker 2: invites me.
• 17:54
  Speaker 4: God bless Jeff.
• 17:55
  Speaker 2: I love Jeff. Jeff always invites me.
• 17:57
  Speaker 1: Dude, if you get an invitation to that place, I
• 17:59
  Speaker 1: would be going and doing that.
• 18:00
  Speaker 2: Hey, you ought to come. Hey, you want to go
• 18:02
  Speaker 2: with us? We're going to fly you into Canada. Oh,
• 18:04
  Speaker 2: that kind of hunt. They're going to drop us off.
• 18:07
  Speaker 2: We're going to get on horseback, and we're going to hunt, blah, blah, blah,
• 18:10
  Speaker 2: for 10 days.
• 18:11
  Speaker 5: I'll be honest.
• 18:13
  Speaker 4: I just got off the road.
• 18:15
  Speaker 2: I don't want to go flying into Canada and sitting
• 18:18
  Speaker 2: on a horse and sitting in a cabin. Jeff likes it,
• 18:21
  Speaker 2: which I love, and that he does like it. I'm
• 18:23
  Speaker 2: glad people do. So you give me that... You give
• 18:28
  Speaker 2: me that, right? Oh, that. That speaks to you. I
• 18:30
  Speaker 2: don't know what I got. What is this?
• 18:32
  Speaker 1: For you people just listening, he is pantomiming, hooking into.
• 18:35
  Speaker 2: A huge bass. Oh, yeah. You're not.
• 18:37
  Speaker 4: Yeah, you're right. You guys, I forgot. This isn't like. Yeah,
• 18:41
  Speaker 4: so just.
• 18:41
  Speaker 1: No, a good percentage of the viewers will see it,
• 18:43
  Speaker 1: but the other ones, they need to know that he
• 18:44
  Speaker 1: just hooked a giant.
• 18:46
  Speaker 4: I love, I love bass fishing. You know, they jump
• 18:49
  Speaker 4: out of the water.
• 18:51
  Speaker 2: When you do the top water and they pop, there's
• 18:53
  Speaker 2: just something about it. And I love fishing. And it's
• 18:57
  Speaker 2: not that I got... Hunt all you want, you know?
• 19:00
  Speaker 2: I'm just... I'd much rather do that. More of an angler. Yeah,
• 19:03
  Speaker 2: I just never... Now, Jeff, when we were on tour
• 19:05
  Speaker 2: all the time, look, I was gone all the time.
• 19:08
  Speaker 2: I lived on a tour bus. Me, my wife, then
• 19:11
  Speaker 2: we had kids. So I lived on a tour bus.
• 19:14
  Speaker 2: We did 276 days a year out on a tour bus. Serious.
• 19:19
  Speaker 2: So when I would get home and I would have
• 19:21
  Speaker 2: 10 days off, the last thing I was going to
• 19:24
  Speaker 2: do was go. No, I like what Jeff does now.
• 19:28
  Speaker 2: I like going out. We got targets. Me and my kid,
• 19:30
  Speaker 2: my kid loves to hunt. So we'd go out and,
• 19:33
  Speaker 2: you know, take your bow and you shoot.
• 19:35
  Speaker 4: We used to do it on tour.
• 19:36
  Speaker 2: We'd take our bows and Jeff and me and Bill
• 19:38
  Speaker 2: and Ron, we'd shoot stuff, you know, out in the
• 19:41
  Speaker 2: targets in the back. That was Jeff's idea. That ended
• 19:44
  Speaker 2: real quick when one of us missed, hit the cement
• 19:46
  Speaker 2: wall and started flying around the green room he's like
• 19:48
  Speaker 2: maybe we better not bring bows anymore on tour yeah
• 19:51
  Speaker 2: and uh so uh yeah uh bass fishing is uh
• 19:57
  Speaker 2: i i do like that i i also read if
• 20:01
  Speaker 2: i had to pick yeah i.
• 20:02
  Speaker 3: Also read in your bio uh do you know this
• 20:05
  Speaker 3: you were born in the back of an el camino
• 20:07
  Speaker 3: Who came up with that detail?
• 20:09
  Speaker 2: It was actually a Chevy. It was a Corvair. Oh.
• 20:14
  Speaker 2: It was a pickup Corvair. Okay. My parents were at
• 20:19
  Speaker 2: some concert. I don't know what it was.
• 20:21
  Speaker 3: This is real.
• 20:22
  Speaker 2: And dad didn't want to go. She's like, my water broke.
• 20:24
  Speaker 2: I got it. He's like, they're going to do an encore.
• 20:28
  Speaker 2: You know, so. No, actually, no, that's not true. I
• 20:36
  Speaker 2: made all that up. I used to say I was a,
• 20:39
  Speaker 2: that was the original joke. Okay. The original joke, the
• 20:43
  Speaker 2: original joke was from my bio I wrote a long
• 20:47
  Speaker 2: time ago. I say he was born in the backseat
• 20:49
  Speaker 2: of a, you know, the original joke to that was
• 20:52
  Speaker 2: I was born in, I was a C-section baby. Oh.
• 20:56
  Speaker 2: I was born in section C of the Leonard Skinner concert.
• 21:01
  Speaker 2: That was my original, the original joke. That's better.
• 21:07
  Speaker 1: That makes me want to jump to something I wanted
• 21:09
  Speaker 1: to ask you about, man. I was reading, this might
• 21:11
  Speaker 1: not be true either, on Wikipedia. Someone got in there
• 21:15
  Speaker 1: on Wikipedia, rightly or wrongly, and they said that you
• 21:20
  Speaker 1: identify as an REO Speedwagon fan.
• 21:24
  Speaker 2: Yes.
• 21:24
  Speaker 1: There are very, very few.
• 21:26
  Speaker 2: Of us yeah left alive there's a lot of us
• 21:29
  Speaker 2: because they still they until they broke up recently they
• 21:34
  Speaker 2: packed it out really they were one of the few
• 21:37
  Speaker 2: bands that was still pretty much together from the early
• 21:40
  Speaker 2: 80s they look even though they lost gary richard after
• 21:43
  Speaker 2: guitar player the drummer retired but right after the big
• 21:47
  Speaker 2: you know the big hits the the the album the
• 21:51
  Speaker 2: what was the one uh.
• 21:52
  Speaker 1: Well, the last stuff they did that got notoriety, remember
• 21:55
  Speaker 1: that video where he's messing around with that Astro, whatever
• 21:58
  Speaker 1: that thing is, like that little electric ball, what do.
• 22:00
  Speaker 2: You call those? I don't know.
• 22:02
  Speaker 1: I feel like you touch the outside and it's like
• 22:03
  Speaker 1: the light shooting.
• 22:04
  Speaker 4: Was that, I can't fight this heat?
• 22:07
  Speaker 2: Okay. That was a big hit. Yeah. But a high
• 22:11
  Speaker 2: infidelity right after that is when they got a new
• 22:16
  Speaker 2: guitar player and So for the last 45 years, it's
• 22:20
  Speaker 2: been the same band right after pretty much that.
• 22:23
  Speaker 4: So they would pack it out everywhere.
• 22:27
  Speaker 2: And Bruce Hall was the original guy that I met,
• 22:30
  Speaker 2: the bass player that had been there since the late 70s.
• 22:34
  Speaker 2: So Bruce had a really good buddy. He plays in
• 22:35
  Speaker 2: my golf tournament all the time. I love him to death. Oh, really?
• 22:37
  Speaker 2: Him and his wife.
• 22:38
  Speaker 1: So you got like the inside perspective.
• 22:39
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 22:40
  Speaker 2: So they would all come and he would get everybody
• 22:42
  Speaker 2: out there to play in my golf tournament. The only
• 22:44
  Speaker 2: one didn't play was Kevin. Kevin didn't really golf. So
• 22:46
  Speaker 2: Kevin never came out. But I would go to their concerts.
• 22:49
  Speaker 2: And I used to have, when I was on tour,
• 22:51
  Speaker 2: I used to have an air guitar band called Air Disaster.
• 22:53
  Speaker 2: So we'd put on wigs. We'd put on long hair wigs.
• 22:57
  Speaker 2: I had them go to the pawn shop and buy
• 22:59
  Speaker 2: three boom mics, two guitars, a drum set. And we
• 23:04
  Speaker 2: put the padding on it so you couldn't really hear
• 23:07
  Speaker 2: you play, but you're playing. And we would play 12
• 23:10
  Speaker 2: hard rock metal songs on stage. That's what we would do.
• 23:14
  Speaker 4: And so Bruce knew I did that. So I went,
• 23:17
  Speaker 4: the first.
• 23:18
  Speaker 2: Time I went and did something with him was.
• 23:22
  Speaker 4: For tornado victims in Illinois. So we did a benefit.
• 23:26
  Speaker 2: There's a bunch of people there, Nugent Center and Speedwagon
• 23:28
  Speaker 2: and Styx and Head East and Richard Marks. Head East.
• 23:31
  Speaker 2: I've seen those guys. Yeah, woo.
• 23:33
  Speaker 1: God, man, you're throwing back some.
• 23:34
  Speaker 3: Old hits, dude.
• 23:35
  Speaker 2: Yeah. So I went up and played Roll With The
• 23:39
  Speaker 2: Changes and air-guitared the guitar solo.
• 23:43
  Speaker 5: And everybody thought I was playing.
• 23:44
  Speaker 2: I got their cameras out, and I'm up there. And
• 23:47
  Speaker 2: the guitar player, Dave, Dave Amato, he's over there. He's
• 23:49
  Speaker 2: really playing. And I'm out front, not even playing. I
• 23:53
  Speaker 2: did that like four or five times with him. It
• 23:54
  Speaker 2: was great. But here's the coolest story. Can I tell
• 23:56
  Speaker 2: you this? Please. Yeah, yeah. This is how awesome they were.
• 24:02
  Speaker 2: My dad had a band. My dad did all kinds
• 24:04
  Speaker 2: of things. He was a guidance counselor. He was a
• 24:06
  Speaker 2: pastor of two churches. He had cattle and horses. I
• 24:12
  Speaker 2: did the pigs.
• 24:16
  Speaker 4: But on the weekends, he had a band. He was
• 24:18
  Speaker 4: in a band called the Memphis Beats.
• 24:20
  Speaker 2: And my dad had been playing guitar since he was
• 24:23
  Speaker 2: a kid. Learned it himself. But my dad... had a, has,
• 24:28
  Speaker 2: gave it to me since he's passed, a 1953 Fender Telecaster. Okay.
• 24:34
  Speaker 2: I mean, it's like, you know, this is how cool
• 24:37
  Speaker 2: the guitar is. I remember I wanted to get it
• 24:38
  Speaker 2: refurbished for him one time because I didn't know, you know,
• 24:41
  Speaker 2: I'm not a guitar guy. So I took it to
• 24:43
  Speaker 2: my buddy that ran a guitar shop. I said, hey,
• 24:44
  Speaker 2: I want to get this refurbished for my dad, kind
• 24:46
  Speaker 2: of cleaned it up a little bit, you know. He goes,
• 24:48
  Speaker 2: oh yeah, sure. Is that the original case? I go, yeah, well,
• 24:51
  Speaker 2: that's an old case. And he opens it up and he,
• 24:54
  Speaker 2: He looks, and he's got this look on his face.
• 24:57
  Speaker 2: He looks, and he goes, don't touch this.
• 24:59
  Speaker 5: Do you have any clue what you got here?
• 25:01
  Speaker 2: Oh, I got it. So anyway, Dave Amato, I showed
• 25:05
  Speaker 2: it to him from Speedwagon. He goes, man, that thing.
• 25:08
  Speaker 2: I go, hey, Dave, that thing has not been plugged
• 25:10
  Speaker 2: into an amp and played on a stage since 1977. Huh.
• 25:16
  Speaker 2: You want to play it, Willie? Would you play it
• 25:18
  Speaker 2: on a show or something? And he goes, are you
• 25:21
  Speaker 2: kidding me? I would love to. Wow. So that night,
• 25:24
  Speaker 2: sold-out show in Omaha, REO Speedwagon and Def Leppard and Tesla.
• 25:30
  Speaker 2: Sold-out show, right? And I get a phone. I'm about
• 25:34
  Speaker 2: to leave to go up to the concert. I get
• 25:36
  Speaker 2: a phone call. It's Kevin Cronin. Hey, Dan.
• 25:39
  Speaker 4: You know, he's like, hey, Dan, this guitar.
• 25:41
  Speaker 3: Dave doesn't play Fenders.
• 25:43
  Speaker 2: I'm a Fender guy. This guitar's got, man, it's got
• 25:47
  Speaker 2: music that just wants to fly.
• 25:48
  Speaker 5: Out of it, man.
• 25:49
  Speaker 2: I love this guitar.
• 25:50
  Speaker 5: You have no idea how cool this guitar is.
• 25:53
  Speaker 2: So anyway, so I went to the concert, and Kevin Cronin,
• 25:58
  Speaker 2: sound tech, takes my guitar out halfway through the show,
• 26:01
  Speaker 2: and Kevin Cronin tells a story about my dad's guitar
• 26:05
  Speaker 2: and played Riding the Storm out with my dad's guitar.
• 26:09
  Speaker 2: And then he'd come over to the side of the stage,
• 26:12
  Speaker 2: during the instrumental so I could get pictures of it.
• 26:16
  Speaker 2: And then he looked at me, he goes, you good?
• 26:17
  Speaker 2: I go, yeah.
• 26:17
  Speaker 4: He goes, man, okay. And he goes back down. Dude,
• 26:19
  Speaker 4: it was the coolest thing ever.
• 26:21
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 26:22
  Speaker 4: I was so excited about it.
• 26:24
  Speaker 1: When I say I'm an REO Speedwagon fan, I should
• 26:27
  Speaker 1: clarify that more and say I'm a riding the storm out,
• 26:30
  Speaker 1: roll with the changes.
• 26:31
  Speaker 2: Yeah, no, I hear you.
• 26:32
  Speaker 1: The closest I've seen, closest I've come to seeing him
• 26:35
  Speaker 1: is one time we were down fishing in Florida, and
• 26:37
  Speaker 1: this is when I used to drink, and we were
• 26:38
  Speaker 1: out looking for a liquor store.
• 26:40
  Speaker 2: Right.
• 26:41
  Speaker 1: And in our wanderings looking for a liquor store, we
• 26:43
  Speaker 1: wound up at a REO Speedwagon cover band concert in
• 26:47
  Speaker 1: the back of a liquor store.
• 26:49
  Speaker 5: And this outfit was called Stormbringer.
• 26:53
  Speaker 2: Wow.
• 26:53
  Speaker 1: Stormbringer, the REO cover, a REO Speedwagon cover band.
• 26:58
  Speaker 2: Yeah, Stormbringer.
• 26:59
  Speaker 1: Sat through the whole thing. Sat through the whole thing,
• 27:02
  Speaker 1: and they never did roll the changes.
• 27:04
  Speaker 2: No.
• 27:04
  Speaker 1: And one of my buddies said, I don't think they
• 27:08
  Speaker 1: have a keyboard player who's up for the task.
• 27:10
  Speaker 2: Oh, yeah.
• 27:10
  Speaker 1: And so they got to skip that one because they
• 27:13
  Speaker 1: can't do the solo.
• 27:13
  Speaker 2: Probably right. That's a tough deal. Yeah. They're pretty good though.
• 27:18
  Speaker 1: Stormbringer?
• 27:19
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 27:19
  Speaker 1: I honestly don't remember. I just remember by disappointment they
• 27:21
  Speaker 1: never got to the reason I was there. It'd be
• 27:24
  Speaker 1: like if you went to see Head East.
• 27:25
  Speaker 2: Right.
• 27:26
  Speaker 1: And they never did... What's their main hits?
• 27:28
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 27:29
  Speaker 5: Without any reason.
• 27:31
  Speaker 2: That one? Yeah. No.
• 27:33
  Speaker 1: Oh, Save My Life and Going Down for the Last Time.
• 27:34
  Speaker 5: Yeah, Save My Life. If you like going to them
• 27:36
  Speaker 5: and not seeing them.
• 27:37
  Speaker 2: Then he gets real high.
• 27:38
  Speaker 3: Down for the last time.
• 27:40
  Speaker 2: Yeah, that's it. Dude. Talented. We could talk about some
• 27:43
  Speaker 2: old tunes, but I want to talk about- Now they're
• 27:44
  Speaker 2: head west. Are they? No. Dude, I used to do jokes.
• 27:49
  Speaker 2: I fell for the joke. Yeah, you used to do jokes.
• 27:50
  Speaker 2: I used to do jokes. Jokes for a living. Tell
• 27:52
  Speaker 2: me about growing up- Wait, I used to do a
• 27:54
  Speaker 2: joke about- What was it? I wanted to get Molly
• 27:57
  Speaker 2: Hatchet for a party I was having. I was going
• 28:01
  Speaker 2: to get a Molly Hatchet tribute band. They were too expensive,
• 28:04
  Speaker 2: so I ended up getting Molly Hatchet. That's really good.
• 28:10
  Speaker 2: These hot dogs are good.
• 28:13
  Speaker 1: Tell me about, you grew up around agriculture. And you
• 28:16
  Speaker 1: still raise, you still are in the bull, like bucking,
• 28:20
  Speaker 1: what do you call them?
• 28:20
  Speaker 2: Look, bucking bulls. Look, when I was a kid, I
• 28:23
  Speaker 2: grew up right next to the sale barn. I wanted
• 28:25
  Speaker 2: to be a cattle auctioneer. Oh, really? When I was
• 28:27
  Speaker 2: a kid. When that song, one of my all-time favorite
• 28:31
  Speaker 2: movies is Convoy with Chris Christopherson.
• 28:33
  Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah.
• 28:34
  Speaker 4: I mean, that was the craze, man.
• 28:36
  Speaker 2: I remember the first time I had my little walkie-talkie
• 28:38
  Speaker 2: and a semi was pulling cattle in. I'm like, breaker, breaker.
• 28:42
  Speaker 4: I'm just a kid.
• 28:43
  Speaker 2: All of a sudden, he goes, ah. I got you, buddy.
• 28:45
  Speaker 2: I got you. I see you over there.
• 28:47
  Speaker 5: I was like, oh, mom, they talked to me. They
• 28:49
  Speaker 5: talked to me.
• 28:50
  Speaker 4: I mean, this was, I was 30 years old then.
• 28:53
  Speaker 5: And no, man. I mean, I loved it.
• 28:57
  Speaker 2: So I spent, when I was a little kid, I
• 28:59
  Speaker 2: spent every day of my life at the sale bar
• 29:02
  Speaker 2: loading cattle trucks. Okay.
• 29:04
  Speaker 5: And we had a farm. For money or just because
• 29:06
  Speaker 5: you were down there?
• 29:08
  Speaker 2: Just because I liked it. And the guy that owned
• 29:10
  Speaker 2: it was like my adopted grandpa. Okay. And he knew
• 29:13
  Speaker 2: I loved that kind of stuff. And I raised pigs.
• 29:15
  Speaker 4: I was legitimately a kid pig farmer. I'd buy my
• 29:19
  Speaker 4: own hogs and I'd raise my own hogs.
• 29:21
  Speaker 2: Is that right, really?
• 29:21
  Speaker 5: Oh, yeah, man.
• 29:22
  Speaker 2: Man, at the most, I probably was looking after a
• 29:25
  Speaker 2: little over 200 head. You know, just as a kid,
• 29:29
  Speaker 2: I was the only, you know, seventh grader with a
• 29:31
  Speaker 2: good bank account. Yeah.
• 29:34
  Speaker 1: Not like as a 4-H program. you're doing it for sale.
• 29:36
  Speaker 2: No, I actually bought the 4-H Durox out, which I'll
• 29:41
  Speaker 2: never do again. She laid on her babies and ate
• 29:43
  Speaker 2: two of them. So Durox aren't very good at that.
• 29:46
  Speaker 2: But yeah, so that was fun. So my wife, I
• 29:49
  Speaker 2: met my wife. I met, she's from a small town
• 29:52
  Speaker 2: in Wisconsin. She grew up on a big old black
• 29:54
  Speaker 2: Angus cattle ranch. So yeah, so- I, uh, I've always
• 30:00
  Speaker 2: liked it. And then I moved to Florida and started
• 30:02
  Speaker 2: doing standup, but, uh, I always wanted like a little,
• 30:07
  Speaker 2: I always wanted cattle. And so now I'm able to
• 30:11
  Speaker 2: do it. So I got a little under 180 acres and,
• 30:16
  Speaker 2: and we got, uh, horses and a couple of donkeys and,
• 30:20
  Speaker 2: but I got into the buck and bull business because, uh,
• 30:26
  Speaker 2: I'm a big fan of rodeo. So in the 90s,
• 30:29
  Speaker 2: when I started making a little bit of money, finally,
• 30:31
  Speaker 2: Larry started making money for me. I started sponsoring a
• 30:35
  Speaker 2: buddy of mine named Tater Porter, who was a bull rider.
• 30:38
  Speaker 1: That's a real name.
• 30:39
  Speaker 2: Yeah, a bull rider. Tater Porter. Tater Porter. And he
• 30:42
  Speaker 2: used to travel with another bull rider named Spud Whitman.
• 30:46
  Speaker 2: I'm not kidding. Tater and Spud. And so I just
• 30:50
  Speaker 2: got into the PBR and bull riding and the NFR.
• 30:53
  Speaker 2: I loved it. Yeah. And so then I found out
• 30:57
  Speaker 2: you can start paying to put your name on bulls,
• 31:01
  Speaker 2: to sponsor bucking bulls. Okay. So I started paying, and
• 31:06
  Speaker 2: I had seven bucking bulls in the PBR, six or seven,
• 31:11
  Speaker 2: that I got to be part owner on. I got it.
• 31:14
  Speaker 2: Because I'm paying for the sponsorship.
• 31:16
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 31:17
  Speaker 2: And so one of.
• 31:18
  Speaker 4: My bulls in 2007, chicken on a chain.
• 31:19
  Speaker 2: Mm-hmm. one buck and bull of the year. Damn.
• 31:26
  Speaker 1: And that makes you money.
• 31:28
  Speaker 2: It didn't make me a dime. Okay.
• 31:29
  Speaker 4: It gave me just the pridefulness of being able.
• 31:33
  Speaker 1: When you're part owner, I don't know if there's money
• 31:35
  Speaker 1: to be made.
• 31:36
  Speaker 2: Okay. There can be, depends on what kind of deal
• 31:38
  Speaker 2: you worked out, but I didn't know much about it.
• 31:40
  Speaker 4: And I was just like, yeah, take my money.
• 31:42
  Speaker 5: So I probably got ripped off.
• 31:43
  Speaker 2: I probably could have bought that bull 20 times over. Yeah.
• 31:46
  Speaker 3: What makes him the bull of the year? How do
• 31:47
  Speaker 3: they earn that?
• 31:48
  Speaker 4: Just the way he bucks.
• 31:49
  Speaker 2: Okay. The scores that he gets on it. The scores
• 31:52
  Speaker 2: of Cowboys get on him. uh, that, you know, they
• 31:55
  Speaker 2: score the bulls. So like, Oh, sorry.
• 31:57
  Speaker 3: You want like a real mean one or like a medium?
• 32:00
  Speaker 2: You want one that bucks, you want one buck, one
• 32:02
  Speaker 2: that twists kicks high. Uh, uh, that's what you want. Okay.
• 32:08
  Speaker 2: You want a cowboy to get a good score on him.
• 32:10
  Speaker 2: So if you have a bull and every time he
• 32:11
  Speaker 2: goes out, you know, The Cowboys are getting 85 and
• 32:14
  Speaker 2: a half, 86 and up on him. I mean, that's
• 32:17
  Speaker 2: good bull.
• 32:17
  Speaker 3: Okay.
• 32:18
  Speaker 2: Um, uh, you know, and I just started learning about
• 32:21
  Speaker 2: that process of it. I was just, I just loved it. And,
• 32:24
  Speaker 2: but then I started learning about it and I met
• 32:26
  Speaker 2: a guy here, my partner, AJ, AJ Moss. When my
• 32:30
  Speaker 2: boy started, my boy came to me one day and said,
• 32:32
  Speaker 2: I want to ride basketball. Okay. And I'm like, man,
• 32:35
  Speaker 2: that's unbelievable. Here's this kid. I put in, I got
• 32:38
  Speaker 2: a whole facility for sports. I got a basketball court
• 32:41
  Speaker 2: and I got, You know, I got a, I got
• 32:45
  Speaker 2: a drop down net for hitting balls. Cause I said,
• 32:48
  Speaker 2: my kid's going to come in here and bring all
• 32:50
  Speaker 2: his friends. And they're going to, that I'll know where
• 32:52
  Speaker 2: my kid is at all the time because they'll be
• 32:54
  Speaker 2: over here playing sports.
• 32:55
  Speaker 4: Never played sports. And then one day he went, and
• 32:58
  Speaker 4: he's athletic, very athletic.
• 32:59
  Speaker 1: He was looking off to the other end of the property.
• 33:01
  Speaker 2: Yeah, he was.
• 33:02
  Speaker 4: And then he came up to me and he had
• 33:04
  Speaker 4: been going to bull ride since he was a kid.
• 33:05
  Speaker 2: So he went to bull ride. So I said, okay, so.
• 33:09
  Speaker 2: I wanted to do it safely because that's a tough sport.
• 33:12
  Speaker 2: You got to be safe. And I didn't know who
• 33:15
  Speaker 2: around there, how to get him started or anything. So
• 33:19
  Speaker 2: I called, uh, uh, I called my buddy, uh, Cody Lambert,
• 33:25
  Speaker 2: who started the PBR told him he wanted to ride bulls.
• 33:29
  Speaker 2: And he said, ah, you know, a lot of these kids, uh,
• 33:32
  Speaker 2: try to do it, make them look tough, or get girls.
• 33:35
  Speaker 2: He goes, it's a dangerous sport. You can get permanently crippled.
• 33:39
  Speaker 1: Well, he was just, well.
• 33:40
  Speaker 2: Yeah. So he said, I'll tell you what. He says,
• 33:44
  Speaker 2: tell you what, Dan, how tall is he? How big
• 33:46
  Speaker 2: is he? I says, right now he's 5'6, about a
• 33:49
  Speaker 2: buck 17. He goes, well, he's right in the prime.
• 33:53
  Speaker 2: He says, I thought he was going to be a
• 33:55
  Speaker 2: big fat guy like you. I'm like, come on, Cody.
• 33:58
  Speaker 2: So he goes, I'll tell you what, bring him down.
• 34:00
  Speaker 2: He says, bring him down to me for three days.
• 34:03
  Speaker 2: Give him to me for three days. I'll find out
• 34:06
  Speaker 2: if he wants to bull ride or not. So right
• 34:08
  Speaker 2: then I'm thinking, oh boy, here we go. And he
• 34:11
  Speaker 2: came up to me and said he liked him. He
• 34:13
  Speaker 2: reminded him of his grandson. He had a kind heart.
• 34:17
  Speaker 2: He saw some talent in him. He said, you know,
• 34:20
  Speaker 2: these kids, that they want to do it. And can't
• 34:24
  Speaker 2: stop them they're gonna do without you you know when
• 34:26
  Speaker 2: it's turn 18 they're gonna go do it so if
• 34:29
  Speaker 2: they're gonna do it just find a place and do
• 34:30
  Speaker 2: it safe get him on steers and slowly move up
• 34:34
  Speaker 2: i said okay so there was really uh i met
• 34:37
  Speaker 2: this guy aj moss and i found he had buck
• 34:40
  Speaker 2: and bulls he had a bull in the pbr like
• 34:42
  Speaker 2: me i'm trying to shorten this story up so i
• 34:45
  Speaker 2: met aj and i took white out to aj and
• 34:49
  Speaker 2: uh he got on his first steer and that's when
• 34:51
  Speaker 2: i started saying.
• 34:52
  Speaker 4: You know what Why am I driving all the way
• 34:55
  Speaker 4: out here?
• 34:55
  Speaker 2: Yeah. I just put my own bull riding ring in.
• 34:58
  Speaker 2: So I called Eddie Preford up. Eddie Preford cut me
• 35:01
  Speaker 2: a pretty good deal on. I bought the 2000 and 2004. No,
• 35:02
  Speaker 2: I bought the 2024 PBR buck and shoots that they
• 35:05
  Speaker 2: had in the world finals. Oh, okay.
• 35:16
  Speaker 1: So you got those instead of the University of Nebraska urinals.
• 35:19
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I bought four of those and I bought that.
• 35:21
  Speaker 2: And every time we buck, we get two. I always
• 35:24
  Speaker 2: get two professional bullfighters and I get two EMTs. And
• 35:29
  Speaker 2: so it's invite only kids that are serious about bull
• 35:32
  Speaker 2: riding that have done it and they want to come
• 35:34
  Speaker 2: get on good stock. We have 50 bulls that range
• 35:37
  Speaker 2: from beginner all the way up to nasty.
• 35:40
  Speaker 1: But you personally, you don't get on those.
• 35:42
  Speaker 2: No, I'm too old. Are you kidding me? Remember?
• 35:45
  Speaker 5: I remember almost something come out of my butt.
• 35:48
  Speaker 2: I got you.
• 35:49
  Speaker 1: I didn't know if there's like a version. I didn't
• 35:52
  Speaker 1: know if there's a bull riding version. It's like a,
• 35:56
  Speaker 1: like a, like a, for, for older fellas. I mean, like, so,
• 36:00
  Speaker 1: so I'm your wife. If I'm 50.
• 36:06
  Speaker 2: I mean, no, you don't want to get on those sands.
• 36:10
  Speaker 2: They'll kill you, man.
• 36:11
  Speaker 3: You don't ride them, but I assume you name them.
• 36:14
  Speaker 2: We name them. It's fun.
• 36:15
  Speaker 3: Do you pick the names?
• 36:16
  Speaker 2: I pick the names.
• 36:17
  Speaker 3: What's the best name you've come up with?
• 36:19
  Speaker 2: Right now, my favorite name is the villain from Urban Cowboy. Okay.
• 36:24
  Speaker 4: Oh, Wes Hightower.
• 36:26
  Speaker 3: Is that the whole name?
• 36:27
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I named the bull named Wes Hightower, and he
• 36:31
  Speaker 2: is awesome. Yeah, he actually got in his first nfr
• 36:36
  Speaker 2: rodeo uh i put on an extreme bull so part
• 36:39
  Speaker 2: of i asked i said look if i'm gonna pay
• 36:41
  Speaker 2: put it put it on i want to get some
• 36:43
  Speaker 2: bulls in it so they let me bring a couple
• 36:45
  Speaker 2: bulls so i got west high tower boom he had
• 36:48
  Speaker 2: a guy off two seconds it was awesome but it's
• 36:50
  Speaker 2: fun you know i'm learning about it more and more
• 36:53
  Speaker 2: myself uh all all our bulls are at my buddies
• 36:56
  Speaker 2: because he's got the facilities for the bulls and he's
• 36:59
  Speaker 2: got the bull but we buy bulls together and And
• 37:02
  Speaker 2: it's fun, man.
• 37:03
  Speaker 1: And then you lease those out to rodeos?
• 37:06
  Speaker 2: No.
• 37:06
  Speaker 1: Or you sell them out?
• 37:06
  Speaker 2: Yeah, that's pretty much how they do it. They'll be
• 37:08
  Speaker 2: a rodeo. You want to be a contractor with good bulls. Yeah.
• 37:11
  Speaker 2: If you have good bulls, they'll know that you have
• 37:14
  Speaker 2: good bulls. And they'll go, hey, you know what? Call
• 37:19
  Speaker 2: Whitney Marsden. bucking bulls and get their bulls out here.
• 37:22
  Speaker 1: Are you to the point now where you can look
• 37:24
  Speaker 1: at one and know he's good just looking at him?
• 37:26
  Speaker 4: No, you never know.
• 37:27
  Speaker 1: Oh, you don't because you can't tell by looking.
• 37:29
  Speaker 4: You don't know at all. You can look at one
• 37:31
  Speaker 4: and go.
• 37:32
  Speaker 2: When you buy them, sometimes you buy them and they go, look,
• 37:35
  Speaker 2: these are bucked a few times. There's three good ones,
• 37:37
  Speaker 2: one bad. You got to take a chance. Sometimes you
• 37:39
  Speaker 2: don't know. You see what they were bred to, who
• 37:42
  Speaker 2: they were bred to. Sometimes you go to the sale
• 37:45
  Speaker 2: barn and you'll buy a bull and all of a
• 37:47
  Speaker 2: sudden he's a great bucking bull.
• 37:48
  Speaker 4: You just got to a bull.
• 37:50
  Speaker 2: For, you know, cheaply. I see. You never know. It's
• 37:54
  Speaker 2: like the best we've done so far is we bought
• 37:56
  Speaker 2: four bulls from Colorado from a guy.
• 37:59
  Speaker 4: Five grand each.
• 38:00
  Speaker 2: Okay. So we split it, 10 grand each. And one
• 38:03
  Speaker 2: of them has won four Buck and Bull Futurities for yearlings.
• 38:07
  Speaker 2: And we got offered 50 grand for it. There you go. So,
• 38:10
  Speaker 2: you know, it's like Austin Dillon does it, too, in
• 38:13
  Speaker 2: auto racing. Austin Dillon, I call him every now and then.
• 38:16
  Speaker 2: I called him, actually, when he locked out. He bought
• 38:19
  Speaker 2: these buckables because he's getting into it, too, and he
• 38:22
  Speaker 2: loves it. And he bought one, put it in the Futurity,
• 38:25
  Speaker 2: won $ 100, 000. Damn. I know. It's the way it is.
• 38:31
  Speaker 2: Look at that. So it's fun. It's a fun thing
• 38:34
  Speaker 2: to do. It's a hobby for me. I don't make
• 38:36
  Speaker 2: any money at it. I don't really... That's not why
• 38:40
  Speaker 2: I do it. When I did it, I told my wife,
• 38:43
  Speaker 2: I'm going to budget this much. Here's how much money
• 38:46
  Speaker 2: I can waste on this. And I'm just going to
• 38:48
  Speaker 2: have a good time doing it. And, you know, and
• 38:51
  Speaker 2: it's fun to do. And what I really, what we
• 38:55
  Speaker 2: try to pride ourself in is those bulls that are
• 38:58
  Speaker 2: really rough in the chutes, because some of the most
• 39:00
  Speaker 2: dangerous bull riding is in the chutes.
• 39:03
  Speaker 6: Mm-hmm.
• 39:04
  Speaker 2: Shoot procedure you need to know because that's the shoe
• 39:08
  Speaker 2: procedure and the get off once the ride's over you
• 39:11
  Speaker 2: really got to learn those are the two most dangerous
• 39:13
  Speaker 2: things the ride's fun if you're right right so shooters
• 39:17
  Speaker 2: but you see those bulls try to jump out and
• 39:19
  Speaker 2: they'll rare and they'll buck and they'll snort we try
• 39:22
  Speaker 2: to we try to get ones that are nice and
• 39:26
  Speaker 2: gentle in the chute and then you open the door
• 39:28
  Speaker 2: and they're open to shoot and they go nuts. So,
• 39:31
  Speaker 2: you know, when we train them, we run them through,
• 39:33
  Speaker 2: get used to what they're doing. We run them through
• 39:36
  Speaker 2: as many times, and we feel they're ready for like
• 39:38
  Speaker 2: a dummy to put on them. We'll put a dummy
• 39:40
  Speaker 2: on them, and then you put cowboys on them. But,
• 39:42
  Speaker 2: you know, we don't have a lot of really crazy
• 39:44
  Speaker 2: ones in the chutes. Most of ours are pretty good
• 39:46
  Speaker 2: in the chutes, so I'm happy with that.
• 39:51
  Speaker 3: We got to talk about some of the foundational Larry
• 39:54
  Speaker 3: the Cable Guy stuff.
• 39:55
  Speaker 2: Absolutely.
• 39:56
  Speaker 3: Fish hook on the hat. Where did that come from?
• 39:58
  Speaker 3: Do you ever use it?
• 39:59
  Speaker 4: The fish hook on the hat?
• 40:00
  Speaker 2: Did you invent that?
• 40:01
  Speaker 3: No.
• 40:01
  Speaker 2: The fish hook on the hat was when I was
• 40:03
  Speaker 2: a kid growing up.
• 40:06
  Speaker 4: Most of the kids, you know, we grew up on farms.
• 40:08
  Speaker 2: So it just was a symbol for outdoorsy.
• 40:12
  Speaker 1: But that was pre-clip, though.
• 40:15
  Speaker 2: Yeah, you made your own.
• 40:16
  Speaker 1: Yeah, that was a hook hooked in your hat.
• 40:18
  Speaker 2: Yeah, we made our own clips. Oh, so you did.
• 40:20
  Speaker 1: You did mount them on a clip. You didn't just
• 40:22
  Speaker 1: jam it under the thread.
• 40:23
  Speaker 2: Yeah, you made your own. You had a real hook
• 40:26
  Speaker 2: and made your own clip. Then Eagle Claw came out.
• 40:29
  Speaker 2: The kids were doing it, so they did it themselves.
• 40:32
  Speaker 2: But it was always just what we did. Who started it?
• 40:36
  Speaker 2: I have no idea.
• 40:36
  Speaker 3: I feel like you made it popular, though. Like, you
• 40:38
  Speaker 3: should take some real credit for that.
• 40:39
  Speaker 2: Yeah, maybe, you know, I could have. But I remember
• 40:42
  Speaker 2: when I was a kid, you know, a lot of
• 40:45
  Speaker 2: the farm kids, a lot of them did it. And
• 40:48
  Speaker 2: it signified... Back then, if you were fishing a lot,
• 40:51
  Speaker 2: you were a kid that fished. What were you guys
• 40:53
  Speaker 2: fishing for back then? Catfish? Oh, man. Bullheads. Bullheads. Carp.
• 40:58
  Speaker 3: City ponds.
• 40:59
  Speaker 2: Cricks. You know, anything. Anything you could get on. Yeah. Yeah.
• 41:04
  Speaker 3: What about get her done? Where'd that come from?
• 41:06
  Speaker 2: Get her done. When I was a kid, we'd go
• 41:09
  Speaker 2: to my grandpa's house. So I was probably four or
• 41:13
  Speaker 2: five years old. But my grandpa, he'd always say, we
• 41:16
  Speaker 2: get in the pickup truck. And we'd either go get
• 41:19
  Speaker 2: gas or go check the cows. And it was, let's go.
• 41:22
  Speaker 5: Let's get to getting.
• 41:24
  Speaker 2: And then get it done.
• 41:27
  Speaker 5: We got to go get it done.
• 41:28
  Speaker 2: Let's go. We're going to get to getting. So those
• 41:33
  Speaker 2: phrases were always in my head. I didn't think much
• 41:36
  Speaker 2: of it. But when I did, when I started– I
• 41:41
  Speaker 2: started doing Larry the Cable Guy on stage as just
• 41:43
  Speaker 2: a little funny three-minute bit. Because I always did voices
• 41:46
  Speaker 2: and characters. It was fun.
• 41:47
  Speaker 1: Like, you would go from your, in a normal set,
• 41:50
  Speaker 1: you'd jump in to be in Larry.
• 41:51
  Speaker 2: I'd go, hey, this guy ever come over to your house? Hi. Hi.
• 41:56
  Speaker 2: Did you order cable? That guy was somebody's order time
• 42:01
  Speaker 2: up here. Because we ain't here for no reason. What's
• 42:04
  Speaker 2: your house number? 2070.
• 42:07
  Speaker 5: Oh, dadgummit.
• 42:08
  Speaker 2: This is 2614.
• 42:08
  Speaker 3: We way off.
• 42:11
  Speaker 4: You know, that kind of thing.
• 42:12
  Speaker 3: Hey, Pedro!
• 42:13
  Speaker 2: Pedro!
• 42:14
  Speaker 1: Then you'd go back out of it.
• 42:15
  Speaker 2: Yeah, and then they would laugh, and then I'd just
• 42:18
  Speaker 2: go back into a regular routine. Yeah, I see. But
• 42:20
  Speaker 2: a buddy of mine saw that. His name is Ron Bennington.
• 42:23
  Speaker 2: We were really good friends back in the day. And
• 42:28
  Speaker 2: he had a morning show in Tampa called the Ron
• 42:31
  Speaker 2: and Ron Show. And so he said, man, we need
• 42:33
  Speaker 2: characters over there. One night at the Comedy Corner in
• 42:35
  Speaker 2: West Palm Beach, we got to talk and laugh and
• 42:38
  Speaker 2: have fun. You should call our show and do that character.
• 42:40
  Speaker 2: That's so funny. So I remember I called up, and
• 42:43
  Speaker 2: I didn't even have a name. I just called up
• 42:46
  Speaker 2: and I go, hey. I remember when I called. Hello, YNF.
• 42:54
  Speaker 4: I literally started like this.
• 42:57
  Speaker 2: Hey, boys.
• 42:59
  Speaker 4: Y'all want me to do that hookup today, or you
• 43:01
  Speaker 4: want me to wait until tomorrow?
• 43:03
  Speaker 2: Well, we're on the air right now. Oh, shoot, you
• 43:05
  Speaker 2: hear this?
• 43:06
  Speaker 5: Dadgummit.
• 43:08
  Speaker 2: No, no, who is it? It's Cable Guy. Oh, yeah, Ronnie,
• 43:11
  Speaker 2: remember we wanted to put Cable in. Oh, yeah, Cable Guy. Well,
• 43:15
  Speaker 2: what's your name? Larry. The first thing I thought of
• 43:19
  Speaker 2: was my buddy with his belt with Larry on the back, right?
• 43:23
  Speaker 2: And so I just said, Larry, and the rest is
• 43:25
  Speaker 2: radio history. I'm not lying.
• 43:28
  Speaker 4: God is good.
• 43:28
  Speaker 2: That's how it works.
• 43:29
  Speaker 3: Are there some characters who didn't survive?
• 43:32
  Speaker 2: Oh, yeah. Well, I did an old lady from Boca Raton.
• 43:38
  Speaker 1: Her name was Rose.
• 43:40
  Speaker 4: Sometimes it was Rose. Sometimes it was Iris.
• 43:42
  Speaker 2: This is Iris.
• 43:44
  Speaker 4: Hello.
• 43:44
  Speaker 7: I love your program. We've been listening down here in Boca.
• 43:49
  Speaker 7: Just a wonderful program. My husband is in the hospital.
• 43:54
  Speaker 7: He drove the truck through Publix.
• 43:57
  Speaker 2: You know, just that.
• 43:58
  Speaker 4: You know, because you had that just down there.
• 44:01
  Speaker 2: And then there was.
• 44:01
  Speaker 1: That doesn't have the range.
• 44:03
  Speaker 2: There was old man. I love you. You know, just
• 44:07
  Speaker 2: all kinds of stuff. So when I would go into
• 44:10
  Speaker 2: a morning show, I was part of a morning show
• 44:12
  Speaker 2: down in Orlando. I would keep a phone there. And
• 44:15
  Speaker 2: all I did was pick it up and the main
• 44:18
  Speaker 2: line would ring. And so he, hey, we're getting a call.
• 44:21
  Speaker 2: And then my buddy would pick it up.
• 44:23
  Speaker 5: And I'd be like, hey, that last caller, I agree
• 44:25
  Speaker 5: with him.
• 44:26
  Speaker 4: And I would just do voices.
• 44:28
  Speaker 2: It was fun. And you know what's crazy about that?
• 44:30
  Speaker 2: The first time I was on Jimmy Kimmel, we went
• 44:34
  Speaker 2: to a commercial. He goes, hey, you don't know this,
• 44:36
  Speaker 2: but you and I started pretty much the same way.
• 44:40
  Speaker 2: I go, what do you mean? He goes, well, you
• 44:42
  Speaker 2: were doing characters... on 95YNF, right, in Tampa. I go, yeah,
• 44:47
  Speaker 2: he goes, so funny. I literally was calling the radio
• 44:52
  Speaker 2: station across the street doing characters for that radio station. Oh, seriously?
• 44:57
  Speaker 5: I'm like, no way, really?
• 44:58
  Speaker 2: And I was recently on Adam Carolla's show, and Adam says, yeah,
• 45:02
  Speaker 2: you know, me and Jimmy, we used to call radio
• 45:07
  Speaker 2: stations and do characters, so we all kind of started
• 45:09
  Speaker 2: the same way.
• 45:10
  Speaker 4: I'm like, wow, that's crazy.
• 45:11
  Speaker 2: I had no idea.
• 45:13
  Speaker 4: But, yeah, that's pretty much how it started.
• 45:15
  Speaker 1: We got a guy we work with, a dear friend
• 45:18
  Speaker 1: of mine and longtime colleague, and as he gets older,
• 45:21
  Speaker 1: he's gone through two transitions where he's taken to running
• 45:26
  Speaker 1: 100-mile races through the mountains.
• 45:29
  Speaker 2: Right.
• 45:30
  Speaker 1: And somehow, I feel like it's related, but maybe not,
• 45:32
  Speaker 1: he's begun to go sleeveless.
• 45:34
  Speaker 2: Yeah. Okay. Best way to go. Now, if you imagined....
• 45:41
  Speaker 1: Like, if you're going to provide advice to a guy
• 45:43
  Speaker 1: going sleeveless, late 40s, going sleeveless, what are some of
• 45:49
  Speaker 1: the mistakes a guy like that could make? What are
• 45:51
  Speaker 1: some of the wins you could have?
• 45:53
  Speaker 2: Well, going sleeveless is the greatest thing you'll ever do
• 45:56
  Speaker 2: in your life. Wow. My going sleeveless as far as
• 46:01
  Speaker 2: stage was an accident. You just forgot your sleeve? No,
• 46:05
  Speaker 2: it was an accident because I did wear– I moved
• 46:10
  Speaker 2: to Florida. Uh-huh.
• 46:11
  Speaker 4: So I wore sleeveless t-shirts and cause.
• 46:16
  Speaker 2: It's hot and humid all the time. I'd only wear
• 46:18
  Speaker 2: sleeves if I was going, I'd go to school or
• 46:20
  Speaker 2: had to do, you know? Uh, and then when I
• 46:23
  Speaker 2: did stand up, that's when I'd go on stage in
• 46:27
  Speaker 2: a flannel shirt. Okay. Okay. And I dressed up and
• 46:31
  Speaker 2: I picked flannel shirt because it hangs or, you know, I'm,
• 46:35
  Speaker 2: I'm not like best shape guy.
• 46:37
  Speaker 5: I was a lot thinner then, but you know, I
• 46:40
  Speaker 5: wasn't fat.
• 46:41
  Speaker 2: I was, you know, big bone. But that shirt, a
• 46:45
  Speaker 2: flannel shirt, really hangs nice. Got it. It looks good.
• 46:50
  Speaker 2: It makes your butt look good.
• 46:52
  Speaker 1: You were thinking about your, like, your svelte appearance.
• 46:55
  Speaker 4: I was 30 years old.
• 46:58
  Speaker 2: So whatever it was.
• 47:00
  Speaker 4: Well, you know, they just look good.
• 47:01
  Speaker 2: I understand. Yeah. Well, I did wear sleeves, but when
• 47:05
  Speaker 2: it was summertime, I wouldn't. I would wear no sleeves
• 47:08
  Speaker 2: because then in the summer when it's hot, I'd wear sleeves.
• 47:10
  Speaker 2: And when I would travel around the country, it was cold,
• 47:12
  Speaker 2: I'd put sleeves on. Got it. Well, we just happened
• 47:14
  Speaker 2: to film Blue Collar TV, the first one, and it
• 47:17
  Speaker 2: was flipping hot. It was in Phoenix, and I had
• 47:19
  Speaker 2: no sleeves on. I said, I'll put my other shirt on.
• 47:22
  Speaker 2: I knew it was TV taping, so I wanted to look.
• 47:25
  Speaker 2: I'm not wearing sleeves. So I didn't wear sleeves. So
• 47:28
  Speaker 2: every time I did a show after that, people would go,
• 47:31
  Speaker 2: if I had sleeves, they'd go, dude.
• 47:34
  Speaker 5: We wore a shirt with no sleeves. Where's your, you
• 47:36
  Speaker 5: got sleeves. Well, I'll go change.
• 47:38
  Speaker 3: So I'd go change, you know?
• 47:40
  Speaker 2: So I just went sleeveless on stage. But going sleeveless
• 47:43
  Speaker 2: is the greatest free thing of all time.
• 47:47
  Speaker 3: You're a good ambassador for the lifestyle.
• 47:49
  Speaker 2: And the only, here's the thing about it. There's really
• 47:51
  Speaker 2: no rule to it. You just want to, you don't
• 47:55
  Speaker 2: get one that's too tight.
• 47:56
  Speaker 1: Cause that's, that's a whole different look, man.
• 47:59
  Speaker 2: It defeats the whole purpose of the sleeve. That's a
• 48:01
  Speaker 2: whole different look. It hangs and, is comfortable because it's
• 48:04
  Speaker 2: not touching your sides. You're free with your arms. And it's,
• 48:11
  Speaker 2: you know, and you have two different sleeveless looks. You
• 48:15
  Speaker 2: have the sleeveless shorts look for the spring and summer.
• 48:22
  Speaker 2: And then once it turns cold in the fall and
• 48:24
  Speaker 2: the winter, you have your sleeveless shirt and your... warmer shorts.
• 48:33
  Speaker 2: You know what I mean? The more material.
• 48:37
  Speaker 5: The thick shorts. Every fat guy's.
• 48:39
  Speaker 2: Got a thick pair of shorts and a non-thick pair
• 48:42
  Speaker 2: of shorts for when the weather changes. You always wear
• 48:46
  Speaker 2: the same. Where are we at right now in the calendar?
• 48:51
  Speaker 1: It's October. He's hot weather sleeveless right now.
• 48:54
  Speaker 2: Right now I'm hot weather sleeveless.
• 48:56
  Speaker 5: I'm kind of a cool.
• 48:57
  Speaker 2: I wore sleeves up here because there's kids down there.
• 49:02
  Speaker 2: So as soon as I walk by and I hear, hey,
• 49:04
  Speaker 2: there's Mater, then I'm stuck. So I zipped up there.
• 49:07
  Speaker 2: So for you to.
• 49:08
  Speaker 1: Go incognito is to have sleeves.
• 49:10
  Speaker 5: Yes.
• 49:12
  Speaker 2: For me to not get recognized, I got to dress
• 49:15
  Speaker 2: with sleeves.
• 49:15
  Speaker 1: Because a lot of guys go sleeveless to get recognized,
• 49:18
  Speaker 1: but you got to go sleeve. yeah you gotta go
• 49:21
  Speaker 1: sleeves under the radar yeah i wear.
• 49:24
  Speaker 2: Sleeves to not get recognized yeah and you know it's
• 49:27
  Speaker 2: really funny one time i wanted to go when we
• 49:29
  Speaker 2: were on the road when my in my heyday when
• 49:31
  Speaker 2: we were doing you know arenas i mean nate brigatti
• 49:35
  Speaker 2: crap we all did it you know and uh But
• 49:39
  Speaker 2: back in those days, I remember I wanted to go
• 49:43
  Speaker 2: out to eat. My wife was there and we're all
• 49:45
  Speaker 2: out on the buses and, and they were going to
• 49:48
  Speaker 2: this really good restaurant. And I'm like, I mean, I
• 49:51
  Speaker 2: literally couldn't go anywhere. I mean, it was crazy in 2005,
• 49:55
  Speaker 2: six and seven. And it was nuts, you know? And then, uh,
• 49:59
  Speaker 2: so my buddy goes, Hey, you should buy the jogging suit.
• 50:03
  Speaker 2: They bought you for a joke. I go, what? Yeah,
• 50:06
  Speaker 2: it's a good idea. So somebody who bought me a
• 50:10
  Speaker 2: Nike full jogging suit, like you'd see a mobster wear
• 50:16
  Speaker 2: back in the day. So I put on the mobster
• 50:20
  Speaker 2: jogging suit, and I had my hat on backwards and
• 50:23
  Speaker 2: a pair of sunglasses, and we go to this restaurant.
• 50:26
  Speaker 2: We're waiting in line, just waiting in line. Nobody said,
• 50:30
  Speaker 2: this is great. I look like an idiot, but this
• 50:33
  Speaker 2: is great.
• 50:34
  Speaker 3: As opposed to normally, you don't look like an idiot.
• 50:38
  Speaker 1: It looks like a brilliant young guy normally.
• 50:40
  Speaker 2: You know what, just for that, I'm farting on the
• 50:42
  Speaker 2: set right now, just because you said that. I'll sit
• 50:45
  Speaker 2: the guy. Some guy goes, hold on. Some guy in
• 50:49
  Speaker 2: front of me nudges me and goes, you Larry the
• 50:53
  Speaker 2: Cable Guy? And I go, yeah, don't tell anybody. He goes.
• 51:00
  Speaker 2: What are you wearing next? I was trying not to
• 51:03
  Speaker 2: get recognized. He goes, well, take it off. You look
• 51:08
  Speaker 2: like an idiot. I said, I agree. And then we
• 51:12
  Speaker 2: both laughed and that was it.
• 51:14
  Speaker 1: See, I was going to tell you about it. I
• 51:16
  Speaker 1: was going to tell you about a public figure and
• 51:19
  Speaker 1: what they do when they're, I can't do it. A
• 51:22
  Speaker 1: public figure the other day was sharing with me a
• 51:26
  Speaker 1: very simple move he does to never get recognized.
• 51:30
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 51:31
  Speaker 1: When he's out and about, but go on.
• 51:34
  Speaker 2: Act like he pees.
• 51:34
  Speaker 1: I don't want to blow his deal, you know?
• 51:37
  Speaker 2: Act like he pees his pants or something. Brian Haley,
• 51:41
  Speaker 2: my buddy Brian Haley, a comedian, is so funny. He
• 51:43
  Speaker 2: looks like Max Hedren. He used to do a joke
• 51:46
  Speaker 2: about walking at home after comedy clubs in bad parts
• 51:50
  Speaker 2: of town. He goes, I found a way that they'll
• 51:52
  Speaker 2: never bother you. First thing you do is you wet
• 51:55
  Speaker 2: your pants. And then you walk home like this. He
• 51:57
  Speaker 2: started doing high kicks.
• 51:58
  Speaker 3: Going, ding dong, ding dong.
• 52:01
  Speaker 2: He goes, they'll never come near you.
• 52:02
  Speaker 1: Kept him away.
• 52:05
  Speaker 3: Dan, I used to watch your show Only in America
• 52:08
  Speaker 3: on History Channel.
• 52:08
  Speaker 2: Oh, good show.
• 52:09
  Speaker 3: The thing I was most jealous of, you got to
• 52:11
  Speaker 3: do so much cool stuff.
• 52:12
  Speaker 2: Oh, it's unbelievable.
• 52:13
  Speaker 3: I felt like I saw you break character one time
• 52:15
  Speaker 3: because you were so giddy when you were with some
• 52:18
  Speaker 3: game wardens in Alaska who set up a moose decoy
• 52:21
  Speaker 3: off the highway. And then you saw somebody shoot it.
• 52:24
  Speaker 2: Yeah. One of my favorite episodes. Alaska was awesome. But
• 52:29
  Speaker 2: we set this decoy up. And it was the dumbest
• 52:32
  Speaker 2: looking decoy. And I'm thinking, there's no way somebody's going
• 52:35
  Speaker 2: to think this. And, of course, the guy I was
• 52:38
  Speaker 2: with was kind of goofy himself, the game word guy.
• 52:41
  Speaker 2: So he was fun, you know. So we set this
• 52:43
  Speaker 2: thing up. And I'm making jokes like, yeah, nobody's.
• 52:46
  Speaker 5: I mean, look at this.
• 52:47
  Speaker 2: It looks like it was the dumbest thing you've ever
• 52:50
  Speaker 2: seen right on the side of the road. Well, first
• 52:52
  Speaker 2: of all, now we have to go sit. So we
• 52:54
  Speaker 2: sit in the guy's car. waiting for somebody to shoot
• 52:57
  Speaker 2: this stupid thing. And by gosh, people would drive.
• 53:00
  Speaker 4: And then slow down.
• 53:02
  Speaker 2: You see, oh no, they're going by. So after about
• 53:04
  Speaker 2: the 15th car that slowed down, I go, I told
• 53:07
  Speaker 2: you they're not going to believe that's the dumbest thing
• 53:09
  Speaker 2: I ever seen in my life. I look and some
• 53:12
  Speaker 2: guy stops, gets out of his truck and we see
• 53:15
  Speaker 2: him pulling a rifle out. And I go, you gotta
• 53:18
  Speaker 2: be kidding me. Really? This guy?
• 53:22
  Speaker 3: And he goes, you hear, he goes, He shot.
• 53:26
  Speaker 2: Let's go.
• 53:31
  Speaker 3: The car.
• 53:34
  Speaker 2: The car won't start. And I'm like, well, this has
• 53:37
  Speaker 2: to be the dumbest stake I've ever been on in
• 53:39
  Speaker 2: my life. We finally get it started. We go down there. Yeah.
• 53:42
  Speaker 4: And the guy actually.
• 53:44
  Speaker 2: Because they can do that down there.
• 53:45
  Speaker 5: You can shoot on the side of the road.
• 53:48
  Speaker 2: If you see one, you just got to make sure
• 53:50
  Speaker 2: you're on the side of the road safely.
• 53:53
  Speaker 1: Can't shoot from, across, or whatever road.
• 53:54
  Speaker 2: No, because they live on that.
• 53:56
  Speaker 4: They are all appointed.
• 53:58
  Speaker 2: They all can get one per family, I guess, and
• 54:00
  Speaker 2: something like that. And so then we went down there,
• 54:03
  Speaker 2: but I thought the funniest part of the whole thing
• 54:04
  Speaker 2: was we let him go, just give him a warning
• 54:07
  Speaker 2: because we're doing the show. And I go, later on,
• 54:10
  Speaker 2: Robert was seen down at the JCPenney's hitting on a mannequin.
• 54:18
  Speaker 3: I'm impressed you never forget a joke.
• 54:21
  Speaker 2: No, because that was funny. You know them all. I'll
• 54:23
  Speaker 2: never forget that, that that guy shot it, that stupid joke.
• 54:27
  Speaker 1: Dude, they got sophisticated ones. Now, we interviewed a guy
• 54:30
  Speaker 1: in Idaho that worked on that program.
• 54:32
  Speaker 2: Right.
• 54:32
  Speaker 1: And they got him to turn their head now. He
• 54:35
  Speaker 1: was telling me that you can't use too big of
• 54:41
  Speaker 1: a buck. If you use a giant buck, it enters
• 54:45
  Speaker 1: into this whole, like, basically, like, entrapment. Or you've created
• 54:49
  Speaker 1: a situation of just outstanding circumstance. That no sane person, right?
• 54:56
  Speaker 1: would be able to resist, so you need to use
• 54:58
  Speaker 1: a more modest buck.
• 54:59
  Speaker 2: Wow.
• 55:00
  Speaker 1: But I can't remember if that was... I need to
• 55:02
  Speaker 1: go revisit why exactly that was the case. Because I'd
• 55:05
  Speaker 1: put a huge buck, and that'd get all the guys
• 55:07
  Speaker 1: driving by. You'd get every guy that drove by.
• 55:09
  Speaker 3: Oh, yeah. Dan's episode had a big bull moose, but
• 55:12
  Speaker 3: you could see where the neck met the body. It
• 55:15
  Speaker 3: was like... And I think... I remember somebody even pulling
• 55:18
  Speaker 3: over to your vehicle and being like, did you guys
• 55:20
  Speaker 3: know there's a mannequin in the woods over there? Like
• 55:22
  Speaker 3: it was, it was that obvious.
• 55:24
  Speaker 2: It was, it.
• 55:25
  Speaker 4: Was so pathetic, but it made for a funny show.
• 55:28
  Speaker 2: Yeah. That was the point of the show. Yeah.
• 55:31
  Speaker 3: Uh, I also loved Blair, the cable guy roast on
• 55:33
  Speaker 3: comedy central is one of the most watched ones they've
• 55:35
  Speaker 3: ever had. Who do you think did the best job
• 55:37
  Speaker 3: of roasting you?
• 55:39
  Speaker 2: Oh man, that was, uh, they were all good.
• 55:44
  Speaker 3: Um, was there anybody who was too mean?
• 55:47
  Speaker 1: Yeah, that's gotta be a hard position to be in, man.
• 55:49
  Speaker 1: Getting roasted by people.
• 55:51
  Speaker 2: That are good at roasting. Greg Geraldo was mean. But
• 55:53
  Speaker 2: you gotta understand, when I did that roast, I was
• 55:55
  Speaker 2: the number one guy. So the number one guy's always
• 55:59
  Speaker 2: the target. You know? Especially a one-liner guy like me and,
• 56:04
  Speaker 2: you know, doing a character and, you know, like Scott Tom,
• 56:08
  Speaker 2: like Carrot Top. Carrot Top's been a punching bag forever.
• 56:11
  Speaker 2: And Carrot Top is hilarious. He's clever. One of the
• 56:14
  Speaker 2: nicest comics in the world. but you know, people think
• 56:17
  Speaker 2: pie shots. So that was when I was, so yeah,
• 56:20
  Speaker 2: some of the, so there was a couple of roasters
• 56:23
  Speaker 2: that they, matter of fact, Greg Geraldo came out to
• 56:25
  Speaker 2: me after the podcast backstage and he goes, he literally said,
• 56:30
  Speaker 2: he goes, Hey Dan, I hope you look, um, I
• 56:35
  Speaker 2: hope you're not mad at some of those jokes. And
• 56:38
  Speaker 2: I just, uh, but, You know, and I'm not mad
• 56:41
  Speaker 2: at you. I'm mad at myself because I should be
• 56:45
  Speaker 2: one of the guys. I should be getting roasted. I
• 56:47
  Speaker 2: should have the career you have.
• 56:49
  Speaker 1: Wow.
• 56:49
  Speaker 2: But I don't have because of myself because I can't.
• 56:53
  Speaker 2: I do this and I do that and I know
• 56:55
  Speaker 2: I shouldn't do. He was just going into his life basically. Huh.
• 56:59
  Speaker 2: And so he goes, so I hope you're not, I
• 57:01
  Speaker 2: don't want to look, you're a nice guy and I
• 57:03
  Speaker 2: don't hope you're not mad at me. But when I
• 57:05
  Speaker 2: was venting up there, I was more venting at myself
• 57:09
  Speaker 2: than I was at you.
• 57:10
  Speaker 4: I say, Greg, I know what it is. It's a roast, man.
• 57:14
  Speaker 2: I can take a joke. I get it. No hard feelings.
• 57:17
  Speaker 2: I was laughing. It's all good.
• 57:19
  Speaker 3: So, so it was an awkward ending.
• 57:21
  Speaker 2: It was good. Well, it was good. I mean, I
• 57:23
  Speaker 2: knew I was going to get it from a couple
• 57:25
  Speaker 2: of those guys, but If you're going to be a comedian,
• 57:28
  Speaker 2: you got to take it. I don't really, but I've never,
• 57:31
  Speaker 2: like all my stuff is just nonsense stuff. I don't
• 57:33
  Speaker 2: really pound or bang other comedians or anything. Sure, yeah.
• 57:37
  Speaker 2: You know, but I think Jeff was, I'm always going
• 57:41
  Speaker 2: to say Jeff because Jeff is like my adopted older brother.
• 57:45
  Speaker 4: But Jeff was classy and he was funny and he
• 57:47
  Speaker 4: was clever.
• 57:48
  Speaker 2: And that was what I wanted. That was good. You know,
• 57:51
  Speaker 2: Toby did a good job, Toby Keith. The thing about
• 57:54
  Speaker 2: that was, I knew what they were like and I
• 57:57
  Speaker 2: didn't want my mom watching. Oh, so I requested certain
• 58:03
  Speaker 2: comedians that I wanted and I wanted it PG 13.
• 58:08
  Speaker 2: I said, I want to do a throwback to the
• 58:11
  Speaker 2: Dean Martin roasts because I grew up with the Dean
• 58:14
  Speaker 2: Martin roasts. So Jeff and I, Dan Marino and Dan
• 58:18
  Speaker 2: Marino had to end up canceling out. And, and then
• 58:22
  Speaker 2: of course, uh, Marsha Bray, Maureen McCormick was there. I
• 58:27
  Speaker 2: didn't ask for Maureen McCormick. And Greg Giraldo, the guy
• 58:30
  Speaker 2: to have because he's always there. Jeff Ross, who's a
• 58:34
  Speaker 2: buddy of mine. I love Jeff. I'm glad Jeff was.
• 58:36
  Speaker 2: But there were a few people that I didn't know.
• 58:38
  Speaker 2: Like Warren Sapp. I know Warren. I didn't invite Warren.
• 58:41
  Speaker 2: But Dan Marino could make it, so Warren Sapp took
• 58:44
  Speaker 2: his place, which was nice. I know him, so he
• 58:47
  Speaker 2: wanted to do it because I knew him.
• 58:48
  Speaker 3: And did your mom watch it?
• 58:50
  Speaker 2: Uh i don't think so i told her not to
• 58:52
  Speaker 2: okay i felt bad after i did it you know.
• 58:55
  Speaker 8: Oh it's got me though i can't imagine and i'll
• 58:59
  Speaker 8: tell you what and i'm not a mean like so
• 59:03
  Speaker 8: they you know they write you jokes and then you
• 59:06
  Speaker 8: if you want to come up with some you can
• 59:08
  Speaker 8: but there's so many people so i just relied on I.
• 59:13
  Speaker 2: Take that back I did the Warren Sapp one I
• 59:17
  Speaker 2: did where I said it was Toby Keith and it
• 59:21
  Speaker 2: was I figure it was Toby Keith and who was
• 59:25
  Speaker 2: the other I can't remember there was Toby somebody in
• 59:29
  Speaker 2: Warren Sapp I go, man, they brought all the stars
• 59:31
  Speaker 2: out tonight. Toby Keith and blah, blah, blah. And look
• 59:34
  Speaker 2: at that, Aretha Franklin. I remember I did that. But
• 59:38
  Speaker 2: I felt bad because they wrote, they had a joke.
• 59:42
  Speaker 2: And I saw, some of them I saw for the
• 59:45
  Speaker 2: first time. I go, hey, it's nice to have Marsha
• 59:47
  Speaker 2: Brady here. Man, Marsha Brady, I was in love with
• 59:49
  Speaker 2: you when I was a kid. You were so beautiful.
• 59:51
  Speaker 2: What happened? You know, everybody laughed. And in my head,
• 59:55
  Speaker 2: I'm going, man, that's so mean. Yeah. I like her.
• 59:58
  Speaker 4: She's a nice girl. She's, you know. Then she went
• 1:00:01
  Speaker 4: up and hammered me.
• 1:00:01
  Speaker 2: And then I'm like, you know what? Screw her.
• 1:00:02
  Speaker 1: Yeah, you got the first shot.
• 1:00:03
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 1:00:04
  Speaker 5: Well, yeah, but I didn't.
• 1:00:06
  Speaker 2: I felt bad doing that. I like Maureen McGregor. They
• 1:00:08
  Speaker 2: had me doing these. Some of them. And then after that,
• 1:00:10
  Speaker 2: they just got real hateful.
• 1:00:12
  Speaker 5: The Rose really got hateful.
• 1:00:14
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 1:00:14
  Speaker 2: And mean. You know, when I did it, they were
• 1:00:17
  Speaker 2: still pretty lighthearted. Yeah. But, man, they had started getting
• 1:00:20
  Speaker 2: really hateful and mean after a while. Well, I will
• 1:00:23
  Speaker 2: say I was uncomfortable doing those about Maureen McCormick because
• 1:00:29
  Speaker 2: I really, she was like, you know, I don't get
• 1:00:32
  Speaker 2: starstruck by people except for people that I grew up
• 1:00:35
  Speaker 2: as a little kid. And I always liked the Brady Bunch.
• 1:00:38
  Speaker 2: I always liked Maureen McCormick. Here I am bashing her because,
• 1:00:43
  Speaker 2: you know, she's older and doesn't look like she used
• 1:00:45
  Speaker 2: to look. And that's horrible.
• 1:00:47
  Speaker 1: It's not even funny.
• 1:00:48
  Speaker 2: I understand. But I did it.
• 1:00:53
  Speaker 1: Tell me about what you're working on now. I know
• 1:00:55
  Speaker 1: you got this American Mayhem deal coming out. What's that
• 1:00:57
  Speaker 1: all about?
• 1:00:57
  Speaker 4: Yeah, American Mayhem is cool.
• 1:00:59
  Speaker 2: You know what? It's just in the vein of America's
• 1:01:01
  Speaker 2: Funniest Home Videos. It's videos that are geared toward me.
• 1:01:08
  Speaker 2: A lot of fallen, a lot of outdoorsy, a lot
• 1:01:13
  Speaker 2: of rural, a lot of blue-collar type stuff. A lot of, hey, y'all,
• 1:01:18
  Speaker 2: watch this type stuff. I host it. And then they
• 1:01:24
  Speaker 2: show the videos. There's another guy on there talking about,
• 1:01:27
  Speaker 2: you know, saying what's happening. Yeah. And then there's one,
• 1:01:31
  Speaker 2: there's a thing called Larry's People where I pick my
• 1:01:34
  Speaker 2: three favorites. Got it. Because these are my people. I
• 1:01:37
  Speaker 2: hang out with these people. And so I narrate those
• 1:01:40
  Speaker 2: and then I close it out. So it's just, It's
• 1:01:43
  Speaker 2: just me, green screen, and showing funny videos.
• 1:01:46
  Speaker 1: And you're doing a boatload of those.
• 1:01:48
  Speaker 4: We already did.
• 1:01:49
  Speaker 2: We shot 52 episodes. So there'll be one a week
• 1:01:52
  Speaker 2: now for the next 52 weeks.
• 1:01:54
  Speaker 4: And yeah, I mean, it's going all over the country.
• 1:01:59
  Speaker 2: You never know how it's going to go because I premiered,
• 1:02:02
  Speaker 2: you know, in September when football started.
• 1:02:06
  Speaker 4: So it's like, you know. Hey, our team's playing.
• 1:02:09
  Speaker 2: Yeah, but hold on. Larry's on.
• 1:02:11
  Speaker 3: Let's see Larry for half an hour.
• 1:02:13
  Speaker 2: We'll go back to the first quarter. But I think
• 1:02:16
  Speaker 2: they air me now. It's at all different times, but generally,
• 1:02:19
  Speaker 2: I'm aired a half an hour before a football game starts.
• 1:02:22
  Speaker 1: Get people warmed up.
• 1:02:23
  Speaker 2: Generally, that's how it works.
• 1:02:26
  Speaker 1: And you got more stuff in the cars world, right?
• 1:02:29
  Speaker 1: I got to tell you, too. So I've always known
• 1:02:33
  Speaker 1: your stand-up.
• 1:02:34
  Speaker 2: But to be....
• 1:02:37
  Speaker 1: The role that you took on in my household, so
• 1:02:41
  Speaker 1: I have 11.
• 1:02:43
  Speaker 2: 13, 16. Oh, yeah, you're right there.
• 1:02:47
  Speaker 1: Like, listen, I don't want to bother you up too much.
• 1:02:51
  Speaker 1: The Tomator stuff is genius. I mean, it's just like
• 1:02:54
  Speaker 1: a genius. It's just like an execution of a character.
• 1:02:57
  Speaker 1: But to be like 11, 13, 16.
• 1:02:59
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 1:03:02
  Speaker 1: The role that Tomator had in my household. I was like,
• 1:03:07
  Speaker 1: Tomator has said more words in my household than I have.
• 1:03:10
  Speaker 2: Yeah. Oh man.
• 1:03:12
  Speaker 1: I'm just like a huge favorite of our kids, man.
• 1:03:16
  Speaker 2: I am blown away by that whole thing. I'm so thankful.
• 1:03:19
  Speaker 2: I mean, I would have never thought in a million years,
• 1:03:22
  Speaker 2: you know, but it just continues to go. Oh, just like,
• 1:03:26
  Speaker 2: it just makes people happy. Yeah.
• 1:03:28
  Speaker 4: And I did, I did it right.
• 1:03:29
  Speaker 2: You know, I'm not, Look, I'm not Hollywood at all.
• 1:03:31
  Speaker 2: I don't live out there. I don't like... So when
• 1:03:34
  Speaker 2: they said... I was proud of it. I was proud
• 1:03:37
  Speaker 2: of Mater breathing life into that little truck. Yeah, yeah.
• 1:03:40
  Speaker 2: And it's close to my personality. It's my personality, really.
• 1:03:44
  Speaker 2: I'm just being me in that thing, but faking the accent.
• 1:03:47
  Speaker 2: But it's just like, man, I would have never thought
• 1:03:51
  Speaker 2: that it turned into what it turned into. Who would
• 1:03:54
  Speaker 2: have thought that? So I always do... When they ask me,
• 1:03:58
  Speaker 2: they'll ask the guys, well... There's video games and toys. Gotcha.
• 1:04:02
  Speaker 2: And they'll say, do you want to voice these? It
• 1:04:04
  Speaker 2: doesn't pay much, but this is what they're paying. And,
• 1:04:07
  Speaker 2: you know, everybody, oh, I'm not going to do it.
• 1:04:10
  Speaker 3: You know, I'll do it.
• 1:04:12
  Speaker 2: I don't want nobody else doing it.
• 1:04:15
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I can imagine, man. It'd be like when they got, like,
• 1:04:18
  Speaker 1: Remember when you were a kid and they switched Bo
• 1:04:20
  Speaker 1: and Luke Duke out for those cousins?
• 1:04:23
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 1:04:23
  Speaker 1: Oh my God. You can't have some other dude do
• 1:04:26
  Speaker 1: it until Mater.
• 1:04:27
  Speaker 5: Good luck getting anybody that sounds like me.
• 1:04:29
  Speaker 3: It's a hard deal.
• 1:04:31
  Speaker 2: So I have done every toy, every game, every video game,
• 1:04:34
  Speaker 2: every commercial. Anything where Mater is talking is me. Other
• 1:04:39
  Speaker 2: than the foreign films. I've done all those things. And
• 1:04:45
  Speaker 2: so even if they wanted to get somebody else to
• 1:04:49
  Speaker 2: do it, you would know. Because you would know. Because
• 1:04:53
  Speaker 2: I have certain inflections. I have a certain sound to it.
• 1:04:57
  Speaker 2: I would know.
• 1:04:58
  Speaker 4: Kids would know.
• 1:04:59
  Speaker 2: Kids, people that grew up with Mater and love Mater,
• 1:05:02
  Speaker 2: if somebody else did it that wasn't me, they would know.
• 1:05:05
  Speaker 3: Good job, security.
• 1:05:06
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 1:05:07
  Speaker 4: And I, you know, and I'm not, but.
• 1:05:09
  Speaker 2: Here's the thing. I'm not a jerk and I'm not,
• 1:05:11
  Speaker 2: I like doing it. So I'm not hard to work with.
• 1:05:14
  Speaker 2: I'm like, yeah, you know what? If you can get more,
• 1:05:16
  Speaker 2: get more. If not, I'll do it. Yeah. So, cause
• 1:05:18
  Speaker 2: I like doing it. It's fun for me. I like
• 1:05:20
  Speaker 2: the people I work with, the people in the studio.
• 1:05:22
  Speaker 2: We've done it for years. I just have a good
• 1:05:25
  Speaker 2: time doing it and it's fun. So yeah, that thing
• 1:05:28
  Speaker 2: was awesome. But the thing that sucks about it is
• 1:05:34
  Speaker 2: now whenever they want me to audition to do another
• 1:05:36
  Speaker 2: cartoon voice, everybody sounds like Maynard.
• 1:05:39
  Speaker 1: Oh, I can see that.
• 1:05:41
  Speaker 2: Yeah. You know, so.
• 1:05:43
  Speaker 1: I can see that, man. You typecat. You typecat. I
• 1:05:45
  Speaker 1: typecast myself.
• 1:05:46
  Speaker 2: Yeah. I'm Newman.
• 1:05:48
  Speaker 1: Hey, this isn't live, obviously.
• 1:05:51
  Speaker 2: Right.
• 1:05:52
  Speaker 1: So the truth will be known when this airs.
• 1:05:55
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 1:05:56
  Speaker 1: So you're in a very awkward position when I ask you,
• 1:05:58
  Speaker 1: what's the score? What's the score going to be?
• 1:06:01
  Speaker 2: Oh, the game? Yeah. Here's the deal.
• 1:06:03
  Speaker 1: So people already know that you're right or wrong.
• 1:06:06
  Speaker 4: I was close last week. I was only three points off.
• 1:06:09
  Speaker 2: I said we'd win 34 to 13. We won 31
• 1:06:10
  Speaker 2: to 13. Oh, dang. Wow.
• 1:06:11
  Speaker 6: Yeah.
• 1:06:14
  Speaker 1: Give me as much color, as much detail as you want,
• 1:06:17
  Speaker 1: and then you'll be reality checked.
• 1:06:20
  Speaker 2: Here's the deal.
• 1:06:20
  Speaker 4: I've got that last 10 years in my head.
• 1:06:23
  Speaker 1: The pessimism.
• 1:06:24
  Speaker 2: Are we going to blow it? Is this the day?
• 1:06:27
  Speaker 2: Here's what scares me about Maryland. At the beginning of
• 1:06:29
  Speaker 2: the year, they were supposedly a pretty good team. They've
• 1:06:33
  Speaker 2: been tanking. They got blown out by UCLA. Some people
• 1:06:38
  Speaker 2: say UCLA is the best team in the Big Ten.
• 1:06:41
  Speaker 2: I don't know. It's too early. They fired their coach, Maryland.
• 1:06:47
  Speaker 2: But evidently, there were so many people that wanted him
• 1:06:50
  Speaker 2: back player-wise. Okay, you're not fired, but we're going to
• 1:06:55
  Speaker 2: go game by game. And if we see improvement. So
• 1:06:59
  Speaker 2: his team is going to play.
• 1:07:02
  Speaker 1: That's the coach's situation. Yes.
• 1:07:04
  Speaker 4: So that team.
• 1:07:05
  Speaker 2: Is going to play really hard for that coach today.
• 1:07:08
  Speaker 2: I'm going to go 45-24. I think they're going to
• 1:07:15
  Speaker 2: score some points.
• 1:07:16
  Speaker 1: They got a better mascot. They got a better mascot
• 1:07:19
  Speaker 1: than you guys.
• 1:07:20
  Speaker 2: Don't ever say they have a better mascot than Herbie.
• 1:07:23
  Speaker 3: You sound like a South Dakotan now talking about their corn.
• 1:07:26
  Speaker 1: Don't we eat terrapins?
• 1:07:28
  Speaker 2: What is a terrapin?
• 1:07:29
  Speaker 1: I never had one, but they used to be quite popular.
• 1:07:31
  Speaker 1: It's like a little turtle guy.
• 1:07:33
  Speaker 2: I don't know.
• 1:07:34
  Speaker 1: Corn husker? What's that supposed to mean?
• 1:07:35
  Speaker 2: 45 husking corn. That's what we do. We husk corn.
• 1:07:40
  Speaker 1: But that's not like a mascot builder.
• 1:07:42
  Speaker 4: We would husk more corn if our soil was better.
• 1:07:45
  Speaker 2: Than South Dakota.
• 1:07:46
  Speaker 1: It wasn't so damn sandy.
• 1:07:47
  Speaker 2: I'd change it. 45-17. Okay. Okay. 45-17.
• 1:07:51
  Speaker 1: There you have it. Don't even go back and watch
• 1:07:54
  Speaker 1: the game because that's what happened. All right.
• 1:07:56
  Speaker 2: All right. Thanks, man. Are we done now? We're done.
• 1:07:58
  Speaker 1: You got friends coming.
• 1:07:58
  Speaker 2: Hold on.
• 1:07:59
  Speaker 5: I want to talk more about that.
• 1:08:00
  Speaker 1: You can talk all you want.
• 1:08:02
  Speaker 2: No, I'm only kidding.
• 1:08:03
  Speaker 1: I'll try to be respectful of your time because I
• 1:08:05
  Speaker 1: know you got this whole thing is like filling up
• 1:08:07
  Speaker 1: with people.
• 1:08:07
  Speaker 2: What time is it? 12.50. Oh, my God. Your friends
• 1:08:09
  Speaker 2: are coming at one. Well, how long is your podcast?
• 1:08:12
  Speaker 1: However long we make it.
• 1:08:14
  Speaker 2: Can I say one thing?
• 1:08:15
  Speaker 3: You can say all you want.
• 1:08:16
  Speaker 5: Well, I don't want to go yet.
• 1:08:17
  Speaker 1: I'm trying to end it out of respect for your friends.
• 1:08:19
  Speaker 4: No, no.
• 1:08:20
  Speaker 2: You talk all you want. Okay. They aren't really friends.
• 1:08:23
  Speaker 3: You can send your friends in at your point.
• 1:08:25
  Speaker 2: I literally pay people to hang out with me. Okay, cool.
• 1:08:27
  Speaker 1: So before your employees come in. No, you got as
• 1:08:29
  Speaker 1: much time as you want.
• 1:08:30
  Speaker 2: I want to tell you this because a lot of,
• 1:08:32
  Speaker 2: I want to let people know this because some people
• 1:08:34
  Speaker 2: ask me, you didn't.
• 1:08:35
  Speaker 4: How did I come to do Larry the Cable Guy
• 1:08:38
  Speaker 4: on stage?
• 1:08:39
  Speaker 2: Well, you told us that. No.
• 1:08:42
  Speaker 4: I just told you how good or not.
• 1:08:44
  Speaker 1: No, you said that you would go into a bit
• 1:08:46
  Speaker 1: or you would do a minute.
• 1:08:48
  Speaker 4: Yeah, but I was Dan Whitney.
• 1:08:50
  Speaker 3: Oh, okay.
• 1:08:51
  Speaker 2: Yeah, please. All right.
• 1:08:52
  Speaker 1: I want to hear everything. I want to hear all this.
• 1:08:54
  Speaker 2: Because I always want to give him credit, okay? So
• 1:08:58
  Speaker 2: one day, I'm on the radio station. It's real popular.
• 1:09:02
  Speaker 2: I got it copyrighted, selling T-shirts, the whole thing. My buddy.
• 1:09:07
  Speaker 1: Off just the radio stuff.
• 1:09:08
  Speaker 2: Yes, off the radio stuff.
• 1:09:09
  Speaker 1: Not having done it on stage.
• 1:09:10
  Speaker 2: No, all off radio.
• 1:09:12
  Speaker 3: When the radio thing is happening, would you get recognized
• 1:09:14
  Speaker 3: by your voice out and about in Florida or no?
• 1:09:18
  Speaker 2: Uh... No, not yet, because I'd never made a public appearance.
• 1:09:24
  Speaker 2: Face radio kind of deal. It's all radio. It's all
• 1:09:27
  Speaker 2: theater of the mind. My buddy, Les McCurdy, McCurdy's Comedy Shop, St. Petersburg, Florida,
• 1:09:37
  Speaker 2: bills me. Now, I just left this radio station and
• 1:09:41
  Speaker 2: went to another one in Orlando and got syndicated.
• 1:09:46
  Speaker 4: My buddy, Les McCurdy, goes... I show up.
• 1:09:51
  Speaker 2: It's at the banquet room of the Holiday Inn. That's
• 1:09:55
  Speaker 2: where his comedy club is. I can't find a place
• 1:09:58
  Speaker 2: to park. And I'm like, what, they got negative Shriners
• 1:10:01
  Speaker 2: in town? What's going on, right? You know?
• 1:10:05
  Speaker 4: So I walk in and go, man, Les. I mean,
• 1:10:09
  Speaker 4: what's going on?
• 1:10:11
  Speaker 2: He goes, I can't find a place to park because
• 1:10:13
  Speaker 2: they're here to see you.
• 1:10:14
  Speaker 5: I go, I literally, I'm a comedian. I go, What'd
• 1:10:18
  Speaker 5: I do?
• 1:10:22
  Speaker 1: When you said he billed you, I thought you meant
• 1:10:24
  Speaker 1: like he sent you a bill.
• 1:10:25
  Speaker 2: No, he booked me. He goes, I hope you don't mind.
• 1:10:30
  Speaker 2: I know you had a falling out with that radio station,
• 1:10:33
  Speaker 2: but I billed you as Dan Whitney, a.k.a. Larry the
• 1:10:38
  Speaker 2: Cable Guy from the 95 YNAF. And I literally was like, ah, Les...
• 1:10:44
  Speaker 2: What did you do that for? This is all theater
• 1:10:47
  Speaker 2: of the mind. I don't have an act for Larry
• 1:10:49
  Speaker 2: the Cable Guy. He's like, well, it's selling tickets. That's
• 1:10:55
  Speaker 2: all I know. I go, really?
• 1:10:58
  Speaker 4: He goes, dude, I announced Larry the Cable Guy, right?
• 1:11:02
  Speaker 2: You do Larry the Cable Guy. I sold like 600
• 1:11:06
  Speaker 2: tickets in like 18 minutes. You've got to be kidding me.
• 1:11:10
  Speaker 2: So I go up for the first show, right? doing
• 1:11:14
  Speaker 2: good you know my actors were one line or goofy
• 1:11:17
  Speaker 2: doing good but they kept yelling get it on then
• 1:11:22
  Speaker 2: one guy hey do some larry get it done we
• 1:11:25
  Speaker 2: want to hear larry got it got it so then
• 1:11:27
  Speaker 2: i go so i did a couple jokes as larry
• 1:11:34
  Speaker 2: right i come back out of it i can't freaking
• 1:11:37
  Speaker 2: get any laughs so i go let me do.
• 1:11:39
  Speaker 4: A little bit more larry here So you.
• 1:11:42
  Speaker 1: Switched back to Dan, it would bomb.
• 1:11:43
  Speaker 4: Yeah, so, well, it wouldn't bomb, but it wasn't, I
• 1:11:47
  Speaker 4: was killing, I was doing great.
• 1:11:48
  Speaker 3: Harder.
• 1:11:48
  Speaker 2: But what would.
• 1:11:50
  Speaker 1: Be a Dan, like, let's say you're in the era
• 1:11:52
  Speaker 1: where you're doing some Larry.
• 1:11:53
  Speaker 7: Same jokes.
• 1:11:54
  Speaker 1: You're Dan doing Larry. What would be a Dan joke?
• 1:11:57
  Speaker 5: Same jokes.
• 1:12:00
  Speaker 2: Remember that dog whisper? That would be a Dan joke. Yeah,
• 1:12:03
  Speaker 2: my sister, she's a dog whisperer.
• 1:12:05
  Speaker 5: What's that?
• 1:12:07
  Speaker 4: That's what I would do. I was more physical.
• 1:12:10
  Speaker 2: I would do more like hitting my knee or acting
• 1:12:14
  Speaker 2: like I fell down or more of that slapsticky.
• 1:12:17
  Speaker 3: Boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom.
• 1:12:20
  Speaker 1: Larry would do better on the joke than Dan.
• 1:12:22
  Speaker 2: Larry the cable guy did social commentaries on the radio.
• 1:12:28
  Speaker 2: What the hell is this, Russia? What's going on with
• 1:12:33
  Speaker 2: these damn, you know? And I would, very politically incorrect,
• 1:12:39
  Speaker 2: total Archie Bunker likable. Not mean, but likable. A guy
• 1:12:47
  Speaker 2: that had a point to say, but littered it with,
• 1:12:52
  Speaker 2: you know, poop jokes and that like that, right? Strip clubs,
• 1:12:57
  Speaker 2: that kind of thing. But it made a little point. Like,
• 1:13:00
  Speaker 2: the best compliment I ever had was a guy came
• 1:13:01
  Speaker 2: up to me and goes, hey, I know you're trying
• 1:13:04
  Speaker 2: to be funny and you're, like, doing these commentaries and
• 1:13:07
  Speaker 2: you're putting these stupid jokes in there, but if you
• 1:13:10
  Speaker 2: listen to what you're saying at the end of it, you.
• 1:13:13
  Speaker 5: Make pretty good points.
• 1:13:14
  Speaker 2: Right?
• 1:13:15
  Speaker 3: That kind of thing, right?
• 1:13:16
  Speaker 2: Yeah, that kind of thing.
• 1:13:17
  Speaker 4: So I didn't have any jokes for that.
• 1:13:20
  Speaker 2: So I would just, I was doing great until somebody yelled,
• 1:13:24
  Speaker 2: get her done.
• 1:13:25
  Speaker 5: And then I did a joke that I normally would
• 1:13:26
  Speaker 5: do as Larry. And ah! Doubled the laugh. And then
• 1:13:30
  Speaker 5: I go back into me.
• 1:13:31
  Speaker 2: I was still getting good laughs, but they wanted to
• 1:13:33
  Speaker 2: hear more Larry. So I get done. And then the
• 1:13:37
  Speaker 2: next show, Les comes up to me and goes, hey,
• 1:13:41
  Speaker 2: You ever thought about doing your whole show as Larry
• 1:13:45
  Speaker 2: the Cable Guy?
• 1:13:46
  Speaker 4: I go, Les, I don't want to have an act
• 1:13:49
  Speaker 4: for Larry.
• 1:13:50
  Speaker 2: Well, just do what you did. Do your act.
• 1:13:52
  Speaker 1: Switch the whole damn thing over.
• 1:13:53
  Speaker 2: So what I had to do was, I was fast. Fast.
• 1:13:58
  Speaker 2: Larry's slow, meticulous, drawn out. What took me eight seconds
• 1:14:05
  Speaker 2: to tell a punchline, Larry... the character tells the same punchline,
• 1:14:11
  Speaker 2: but double the time.
• 1:14:12
  Speaker 1: You don't need to have as many jokes.
• 1:14:14
  Speaker 3: Good for you, too.
• 1:14:15
  Speaker 1: It's economical.
• 1:14:16
  Speaker 2: Yeah, exactly. Like, I do a joke about it. Like,
• 1:14:22
  Speaker 2: this would be one of my jokes. Man, I was
• 1:14:23
  Speaker 2: playing pickleball the other day. Oh, man, I was playing pickleball.
• 1:14:26
  Speaker 2: That's why I'm walking weird. I threw out my pickle.
• 1:14:29
  Speaker 2: And then laugh after. Larry would be like, well, y'all
• 1:14:33
  Speaker 2: didn't play pickleball? I was playing pickleball the other day,
• 1:14:37
  Speaker 2: and daggum, throwed my pickle out. You believe that?
• 1:14:43
  Speaker 5: Daggum pickle. Come right out the shorts.
• 1:14:46
  Speaker 4: You know, just like that.
• 1:14:47
  Speaker 3: That's better. Yes, it's hilarious.
• 1:14:50
  Speaker 2: The way it is said makes it funny. That's what
• 1:14:54
  Speaker 2: Foxworthy and Engvall always said to me. Jeff would always say.
• 1:14:57
  Speaker 5: I don't know why that joke's funny. It's the way
• 1:14:59
  Speaker 5: you tell the joke that makes it funny.
• 1:15:01
  Speaker 2: Yeah, there's a... You remember... Jerry Clower.
• 1:15:05
  Speaker 3: Yes.
• 1:15:06
  Speaker 2: He's awesome.
• 1:15:07
  Speaker 1: He's like a forebear almost. He had said, Jerry Clower
• 1:15:13
  Speaker 1: had once said, I don't tell funny stories. I tell
• 1:15:17
  Speaker 1: stories funny.
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  Speaker 4: Yes, exactly. So it's how you tell it.
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  Speaker 2: So he said, Les goes, can you talk like that
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  Speaker 2: for an hour?
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  Speaker 5: And I told him.
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  Speaker 2: I go, Les. I grew up on a daggum pig
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  Speaker 2: farm in southeast Nebraska. All my friends, I went to
• 1:15:38
  Speaker 2: college in Georgia. I said, all I do is hang
• 1:15:42
  Speaker 2: out in country bars all the time. I can talk
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  Speaker 2: like a redneck all day long. I was talking like
• 1:15:50
  Speaker 2: a redneck before I come here, hanging out with my
• 1:15:52
  Speaker 2: buddy Brad, because that's how he talked. I said, hey,
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  Speaker 2: no problem. He says, well, I'm going to take your
• 1:15:57
  Speaker 2: name off. Just put Larry the Cable Guy up there.
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  Speaker 2: I said, all right, I'm going to go change. And
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  Speaker 2: I had pants, you know, I had a nice shirt,
• 1:16:04
  Speaker 2: not a nice shirt, but I had a button down on,
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  Speaker 2: you know. And I went to the car and I said,
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  Speaker 2: this is going to be awesome. I don't even have
• 1:16:14
  Speaker 2: to flip it. I hate dressing up. No.
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  Speaker 4: Because I wore sleeveless stuff.
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  Speaker 2: I go to the car, which, by the way, if
• 1:16:21
  Speaker 2: anybody thinks I'm faking it, I drove over in my car.
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  Speaker 2: a 1986 Trans Am with T-tops with a big old
• 1:16:28
  Speaker 2: blue bird that I just was so proud I had
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  Speaker 2: painted on the front of it. And I changed, and
• 1:16:33
  Speaker 2: I put on my lace-up, a Ropers, pair of jeans,
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  Speaker 2: a Nebraska Cornhusker sleeveless T-shirt.
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  Speaker 3: Uh-huh.
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  Speaker 2: And a NASCAR hat.
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  Speaker 4: That's exactly what.
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  Speaker 2: I drove over.
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  Speaker 1: So you put your clothes back on.
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  Speaker 2: I put my clothes, I took off my show clothes
• 1:16:52
  Speaker 2: and put my driving clothes back on. And I went
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  Speaker 2: on stage and it was so fun. And I was
• 1:16:59
  Speaker 2: making myself laugh. I never had more fun in my
• 1:17:02
  Speaker 2: life doing standup. then doing what I was doing, watching
• 1:17:07
  Speaker 2: them laugh, but then adding things, because stuff just comes
• 1:17:10
  Speaker 2: to you, because you're so into the character.
• 1:17:13
  Speaker 4: And then you're just adding stuff.
• 1:17:15
  Speaker 2: I would laugh on stage a couple times, and then
• 1:17:17
  Speaker 2: I'd tell them, oh man, that's funny, I don't care
• 1:17:20
  Speaker 2: who you are, I just put myself laughing on that one.
• 1:17:22
  Speaker 2: And then I would write it down so I would remember.
• 1:17:24
  Speaker 2: And that's how it started. I want to tell you
• 1:17:26
  Speaker 2: that's how it started, because that's how it started, right there.
• 1:17:30
  Speaker 1: What is it like, let's take the....
• 1:17:35
  Speaker 2: All the cars stuff, right?
• 1:17:37
  Speaker 1: Like, like just hugely popular and influenced just kid after
• 1:17:42
  Speaker 1: kid after kid for the longest time and adults.
• 1:17:44
  Speaker 2: But in the title, I've got in the title, I
• 1:17:47
  Speaker 2: literally have a milk dud fart about to come out.
• 1:17:50
  Speaker 2: I apologize, but I, it may come out. I've been
• 1:17:53
  Speaker 2: trying to hold it.
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  Speaker 3: Is this Dan or Larry? That's a, that's farting.
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  Speaker 2: No, it's Dan. As many milk duds as I eat,
• 1:17:59
  Speaker 2: it might be both of us. As you wrestle with that.
• 1:18:07
  Speaker 1: Do you ever if you see like in the credits
• 1:18:09
  Speaker 1: it says larry the cable guy yeah is there like
• 1:18:11
  Speaker 1: a degree of separation or is that just you.
• 1:18:14
  Speaker 2: No let me tell you i'm glad that we extended
• 1:18:16
  Speaker 2: this a few minutes yeah that bugs me a little
• 1:18:20
  Speaker 2: but at the time when i did cars i wanted dan.
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  Speaker 5: Whitney you did yes hmm They.
• 1:18:30
  Speaker 2: Wanted Larry the Cable Guy name because it was a brand.
• 1:18:35
  Speaker 2: At that point in my career, I was just a stand-up.
• 1:18:39
  Speaker 2: I don't know about all the movies. All this stuff,
• 1:18:42
  Speaker 2: they brought to me. I didn't ask for it. They
• 1:18:44
  Speaker 2: would bring it to me. So it's like my manager
• 1:18:48
  Speaker 2: said one time, because you can't use your, like when
• 1:18:51
  Speaker 2: I did my first movie, it's like you can't use
• 1:18:54
  Speaker 2: your first name.
• 1:18:54
  Speaker 1: Yeah, people would be like, who the hell is that?
• 1:18:56
  Speaker 2: I don't know who you are.
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  Speaker 4: Here's the thing. Dan, here's the thing. You're a brand now.
• 1:19:01
  Speaker 4: It's a brand.
• 1:19:02
  Speaker 2: Get her done. Larry the Cable Guy is a brand.
• 1:19:06
  Speaker 2: So everything you do has to be under this brand.
• 1:19:09
  Speaker 2: I'm like, okay. So everything's under that brand. So now
• 1:19:14
  Speaker 2: I kind of wish there was a few things it
• 1:19:16
  Speaker 2: would be, especially when people give me stuff. Like I
• 1:19:19
  Speaker 2: got like the coolest thing from, like I do a
• 1:19:22
  Speaker 2: lot of stuff with the troops. Right. And I got
• 1:19:25
  Speaker 2: this distinguished service thing for the army. Like I did
• 1:19:30
  Speaker 2: stuff for the guard and everything.
• 1:19:32
  Speaker 4: And it says, Oh, It says, to Larry the Cable Guy.
• 1:19:37
  Speaker 2: It's like, oh, what the?
• 1:19:39
  Speaker 1: That felt like a Dan thing, man.
• 1:19:41
  Speaker 2: Well, some people, some of those things like that do
• 1:19:44
  Speaker 2: say Dan Whitney. But there's some things that I wish
• 1:19:47
  Speaker 2: they didn't say that I got from the troops or
• 1:19:50
  Speaker 2: I got from a hospital.
• 1:19:52
  Speaker 3: You got a jersey around the corner.
• 1:19:54
  Speaker 2: Those are cool things. And when they put Larry the
• 1:19:56
  Speaker 2: Cable Guy, I'm thinking, well, I get it. I get it.
• 1:20:00
  Speaker 2: I'm Larry. I get it. But sometimes it's like, oh,
• 1:20:03
  Speaker 2: I just wish you'd put my real name on it,
• 1:20:04
  Speaker 2: because I created this thing.
• 1:20:08
  Speaker 1: When you die, man, you might need to get one
• 1:20:09
  Speaker 1: of them double, like, you know how they see the
• 1:20:12
  Speaker 1: Ten Commandments on the two stone tablets?
• 1:20:15
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 1:20:15
  Speaker 1: When you die, you get a double headstone.
• 1:20:18
  Speaker 2: I should.
• 1:20:19
  Speaker 1: Dan and Larry.
• 1:20:20
  Speaker 2: Absolutely. And, of course, this stone will be nicer than mine.
• 1:20:24
  Speaker 2: He's got all the money.
• 1:20:25
  Speaker 1: One stone will say he got her done.
• 1:20:27
  Speaker 2: Got her done, got her did.
• 1:20:30
  Speaker 5: Get her done, got her did.
• 1:20:31
  Speaker 2: That's what it is.
• 1:20:33
  Speaker 3: Cable guy is also kind of an old-timey reference by now.
• 1:20:35
  Speaker 3: I imagine kids, they're like, what's a cable guy?
• 1:20:38
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I know.
• 1:20:39
  Speaker 1: I never even thought of that.
• 1:20:40
  Speaker 2: Yeah, no, yeah.
• 1:20:41
  Speaker 1: It'd be like me trying to explain stuff to my
• 1:20:43
  Speaker 1: kids from not that long ago.
• 1:20:44
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 1:20:45
  Speaker 1: I'm like, dude, when I was a kid, man, you
• 1:20:47
  Speaker 1: went to do the phone.
• 1:20:48
  Speaker 2: You went.
• 1:20:49
  Speaker 1: They can't even understand what.
• 1:20:51
  Speaker 2: I'm talking about. They don't even need to know. You
• 1:20:53
  Speaker 2: know what?
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  Speaker 4: I have no idea.
• 1:20:55
  Speaker 2: It's like one of those things that's just stuck. It
• 1:20:57
  Speaker 2: doesn't even mean anything anymore. It's just... You know, it's
• 1:21:00
  Speaker 2: like Cedric the Entertainer. You know? Larry the Cable Guy.
• 1:21:04
  Speaker 2: I mean, it's just.
• 1:21:05
  Speaker 4: It doesn't even.
• 1:21:07
  Speaker 2: occur to me about being a cable installer.
• 1:21:10
  Speaker 4: It's just like it's Larry the Cable.
• 1:21:12
  Speaker 1: You kind of forgot that detail.
• 1:21:13
  Speaker 2: It makes no sense. And I got irritated at DirecTV
• 1:21:17
  Speaker 2: one time because they were running those commercials with celebrities.
• 1:21:21
  Speaker 2: You know? Stupid. I can't remember.
• 1:21:24
  Speaker 1: What commercials?
• 1:21:25
  Speaker 4: DirecTV was running a commercial with.
• 1:21:27
  Speaker 2: That actor, that real good-looking actor back in the day.
• 1:21:31
  Speaker 2: That one. What's his name? He was part of the troupe. The...
• 1:21:38
  Speaker 2: You know what I'm talking about? He was in, what
• 1:21:41
  Speaker 2: was the, I can't remember his name. Anyway, he was
• 1:21:43
  Speaker 2: a good looking, they were running commercials with him. He
• 1:21:45
  Speaker 2: was a good looking guy. Yeah, I can't remember.
• 1:21:48
  Speaker 4: And the first thing.
• 1:21:51
  Speaker 1: Your friends are trying to break in.
• 1:21:52
  Speaker 2: I know. They might just wave. The first thing that
• 1:21:55
  Speaker 2: I thought was, why don't they get me? Larry the
• 1:22:00
  Speaker 2: Cable Guy is switching to DirecTV.
• 1:22:02
  Speaker 1: Oh, dude, that would have been genius.
• 1:22:04
  Speaker 4: It would have been huge!
• 1:22:05
  Speaker 1: Larry the DirecTV guy.
• 1:22:07
  Speaker 2: And here's what irritates me about corporate. Larry the Cable
• 1:22:10
  Speaker 2: Guy has switched to DirecTV. Yeah. Right?
• 1:22:14
  Speaker 4: And then I come out, that's right!
• 1:22:16
  Speaker 5: I'm now Larry the DirecTV guy!
• 1:22:18
  Speaker 1: Man!
• 1:22:18
  Speaker 5: And you can get.
• 1:22:19
  Speaker 4: I mean, it was the perfect sales pitch.
• 1:22:21
  Speaker 3: Gotta change your business.
• 1:22:22
  Speaker 2: Because at the time, well, Larry the Cable Guy is
• 1:22:27
  Speaker 2: only really... for one part of the country, you know,
• 1:22:31
  Speaker 2: because of the Southern accent. And sometimes he says things
• 1:22:35
  Speaker 2: that are a little controversial. Meanwhile, you got fricking rappers,
• 1:22:41
  Speaker 2: you know, singing about killing cops and fricking, you know,
• 1:22:45
  Speaker 2: with women. You know what I mean?
• 1:22:53
  Speaker 1: No, I know exactly what you mean.
• 1:22:54
  Speaker 5: They're getting all kinds of corporate stuff.
• 1:22:56
  Speaker 4: I'm like going, how am I controversial when you got,
• 1:23:00
  Speaker 4: you know what I mean?
• 1:23:01
  Speaker 2: What's his name? Who's the guy? What's that one rapper
• 1:23:04
  Speaker 2: that's always out? Snoop Dogg. Yeah.
• 1:23:06
  Speaker 5: I got nothing against Snoop Dogg.
• 1:23:07
  Speaker 1: Dude, he's become like a national spokesperson.
• 1:23:08
  Speaker 5: God bless Snoop Dogg.
• 1:23:09
  Speaker 4: He's done a good job. I'm sure he's a nice guy.
• 1:23:12
  Speaker 5: But I didn't say, you know? And somebody even asked him.
• 1:23:17
  Speaker 2: One time, do you apologize now for some of the
• 1:23:19
  Speaker 2: things you said about? No, man, because I'll.
• 1:23:21
  Speaker 3: Tell you this.
• 1:23:22
  Speaker 5: And he was like, he doubled down.
• 1:23:23
  Speaker 2: But you were controversial.
• 1:23:24
  Speaker 5: And next thing you know, two Super Bowl commercials. Meanwhile,
• 1:23:28
  Speaker 5: you know, I'm like.
• 1:23:30
  Speaker 2: Don't get me started.
• 1:23:31
  Speaker 4: That just gets frustrating.
• 1:23:33
  Speaker 2: That would have been the perfect direct TV commercial. 100%.
• 1:23:38
  Speaker 2: There's a lot of hypocrisy in corporate, who they get
• 1:23:41
  Speaker 2: and who they don't get. Look, I've had a good career.
• 1:23:43
  Speaker 2: I ain't worried about it.
• 1:23:44
  Speaker 4: But I'm just saying, that DirecTV pissed me off.
• 1:23:47
  Speaker 1: Yeah, no, that was a missed opportunity.
• 1:23:48
  Speaker 3: Could have been you.
• 1:23:49
  Speaker 1: But listen, Snoop Dogg, he ain't no Tomator, though, man.
• 1:23:52
  Speaker 5: He ain't no Tomator.
• 1:23:54
  Speaker 2: And look, I don't say that. I love everybody. And
• 1:23:57
  Speaker 2: I'm happy for everybody's career. I'm not like, I'm not
• 1:24:00
  Speaker 2: mad at them. I'm upset at the corporations that would
• 1:24:03
  Speaker 2: say you're too controversial, but then they'll put somebody else
• 1:24:05
  Speaker 2: that's even way more controversial.
• 1:24:07
  Speaker 1: You know what I mean? We need to find that
• 1:24:10
  Speaker 1: DirecTV person, the exec or whatever agency they use, and
• 1:24:13
  Speaker 1: we need to say, in hindsight, In hindsight, do you
• 1:24:18
  Speaker 1: recognize the missed opportunity? And maybe you'll get the comeuppance
• 1:24:21
  Speaker 1: you deserve. But you'll say, every night as I'm going
• 1:24:24
  Speaker 1: to bed, I think about that I didn't cast Larry,
• 1:24:28
  Speaker 1: the DirecTV guy.
• 1:24:29
  Speaker 2: They're never going to do it.
• 1:24:31
  Speaker 4: No, thanks for having me on, guys. Sorry, I wanted
• 1:24:33
  Speaker 4: to tell you that story, though, because I think that's important.
• 1:24:36
  Speaker 2: Oh, I love the story. A lot of people don't
• 1:24:38
  Speaker 2: know how I started doing it on stage. That's how
• 1:24:41
  Speaker 2: I did it.
• 1:24:42
  Speaker 1: That's a great story.
• 1:24:42
  Speaker 3: Excited for the game.
• 1:24:43
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm going to have to ask you to get
• 1:24:45
  Speaker 2: out of here.
• 1:24:45
  Speaker 1: These dudes are looking in from that window now.
• 1:24:47
  Speaker 2: I know, I know. They think we're doing a Husker show.
• 1:24:50
  Speaker 2: All right, man, thank you very much.
• 1:24:52
  Speaker 4: Yeah, thanks for having me. You guys are hanging for.
• 1:24:54
  Speaker 2: The game, right? Yep. All right. All right, take it easy.
• 1:24:57
  Speaker 2: And we got hot dogs.
• 1:24:59
  Speaker 3: Get her that!
• 1:25:19
  Speaker 2: Thank you.