Ep. 945: Larry the Cable Guy

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No shortcuts, just gear that works. Check it out at firstlight.com, that's f-i-r-s-t-l-i-t-e.com. All right, everybody, we're joined today by Dan Whitney, he probably knows Larry the cable guy. And we were laughing this morning because we caught a quote from you, Spencer and I, we caught a quote from you where you said, Larry makes the money. That's right. Dan Spencer. Larry makes the money and I spend the money. Thank you, Larry. You're welcome. You're welcome. Tell everybody what we're at right now. We are in my sweet box, by the way, the best sweet box in the stadium. For the University of Nebraska, taking on Maryland, we're about to go five and 0 for the first time in like 12 years, trying to build us back in a great program that we once were that you know and love from the 70s, 80s and 90s. So yeah, so we're doing the show from my sweet box. Homecoming. Homecoming. Oh, that's right. Yeah, it's homecoming, too. You're going to be. We might be crowed. King or Queen. So excited. You're going to be someone in a moment and I was trying to, I asked her to sell me out of the game. Right. And she did a great job. She laid out this whole epic story about how you guys haven't won anything in decades. We've had a rough life. And now you've got four. If you win today, it's five in a row and she made it seem like the most important game that could possibly happen, even though it's not that important of a game. You just want us to pull out of this slump so bad. So we're like, oh my gosh, we can be five and oh. And then in the back of your head, it's like the last nine, 10 years anyway, 2016, we had a good year. But you're like, oh my gosh, is this really how are we really playing this well or is this a fluke? Are we going to blow it all this week in the back of every Nebraska's head? It's like, even if it's 24 to three, say we got a 21 point lead with five minutes left in the game, still in the back your head, we're going to blow it. It's never over until that whistle goes, you know. So anyway, it's a big, a big deal. I appreciate you coming here to do the, do it. Oh, great. Please. I thought this would be a great thing. Especially what I was saying, he's like actual football fan. Yeah. He knows all the rules. Special place to be. No. It is. It's one of the, it's iconic here. Absolutely. He grew up, he grew up one state off. We're out. Dakota, just like 30 minutes from the Nebraska border, we got a lot of good players from South Dakota. I got no problem with South Dakota. Good. Here's what we got. I don't know why South Dakota calls us names. We don't call them names. I know. I know. Well, I wasn't sure if you guys were aware that in South Dakota, we'd call you sand lizards. Yeah. Because if you're in fear of your soil, is that something you were aware of that you're a sand lizard? I've never really looked at people's soil enough to make fun of it. That's why you're in Nebraska. It's the South Dakota sand lizard state. I understand there's not a lot to do in South Dakota. I know. When you're talking about your soils and failure, that's kind of, I don't, that's not really a burn. You're right. That's a reflection on us. We, we need to work on that geological observation and like a character. Yes. So I'm not offended by it. Okay. Being a football game, we got to start with something. Now. Yes. We've been, we've been engaged in this very long process that you haven't been involved in. Of trying to find a way to make, this might seem trivial, but hear me out, trying to find a way to make a regular normal hot dog, right with deer meat. Okay. Peter always passing off venison hot dogs and you eat and you're like, it's just not a hot dog. You made a sausage. Look at the AI hot dog. It's not good. So we, we teamed up with, we, we, we were able to send, come on over Laila. This is Laila, everybody. This is Laila, Benzor from the lawful meat lab here at University of Nebraska. So she is a meat scientist here at this very university at this very university. That's right. He's hot dogs. Can I ask her something? Ask her everything. When you were little, did people come up to you so Laila, what do you want to be? When you go, I'm meat scientist. That's right. That's right. You know? How old age did you realize you're calling? Oh, man. You know, the, when I was like little, we used to, you know, process hogs in our garage for Christmas. Okay. Yeah. That was kind of my bit, my first meat thing. I didn't know I wanted to be a meat scientist then. I thought I was going to be a horse stutter and then I went to college and that didn't go well. Okay. So switched over to meat science. So I guess I was about 20 or so is a little bit, that 20 to 22 age ranges, a little blurry. Okay. And about the time I-- Did you grew up on paint farm? Not exactly so I grew up in North Texas, but I'm Hispanic and it's really traditional for us to slaughter hog around Christmas time for the holidays and that kind of stuff. So yeah, we, you know, we processed our own meat at home and then it kind of just felt really natural when I went to college and just wasn't awesome. Yeah. How do you say hot dog in Spanish? San Chicha. Tell me again? San Chicha. Okay. San Chicha. I mean, it's common now. It's common. Yeah. So we sent the deer meat down. Wouldn't it be free of paro? Hot dog? Perro caliente. Huh? Perro caliente. Perro caliente. Yeah, free of means cold dogs. Yeah, cold dogs. I can do-- I speak a little Spanish. And I'm catching that. I'm catching that. Yeah. I'm catching that. I speak Spanish only a little bit in the squaila. Oh, okay. Well, you were just catching it weren't you? Yeah. I'm good here again when you got yours. Yep, that was yours. Yep. This is my thin bead. So you know, the yell at you when you're like a hot dog is only mustard on. I know. I knew all that. I thought about that. But when you ask what I wanted on it, I didn't want to insult your-- like insult you by doing the ketchup thing. I don't know. So I thought maybe you were a snob. But then you told me you've also early on had an interest in research in hot dogs. You said it's like a-- it's like a poor people's food. Yeah. And there's not a lot of research into food that is-- would be like lower economical-- lower economic class foods. Yeah, exactly. Who might have told you what you want in hot dogs? You put on-- You don't need to eat the hot dogs as much as they want. Yeah, sure. You kind of have those. Exactly. And they want. Okay, so this is a genuine-- this is a university in Nebraska. Yep. Lawful meat lab with just regular hunter killed deer meat. Yep. Dragged out of the woods. For real. 100%. Yeah, dragged out of the woods. This could be the answer. My boy shot this. For real? Yeah. I'm going to try it. Mm-hmm. There I go. I can say already, you did the impossible. You made a regular hot dog. The taste is there. The texture is there. Mm-hmm. You wouldn't know it's deer. No, but you would know it's got a hearty flavor. It's got not a regular hot dog weiner flavor. Yeah, it's a little-- I mean, it is. It is not a smoky taste. Yeah, we-- so I made these very artisanally in our research kitchen, which is just a really like a restaurant style kitchen, but with things that you could do that you could use at home. And I smoked these at my house in my personal smoker. So that's a-- that's pecan wood. You're-- you're tasting there. Really? But it's got the snap. Yep. And actually, when I made hot-- when I made deer meat hot dogs in the past, you could bend them over. That's right. Fold them like a clothes-- like a paper clip. They never-- they never throw. They never throw. You could tie it in knots. Oh, this is what's got snap. What percentage pork are these? Oh, these are about, I believe, 15% fat. That's like a winning percentage, too. It's not like this is a pork hot dog. Yeah, it's pretty low in fat and water. It's very, very protein-heavy. You know, I played golf with George Lopez one time. And I believe he said that he smoked stuff in his houses as well. Yeah. We love our smoked meats, man. We're going to meet with-- Man, this is-- I like-- No, that's great. And we're going to meet-- we're meeting very early to make hot dogs. Yes. Yeah. Broad and early. 7 a.m. meetup. That's right. Hot dog making 7 a.m. to my university of Nebraska. That's right. Well, I lay on it. Thanks for bringing this out. But I would say that you like-- you won. It's got the snap. It's got the taste. It is possible to make a normal deer meat hot dog. It is possible. It's not easy. No, it is possible. No, but it is good. I like it. No, I think it's great. No, it brings me into this. Can I do this? This reminds me of one of my only favorite jokes I ever wrote. - Please? - It's my wife's favorite joke. And lately, you remind me of this. I used to do a joke about my sister. There's the strangest job on the planet. She's a hot dog whisperer. - Okay. - And I didn't know what it was. So I said, "What is a hot dog whisper?" And she said, "Give me hot dogs, I'll show you." She goes. - Boy, that's a good hot dog. (laughing) - Good. - It's out right. - That's good. - That's one of my all-time favorite jokes I ever wrote. - And does that joke kill? Does the audience go crazy for that one? - We're going crazy, who's that? - Yeah, yeah. Can I tell you my favorite, Larry the Cable Guy joke? - Yeah. - We'll see if you remember it. It's about your wife taking last name. Do you remember this joke? - Yeah. - So Steve and I, we both married women who did not take our last name. So we can tell Steve the joke. - Yeah, I was feeling embarrassed. - So he can, Steve can enjoy it. - This is really good. I don't think it was my favorite joke when I was a kid, but when I got older, I was like, "You came to appreciate it." - That's my favorite part of the camera. - I love this girl who isn't going to get married, but she didn't want to take my name. And I'm like, "What, you got to take my name?" But besides that, I think you'd be cool. Both of his name, Larry. (laughing) - I love that. I got it. (laughing) I got it. - That's you. - You were mentioning it. - That's a good joke. - That's a very good joke. - That's a good one. My favorite, see now that we're getting into this. (laughing) I think my favorite joke years was, this is the old one, but you were talking, you were explaining how deer, a lot of people don't know that deer like the Kardashians get a new rack every year. (laughing) - Yeah, get a new rack every year. And then when I hunt, I dress in orange and stand by the highway. They think I'm a road cower. (laughing) They think I'm a road cower. - How we got on to, (laughing) I wanna tell you how, I wanna tell you something Jeff Foxworthy said about you. And this is the Jeff Foxworthy. - Who is it again? - Jeff, we got him Jeff Foxworthy. Just kind of a, you know, he's kind of a niche, a niche little known comedian named Jeff Foxworthy. He, this is kind of the genesis of me wanting to talk to you. Jeff Foxworthy was talking about you. And we were kind of talking about deer hunting and everything, but after we got done, Jeff Foxworthy was saying, how his friend Dan has golfed at that time. He said, "My friend Dan is golfed 20 years." And he says, "In that 20 years, he is no better than the first time we golfed." - First of all. (laughing) I soon realized you saw him about you. - First of all, I've only been golfing. - Okay, for 16 years. - Okay, I got it. - It's a good correction. - But Jeff is pretty close to that. I tell everybody I go, my handicap is improved five point, five strokes. And it's only cost me three and a half million dollars. (laughing) Golf is the most frustrating part of the planet. - Keep doing it then. - Well, what do you, what do you like about it? - It's just, I love it, it's relaxing. And when you get older, it's the only sport where you can actually still hit, play and have a shot like a professional can do. You know what I mean? You could still make a long putt like a pro does. You can have the best putter in the world out there. And if you're both hitting 20 foot pots and you're a good putter, you can hit him just as good as he can. I mean, he'll probably make more. But you know what I mean? You can compete. - Got it. - Every now and then, you'll be 145 yards out. You'll take your nine-eye and you'll drop it three feet from the pen. That's what pros do. You can't do that anywhere else. I can't play football anymore. I can't play basketball anymore. I can't stand. - I love baseball. That's my favorite sport. I can't get down on the ground ball anymore. I played in a celebrity softball tournament and I took my first swing and I'm not kidding. I mean, my energy was coming out my mind then. I was like, "Oh my gosh, why is my butt burning?" What did I just do? You know what, I'll just coach, you know? And I loved it. I love playing baseball and I love playing league softball. I can't do it. Golf, I can do it. And I used to hate golf. I used to hate it. But I'm getting a little better. You know, I got a simulator, about a simulator. And I had to let five people play through. Steve's not gonna get that joke. - I got that joke. - A lot of our audience will. But Steve, I know. - I do a lot of that joke, man. - And it's fun. You do a lot of celebrity. You do a celebrity tournament's charity trip. All for charity, which is fun. So I'm doing something I like raising money. I got, man, I get five charity tournaments or four. I was gonna do five. One was for the Make a Wish Foundation and their wish was for me not to participate this year. So I wanted to make the kids happy. - Yeah. - Yeah, you know what, one of my all-time favorites. I gotta tell you this joke. This is one of my all-time favorite. This is really stupid. I just joke about, I just joke about. I was in this golf tournament in Las Vegas and we get done. I'm in the lobby of the hotel. And here it comes Henry Winkler from Happy Days. He went to borrow $500. And I'm thinking, "Well, here it is, I'm Henry Winkler. Why do you need five?" And he's like, "Well, I don't want to run up serious yet. But, buddy, Larry, I swear I'll give you 500 bucks and I'll meet you here in an hour." And I'll give you $2,000. They're like, "All right, so I give Henry Winkler $500." I haven't seen Henry Winkler in 30 years since then. You know? So I got the research and it turns out I got caught up in a fauncy scheme. (laughing) See, that's what brings in the big dollars, that kind of humor. He's a fisherman. I don't know if you know that. - Foncy? - Yeah. - Foncy's a fisherman. - He just goes, "I guess the fish come up." - Yeah, he's a fisherman. - I heard that he's one of the nicest guys in the business. I'd love to meet him. He seems like a nice guy. - Dan, I know something that you could spend Larry's money on. I'm guessing you've seen that you can buy a urinal from the old stadium, or are you gonna do it? - I know. - You know that? - I don't think $3,000. - I know, I don't think, I remember them urinals. - You use those urinals? - I did, I think, first game I ever came, I sat right over there with a friend of mine, and it was Oklahoma game, we won. I remember Jerry Goodowski was quarterback. That's the thing about Nebraska fans. You remember every game. I don't remember a lot about dates or marriage details, but I know where I was sitting. - My first game right over there. - And I did use the urinal, yes, they're disgusting, and I don't want that in my head if it's sitting. I mean, where would I even put it? - I don't know. - Hey, come on, when you show me my map, there's everybody peed. - They have a lot of recommendations, they say you could fill it with flowers. You could make it a centerpiece in your garage. - It's porcelain, don't really call it an amel. - Turn it into outdoor decor. They got a lot of recommendations on how you can go. - Yeah, you could do, you could do a planter out of it. - Yes, matter of fact, I think there was some moss growing in it when it was here. - That's what it was. They looked like it. - They looked like it. - I think there was already stuff growing in it. - Dan, I read it in a 2014 interview that you said, okay, we'll find out. You said you'd rather bass fish than deer hunt any day of the week. - Yeah, you know what, I grew up. - I look, I did nothing to get, I love hunt. I love to go, I go down south. Here we go, duck, we shoot doves, birds. I love bird hunt. I love shooting critters. You know coyotes, possums. You know, deer hunt, I just meant, I don't want to sit in a tree stand freezing all night. You know, I just never been into that. I grew up on a farm, raising pigs and a whole deal. So when I grew up, it was all about fishing. I even, when I was a kid, I went fishing all the time. And so, you know, I just grew up with that. Now, do I hunt? Yeah, I've gone hunting. Jeff always invites me. God bless Jeff, I love you. - If you get an invitation, I know. - I know, yeah. - I'd be going and doing that. - Hey, you oughta come and try. - Hey, you want to go with us? We're going to fly into Canada. - Oh, that kind of hunt. - They're going to drop us off. We're going to get on horseback. And we're going to hunt, blah, blah, blah for 10 days. I'll be honest, I just got off, I just got off the road. I don't want to go flying into Canada and sitting on a horse and sitting on a cabin. Jeff likes it, which I love, and that he does like it. I'm glad people do. So, you give me that, you give me that right all that. - It's beautiful. - I don't know what I got. What is this? - For you people just listening, he is pantomiming, hooking into a huge mess. - Yeah, you're not, yeah, you're right, you guys, I forgot, this isn't like. - Yeah, so just-- - No, good percentage of the viewers will see it, but the other ones, they need to know that he just hooked a giant. - I love, I love bass fishing. You know, they jump out of the water, they grab the whistle, and you do the top water, and they pop. There's just something about it, and I love fishing. And that's not the, I got, hunt all you want. You know, I'm just, I'd much rather do that. - More of an angler. - Yeah, I just never, you know, Jeff, when we were on tour all the time, look, I was on, I was gone all the time. I lived on a tour bus, me, my wife, then we had kids. So, I lived on a tour bus. I was, we did 276 days a year. [BLANK_AUDIO] the tour bus. So when I would get home and I would have 10 days off the last thing I was going to do was go no no I like what Jeff does now if I like going out we got targets me my kid my kid loves the hunt so it go out and you know take your bow and you shoot we used to do it on two and we take our bows and Jeff and me and Bill Ron we shoot stuff you know how the targets in the back that was Jeff's idea that ended real quick when one of us missed hit the cement wall and then started flying around the green room is that maybe we better not bring a bows anymore on tour yeah and so uh yeah uh bass fishing is uh I do like that I also read if I had to if I had to pick yeah I also read in your bio uh do you know this you were born in the back of an El Camino uh who came up with that detail it was actually a Chevy uh I was uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh a Corvair oh pick up okay is uh my parents read some concert I don't know what it was this is real and dad didn't want to go she's like my water broke I got he's like they got to get they got to do an encore you know so no actually no that's not true I made a man I used to say I was a see that was the original joke okay the original joke the original joke was uh from my bio I wrote a long time ago I say hey hey he was born in the backseat of a you know the original joke to that was I was born in I was a C section baby oh I was born in section C the Leonard Skinner that was my original the original that's better needed her and best selling author Brian borough present gunfighters a new podcast series about the American West and the violence that made its most legendary figures infamous davis tut staggered forward shouted boys I'm killed a keel over death from notorious killers to blood feuds in texas gunfighters strips away the myth to get at the reality who these men really were and what they actually did the first great gunfighter john Wesley hardy killed at least 26 men before he turned 21 years old it helped you know that he was pretty much a complete cycle path listen to gunfighters starting on september 15th on the iheart radio app apple podcasts or wherever you get your podcasts and get your shooting irons these stories don't miss oh that that makes you want to jump something to ask you about man I was reading this might not be true either i'm wikipedia okay someone got in there i'm wikipedia rightly wrongly and it says that you are that you like identify as a are you'll speed wagon fan yes there are very very few of us yeah left alive there's a lot of us because they still they until they broke up recently they packed it out it's really they were one of the few bands it was still pretty much together from the early 80s they look even though they lost Gary rich after guitar player the drummer retired but right after the big you know the big hits the the album the what was the one you well the last stuff they did that kind of got no deride you remember that video he's messing around with that like astral whatever that thing is like that little electric ball would he go I don't know I can touch the outside and it's like the light sugar was that I can't fight this he okay that was a big hit but high in fidelity right after that no is when they got a new guitar player and so for the last 45 years it's been the same band right after pretty much that so they would pack it out everywhere and Bruce Hall was the original guy that I met okay but the bass player that had been there since the late 70s so Bruce had a really good buddy he plays my golf tournament all the time I love him today oh real life and so you got like the inside respect yes so they would all come and he would get everybody out there to play my golf tournament the only one didn't play with Kevin Kevin didn't really golf so Kevin never came out but I would go to the concerts and I used to have when I was on two I used to have an air guitar band called air disaster so we put on we put on wigs we put on long hair wigs I had them go to the pawn shop and bought three boom mics two guitars a drum set and we put the padding on it so you couldn't really hear you play about your plane yeah and we would play 12 hard rock metal songs on stage that's what we would do and so Bruce knew I did that so I went the first time I went did something with it was a it was a for tornado victims in Illinois so we did a benefit there's a bunch of people are New Jersey and Speedwagon sticks and a head east and Richard mark hey he's nothing else yeah yeah so I went up and played roll with the changes and air guitar the guitar solo and everybody thought I was playing other cameras and I'm up there and the guitar player Dave Dave Amato he's over there he's really playing and I'm not even playing I did that like four or five times with him it was great but here's the coolest story can I tell you please yeah this is how how awesome they were my dad had a band my dad did all country he was a guidance counselor he was a pastor of two churches he was a far he had had really a cattle and horses I did the pigs and but he on the weekends he had a band he was going to band called the Memphis Beats and my dad had been playing guitar since he was a kid learned it himself but my dad had a night as it has gave it to me since he's passed a 1953 fender telecaster okay I mean it's like you know this is how cool the guitar is I remember I wanted to get it refurbished for him one time because I didn't know you know I'm not a guitar guy so I took it to my buddy that ran a guitar shop is hey I want to get this refurbished for my dad kind of cleaned it up a little bit you know he goes oh yeah sure was is that the original case I go yeah but that's an old case and he opens it up but he he looks and he's got this look on his face he looks and he goes don't touch this do you have any clue what you got here so anyway uh Dave a motto looks I showed it to him from speed away you guys man that thing I go hey Dave that thing has not been plugged into an amp and played on a stage since 1977 huh you want to play will it you think we would you play it on in a show or something and he goes are you kidding me I would love to huh so that night sold out show in Omaha are you a speed wagon and uh deaf leopard and Tesla sold out show right and I get a phone I'm about to leave to go up to the concert I get a phone call to Kevin Krone he did you know he did this guitar Dave doesn't play fenders I'm a fender guy but this guitar it's got man it's got music this just wants to fly out of it man I love this guitar you have no idea how cool this guitar is it's all so anyway so I went to the concert and Kevin Krone sound tech takes my guitar halfway through the show and Kevin Krone tells the story about my dad's guitar and played riding the storm out my goodness with my dad's guitar and then he come over to the side of the stage during the instrumental so I could get pitchers of it and then he looked at me he goes you good because I go yeah he goes man okay he goes back down but there's the coolest thing ever yeah I was so excited about it when I say I'm a are you'll speed wagon fan I'm a I should clarify that more and say I'm a ride in the storm out roll the chain yeah no I had the closest I've seen closest I've come to seeing them is one time we were down fishing in Florida and this is when I used to drink we're out looking for a liquor store right and in our wanderings looking for a liquor store we wound up at a are you'll speed wagon cover band concert in the back of the liquor store and this outfit was called that's okay storm bringer wow storm bringer the are you'll cover a are you'll speed wagon yeah storm bringer whole thing said through the whole thing and they never did roll the changes yeah one of my buddies said I don't think they have a keyboard player who's up for the task and so they got to skip that one because they can't do the soul probably right that's a tough that's a tough deal yeah they're pretty good though storm bringer yeah I honestly don't remember I just remember by disappointment they never got to the reason I was there if you like if you went to see head east right and they never did what's their main hits yeah without any reason now yeah oh save my life and go down for the last yeah save my life going down for the then you're sure hi yeah yeah yeah yeah that's it tell we can talk about some old tunes by one another now they're head west are they no I used to do joke over the joke I used to do jokes for a living joke about growing up right wait I used to joke about uh uh what was I wanted to get Molly hatchet for a party I was having I was going to get a Molly hatchet tribute band they were too expensive so I ended up getting Molly hatch that's really good hot dogs are good so tell me about so you grew up around agriculture and you're still rate you raised you still isn't in the bowl, like Buck and what do you call him? - Look, Buck and Bulls. - When I was a kid, I grew up right next to the sale barn. I wanted to be a catalog chair. - Oh, really? - When I was a kid. When that saw, one of my all time favorite movies is Convoy, Chris Christoff, I mean, that was the craze, man. I remember the first time I had my little walkie-talkie and I said, "I was pulling Cadillan." I'm like, "Breaker, breaker, why don't I miss a kid?" And I was then he goes, "I got you, buddy. I got to see you over there." I was like, "Oh, mom, big talk to me, big talk to me." I mean, this was, I was 30 years old then. And, no, man. I mean, I loved it. So I spent, when I was a little kid, I spent every day of my life at the sale barn, loading Cadillan trucks. - Okay. - And we had a far-- - For money or just 'cause you were down there. - Yes, because I liked it. And the guy that owned it was like my adopted grandpa. And he knew I loved that kind of stuff. And I raised pigs, I was legitimately a kid pig farmer. I'd buy my own hogs and I'd raise my own hogs. - Is that right, right? - Oh yeah, man, man, at the most, I probably was looking after over a little over 200 head. You know, just as a kid, I was the only, you know, seventh grader with a good bank account. - Yeah. - But he-- - Not like as a 4-H program, you're doing it for sale. - No, I actually bought the 4-H Derock's out, which I'll never do again. She laid on her babies and ate two of them. So, Derock's aren't very good at that. But yeah, so that was fun. So, my wife, I met my wife, I met, she's from a small town in Wisconsin. She grew up on a big old black gang as cattle ranch. - Okay. - So, yeah, so I've always liked it. And then I moved to Florida and started doing stand-up. But I always wanted like a little, I always wanted cattle. And so now I'm able to do it. So I got, well, that little under 180 acres and we got horses and a couple of donkeys. But I got into the Buckham Bull business because I'm a big fan of rodeo. So in the '90s, when I started making a little bit of money, finally Larry started making money for me, I started sponsored a buddy of mine named Tater Porter, who was a bull rider. - That's a real name. - Yeah, a bull rider. - Tater Porter. Tater Porter. And he used to travel with another bull rider, named Spud Whitman. (laughing) I'm not getting Tater's, but. And so I just got into the PBR and Biden and the NFF. I loved it. And so then I found out you can start paying to put your name on bulls to sponsor Buckham Bulls. - Okay. - So I started paying and I had seven Buckham Bulls and the PBR, six or seven that I got to be co-part owner on. 'Cause I'm paying for the sponsorship. - Yeah. - And so one of my bulls in 2007, chicken on a chain, one Buckham Bull of the year. - Damn. And that makes you money. - It made me a dime. - Okay. - It gave me just the pridefulness of being able. - When you're part owner, I don't know if there's money to be made. - No, okay. - There can be depends of what kind of deal you worked out, but I didn't know much about it. And I was just like, yeah, take my money. - So I probably got ripped off. I probably could have bought that bull 20 times over. What makes him the bull the year? How do they earn that? - It's just the way he bucks. The scores that he gets on it. The scores of cowboys get on him. They score the bulls. - So you want like a real mean one or like a medium? - You don't want one to buck. You want one buck, one that twists, kicks high. That's what you want. You want a cowboy to get a good score on him. So if you have a bull, and every time he goes out, you know, the cowboys are getting 85 and have 86 it up on him. I mean, that's good bull. - Okay. - And I just started learning about that process of it. I just loved it. But then I started learning about it. And I met a guy here on my partner, AJ, AJ Moss. When my boy started, my boy came to me one day and said, I want to write buck 'em bulls. - Good. - And I'm like, man, that's unbelievable. Here's this kid. I put in, I got a whole facility for sports. I got a basketball court. And I got, you know, I got a drop down net for a hit and boss. Cause I said, my kid's going to come in here and bring all his friends. And they're going to, that won't know where my kid is at all the time because nobody over here played sports. Never played sports. - Uh huh. - And then one day he won, and he's athletic. Very athletic. - He was looking off to the other end of the property. - Yeah, he was. And then he came up to me and he had been going to bull ride since he was a kid. Said he went to bull ride. So I said, okay, so I wanted to do it safely. Cause that's a tough sport. You gotta be safe. And I didn't know who around there, how to get him started or anything. So I called my buddy Cody Lambert, who started the PBR, told him he wanted to ride bulls. And he said, ah, you know, a lot of these kids, try to do it, make 'em look tough or get girls. He goes, it's a dangerous sport. You can get serenably crippled. - Well, he was just, well. - Yeah, so I, he said, I'll tell you what. He says, tell you what, Dan, how tall is he? Well, how big is he? I say, right now he's five, six, about a buck, 17. He goes, well, he's right in the prime. He says, I thought he's gonna be a big fat guy like you. I like, hey, come on Cody. So he goes, I'll tell you what, bring him down. But he says, bring him down to me for three days. Give him to me for three days. I'll find out if he wants to bull ride or not. So right then, I'm thinking, oh boy, here we go. And he came up to me and said, he liked him. He reminded him of his grandson, had a kind heart. He saw some talent in him. He said, you know, these kids that they want to do it and can't stop them, they're gonna do it without you. You know, when it's turn 18, they're gonna go do it. So they're gonna do it. Just find a place and do it safe. Get him on steers and slowly move up. And I said, okay, so there was really, I met this guy, A.J. Moss, and he had buck and bulls. He had a bull in the PBR like me. I'm trying to shorten this story. So I met A.J., and I took wide out to A.J., and he got on his first steer, and that's when I started saying, you know what? Why am I driving all the way out here? I just put my own bull riding in. So I called Eddie Prieferd up. Eddie Prieferd got me a pretty good deal on. I bought the 2000 and 2004. No, I thought the 2024 PBR buck and shoots that they had in the world finals. Oh, okay. So he got those instead of the University of Braski journals. Yeah, I bought four of those and I bought that. And every time we buck, I always get two professional bullfighters and I get two EMTs. And so it's invite only kids at a series about bull riding that have done it and they want to come get on good stock. We have 50 bulls that range from beginner all the way up to a nasty. But you personally, you don't get on those. No, I'm too old, are you kidding me? Remember? I have almost something come out of my butt. I got you. I just didn't know if there's like a version. I didn't know if there's a bull riding version. It's like a, like a, like a, for older fellas. Do you know what I mean? Your wife, if I'm 50, I mean, no, you don't want to get on those. Yeah, kill you, man. You don't ride them, but I assume you name them. We name them, it's, but do you pick the names? I picked the name. What's the best name you've come up with? Right now, my favorite name is the Villain from Urban Cowboy. Okay. Oh, West High Tower. Is that the whole name? The Villain from the name West High Tower and he is awesome. Okay. Yeah. He actually got in his first NFR rodeo. I put on an extreme bull. So part of, I asked, I said, look, I'm going to pay, put it on. I want to get some bulls in it. So they let me bring a cup of bulls. So I got West High Tower, boom. He had a guy off two seconds. It was awesome. But it's fun. You know, I'm learning about it more and more myself, all the, all our bulls are at my buddies because he's got the facilities for the bulls and he's got the bull. But we buy bulls together and, and it's fun, man. And then you lease, you lease those out to rodeos? No. Yeah, that's pretty much how they do it. There'll be a rodeo. You want to be a contractor with good bulls. Yeah. If you have good bulls, they'll know that you have good bulls and they'll go, hey, you know what? Call, blah, blah, call, but Whitney Mars, Bucking Bulls and get their bulls out here. And then you, are you to the point now where you can look at one and know he's good just looking at him? You never know. Oh, you don't, because you can't tell by looking, you don't know at all. You can look at one and go, when you buy them, sometimes you buy them and they go, look, these are bucked a few times. There's three good ones, one bad, you got to take a chance of it. Sometimes you don't know. You see with their bread, too, who they were bred to, sometimes you go to the sale barn and you'll buy a bull and all of a sudden he's a great Bucking Bull. You just got a bull for, you know, cheaply. I see. You never know. And the best we've done so far is we bought four bulls from Colorado from a guy, five grand each. So we split it, ten grand each. And one of them is one four Bucking Bull Futurities for yearlings and we got offered 50 grand for it. Oh, there you go. So, you know, it's like Austin Dillon does it, too, in auto racing, Austin Dillon, I call him, maybe done it. I call him actually when he looked at the bulls and the bulls, the bulls, the bulls out. He bought these buckables because he's getting into it too. And he loves it. And he bought one, put it in the future. He won a hundred thousand dollars. I know. It's the way it is. So it's fun. It's a fun thing to do. It's a hobby for me. I don't make any money at it. I don't really. It's not why I do it. When I get it, I told my wife, I'm going to budget this much. Here's how much money I can waste on this. And I'm just going to have a good time doing it. And, you know, and it's fun to do. And what I really, what we try to pride ourself in is those bulls that are really rough in the shoots. Because some of them was dangerous bull riding is in the shoots. Shoot procedure. You need to know. Because that's the shoot procedure and the get off. Once the ride is over, you really got to learn those are the two most dangerous things. The ride is fun. If you're right, right? So shoot, but you see those bulls try to jump out and they're rare and they'll buck and they'll snort and we try to we try to get ones that are nice and gentle in the shoot. And then you open the door and they're open to shoot and then show time. So you know, when we train them, we run them through get used to what they're doing. We run them through as many times and we feel they're ready for us. Like a dummy to put on them. We'll put a dummy on them. And then you put cowboys on them. But you know, we don't have a lot of really crazy ones in the shoots. Most of ours are pretty good in the shoot. So I'm happy with that. Needyder and best-selling author Brian Burrow present Gunfighters, a new podcast series about the American West and the violence that made its most legendary figures infamous. Davis Tutts staggered forward, shouted, "Boys, I'm kill." He killed over dead. From notorious killers to blood feuds in Texas, Gunfighters strips away the myth to get at the reality who these men really were and what they actually did. The first great Gunfighter, John Wesley Harding, killed at least 26 men before he turned 21 years old. It helped you know that he was pretty much a complete psychopath. Listen to Gunfighters starting on September 15th on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts or wherever you get your podcasts. And get your shooting irons. These stories don't miss. We got to talk about some of the foundational Larry the Cable Guy stuff. Absolutely. Fish hook on the hat. Where did that come from? Do you ever use it? The fish hook on that? Did you bet that? No, the fish hook on the hat was when I was a kid growing up. Most of the kids, you know, we grew up on farms. So it was just was a symbol for outdoorsy. But it was, that was pre-clip, though. That was it. Yeah, you made your own. Yeah, that was a hook. Hook in your hat. Yeah, we made our own clips. It was all. Oh, so you did? You did mount them on a clip. Yeah. You just jam it under the thread. You had a real hook and made your own clip. Then Eagle Claw came out. They knew kids were doing it. So they did it themselves. But it was always I just what we did. Who started it? I have no idea. I feel like you made it popular, though. Like you should take some real credit for that. Yeah, maybe, you know, I could have been. I remember when I was a kid, you know, all about a lot of the farm kids, a lot of the did it. And it signified back then, if you were efficient a lot, you know, yeah. What were you guys fishing for back then? Caffees. Oh, man. Bullheads, the bullheads, carp, city ponds, cricks, you know, anything you could get on. Yeah. Yeah. What about getter done? Where'd that come from? When I was a kid, we'd go to my grandpa's house. So I was probably four or five years old, but my grandpa, he'd always say we'd get to pick up truck and he'd either go get gas or go check the cows. And it was, let's go. Let's get to getting. And then get it done. We got to go get it. Let's go. We're going to get to get. So those front those freezes always in my head. I didn't think much of it, but when I did, I when I started, I started to learn the cable guy on stage as just a little funny three minute bit because I always did voices and characters. It was fun. But you would go from your in a normal set, you'd jump in to be in Larry. I go, hey, this guy ever come over to your house. Hi, hi, did you own a cable? That guy was somebody's older type of my pair because we ain't here for no reason. What's your house number? 27. Oh, that got me. This is 26, 14. We way off. You know, that kind of thing. And then they would laugh. And then I just go back into a regular routine. But a buddy of mine saw that his name is Ron Bennett. And he saw we were really good friends back in the day. And he had a morning show in Tampa called the Ron and Ron show. And so he said, man, we need characters over there. One night at the comedy corner in West Palm Beach. We got to talk and then laughing at him. You should call our show and do that character. That's so funny. So I remember I called up. And I didn't even have a name. I used to call them to go, hey, I remember what I called. Hello, D.I.C. or Y&F. Hey, do I want me to literally start like this? Hey, boys, you want me to do that hook up today or you want me to wait till tomorrow? Well, we're on the air right now. Oh, she is. That coming. Oh, no, no, who is it? Here's cable guy. Oh, yeah, Ronnie, remember, we wanted to put cable and oh, yeah, cable guy. Well, what's your name? Larry. The first thing I thought of was my buddy with his belt with Larry on the back, right? And so I just said Larry and the rest is radio history. I'm not lying. God is good. That's how it worked. Are there some characters who didn't survive? Oh, yeah. Well, I did an old lady from Boca Raton. What the name was Rose? Sometimes it was Rose. Sometimes it was Iris. This is Iris. Hello. I love your program. We've been listening down here in Boca. Just a wonderful bro. My husband's not a little. He drove the truck through publics. You know, just that, you know, she had that. It's just down there. And then there was a doesn't have the range. There was no man. There's like, I love you. You know, just all night. So I would, when I would go into a morning show, I was part of a morning show down in Orlando. I would keep a phone there. And all I did was pick it up in the, in the main line with ring. And so he, hey, we're getting a call. And then my buddy would pick it up. You know, and I'd be like, Hey, that last caller, I agree with him. You know, and I would just do voices. It was fun. And you know, it's crazy about that. The first time I was on Jimmy Kimmel, we went to a commercial and goes, Hey, you don't know this, but you and I started pretty much the same way. I go, what do you mean? He goes, well, you were doing characters on 95 Y enough, right? In Tampa. I go, yeah, he goes, so funny. I literally was calling the radio station across the street, doing characters for that radio station. Oh, seriously? I'm like, no, wait, really? And I was recently on Adam Corolla show and Adam says, yeah, you know me and me and Jimmy, we used to call radio stations and new characters. So we all kind of started the same way. I'm like, wow, that's crazy. I had no idea. But yeah, that's pretty much how it started. We got a, we got a guy we work with dear friend of mine and longtime colleague. And as he gets older, he's, he's gone through two transitions where he's taken to run in 100 mile races through the mountains. Right. And somehow I feel like it's related, but maybe not. He's begun to go sleeveless. Yeah. Okay. That's where to go. Now, if you, like, if you imagine, like if you're gonna provide advice to a guy going sleeveless late 40s, going sleeveless, what do you, what are some of the mistakes a guy like that can make? What are some of the wins you could have? Well, go sleeveless is the greatest thing you'll ever do in your life. Wow. My going sleeveless as far as stage was an accident. You just forgot your sleeves. No, there was an accident because I did where I moved to Florida. So I wore sleeveless t-shirts and because it's hot and humid. I only wear sleeves of I was going, I'd go to school or had you do, you know. And then when I did stand up, that's when I'd go on stage in a flannel shirt. Okay. And I, and I picked flannel shirt because it hangs, you know, I'm not like best shaped guy. I was a lot thinner than, but I wasn't fat. I was, you know, big bone, but that shirt, a flannel shirt really hangs nice. Got it. It looks good. Look at the flannel shirt. You were thinking about your, like, your spell. I was 30 years old. So whatever it was. Well, you know, you, they just look good. I understand. Yeah. Well, I did wear sleeves, but when it was summertime, I wouldn't. I would wear no sleeves because then the summer was high and we're sleeved. So when I would travel around the country, it was cold, I'd put sleeves on. Got it. Well, we just go happen if film blue collar TV the first one and it was flipping. Hot it was phoenix and I had no sleeves on I sound put my other shirt on this I knew it's TV taping So I wanted to look like you know, I'm not wearing sleep. So I didn't wear sleep So every time I did a show after that people would go if I had sleeves they go Dude We wore a shirt with no sleeves. Where's your suit? You got sleeves. Well go change So I'd go change, you know So I just went sleeveless on stage that they're going sleeveless is the greatest free thing of all time You're a good ambassador for the lifestyle and the only here's the thing about it. There's really no rule to it You just don't we get one that's too tight because that's the that's a whole different look man The whole purpose of the sleeve that's a whole different look hangs and is comfortable because it's not touching your sides You're free with your arms and it's uh You know You have two different sleeveless looks you have the sleeveless shirt shorts look for the spring and summer And then once it turns cold in the fall and the winter you have your sleeveless shirt and your um warmer shorts You know what I mean? You value the more material Every every every fact guys got thick pair of shorts and a non thick pair of shorts for when the He always wear the same he got a he had flannel. You know, you know, where we have right now in the calendar He's hot weather she's not weather sleeveless right now. Yeah, right now. I'm hot weather sleeveless. Yeah, I'm kind of a cool Yeah, I wore it now. I wore sleeves up here Because there's kids down there. So as soon as I walk by and I hear hey, there's made her then I'm stuck. Oh I see if we don't go in hot needo is to have sleep That's good. Not get recognized. I got to dress with sleeves because a lot of guys go sleeveless to get recognized But you got to go sleeves Yeah, you got to go sleeve onto the radar. Yeah, I wear sleeves to not get recognized And you know, it's really funny one time. I wanted to go when we were on the road when in my heyday when we were doing You know arenas. I mean neighborhood crap. We all did it. Oh and But back in those days I remember I wanted to go out to eat my wife was there and we're all out on the buses and And they were going to this really good restaurant. I'm like I mean, I literally couldn't go anywhere. I mean, it was crazy. Oh, yeah in two thousand five six and seven and it was nuts you know and then uh so My buddy goes hey, you should buy the jog and suit. They bought you for a joke. I go what? Yeah, it's a good idea. So somebody on who was bought me a Nike full jog and suit like you'd see a mobster wear back in the day, you know So I put on the mobster jog and suit and I had my hat on backwards and a pair of sunglasses and we go to this restaurant We're waiting in line Just waiting in line Nobody's so nice. This is great. I look like an idiot, but this is great And then I was supposed to normally you don't look like an idiot The other day is like a brilliant, you know You know what just for that? I'm farting on the set right now just because you said okay Um also the guy some guy goes hold on some guy In front of me nudges me and goes You learn the cable guy And I go Yeah, I don't tell anybody because What do you wear in that? I was trying not to get recognized he goes well Take it off you look like an idiot I said I agree and then we both laughed and that was it I don't see I was gonna tell you about it. I was gonna tell you about a public figure And what they do when they're I can't do it A public figure the other day was sharing with me a very simple move he does To never get recognized yeah when he's out and about but I Go on act like you I want to blow his deal, you know Well, actually he pees his pants Yeah, Brian Haley my buddy Brian Haley a comedian so funny looks at Max Hyderon He used to do a joke about Walking at home after comedy clubs and bad parts of town He goes I found a way that they'll never bother you First thing you do is you wet your pants And then you walk home like this. He started doing high kicks going Ding dong ding dong He was like never coming here Uh, Dan. I used to watch your show only in America on on history channel. Oh good show The thing I was most jealous of you got to do so much cool stuff But I felt like I saw you break character one time because you were so giddy When you were with some game wardens in Alaska who set up a moose decoy off the highway And then you saw somebody shoot it Yeah One of my favorite episodes Alaska was awesome, but we set this decoy up and it was the dumbest looking decoy and I'm thinking there's no way Yeah, somebody's gonna think this and of course the guy I was with it was kind of goofy himself the game We're a guy so he's fun, you know So we set this thing up and I'm making jokes like yeah nobody's I mean look at us. It looks like It was the dumbest thing you've ever seen right on the side of the road Well, first of all now we have to go sit so we sit in the guys car Waiting for somebody to shoot this stupid thing and by guys people were driving and then slowed out You see I know they're going by so after about the 15th car that slowed down I go I told you they're not gonna believe that's the dumbest thing I ever seen in my life I look and some guy stops Get out of his truck and we see pulling a rifle out and I go you gotta be kidding me really this guy And he goes you hear He goes he shot let's go Carve The car won't start and I'm like well, this has to be the dumbest thing I've ever been on in life We finally get started. We go down there. Yeah, and the guy actually because they can do that down there You can shoot you on the side of the road if you see one You just got to make sure you're on the side of the road safely can't shoot from across or whatever Because they live on that they they're all appointed they all can get one per family. I guess it's something like that And so then we went down there, but I thought the funniest part of the whole thing was we let him go Just give him a warning because we're doing the show and I go later on Robert was Later on Robert was seen down at the JC Penny is hitting on a mannequin I'm impressed you never forget a joke No, that was funny. You know, I'll never forget that that that guy shot it that's stupid Dude they got sophisticated ones now we interviewed a guy in an Idaho that worked on that program right and they got him to turn their head now He was telling me That you can't use Too big of a buck If you use a giant bucket enters into this whole like basically like entrapment or you've created A situation of just outstanding circumstance The no sane person right would be able to resist so you need to use a more modest buck Wow, well, but I can't remember if that was I need to go revisit why exactly that was the case I put a huge buck and that get all the guys dragged by right you could every guy the troll by oh Dan's episode had a big big bull moose But you could see like where the neck met the body it was like and and I think I remember somebody even pulling over to your vehicle and being like Did you guys know there's a mannequin in the woods over there like it was it was that obvious It was it was so but they but it made for a funny show. Yeah, that was the point of the show I also loved Blair the cable guy roast on Comedy Central was one of the most watch ones. They've ever had Who do you think did the best job of roasting you? Oh, man, that was They were all good. Um, was there anybody who was too mean? Yeah, it's gonna be a hard position to be in man Didn't roast but you're all though as mean, but you got to understand when I did that roast I was the number one guy Yeah, so the number one guy's always the target. Mm-hmm, you know, especially a one-liner guy like me and You know doing a character and you know, there's like like Scott Tom like Carrot Top Carrot Top's been a punching bag forever. Oh, yeah, and Carrot Top is hilarious. He's clever one of the nicest comics in the world But you know people think patch hats. So that was when I was so yeah, some of uh, so there was a couple of roasters that they matter of fact great your although came out to me after the podcast backstage Yeah, and he goes he literally said he goes hey, Dan. I hope you look Um, I hope you're not mad at some of those jokes and I just uh, but You know, and I'm not mad at you. I'm mad at myself Because I'm I should be one of the guy. I should be getting roasted. I should have the career you have But I don't have because of myself because I can't as I I do this and I do that And I know I shouldn't do he was just going into his life basically And so he goes so I hope you're not I don't want to look you're nice guy and I don't hope you're not mad at me But when I was venting up there, I was more venting at myself than I was at you I see great. I know what it is. It's a roast man. I can take a joke. I get it. No hard feelings. I was laughing so good. So so it was an awkward ending. It was good. Well, it was good. I mean, I knew I was going to get it from a couple of those guys, but if you're going to be a comedian, you got to take it. I don't really, but I've never like all my stuff is just nonsense stuff. I don't really pound or bang other comedians or anything. Sure, yeah. You know, but I think Jeff was probably, I don't always going to say Jeff, because Jeff is like my adopted older brother. But Jeff was classy and he was funny and he was clever and that was what I wanted. That was good. You know, Toby did a good job. Toby Keith. The thing about that was I knew what they were like and I didn't want my mom watching. Oh, huh. So I requested certain comedians that I wanted and I wanted it PG 13. I said, I want to do a throwback to the Dean Martin roasts. Yeah, because I grew up with the Dean Martin roasts. So Jeff and I Dan Marino and Dan Marino had to end up canceling out and then, of course, Marsha Bray, the Marine McCormick was there. I didn't ask for Marine McCormick and a great year-old though they got to have because he's always there. Jeff Ross, who's a buddy of mine. I love Jeff. I'm glad you're up with, but then a few people that I didn't was going to be like Warren Sapp. I know Warren. I didn't invite Warren, but Dan Marino could make it. So Warren Sapp took his place. Which was nice. I love. You know, I know him. So he wanted to do it because I knew him. Did your mom watch it? I don't think so. I told her not to. Okay. I felt bad after I did it. You know. Oh, it's got to be though. I can't. I feel bad. It's not, it's not, tell you what? And I'm not a mean like, so they, you know, they write you jokes and then you, if you want to come up with some, you can, but there's so many people. So I just relied on. I do, I take that back. I did the Warren Sapp when I did where I said it was Toby Keith. And it was, I figured it was Toby Keith. And who was the other, I can't remember. There was Toby somebody in Warren Sapp. The man he brought all the stars out tonight. Toby Keith and blah, blah, blah. And look, I had a wreath of Franklin. I remember I did that. But I felt bad because they wrote, they had a joke. And I saw them love some of myself for the first time. I go, it's nice to have Marshall Brady here. Man, Marshall Brady. I was in love with you when I was a kid. You were so beautiful. What happened? You know, everybody laughed. And then my head of mine, man, that's so mean. Yeah. I like her. She's a nice girl. She's, you know, then she went up hammered me and then I'm like, you know, it's her. Yeah. You got the first shot. Yeah. Well, yeah. But I didn't, I felt bad doing that. I like Marie McCartney. They had me doing these. Some of them. And then after that, they just got real hateful. The rose really got hateful and mean. You know, when I did it, they were still pretty lighthearted. Yeah. But man, they started getting really hateful. You know, comfortable. Well, I will say I was uncomfortable doing those about Marie McCormack. Because I really, she was like, you know, I don't get star struck by people except for people that I grew up as a little kid. And I always like the Brady function. I was like, we're in McCormack. Here I am bashing her because, you know, she's older and doesn't look like she used to look and nothing's horrible. Yeah, no, it's not even funny. No, it's not. But I did it. Mediter and best-selling author Brian Borough present Gun Fighters, a new podcast series about the American West and the violence that made its most legendary figures infamous. Davis Tutt staggered forward, shouted, "Boys, I'm killed. I'm a kill over dead." From notorious killers to bloodfeeds in Texas, Gun Fighters strips away the myth to get at the reality, who these men really were, and what they actually did. The first great Gun Fighter, John Wesley Harding, killed at least 26 men before he turned 21 years old. It helped you know that he was pretty much a complete cycle path. Listen to Gun Fighters starting on September 15th on the iHeartRadio app, Apple podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. [Music] Tell me about what you're working on now. Like I know you got this American Mayhem deal coming out. What's that all about? Yeah, American Mayhem is crazy. You know what? It's just in the vein of America's funny song videos. It's just it's videos that kind of geared kind of toward me, you know. A lot of fallen, a lot of outdoorsy, a lot of rural, a lot of blue collar type stuff, a lot of hey y'all watch this type stuff. And I host it. And then they show the videos. There's another guy on there talking about, you know, saying what's happening. And then there's one that is the thing called Larry's People where I picked my three favorites. These are my people. I hang out with these people. And so I narrate those. And then I close it out. So it's just it's just me green screen and showing funny videos. And you're doing a boatload of those. We already did. We shot 52 episodes. So they'll be one a week now for the next 52 weeks. And yeah, I mean, it's going all over the country. You never know how it's going to go because I premiered, you know, in September when football started. So it's like, you know, hey, our team's playing. Yeah, hold on. Larry's on. You got to have a Larry for hand. I'm going to go back to the first quarter. But they I think they air me now. It's at all different times. But generally, I'm air to half an hour before a football game starts to get people warmed up. Generally, that's yeah. Yeah. And you got more stuff in the cars world, right? I got to tell you to like, I so I've always known your standup. But but to be the role that you took on in my household, because I so I have 11 13 16. Oh, yeah, you're right there. Like listen, like, I don't want to bother you up too much. The tomato stuff is genius. I mean, like, it's just like a genius. Yeah, it's just like an execution of a character. But to be like 11 13 16, the role, the tomato hat. Oh, that's in my household is like, tomato has said more words in my household than I have. Yeah. Oh, man. I'm just like a huge favor. Yeah. I am blown away by that whole thing. I'm so thankful. I mean, I would have never thought in a million years, you know, but it just continues to go and Oh, it's just like it just makes people happy. Yeah. And I did I did it right. You know, I'm not, look, I'm not Hollywood at all. I don't live out there. I don't like. So when they said, I was proud of it. I was proud of Mator breathing life into the little truck. And it's close to my personality. It's my personality really. I'm just being me in that thing with fake in the accent. But it's just like being that I would have never thought that it turned into what it turned into. Who would have thought that? I mean, so I always do when they ask me like, they'll ask the guys, well, there's video games and toys and they'll say, do you want to voice these? Doesn't pay much, but this is what they're paying. And you know, everybody went and then I'm not going to do it, you know, I'll do it. I don't want nobody else doing. Yeah, I can imagine, man. Be like when they got like, remember when you're a kid and they switched Bowen Luke Duke out for those cousin. Yeah, fans. Oh my god. But yeah, you can't have some other dude doing tomatoes. Good luck getting anybody. It sounds like me. It's a hard deal. You know, so I have done every toy, every game, every video game, every commercial. Anything where Mator is talking is me. Other than the 400 films. I've done all those things. And so even if they wanted to get somebody else to do it, you would know because you would know. Because I have certain inflections. I have a certain sound to it. I would know. Kids would know. Kids people that grew up with Mator and love Mator. If somebody else did it, that wasn't me, they would know. Good job security. Yeah. And you know, and I'm not, but here's the thing. I'm not a jerk and I'm not, I like doing it. So I'm not hard to work with. I'm like, yeah, you know what? If you can get more, get more. It's not all that. Yeah. So because I like doing it. It's fun for me. I like the people I work with, the people in the studio. We've done it for years. I just have a good time doing it. And it's fun. So yeah, that thing was awesome. But the thing that sucks about it is now whenever they want me audition to do another cartoon voice, everybody says like Mator. Oh, I can see that. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. That was so. I can see that man. You type cat. You type. Type cat. Myself. I'm no man. Hey, uh, this isn't live obviously. Right. So the truth will be known when this airs. Yeah. So you're in a very awkward position when I ask you, what's the score? What's the score going to be? Oh, the game. Yeah. Here's the deal. So people already know that you're right or wrong. I was close last week. I was only three points off. Okay. We win 34 to 13. We won 31 to 13. Oh, dang. Wow. Yeah. So, uh, give me as much color, much details you want. And then we then you'll be reality checked. - Here's the deal. I've got that last 10 years in my hand. - A person is him. - Are we gonna blow it? Is this the day? Here's what scares me about Maryland. At the beginning of the year, they were supposedly pretty good team. They've been tanking. They got blown out by UCLA. - Okay. - Some people say UCLA's the best team in the big time. - Okay. - I don't know. It's too early. They fired their coach, Maryland. - Okay. - But, evidently, there was so many people that wanted to back-player-wise, okay, you're not fired, but we're gonna go game by game. And if we see improvement, so his team is gonna play-- - That's the coach's situation. - Yes, so that team is gonna play really hard for that coach today. I'm gonna go 45 to 24. I think they're gonna score some points. - They got a better mascot. They got a better mascot than you guys. - Don't ever say they've got a better mascot than her. - You sound like a South Dakota now talking about their corn. - Terrific. - Don't want your terrapins. What is a terrapins? - I'd never had one, but they used to be quite popular there. Yeah. - Let's take a little turtle guy. You know, I don't know. Corn huskier, that's what it means. - 45 huskier corn, that's what we do. They're huskier, but that's not like a mascot builder. - We would husk more corn if our soil was better - Sound good. - What's the damn sand? - I change it, 45 to 17. - Okay. - 45 to 17, there you have it. No need to even go back and watch the game, 'cause that's what happened. All right. All right, thanks, man. - Are we done now? - We've done your friends call. - Hold on, I wanna talk more about all of you. - You can talk all you want. - No, I'm only kidding. - I'll try and be respectful of your time, 'cause I know you got this whole thing that's like filling up with people. - What time is it? - 12.50. - Oh my God. - Your friends are coming at one. - Well, how long is your punk? - However long we make it. It's a nice day one thing, 'cause I don't wanna go yet, 'cause I'm ready to end it out of respect for your friends. - No, no, you don't get it. - You talk all you want. - Okay, okay. - They aren't really friends. I pay-- - You can send your friends in a different point. - I literally pay people to hang out with me. - Okay, cool. So before your employees come in, no, you got as much time as I want. - I wanna tell you this, because a lot of, I wanna let people know this, 'cause some people ask me. He didn't. How did I come to do learning the cable guy on state? - Were you told of that? - No. - I just told you how good or not. - Well, you said that you would go into a bit. - Yeah, but that's-- - But you would do a minute. - Yeah, but I was day and Whitney. - Oh, okay, yeah, please. - All right. - I wanna hear everything-- - 'Cause I wanna hear all this. - 'Cause I always wanna give him credit, okay? So one day, I'm on the radio station. It's real popular. They're selling, I got a copyrighted, selling t-shirts, the whole thing. My buddy off just the radio stuff. - Yes, off the radio stuff. - Not having done it on stage. - No, the whole off radio. When the radio thing is happening, would you get recognized by your voice out in a ballot in Florida or no? - No, not yet, 'cause I'd never made a public appearance. - I don't. - Face for radio. - Right, it's just all radio. It's all theater of the mind. My buddy, less McCurdy. McCurdy's comedy shot, St. Petersburg, Florida. - Okay. - Bills me. - Now, I just left this radio station and went to another one in Orlando and got syndicated. My buddy, less McCurdy goes, "I show up." It said the bank room of the holiday in. That's where his comedy club is. - Okay. - I can't find a place to park. And I'm like, "What, I got negative shriners "in town, what's going on, right?" You know? So I walk there and go, "Man, less." I mean, what's going on? You go, "I can't find a place to park." 'Cause they're here to see you. - I go, "I literally, I'm a cleaning." I go, "What I do?" (laughing) - When you said he billed you, I thought you meant like he sent you a bill. - No! - He booked me, he booked me. - Yeah, yeah, I got it. - He was, "I hope you don't mind." I know you had a falling out with that radio station, but I billed you as Dan Whitney, aka Larry the cable guy from the '95 lineup. And I literally was like, "Ah, less." What'd you do that for? Is this all theater of the mind? I don't have an act for Larry the cable guy. He's like, "Well, it's so in tickets." That's all I know. I go, "Really?" He goes, "Dude, I announced Larry the cable guy." Right, you do Larry the cable guy. I still like 600 tickets in like 18 minutes. He's got to be kidding me. So I go up for the first show, right? Doing good, you know, my actors were one line of goofy, doing good, but they kept yelling, "Get it on!" (laughing) Then one guy, "Hey, do some Larry!" Get it on, we wanna hear Larry! - Got it, got it. - So then I go, so I did a couple jokes as Larry. (laughing) Funny thing ever, right? I come back out of it and I can't freaking get any laughs. So I go, let me do a couple bit more Larry here. - So you switched back to Dan, it was bomb. - Yeah, so, well, he wouldn't bomb, but it wasn't, I was killing, I was doing greater. - But what would be, but what would be a Dan, like let's say you're in the era where you're doing some Larry, your Dan doing Larry, what would be a Dan joke? - Same jokes. (laughing) - Maybe that dog, a dog whisperer, that would be a Dan joke. And my sister, she's a dog whisperer. What's that? That's good, that's what I would do. More, I was more physical. I would do more like, hit my knee or actin' like I fell down or more of that slapsticky. Boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom. - So Larry would do better on joke than-- - Larry, the cable guy did social commentaries on the radio. - What the hell is this, what the hell is this, what's going on with these damn, you know, and I would very politically incorrect. Total Archie Bunker likable, not mean, but likable. A guy that had a point to say, but littered it with, you know, poop jokes and that, like that, right? Strip clubs, that kind of thing. But made a little point, like the best compliment I ever had was like, I can only go, hey, I know you're trying to be funny and you're like doing these commentaries and you're putting these stupid jokes in there. But if you listen to what you're sayin' at the end of it, you make pretty good points. Right, that kind of thing, right? Yeah, that kind of thing. So I didn't have any jokes for that. So I would just, I was doing great and tell somebody you'll get her done and then I did a joke that I normally would do as Larry and I doubled the laugh. And then I go back in to me, I still getting good laughs, but they ain't wanted to hear more Larry. So I get done and then the next show, last come up and he goes, hey, you ever thought about doing your whole show as Larry, the cable guy? I go, less, I don't want to have an act for Larry. We'll just do what you did. Do your act. So what I had to do was, I was fast, fast, Larry slow, meticulous, drawn out, you know, what took me eight seconds to tell a punch line, Larry, the character, tell the same punch line, but double the time. You don't need to have any joke. Good for you too. Yeah, it's like, it's economical. Yeah, exactly. Like I do a joke about it. Yeah, it's like, like this would be one of my jokes. Man, it's playing pickleball the other day. It would play pickleball. Oh, man, it's playing pickleball. It's one of them walking where they threw out my pickle. (laughs) And then laugh after it. Larry would be like, oh else. Y'all ain't playing pickleball. Hey, you know, I was playing pickleball the other day and I'm throwing my pickle out. You believe that? Then I'm pickle. Them right out in the shorts. (laughs) You know, just like that. That's better. Yes, it's hilarious. (laughs) The way it is said makes it funny. That's what Fox were the thing below. He said me. Jeff would always say, I don't know why that jokes funny. It's the way you tell the joke that makes it funny. Yeah, you remember Jerry Clour? Yes. He's awesome. Yeah, like he's like a four-bearer almost no. And he'd come nine out. Yeah. He had said, well, Jerry Clourard once said, I don't tell funny stories. I tell stories funny. Yes. Exactly. So it's how you tell it. So he said, let's go. Can you do, can you talk like that for an hour? And I told him, I go less. I grew up on a nagging on a pig farm in Southeast Nebraska. All my friends, I went to college in Georgia. I said, all I knew is hang out in country bars all the time. I didn't think like a redneck all day long. I was talking like a redneck for a come here hanging out with my buddy Brad. Because that's how he talked. I said, I didn't have no problem. He says, well, I'm going to take your name off. Just put Larry the cable guy. I said, all right. I'm going to go change. And I had pants. You know, I had a nice shirt, but I had a button down on, you know. And I went to the car and I said, this is going to be awesome. and I don't even have the flip and I hate dressing up. - No. - Can I? sleeveless stuff. I go out of the car, which by the way, for anybody thinks I'm faking it, I drove over in my car, 1986 Trans-Air with tea tops with a big old blue bird that I just was so proud I had painted on the front of it. And I changed and I put on my lace-up, eropers, pair of jeans, a Nebraska corn Husker sleeveless t-shirt, and a NASCAR hat. That's exactly what I drove over. So you put your clothes back on? I put my clothes, I took off my show clothes and put my driving clothes back on. And I went on stage and it was so fun and I was making myself laugh. It's great. I never had more fun in my life doing stand-up than doing what I was doing, watching them laugh, but then adding things, because stuff just comes to you, because you're so into the character. Yeah. And then you're just adding stuff. I would laugh on stage a couple times and then I tell them, "Oh, man, it's funny. I just put myself laugh on that one." And then I would write it down so I would remember. And that's how it started. I wanted to tell you that's how it started, because that's how it started, right there. What does it like? Let's take all the cars stuff, right? Like just hugely popular and influenced just kid after kid after kid for a long time. And adults. But in the title, I literally have a milk dud fart, but come out. I apologize, but it may come out. I've been trying to hold it. It's this Dan or Larry that's that's farting. No, it's Dan. Yeah, there's many of them that might be both of us. As you wrestle with that, do you ever, if you see like in the credits, it says Larry the cable guy. Is there like a degree of separation? Or is that just you? No, let me tell you, I'm glad that we extended this a few minutes. That bugs me a little. But at the time, when I did cars, I wanted Dan Whitney. You did? Yes. They wanted Larry the cable guy name, because it was a brand. At that point in my career, I was just a standup. I don't know about all the movies, all this stuff. They brought to me. I didn't ask for it. They would bring it to me. So it's like my like my manager said one time, because you can't use your you can't like when I did my first movie. It's like you can't use your first name. Yeah. People be like, who do you know who you are? Here's the thing. You know, Dan, here's the thing. You're a brand now. It's a brand. Get her done. Larry the cable guy is a brand. So everything you do has to be under this brand. I'm like, okay. So everything's under that brand. So now I kind of wish there was a few things it would be, especially when people give me stuff. Like I got like the coolest thing from like I do a lot of stuff with the troops, right? And I got this distinguished service thing for the army. Like I did stuff for the guard and everything. And it says, Oh, it says to Larry the cable guy. Oh, what the? You know, that felt like a Dan. Well, some people, some of those things like that do say Dan Whitney, but there's some things that I wish they didn't say that I got from like the troops or I got from a hospital or I got, you know, because those are those are cool things. And when they put Larry the cable guy, I'm thinking, well, I get it. I get it. I'm Larry. I get it. But sometimes it's like, I just wish to put my real name on it because I created this thing. Yeah. When you die, man, you might need to get one of them double. Like, you know, like how they see the 10 commandments on the two stone tablets. Yeah. When you die, you get a double headstone. I should. Dan Larry. Absolutely. Of course, he's going to be nicer than mine. He's got all the money. One, one stone will say he got her done. Got her done. Got her. Get her done. Got her. That's one of this cable guy's also kind of an old timey reference by now. I imagine kids. What's a cable guy? Yeah. I know. I never even thought of that. Yeah. No. Yeah. Maybe like me trying to explain so now my kids from not that long ago. Yeah. I'm like, do when I was a kid, man, you went to do the phone. You went, they can't even understand when they don't even include. You know, I had no idea. It's just, it's like one of those things that's just stuck. It doesn't even mean anything anymore. It's just, you know, it's like, sedric, the entertainer. You know, Larry, the cable guy, I mean, it's just, it doesn't even occur to me that I'm about being a cable installer. It's just like it's Larry, the cable guy forgot that detail. It's no sign. And I got irritated at direct TV one time because they were running those commercials with celebrities. You know, stupid. Yeah, I've kept my camera. What commercials? Maybe they were direct TV was running into commercial with that actor that we're a good looking actor that back in the day. What's his name? He was part of the, the troop, the, you know, I'm talking about, he was in, what was the, I can't remember his name. Anyway, he was good. They were running commercials with him. Well, the good looking guy. And yeah, I can't remember. And the, the first thing your friends are trying to break in. I know the first thing that I thought was, why don't they get me? Larry, the cable guy is switching to direct TV. It would have been huge Larry, the direct TV guy. And here's what it takes me about corporate Larry, the cable guy is switched to direct TV. Right? And then I come out, that's right. I'm not Larry, the direct TV guy. And you can get, I mean, it was the perfect sales pitch that had changed your business because at the time, well, Larry, the cable guy is only really for one part of the country. You know, because of the Southern accent. And sometimes he says things that are a little controversial. Meanwhile, you got freaking rappers, you know, singing about killing cops and freaking, you know, you know, with women. And, you know what I mean? No, I know exactly what you mean. They're all kinds of corporate stuff. I'm like, what, how am I controversial? When you got, you know what I mean? What's his name? Who's the guy? What's that one rapper that's always out? Snoop dog. Yeah. I got none of his two. He's become like a national speaker. Snoop dog. He's done a good job. He's clear. I'm sure he's a nice guy. But I didn't say, you know, and somebody even asked him a time, do you apologize now for some of the woman that's things you said about? No, man, because I'll tell you that. And he was like, he doubled down. But you were talking about two Super Bowl commercials. Meanwhile, you know, I'm like, don't get me started. That just gets frustrating. That would have been the perfect direct TV commercial. There's a lot of hypocrisy and corporate who they get, who they don't get. Look, I've had a good career. All right. We're about, but I'm just saying, that direct TV piss me off. Yeah. But listen, Snoop dog. He ain't no tomato. No, no, tomato. I don't say that. I love everybody. And I'm happy for everybody's career. I'm not like, I'm not mad at them. I'm upset at the corporations. And we like say you're too controversial, but then they'll put somebody else. That's even way more controversial. What we need to do is find that we need to find that direct TV person, the exact or whatever agency they use. And we need to say in hindsight, in hindsight, do you recognize the missed opportunity? And maybe you'll get the come up and serve every night as I'm going to bed. I think about that I didn't cast the direct TV guy. No, thanks for having me, guys. Sorry. I wanted to tell you a story, though, because I think that's important. How I go. Oh, I love the story. A lot of people don't know how I started doing it on stage. That's how I did. That's a great story. Excited for the game. Yeah, I'm going to have to ask you to get out of here. These dudes are looking in from that window now. I know. I know. They think we're doing a Husker show. You know, they're very much. Yeah, thanks for having me. You guys are hanging for the game, right? Yep. All right. All right. Ladies, you've got, hey, we got hot dogs. Get her dead! Still, we made two shoes with Haydude in first light specter camel anyway. Not because you need it, just because it's cool. The wally funk and the wally slip camp. Because it's the pattern we love and we wanted something comfortable and ultra lightweight for when we're done hunting. Okay. Out now at haydude.com and the meat eater store. It's a limited run. So get your feet cozy now. This is an iHeart podcast. Guaranteed human.