Larry the Cable Guy on His Origin Story, Blue-Collar Comedy & Buckin’ Bulls!
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Larry the Cable Guy reflects on his radio roots, tracing his career back to the 1980s and early 1990s, where character-driven comedy and syndication allowed him to build a national presence. He shares a surprising connection with Jimmy Kimmel, both of whom began in Tampa radio and developed iconic characters through regional stations. Larry emphasizes how morning radio created strong community ties and was instrumental in shaping comedy careers before the rise of social media. He also discusses his personal upbringing, noting that his father’s absence and lack of discipline taught him to prioritize forgiveness and emotional balance in parenting. These experiences influenced his positive, non-confrontational approach to family life, which he believes has made him a better parent. Beyond comedy, Larry is now expanding into new ventures, including a new TV show, *American Mayhem*, and a bull training business focused on safety and education. He also shares his deep passion for rodeo culture, training bulls and horses, and highlights how such niche hobbies reflect the richness and diversity of modern American life. The episode concludes with a celebration of individuality, as Larry and Adam explore how unique passions—from bull riding to vintage cars—add depth and joy to everyday life, illustrating how personal values and experiences shape both careers and family.
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Adam's guest today, Larry the Cable Guy.
Plus the news with Andrew Hobson.
And now, Adam Corolla.
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Larry the Cable Guy back on the show.
Larry's got a new TV show, American Mayhem.
It'll be on Paramount Plus, on CBS, and also a special.
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And that's going to be out on Prime Video, out on Prime Video as we speak.
Larry the Cable Guy, good to speak to you, my friend.
Adam, it's good to be on with you again.
I've been on with you in a long time.
It's been a long time, so it's nice to be on with you.
You were, I was just saying, you were just talking about me with Morgan & Morgan.
You had John Morgan on and he brought up me.
I love that guy because he and I are totally simpatico in that we hate highfalutin food.
I hate when we outsmart ourselves with food, you know?
Right.
Like there is nothing broken about a breakfast burrito.
Nothing.
No.
Not at all.
Don't start putting all your bullshit in my breakfast burrito.
There's nothing broken about coleslaw.
There's nothing broken about mac and cheese.
It's all perfect.
Leave it alone.
Yeah.
Invent your own food.
Don't screw up our food.
I'm with you.
It's like when I have my golf tournament, I have a charity golf tournament and I do all
these golf tournaments and they'll bring out these little breads with like, it's like man,
that's why mine, it's pigs in a blanket.
Right.
You know, chicken nuggets with toothpicks in them.
It's, you know, food you know you're going to like, you know, Cheetos on a platter.
Listen, could you imagine in an airplane if they just served Chick-fil-A and gave you Doritos
in a Snickers bar, how happy you'd be versus Fiesta Mix and an omelet made with leeks and
goat cheese?
Yeah, I'm telling you, you put Chick-fil-A on there, I don't even know, I'll take a middle
seat.
I don't care.
You got that pimento cheese chicken sandwich, I'll sit wherever you want.
You and I, I think both started as characters on the radio.
I think we both got our start that way.
Yeah, we did.
And you know what's crazy, Adam?
The first time I did, this is a while back, just like 2005 or 2006, first time I did Jimmy.
We went to a break and he goes, hey, we kind of started the same way.
We were in the same town.
I said, what are you talking about?
I said, I was in characters on 95 YNF in Tampa, I was over at the Power Pig calling in characters.
So yeah, you, me, all three of us did, absolutely.
Isn't that crazy?
It is crazy.
Jimmy was calling in characters.
He ended up with Jimmy, the sports guy.
He was in Tampa, he was in Seattle, he was in Palm Springs, he may have been somewhere
in Arizona.
He ended up in Los Angeles.
It's weird.
He was like a seasoned, well-traveled vet, but he was 26 when he got to Los Angeles and
they started doing Jimmy, the sports guy.
And then I met Jimmy and then I started doing Mr. Burcham, the woodshop teacher.
What year did you start doing Larry the Cable Guy?
I started doing Larry on stage in the late 80s, like '89 and '90, but I started doing
Larry the Cable Guy in 1990, 1991.
'95 YNF in Tampa.
That's when I started doing it.
So I did several other characters, but that's the one that hit, you know, and it was really
funny when it was all for radio.
Of course, radio was awesome back then, because you could do anything you wanted for the most
part.
I remember we had our first, they wanted to do a live remote with Larry the Cable Guy.
Of course, you know, when I was in college, I looked like I was in eighth grade.
So I, you know, I go, I didn't really look that old.
So I grew a goatee to try to make me look older, you know, so this is '91.
So we had this thing where I was doing a live remote and we were selling Larry the Cable
Guy for president t-shirts, right?
And Hooty Hoo in '92 is what the t-shirt said.
And this is, and so we did the remote and first 12 vehicles that showed up were from
the cable company.
The cable guys all showed up.
Oh really?
That's funny.
The real cable guys.
And some guy came up to me and goes, "Hey, where's Larry?
Where's Larry the Cable Guy?"
I go, "Right here, buddy.
I'm Larry."
He goes, "You're Larry?"
I go, "Yeah."
He goes, "Oh, man."
And he looked really sad.
And he walked away and drove away.
Now, I had the same, I had the same dilemma because I played Mr. Birch, the woodshop teacher.
I taught remedial wood at Louis Pasteur Middle School in Monroe.
And my guy was, even though I was 29 or 30, my guy was mid-fifties, supposed to be husky,
overweight, and a grizzled veteran of Vietnam.
My guy was a Vietnam vet who was a mid-fifties and had grown kids and everything.
And I was 29 and I did not look the part at all.
So, I remember when we started doing live stuff, I had to try to create some sort of
working man, shop teacher look myself because everyone would be disappointed when they saw
you because that's the whole point of the character.
You're doing a character.
It's not you.
Absolutely.
Yeah, everybody thought I was older than I was.
So, that was a drawback.
I wasn't as old.
But when I started doing it on the road, look, the southern accent to me came super easy
because I was living in Florida and I grew up on a pig farm.
I grew up in Nebraska.
So, when I moved to Florida, I gravitated, of course, to all the Florida crackers down
there.
So, when I started doing it on stage, I go, "Man, I wonder if I can do this on stage."
And so, that's pretty much what I did.
I just took my act and I just put my accent to it.
It was a lot easier for me to transform in the character on stage just by taking my act
and putting the southern accent to it.
I'll tell you.
I had a buddy of mine named Scott Hardy who was doing characters as well.
But he used to call the Ellen DeGeneres show and he used to do an old woman.
Really?
Yeah.
What was her name?
Nana something.
But he did a woman that got super, super popular and she wanted him to come on the show.
And, of course, he's fooled her all this time that he's this old woman.
And I'm thinking, boy, it's a good thing you didn't start touring like that.
You would have had to dress like that.
Like an old woman for your entire career.
He did that on her TV show or she had a radio show?
She had a TV show and he called in.
Wow.
Yeah.
Man, I'm trying to think of the name of it.
I can't remember.
I'll come up with it at some point.
I'm getting old so I can't remember stuff.
But, yeah, it was really good.
It's his Meemaw.
And he would always impersonate her.
But he called Ellen, completely fooled her.
And the big thing was she goes.
He was like, "Well, Ellen, you know, I love Jesus, but I like to drink a little."
And it just busted everybody.
And they had T-shirts that said, "I love Jesus, but I like to drink a little."
But, yeah, he could.
That's one character that he would not be able to perform because, like I said, he didn't want to dress up like an old lady his whole career.
God, I mean, the power of radio.
And maybe we're sort of the last of the radio crew.
Yeah.
And the power that it had.
Absolutely.
You know, like you could get.
I got signed up.
by william morris just because the guys from william morris used to listen to k-rock radio
in the morning at the gym and they just they just went and found me and just signed me up i mean
that would never happen again on radio right no not at all i mean it was for me for my career i
mean it was just like getting a tonight show or something because what happens it was so much
different than because morning radio back in those days everybody had a favorite station and they
listened to it religiously so if you were part of that station you were part of you were part of
their family yep and so the morning radio was such a stepping stone to me being able to climb the
ladder i ended up doing you know doing my gig on like 23 different stations across the country
and uh man it was
morning radio was the best so you know just kind of equated now to what the guys now coming up they
got they got youtube and social media they got all that to push their wares but you and me and
jeff back in those days it was all if you could perform well on morning radio for three and a half
minutes uh and you could get develop a pretty good following whatever town you were on the radio in
did they syndicate your stuff you said 23 different towns but i mean did you work for
radio
syndicator because like me and jimmy would go maybe twice a month maybe once a week to a radio
syndicator and just lay our bits down and they would sell them to the people who subscribe to
the syndicators so you would get jimmy the sports guy in mr bircham on your morning show in indiana
and and and they would set it up they would go oh mr bircham's calling in
what do you got today mr bircham and then they'd roll the tape on a bit and i wouldn't even know
i what town syndicated you know once in a while i'd run into people from indiana and they'd go
hey we love that bircham thing and i'd go we weren't i wasn't on in indiana they go yes you
were yeah i had my i start let's see when i it was i believe it was a paxton's paxton station
in orlando uh wdiz then went to wjr but they owned they owned baltimore and 98 rock in baltimore they
owned a station down in austin texas so when i got on that station i left tampa when i got on
that station in orlando i automatically got on baltimore and austin and then i remember my buddy
had a morning show in kansas city so he called me and got me on there then he moved to omaha brought
me to omaha put me on that station and the guy that took over kansas city kept me there
mine were a lot of individuals like up in portsmouth new hampshire i went into on that
one station i went into boston and connecticut new hampshire uh so mine were like one main
station that had like other stations attached to it in the area uh and then i would do some
like bob and tom was syndicated so if i did bob and tom i went all over the country right
so i had a couple of those stations too so um but uh yeah it was i'll tell you what back in the day
morning radio i love them i mean i know a lot of people don't like doing morning radio but i
remember how much they helped me and i'm always anybody needs me on a show and if i'm not doing
that and i'll go yeah man let's do it you know i agree they were so good to me dude but now
i went on to host radio shows
and even do host morning radio but you never became a full-time jock right no i didn't want
to be a full-time jock the thing i learned about radio adam has never learned how to do anything
and they won't ask you to do anything so right i never i never learned how to work a board i never
learned how to do anything i played dumb so they wouldn't make me do it i just i stayed in my lane
and did what i did i remember
i remember right where i was i was with jimmy after the morning show and it was like 1994
and he was literally cutting and splicing and editing tape with a razor blade and and scotch
tape on one of those little aluminum trays that was a little miter box you know i'm sure in the
80s everyone just did coke off that thing but he's cutting tape and i'm just sitting there watching
him and he's cutting tape and i'm just sitting there watching him and he's cutting tape and i'm
gluing it back together and then putting it back on the reel and he goes he goes adam if you could
learn to do this it would be it would make you super valuable around here and i said
nah i'm just taking my chances i'm being funny i i don't want to learn how i don't want a bunch
of cutting tape assignments i i'll be honest i don't want to be valuable i just want to do what
i do i won't be funny i'll be funny enough not to be valuable yeah so yeah so i never pursued any
i was happy doing what i did and and i always had like a phone i had a phone set up in my main
station in orlando anytime you pick the phone up it would ring the hotline so if i thought if
somebody would call i'd think of a character and just pulled up i won't talk to that last guy you
know just just it was fun i enjoyed it it was a good time did so how'd you get off the pig farm
in nebraska and get to tampa or somewhere in florida when i was uh 15 and a half years old
uh just finished ninth grade i moved to uh florida my dad got a job at a
at being the elementary principal at a private christian school in uh in west palm beach florida
so i was in west palm beach florida i went to college at a small baptist college in georgia
and uh i played baseball there and i loved baseball so what i did was i set out in 1980
five the second half of 85 i set out to make some money because you know our generation a lot of us
paid for our own college my parents or didn't go to college at all but yeah go yeah so i went two
years played baseball and i set out i started being a bellhop at hyatt palm beaches which is a
it was actually west palm beach but and the uh i went up at an open mic night at a
bar at the mall and the comedy corner in west palm beach opened june of 1986 and man i spent
every day of my life doing anything i could to get stage time and um yeah there you go and uh that uh
that led me uh to my buddy had a morning show there in tampa and it led me to that morning show
did you have inklings of comedy
life but really didn't know what to do with it or how to harness it or you're you know in an
environment where people didn't you know i was in an environment where it's not that people didn't
encourage it no one encouraged me but no one really knew what it was it was it was a little
bit of a liability comedy was a little bit of a liability because it meant you're popping off in
class and the teachers you know the note on the report card was all talks out of
you know steals focus you know whatever it was it was a liability it was not something
to be harnessed or to be used to make a living i was just sort of told you know be quiet now you
got to get a job you know we don't want you talking you know it wasn't a it wasn't a thing
for me but i don't know if it was i don't know if your dad was the kind of guy who encouraged it
or i don't even know if you were the kind of person that was screwing around when you're 12
years old i was always screwing around
my brother was always hilarious my sister was funny uh my mom's goofy my dad was funny when
he wanted to be but my dad was kind of violent uh you know my dad was kind of a violent type of guy
so there was a lot of uh tense moments in our house and so i was the kid that i was the youngest
so i used humor to try to get out of situations and try to light moods up that's why i like one
minor so much i didn't have time to get a routine in before i got popped but i could get a couple of
quick jokes in to try to lighten the mood before i you know before i took a hand to the cheek um
but so i have always uh had that kind of humor in me you know i was a fan of all the old time
comics and the dean martin roasts and i love charlie callous and all that stuff but you know
i needed humor when i was a kid to get through some some stuff at the house anyway um but i never
thought i'd ever be a comedian i had no idea i thought it was funny i loved watching it and
uh but when i was working at the hotel i would drive the van and take uh i would take like
airline crews back and forth and i'm always popping jokes they love it they would they
would always request me and so you should be a comedian you should be a comedian
so i never thought about it but uh just one day uh they had an open mic night i think it was a
bar called hula hands at the palm beach mall and
And so my friend said, we'll go watch you, we'll go watch you.
And so I did.
I went on stage, didn't know what I was doing.
I think I wore a buckwheat cutoff shirt.
And I had my own boom box with me with applause and laughter and weekly world news so I could read some funny articles and make comments.
I think that was the first time.
Did your dad, now, did he drink and then get violent or was he just that kind of dude?
No, he was just from that generation.
His dad died of a heart attack at 46.
And, you know, I don't, you know, he was just, let me put it this way.
My dad was, I would say, I love my dad, absolutely.
But he was a good preacher.
But he was a bad dad.
You know, I can't ever remember doing a lot of things with him.
I remember getting yelled at a lot.
And I remember a lot of family meetings.
With some punching and some slapping going on.
But it was always funny because people would come up to me and go, man, when your dad was a guidance counselor, he saved my life.
He gave me the best.
And then my brother's like, you sure you're talking about our dad?
You know, so with everybody else, he was fantastic.
Yeah.
But just kind of with his own family.
It was just kind of.
But Adam, you know, the older I get, you know, human beings are very flawed.
And anything that ever happened to me.
I'm a forgiving person.
It doesn't.
You can't go through life being angry.
And so I'm a happy guy because I'm a forgiving guy.
So I love my dad.
I forgive him.
He was a human being.
So there you go.
Did he stick around long enough to see your wild success?
Yeah.
You know what he did?
He thought, well, he died in 2005.
He died at 69.
So, yeah, he got to he got to see the start of it.
Absolutely.
He never he never came to a show.
My dad never came to a show, but he saw it and was proud of me.
He told me he's proud of me, but never came to a show.
Did when did cars come out?
I got cars in 2002, but it did not come out till 2006.
Oh, I was going to say when he said your dad passed in 05.
I was like, did he catch cars?
I wish he would have.
He would have loved cars.
But no, he didn't.
He did not catch cars.
Well, this is interesting because my dad was a counselor as well.
And then later on, he became a therapist and he was good as a therapist, as a counselor.
But he didn't really apply that to his own family.
But he was not he would never lay a hand on anybody.
And he was not violent at all.
And he didn't have any substance abuse problems at all.
He just.
He just was checked out.
It was like sort of not having a dad, but it wasn't a scary dad.
It was just the scary part about my dad is he wasn't going to do anything for you.
So you're kind of that was a scary part.
You were kind of on your own.
But, yeah, never came to a show and never, never really fully knew what was going on.
So in a weird way, we had sort of the same kinds of upbringings, except for I didn't have any violence, but I didn't have any anything else either.
No food or money or that kind of stuff.
But.
Right.
But why didn't your dad go to the shows, you think?
I have no.
I honestly I have no idea.
My mom came.
My mom loved it.
Really?
You know what?
I really don't have any idea.
I think I think maybe my dad had these plans for his kids.
You know, if my my dad, if he was a CEO, he would have been a micromanager of everybody.
Right.
Because he he knew better than you did.
And so I I just kind of I'm kind of, you know, when you say your dad checked out, I kind of checked out from.
Yes.
Him.
Because the one that got it the worst was my older brother and my mom.
They got it worse than I did because I was able to disappear.
I would just I always Adam.
I always avoid all that kind of stuff.
I don't need it in my life.
I avoid it.
Like I said, I'm very positive.
I just, you know, I want to.
Spread joy and light and not garbage.
Would you physically leave?
Like, I basically sort of half moved in with all my friends.
I just kind of I spent as much time out of the house as I could possibly spend.
That was sort of my plan.
I ate dinner at someone else's house kind of thing.
Did you know the good the good news is he traveled a lot.
Oh, that's good.
So when he was on the road, it was freaking beautiful.
Especially when.
I moved to Florida when I was in Nebraska.
He was home all the time.
But when I moved to Florida after a couple of years, he got a job where he was traveling a little bit.
So those were good days.
It's such a weird.
It's such a it's an insane proposition or just sort of relationship.
Like my son's 20.
He's out of the house.
He's in a different state.
But I tonight we're going to we're going to watch some football.
And and I I'm like looking forward to it.
You know, I'm calling him.
I'm saying, what do you want to eat?
This is going to be good.
What's the game?
You know, I'm looking forward to it.
I'm looking forward to hanging out and watching watching football and catching up and all that kind of stuff.
I don't get it.
I you have kids, right?
Yeah, I got I got my boy is just turned 20.
He's a Cavs scout in the Army National Guard.
I got a daughter.
He just will turn 19.
They're both awesome kids.
But I'll tell you, Adam, the good news about how we grew up is it helped us learn how to be a better parent to our kids.
You know, I did not want to be like that.
I wanted to be I wanted to be better.
I think probably what the only bad thing it probably did for me was, you know, my wife grew up on.
She grew up in a small town of about 300 and, you know, she pretty much got to do whatever she wanted.
You know, she she she was pretty much like you.
And she's doing her own thing.
By the time she was 14, you know, her dad was a farmer and it was a loving family, you know, but she did her own thing.
But it's funny now that when I have kids, a lot of people when my kids were young, people would be like, remember, people would always go, well, your mom would always go, well, wait till your dad gets home.
And you're like, oh, no.
Well, in my house, it was I'm always like, well, where do your mom gets home?
Because I did not want to be I did not want to overdo discipline because I didn't want to be like what happened to me when I was getting on my wife.
She didn't care.
She was the disciplinarian pretty much.
I think it was a really good balance between the two of us.
You know, we each backed each other up.
My wife, I always back her up.
She'd always back me up.
But if anything came out of that.
When for you as well, if anything came out of that, it helped us become better parents.
I agree.
And that's the thing I was talking to Dolph Lundgren about last week.
And it's a great job I have because I get to talk to Dolph Lundgren and Larry, the cable guy.
And you know what?
It's nice.
You can say that to me, because if you're out with your regular friends.
So I'm not with Dolph Lundgren.
Yes.
Oh, there goes Adam again.
Name drop.
But you're right.
So, you know, his.
His dad was violent.
His dad did a lot of this.
Probably the same stuff your dad did.
And then, of course, he learned and didn't want to be that way.
And he's got kids and he has a different relationship with his kids.
And but the question I always ask is whenever you say to those guys, you know, your dad was violent.
They go, well, he grew up real hard and his dad was real tough on him and stuff like that.
But I always say, yeah, but your dad was real tough on you.
Your dad was real tough on you.
But you're not that way.
You actually learned something and didn't reapply it.
And maybe that's kind of the modern times we're living in, because everyone from before that, it's basically just like Arnold Schwarzenegger's dad was beat on his family.
And that's because his dad beat on him.
And that's that's the standard.
But how come the math doesn't apply with you and Dolph Lundgren?
You don't beat on your kids.
Well, I guess there's just some people that learn from the past.
And they don't want to repeat it.
So I think that might be it.
I didn't want that for my when I had a family.
I didn't want it to be like that.
I wanted a nice, tight knit, loving family.
I wanted I would I don't let my kids never have let my kids do anything they wanted, because that's not love.
Love is telling my kids, don't do that.
That's dangerous.
Don't do that.
So I wasn't my kids best friend.
I wasn't like, we're going to be buddies.
Right.
I'm your dad.
You know, so I but I did things different.
I did it in a loving way.
And I did.
I made sure I didn't overdo the discipline.
And so did your parents stay married?
Well, yeah, they stayed there.
They're married a long time.
My mom, my mom's the same.
My dad died.
My heart, heart stuff in 2005.
And is your mom with us?
90 years old and kicking down assisted living and love living her best life.
down there.
So she got to see all of Larry the Cable Guy.
Yeah, she loves it.
She's just so doggone proud every time I go see her.
She's so happy.
I got this joke that I'm doing.
I'm trying to add more stuff to it, but it's like everybody has a podcast now.
They're all so self-important.
You know, my brother has a podcast, and I turned it on the other day,
and the first thing he says is just to give everybody an update on my medical conditions.
He's like, nobody cares about your medical condition.
You have seven followers, and that's your family.
Just pick up a phone and tell us about your medical condition.
So I go visit my mom.
She's 90, and I said, I'm going to come down about noon.
And she says, can you come down at 1 o'clock because I have my podcast at noon.
Jesus Christ.
So I listen to her podcast, and she's the same way.
Just to give everybody an update on my medical condition.
My mom, her podcast, The Daily Bladder.
No, she loves it, man.
I took my mom in after COVID.
I took my mom in with me.
My mom lived with us for two and a half, three years.
And then it got to the point where, man, you know, the memory starts to go.
And she was wasting away, man.
She wasn't active.
She was just sitting down there in that chair watching Gunsmoke and Fox News.
And so I got her an assisted living, and within three days,
it was the best thing.
I mean, she's going to activities, and she's in the best health of her life.
Really?
Oh, yeah.
90 years old, almost 91, and still going strong.
She'll tell you the same story four times in an hour.
But you know what?
She is awesome.
Here's the good thing.
She still knows who everybody is and remembers her kids and her family.
So it's not that way yet.
So I was asking if your mom was still married to your dad,
because your mom would come out to the show, and if they're divorced,
well, then she's just coming out to the show from a separate apartment.
But if they're together, she's coming out to a show and saying goodbye to your dad.
I'm going to our son's show, and your dad is sitting there going, have fun.
No, it's not the case.
She would come to the show when dad was gone.
Oh, okay.
So she would always. See, she loved it when he left, too, because then she got to go out with her friends and got to go do stuff.
So, yeah.
It's a bad sign if people get real excited when you're gone.
Yeah, absolutely.
But I want to say this.
This covers family members, but also it covers employees.
I've had enough employees where the person at some point, they come up to you and they go,
look, I've got another. I've got another job.
I'm really sorry.
And I'm thinking to myself, oh, good.
Oh, good.
This is great.
You're leaving.
You're leaving.
This is great.
So people shouldn't think it's great when you leave.
Yeah, no.
It's not a good thing when people are very excited when you're out the door.
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And the other thing everyone should think about, I tell everyone to think about is when you call somebody and your name pops up on their phone and they look at it, they shouldn't just look at it for a long period of time and then just kind of ride it out.
If you create thoughts in their head that's anything other than, oh, good, Larry's calling.
What's up, Larry?
If they're just staring at your name thinking, are they up to this?
That's a bad—you've done something wrong, right?
It's so funny.
Adam, I got a funny—I got to tell you this story since you mentioned that.
So this is when I knew Jeff Foxworthy was famous.
Okay, now I've known Jeff since 1986.
86?
Yeah.
So Jeff, I knew—this is when I said, man, Jeff is like—he's really—so I'm at his house one day and his cell phone rings.
And I look.
It's Terry Bradshaw.
And I—
And I go, Jeff, it's Terry Bradshaw.
He goes, yeah, let it go.
I'll get it later.
Oh, that's fabulous.
And I go, you'll get it later?
What are you talking about?
It's Terry Bradshaw.
Yeah, but he doesn't—I can't get him off the phone, man.
He talks for like an hour.
Right.
He tells me all these jokes.
Well, then later on in life, I had Terry on one of my Christmas specials.
And Terry was awesome.
But, yeah, he talks and talks.
And so about 10 years—
And 10 years after I said that to Jeff, I'm sitting at the house and my phone rang and it was Terry Bradshaw.
And my buddy goes, dude, it's Terry Bradshaw.
I go, I'll let it go.
Oh, you've arrived.
You've arrived.
Oh, man.
But, yeah, that's funny when you see a number and you're like, I don't know if I want to talk to him.
Well, that number—when your name pops up on someone else's phone, and that can be your name, my name, Terry Bradshaw's name, Jeff Foxworthy's name.
It doesn't matter whose name, your dad's name, anyone's name.
When your name pops up on someone else's phone and that person looks at it, every single interaction you've had with that person basically flashes through their head.
And then they decide whether to hit answer or to let it go.
Because you have earned every single thing they're thinking when your name pops up is what—
What you've earned.
Now, that'll be up to you, but it's 100% what you've earned with that person.
And if that's a person that has borrowed a lot of money from you and never paid it back, you always take a—you always look at it and go, I don't think so.
But that person could be Jeff Foxworthy or Jimmy Kimmel, in which case you go, great.
I want to hear—this is great.
Right?
So you have to think about—
What your name elicits in the person that's looking at it on their phone.
Right?
yeah but also let me say this and i know that you're probably the same way too at some point
you have to live your life and you cannot be on the phone 24 hours a day so and i probably should
get better at this and and uh but sometimes like you'll go into a studio and you'll do your deal
and then you'll get out and you'll have 52 text messages in the last hour and you'll have 19 phone
calls right and you're like oh i don't want to call anybody back because each one's going to take
at least five minutes that's another hour and 20 minutes out of your day don't you sometimes just
not take calls just because you're sick of talking on the phone not because you don't want to talk to
them just because you're like i gotta give it a rest i'll call them later there's that there there
is the fatigue thing there's i'll do it tomorrow there's i don't feel like getting into this there's
also what i got is
endless text chains i'm on a i'm on a text chain with kimmel bill simmons jeff ross jimmy's cousin
sal another guy used to produce the man show with us and it's just an endless comments and
i can't comment on the other comment because we've already passed that subject and moved on
to a new subject right and so your quip doesn't count now because it's out of context my quip is
old and it's not on the same one as the last quip and also it's jeff ross and jimmy kimmel so you can't
just mail it in you know it's got to be something good if you're going to do a quip you're going to
get judged you know what i mean so it's so totally that's so true i think i got three of those i got
one with seven one with 14 and one with 16 and and and then i don't want to feel like i'm ignoring
everybody right i there's some things i just don't have to weigh in on everything do you know
what i mean i agree but then if you don't weigh in oh what's wrong with that and he can't talk
doesn't make his own shit stinks yeah it's a big big guy yeah you're big leaguing on all of a sudden
right so you got to chime in but i don't have that much to say about most of the stuff
and i don't know what to say and also i feel compelled
like i don't want to just write you got that right i have to think of something witty
something interesting oh yeah you got to be funny you got absolutely you got to be funny
because you're being judged how about how about this one when you're doing something
but you don't want to be rude so you want to call you want to answer right and so you're right in
the middle of something and you're like okay let me just say yeah good good thing hope everything's
your weekend's going good but and then you get this back so what's been happening
well there's also there's also the people who do not understand like when you you're talking on
the phone with them and you'll go listen uh sorry i'm just pulling up to work so i gotta hop off
and they'll pause and go did you catch dance with the stars last night what part of pulling up to
what i just told you what was happening in my life why is that yes absolutely all the time that
i've been on the same way what are you doing i just told you i i believe that women have a gene
that does not recognize when you want to get off the phone they go right into the next subject
but i'll tell you what i'll tell you what you need to do i've done it you need to train people
and that you're slow on the on the on the retex on the texting back like i all these guys in my
chain know i'm the laziest slowest guy that everyone else is going to be the slowest guy
in real time rat-a-tat-tat and i chime in the next day like i trained them for that
and it's a good thing to do i remember one time one of the guys in the text actually million years
ago daniel he goes you know you got to be a big tipper because you're recognizable
and you don't want people saying adam carolla is not a big tipper and i said no no it's just
the opposite i want the word to get around that i'm a bad tipper i don't want people
to expect a hundred dollars for a fourteen dollar cab ride i don't want them to think
i'm frank sinatra i want them just i'll just tip the 20 or the 25 the standard i don't want
everyone thinking i want to lower expectations in the tip department and i feel that same way
in the text in the tip it's the same i just want to lower expectations well see that's the mistake
that i made because i was in the service industry i was a bellhop so i loved those big
tips so when i first started making good money i'm tipping big because i know that they like that
because i was one of them now the problem is every time you go back to these certain places that
you've been now that if you don't now you feel like a cheapskate right so you gotta keep the
big tip up or you know that's your that's your rap now so now yeah i probably should have done
like you and started out low started out low i'm still low yeah it's hard to come down once you
start big because the next thing you know the internet man what a cheap bastard well that's
the whole thing so if you would carry frank sinatra's bags up to his room and he gave you
20 bucks you'd be devastated but if adam carolla gave you 20 bucks you'd be elated you see that's
what i'm looking for managed expectations how many
how many dates a year are you doing are you getting out doing a lot of dates you know i'm
slowing down a lot i don't like traveling as much you know i uh what i do now as i used to i do about
24 a year and i spread them out so i can get on stage a little every month but then i realized
you just don't stay sharp that way especially me because i got so many one-liners and i'm getting
older and i can't remember some of them i got him cheat cards so what i started doing now is i
there's that golf tournament that i played down in orlando the opga uh hilton resorts so i'll book
a tour around that starting in mid-january and then i will tour i'll get 24 shows in and finish
up around mid-may and then i'll take the summer and the fall off which i'll use for you know cars
we're doing a brand new series called lightning racers on disney junior that's 60 episodes and
we're going to do another 60 after that and then of course i got this brand new show called
american mayhem it's just a video show where i comment on crazy videos so are you doing sorry
it's the cars thing a voiceover thing that is yeah yep it's just another they're all like half
hour shows for disney junior are you doing mater yeah dude okay yeah yeah that thing's awesome so
i'm gonna do that and then i got a crazy uh other thing that i do is i have been a fan of rodeo my
whole life i used to sponsor bull riders and i sponsored bulls uh so i went ahead and said well
instead of sponsoring some i'm just going to get some so i got a partner and i started a
bulk bull uh stock company called whitney ma's buck and bulls and i got about 50
buck and bulls and we train bulls to buck and then uh take them to smaller rodeos how do you
train bulls to buck well you get bulls some of them you don't know if they're going to buck or
not some of them are bred they'll be bred to a buck and bull that's got a good gene line of a
former bull that buck good and and you just take your chances what you do is you just uh to get
them used to you know a bull comes out at bucks and then they open the middle gate and they run
through the middle gate right they got they got to learn how to buck and they learn how to buck
and they learn how to do that it's all repetition so if they've never done it you bring them up you
put them in the chute you open the chute door they run around you open that door they see what it is
you do that three or four times now they're they know what's happening they've done it before it's
in their mind they know there's a gate there and then you uh start to buck them and you you put a
flank on them around the back flank and then you do a dummy you put a dummy on them and you dummy
well what's what's
the back flank
uh your back flank around the back of the flank you know your tickle spot yeah you like if somebody
tickled you so it's basically around the tickle spot around the back flank so they'll buck to get
that off of there make some buck buck good and uh so you never know you never know if they're
gonna be good if they're not gonna be good but uh it's really fun it's it's a fun sport and
my kids started doing it that's what got me back into it
so
uh i put an arena in my house i got a property out here i put a bull riding arena in there so i
can't do it safely because it's not it's a dangerous sport he wanted to do it and you know
if i didn't put something in and make it safe he was going to go to these other places and do it
how do you make it safe the only way you can make it safe is you get two professional bullfighters
that know what they're doing they're in professional shows you get two professional bullfighters and
at two EMTs, where in case
You get a horn or you get knocked out, you know, and so that's how you do it, but you want to be safe.
Now, my kid quit.
He had two shoulder surgeries and a knee surgery, and I told him, join the Army.
It's safer.
Bull fighters, is that what we might call rodeo clown, too, but they don't like that term?
Well, they used to call them rodeo clowns.
Now, they do have a rodeo clown that sits in the barrel and talks and tells jokes,
but the bull fighters are actual.
That's what they do for a living, and they are unbelievable.
They save a lot of lives in there, and it's just a real fun, extreme sport.
I mean, it's like anything else.
You see those guys on the motorcycles doing triple flips.
I mean, they're all dangerous in their own way.
It's crazy, yeah.
You know how thrill-seekers are, man.
Thrill-seekers are going to be thrill-seekers, so if they're going to be thrill-seekers
and you want to be a part of it, just make sure it's safe.
Uh, well, as safe as you can make it.
Yes, that's as safe as you can make it.
Otherwise, it wouldn't be a thrill.
Yeah, I'm the same way.
But the, uh, had you put a bull ring in for your kid, I couldn't get my dad to put up
a basketball hoop in the driveway.
Jesus Christ.
Like I said, I wanted it to be better for my kids.
I wanted it to, like, you know.
But it wasn't just for him.
It was for, there was, I do, I do a little bit of work with the University of New York.
The Nebraska Rodeo Team.
And so they'll use, come out and they'll rope in my arena.
My daughter was trying to learn how to be a breakaway roper.
So she can, she's a good roper.
But they would use my facilities when I'm not using them.
So, the bull, um, what do they weigh?
What's a good size one weigh?
Dude, 18 to 2,000.
Uh-huh.
But you have all different varieties, you know, because there's kids that learn, you
learn on steers.
Right.
You have to learn on steers.
Um.
Once you learn on steers, then you can start moving up.
But there's bulls, like, we had a bull, uh, just passed away, man.
He was, man, that thing was probably, Jesus, 18 years old.
Uh, but he would, uh, he was a good starter bull.
Like, he'd come out, you open the chute gate, he'd do two really good bucks.
Mm-hmm.
Just to get somebody used to something bigger.
And if he fell off, he just stood there and he'd kind of look back and see when you were
clear, then he'd walk away.
Really?
Yeah.
So you have.
He was the perfect bull to train on, because he, he wasn't violent.
He'd buck, and he had a lot of, he was big, so the kids would get the feel of it when
they're moving up the ranks.
So you have different levels for different kids, you know, and we pride ourselves into,
uh, into, uh, picking different levels of bulls.
We have, uh, I don't, I don't like them when they're really mean in the chute, where
they go crazy in the chute.
We like the ones, we try to train them so they just sit there in the chute.
Sometimes it's their history.
Hit or miss on that.
But most of ours are really good in the chute, so.
Yeah, it's fun.
It's a fun sport.
What is the, what is the Mount Rushmore of bucking bulls?
And is there lineage, sperm, you know, DNA?
Is it still out there?
Like, what is the bull that would be the, you know, the Tom Brady of the bucking bulls?
Well, you know, back in the day, uh, it was, uh, um, uh, uh,
oh, geez, it was, uh, uh, tough Hedeman.
Bodacious was the, was the bull of all bulls.
Uh, bodacious pretty much did numbers on everybody.
I had the 2011, me and, uh, uh, we had the 2011, 2007 bucking bull of the year called
Chicken on a Chain.
Wow.
And we had him in 2007, me and, uh, Rob, uh, Jeff Robbins.
And we did that bull together.
Um, uh, and do you take a bull like that out to stud and, and, and there's a value in that?
Oh man, these things are treated like family.
These guys that have these good bucking bulls, those things, once they're done buck and they
have a ceremony and they retire them and they send them off into the pasture and, and, uh,
yeah, it's, uh, they're, they're really taking care of good, but that's what they'll do.
They'll go out there and they'll just stud them out and they'll live the rest of their life and they'll die out in the pasture just hanging out with their ladies.
So it's sort of like horse racing in that way, right?
Yeah, pretty much. It depends.
You know, you can get, like we struck, you know, Austin Dillon, the car racer, does some bulls too.
And he entered a couple of them in a few charity.
It was just, he just started doing it.
He won $100,000.
He had this bull that was crazy.
It's like, man, you talk about lucky, that guy right there.
But we got four out of, I think we bought four bulls for five grand each coming out of Colorado.
He said three of them he knows could buck pretty good.
One of them he's not sure of.
We took a chance on him.
We split it 10 grand apiece.
And one of them has won three futurities, won a second place in its division.
But we got offered 50 grand for him.
That's not bad for a $5,000 investment.
What do you do when the bull passes away?
What do you do with the actual carcass?
Well, you bury them.
You bury them.
Yeah, there's a, and I'm so old, I cannot remember her name.
My buddy Chad Berger up in North Dakota, he's got a bunch of buckabulls and he's got a cemetery.
He's got a bull cemetery.
And you drive by and it's these big facades with the names and flowers.
Oh, yeah, man.
It's pretty cool.
You know what's great about our society?
Probably more so than any other society.
I'm trying to think, you know, like if you go to the Middle East, it's not this way.
We have so many different hobbies and interests and it's so varied and it's so specific.
And it's a science to those who know it, to those who come from North Hollywood and don't know anything like me.
It's all news to me.
And it's so interesting that, you know, my hobbies would be vintage race cars and racing cars and doing stuff like that.
Yours, bulls, breeding, you know, daughter, roping, that kind of stuff.
And they're so varied.
And then there's everything in.
Between, you know, there's there's guys who do drag boat racing and then, you know, even like even if you go, I like racing within that, within the category of racing, there's off road racing, there's offshore racing, there's drag racing, there's road course.
Yeah, the airplane, airplane racing.
You can go down to Reno.
You know, it's so there's so many different and I think that's a good sign for society.
Absolutely.
I totally agree.
Because I think when you go to some of those places, you'd never want to live in the Middle East and ask everyone what the hobby was around here.
I don't think you'd get any of that.
Yeah, I don't think you would either.
And that's a fact.
But these but that's just I've liked it since I was a kid.
And I have it's fun to name them.
You know, there's all they got, you know, cool names.
I got one of my favorite ones.
Now I got a bull that I named after the villain in urban California.
Oh, boy.
Wes Hightower.
Well, that's the name of the bully rolling now.
Wes Hightower.
I got another one named after one of my kid's teachers called Mr.
Cooley.
That's funny.
He's a good bull.
But, you know, they had names like Bushwhacker and oh, man, what a little yellow jacket.
And they had a lot of cool names.
Grasshopper.
I mean, it's it's fun sport.
It's fun sport.
So but do you think.
The 19 year old kid who gets on Hightower says, wait a minute, is this a reference to
the 1981 film starring Deborah Winger and John Travolta, known as Urban Cowboy?
No, I pretty much doubt it.
So I named him for people our age.
Yeah, because I got to tell you, whoever's getting on that bull has no idea what that
reference is.
But that movie was that was a big movie.
I love I love that movie.
Still, I think that's my favorite.
I think that's my favorite female actress in a movie.
That's my the one that I was in love with the most was Pam from Urban Cowboy.
Was that Deborah Winger?
No, that was the one that he cheated on her with.
The one that was the the Houston girl.
She wasn't a Dallas girl.
She was and she made him.
She made him.
What would she make him?
She made him stay.
and what is that with steak and noodles what's it called uh benedict well whatever yeah but that was
she yeah yes yeah i can't remember but yeah she uh that was my favorite one pam from urban cowboy
was that like 81 look what year was that 1980 1980 see that's the problem with my comedy now
when i want to pop out a reference all my references are from 19 late 70s and mid 80s
nobody knows what the hell i'm talking about you're standing in a full arena trying to think
of beef stroganoff
Beef stroganoff, that's it.
That's what I'm saying.
And you can't come up with it.
I'm like you in the text thread.
I'm late on my beef stroganoff reference.
I know, but I knew we'd come up with it.
Wow, that's fun, man.
So, bulls, golf, are you on a ranch right now?
Yeah, I got a nice acreage out here outside of Lincoln, Nebraska.
And we got four miniature, all the bulls I keep out of my buddies out in Denton about 25, 30 minutes from me.
I have a facility.
I have outdoor pens for when we buck here.
We buck at his house in the summer.
We buck at my house in the fall and the winter because I got an indoor facility.
But here where I'm at now, we got, oh, man, I got my buckskin Dusty, my buckskin mare.
And I got my, we got a fjord horse.
We got a horse named Gus.
We got four miniature Highlander bulls and three donkeys and a mini horse that my wife has saved.
My wife is like, you know, she loves saving and critters.
So, she got this horse.
This horse is about 28 years old.
And they were going to put it to sleep like seven years ago.
And my wife said, well, I'll take him.
Let me dock.
Dream up.
And my wife has doctored this horse up.
It's been with us now seven years.
So, it's almost a 30-year-old horse.
That's crazy.
What is a horse life normally and like what's a bull life?
Are they about the same?
Well, it depends on what they're doing, you know.
I mean, a regular bull that they just buy to breed, they'll breed it until it's done breeding.
And then that'll be the end of it because they're not going to pay to keep it around.
But a bucking bull, a bucking bull, you know,
is making you money.
So, you want to make sure that he's got as long a life as possible.
And like some guys, like Chad Berger, when they die, they get their own tomb.
But a horse is, you know, a horse is about anywhere from 22 to 25.
It can live older.
They can die younger.
But, you know, a horse is a, you know, when they were wild, they're pregnant.
They get eaten.
So, that's why they're always so jumpy and they sleep standing up.
And, you know, out in the wild, they're food for predators.
So, but our horses, you know, just for the typical thing.
You know, my horses are pretty much retired.
But every now and then, you'll saddle up and just go on a little trail ride or something.
That's about all we use them for.
My wife has, my daughter has a roping horse.
So, she just uses it out in the arena and then she's done.
So, they got a pretty good life.
They're not like those ranch horses with them.
Cowboys get on them and ride them for eight hours out there in the prairie.
And then come back and, you know, they do it again the next day.
Mine aren't really working like those are.
Yeah.
I never had any horses.
But I had a big Labrador who did whatever he wanted all day in air conditioning.
And then he'd go outside and take a dip in the pool and then come back in all wet and get up on the sofa and take a nap.
And I did start to realize that I think the dog was living a better life than I was.
And I think maybe your horses may be living a better life than you, Larry.
They're living a pretty good life.
You know what's funny, though?
I saw on TikTok, they were talking.
They had that little, you know, they have the AI voice and talking about all these little hybrid cows.
They're so cute.
Look, this one's in the kitchen.
It comes into the dog's door.
A cow.
Yeah.
And so, they're like showing these and advertising these little miniature hybrid cows.
Hybrid bulls.
Because they are.
When you first get them, when they're babies, they're the size of your dog.
They'll come up to your knee and they're sweet.
But five years later, like mine are five years old, five years later, they're about 1,300 pounds.
Right, right.
And they come up to your, they're little.
They only come up to your, you know, they only come up to your stomach or your chest.
But they're huge.
Really?
Yeah.
So, don't listen to those tics.
I've seen some TikTok videos where they say they're going to stay little forever because they do get big.
I don't know.
I've, you know, I know like Arnold Schwarzenegger has his miniature donkeys walking around his house and he likes that.
I don't know.
I feel like a Labrador, a horse, we're pretty much covered in the pet department between a Labrador and a horse.
Absolutely.
You don't need much.
You don't need a chimpanzee or Bengal tiger, any of that stuff.
You don't need something that's going to turn on you and eat you or pull your face off or anything like that.
We got a Labrador, we got a horse, pretty good shape.
You know, I don't understand why they do that.
Like when I was doing my show for History Channel Only in America, we went out to this place in Colorado that saved exotic animals.
And there were tons all over the place.
There was a white tiger out there and then other tigers and some lions.
And they were mean.
And they said, oh, there's a lot of people that live in Texas that will buy these things as babies.
And then, of course, they get too big to handle them and then they can't handle them.
And they got to call somebody to come get them.
And we're the ones that will come get them and put them in our area.
But at some point, don't you think that – I just don't understand how they don't think that thing is going to grow up.
And, you know, it's like Chris Rock says, at some point, it's going to go tiger on you.
I think a lot of people – I mean the problem is –
The problem is a tiger is the cutest cub in the world.
It really is.
There's nothing cuter.
Maybe – probably the cutest cub in the world would be a polar bear cub.
If you think about a polar bear cub, it's all paws.
It's all fluffy.
You know, it's white.
There is nothing cuter than a polar bear cub, but there's nothing more dangerous than a polar bear.
Absolutely.
Yeah.
So it's like waving.
I can get it.
You can enjoy the cuteness for about a year and that's it.
I feel like there's a lot of people that are that way too.
Like they'll show a picture of a serial killer in the second grade and he's got a little bow tie on.
He's standing there saluting.
Who knew that guy would grow up to eat people?
Yeah, right?
Exactly.
Yeah, we can go south too.
That's always a creepy video too, that one of the dating game with that Uncala guy.
You know, that serial killer.
He was on the dating game.
Yeah, well, you know, the serial killers from the past, we didn't have a lot of footage on these guys because it was black and white, 50s, you know, that kind of stuff.
Like, you know, I don't know if there's a bunch of John Wayne Gacy home videos or something, you know.
I haven't seen anything.
But now the serial killers of the future, we're going to have tons of video footage with mama taking the phone.
You know, bringing them home from the hospital, jumping into the swimming pool, blowing out the candles for their fifth birthday.
Yeah, we'll have a nice video scrapbook of the guy that just killed 90 people.
Yeah, like hanging out with Barney.
And like, it's going to be weird because that five-year-old is going to be saying, I love you, mommy.
I love you too.
And it's all going to be shot on an iPhone.
And then we're going to know he's a serial killer.
It's going to mess things up for us.
I can't believe he killed him.
He was so cuddly.
Look at him.
He loved Barney.
He loved his doggie.
He loved his miniature cow.
That might have been why he turned out to be a serial killer, because he liked Barney too much.
You got to figure Barney has to factor in at some point.
I think if they did some kind of a study, I think Barney would show up at some point as the thread.
A reoccurring theme.
The through line.
The through line would be Barney.
Is that what you're saying?
That's the whole reason I came on the show.
To discuss that.
Let people know the through line is Barney.
So if you were doing one of those, if you're doing one of those CSI cork boards, you'd have a picture of Barney in the middle and then yarn going all different directions.
But it all emanate from Barney.
Yeah.
Seven degrees of Barney or six degrees of Barney.
The TV show American Mayhem.
That'll be on CBS Paramount Plus as well.
And then the special.
It's a gift as well.
Well, that's doing pretty.
Hey, can I run a new joke?
Yeah, I'm all.
I want to see if Adam laughs at my brand new joke.
All right.
I saw a bunch of fat people protesting at the courthouse today.
Evidently, they thought Trump had closed the street of Hormel.
Yeah, that's good.
I'm going to do it.
Yeah, do it.
The great Larry, the cable guy.
Good catch up.
Brother, I hope we can talk real soon.
Adam, you too, man.
I enjoy the show and I appreciate you and love you forever.
So thanks for having me back on.
Thanks, Larry.
We'll be back with the news right after this.
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adam nobody is more upset about the renaming of lake ontario than gordon lightfoot you can
leave us a message at 888-634-1744 does he mention ontario in the wreck of the edmund fitzgerald
i don't know hold on chuck this in the wreck of the edmund fitzgerald is he you know the it's an
oarship obviously you know all the nuts and the bolts of the song and people that were left but
uh people have passed but was he talking about lake ontario he must have because he was talking
about and everyone knows where the love of god goes when the waves turn the minutes to hours
chuck's more of a sundown guy oh i walked away
Like a movie star who was burning a three-way script
Enter number three
If you could read my mind
The lyrics, all right, so you mentioned Lake Ontario.
There's a Gitche Gumee in there, I think, somewhere.
Yes, towards the end of the song.
Lake Ontario takes in with the Lake Erie, we'll send her.
Okay, well, then he's right.
Chuck, you're right.
And the rec of that, Edmund Fitzgerald.
To be fair to the great Gordon Lightfoot,
he talks about it's great for sport fishing
and other folks who like the outdoors.
It's a real love letter to Lake Ontario,
except for the barge with the oar in it.
And then there's the chef on the ship, you know,
and he says hi to everyone, and then at some point he just goes,
it's been good to know you.
He's just like, see ya, we're going down.
All right, anyway, what do you got, Andrew?
That is a terrifying story.
Well, anyway, we have this video of, I mean, this kid is like
one of your dead high school buddies reincarnated.
And I think you're going to be just excited by this guy's energy.
Assaulted after sentencing.
Here we go, watch this.
Just after one o'clock Monday afternoon,
a sheriff's deputy was walking Timothy Regal
out of his sentencing for assault.
Assault and failure to comply with the order of a police officer.
Boom, handcuffs, gone.
Regal broke through his handcuffs and throat punched the deputy.
Wow.
Very quickly, he bulldozed his way through another deputy
while making his escape,
scooting violently down the courthouse stairwell
right into the arms of another deputy.
Again, evading their defenses.
Scooting violently.
He makes a break for the front door
when he's tased and brought down
just before reaching the outside.
Reinforcements arrive,
and Regal is taken back,
back into custody.
Back in the hallway,
that first deputy, still on the ground,
holding a paper towel to his face,
bloodied and surrounded by help,
including a man who was there
on an unrelated matter,
who sprang into action to assist the deputy.
By the way,
it looked like he punched him right in the nose,
but they said throat punch,
but throat punch doesn't break your nose.
He cold cocked him.
He just fucking turned and popped him.
I don't know how he got the handcuffs off,
did they explain that one?
I think he just broke through them.
He just Django Unchained him.
Oh, really?
Yeah, here, go back.
He just broke through both of them?
Wow.
Look at it.
Hold on, here we go.
Boom.
See ya.
Good night.
Wow.
I feel like this is a kid you would recruit
for like a secret government agency.
Yeah, or just to play-
Adam Carolla's League of Extraordinary Gentlemen.
We all know why we're here, gentlemen.
Now, I will start my message with
the government,
disavows all actions.
We don't recognize you.
If you don't come back,
we're not looking for you.
They don't know who you are.
You're a ghost.
That's number one.
Number two,
you're all here for your own specific reasons.
You're the best second story man in the business.
You're the best wheel man in the business.
You're a knife thrower.
This guy can break through any-
This guy breaks out of cuffs
and punches people in the throat.
Yeah.
So you're all here for a reason.
This 20-year-old boy's got grown man strength.
Jesus.
Well, he should at least be playing fullback
in the arena league.
Yeah.
Like, that's a short yardage guy.
That's who you want.
Fuck the tush push.
We got this guy.
Just ram it down the throat.
Power eye formation.
Iron head.
Boom.
A word.
Like, we're just going to line it up.
We dare you to stop us.
We know where we're going.
Yeah, right down the fucking middle.
We're going right down the middle.
Pow.
Boom.
They still-
Your team's still doing the tush push?
Yeah.
Okay.
They are.
They tried to outlaw it.
Forget it.
Nah.
I don't think they-
I haven't done it yet this year, though,
but they'll pull it out.
We got to talk to Mark Garagos
because the unreasonably difficult
Sean Diddy Combs has been dropped by his lawyers
in the $100 million defamation lawsuit.
According to court documents,
Sean Diddy Combs has-
his attorneys have filed a motion to withdraw
as counsel representing the rapper
in his defamation lawsuit against-
News Nation
because he has basically-
he hasn't paid.
Uh-huh.
Billable hours, baby.
Billable hours.
He's in substantial arrears.
according to his attorney.
So they are, yeah, so best of luck to them.
He's going to be out sooner than later, right?
What is it, five years, but with time served?
I mean, he's getting out like a year and a half, I think, or sooner.
February 28th, sorry, February 5th, 2028.
I'm going to say it's exactly a year and a half.
Is that pretty much exactly a year and a half?
Yeah.
Yeah.
All right.
He's not going to be that old.
He's still going to be fucking rich.
Yeah.
And he's going to be able to get back to whatever he was missing.
Yeah, we should get him on the podcast.
Yeah, let's get him on the pod.
Get him and the guy that broke out of the prison.
We'll get both those guys on the podcast.
The guy who broke out of the courtroom is going to be in longer than P. Diddy is in
because he assaulted a guard and injured a guard.
And that guy was only going to get, I don't know, a fine and a slap on the wrist.
I don't know what that guy would you get for, he didn't obey orders when he was pulled over
on the side of the road or whatever it is, but it wasn't assault.
No, it always makes it worse.
Yeah, now he's got assault.
That's what happened to a buddy of mine freshman year at Penn State.
He was freezing outside.
There was ice on the ground, and the cop wanted to stop him because he was clearly drunk.
He was clearly underage.
So he ran from the cop.
The cop ran after him, slipped on the ice.
Uh-huh.
Yeah.
I think.
He broke something, and then it ended up my buddy getting caught, and it was like,
all right, it's your fault that this cop slipped and fell.
Yeah.
So you're fucked.
Well, I was thinking about that.
First off, can we all just say how refreshing it is to say, did you hear about the incident
at the courthouse with the violence, and lights are up on a young black man sitting there
in an orange jumpsuit, and you go, here we go again, and it's some corn-fed white guy
who's beating the shit out of him?
I mean, let's all just take a moment here for a second and really appreciate this.
That's progress.
It's progress, because you go, did you hear the situation with the assault at the courthouse,
and lights are up on a black dude with cornrows in an orange jumpsuit, and you go, yep, here
we go again, and then next thing you know, the black dude turns like, what's going on
out there?
And there's just a big dude who looks like Chris Farley beating the shit out of an officer,
and let's just all say, yeah, I'm sorry.
Let's just all take this in for a second and say, you know, when you go, every time,
it's always them, every time.
No.
This is a rare instance when the honky got the pimp out.
It was an M. Night Shyamalan plot twist.
That's right.
Speaking of that, your friend with the cop who slipped on the ice, because he ran.
Got kicked out of Penn State.
Not interested.
Here's my point.
My point is, what about. Now, the lady who got the DUI, broadsided the bus, didn't die, dispatched the news helicopter
to cover her, and now we have three dead people.
I mean, come on, that chopper wouldn't have been in the air if it wasn't for her hitting
the bus.
Now. I think she skipped her court date.
You know what I would say?
I would say, but that chopper would have been in the air somewhere.
And it would have had the same catastrophic mechanical failure.
So some guy that was. But not the guy on the ground.
The guy that was supposed to, I don't know, oil the fucking propeller or something, he's. Hold on.
Slow down with all the technical talk.
Yeah, I don't know.
The guy with the thingy, put on the oil thing with the blade thingy, right?
Listen, man, all I know are Nissan Versys, okay?
I know.
I don't know choppers.
All right, so the guy was supposed to oil the chopper blade.
The rotor on the fucking propeller shit.
I don't know.
Yeah, uh-huh.
That guy.
That guy doesn't do his job.
Helicopter goes down and he gets. He doesn't get charged or he's not in trouble at all because it's only up there because
this lady got shit-faced and T-boned a bus.
If I was defending her, I'd say you would have taken it up later that afternoon for
some other car chase or something and it would have had the same catastrophic failure.
Yeah, she's toast anyway.
It doesn't matter.
But the guy on the ground. Might still be alive.
Well, he would, but other people could have got killed on the ground for the next one.
Anyway.
Does anyone know where the love of God goes when the waves turn the minutes to hours?
Yeah.
Yeah.
Hold on.
Chuck, was that a good Gordon Lightfoot?
No.
No good?
Good?
Eh?
Close your eyes.
It's like you're back at the concert.
Yeah.
Mm-hmm.
Go ahead.
All right.
Well, speaking of tush pushes, the Chiefs' Travis Kelce.
was named as a victim in a multi-million dollar Ponzi scheme.
Uh-huh.
Yeah, something like $35 million.
Mm-hmm.
Now, this $31.35 million, this guy, SwiftArk was the name of the company.
Siddharth Jawahar was running SwiftArk,
and it was just basically like a Bernie Madoff-style Ponzi scheme,
getting rich people involved, taking their money to pay previous investors
and also buy lavish gifts for himself.
And now he's going to probably do 11 years in prison
and pay $31.35 million in restitution to his victims.
So, Travis Kelce, damn, another one bites the dust, man.
You've got to be careful with your money.
Yeah, he'll probably land on his feet.
I think he'll be okay, but—
The Ponzi, you know, the Ponzi scheme guys,
and interestingly—
He was actually a pretty good dude.
He started early in his career a woman—
He worked for a mining company or something,
and, like, a woman got burned very badly,
and they needed a skin graft,
and no one would go for the skin graft,
and he volunteered to get the skin graft to, like, the secretary.
Like, this was, like, in the 30s or something.
And he got, like, Citizen of the Year.
Or whatever it is.
Yeah.
I don't know why I need to put a picture of these two individuals up,
but that's all right.
So, he—
The guy who the Ponzi is named after.
Ponzi.
Well, that's his last name.
That's his last name.
Charles Ponzi.
Yeah, he was a good dude.
And he started off with a scheme that wasn't really a Ponzi scheme.
He'd figured out a way to make money.
And he got investors to invest in this plan,
which was a plan to make money, which was stamps, basically,
and the value of the stamps around the world
and the difference between the value in the U.S. or Europe or whatever it is.
He had a legitimate plan.
Yeah.
And he hung his shingle out there,
and he was kind of like,
I can give people their—
I can make this return for you
because of a plan that actually was, you know, was feasible.
And he did it.
And he returned people.
And then everyone just kept donating, kept giving him money.
And before you know it, he just had, like, too much.
I mean, to the tune of, I don't know, like, in today,
dollars would be like a million dollars a day invested in your plan.
And he couldn't turn it around, and he couldn't get it back to them.
And it just kind of all went cattywampus.
But he wasn't a criminal.
He didn't set out to steal.
So you're saying we should rechange—
It shouldn't be a Ponzi scheme.
We should call it a—
We should call it a Madoff scheme at this point.
Yes, because he made off with the money.
You got that part.
And the Ponzi guy was never really a criminal and never—
I mean, didn't start as a criminal, and he wasn't really a bad guy.
He came here from Italy.
He tried to sort of make his own way.
He did some philanthropic things.
He was, you know, married the love of his life.
Always felt horrible about not being able to pay everyone back.
Tried to pay.
He tried to pay everyone back.
It wasn't—it was not black and white at all as to who Ponzi is.
And also, as an Italian, you know, I take some umbrage with this being named.
Because now I get—
You got to sit with that for a moment.
I got to—let me sit with this for a moment.
You got to sit with that for a moment.
Let me sit with that.
Ponzi.
Italian.
I got to sit with that.
You got to sit with that.
Yeah, I got to sit with that.
All right, what else?
I'm for changing the Madoff scheme.
We also got to stop calling things gate.
Because, I mean, the more we find out about water,
the more we interrogate.
Who fucking knows?
Right.
You're right.
All right, well, are you ready for a fucking gross story?
Because here we go.
A sick Florida mom has been arrested after her husband
found video of her performing sex acts with the family dog.
Now, is she performing on the dog, or is the dog performing on her?
That's an important question.
It is to me.
No, I don't think this is a smearing—
Peanut butter on your genitals type situation, it seems.
Do you think she's performing on the dog?
I think she's engaging in sexual contact with an animal.
That's Malia Nurmurder, or however the fuck you say that, 38 years old.
There she is.
All right.
Look, I ran into this many years ago when we were doing Loveline,
which is, I said, look, as a dog, I mean,
Let's really break down your life as a dog, right?
dog could be my
owner's homeless and we just wander
the streets all the time and kind of eat out of dumpsters.
You could be one of
those Iditarod dogs. I got a
fat lesbian. I got to drag all
over fucking creation.
And by the way, three of us die and they just eat us
along the way. Like, I literally
drag this fat bitch all over
Alaska, right? You could be
that. You could get lucky
and be your little shitty dog and
come here, come up on the sofa.
Yeah, I got a great dog. Here's people
food. How dare you? Don't talk about
those are my fucking kids. I know.
Lucy and Norman are great dogs.
You could get lucky
and have Andrew's owner
or you could be sniffing out
bombs in Iraq.
Like, there's a lot of
variation in dog life.
Not all of it's good.
You know what I mean? I mean, you could be the dog
going with SEAL Team 6 on a raid
and you may never come back.
There's a lot of dogs blown up by land
mines and stuff. If your dog
who's getting blown by their owner,
you're way ahead of the curve.
We were watching Zero Dark
30 last week. You were. Me and
Annalise. Did I have a dog? She saw the dog
on the helicopter and she goes, aww.
See? You could be that
dog or you could be sitting home
getting a BJ from your
owner. I'm just saying
if you were a dog,
what are your choices? I did a rod
or getting
a little slob on the rod?
Mmm.
Did a rod or I did a rod?
She did a rod.
Disgusting.
Alright, it's disgusting, but
I'm telling you,
you would choose the
she did a rod versus the I did a rod.
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interview the husband who revealed
there's a little bit of bullshit
in all this. Alright, does someone need
to release that tape to the police?
Yeah, I gotta. I mean, if I'm the
husband, I'm like. You know, I swear to God, you know
what my conversation is?
Because I'd hate to have to
discuss this with my wife.
I would just go,
look, I
saw the tape. I'm not
doing anything with it. I'm not saying
anything about it, but. You gotta get
some counseling.
That's all. I'm not gonna make
a big deal out of it. You know what I'm
talking about. I know what I'm talking
about. Rex knows what
we're talking about. You're gonna let sleeping
dogs lie. That's right.
I'm not gonna fucking drop it off
at the sheriff's office. Like, this
is weird. I get it.
Obviously, you're abused as a kid.
Let's just talk to somebody
about this, because I'm. It's too weird for me to even get
into. Well, he installed two
security cameras in his home
to find out who had been
stealing money from a
coin jar. It's just
bullshit. He's like, my dog's
walking around here. You gotta check.
You put the tape in.
You put the camera up, because, like, listen.
I bought a
big box of wheat thins.
And I came home, and
they were almost all gone.
And my wife says she don't even
like wheat thins. So what the fuck?
Okay.
What's going on in this house?
And then all of a sudden, you get home, and you're like, we're gonna
get to the bottom of this whole wheat thins
situation right now. And then it's
like, oh. Oh,
there's this. Jesus
Christ. Alright, so
police interviewed
Nummerdor, however the fuck you say her last
name, on Tuesday, and she acknowledged
the video, showed that
that is her with her dog,
but denied
there was any sexual contact, and
that she was just petting it. So
um, does the husband
have to turn this into the cops
though? It's all
is this in Florida, or
is it out of the country? This is Florida. Yeah, that's
a bitch move. You gotta stand by your lady. Wait, it is in Florida?
This is a Florida mom. Yeah.
Oh, did you start the story by saying it was
in Florida? I sure did. Oh, you did?
Oh. Yeah. Oh, you did?
I said, sick Florida mom. Oh, I
didn't. Oh.
Arrested. Well, I don't have to listen to it. Alright.
Sick Florida mom. Well, she was arrested after
Is that what your page says?
Sick Florida mom? Sick Florida mom.
Well, then you're right. So, to be clear, did the husband
drop the dime? Mm-hmm.
Yeah. Wow.
But there's something going on, because he
doesn't want to be married. They were getting ready to get divorced.
Sure, there has to be. There's something. Yeah.
Has to be. In sickness and in health, and that
is mental sickness as well. Well, like,
can you imagine if Annalise ever found that tape
of yours? Jesus Christ.
She would never turn that thing in. No.
No. That's a good girl right there. That's a good
girl. That's right.
Man. Alright. Ugh.
By the way, I would
also be the wrong cop for the interview.
I'd just be like, let's
get Tim to do it. Like, I don't
want to sit down. Like, you know what?
When I became a Florida cop,
I dreamt yelling no time
for backup and, like, sliding over
the hood of a cruiser. Yeah, dude. Not
interviewing crazy women who blew
their dog. Yeah, you grew up on Miami
Vice. Yeah, and Starsky
and Hutch and all of it. And I
I've seen all the episodes
of Starsky and Hutch and not
once did they ever
interview a woman who blew her dog.
You understand? Yeah, Starsky and Hutch and the dog fuckers
of South Dade County. Yeah, it never
happened. Like, I want to go downtown
to a black bar and go,
I'm looking for Hammer. Where's Huggy Bear?
Where's Huggy? And then
I say to him, Huggy,
there's been a lot of action on the street
and I want names.
Who blew that dog?
Was that Menendez?
Yeah. Alright, what else do you
got? Oh, man. Well, remember earlier we were talking
about the South O.C.
Coffee and Cars. It was the biggest
biggest luxury car
biggest luxury car
sale, weekly
sale in basically
in the United States. The car
influencer James Ware,
this is, we're going to watch this video
real quick per Joey.
This is the fatal crash caught
on video driving the McLaren.
He looks
you'll see a little
glimmer along the pavement. He
raced over a wet section
after a green light
and then it just zaps into
a fireball. It
looks, it looks like
this. Okay, so
here's what it looks like to me, but I don't know.
By the way, the speed limit
was 50 on the highway he was
on. It looked like the street
flooded, but it wasn't rain.
I mean, because it was dry
going into it.
It's a crazy ball
of flame. You don't see ball of flame
crashes that
often. If you start at the
beginning. Yeah, let's start this one.
It's dry, dry, dry, dry
wet.
Something like
a hydrant broke open or
something. It seemed like some flooding. Number
one.
Number two, the thing about
these
cars is
they go south
So fast.
it's like one minute you're going straight the next minute you light up the rear tires with a
kind of a like a whoa you feel a little shimmy then it pulls a little to one side you over
correct real quick and then it's just gone it's just nothing boom just gone like you're going
straight and it's in the blink of an eye and these are you know these are cars with 700 horsepower
that are super lightweight that just aren't meant to be driven this way on the street
i will yeah if you just because all i know about is oiling helicopter propellers you're a lubricant
guy yeah big lube guy uh but so like if you were to just like floor it with something like
just put the pedal down you would instantly lose control of something like this
if he see he may have like turned off
the traction control or turned off some of the aids the computer aids you know there's there's
like a track mode for cars where they go we're going to turn off all the stuff that helps the
drivers and so sometimes they'll turn off all that stuff and go we're just going to go for a ride
but you shouldn't do that unless you're on the track where you have you have space uh number one
i don't know i can tell you that when the back end starts fishtailing around
it just bites sometimes he just that car just made a 90 degree turn to the right just immediately
you're going straight you're getting a little loose in the rear end it's not even really a
panic mode it's just kind of like whoa breaking loose here and then just a hard
pull and wait what does bite mean one of the tires gets grip
um and the other doesn't it just yanks real hard to one side i'm not a mclaren expert i i
i will tell you this i'll tell you what i told mark garagos mark garagos was uh representing the
paul walker family i think and his porsche gt he was a passenger but ball of flame blew up okay
the cars have a mid-engine which means the engine is behind the driver yeah it could also mean it's
behind the front axles but that would be a front mid this isn't that
this is the engine is behind you right yeah so here's the rules if you have the engine in front
then the fuel tank's in back but if the engine's in back then the fuel tank's in the front so we
got to distribute the weight but also how do we have room for 22 gallons if we got an engine
where that is so most cars traditionally in the old days every car just had the engine in the front
fuel tank in the back and it also got weight distributed
well now you have a supercar so you have a mid-engine it's in the back it's behind the driver
the fuel is all in the front so you spin out and hit a tree first thing that gets impacted
is a full fuel tank yes all right i would argue andrew that
those cars should have fuel bladders in them um oh garagos represented the driver
roger rodas that was uh paul walker's friend so anyway i'm i'm still correct but it was the
driver he represented okay here was my argument this is a you know million dollar car i don't
know how much the mclaren was it's cheaper than that but whatever here's the deal you have a car
that's capable of going 210 miles an hour that has 700 horsepower and can be driven around a track
at a very high speed faster than a lot of race cars yeah that mclaren or or the porsche gt the paul
walker died if you're going to create that kind of car from the factory then that kind of car
should have a fuel bladder in it not just an aluminum gas tank that could erupt on impact
yeah because it's a street car but it has so much power that could easily just turn into a missile
could turn into a missile and if you put a bladder in that tank that wouldn't have happened
and the bladder is not cost prohibitive okay you know you already have a car that's 700 grand or
500 grand this is going to add another three grand yeah to the price of the car so it's not
really you're already in some kind of rarefied air where like those kind of cars where you go
oh i want to do the 21 inch rim package like oh that's another 18 000 and i went to metallic paint
code whatever it goes that's eight grand 14 grand more like you can you can package up those cars
you can add another 150 grand up on a lot of cars so it's a worthwhile investment to turn your car
into a not like japanese airplane harbor my argument is cars are required to have seatbelts
are required to have crumple zones they're required to have airbags they're required to
have a lot of stuff one could say once a car got over 500 horsepower it would be required to have
a fuel bladder yeah a racing fuel cell just come standard yeah put it in at the factory and add
again it's it's pretty much just a fuel tank with a rubber bladder in it uh and some foam
in there too so that fuel doesn't slosh around that much but um yeah then you you get into an
accident and the bladder holds the fuel in and doesn't erupt yeah i think no horsepower ratings
like 500 do not automatically trigger a general requirement for a fuel bladder yeah i know goop
all this what i'm saying i'm not i i know there's no there is no fuel bladder rule
there's no fuel bladder rule but if you're driving in a high-speed car that i'm aware of
has a fuel bladder i will tell you this if you race cars they make a big fucking deal out of
your fuel bladder they make a big deal you're not racing without a fuel bladder they make a big deal
out of it so it's evidently important if you're driving in a in a high-speed car and i'm just
saying if you're making a supercar you should spend an extra 10 bucks and put a fuel bladder
yeah and i'm a supercar i'm not racing without a fuel bladder i'm not racing without a fuel bladder
assuming that in this case and in paul walker's case the fuel bladder would have saved them
versus the aluminum fuel tank basically 20 gallons of high octane fuel literally sitting right in
front of you yeah yeah well i would love to take a minute to go to your like tweets real quick
there was something that caught my eye and it was the uh atlantic it's a series of headlines from
atlantic magazine about uh what people what should happen to people during covid and then i guess it
was something they just released now you can just go right to the twitter chuck it's on it's a like
tweet uh i can i can paraphrase go to the twitter go to the twitter yeah see see what happens we're
on this side of the glass bro now listen i'll paraphrase if chuck can't find it but it's
basically it's towards the top i think yeah i i liked it
two ago it's just a split page it's just uh words where it's the atlantic doing it's the atlantic
saying uh you know people who don't get vaccinated are responsible people need to be removed the big
problem is with if covid is the people whatever and then then the next headline from four years
later is we should have an amnesty amnesty nobody should be blamed for
what they said during covid of course all the people who wanted everyone drawn and quartered
for not getting vaccinated or wearing a mask want to fucking amnesty that's the people who wanted
everyone destroyed things got wild let's uh let's take a breather yeah yeah we're the people who
were destroyed by assholes like you at the atlantic and we'd like to say something about it
yeah all right but can't be found interesting andrew right it's uh i think it was it's it's a
like it's at the top you found it you got it i don't believe it was a like tweet i think it was
you actually quote tweeted it so we may be looking in the wrong place we check
got it got it you can put it up just throw it up there boom uh then and now the first atlantic
is uh the anti-vaccine right brought human sacrifice to america that's pretty unvaccinated
people need to bear the burden and what's the date on that one andrew
that's a good question i can't see it from here anyway that was during covid and now it's modern
times the atlantic wants to declare a pandemic amnesty well like the florida mom says suck my
dick fuck off atlantic and eat shit because you guys all deserve whatever the fuck you're getting
but the main thing you're getting is no one's going to listen to you ever again all right
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Podcast Summary
Key Points:
Larry the Cable Guy started his career in radio in the late 1980s, gaining fame through characters like Mr. Burcham and Larry the Cable Guy.
He shares a surprising origin story with Jimmy Kimmel, both beginning in radio in Tampa and developing characters that resonated across stations through syndication.
Radio in the 1990s was a powerful platform for building careers, with strong local connections and syndication allowing characters to reach nationwide audiences.
Larry emphasizes the importance of personal growth and forgiveness, especially in family dynamics, noting that avoiding conflict helped him build healthier relationships with his children.
He reflects on the evolution of parenting, choosing a more balanced, loving approach over strict discipline influenced by his own upbringing.
Larry is expanding into new ventures, including a new TV show called *American Mayhem* on Paramount Plus and a new bull training business called Whitney Ma’s Buck and Bulls.
He shares a deep connection to rodeo culture, training bulls and horses, and believes in safe, responsible recreation as a form of family bonding.
The episode highlights the diversity of hobbies and passions in modern society, from bull riding to vintage cars, celebrating unique individual interests.
Summary:
Larry the Cable Guy reflects on his radio roots, tracing his career back to the 1980s and early 1990s, where character-driven comedy and syndication allowed him to build a national presence. He shares a surprising connection with Jimmy Kimmel, both of whom began in Tampa radio and developed iconic characters through regional stations. Larry emphasizes how morning radio created strong community ties and was instrumental in shaping comedy careers before the rise of social media.
He also discusses his personal upbringing, noting that his father’s absence and lack of discipline taught him to prioritize forgiveness and emotional balance in parenting. These experiences influenced his positive, non-confrontational approach to family life, which he believes has made him a better parent. Beyond comedy, Larry is now expanding into new ventures, including a new TV show, *American Mayhem*, and a bull training business focused on safety and education.
He also shares his deep passion for rodeo culture, training bulls and horses, and highlights how such niche hobbies reflect the richness and diversity of modern American life. The episode concludes with a celebration of individuality, as Larry and Adam explore how unique passions—from bull riding to vintage cars—add depth and joy to everyday life, illustrating how personal values and experiences shape both careers and family.
FAQs
Larry started doing the character in 1990, specifically in 1991 on the radio station 95 YNF in Tampa.
Larry's new TV show is called 'American Mayhem,' which is available on Paramount Plus, CBS, and Prime Video.
Larry began his comedy career in Florida after moving from Nebraska, where he worked as a bellhop and gained stage time at open mic nights, eventually leading to a radio role.
During a live remote, a real cable technician approached him and asked where Larry the Cable Guy was, showing how the character became a recognizable and memorable figure.
Larry credits morning radio as a crucial stepping stone for his career, noting that it built a loyal audience and helped him gain national exposure across multiple stations.
Larry's father was a strict, loving preacher but was not emotionally available, and Larry learned to be a better parent by avoiding harsh discipline and fostering a positive, loving environment.
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