1 00:00:00,200 --> 00:00:01,960 Speaker 1: And I was in the store and some guy was 2 00:00:02,000 --> 00:00:04,280 Speaker 1: walking out and he sealed back and the guy working, 3 00:00:04,320 --> 00:00:07,760 Speaker 1: they'll see you tomorrow. Getor done. And the guy says, 4 00:00:07,800 --> 00:00:10,319 Speaker 1: Gator done back and I said, and the guy said, 5 00:00:10,360 --> 00:00:12,760 Speaker 1: get her done? Would you hear that? At And he 6 00:00:12,880 --> 00:00:16,279 Speaker 1: literally goes at This guy on the radio here Rock 7 00:00:16,400 --> 00:00:19,040 Speaker 1: station says, get or done, Larry the cable guy. It's 8 00:00:19,120 --> 00:00:22,439 Speaker 1: funny as hell. And I go, that's me and he 9 00:00:22,480 --> 00:00:25,439 Speaker 1: looked at me. He goes, yeah, shut up. I go, no, 10 00:00:25,640 --> 00:00:27,800 Speaker 1: that's me. I'm Larry the Cable Guy. He goes, get 11 00:00:27,840 --> 00:00:30,200 Speaker 1: out of here. I said, I'm not lying. He said, 12 00:00:30,240 --> 00:00:32,400 Speaker 1: let me hear you say get her done. I went, Gator. 13 00:00:33,320 --> 00:00:36,479 Speaker 1: He goes, that's not even close. I don't like what 14 00:00:36,520 --> 00:00:46,320 Speaker 1: the heck. I'm Larry the Cable Guy. Dan Whitney. That's 15 00:00:46,360 --> 00:00:49,479 Speaker 1: my real name. Also, they know me as made her 16 00:00:49,720 --> 00:00:52,839 Speaker 1: from cars and a lot of people don't know it, 17 00:00:52,920 --> 00:00:56,200 Speaker 1: but I also played the orangutang in every which way 18 00:00:56,280 --> 00:01:06,319 Speaker 1: but loose when I was a small child. Getor Done. Hello, 19 00:01:06,400 --> 00:01:10,319 Speaker 1: and welcome one and all to your special Tuesday treat 20 00:01:10,560 --> 00:01:15,160 Speaker 1: that's right off the beat. I am your host, Brian Baumgartner. 21 00:01:15,520 --> 00:01:21,520 Speaker 1: Today's guest. Well is the very funny Dan Whitney. Who's 22 00:01:21,600 --> 00:01:25,759 Speaker 1: Dan Whitney, you might ask, Well, Dan Whitney, he has 23 00:01:25,840 --> 00:01:30,200 Speaker 1: an alter ego. His name is Larry the Cable Guy. 24 00:01:30,319 --> 00:01:33,520 Speaker 1: We actually spend quite a bit of time golfing together 25 00:01:33,720 --> 00:01:38,200 Speaker 1: at various events, most notably the American Century Championship in 26 00:01:38,280 --> 00:01:41,920 Speaker 1: Lake Tahoe. And next week I am going to Nebraska 27 00:01:42,000 --> 00:01:45,479 Speaker 1: to participate in his Get or Done Classic. We'll talk 28 00:01:45,560 --> 00:01:47,600 Speaker 1: more about that in a bit, but I'm gonna be 29 00:01:47,680 --> 00:01:52,120 Speaker 1: honest with you. See, I know more about Dan that 30 00:01:52,280 --> 00:01:56,320 Speaker 1: I do about Larry and how Larry was born. So 31 00:01:56,400 --> 00:01:59,120 Speaker 1: today I am very pleased to get to know the 32 00:01:59,200 --> 00:02:04,600 Speaker 1: origins of Dan's alter ego, larry dance career, and how 33 00:02:04,640 --> 00:02:08,360 Speaker 1: he manages to be the only Southerner who's actually from 34 00:02:08,400 --> 00:02:13,000 Speaker 1: the Midwest. So please open your ears and your hearts 35 00:02:13,320 --> 00:02:17,080 Speaker 1: to one of the kindest people that I have the 36 00:02:17,200 --> 00:02:21,600 Speaker 1: pleasure of knowing, Larry the Cable Guy or my friend 37 00:02:22,000 --> 00:02:30,760 Speaker 1: Dan Whitney. Bubble and Squeak. I love it Bubble and 38 00:02:30,800 --> 00:02:37,120 Speaker 1: Squeak on Bubble and Squeaker cooking at every moment left 39 00:02:37,280 --> 00:02:52,399 Speaker 1: over from the night before. Larry the Cable Guy, how 40 00:02:52,480 --> 00:02:55,840 Speaker 1: are you my friend. Oh mom Gardener, I love you 41 00:02:55,880 --> 00:03:04,440 Speaker 1: to death and I'm doing fantastic good. Huh, Dan, I'm 42 00:03:04,960 --> 00:03:08,880 Speaker 1: now listen. I texted you a little while ago. For 43 00:03:08,919 --> 00:03:10,840 Speaker 1: those of you who don't know, we play quite a 44 00:03:10,840 --> 00:03:14,600 Speaker 1: bit of golf together at various events, and I said, 45 00:03:14,639 --> 00:03:19,680 Speaker 1: what do I call you? Larry or or Dan? And 46 00:03:20,120 --> 00:03:22,680 Speaker 1: this is a very interesting thing. I mean you really 47 00:03:22,960 --> 00:03:29,520 Speaker 1: your your identity to the public has changed, well right, yeah, totally? Well, yeah, 48 00:03:29,560 --> 00:03:32,640 Speaker 1: pretty much, because let me just give you a brief 49 00:03:32,680 --> 00:03:35,360 Speaker 1: deal Brian. By the way, Brian is better than my golf, 50 00:03:35,400 --> 00:03:39,600 Speaker 1: but I'm trying. I'm trying to get better. But I 51 00:03:39,680 --> 00:03:44,320 Speaker 1: have more hair. You have. You have a lot more hair. Yes. 52 00:03:45,600 --> 00:03:47,960 Speaker 1: I wrote a joke the other day about my my 53 00:03:48,040 --> 00:03:49,680 Speaker 1: brother is going to make a lot of money because 54 00:03:49,680 --> 00:03:54,000 Speaker 1: he invented a product for men that are balding. And 55 00:03:54,040 --> 00:03:56,920 Speaker 1: what it is. It's a liquid that comes in a 56 00:03:57,080 --> 00:04:00,360 Speaker 1: spray can. And what you do is you bray it 57 00:04:00,480 --> 00:04:04,240 Speaker 1: in people's face so they can't see your hair. They 58 00:04:04,240 --> 00:04:08,520 Speaker 1: can't see that you're losing your hair. Believe it gets 59 00:04:08,560 --> 00:04:10,680 Speaker 1: a big laugh. So anyway, let me give you a 60 00:04:10,720 --> 00:04:13,120 Speaker 1: brief friend down, Brian. This is a crazy thing about 61 00:04:13,160 --> 00:04:17,280 Speaker 1: my career. I was a comic and I went professional 62 00:04:17,400 --> 00:04:21,040 Speaker 1: May of I got up on stage for the first 63 00:04:21,080 --> 00:04:23,680 Speaker 1: time in night five. I worked out of the comedy 64 00:04:23,720 --> 00:04:27,600 Speaker 1: Corner in West Palm Beach, Um. I started doing some 65 00:04:27,760 --> 00:04:31,520 Speaker 1: characters on a radio station in Tampa Bay. One of 66 00:04:31,560 --> 00:04:34,920 Speaker 1: the characters was Larry the cable Guy. And as you know, 67 00:04:35,440 --> 00:04:38,120 Speaker 1: a young comic and you're working on the road, anything 68 00:04:38,200 --> 00:04:41,560 Speaker 1: you can do for some stage time or some extra cash, boy, 69 00:04:41,640 --> 00:04:45,680 Speaker 1: that would be awesome. And that's just basically I started. 70 00:04:45,720 --> 00:04:49,320 Speaker 1: It was totally a character for the radio. I could 71 00:04:49,360 --> 00:04:51,560 Speaker 1: do anything I wanted to do. I was a big 72 00:04:51,600 --> 00:04:53,880 Speaker 1: fan of all in the family when I was a kid, 73 00:04:53,920 --> 00:04:56,279 Speaker 1: because it was the one thing my dad would just 74 00:04:56,400 --> 00:04:59,440 Speaker 1: belly laugh at. Because I grew up on a pig 75 00:04:59,480 --> 00:05:01,840 Speaker 1: farm and Southeast Nebraska, and I grew up next to 76 00:05:01,880 --> 00:05:04,200 Speaker 1: the cattle yard, and I worked over at the sale 77 00:05:04,200 --> 00:05:08,360 Speaker 1: bar and on loading cattle trucks, and so I just 78 00:05:08,480 --> 00:05:11,240 Speaker 1: kind of made a character that was kind of an 79 00:05:11,320 --> 00:05:13,960 Speaker 1: archie bunker character that was kind of a mixture of 80 00:05:14,040 --> 00:05:16,760 Speaker 1: everybody that I kind of knew, all these old farmers 81 00:05:17,480 --> 00:05:21,080 Speaker 1: that bitched about everything when I was a kid. Then 82 00:05:21,120 --> 00:05:24,680 Speaker 1: I went to college and Georgia, and I my roommate 83 00:05:24,839 --> 00:05:28,240 Speaker 1: was from Beaumont, Texas. My other one was from Dalton, Georgia. 84 00:05:28,360 --> 00:05:31,120 Speaker 1: So I kind of mixed that in there. So it 85 00:05:31,200 --> 00:05:35,440 Speaker 1: was kind of like a southern archie bunker. But I'll 86 00:05:35,440 --> 00:05:39,599 Speaker 1: tell you but I'm me personally. I like people and 87 00:05:39,640 --> 00:05:41,360 Speaker 1: I want, you know, I like to be liked, and 88 00:05:41,400 --> 00:05:44,200 Speaker 1: I'm a nice guy, so I and I think I am. 89 00:05:44,279 --> 00:05:49,680 Speaker 1: So I I wanted the character to be funny and shocking, 90 00:05:49,760 --> 00:05:52,599 Speaker 1: but I want him to be likable. Like I wanted 91 00:05:52,640 --> 00:05:54,680 Speaker 1: people to go, I can't believe he would say that, 92 00:05:54,760 --> 00:05:57,880 Speaker 1: and then somebody else go, ah, you just edges Larry 93 00:05:57,920 --> 00:06:01,240 Speaker 1: the cable guy. Any don't mean nothing can. For most people, 94 00:06:01,720 --> 00:06:04,080 Speaker 1: that's what it was, and then for other people that 95 00:06:04,160 --> 00:06:07,400 Speaker 1: took away too serious. Of course it was something else, 96 00:06:07,480 --> 00:06:11,359 Speaker 1: but that's what the whole character on the radio was 97 00:06:11,440 --> 00:06:15,159 Speaker 1: intended to be. And a real funny story about that. 98 00:06:15,880 --> 00:06:19,920 Speaker 1: With all my commentaries, I did social commentaries, and what 99 00:06:19,960 --> 00:06:22,040 Speaker 1: I did was I signed off with get or done. 100 00:06:22,080 --> 00:06:25,200 Speaker 1: And I remember the first time I ever heard somebody 101 00:06:25,200 --> 00:06:28,000 Speaker 1: else say that. I was at Peaches Records and Tapes 102 00:06:28,040 --> 00:06:31,039 Speaker 1: in Orlando, Florida, and I was in the store and 103 00:06:31,120 --> 00:06:33,400 Speaker 1: some guy was walking out and he sealed back and 104 00:06:33,440 --> 00:06:35,839 Speaker 1: the guy working and I'll see you tomorrow. Getor done? 105 00:06:36,760 --> 00:06:39,279 Speaker 1: And the guy says getor done back and I said, 106 00:06:39,279 --> 00:06:41,200 Speaker 1: and the guy said, get or done? Would you hear 107 00:06:41,240 --> 00:06:44,040 Speaker 1: that at And he literally goes at his guy on 108 00:06:44,120 --> 00:06:47,560 Speaker 1: the radio here the rock station says, get or done, 109 00:06:47,640 --> 00:06:50,440 Speaker 1: Larry the cable guy. It's funny as hell. And I go, 110 00:06:50,600 --> 00:06:53,760 Speaker 1: that's me. And he looked at me. He goes, yeah, 111 00:06:54,080 --> 00:06:56,280 Speaker 1: shut up. I go, no, that's me. I'm Larry the 112 00:06:56,320 --> 00:06:58,560 Speaker 1: cable Guy. He goes, get out of here. I said, 113 00:06:58,560 --> 00:07:00,640 Speaker 1: I'm not lying. He said, let me hear you say 114 00:07:00,680 --> 00:07:03,880 Speaker 1: get or done. I went get He goes, that's not 115 00:07:03,920 --> 00:07:08,000 Speaker 1: even close. I don't like what the heck. I went 116 00:07:08,040 --> 00:07:10,240 Speaker 1: and got it right away. I went got it copyrighted 117 00:07:10,280 --> 00:07:12,760 Speaker 1: and started selling shirts and all that kind of stuff. 118 00:07:12,800 --> 00:07:15,760 Speaker 1: It was all theater of the mind. Yeah, no, it 119 00:07:16,040 --> 00:07:20,240 Speaker 1: is though, because you all of that makes sense. But 120 00:07:20,360 --> 00:07:26,239 Speaker 1: I think the decision for you to become him in public, 121 00:07:26,320 --> 00:07:28,360 Speaker 1: I mean, here, here, here's here's an example. This is 122 00:07:28,400 --> 00:07:31,040 Speaker 1: what I mean. I mean, you are Dan, but like 123 00:07:31,440 --> 00:07:35,760 Speaker 1: when we're in Lake Tahoe, we're playing golf, we're on television, 124 00:07:36,720 --> 00:07:41,040 Speaker 1: you are identified by announcers not as Dan but as 125 00:07:41,520 --> 00:07:44,200 Speaker 1: Larry the Cable Guy. But when did you make the 126 00:07:44,280 --> 00:07:50,200 Speaker 1: decision to make yourself like synonymous with this theater of 127 00:07:50,240 --> 00:07:52,600 Speaker 1: the absurd that you were doing. Well, well, you know 128 00:07:52,640 --> 00:07:56,080 Speaker 1: what it started. It was all by accident, honestly. I mean, 129 00:07:56,120 --> 00:07:58,280 Speaker 1: you're a when you're a comedian, you're out there doing 130 00:07:58,400 --> 00:08:01,120 Speaker 1: stand up. You just want to be able to sell 131 00:08:01,160 --> 00:08:03,320 Speaker 1: tickets and make some money and make a good living 132 00:08:03,360 --> 00:08:07,000 Speaker 1: of doing something that you love. And it all happened 133 00:08:07,000 --> 00:08:09,200 Speaker 1: by accident. I never meant to do it on stage. 134 00:08:09,200 --> 00:08:12,400 Speaker 1: It was completely separate. It was something that was fun 135 00:08:12,480 --> 00:08:14,680 Speaker 1: for me to do. Is an escape that was fun 136 00:08:14,680 --> 00:08:18,960 Speaker 1: to write for, But my act was completely different. Uh. 137 00:08:19,040 --> 00:08:21,320 Speaker 1: When Larry the Cable Guy did stuff, it was all 138 00:08:21,480 --> 00:08:25,200 Speaker 1: commentaries and social commentaries. And I learned from the Howard Stern. 139 00:08:25,480 --> 00:08:28,640 Speaker 1: First of all, you have to be funny. Second of all, 140 00:08:28,680 --> 00:08:31,760 Speaker 1: you have to say something that's a little shocking so 141 00:08:31,800 --> 00:08:34,400 Speaker 1: that people go, did you hear what he just said? 142 00:08:35,040 --> 00:08:37,800 Speaker 1: And it becomes popular because people that like you are 143 00:08:37,880 --> 00:08:39,520 Speaker 1: tuned in because they want to hear what you're gonna 144 00:08:39,559 --> 00:08:42,720 Speaker 1: say next, and people that don't like you are tuning 145 00:08:42,760 --> 00:08:44,839 Speaker 1: in because they want to hear what you're gonna say next, 146 00:08:45,640 --> 00:08:48,280 Speaker 1: you know, So I wanted to have something in where 147 00:08:48,280 --> 00:08:51,800 Speaker 1: people would go, you know what, Uh, there's a small 148 00:08:51,840 --> 00:08:55,440 Speaker 1: percentage of truth and what he says, but he doesn't 149 00:08:55,480 --> 00:08:58,559 Speaker 1: say it correctly, says it the way that it's It's 150 00:08:58,600 --> 00:09:01,600 Speaker 1: it's kind of like how he equated with I remember 151 00:09:01,640 --> 00:09:04,439 Speaker 1: one time a guy came up to me and can 152 00:09:04,480 --> 00:09:09,280 Speaker 1: I is there? Do I need to bleep myself? You don't, Okay, 153 00:09:09,280 --> 00:09:15,120 Speaker 1: I'm being there. I haven't, but but I'm being completely 154 00:09:15,120 --> 00:09:17,200 Speaker 1: honest with when I say this. This is kind of 155 00:09:17,280 --> 00:09:21,640 Speaker 1: like people mean well, and people say things and they 156 00:09:21,640 --> 00:09:23,560 Speaker 1: have a little bit of truth and what they're saying 157 00:09:23,960 --> 00:09:26,960 Speaker 1: their way off base on other things, but they say 158 00:09:27,040 --> 00:09:29,800 Speaker 1: things so funny. It's it's just like you gotta like 159 00:09:29,920 --> 00:09:31,760 Speaker 1: the guy. And I remember one time I did a 160 00:09:31,760 --> 00:09:35,319 Speaker 1: commentary as Larry the cable By about keeping prayer in 161 00:09:35,400 --> 00:09:38,679 Speaker 1: the public school, and so I would write it how 162 00:09:38,720 --> 00:09:42,200 Speaker 1: if I were just writing just a serious commentary. To 163 00:09:42,320 --> 00:09:45,360 Speaker 1: where the commentary started out is the men there's could 164 00:09:45,360 --> 00:09:47,440 Speaker 1: be an op ed And next thing you know, there's 165 00:09:47,640 --> 00:09:49,880 Speaker 1: two percent of it's an op ed and ninety eight 166 00:09:49,920 --> 00:09:53,280 Speaker 1: percent of it is titty's farts, drinking beer that kind 167 00:09:53,280 --> 00:09:56,600 Speaker 1: of thing, right. But the guy that comes up to me, 168 00:09:56,800 --> 00:09:59,439 Speaker 1: and when I say people meanwhile, but they say things 169 00:09:59,720 --> 00:10:02,520 Speaker 1: just so like what do you The guy comes out 170 00:10:02,559 --> 00:10:04,120 Speaker 1: and goes, hey, Larry can I talked to you for 171 00:10:04,160 --> 00:10:06,640 Speaker 1: a minute. He was a construction worker done in Orlando. 172 00:10:07,200 --> 00:10:09,760 Speaker 1: I said, yeah, what's up, buddy, Hey, listen, I know 173 00:10:09,880 --> 00:10:11,880 Speaker 1: you've gotta be funny on the area with oh you're 174 00:10:11,960 --> 00:10:14,320 Speaker 1: tad jokes, you've verge and all that kind of stuff. 175 00:10:14,320 --> 00:10:16,760 Speaker 1: But that thing you did today about keeping prayer in 176 00:10:16,760 --> 00:10:20,120 Speaker 1: the public school, your goddamn right, we need prayer and 177 00:10:20,160 --> 00:10:22,440 Speaker 1: damn school. And he fucking teach you got away from 178 00:10:22,480 --> 00:10:24,680 Speaker 1: the fucking mad and the guy you know, and he's 179 00:10:24,760 --> 00:10:28,480 Speaker 1: literally f this, g D that, f that. But his 180 00:10:28,679 --> 00:10:32,680 Speaker 1: main and his main gripe is they've taken prayer out 181 00:10:32,679 --> 00:10:37,480 Speaker 1: of this. So he means well, but he's saying it 182 00:10:37,640 --> 00:10:41,400 Speaker 1: completely the wrong way, you know. So that's kind of 183 00:10:41,400 --> 00:10:45,240 Speaker 1: like how it developed. And so uh, back to the 184 00:10:45,280 --> 00:10:49,480 Speaker 1: story about how it became part of my whole deal is, 185 00:10:50,000 --> 00:10:52,880 Speaker 1: at one night at a comedy club, my buddy Less McCurdy, 186 00:10:52,920 --> 00:10:57,120 Speaker 1: who owns mccurty's Comedy Club in sarah Sota wanted to 187 00:10:57,160 --> 00:11:01,200 Speaker 1: sell some tickets, and he builled me as Dan Wittney, 188 00:11:01,400 --> 00:11:04,920 Speaker 1: a k a. Larry the Cable Guy. And it was 189 00:11:04,960 --> 00:11:08,840 Speaker 1: a little irritated because I tried to separate the two because, 190 00:11:08,960 --> 00:11:14,120 Speaker 1: like I said, Larry was all comic, ridiculous political stuff. 191 00:11:14,920 --> 00:11:17,079 Speaker 1: I was all one liners. I'm a fan of the 192 00:11:17,120 --> 00:11:20,840 Speaker 1: old time comic, just doing this and that and Pratt falls. 193 00:11:20,960 --> 00:11:24,000 Speaker 1: And it was a funny act, you know. Dan Herera 194 00:11:24,080 --> 00:11:27,520 Speaker 1: always said I had the funniest first twelve minutes in 195 00:11:27,640 --> 00:11:32,040 Speaker 1: comedy and then after that nothing, you know, because I 196 00:11:32,760 --> 00:11:35,400 Speaker 1: because I literally I literally went through like eighty five 197 00:11:35,480 --> 00:11:40,280 Speaker 1: punch lines twelve minutes, and so I he builled me 198 00:11:40,360 --> 00:11:43,280 Speaker 1: as day waiting ak Larry the Cable I went on 199 00:11:43,360 --> 00:11:46,680 Speaker 1: stage and it sold out two shows in twenty minutes. 200 00:11:46,800 --> 00:11:48,920 Speaker 1: And then when I saw that he build me like that, 201 00:11:49,120 --> 00:11:51,600 Speaker 1: it was kind of I didn't really have a stage 202 00:11:51,640 --> 00:11:54,080 Speaker 1: act for it, and it was a little like what 203 00:11:54,120 --> 00:11:56,360 Speaker 1: am I going to do now, you know? So I 204 00:11:56,400 --> 00:11:58,280 Speaker 1: went up and I did my own act and they're 205 00:11:58,360 --> 00:12:01,319 Speaker 1: yelling stuff out. You know, when your Larry, you get it. 206 00:12:01,760 --> 00:12:05,160 Speaker 1: So I dropped down into the character and just killed it. 207 00:12:05,880 --> 00:12:07,800 Speaker 1: And so he came up and and said, man, have 208 00:12:07,880 --> 00:12:10,280 Speaker 1: you ever thought about doing your whole show like Larry 209 00:12:10,320 --> 00:12:13,120 Speaker 1: the Cable Guy. So he took my name off, and 210 00:12:13,360 --> 00:12:15,960 Speaker 1: the second show I was build as Larry the Cable Guy. 211 00:12:16,000 --> 00:12:18,439 Speaker 1: And I went up and I basically took my act 212 00:12:19,040 --> 00:12:23,320 Speaker 1: and I slowed it down, had different timing, and then 213 00:12:23,360 --> 00:12:26,160 Speaker 1: I added stuff from the radio station. And I was 214 00:12:26,240 --> 00:12:29,400 Speaker 1: doing the Larry the Cable Guy stuff in Wallah. And 215 00:12:29,440 --> 00:12:31,760 Speaker 1: so my next step was just to go tell radio 216 00:12:31,840 --> 00:12:34,600 Speaker 1: stations this is what I'm doing, and I can do 217 00:12:34,640 --> 00:12:36,880 Speaker 1: it for you. I'll do a commentary for you and 218 00:12:36,920 --> 00:12:39,240 Speaker 1: it'll get popular. And the only thing I asked for 219 00:12:39,320 --> 00:12:43,439 Speaker 1: pay is just promote my show when I come to town. 220 00:12:43,920 --> 00:12:46,880 Speaker 1: So I ended up getting about twenty seven radio stations, 221 00:12:46,920 --> 00:12:50,400 Speaker 1: and I called radio stations every morning, five days a 222 00:12:50,440 --> 00:12:54,720 Speaker 1: week for thirteen years. Yeah, and it finally paid off. 223 00:12:55,080 --> 00:12:58,680 Speaker 1: So I mean, that's that's basically how I built my following. 224 00:12:58,720 --> 00:13:01,120 Speaker 1: And I could do I could do Larry the Cable 225 00:13:01,160 --> 00:13:04,160 Speaker 1: Guy because I knew him better than anybody else. I 226 00:13:04,320 --> 00:13:07,600 Speaker 1: sometimes people ask me about is it weird when you 227 00:13:07,679 --> 00:13:09,840 Speaker 1: do stuff like you know that you were talking about 228 00:13:09,840 --> 00:13:12,760 Speaker 1: the golf tournament. No, I don't. I don't find it 229 00:13:12,760 --> 00:13:16,560 Speaker 1: where that strange because people know me as Larry the 230 00:13:16,600 --> 00:13:20,280 Speaker 1: Cable Guy. They know it's a character. But Larry the 231 00:13:20,320 --> 00:13:23,079 Speaker 1: Cable Guy is just a drawing name to get them 232 00:13:23,080 --> 00:13:25,600 Speaker 1: at the tournament, to sell some tickets. And you know, 233 00:13:25,760 --> 00:13:28,080 Speaker 1: and and the best part about it it allows me 234 00:13:28,200 --> 00:13:30,600 Speaker 1: if I want to to go up with no sleeves 235 00:13:30,600 --> 00:13:33,200 Speaker 1: on and be comfortable and just play it up and 236 00:13:33,559 --> 00:13:36,720 Speaker 1: have a good time with the crowd. And I'll be honest, 237 00:13:36,880 --> 00:13:40,520 Speaker 1: I enjoy it. People enjoy it. You know. It's it's 238 00:13:40,640 --> 00:13:42,800 Speaker 1: uh if I'm talking too much, Briban, let me know, 239 00:13:42,840 --> 00:13:47,280 Speaker 1: because you have God one word talking if it's anything 240 00:13:47,440 --> 00:13:51,920 Speaker 1: about me. Um. I think that when I was, when 241 00:13:51,920 --> 00:13:55,360 Speaker 1: I wasn't married and didn't have kids, comedy was a 242 00:13:55,360 --> 00:13:57,960 Speaker 1: whole different thing than you just did. Stay up. You 243 00:13:57,960 --> 00:14:01,720 Speaker 1: wanted to make people laugh. Nothing was off limits. I 244 00:14:01,720 --> 00:14:03,920 Speaker 1: didn't have any kids. I didn't I get it. Cared 245 00:14:04,040 --> 00:14:06,679 Speaker 1: less about that I didn't have you know, you know 246 00:14:06,720 --> 00:14:09,120 Speaker 1: how it is you're a ten year old guy. And 247 00:14:09,160 --> 00:14:13,520 Speaker 1: then I got married, and then I had kids, and 248 00:14:13,559 --> 00:14:17,240 Speaker 1: then my act started changing because I had a heart change. 249 00:14:17,240 --> 00:14:20,680 Speaker 1: On a lot of jokes that just I didn't need 250 00:14:20,840 --> 00:14:24,240 Speaker 1: anyway kept the larry of the cable guy. What what 251 00:14:24,400 --> 00:14:28,120 Speaker 1: it's about, you know, it's about pushing buttons. It's about 252 00:14:28,200 --> 00:14:32,000 Speaker 1: this guy that's just had it with this political correct, 253 00:14:32,280 --> 00:14:35,960 Speaker 1: anti American world. And but I don't. I'm not as 254 00:14:36,080 --> 00:14:38,280 Speaker 1: harsh as I once was. And that's just because I'm 255 00:14:38,320 --> 00:14:41,960 Speaker 1: a better comedian. I have kids, and I'm sensitive to 256 00:14:42,080 --> 00:14:44,920 Speaker 1: things about what how people would feel if I did 257 00:14:44,960 --> 00:14:49,240 Speaker 1: a certain deal. Um, So that's that's how my act 258 00:14:49,280 --> 00:14:52,760 Speaker 1: has kind of changed. But there's still a ton of differences. 259 00:14:52,840 --> 00:14:56,320 Speaker 1: I'm not I'm not a white trash guy. I'm not like, 260 00:14:56,920 --> 00:14:59,640 Speaker 1: I'm not a PARTI er, I'm not a drinker, I'm 261 00:14:59,680 --> 00:15:01,640 Speaker 1: not a well, you know, I don't do any of that. 262 00:15:02,240 --> 00:15:07,280 Speaker 1: So I have just enough trailer jokes that I'm not associated. Right, 263 00:15:08,280 --> 00:15:10,600 Speaker 1: what's fascinating to me because you brought up all in 264 00:15:10,640 --> 00:15:14,840 Speaker 1: the family, right, and so I mean that character, I 265 00:15:14,840 --> 00:15:17,920 Speaker 1: mean potentially one of the greatest comedy characters in the 266 00:15:17,960 --> 00:15:23,280 Speaker 1: history of television. If Carol O'Connor had begun to associate 267 00:15:23,360 --> 00:15:27,320 Speaker 1: himself as Archie Bunker, I mean, he may have gotten 268 00:15:27,400 --> 00:15:29,320 Speaker 1: killed right, like out on the street. I mean there 269 00:15:29,320 --> 00:15:31,640 Speaker 1: were things that he said in that show that you 270 00:15:31,800 --> 00:15:34,960 Speaker 1: just you truly can't say, you can't say and want 271 00:15:34,960 --> 00:15:38,440 Speaker 1: to service on the streets. And I think that that 272 00:15:38,480 --> 00:15:41,160 Speaker 1: what you bring up right there is such an interesting 273 00:15:41,200 --> 00:15:46,600 Speaker 1: point because you began to adopt that as you you 274 00:15:46,680 --> 00:15:50,840 Speaker 1: began to become, at least publicly that character. As you 275 00:15:50,960 --> 00:15:53,400 Speaker 1: matured and as you grew up and as you had kids, 276 00:15:54,000 --> 00:15:59,200 Speaker 1: you began to realize like, okay, that's me, but it's 277 00:15:59,240 --> 00:16:03,480 Speaker 1: also not. And and that that he talking about him 278 00:16:03,480 --> 00:16:08,160 Speaker 1: in the third person. Larry began to soften as Dan's 279 00:16:08,280 --> 00:16:12,160 Speaker 1: life changed and new things happened. I think that's I 280 00:16:12,160 --> 00:16:16,080 Speaker 1: think that's really interesting. Yeah, well, you know, I I 281 00:16:16,400 --> 00:16:19,000 Speaker 1: can write anything for the character and do the character. 282 00:16:19,560 --> 00:16:22,320 Speaker 1: It's just that my writing is different. I I don't 283 00:16:22,320 --> 00:16:24,480 Speaker 1: want to write that for the character anymore. I don't 284 00:16:24,520 --> 00:16:26,960 Speaker 1: want to write that, but all write this. Yeah, it's 285 00:16:26,960 --> 00:16:30,080 Speaker 1: a definite it's a definite separation. But people say he's 286 00:16:30,160 --> 00:16:32,440 Speaker 1: later the cable guy all the time, twenty four hours 287 00:16:32,480 --> 00:16:35,680 Speaker 1: a day. No, I'm not. When I come home, I'm not, 288 00:16:36,040 --> 00:16:38,760 Speaker 1: the only thing is it's when most people see me, 289 00:16:39,480 --> 00:16:42,360 Speaker 1: they've asked me to come be Larry the Cable Guy. 290 00:16:42,880 --> 00:16:46,520 Speaker 1: But Dan Witten is not selling any tickets, you know. 291 00:16:46,920 --> 00:16:49,160 Speaker 1: So when people say he's always literally the Cable Guy, 292 00:16:49,200 --> 00:16:52,680 Speaker 1: he's become the character, that's not true. The only time 293 00:16:52,720 --> 00:16:55,840 Speaker 1: that I'm Larry the Cable Guy is when I am 294 00:16:55,920 --> 00:16:59,119 Speaker 1: doing something and I'm paid to be Larry the Cable Guy. 295 00:16:59,440 --> 00:17:01,800 Speaker 1: That's pretty much yet, and I will say this, Bryan. 296 00:17:02,160 --> 00:17:04,920 Speaker 1: The only one thing that I do kind of regret 297 00:17:05,920 --> 00:17:10,040 Speaker 1: is when I did all my Pixar Disney stuff, it's 298 00:17:10,080 --> 00:17:12,840 Speaker 1: all Larry the Cable Guy. And before I did all 299 00:17:12,880 --> 00:17:17,639 Speaker 1: those I said that I wanted to be Dan Whitney. 300 00:17:17,720 --> 00:17:21,840 Speaker 1: So but that's all part of the fault of my 301 00:17:22,040 --> 00:17:27,280 Speaker 1: agent at the time, who said no, because it was 302 00:17:27,320 --> 00:17:30,919 Speaker 1: basically sold me. You're a brand, you have merchandise, you 303 00:17:30,960 --> 00:17:35,879 Speaker 1: have a foundation, it's a brand. So everything goes under 304 00:17:36,240 --> 00:17:39,040 Speaker 1: Larry the Cable Guy. But if I had anything to 305 00:17:39,119 --> 00:17:42,639 Speaker 1: do different, I would have done my voiceovers as Dan Witt. 306 00:17:43,760 --> 00:17:47,639 Speaker 1: I think the best compliment I ever got was John Lasseter. 307 00:17:48,119 --> 00:17:51,879 Speaker 1: He says, you know, I love hanging out with Larry 308 00:17:51,880 --> 00:17:54,960 Speaker 1: the Cable Guy, but I like hanging out with Dan 309 00:17:55,080 --> 00:17:58,960 Speaker 1: a lot better. And he goes, when I look at 310 00:17:59,240 --> 00:18:04,560 Speaker 1: made her made her talks like Larry the Cable Guy, 311 00:18:04,640 --> 00:18:09,200 Speaker 1: but made her acts like my friend Dan. Yeah, because 312 00:18:09,359 --> 00:18:12,159 Speaker 1: in real life I'm more like made Her than I 313 00:18:12,200 --> 00:18:15,360 Speaker 1: am Larry the Cable Guy. Absolutely, and I can attest 314 00:18:15,359 --> 00:18:18,720 Speaker 1: to that for anybody listening. And I you know, there's 315 00:18:18,840 --> 00:18:23,000 Speaker 1: nothing it's so cool, you know. I just recently animated 316 00:18:23,080 --> 00:18:27,119 Speaker 1: a big old bear named Walter for this this new show, 317 00:18:27,200 --> 00:18:31,640 Speaker 1: trash Truck. And there's kind of nothing like being out 318 00:18:31,720 --> 00:18:36,359 Speaker 1: in public and being approached by a child about that work. 319 00:18:36,440 --> 00:18:41,000 Speaker 1: And obviously Cars transcends this television show completely. And when 320 00:18:41,040 --> 00:18:44,199 Speaker 1: I've watched you, I'm not gonna say you're performing. It's like, 321 00:18:44,440 --> 00:18:48,120 Speaker 1: but you're loud, you're fun, you're we're all having a party. 322 00:18:48,600 --> 00:18:50,800 Speaker 1: And then a kid comes up to you and I 323 00:18:50,840 --> 00:18:54,639 Speaker 1: see your eyes change and you may do the voice 324 00:18:55,040 --> 00:18:57,280 Speaker 1: for him, which doesn't sound like you said all that 325 00:18:57,320 --> 00:19:00,359 Speaker 1: different from Larry the Cable Guy, but I see you 326 00:19:00,880 --> 00:19:05,800 Speaker 1: quite different in those moments for sure. Oh absolutely, And 327 00:19:06,119 --> 00:19:08,560 Speaker 1: I'll tell you I love that. I mean, that's why, 328 00:19:08,680 --> 00:19:11,440 Speaker 1: I mean, that's the cool thing about when I got 329 00:19:11,440 --> 00:19:13,919 Speaker 1: to do Made and Cars, because it allows me to 330 00:19:13,960 --> 00:19:16,639 Speaker 1: be me and still do the do the voice. But 331 00:19:16,720 --> 00:19:20,320 Speaker 1: the kids love it, and and I love being able 332 00:19:20,359 --> 00:19:23,440 Speaker 1: to make them smile and laugh, and that's what it's 333 00:19:23,440 --> 00:19:26,399 Speaker 1: all about. I mean, that's man so much fun to 334 00:19:26,480 --> 00:19:30,359 Speaker 1: be able to bring joy to those kids. And absolutely 335 00:19:30,480 --> 00:19:34,000 Speaker 1: it's uh, I'm definitely more of a major attitude than 336 00:19:34,040 --> 00:19:38,000 Speaker 1: a cable guy atitude. Absolutely, absolutely, you know what. I know, 337 00:19:38,080 --> 00:19:40,159 Speaker 1: it gets confusing because you asked me, should I call 338 00:19:40,200 --> 00:19:43,080 Speaker 1: you Dan or Larry? I know it gets confusing for people. 339 00:19:43,080 --> 00:19:46,280 Speaker 1: When I did my movies, people just called me l D. 340 00:19:46,640 --> 00:19:50,800 Speaker 1: They called me Larry Dan, l D my name l D. Well, 341 00:19:50,840 --> 00:19:53,840 Speaker 1: look I understand, and I you know, I think even 342 00:19:53,880 --> 00:19:57,280 Speaker 1: when we're at those things together, you know, I'll say 343 00:19:57,320 --> 00:20:00,040 Speaker 1: good shot Dan in a quiet voice or whatever, and 344 00:20:00,160 --> 00:20:04,560 Speaker 1: I understand the persona that people are expecting that from you. 345 00:20:04,680 --> 00:20:06,439 Speaker 1: And so for me, it's it was more when I 346 00:20:06,480 --> 00:20:08,840 Speaker 1: asked you, the question was more like, well, I don't 347 00:20:08,840 --> 00:20:13,240 Speaker 1: want to shatter people's dreams or like, I don't I 348 00:20:13,240 --> 00:20:16,800 Speaker 1: don't want like he is that, yes, but he's also 349 00:20:17,640 --> 00:20:22,440 Speaker 1: way way more than that. So yeah, I know it's 350 00:20:22,520 --> 00:20:25,040 Speaker 1: funny that you say that because I think by now 351 00:20:25,200 --> 00:20:27,840 Speaker 1: I've been down there for so long. I think by 352 00:20:27,920 --> 00:20:31,159 Speaker 1: now people know you know, I mean I do have 353 00:20:31,280 --> 00:20:34,080 Speaker 1: a hint. I do have a hint of the twins 354 00:20:34,119 --> 00:20:37,119 Speaker 1: of a Southern accent when I talked normal because I 355 00:20:37,160 --> 00:20:39,520 Speaker 1: lived in Florida most of my life. So I picked 356 00:20:39,600 --> 00:20:42,639 Speaker 1: it up. You know, my wife said, my buddy Brad 357 00:20:42,680 --> 00:20:44,679 Speaker 1: called me the other day, and my talk to Brad 358 00:20:44,760 --> 00:20:47,000 Speaker 1: for about twenty minutes, and my wife goes, you know, 359 00:20:47,040 --> 00:20:48,800 Speaker 1: you were sending like Larry the cable guy the whole 360 00:20:48,840 --> 00:20:50,800 Speaker 1: time you're off the phone, and I'm like going up 361 00:20:50,880 --> 00:20:53,399 Speaker 1: because they're brad Man. He talks like, I do you 362 00:20:53,440 --> 00:20:56,080 Speaker 1: know I I have a chameleon. I just picked it up, 363 00:21:14,720 --> 00:21:17,240 Speaker 1: by the way. You know, I didn't mean to to 364 00:21:17,720 --> 00:21:19,160 Speaker 1: do this to you, because I know what a big 365 00:21:19,160 --> 00:21:21,440 Speaker 1: fan of Nebraska you are. And I say, I didn't 366 00:21:21,480 --> 00:21:23,359 Speaker 1: mean to do it, but then, but then I didn't 367 00:21:23,400 --> 00:21:26,719 Speaker 1: change my clothes. I'm wearing here the University of Georgia 368 00:21:26,760 --> 00:21:31,480 Speaker 1: Bulldogs golf sweater. Here I myself, I'm I'm from Georgia, 369 00:21:31,720 --> 00:21:35,080 Speaker 1: and uh, you work to pick it up. I spent 370 00:21:35,359 --> 00:21:37,760 Speaker 1: I spent the first eighteen to twenty years of my 371 00:21:37,800 --> 00:21:42,199 Speaker 1: life trying to get rid of that. It was like 372 00:21:43,200 --> 00:21:46,560 Speaker 1: it didn't work so well for Ibsen and check Off 373 00:21:46,920 --> 00:21:51,159 Speaker 1: and Shakespeare when I started doing plays. But no, but 374 00:21:51,280 --> 00:21:53,640 Speaker 1: sure enough when I go home, you know my my, 375 00:21:53,640 --> 00:21:56,960 Speaker 1: my mom's from Florida and my you know I'm from Georgia. 376 00:21:57,080 --> 00:22:00,080 Speaker 1: You know, it just it comes out right away, absolutely know. 377 00:22:00,160 --> 00:22:03,600 Speaker 1: I tell everybody I go, I defy you. I defy 378 00:22:03,720 --> 00:22:07,560 Speaker 1: you to move to Sanford, Florida and not come out 379 00:22:07,600 --> 00:22:11,359 Speaker 1: talking with some kind of a Southern twins after six months, 380 00:22:11,760 --> 00:22:13,840 Speaker 1: because you just I mean, it's one of those It's 381 00:22:13,880 --> 00:22:17,159 Speaker 1: just a fun, lazy way to talk and you just 382 00:22:17,280 --> 00:22:21,800 Speaker 1: pick it up. It happens to everybody. Um, But you're 383 00:22:21,840 --> 00:22:24,320 Speaker 1: not offending me, by the way. With Georgia Bulldogs a 384 00:22:24,480 --> 00:22:28,120 Speaker 1: fox Worthy, of course, I uh, he roots for Georgia. 385 00:22:28,240 --> 00:22:31,080 Speaker 1: So I rooted Georgia because of Jeff and we filmed 386 00:22:31,080 --> 00:22:33,840 Speaker 1: Blue Collar TV and Athens, so I got a lot 387 00:22:33,880 --> 00:22:36,800 Speaker 1: of good friends in Georgia. So I you ain't offending 388 00:22:36,840 --> 00:22:39,320 Speaker 1: me with that. There you go. I want to go 389 00:22:39,359 --> 00:22:41,760 Speaker 1: back just a little bit. You touched on it briefly 390 00:22:41,840 --> 00:22:45,679 Speaker 1: before you grew up your pig farmer in Nebraska. As 391 00:22:45,680 --> 00:22:48,399 Speaker 1: you said, you eventually moved to Florida. Your father was 392 00:22:48,640 --> 00:22:52,200 Speaker 1: a Christian minister and a school principle. Yeah, he did 393 00:22:52,240 --> 00:22:55,119 Speaker 1: a lot of When was the moment that you decided 394 00:22:55,440 --> 00:22:58,320 Speaker 1: you wanted to get into the comedy or at least 395 00:22:58,359 --> 00:23:01,640 Speaker 1: into entertainment or or being actor. How was that taken 396 00:23:01,960 --> 00:23:04,600 Speaker 1: by your family? Well, you know, I was just I 397 00:23:04,680 --> 00:23:08,119 Speaker 1: was always funny. My brother was hilarious. And my brother 398 00:23:08,200 --> 00:23:11,840 Speaker 1: used to write to comedy one act westerns and he 399 00:23:12,000 --> 00:23:15,040 Speaker 1: started both of them as the old prospector. My brother's 400 00:23:15,080 --> 00:23:17,680 Speaker 1: way funny, and I ever think could be. And I mean, 401 00:23:18,040 --> 00:23:21,800 Speaker 1: I'll never forget laughing so many times. And my brother 402 00:23:21,840 --> 00:23:26,119 Speaker 1: and my sister's funny. My mom's doesn't know she is, 403 00:23:26,200 --> 00:23:30,360 Speaker 1: but she's goofy funny. And my dad, my dad, when 404 00:23:30,400 --> 00:23:32,639 Speaker 1: he wanted to be funny, was funny. But he was. 405 00:23:33,000 --> 00:23:35,080 Speaker 1: He was gone all the time. He did so many things. 406 00:23:35,320 --> 00:23:37,560 Speaker 1: You know. He was a guidance counselor at the school 407 00:23:38,000 --> 00:23:40,080 Speaker 1: five days a week, and then he preached the two 408 00:23:40,160 --> 00:23:42,320 Speaker 1: churches on a Sunday, and then he had a band 409 00:23:42,400 --> 00:23:46,160 Speaker 1: of country, rhythm and blues band that he would play 410 00:23:46,200 --> 00:23:49,480 Speaker 1: in on the weekends. And and you know, it was 411 00:23:49,520 --> 00:23:51,720 Speaker 1: just crazy. I mean I grew up. It was a 412 00:23:51,760 --> 00:23:55,719 Speaker 1: crazy life growing up. Um. I remember being at some 413 00:23:55,800 --> 00:23:59,560 Speaker 1: of my dad's at the VFW hall, you know, playing 414 00:23:59,600 --> 00:24:03,040 Speaker 1: in the bed and there's one of the deacons sitting 415 00:24:03,040 --> 00:24:06,040 Speaker 1: there half torque welcome, I preach, you can you play 416 00:24:06,080 --> 00:24:11,720 Speaker 1: amazing Grace? You'd play that on his nineteen fifty three 417 00:24:11,800 --> 00:24:14,840 Speaker 1: Fender Telecaster, which is an awesome guitar. But you know, 418 00:24:15,640 --> 00:24:18,280 Speaker 1: I just I grew up pretty wild like that. That 419 00:24:18,440 --> 00:24:20,360 Speaker 1: was just a good crap. But I loved it. I 420 00:24:20,440 --> 00:24:23,920 Speaker 1: loved my childhood and but as far as the comedy goes, 421 00:24:24,000 --> 00:24:27,240 Speaker 1: I was just always funny, you know. Uh. I liked 422 00:24:27,280 --> 00:24:30,040 Speaker 1: the one liners because you know, sometimes my dad would 423 00:24:30,040 --> 00:24:32,400 Speaker 1: get mad. He had a temper on him. So whenever 424 00:24:32,680 --> 00:24:35,800 Speaker 1: tempers would flare at the house, I'd be the guy 425 00:24:35,880 --> 00:24:38,800 Speaker 1: that would find an opening to always lighten the mood up. 426 00:24:38,960 --> 00:24:43,160 Speaker 1: You know. So my timing, I really learned good timing. 427 00:24:43,480 --> 00:24:45,440 Speaker 1: If I was going to be a comedian. Back when 428 00:24:45,440 --> 00:24:49,600 Speaker 1: I was a kid. Um, I decided to be a 429 00:24:49,760 --> 00:24:54,800 Speaker 1: stand up because I played baseball at a at a 430 00:24:54,800 --> 00:24:59,480 Speaker 1: Baptist college in Georgia, and I loved baseball, and so 431 00:24:59,720 --> 00:25:02,840 Speaker 1: I did not want to work while I played baseball. 432 00:25:02,920 --> 00:25:06,120 Speaker 1: So I set out the first half of the year 433 00:25:06,760 --> 00:25:10,600 Speaker 1: and uh, I started bell hopping at a hotel in 434 00:25:10,720 --> 00:25:13,840 Speaker 1: West Palm Beach and I was the van driver and 435 00:25:13,880 --> 00:25:16,520 Speaker 1: I'm cracking jokes, and everybody I always said, you ought 436 00:25:16,520 --> 00:25:18,200 Speaker 1: to be a comedian, You ought to be a comedian, 437 00:25:18,240 --> 00:25:21,879 Speaker 1: You ought to be a comedian. But I, uh, I 438 00:25:21,920 --> 00:25:24,520 Speaker 1: went to college to be a youth pastor and a 439 00:25:24,560 --> 00:25:28,360 Speaker 1: baseball coach, because that's one of the guys I admired 440 00:25:28,400 --> 00:25:32,639 Speaker 1: in my life, was my youth pastor. That then I 441 00:25:32,680 --> 00:25:37,159 Speaker 1: started making money handover foot as a bell hop and 442 00:25:37,240 --> 00:25:41,080 Speaker 1: I went on stage and I just got hooked on comedy. 443 00:25:41,160 --> 00:25:44,160 Speaker 1: I got hooked on that ability to make people laugh 444 00:25:44,280 --> 00:25:47,280 Speaker 1: and control the crowd. And and back then, you know, 445 00:25:47,760 --> 00:25:50,880 Speaker 1: you're pretty much sucked the whole time, but you thought 446 00:25:50,880 --> 00:25:52,879 Speaker 1: you were doing pretty good. You got a couple laughs, 447 00:25:52,880 --> 00:25:55,920 Speaker 1: and you thought you were pretty good. And another thing 448 00:25:56,080 --> 00:25:59,760 Speaker 1: was I was always uh. I was always funny, but 449 00:25:59,840 --> 00:26:01,960 Speaker 1: it took me a while to warm up. I was shy. 450 00:26:02,000 --> 00:26:04,760 Speaker 1: But once I got to know people, then it was 451 00:26:04,880 --> 00:26:07,760 Speaker 1: game on and I would have confidence because I made 452 00:26:07,760 --> 00:26:10,800 Speaker 1: a couple of people laugh. And that's what comedy really 453 00:26:10,840 --> 00:26:15,800 Speaker 1: did for me. It gave me confidence in other things 454 00:26:15,840 --> 00:26:19,760 Speaker 1: that I never had. And I always knew that if 455 00:26:20,080 --> 00:26:24,840 Speaker 1: I wasn't successful at comedy. Everybody wanted to hire somebody 456 00:26:25,000 --> 00:26:28,359 Speaker 1: that was a go getter and good with people, and 457 00:26:28,800 --> 00:26:31,040 Speaker 1: so I always had you know, I always had a 458 00:26:31,040 --> 00:26:33,080 Speaker 1: lot of stuff to fall back on because I I 459 00:26:33,160 --> 00:26:35,440 Speaker 1: knew I could get a job, But man, I fell 460 00:26:35,480 --> 00:26:37,040 Speaker 1: in love with comedy and then was off to the 461 00:26:37,119 --> 00:26:40,679 Speaker 1: races after that. Yeah, but you know, it occurs to me. 462 00:26:40,720 --> 00:26:44,359 Speaker 1: I mean, you talked about it before you found confidence, 463 00:26:44,640 --> 00:26:47,320 Speaker 1: but you were also working her ass off. I mean, 464 00:26:47,440 --> 00:26:53,359 Speaker 1: this idea, I mean, I can't overstate how in a 465 00:26:53,440 --> 00:26:57,400 Speaker 1: way groundbreaking it was and how much work and effort 466 00:26:57,440 --> 00:27:00,720 Speaker 1: that must have taken to call into these video shows 467 00:27:00,800 --> 00:27:06,280 Speaker 1: and to basically say like you were elevating yourself by 468 00:27:06,359 --> 00:27:10,560 Speaker 1: simply offering to do work for people, right, Yeah, yeah, 469 00:27:10,640 --> 00:27:13,919 Speaker 1: the work that you did though, to do that to 470 00:27:14,040 --> 00:27:19,439 Speaker 1: elevate yourself obviously eventually creating a brand new identity for yourself. 471 00:27:19,440 --> 00:27:22,800 Speaker 1: But I mean, that's that's amazing, dude, that that's really 472 00:27:23,000 --> 00:27:26,240 Speaker 1: that's so cool. Yeah, you know, it was awesome, and 473 00:27:26,240 --> 00:27:27,960 Speaker 1: and the time I didn't even think it was going 474 00:27:28,000 --> 00:27:30,800 Speaker 1: to turn into anything. I thought it might turn into something, 475 00:27:30,800 --> 00:27:33,760 Speaker 1: but I didn't know at the time. It was fun, 476 00:27:34,200 --> 00:27:36,800 Speaker 1: it forced me to write something and and not be 477 00:27:36,920 --> 00:27:40,520 Speaker 1: stagnant and not do anything. So but yeah, it was. 478 00:27:41,040 --> 00:27:44,200 Speaker 1: It definitely when I started getting more and more stations, 479 00:27:44,760 --> 00:27:48,680 Speaker 1: When when I started selling out all these clubs, then 480 00:27:48,720 --> 00:27:52,520 Speaker 1: I knew that it was paying off. And I remember 481 00:27:52,560 --> 00:27:55,760 Speaker 1: when I first auditioned for the Blue Color Comedy Tour. 482 00:27:56,560 --> 00:28:01,080 Speaker 1: It was a show in South Carolina, and and that's 483 00:28:01,080 --> 00:28:03,800 Speaker 1: when that's when I realized all this paid off, because 484 00:28:03,840 --> 00:28:06,280 Speaker 1: they had heard me on the radio in South Carolina. 485 00:28:07,080 --> 00:28:11,440 Speaker 1: So I probably sold three thousand tickets on my own 486 00:28:11,640 --> 00:28:15,440 Speaker 1: just to that show. And when I went on stage, 487 00:28:15,600 --> 00:28:19,679 Speaker 1: I mean the applause and they get it done. I 488 00:28:19,720 --> 00:28:22,120 Speaker 1: mean right then, right when they introduced me, I knew 489 00:28:22,160 --> 00:28:26,440 Speaker 1: I had the gig. But all but all of that 490 00:28:26,560 --> 00:28:30,400 Speaker 1: was just an accumulation of all of those years of 491 00:28:30,840 --> 00:28:34,560 Speaker 1: doing that, And so yeah, it was. It was really 492 00:28:34,600 --> 00:28:40,120 Speaker 1: cool to watch it evolved and metastasized into this unbelievable 493 00:28:40,160 --> 00:28:43,040 Speaker 1: thing that was about to happen for me. Yeah, I mean, 494 00:28:43,080 --> 00:28:47,520 Speaker 1: you become so synonymous with a Blue Color Comedy Tour. 495 00:28:47,680 --> 00:28:51,520 Speaker 1: I mistakenly and until just this moment, thought that you 496 00:28:52,280 --> 00:28:55,080 Speaker 1: and Jeff started it, but you you auditioned for it, 497 00:28:55,200 --> 00:28:59,720 Speaker 1: so whose idea was it, whose original creation wasn't well 498 00:28:59,760 --> 00:29:03,760 Speaker 1: it Jeff, obviously Jeff. And I wasn't even here's the 499 00:29:03,960 --> 00:29:07,240 Speaker 1: crazy thing, Brian, I wasn't even an original I'm the 500 00:29:07,360 --> 00:29:10,720 Speaker 1: I'm ringo star of the Blue Collar Comedy Tour. I 501 00:29:10,720 --> 00:29:14,320 Speaker 1: don't know about that. But the original crew was Jeff 502 00:29:14,440 --> 00:29:17,240 Speaker 1: and his opening act were on White and Bill in 503 00:29:17,400 --> 00:29:20,720 Speaker 1: his opening act, who was soon rested his soul. Craig 504 00:29:20,800 --> 00:29:25,200 Speaker 1: Hacksley passed away here not long ago, and I love Craig. Uh. 505 00:29:25,240 --> 00:29:28,280 Speaker 1: He was a great comic. But evidently Craig wasn't really 506 00:29:28,480 --> 00:29:33,320 Speaker 1: as that blue collar, and so they really were looking 507 00:29:33,360 --> 00:29:35,920 Speaker 1: for somebody else's blue car. Now. I had known Jeff 508 00:29:36,400 --> 00:29:41,480 Speaker 1: since ighties six seven. He was a good friend of mine, 509 00:29:41,960 --> 00:29:44,360 Speaker 1: but he had never seen me do the Larry of 510 00:29:44,360 --> 00:29:48,320 Speaker 1: the cable guy thing before, so that's what he wanted 511 00:29:48,320 --> 00:29:50,880 Speaker 1: to see. And it worked out really good because I 512 00:29:50,920 --> 00:29:53,800 Speaker 1: was so different than the other guys, you know, because 513 00:29:53,880 --> 00:29:56,520 Speaker 1: I was just all one liners, set up, punch, set up, punch, 514 00:29:56,560 --> 00:29:59,760 Speaker 1: set up, punch, Uh, not a lot of seguys, just 515 00:30:00,000 --> 00:30:03,840 Speaker 1: topic after topic, which worked really well. At the end 516 00:30:03,880 --> 00:30:06,239 Speaker 1: of our show, when we all sat on stools and 517 00:30:06,280 --> 00:30:10,960 Speaker 1: told stories because Bill would finish a story and so 518 00:30:11,000 --> 00:30:15,400 Speaker 1: we needed something to segue into somebody else's story. So 519 00:30:15,480 --> 00:30:17,760 Speaker 1: when here I come out with boom, boom, boom, three 520 00:30:17,840 --> 00:30:22,120 Speaker 1: or four goofy stupid jokes and then Ron will go, oh, yeah, 521 00:30:22,120 --> 00:30:23,960 Speaker 1: that reminds me I had a deal, you know, and 522 00:30:23,960 --> 00:30:26,800 Speaker 1: then Ron would go So it really worked out good. 523 00:30:26,840 --> 00:30:30,560 Speaker 1: If we needed if we needed something to tie into something, 524 00:30:30,600 --> 00:30:34,920 Speaker 1: I could always throw something out, something stupid. But you 525 00:30:35,000 --> 00:30:37,840 Speaker 1: were the button. You and I were the buttons. I 526 00:30:37,960 --> 00:30:40,960 Speaker 1: was the button. But it was it was really fun, 527 00:30:41,000 --> 00:30:43,000 Speaker 1: hey and real quick. Going back to how you said, 528 00:30:43,040 --> 00:30:45,000 Speaker 1: what did my family think about it? You know, my 529 00:30:45,040 --> 00:30:48,480 Speaker 1: brother was a great supporter of my comedy, my sister, 530 00:30:49,000 --> 00:30:51,960 Speaker 1: my mom used to come into my comedy club shows 531 00:30:52,000 --> 00:30:55,840 Speaker 1: all the time. My dad never came. The only thing 532 00:30:55,880 --> 00:30:59,240 Speaker 1: my dad ever said to me was he was in 533 00:30:59,280 --> 00:31:03,320 Speaker 1: the music best us and he did not like the 534 00:31:03,520 --> 00:31:06,960 Speaker 1: people that you have to deal with in the entertainment business. 535 00:31:07,840 --> 00:31:11,240 Speaker 1: And he basically said, be careful of the entertainment business, son, 536 00:31:11,400 --> 00:31:14,120 Speaker 1: because there's a lot of snakes in the grass, and 537 00:31:14,160 --> 00:31:16,400 Speaker 1: there's a lot of liars and a lot of thieves. 538 00:31:16,760 --> 00:31:20,360 Speaker 1: And then when I hooked up with Jeff Foxworthy and 539 00:31:20,400 --> 00:31:22,960 Speaker 1: the Blue Collar Comedy Tour. My dad knew that Jeff 540 00:31:23,040 --> 00:31:26,680 Speaker 1: was a good Christian guy and he was happy that 541 00:31:26,800 --> 00:31:30,840 Speaker 1: I hooked up with somebody like Jeff. Six years it 542 00:31:30,920 --> 00:31:34,400 Speaker 1: goes on. Tell me a little bit about the relationships 543 00:31:34,440 --> 00:31:38,200 Speaker 1: that you made there and what what that tour really 544 00:31:38,200 --> 00:31:41,720 Speaker 1: became for you. That was you know, it came at 545 00:31:41,720 --> 00:31:46,440 Speaker 1: a time when I think people were just looking for 546 00:31:46,480 --> 00:31:51,040 Speaker 1: that kind of comedy. You know, we we weren't trying 547 00:31:51,080 --> 00:31:55,000 Speaker 1: to act like we were better than anybody else. We 548 00:31:55,000 --> 00:32:00,479 Speaker 1: were just talking about regular things that regular people about 549 00:32:01,480 --> 00:32:06,160 Speaker 1: and we were always very um accessible to our crowds, 550 00:32:06,880 --> 00:32:09,160 Speaker 1: and I think that was the thing. It was just 551 00:32:09,560 --> 00:32:13,160 Speaker 1: you couldn't have picked a better moment in time for 552 00:32:13,200 --> 00:32:18,440 Speaker 1: four guys that grew up with just humble roots. Really, 553 00:32:18,520 --> 00:32:21,160 Speaker 1: I mean all of us. Ron grew up in Frits, 554 00:32:21,280 --> 00:32:24,719 Speaker 1: Texas and people know his story, and I grew up 555 00:32:24,720 --> 00:32:28,440 Speaker 1: in a small town in southeast Nebraska. And you know, 556 00:32:28,600 --> 00:32:33,520 Speaker 1: Jeff Word did IBM. But Jeff Man where he's from Hapeville, Georgia. 557 00:32:34,080 --> 00:32:36,920 Speaker 1: You know he's a red just bona fide red deck man. 558 00:32:37,000 --> 00:32:41,280 Speaker 1: That's how we grew up. Um uh, and he's super smart. 559 00:32:41,440 --> 00:32:44,480 Speaker 1: You know, he's super smart. And Bill. You know, Bill 560 00:32:44,600 --> 00:32:46,960 Speaker 1: is a country kid from Texas and grew up in 561 00:32:47,000 --> 00:32:50,880 Speaker 1: the rodeo. And and so when we got on that tour, 562 00:32:51,000 --> 00:32:53,800 Speaker 1: like I said, Jeff and I, he's like my adopted brother. 563 00:32:53,920 --> 00:32:56,880 Speaker 1: I love him so much. And we're a lot of 564 00:32:56,960 --> 00:32:59,440 Speaker 1: like really we laugh at the same things and we 565 00:33:00,080 --> 00:33:03,680 Speaker 1: like the same things. And so I already knew Jeff. 566 00:33:03,880 --> 00:33:06,280 Speaker 1: I only I had never met Ron, and I didn't 567 00:33:06,320 --> 00:33:09,480 Speaker 1: even know who Bill Angbow was. But the first time 568 00:33:09,520 --> 00:33:12,880 Speaker 1: we met, we all got along. It was just like 569 00:33:12,960 --> 00:33:16,840 Speaker 1: we had been doing that thing forever. Everybody was. Ron 570 00:33:17,000 --> 00:33:19,840 Speaker 1: was awesome to me, and Bill was awesome to me. 571 00:33:19,880 --> 00:33:23,160 Speaker 1: And I think what it was was everybody realized we 572 00:33:23,160 --> 00:33:26,400 Speaker 1: were all in the same boat together. When one person 573 00:33:26,520 --> 00:33:29,520 Speaker 1: had success, it was good for all three of us. 574 00:33:30,320 --> 00:33:32,440 Speaker 1: And I think the thing that helped us out a 575 00:33:32,440 --> 00:33:36,920 Speaker 1: lot it was there was no jealousy, There was no sure. 576 00:33:37,000 --> 00:33:39,400 Speaker 1: We had times where we were like brothers, where we 577 00:33:39,440 --> 00:33:42,200 Speaker 1: would get somebody would do, somebody get little irritated at him. 578 00:33:42,200 --> 00:33:44,880 Speaker 1: But I sound like Don Henley now with the Eagles, 579 00:33:44,880 --> 00:33:48,640 Speaker 1: because he would say, you know, we were we were 580 00:33:49,000 --> 00:33:51,480 Speaker 1: It was good for one It was good for the band, 581 00:33:51,760 --> 00:33:53,920 Speaker 1: And that's about what it was like. It was good 582 00:33:53,920 --> 00:33:57,080 Speaker 1: for the band and and and to this day, I mean, 583 00:33:57,080 --> 00:34:01,720 Speaker 1: we're all really good friends. And people say, well, we 584 00:34:01,760 --> 00:34:05,280 Speaker 1: ever do blue Collar again? And I'll be honest, I 585 00:34:05,320 --> 00:34:07,400 Speaker 1: don't know if we want to do it again, and 586 00:34:07,400 --> 00:34:09,880 Speaker 1: I'll tell you why. So you don't want people to 587 00:34:09,920 --> 00:34:12,080 Speaker 1: come and go, hey, how's the blue Collar show man? 588 00:34:12,120 --> 00:34:14,440 Speaker 1: It was hilarious. Those guys are always funny. Man. It 589 00:34:14,480 --> 00:34:16,480 Speaker 1: wasn't like it wasn't the day though, you know, it 590 00:34:16,560 --> 00:34:20,200 Speaker 1: ben't like it wasn't a day, So probably won't see 591 00:34:20,200 --> 00:34:23,160 Speaker 1: it again. I think if we ever did it again, 592 00:34:23,920 --> 00:34:29,040 Speaker 1: we would reunite for a weekend in Las Vegas just 593 00:34:29,800 --> 00:34:33,160 Speaker 1: for some sort of an anniversary of the blue Collar thing, 594 00:34:33,640 --> 00:34:37,319 Speaker 1: and that would probably be the only time. But I mean, yeah, 595 00:34:37,360 --> 00:34:40,600 Speaker 1: that was just Brian the greatest times in my life. 596 00:34:40,760 --> 00:34:45,480 Speaker 1: I'm touring and doing what I love with three of 597 00:34:45,480 --> 00:34:48,879 Speaker 1: the most people that I love the most and just 598 00:34:49,320 --> 00:34:53,200 Speaker 1: enjoying every single flipping minute of it. I Mean, it's 599 00:34:53,719 --> 00:34:59,760 Speaker 1: you can't really explain to people unless they've actually done 600 00:34:59,800 --> 00:35:01,799 Speaker 1: so anything like that and they know what it's like. 601 00:35:01,960 --> 00:35:07,839 Speaker 1: But just showing up and just thous I mean, it's 602 00:35:08,719 --> 00:35:10,960 Speaker 1: it's crazy, you know. And I try to tell my 603 00:35:11,040 --> 00:35:14,040 Speaker 1: kids because now that I got my kids, I'm slowing down. 604 00:35:14,080 --> 00:35:19,040 Speaker 1: I only read anywhere from seventeen to people still, you know, 605 00:35:19,320 --> 00:35:22,040 Speaker 1: depending on the shows you do, and you know, the 606 00:35:22,120 --> 00:35:24,920 Speaker 1: kids will going, Man, look how many people Kevin Heart 607 00:35:24,920 --> 00:35:27,839 Speaker 1: did at that? You know, kids? You know I did 608 00:35:27,880 --> 00:35:32,719 Speaker 1: a stadium right, No, you did not. It's like, all right, 609 00:35:32,800 --> 00:35:35,000 Speaker 1: well it's you know. It reminds me of that Dave 610 00:35:35,120 --> 00:35:37,920 Speaker 1: Chappelle pit where he takes his kid to see Kevin 611 00:35:38,000 --> 00:35:41,600 Speaker 1: Hart and he's laughing at Kevin Hart and it's doing 612 00:35:41,640 --> 00:35:43,920 Speaker 1: nothing but pissing Dave off because he's going, you know, 613 00:35:44,000 --> 00:35:48,680 Speaker 1: I do this too, you know. So I feel like 614 00:35:48,719 --> 00:35:50,560 Speaker 1: that sometimes when my kids want to go to a 615 00:35:50,680 --> 00:35:53,480 Speaker 1: comedy show. It's like, boy, you know I used to 616 00:35:53,520 --> 00:36:17,080 Speaker 1: do this. You just mentioned Chappelle. So I'm gonna ask you, 617 00:36:17,400 --> 00:36:21,759 Speaker 1: do you ever feel scared for yourself on stage? No, 618 00:36:21,960 --> 00:36:24,600 Speaker 1: because I'm I'm an arena full of hilarity of the 619 00:36:24,640 --> 00:36:32,399 Speaker 1: cable guy. The are packing anyway, so some of them 620 00:36:32,400 --> 00:36:35,440 Speaker 1: are just itching for somebody to rush the stage. You know. 621 00:36:36,120 --> 00:36:38,719 Speaker 1: Uh yeah, you know. You with the environment today, you 622 00:36:38,800 --> 00:36:41,880 Speaker 1: do get very cautious of it. But I have a 623 00:36:41,880 --> 00:36:45,000 Speaker 1: buddy of mine that retired from the Secret Service, and 624 00:36:45,080 --> 00:36:48,520 Speaker 1: I take I take two retired Secret Service agents with me. 625 00:36:49,040 --> 00:36:51,520 Speaker 1: There are two of my best friends, and no one 626 00:36:51,600 --> 00:36:54,880 Speaker 1: would ever know they were with me. They blend in 627 00:36:54,920 --> 00:36:58,359 Speaker 1: with crowd and they walk around and they keep an 628 00:36:58,400 --> 00:37:01,680 Speaker 1: eye out. They don't walk the show. They do nothing 629 00:37:02,440 --> 00:37:08,000 Speaker 1: but stand on separate sides and watch the crowds. Yeah, 630 00:37:08,000 --> 00:37:11,520 Speaker 1: it's so scary. Obviously, I'm asking you because of the 631 00:37:11,520 --> 00:37:17,160 Speaker 1: guy rushing Chappelle. Uh, you know what, I absolutely I 632 00:37:18,160 --> 00:37:21,520 Speaker 1: you were you you do worry about it? Um, you can't. 633 00:37:22,760 --> 00:37:25,480 Speaker 1: You just can't think about it all the time because 634 00:37:25,640 --> 00:37:29,160 Speaker 1: it is what it is. So you know, I don't think. 635 00:37:29,160 --> 00:37:32,800 Speaker 1: But you know, I don't think. I'm you know Chappelle 636 00:37:33,000 --> 00:37:36,160 Speaker 1: right now. I mean he's very you know, he's in 637 00:37:36,200 --> 00:37:39,160 Speaker 1: the mix of the political thing and the you know, 638 00:37:39,280 --> 00:37:41,719 Speaker 1: I mean, if somebody's going to rush the stage over 639 00:37:41,760 --> 00:37:44,640 Speaker 1: my poopil is on you joke, then I got problems. 640 00:37:44,920 --> 00:37:52,960 Speaker 1: You know, they're very mentally unstable if they're mad at 641 00:37:53,000 --> 00:37:56,279 Speaker 1: a poopil is on you joke. I hope this is 642 00:37:56,280 --> 00:37:58,880 Speaker 1: not a red herring. I I just heard this information 643 00:37:58,920 --> 00:38:02,680 Speaker 1: I had to ask audit, and I think it if so, 644 00:38:03,000 --> 00:38:06,400 Speaker 1: it says a lot about Dan that's different from from Larry, 645 00:38:06,480 --> 00:38:09,520 Speaker 1: obviously known for the blue collar comedy. Um. But I 646 00:38:09,600 --> 00:38:14,839 Speaker 1: was just hearing that you're also very close friends with 647 00:38:15,760 --> 00:38:22,080 Speaker 1: maybe the most outspoken and liberal of them all, Louis Black. Um. 648 00:38:23,719 --> 00:38:28,520 Speaker 1: You know, how did that relationship mature? You know what? 649 00:38:28,800 --> 00:38:33,000 Speaker 1: I have not talked to Lewis literally probably in four years. 650 00:38:34,000 --> 00:38:38,080 Speaker 1: But back in the day when I was doing comedy 651 00:38:38,120 --> 00:38:41,439 Speaker 1: and working the Funny Bones, Lewis and I we worked 652 00:38:41,480 --> 00:38:43,880 Speaker 1: together our paths with cross and we'd go out and 653 00:38:43,920 --> 00:38:47,560 Speaker 1: do stuff He's on. I love Louis to death. Lewis 654 00:38:47,640 --> 00:38:52,000 Speaker 1: is a super nice guy. Obviously our politics are completely different. 655 00:38:52,000 --> 00:38:55,760 Speaker 1: But there's a lot of comedians so that I'm friends 656 00:38:55,760 --> 00:39:00,359 Speaker 1: with that My politics are completely the opposite, and I'm not. 657 00:39:00,960 --> 00:39:06,480 Speaker 1: Here's the thing, though, Brian politics isn't my religion, so 658 00:39:07,400 --> 00:39:11,120 Speaker 1: you know I'm not. It's not my first priority in life. 659 00:39:11,280 --> 00:39:14,000 Speaker 1: I mean, I can only do so much. Here's what 660 00:39:14,080 --> 00:39:16,680 Speaker 1: I can do when it comes to politics. I can vote. 661 00:39:17,000 --> 00:39:20,160 Speaker 1: It does no good for me to bitch and moan. 662 00:39:20,560 --> 00:39:23,839 Speaker 1: And you know I used to go on Twitter and 663 00:39:23,920 --> 00:39:28,520 Speaker 1: I used to send stuff out. So I learned. I 664 00:39:28,640 --> 00:39:32,640 Speaker 1: learned a while back. I'm not doing that anymore because 665 00:39:32,800 --> 00:39:34,480 Speaker 1: I don't want to be I don't want to be 666 00:39:34,600 --> 00:39:37,359 Speaker 1: part of the division. I don't want to be part 667 00:39:37,400 --> 00:39:41,760 Speaker 1: of the hatred. Because people that like you and agree 668 00:39:41,800 --> 00:39:45,200 Speaker 1: with you already like you and agree with you. People 669 00:39:45,239 --> 00:39:47,919 Speaker 1: that don't like you would disagree with you. You're not 670 00:39:47,960 --> 00:39:51,960 Speaker 1: doing anything to change their mind in anything. So I 671 00:39:51,960 --> 00:39:55,360 Speaker 1: I resorted myself to the fact, I'm not doing anything 672 00:39:55,400 --> 00:39:58,279 Speaker 1: like that anymore. I'm staying away from that. So that's 673 00:39:58,320 --> 00:40:02,200 Speaker 1: how I can get along with comics that have different 674 00:40:02,239 --> 00:40:06,560 Speaker 1: politics and because it's not my religion. So yeah, I'm 675 00:40:06,600 --> 00:40:09,319 Speaker 1: friends with Lewis. If Lewis were to be on your 676 00:40:09,320 --> 00:40:12,440 Speaker 1: show right now, I gots what's that, buddy, I'm instument, 677 00:40:12,560 --> 00:40:15,800 Speaker 1: you know like that, because I do. I love Louis UM. 678 00:40:15,840 --> 00:40:18,239 Speaker 1: But yeah, no, we are friends. And he wrote I 679 00:40:18,280 --> 00:40:21,680 Speaker 1: wrote that goofy book. It was I told Louis. I said, hey, Louis, 680 00:40:21,680 --> 00:40:24,080 Speaker 1: you wanna write the forward in this UM And I 681 00:40:24,160 --> 00:40:27,400 Speaker 1: basically did it for that, just to let you know that. UM, 682 00:40:27,440 --> 00:40:30,359 Speaker 1: I can be friends with people that don't agree with me, 683 00:40:30,400 --> 00:40:32,440 Speaker 1: and I can still be their friends, which was the 684 00:40:32,480 --> 00:40:35,239 Speaker 1: basic of a couple of chapters in the book. But 685 00:40:35,320 --> 00:40:37,200 Speaker 1: the book was full of nonsense. It was all one 686 00:40:37,239 --> 00:40:39,800 Speaker 1: liner jokes and stupid stuff. So but Louis did it, 687 00:40:40,560 --> 00:40:43,160 Speaker 1: and uh, I'm sure he's had to feel a lot 688 00:40:43,160 --> 00:40:45,440 Speaker 1: of those questions to when it's probably the same the 689 00:40:45,440 --> 00:40:52,320 Speaker 1: same answer that I, um, you uh so many movies, 690 00:40:52,520 --> 00:40:58,160 Speaker 1: Larry the Cable Guy, Health Inspector, Delta Farce, uh Tooth 691 00:40:58,239 --> 00:41:01,839 Speaker 1: Fairy Jingle, all the way to um and the and 692 00:41:01,840 --> 00:41:05,520 Speaker 1: and the Cars franchise. I mean, it's very interesting what 693 00:41:05,560 --> 00:41:09,520 Speaker 1: you said about Dan uh and and Larry the Cable Guy. 694 00:41:09,560 --> 00:41:13,680 Speaker 1: But Larry took over the world of of entertainment. Are 695 00:41:13,719 --> 00:41:16,960 Speaker 1: you glad that it happened the way that it happened 696 00:41:17,320 --> 00:41:21,640 Speaker 1: that it was Larry and not Dan. You know what? Absolutely? 697 00:41:21,680 --> 00:41:25,319 Speaker 1: I mean. I here's the thing. I I don't take 698 00:41:25,360 --> 00:41:28,080 Speaker 1: myself too seriously. I'm a comedian. My job is to 699 00:41:28,160 --> 00:41:31,879 Speaker 1: make people laugh. I am not I am not a politician. 700 00:41:32,160 --> 00:41:35,680 Speaker 1: I'm not I'm not a preacher when I'm doing Larry 701 00:41:35,719 --> 00:41:40,040 Speaker 1: the Cable Guy. I'm a comedian. And so, um, that's 702 00:41:40,080 --> 00:41:43,320 Speaker 1: what I'm happy with. I'm happy that it's made people 703 00:41:43,400 --> 00:41:47,520 Speaker 1: laugh when I get people, uh in hospital beds that 704 00:41:47,640 --> 00:41:50,719 Speaker 1: tell me that my jokes got them through a rough 705 00:41:50,800 --> 00:41:54,799 Speaker 1: time in their life. When troops send you things and saying, hey, 706 00:41:54,840 --> 00:41:58,239 Speaker 1: we were in Afghanistan and we were on a patrol 707 00:41:58,280 --> 00:42:00,719 Speaker 1: and then one night it just we've just man, we 708 00:42:00,840 --> 00:42:03,319 Speaker 1: popped in one of your c d s and may 709 00:42:03,440 --> 00:42:06,200 Speaker 1: you just made a smile? And uh, you know, I 710 00:42:06,239 --> 00:42:09,840 Speaker 1: did a sixty minutes interview one time and Bob Simon 711 00:42:10,280 --> 00:42:13,440 Speaker 1: he told me the same thing. Bob Simon said. He 712 00:42:13,600 --> 00:42:17,239 Speaker 1: said that he, uh, whenever he was in a situation 713 00:42:17,800 --> 00:42:20,720 Speaker 1: that was dangerous, he would just go over comedy routines 714 00:42:20,760 --> 00:42:23,520 Speaker 1: in his head that would help the uplift him. And 715 00:42:23,520 --> 00:42:25,600 Speaker 1: and and he said, I was one of the guys 716 00:42:25,640 --> 00:42:28,400 Speaker 1: that was in that roller dex So you know it, 717 00:42:29,040 --> 00:42:31,879 Speaker 1: You're that's what God gives us all the sense of humor, 718 00:42:32,000 --> 00:42:34,640 Speaker 1: that's what it's about. And we all have a different 719 00:42:34,640 --> 00:42:37,720 Speaker 1: sense of humor. And I say, it's just it's like beer. 720 00:42:38,280 --> 00:42:40,319 Speaker 1: You may not like that beer, somebody else does like 721 00:42:40,360 --> 00:42:42,400 Speaker 1: that beer. You know what you want your what you 722 00:42:42,440 --> 00:42:44,960 Speaker 1: want to do as a comic is you want to 723 00:42:45,000 --> 00:42:49,800 Speaker 1: be the kind of beverage that a lot of people 724 00:42:49,840 --> 00:42:53,920 Speaker 1: like to drink, you know, And fortunately for me, I 725 00:42:54,000 --> 00:42:56,319 Speaker 1: was I was in a Budweiser camp. I was in 726 00:42:56,360 --> 00:42:59,520 Speaker 1: a course camp, you know what I mean. And regardless 727 00:42:59,600 --> 00:43:01,759 Speaker 1: if you like that kind of beverage, a lot of 728 00:43:01,760 --> 00:43:05,320 Speaker 1: people did, and all it did was refreshed them for 729 00:43:05,360 --> 00:43:08,759 Speaker 1: a little bit, you know. And so I have no 730 00:43:08,880 --> 00:43:11,160 Speaker 1: regrets at all. Like I said, the only thing I 731 00:43:11,239 --> 00:43:14,840 Speaker 1: wish I would have done different is I wish that 732 00:43:15,040 --> 00:43:18,560 Speaker 1: I would have got something with my name on it attached, 733 00:43:18,719 --> 00:43:23,560 Speaker 1: especially the Pixar Disney stuff. I wish my name was 734 00:43:23,600 --> 00:43:26,560 Speaker 1: attached to it. And then if there was anything else, 735 00:43:26,600 --> 00:43:29,480 Speaker 1: it would probably be in those early days of Larry 736 00:43:29,480 --> 00:43:32,640 Speaker 1: the Cable Guy when I was single. When I hear 737 00:43:32,760 --> 00:43:35,560 Speaker 1: some of those bits that I did, it's just like, 738 00:43:35,760 --> 00:43:41,920 Speaker 1: oh my gosh, it's hilarious. But man, I can't believe 739 00:43:41,960 --> 00:43:44,839 Speaker 1: I would I did that joke, you know. But then 740 00:43:45,040 --> 00:43:47,799 Speaker 1: when you look back on that, Brian, would you have 741 00:43:47,920 --> 00:43:51,560 Speaker 1: been as popular if you wouldn't have done those Because 742 00:43:51,600 --> 00:43:55,880 Speaker 1: like I said, I went to the Howard Stern School 743 00:43:56,000 --> 00:43:59,319 Speaker 1: of Radio, so I can look back on that all 744 00:43:59,400 --> 00:44:02,040 Speaker 1: day long and though I should I have done that? Well, 745 00:44:02,360 --> 00:44:05,680 Speaker 1: now I wish that I wouldn't have but now I 746 00:44:05,680 --> 00:44:08,080 Speaker 1: I'm glad I did because it got you to where 747 00:44:08,080 --> 00:44:10,279 Speaker 1: you're at. And that's how it is. And you know, 748 00:44:10,400 --> 00:44:13,239 Speaker 1: I'll say this like I do. There's a thing here 749 00:44:13,280 --> 00:44:16,520 Speaker 1: called Back to the Bible Broadcast, and I, uh, my 750 00:44:16,600 --> 00:44:20,480 Speaker 1: wife writes Christian books, and I started doing a Bible podcast, 751 00:44:20,920 --> 00:44:25,320 Speaker 1: you know, and just as myself, and you know, Jeff 752 00:44:25,320 --> 00:44:28,359 Speaker 1: Foxworthy does it with me. Jim Brewer does it with me. 753 00:44:28,840 --> 00:44:32,839 Speaker 1: I like getting comics on that loved Jesus and so 754 00:44:33,760 --> 00:44:36,560 Speaker 1: I do that as well, and that brings me a 755 00:44:36,600 --> 00:44:40,320 Speaker 1: lot of joy. But as as far as the career goes, 756 00:44:40,920 --> 00:44:43,920 Speaker 1: it is what it is. And I never dreamed in 757 00:44:44,000 --> 00:44:48,520 Speaker 1: a million years doing Larry the Cable Guy would bring 758 00:44:48,680 --> 00:44:51,480 Speaker 1: all of these things to me. I never in a 759 00:44:51,520 --> 00:44:56,000 Speaker 1: million years. It's like the movies brilliant. I never asked 760 00:44:56,040 --> 00:44:58,440 Speaker 1: to do a movie. I was sitting on my bus 761 00:44:58,480 --> 00:45:00,279 Speaker 1: one day and got a phone call and said, hey, 762 00:45:00,320 --> 00:45:02,239 Speaker 1: you want to do a movie. And I'm like, are 763 00:45:02,280 --> 00:45:05,080 Speaker 1: you serious? They're like yeah, I'm like, well, yeah, let's 764 00:45:05,120 --> 00:45:07,319 Speaker 1: do one. What do they got They got one coming 765 00:45:07,320 --> 00:45:09,600 Speaker 1: out called literally the cab I Health Inspector. We'll send 766 00:45:09,600 --> 00:45:12,440 Speaker 1: you the script. And I literally said, well, have you 767 00:45:12,480 --> 00:45:15,000 Speaker 1: read it? And they go, yeah, I go, is it funny? 768 00:45:15,040 --> 00:45:21,720 Speaker 1: It's hilarious. All right, well let's do it so great, 769 00:45:22,640 --> 00:45:26,680 Speaker 1: that's so great. I love that. And I do have 770 00:45:26,760 --> 00:45:28,680 Speaker 1: to say you talked about this a little bit before. 771 00:45:29,160 --> 00:45:35,080 Speaker 1: I have born witness to you, uh, specifically at a 772 00:45:35,160 --> 00:45:40,439 Speaker 1: hospital with kids, and I'm telling you, the look on 773 00:45:41,200 --> 00:45:45,239 Speaker 1: little kids faces who are suffering to hear made her 774 00:45:45,400 --> 00:45:51,400 Speaker 1: suddenly coming out of your mouth. Well, I'll never forget it. 775 00:45:50,760 --> 00:45:54,600 Speaker 1: It's it's awesome. It's yeah, it's pretty cool. Man. I'm 776 00:45:54,760 --> 00:45:57,799 Speaker 1: very blessed to be able to do that. And that's 777 00:45:57,840 --> 00:45:59,880 Speaker 1: why I love doing that stuff. I've had a complete 778 00:46:00,239 --> 00:46:03,920 Speaker 1: change as far as of jokes and things that I do, 779 00:46:04,000 --> 00:46:05,960 Speaker 1: and I just I just want to make the world 780 00:46:06,000 --> 00:46:08,080 Speaker 1: a better place, you know. I just there's so much 781 00:46:08,120 --> 00:46:12,359 Speaker 1: hate and I love doing those golf tournaments because what 782 00:46:12,400 --> 00:46:15,960 Speaker 1: are we doing. We're raising money to help people, to 783 00:46:16,080 --> 00:46:20,080 Speaker 1: make people's lives better. You know. Yes, well you transitioned 784 00:46:20,719 --> 00:46:27,359 Speaker 1: amazingly as always, Uh, Dan Larry, whoever you are, has 785 00:46:27,400 --> 00:46:33,120 Speaker 1: a foundation, the Get or Done Foundation. I am about 786 00:46:33,280 --> 00:46:38,160 Speaker 1: to head to Nebraska. By the way, I talked to 787 00:46:38,200 --> 00:46:42,120 Speaker 1: my mom last night and I said to my Mom, Yeah, 788 00:46:42,280 --> 00:46:45,600 Speaker 1: I'm going to Nebraska. Why are you going to Nebraska? Well, 789 00:46:46,000 --> 00:46:48,239 Speaker 1: Dan Larry the cable guy, he has he has his 790 00:46:48,320 --> 00:46:54,600 Speaker 1: event in Nebraska. My mom goes, he doesn't live in Nebraska. 791 00:46:55,080 --> 00:46:59,840 Speaker 1: She's like, he doesn't live in Nebraska. He's from the South. Mom, No, 792 00:47:00,120 --> 00:47:04,440 Speaker 1: in Nebraska. He's always lived in Nebraska. Nebraska is his home. 793 00:47:05,480 --> 00:47:08,680 Speaker 1: She didn't believe me. I had to explain it. Well, 794 00:47:08,800 --> 00:47:11,319 Speaker 1: she's She's kind of right, Brian, because I did live 795 00:47:11,360 --> 00:47:15,839 Speaker 1: in uh San, Florida for seventeen years. No, I know, 796 00:47:16,080 --> 00:47:18,280 Speaker 1: but she was very surprised that you were. You settled 797 00:47:18,320 --> 00:47:21,399 Speaker 1: by the way you traveled all around the world. You've 798 00:47:21,400 --> 00:47:26,600 Speaker 1: seen everywhere. Why what what brought you back to Lincoln. Well, look, 799 00:47:26,680 --> 00:47:30,919 Speaker 1: I grew up here in Poney City, Nebraska, and I 800 00:47:31,000 --> 00:47:35,120 Speaker 1: loved the way I grew up. I love the small town. 801 00:47:35,680 --> 00:47:39,520 Speaker 1: I love the people of Nebraska. Um, I just love 802 00:47:39,920 --> 00:47:43,360 Speaker 1: the weather. I mean we're bad for maybe three months 803 00:47:43,360 --> 00:47:46,080 Speaker 1: a year. Other than that, it's pretty awesome. We tell 804 00:47:46,120 --> 00:47:49,719 Speaker 1: everybody it sucks all the time, so they don't move here. Um. 805 00:47:50,640 --> 00:47:53,960 Speaker 1: I love Don't get me wrong. I flipped in Love Florida. 806 00:47:54,560 --> 00:47:57,680 Speaker 1: It's my second home, and I got a ton of 807 00:47:57,800 --> 00:48:00,400 Speaker 1: I might have more friends in Florida than I do here, 808 00:48:00,400 --> 00:48:04,360 Speaker 1: but I said, when we have kids, if we have kids, 809 00:48:04,760 --> 00:48:06,799 Speaker 1: I want to go back to Nebraska because I want 810 00:48:06,800 --> 00:48:10,840 Speaker 1: to raise my kids like I was raised. So I 811 00:48:11,280 --> 00:48:13,040 Speaker 1: love it here. I know a lot of people like 812 00:48:13,120 --> 00:48:16,799 Speaker 1: the views of the mountains and the rivers and lake oceans. 813 00:48:16,840 --> 00:48:21,040 Speaker 1: But I'll be honest, in October, there ain't nothing better 814 00:48:21,080 --> 00:48:23,839 Speaker 1: than being surrounded by corn fields and bean fields. I'll 815 00:48:23,840 --> 00:48:27,560 Speaker 1: tell you I love it. Well, I am. I'm so 816 00:48:27,640 --> 00:48:31,839 Speaker 1: excited to be there. The Getter Done Golf Classic, As 817 00:48:31,840 --> 00:48:34,759 Speaker 1: I said, the get Ter Done Foundation raised millions and 818 00:48:34,800 --> 00:48:37,960 Speaker 1: millions of dollars. Why did you found it? Well, my 819 00:48:38,160 --> 00:48:41,439 Speaker 1: you know, my kid was born with hip displacia and 820 00:48:42,000 --> 00:48:45,000 Speaker 1: we went to a doctor in Omaha and they had 821 00:48:45,120 --> 00:48:47,319 Speaker 1: no clue about it. They go, well, you know, they 822 00:48:47,360 --> 00:48:50,040 Speaker 1: basically said, well, we can fix it when he gets 823 00:48:50,080 --> 00:48:52,200 Speaker 1: a little older. It was way out, it was out 824 00:48:52,239 --> 00:48:55,279 Speaker 1: of a joint. But he's definitely gonna have to have 825 00:48:55,520 --> 00:48:58,440 Speaker 1: you know, hip surgery in his forties or fifties because 826 00:48:58,440 --> 00:49:00,960 Speaker 1: it's not gonna And like, well, what kind of an 827 00:49:00,960 --> 00:49:03,960 Speaker 1: answer is that? And so we went on the internet. 828 00:49:04,280 --> 00:49:07,640 Speaker 1: They knew more about hip displacier and animals than they 829 00:49:07,680 --> 00:49:11,479 Speaker 1: did in humans. And he directed us to a guy. 830 00:49:11,480 --> 00:49:13,840 Speaker 1: He said, you know, there's one guy that's been doing 831 00:49:14,000 --> 00:49:16,920 Speaker 1: stuff on this in Orlando. His name is Dr Chad 832 00:49:16,920 --> 00:49:20,359 Speaker 1: Price at the Arnold Palmer of Children's Hospital. Chad said, 833 00:49:20,400 --> 00:49:23,080 Speaker 1: you know what, I knew I can cure this. I 834 00:49:23,239 --> 00:49:25,520 Speaker 1: just man, I've been going down to Mexico and I've 835 00:49:25,520 --> 00:49:29,360 Speaker 1: been uh doing this, uh doing a way to swallow 836 00:49:29,480 --> 00:49:32,640 Speaker 1: kids down to Mexico, and I think I can with 837 00:49:32,760 --> 00:49:34,920 Speaker 1: the way that we're doing this, I think we can 838 00:49:34,920 --> 00:49:40,080 Speaker 1: eradicate hip displasher newborns. But we just need some funding. 839 00:49:40,480 --> 00:49:43,560 Speaker 1: So we started funding it and next thing, you know, 840 00:49:43,680 --> 00:49:48,239 Speaker 1: the first donation that we made the International Hip Displacia 841 00:49:48,320 --> 00:49:52,319 Speaker 1: Institute that has my boy's name on it. Whyat what 842 00:49:52,480 --> 00:49:57,000 Speaker 1: the Wyatt Whitney and International Hip Displacer Institute and by 843 00:49:57,040 --> 00:49:59,280 Speaker 1: guy ship works. So now when you go on the internet, 844 00:50:00,080 --> 00:50:03,120 Speaker 1: all these doctors are trained in the same way coming 845 00:50:03,160 --> 00:50:06,080 Speaker 1: out of that Hip Displacer Institute, and man, they're doing 846 00:50:06,320 --> 00:50:09,959 Speaker 1: unbelievable work at it. And that's how it started. So 847 00:50:10,440 --> 00:50:12,960 Speaker 1: we start. In the meantime, we just started just a 848 00:50:12,960 --> 00:50:14,880 Speaker 1: couple of other things that we did the thing here 849 00:50:14,920 --> 00:50:18,840 Speaker 1: in Nebraska. We did the Madonna Rehabilitation Center that's for 850 00:50:18,920 --> 00:50:23,320 Speaker 1: people with traumatic brain injuries, and that's for kids and veterans, 851 00:50:23,880 --> 00:50:26,680 Speaker 1: and then we started doving into a lot more kids things, 852 00:50:26,760 --> 00:50:30,719 Speaker 1: and so it's mainly vets and children, and so yeah, 853 00:50:30,800 --> 00:50:33,200 Speaker 1: we're just man, it's it's really done well. And I 854 00:50:33,239 --> 00:50:35,799 Speaker 1: gotta tell you it's not huge, you know. I mean 855 00:50:35,800 --> 00:50:38,200 Speaker 1: when I have the golf tournament, it's in Lincoln, Nebraska, 856 00:50:38,280 --> 00:50:41,600 Speaker 1: and it's hard to get hardcore celebrities to come here. 857 00:50:41,640 --> 00:50:44,960 Speaker 1: But man, I get some of the best celebs. For instance, 858 00:50:45,000 --> 00:50:47,560 Speaker 1: you Brian, I can't thank you enough. I mean, you're 859 00:50:47,600 --> 00:50:51,520 Speaker 1: a big star and coming to Lincoln, Nebraska, just your 860 00:50:51,600 --> 00:50:54,160 Speaker 1: name on it. It really all those kind of things 861 00:50:54,440 --> 00:50:57,000 Speaker 1: lifted up. It's I'm getting some of the same ones 862 00:50:57,080 --> 00:50:59,239 Speaker 1: that that playing the ones that were normally, but just 863 00:50:59,280 --> 00:51:01,280 Speaker 1: to get them to come to link in nebraska's pretty 864 00:51:01,280 --> 00:51:03,759 Speaker 1: awesome and so I thank you for that. No, well, 865 00:51:03,840 --> 00:51:07,279 Speaker 1: let me just say this for real. First off, if 866 00:51:07,320 --> 00:51:10,719 Speaker 1: anybody wants to donate, if you're a fan of Dan 867 00:51:11,160 --> 00:51:14,200 Speaker 1: Larry the Cable Guy, Get or Done Foundation, there's a 868 00:51:14,239 --> 00:51:17,319 Speaker 1: website you can give and let me just say this. 869 00:51:18,400 --> 00:51:22,719 Speaker 1: I am coming for two reasons. One because of the 870 00:51:22,760 --> 00:51:28,120 Speaker 1: great work that your foundation is doing, and two because 871 00:51:28,160 --> 00:51:32,080 Speaker 1: of you. Because through all the years now that I've 872 00:51:32,080 --> 00:51:34,200 Speaker 1: been fortunate enough to get to know you play a 873 00:51:34,200 --> 00:51:38,279 Speaker 1: little practice round, even us playing in these tournaments, your 874 00:51:38,400 --> 00:51:43,480 Speaker 1: heart and your kindness comes through every single time, and 875 00:51:43,520 --> 00:51:47,120 Speaker 1: it is always just a pleasure to say that I 876 00:51:47,160 --> 00:51:48,879 Speaker 1: know you and who have gotten to know you over 877 00:51:48,920 --> 00:51:50,719 Speaker 1: these years. So I want to thank you for that. 878 00:51:51,880 --> 00:51:57,440 Speaker 1: Congratulations of course on all of your success, and I 879 00:51:57,560 --> 00:52:00,160 Speaker 1: just want you to know that I am could not 880 00:52:00,280 --> 00:52:03,879 Speaker 1: be more excited. Who who ever said this, I could 881 00:52:03,960 --> 00:52:06,120 Speaker 1: not be more excited than to come to Nebraska and 882 00:52:06,160 --> 00:52:11,080 Speaker 1: see you right, You're You're very kind. Thank you so much, 883 00:52:11,120 --> 00:52:14,279 Speaker 1: and I obviously I'm so happy that you're coming. And 884 00:52:14,320 --> 00:52:17,439 Speaker 1: I love playing with you out in Tahoe. Like I said, though, 885 00:52:17,840 --> 00:52:20,880 Speaker 1: you're always better than me, and I'm trying to get good, 886 00:52:20,920 --> 00:52:24,080 Speaker 1: but you're a very good golfers. So one day, one day, 887 00:52:24,120 --> 00:52:27,920 Speaker 1: maybe I'll make a run of it. You'll you'll make 888 00:52:27,920 --> 00:52:29,759 Speaker 1: a You'll make it. You'll make a run for sure. 889 00:52:30,440 --> 00:52:32,520 Speaker 1: Have you ever hit have you? Have you ever? Have 890 00:52:32,600 --> 00:52:35,279 Speaker 1: you ever hit anybody? I've hit three people so far 891 00:52:35,400 --> 00:52:40,520 Speaker 1: in Tahoe. You know, I remember we have played quite 892 00:52:40,520 --> 00:52:42,279 Speaker 1: a bit together there. I don't think you've ever hit 893 00:52:42,320 --> 00:52:44,759 Speaker 1: anybody with me, but I remember one time you coming 894 00:52:44,840 --> 00:52:48,800 Speaker 1: up to me shaking, very distraught in the tent because 895 00:52:48,800 --> 00:52:51,879 Speaker 1: you would just hit somebody. Oh my gosh, I have 896 00:52:51,920 --> 00:52:55,000 Speaker 1: not I have not hit anybody, thank you. But now 897 00:52:55,040 --> 00:52:57,680 Speaker 1: you've done it. I'm going to hit somebody this year. Yeah. No, 898 00:52:58,239 --> 00:53:00,880 Speaker 1: you'll be fine. You don't shank as much as I do, 899 00:53:01,000 --> 00:53:04,960 Speaker 1: so you'll be good. I will tell you this. I 900 00:53:05,000 --> 00:53:12,200 Speaker 1: did watch another just absolute amazing human being, Charles Barclay, 901 00:53:12,239 --> 00:53:14,759 Speaker 1: so I'm not piling on. But I did play with 902 00:53:14,840 --> 00:53:16,960 Speaker 1: him one time, and I can't remember if you if 903 00:53:17,040 --> 00:53:19,839 Speaker 1: you were the third with us where he hit one 904 00:53:19,880 --> 00:53:23,200 Speaker 1: on eighteen dead right and there was a woman on 905 00:53:23,239 --> 00:53:26,240 Speaker 1: her cell phone. Had she not been on her cell phone, 906 00:53:26,280 --> 00:53:28,440 Speaker 1: it would have hit her in the temple. The ball 907 00:53:28,560 --> 00:53:31,600 Speaker 1: hit right on her cell phone that she was had 908 00:53:31,600 --> 00:53:35,120 Speaker 1: held up to her face. Uh, and broke her cell phone. 909 00:53:35,320 --> 00:53:37,200 Speaker 1: But yeah, it's scared. That's like the one I did. 910 00:53:37,239 --> 00:53:39,000 Speaker 1: I hit that guy on the drive and if his 911 00:53:39,080 --> 00:53:41,640 Speaker 1: cell phone, It hit his cellphone and shattered his cellphone 912 00:53:41,680 --> 00:53:45,880 Speaker 1: and knocked him out gold really. Yeah, that was the 913 00:53:45,920 --> 00:53:49,920 Speaker 1: first year I was there. You're not supposed to laugh 914 00:53:50,000 --> 00:53:52,920 Speaker 1: like that. Well he was okay though, And he was 915 00:53:52,960 --> 00:53:54,880 Speaker 1: okay though. They gave him a bunch of merchandise and 916 00:53:54,960 --> 00:53:59,720 Speaker 1: gave him lifetime tickets. Oh well, that's good. He's good. 917 00:54:00,160 --> 00:54:04,400 Speaker 1: You are a peach. Thank you so much for talking 918 00:54:04,440 --> 00:54:06,600 Speaker 1: to me, and I will see you soon. You gotta 919 00:54:06,680 --> 00:54:08,680 Speaker 1: thanks for having me on Brian and I will see 920 00:54:08,680 --> 00:54:10,320 Speaker 1: you in a couple of weeks and then it will 921 00:54:10,480 --> 00:54:25,520 Speaker 1: tee it up and talk baby. Yeah we will. Dan 922 00:54:26,160 --> 00:54:30,080 Speaker 1: Larry Larry, Dan l D. Maybe maybe it's l D. 923 00:54:30,360 --> 00:54:32,360 Speaker 1: We're gonna work on that swing in a couple of 924 00:54:32,360 --> 00:54:35,520 Speaker 1: weeks in Lincoln. And now that I know how often 925 00:54:35,920 --> 00:54:38,040 Speaker 1: you hit people, well, I guess it's my duty to 926 00:54:38,080 --> 00:54:40,719 Speaker 1: help protect the public from your stray golf balls. But 927 00:54:40,800 --> 00:54:43,120 Speaker 1: I really appreciate you talking to me and learning more 928 00:54:43,160 --> 00:54:47,560 Speaker 1: about you and your life on and off the green. 929 00:54:48,000 --> 00:54:51,240 Speaker 1: Thanks for listening today, everybody, and every day that you listen. 930 00:54:51,360 --> 00:54:54,000 Speaker 1: Know how much I appreciate you. I want you to 931 00:54:54,040 --> 00:54:58,120 Speaker 1: go and like, subscribe, comment, follow us on well any 932 00:54:58,200 --> 00:55:01,799 Speaker 1: channel you see fit and come next week or more. 933 00:55:02,200 --> 00:55:12,400 Speaker 1: Off the Beats Off the Beat is hosted an executive 934 00:55:12,440 --> 00:55:17,080 Speaker 1: produced by me Bryan Baumgartner alongside our executive producer Langley. 935 00:55:17,400 --> 00:55:21,719 Speaker 1: Our producers are Diego Tapia, Liz Hayes, Emily Carr, and 936 00:55:21,800 --> 00:55:26,120 Speaker 1: Hannah Harris. 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