Speaker 1: And I was in the store and some guy was
Speaker 1: walking out and he sealed back and the guy working,
Speaker 1: they'll see you tomorrow. Getor done. And the guy says,
Speaker 1: Gator done back and I said, and the guy said,
Speaker 1: get her done? Would you hear that? At And he
Speaker 1: literally goes at This guy on the radio here Rock
Speaker 1: station says, get or done, Larry the cable guy. It's
Speaker 1: funny as hell. And I go, that's me and he
Speaker 1: looked at me. He goes, yeah, shut up. I go, no,
Speaker 1: that's me. I'm Larry the Cable Guy. He goes, get
Speaker 1: out of here. I said, I'm not lying. He said,
Speaker 1: let me hear you say get her done. I went, Gator.
Speaker 1: He goes, that's not even close. I don't like what
Speaker 1: the heck. I'm Larry the Cable Guy. Dan Whitney. That's
Speaker 1: my real name. Also, they know me as made her
Speaker 1: from cars and a lot of people don't know it,
Speaker 1: but I also played the orangutang in every which way
Speaker 1: but loose when I was a small child. Getor Done. Hello,
Speaker 1: and welcome one and all to your special Tuesday treat
Speaker 1: that's right off the beat. I am your host, Brian Baumgartner.
Speaker 1: Today's guest. Well is the very funny Dan Whitney. Who's
Speaker 1: Dan Whitney, you might ask, Well, Dan Whitney, he has
Speaker 1: an alter ego. His name is Larry the Cable Guy.
Speaker 1: We actually spend quite a bit of time golfing together
Speaker 1: at various events, most notably the American Century Championship in
Speaker 1: Lake Tahoe. And next week I am going to Nebraska
Speaker 1: to participate in his Get or Done Classic. We'll talk
Speaker 1: more about that in a bit, but I'm gonna be
Speaker 1: honest with you. See, I know more about Dan that
Speaker 1: I do about Larry and how Larry was born. So
Speaker 1: today I am very pleased to get to know the
Speaker 1: origins of Dan's alter ego, larry dance career, and how
Speaker 1: he manages to be the only Southerner who's actually from
Speaker 1: the Midwest. So please open your ears and your hearts
Speaker 1: to one of the kindest people that I have the
Speaker 1: pleasure of knowing, Larry the Cable Guy or my friend
Speaker 1: Dan Whitney. Bubble and Squeak. I love it Bubble and
Speaker 1: Squeak on Bubble and Squeaker cooking at every moment left
Speaker 1: over from the night before. Larry the Cable Guy, how
Speaker 1: are you my friend. Oh mom Gardener, I love you
Speaker 1: to death and I'm doing fantastic good. Huh, Dan, I'm
Speaker 1: now listen. I texted you a little while ago. For
Speaker 1: those of you who don't know, we play quite a
Speaker 1: bit of golf together at various events, and I said,
Speaker 1: what do I call you? Larry or or Dan? And
Speaker 1: this is a very interesting thing. I mean you really
Speaker 1: your your identity to the public has changed, well right, yeah, totally? Well, yeah,
Speaker 1: pretty much, because let me just give you a brief
Speaker 1: deal Brian. By the way, Brian is better than my golf,
Speaker 1: but I'm trying. I'm trying to get better. But I
Speaker 1: have more hair. You have. You have a lot more hair. Yes.
Speaker 1: I wrote a joke the other day about my my
Speaker 1: brother is going to make a lot of money because
Speaker 1: he invented a product for men that are balding. And
Speaker 1: what it is. It's a liquid that comes in a
Speaker 1: spray can. And what you do is you bray it
Speaker 1: in people's face so they can't see your hair. They
Speaker 1: can't see that you're losing your hair. Believe it gets
Speaker 1: a big laugh. So anyway, let me give you a
Speaker 1: brief friend down, Brian. This is a crazy thing about
Speaker 1: my career. I was a comic and I went professional
Speaker 1: May of I got up on stage for the first
Speaker 1: time in night five. I worked out of the comedy
Speaker 1: Corner in West Palm Beach, Um. I started doing some
Speaker 1: characters on a radio station in Tampa Bay. One of
Speaker 1: the characters was Larry the cable Guy. And as you know,
Speaker 1: a young comic and you're working on the road, anything
Speaker 1: you can do for some stage time or some extra cash, boy,
Speaker 1: that would be awesome. And that's just basically I started.
Speaker 1: It was totally a character for the radio. I could
Speaker 1: do anything I wanted to do. I was a big
Speaker 1: fan of all in the family when I was a kid,
Speaker 1: because it was the one thing my dad would just
Speaker 1: belly laugh at. Because I grew up on a pig
Speaker 1: farm and Southeast Nebraska, and I grew up next to
Speaker 1: the cattle yard, and I worked over at the sale
Speaker 1: bar and on loading cattle trucks, and so I just
Speaker 1: kind of made a character that was kind of an
Speaker 1: archie bunker character that was kind of a mixture of
Speaker 1: everybody that I kind of knew, all these old farmers
Speaker 1: that bitched about everything when I was a kid. Then
Speaker 1: I went to college and Georgia, and I my roommate
Speaker 1: was from Beaumont, Texas. My other one was from Dalton, Georgia.
Speaker 1: So I kind of mixed that in there. So it
Speaker 1: was kind of like a southern archie bunker. But I'll
Speaker 1: tell you but I'm me personally. I like people and
Speaker 1: I want, you know, I like to be liked, and
Speaker 1: I'm a nice guy, so I and I think I am.
Speaker 1: So I I wanted the character to be funny and shocking,
Speaker 1: but I want him to be likable. Like I wanted
Speaker 1: people to go, I can't believe he would say that,
Speaker 1: and then somebody else go, ah, you just edges Larry
Speaker 1: the cable guy. Any don't mean nothing can. For most people,
Speaker 1: that's what it was, and then for other people that
Speaker 1: took away too serious. Of course it was something else,
Speaker 1: but that's what the whole character on the radio was
Speaker 1: intended to be. And a real funny story about that.
Speaker 1: With all my commentaries, I did social commentaries, and what
Speaker 1: I did was I signed off with get or done.
Speaker 1: And I remember the first time I ever heard somebody
Speaker 1: else say that. I was at Peaches Records and Tapes
Speaker 1: in Orlando, Florida, and I was in the store and
Speaker 1: some guy was walking out and he sealed back and
Speaker 1: the guy working and I'll see you tomorrow. Getor done?
Speaker 1: And the guy says getor done back and I said,
Speaker 1: and the guy said, get or done? Would you hear
Speaker 1: that at And he literally goes at his guy on
Speaker 1: the radio here the rock station says, get or done,
Speaker 1: Larry the cable guy. It's funny as hell. And I go,
Speaker 1: that's me. And he looked at me. He goes, yeah,
Speaker 1: shut up. I go, no, that's me. I'm Larry the
Speaker 1: cable Guy. He goes, get out of here. I said,
Speaker 1: I'm not lying. He said, let me hear you say
Speaker 1: get or done. I went get He goes, that's not
Speaker 1: even close. I don't like what the heck. I went
Speaker 1: and got it right away. I went got it copyrighted
Speaker 1: and started selling shirts and all that kind of stuff.
Speaker 1: It was all theater of the mind. Yeah, no, it
Speaker 1: is though, because you all of that makes sense. But
Speaker 1: I think the decision for you to become him in public,
Speaker 1: I mean, here, here, here's here's an example. This is
Speaker 1: what I mean. I mean, you are Dan, but like
Speaker 1: when we're in Lake Tahoe, we're playing golf, we're on television,
Speaker 1: you are identified by announcers not as Dan but as
Speaker 1: Larry the Cable Guy. But when did you make the
Speaker 1: decision to make yourself like synonymous with this theater of
Speaker 1: the absurd that you were doing. Well, well, you know
Speaker 1: what it started. It was all by accident, honestly. I mean,
Speaker 1: you're a when you're a comedian, you're out there doing
Speaker 1: stand up. You just want to be able to sell
Speaker 1: tickets and make some money and make a good living
Speaker 1: of doing something that you love. And it all happened
Speaker 1: by accident. I never meant to do it on stage.
Speaker 1: It was completely separate. It was something that was fun
Speaker 1: for me to do. Is an escape that was fun
Speaker 1: to write for, But my act was completely different. Uh.
Speaker 1: When Larry the Cable Guy did stuff, it was all
Speaker 1: commentaries and social commentaries. And I learned from the Howard Stern.
Speaker 1: First of all, you have to be funny. Second of all,
Speaker 1: you have to say something that's a little shocking so
Speaker 1: that people go, did you hear what he just said?
Speaker 1: And it becomes popular because people that like you are
Speaker 1: tuned in because they want to hear what you're gonna
Speaker 1: say next, and people that don't like you are tuning
Speaker 1: in because they want to hear what you're gonna say next,
Speaker 1: you know, So I wanted to have something in where
Speaker 1: people would go, you know what, Uh, there's a small
Speaker 1: percentage of truth and what he says, but he doesn't
Speaker 1: say it correctly, says it the way that it's It's
Speaker 1: it's kind of like how he equated with I remember
Speaker 1: one time a guy came up to me and can
Speaker 1: I is there? Do I need to bleep myself? You don't, Okay,
Speaker 1: I'm being there. I haven't, but but I'm being completely
Speaker 1: honest with when I say this. This is kind of
Speaker 1: like people mean well, and people say things and they
Speaker 1: have a little bit of truth and what they're saying
Speaker 1: their way off base on other things, but they say
Speaker 1: things so funny. It's it's just like you gotta like
Speaker 1: the guy. And I remember one time I did a
Speaker 1: commentary as Larry the cable By about keeping prayer in
Speaker 1: the public school, and so I would write it how
Speaker 1: if I were just writing just a serious commentary. To
Speaker 1: where the commentary started out is the men there's could
Speaker 1: be an op ed And next thing you know, there's
Speaker 1: two percent of it's an op ed and ninety eight
Speaker 1: percent of it is titty's farts, drinking beer that kind
Speaker 1: of thing, right. But the guy that comes up to me,
Speaker 1: and when I say people meanwhile, but they say things
Speaker 1: just so like what do you The guy comes out
Speaker 1: and goes, hey, Larry can I talked to you for
Speaker 1: a minute. He was a construction worker done in Orlando.
Speaker 1: I said, yeah, what's up, buddy, Hey, listen, I know
Speaker 1: you've gotta be funny on the area with oh you're
Speaker 1: tad jokes, you've verge and all that kind of stuff.
Speaker 1: But that thing you did today about keeping prayer in
Speaker 1: the public school, your goddamn right, we need prayer and
Speaker 1: damn school. And he fucking teach you got away from
Speaker 1: the fucking mad and the guy you know, and he's
Speaker 1: literally f this, g D that, f that. But his
Speaker 1: main and his main gripe is they've taken prayer out
Speaker 1: of this. So he means well, but he's saying it
Speaker 1: completely the wrong way, you know. So that's kind of
Speaker 1: like how it developed. And so uh, back to the
Speaker 1: story about how it became part of my whole deal is,
Speaker 1: at one night at a comedy club, my buddy Less McCurdy,
Speaker 1: who owns mccurty's Comedy Club in sarah Sota wanted to
Speaker 1: sell some tickets, and he builled me as Dan Wittney,
Speaker 1: a k a. Larry the Cable Guy. And it was
Speaker 1: a little irritated because I tried to separate the two because,
Speaker 1: like I said, Larry was all comic, ridiculous political stuff.
Speaker 1: I was all one liners. I'm a fan of the
Speaker 1: old time comic, just doing this and that and Pratt falls.
Speaker 1: And it was a funny act, you know. Dan Herera
Speaker 1: always said I had the funniest first twelve minutes in
Speaker 1: comedy and then after that nothing, you know, because I
Speaker 1: because I literally I literally went through like eighty five
Speaker 1: punch lines twelve minutes, and so I he builled me
Speaker 1: as day waiting ak Larry the Cable I went on
Speaker 1: stage and it sold out two shows in twenty minutes.
Speaker 1: And then when I saw that he build me like that,
Speaker 1: it was kind of I didn't really have a stage
Speaker 1: act for it, and it was a little like what
Speaker 1: am I going to do now, you know? So I
Speaker 1: went up and I did my own act and they're
Speaker 1: yelling stuff out. You know, when your Larry, you get it.
Speaker 1: So I dropped down into the character and just killed it.
Speaker 1: And so he came up and and said, man, have
Speaker 1: you ever thought about doing your whole show like Larry
Speaker 1: the Cable Guy. So he took my name off, and
Speaker 1: the second show I was build as Larry the Cable Guy.
Speaker 1: And I went up and I basically took my act
Speaker 1: and I slowed it down, had different timing, and then
Speaker 1: I added stuff from the radio station. And I was
Speaker 1: doing the Larry the Cable Guy stuff in Wallah. And
Speaker 1: so my next step was just to go tell radio
Speaker 1: stations this is what I'm doing, and I can do
Speaker 1: it for you. I'll do a commentary for you and
Speaker 1: it'll get popular. And the only thing I asked for
Speaker 1: pay is just promote my show when I come to town.
Speaker 1: So I ended up getting about twenty seven radio stations,
Speaker 1: and I called radio stations every morning, five days a
Speaker 1: week for thirteen years. Yeah, and it finally paid off.
Speaker 1: So I mean, that's that's basically how I built my following.
Speaker 1: And I could do I could do Larry the Cable
Speaker 1: Guy because I knew him better than anybody else. I
Speaker 1: sometimes people ask me about is it weird when you
Speaker 1: do stuff like you know that you were talking about
Speaker 1: the golf tournament. No, I don't. I don't find it
Speaker 1: where that strange because people know me as Larry the
Speaker 1: Cable Guy. They know it's a character. But Larry the
Speaker 1: Cable Guy is just a drawing name to get them
Speaker 1: at the tournament, to sell some tickets. And you know,
Speaker 1: and and the best part about it it allows me
Speaker 1: if I want to to go up with no sleeves
Speaker 1: on and be comfortable and just play it up and
Speaker 1: have a good time with the crowd. And I'll be honest,
Speaker 1: I enjoy it. People enjoy it. You know. It's it's
Speaker 1: uh if I'm talking too much, Briban, let me know,
Speaker 1: because you have God one word talking if it's anything
Speaker 1: about me. Um. I think that when I was, when
Speaker 1: I wasn't married and didn't have kids, comedy was a
Speaker 1: whole different thing than you just did. Stay up. You
Speaker 1: wanted to make people laugh. Nothing was off limits. I
Speaker 1: didn't have any kids. I didn't I get it. Cared
Speaker 1: less about that I didn't have you know, you know
Speaker 1: how it is you're a ten year old guy. And
Speaker 1: then I got married, and then I had kids, and
Speaker 1: then my act started changing because I had a heart change.
Speaker 1: On a lot of jokes that just I didn't need
Speaker 1: anyway kept the larry of the cable guy. What what
Speaker 1: it's about, you know, it's about pushing buttons. It's about
Speaker 1: this guy that's just had it with this political correct,
Speaker 1: anti American world. And but I don't. I'm not as
Speaker 1: harsh as I once was. And that's just because I'm
Speaker 1: a better comedian. I have kids, and I'm sensitive to
Speaker 1: things about what how people would feel if I did
Speaker 1: a certain deal. Um, So that's that's how my act
Speaker 1: has kind of changed. But there's still a ton of differences.
Speaker 1: I'm not I'm not a white trash guy. I'm not like,
Speaker 1: I'm not a PARTI er, I'm not a drinker, I'm
Speaker 1: not a well, you know, I don't do any of that.
Speaker 1: So I have just enough trailer jokes that I'm not associated. Right,
Speaker 1: what's fascinating to me because you brought up all in
Speaker 1: the family, right, and so I mean that character, I
Speaker 1: mean potentially one of the greatest comedy characters in the
Speaker 1: history of television. If Carol O'Connor had begun to associate
Speaker 1: himself as Archie Bunker, I mean, he may have gotten
Speaker 1: killed right, like out on the street. I mean there
Speaker 1: were things that he said in that show that you
Speaker 1: just you truly can't say, you can't say and want
Speaker 1: to service on the streets. And I think that that
Speaker 1: what you bring up right there is such an interesting
Speaker 1: point because you began to adopt that as you you
Speaker 1: began to become, at least publicly that character. As you
Speaker 1: matured and as you grew up and as you had kids,
Speaker 1: you began to realize like, okay, that's me, but it's
Speaker 1: also not. And and that that he talking about him
Speaker 1: in the third person. Larry began to soften as Dan's
Speaker 1: life changed and new things happened. I think that's I
Speaker 1: think that's really interesting. Yeah, well, you know, I I
Speaker 1: can write anything for the character and do the character.
Speaker 1: It's just that my writing is different. I I don't
Speaker 1: want to write that for the character anymore. I don't
Speaker 1: want to write that, but all write this. Yeah, it's
Speaker 1: a definite it's a definite separation. But people say he's
Speaker 1: later the cable guy all the time, twenty four hours
Speaker 1: a day. No, I'm not. When I come home, I'm not,
Speaker 1: the only thing is it's when most people see me,
Speaker 1: they've asked me to come be Larry the Cable Guy.
Speaker 1: But Dan Witten is not selling any tickets, you know.
Speaker 1: So when people say he's always literally the Cable Guy,
Speaker 1: he's become the character, that's not true. The only time
Speaker 1: that I'm Larry the Cable Guy is when I am
Speaker 1: doing something and I'm paid to be Larry the Cable Guy.
Speaker 1: That's pretty much yet, and I will say this, Bryan.
Speaker 1: The only one thing that I do kind of regret
Speaker 1: is when I did all my Pixar Disney stuff, it's
Speaker 1: all Larry the Cable Guy. And before I did all
Speaker 1: those I said that I wanted to be Dan Whitney.
Speaker 1: So but that's all part of the fault of my
Speaker 1: agent at the time, who said no, because it was
Speaker 1: basically sold me. You're a brand, you have merchandise, you
Speaker 1: have a foundation, it's a brand. So everything goes under
Speaker 1: Larry the Cable Guy. But if I had anything to
Speaker 1: do different, I would have done my voiceovers as Dan Witt.
Speaker 1: I think the best compliment I ever got was John Lasseter.
Speaker 1: He says, you know, I love hanging out with Larry
Speaker 1: the Cable Guy, but I like hanging out with Dan
Speaker 1: a lot better. And he goes, when I look at
Speaker 1: made her made her talks like Larry the Cable Guy,
Speaker 1: but made her acts like my friend Dan. Yeah, because
Speaker 1: in real life I'm more like made Her than I
Speaker 1: am Larry the Cable Guy. Absolutely, and I can attest
Speaker 1: to that for anybody listening. And I you know, there's
Speaker 1: nothing it's so cool, you know. I just recently animated
Speaker 1: a big old bear named Walter for this this new show,
Speaker 1: trash Truck. And there's kind of nothing like being out
Speaker 1: in public and being approached by a child about that work.
Speaker 1: And obviously Cars transcends this television show completely. And when
Speaker 1: I've watched you, I'm not gonna say you're performing. It's like,
Speaker 1: but you're loud, you're fun, you're we're all having a party.
Speaker 1: And then a kid comes up to you and I
Speaker 1: see your eyes change and you may do the voice
Speaker 1: for him, which doesn't sound like you said all that
Speaker 1: different from Larry the Cable Guy, but I see you
Speaker 1: quite different in those moments for sure. Oh absolutely, And
Speaker 1: I'll tell you I love that. I mean, that's why,
Speaker 1: I mean, that's the cool thing about when I got
Speaker 1: to do Made and Cars, because it allows me to
Speaker 1: be me and still do the do the voice. But
Speaker 1: the kids love it, and and I love being able
Speaker 1: to make them smile and laugh, and that's what it's
Speaker 1: all about. I mean, that's man so much fun to
Speaker 1: be able to bring joy to those kids. And absolutely
Speaker 1: it's uh, I'm definitely more of a major attitude than
Speaker 1: a cable guy atitude. Absolutely, absolutely, you know what. I know,
Speaker 1: it gets confusing because you asked me, should I call
Speaker 1: you Dan or Larry? I know it gets confusing for people.
Speaker 1: When I did my movies, people just called me l D.
Speaker 1: They called me Larry Dan, l D my name l D. Well,
Speaker 1: look I understand, and I you know, I think even
Speaker 1: when we're at those things together, you know, I'll say
Speaker 1: good shot Dan in a quiet voice or whatever, and
Speaker 1: I understand the persona that people are expecting that from you.
Speaker 1: And so for me, it's it was more when I
Speaker 1: asked you, the question was more like, well, I don't
Speaker 1: want to shatter people's dreams or like, I don't I
Speaker 1: don't want like he is that, yes, but he's also
Speaker 1: way way more than that. So yeah, I know it's
Speaker 1: funny that you say that because I think by now
Speaker 1: I've been down there for so long. I think by
Speaker 1: now people know you know, I mean I do have
Speaker 1: a hint. I do have a hint of the twins
Speaker 1: of a Southern accent when I talked normal because I
Speaker 1: lived in Florida most of my life. So I picked
Speaker 1: it up. You know, my wife said, my buddy Brad
Speaker 1: called me the other day, and my talk to Brad
Speaker 1: for about twenty minutes, and my wife goes, you know,
Speaker 1: you were sending like Larry the cable guy the whole
Speaker 1: time you're off the phone, and I'm like going up
Speaker 1: because they're brad Man. He talks like, I do you
Speaker 1: know I I have a chameleon. I just picked it up,
Speaker 1: by the way. You know, I didn't mean to to
Speaker 1: do this to you, because I know what a big
Speaker 1: fan of Nebraska you are. And I say, I didn't
Speaker 1: mean to do it, but then, but then I didn't
Speaker 1: change my clothes. I'm wearing here the University of Georgia
Speaker 1: Bulldogs golf sweater. Here I myself, I'm I'm from Georgia,
Speaker 1: and uh, you work to pick it up. I spent
Speaker 1: I spent the first eighteen to twenty years of my
Speaker 1: life trying to get rid of that. It was like
Speaker 1: it didn't work so well for Ibsen and check Off
Speaker 1: and Shakespeare when I started doing plays. But no, but
Speaker 1: sure enough when I go home, you know my my,
Speaker 1: my mom's from Florida and my you know I'm from Georgia.
Speaker 1: You know, it just it comes out right away, absolutely know.
Speaker 1: I tell everybody I go, I defy you. I defy
Speaker 1: you to move to Sanford, Florida and not come out
Speaker 1: talking with some kind of a Southern twins after six months,
Speaker 1: because you just I mean, it's one of those It's
Speaker 1: just a fun, lazy way to talk and you just
Speaker 1: pick it up. It happens to everybody. Um, But you're
Speaker 1: not offending me, by the way. With Georgia Bulldogs a
Speaker 1: fox Worthy, of course, I uh, he roots for Georgia.
Speaker 1: So I rooted Georgia because of Jeff and we filmed
Speaker 1: Blue Collar TV and Athens, so I got a lot
Speaker 1: of good friends in Georgia. So I you ain't offending
Speaker 1: me with that. There you go. I want to go
Speaker 1: back just a little bit. You touched on it briefly
Speaker 1: before you grew up your pig farmer in Nebraska. As
Speaker 1: you said, you eventually moved to Florida. Your father was
Speaker 1: a Christian minister and a school principle. Yeah, he did
Speaker 1: a lot of When was the moment that you decided
Speaker 1: you wanted to get into the comedy or at least
Speaker 1: into entertainment or or being actor. How was that taken
Speaker 1: by your family? Well, you know, I was just I
Speaker 1: was always funny. My brother was hilarious. And my brother
Speaker 1: used to write to comedy one act westerns and he
Speaker 1: started both of them as the old prospector. My brother's
Speaker 1: way funny, and I ever think could be. And I mean,
Speaker 1: I'll never forget laughing so many times. And my brother
Speaker 1: and my sister's funny. My mom's doesn't know she is,
Speaker 1: but she's goofy funny. And my dad, my dad, when
Speaker 1: he wanted to be funny, was funny. But he was.
Speaker 1: He was gone all the time. He did so many things.
Speaker 1: You know. He was a guidance counselor at the school
Speaker 1: five days a week, and then he preached the two
Speaker 1: churches on a Sunday, and then he had a band
Speaker 1: of country, rhythm and blues band that he would play
Speaker 1: in on the weekends. And and you know, it was
Speaker 1: just crazy. I mean I grew up. It was a
Speaker 1: crazy life growing up. Um. I remember being at some
Speaker 1: of my dad's at the VFW hall, you know, playing
Speaker 1: in the bed and there's one of the deacons sitting
Speaker 1: there half torque welcome, I preach, you can you play
Speaker 1: amazing Grace? You'd play that on his nineteen fifty three
Speaker 1: Fender Telecaster, which is an awesome guitar. But you know,
Speaker 1: I just I grew up pretty wild like that. That
Speaker 1: was just a good crap. But I loved it. I
Speaker 1: loved my childhood and but as far as the comedy goes,
Speaker 1: I was just always funny, you know. Uh. I liked
Speaker 1: the one liners because you know, sometimes my dad would
Speaker 1: get mad. He had a temper on him. So whenever
Speaker 1: tempers would flare at the house, I'd be the guy
Speaker 1: that would find an opening to always lighten the mood up.
Speaker 1: You know. So my timing, I really learned good timing.
Speaker 1: If I was going to be a comedian. Back when
Speaker 1: I was a kid. Um, I decided to be a
Speaker 1: stand up because I played baseball at a at a
Speaker 1: Baptist college in Georgia, and I loved baseball, and so
Speaker 1: I did not want to work while I played baseball.
Speaker 1: So I set out the first half of the year
Speaker 1: and uh, I started bell hopping at a hotel in
Speaker 1: West Palm Beach and I was the van driver and
Speaker 1: I'm cracking jokes, and everybody I always said, you ought
Speaker 1: to be a comedian, You ought to be a comedian,
Speaker 1: You ought to be a comedian. But I, uh, I
Speaker 1: went to college to be a youth pastor and a
Speaker 1: baseball coach, because that's one of the guys I admired
Speaker 1: in my life, was my youth pastor. That then I
Speaker 1: started making money handover foot as a bell hop and
Speaker 1: I went on stage and I just got hooked on comedy.
Speaker 1: I got hooked on that ability to make people laugh
Speaker 1: and control the crowd. And and back then, you know,
Speaker 1: you're pretty much sucked the whole time, but you thought
Speaker 1: you were doing pretty good. You got a couple laughs,
Speaker 1: and you thought you were pretty good. And another thing
Speaker 1: was I was always uh. I was always funny, but
Speaker 1: it took me a while to warm up. I was shy.
Speaker 1: But once I got to know people, then it was
Speaker 1: game on and I would have confidence because I made
Speaker 1: a couple of people laugh. And that's what comedy really
Speaker 1: did for me. It gave me confidence in other things
Speaker 1: that I never had. And I always knew that if
Speaker 1: I wasn't successful at comedy. Everybody wanted to hire somebody
Speaker 1: that was a go getter and good with people, and
Speaker 1: so I always had you know, I always had a
Speaker 1: lot of stuff to fall back on because I I
Speaker 1: knew I could get a job, But man, I fell
Speaker 1: in love with comedy and then was off to the
Speaker 1: races after that. Yeah, but you know, it occurs to me.
Speaker 1: I mean, you talked about it before you found confidence,
Speaker 1: but you were also working her ass off. I mean,
Speaker 1: this idea, I mean, I can't overstate how in a
Speaker 1: way groundbreaking it was and how much work and effort
Speaker 1: that must have taken to call into these video shows
Speaker 1: and to basically say like you were elevating yourself by
Speaker 1: simply offering to do work for people, right, Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: the work that you did though, to do that to
Speaker 1: elevate yourself obviously eventually creating a brand new identity for yourself.
Speaker 1: But I mean, that's that's amazing, dude, that that's really
Speaker 1: that's so cool. Yeah, you know, it was awesome, and
Speaker 1: and the time I didn't even think it was going
Speaker 1: to turn into anything. I thought it might turn into something,
Speaker 1: but I didn't know at the time. It was fun,
Speaker 1: it forced me to write something and and not be
Speaker 1: stagnant and not do anything. So but yeah, it was.
Speaker 1: It definitely when I started getting more and more stations,
Speaker 1: When when I started selling out all these clubs, then
Speaker 1: I knew that it was paying off. And I remember
Speaker 1: when I first auditioned for the Blue Color Comedy Tour.
Speaker 1: It was a show in South Carolina, and and that's
Speaker 1: when that's when I realized all this paid off, because
Speaker 1: they had heard me on the radio in South Carolina.
Speaker 1: So I probably sold three thousand tickets on my own
Speaker 1: just to that show. And when I went on stage,
Speaker 1: I mean the applause and they get it done. I
Speaker 1: mean right then, right when they introduced me, I knew
Speaker 1: I had the gig. But all but all of that
Speaker 1: was just an accumulation of all of those years of
Speaker 1: doing that, And so yeah, it was. It was really
Speaker 1: cool to watch it evolved and metastasized into this unbelievable
Speaker 1: thing that was about to happen for me. Yeah, I mean,
Speaker 1: you become so synonymous with a Blue Color Comedy Tour.
Speaker 1: I mistakenly and until just this moment, thought that you
Speaker 1: and Jeff started it, but you you auditioned for it,
Speaker 1: so whose idea was it, whose original creation wasn't well
Speaker 1: it Jeff, obviously Jeff. And I wasn't even here's the
Speaker 1: crazy thing, Brian, I wasn't even an original I'm the
Speaker 1: I'm ringo star of the Blue Collar Comedy Tour. I
Speaker 1: don't know about that. But the original crew was Jeff
Speaker 1: and his opening act were on White and Bill in
Speaker 1: his opening act, who was soon rested his soul. Craig
Speaker 1: Hacksley passed away here not long ago, and I love Craig. Uh.
Speaker 1: He was a great comic. But evidently Craig wasn't really
Speaker 1: as that blue collar, and so they really were looking
Speaker 1: for somebody else's blue car. Now. I had known Jeff
Speaker 1: since ighties six seven. He was a good friend of mine,
Speaker 1: but he had never seen me do the Larry of
Speaker 1: the cable guy thing before, so that's what he wanted
Speaker 1: to see. And it worked out really good because I
Speaker 1: was so different than the other guys, you know, because
Speaker 1: I was just all one liners, set up, punch, set up, punch,
Speaker 1: set up, punch, Uh, not a lot of seguys, just
Speaker 1: topic after topic, which worked really well. At the end
Speaker 1: of our show, when we all sat on stools and
Speaker 1: told stories because Bill would finish a story and so
Speaker 1: we needed something to segue into somebody else's story. So
Speaker 1: when here I come out with boom, boom, boom, three
Speaker 1: or four goofy stupid jokes and then Ron will go, oh, yeah,
Speaker 1: that reminds me I had a deal, you know, and
Speaker 1: then Ron would go So it really worked out good.
Speaker 1: If we needed if we needed something to tie into something,
Speaker 1: I could always throw something out, something stupid. But you
Speaker 1: were the button. You and I were the buttons. I
Speaker 1: was the button. But it was it was really fun,
Speaker 1: hey and real quick. Going back to how you said,
Speaker 1: what did my family think about it? You know, my
Speaker 1: brother was a great supporter of my comedy, my sister,
Speaker 1: my mom used to come into my comedy club shows
Speaker 1: all the time. My dad never came. The only thing
Speaker 1: my dad ever said to me was he was in
Speaker 1: the music best us and he did not like the
Speaker 1: people that you have to deal with in the entertainment business.
Speaker 1: And he basically said, be careful of the entertainment business, son,
Speaker 1: because there's a lot of snakes in the grass, and
Speaker 1: there's a lot of liars and a lot of thieves.
Speaker 1: And then when I hooked up with Jeff Foxworthy and
Speaker 1: the Blue Collar Comedy Tour. My dad knew that Jeff
Speaker 1: was a good Christian guy and he was happy that
Speaker 1: I hooked up with somebody like Jeff. Six years it
Speaker 1: goes on. Tell me a little bit about the relationships
Speaker 1: that you made there and what what that tour really
Speaker 1: became for you. That was you know, it came at
Speaker 1: a time when I think people were just looking for
Speaker 1: that kind of comedy. You know, we we weren't trying
Speaker 1: to act like we were better than anybody else. We
Speaker 1: were just talking about regular things that regular people about
Speaker 1: and we were always very um accessible to our crowds,
Speaker 1: and I think that was the thing. It was just
Speaker 1: you couldn't have picked a better moment in time for
Speaker 1: four guys that grew up with just humble roots. Really,
Speaker 1: I mean all of us. Ron grew up in Frits,
Speaker 1: Texas and people know his story, and I grew up
Speaker 1: in a small town in southeast Nebraska. And you know,
Speaker 1: Jeff Word did IBM. But Jeff Man where he's from Hapeville, Georgia.
Speaker 1: You know he's a red just bona fide red deck man.
Speaker 1: That's how we grew up. Um uh, and he's super smart.
Speaker 1: You know, he's super smart. And Bill. You know, Bill
Speaker 1: is a country kid from Texas and grew up in
Speaker 1: the rodeo. And and so when we got on that tour,
Speaker 1: like I said, Jeff and I, he's like my adopted brother.
Speaker 1: I love him so much. And we're a lot of
Speaker 1: like really we laugh at the same things and we
Speaker 1: like the same things. And so I already knew Jeff.
Speaker 1: I only I had never met Ron, and I didn't
Speaker 1: even know who Bill Angbow was. But the first time
Speaker 1: we met, we all got along. It was just like
Speaker 1: we had been doing that thing forever. Everybody was. Ron
Speaker 1: was awesome to me, and Bill was awesome to me.
Speaker 1: And I think what it was was everybody realized we
Speaker 1: were all in the same boat together. When one person
Speaker 1: had success, it was good for all three of us.
Speaker 1: And I think the thing that helped us out a
Speaker 1: lot it was there was no jealousy, There was no sure.
Speaker 1: We had times where we were like brothers, where we
Speaker 1: would get somebody would do, somebody get little irritated at him.
Speaker 1: But I sound like Don Henley now with the Eagles,
Speaker 1: because he would say, you know, we were we were
Speaker 1: It was good for one It was good for the band,
Speaker 1: And that's about what it was like. It was good
Speaker 1: for the band and and and to this day, I mean,
Speaker 1: we're all really good friends. And people say, well, we
Speaker 1: ever do blue Collar again? And I'll be honest, I
Speaker 1: don't know if we want to do it again, and
Speaker 1: I'll tell you why. So you don't want people to
Speaker 1: come and go, hey, how's the blue Collar show man?
Speaker 1: It was hilarious. Those guys are always funny. Man. It
Speaker 1: wasn't like it wasn't the day though, you know, it
Speaker 1: ben't like it wasn't a day, So probably won't see
Speaker 1: it again. I think if we ever did it again,
Speaker 1: we would reunite for a weekend in Las Vegas just
Speaker 1: for some sort of an anniversary of the blue Collar thing,
Speaker 1: and that would probably be the only time. But I mean, yeah,
Speaker 1: that was just Brian the greatest times in my life.
Speaker 1: I'm touring and doing what I love with three of
Speaker 1: the most people that I love the most and just
Speaker 1: enjoying every single flipping minute of it. I Mean, it's
Speaker 1: you can't really explain to people unless they've actually done
Speaker 1: so anything like that and they know what it's like.
Speaker 1: But just showing up and just thous I mean, it's
Speaker 1: it's crazy, you know. And I try to tell my
Speaker 1: kids because now that I got my kids, I'm slowing down.
Speaker 1: I only read anywhere from seventeen to people still, you know,
Speaker 1: depending on the shows you do, and you know, the
Speaker 1: kids will going, Man, look how many people Kevin Heart
Speaker 1: did at that? You know, kids? You know I did
Speaker 1: a stadium right, No, you did not. It's like, all right,
Speaker 1: well it's you know. It reminds me of that Dave
Speaker 1: Chappelle pit where he takes his kid to see Kevin
Speaker 1: Hart and he's laughing at Kevin Hart and it's doing
Speaker 1: nothing but pissing Dave off because he's going, you know,
Speaker 1: I do this too, you know. So I feel like
Speaker 1: that sometimes when my kids want to go to a
Speaker 1: comedy show. It's like, boy, you know I used to
Speaker 1: do this. You just mentioned Chappelle. So I'm gonna ask you,
Speaker 1: do you ever feel scared for yourself on stage? No,
Speaker 1: because I'm I'm an arena full of hilarity of the
Speaker 1: cable guy. The are packing anyway, so some of them
Speaker 1: are just itching for somebody to rush the stage. You know.
Speaker 1: Uh yeah, you know. You with the environment today, you
Speaker 1: do get very cautious of it. But I have a
Speaker 1: buddy of mine that retired from the Secret Service, and
Speaker 1: I take I take two retired Secret Service agents with me.
Speaker 1: There are two of my best friends, and no one
Speaker 1: would ever know they were with me. They blend in
Speaker 1: with crowd and they walk around and they keep an
Speaker 1: eye out. They don't walk the show. They do nothing
Speaker 1: but stand on separate sides and watch the crowds. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it's so scary. Obviously, I'm asking you because of the
Speaker 1: guy rushing Chappelle. Uh, you know what, I absolutely I
Speaker 1: you were you you do worry about it? Um, you can't.
Speaker 1: You just can't think about it all the time because
Speaker 1: it is what it is. So you know, I don't think.
Speaker 1: But you know, I don't think. I'm you know Chappelle
Speaker 1: right now. I mean he's very you know, he's in
Speaker 1: the mix of the political thing and the you know,
Speaker 1: I mean, if somebody's going to rush the stage over
Speaker 1: my poopil is on you joke, then I got problems.
Speaker 1: You know, they're very mentally unstable if they're mad at
Speaker 1: a poopil is on you joke. I hope this is
Speaker 1: not a red herring. I I just heard this information
Speaker 1: I had to ask audit, and I think it if so,
Speaker 1: it says a lot about Dan that's different from from Larry,
Speaker 1: obviously known for the blue collar comedy. Um. But I
Speaker 1: was just hearing that you're also very close friends with
Speaker 1: maybe the most outspoken and liberal of them all, Louis Black. Um.
Speaker 1: You know, how did that relationship mature? You know what?
Speaker 1: I have not talked to Lewis literally probably in four years.
Speaker 1: But back in the day when I was doing comedy
Speaker 1: and working the Funny Bones, Lewis and I we worked
Speaker 1: together our paths with cross and we'd go out and
Speaker 1: do stuff He's on. I love Louis to death. Lewis
Speaker 1: is a super nice guy. Obviously our politics are completely different.
Speaker 1: But there's a lot of comedians so that I'm friends
Speaker 1: with that My politics are completely the opposite, and I'm not.
Speaker 1: Here's the thing, though, Brian politics isn't my religion, so
Speaker 1: you know I'm not. It's not my first priority in life.
Speaker 1: I mean, I can only do so much. Here's what
Speaker 1: I can do when it comes to politics. I can vote.
Speaker 1: It does no good for me to bitch and moan.
Speaker 1: And you know I used to go on Twitter and
Speaker 1: I used to send stuff out. So I learned. I
Speaker 1: learned a while back. I'm not doing that anymore because
Speaker 1: I don't want to be I don't want to be
Speaker 1: part of the division. I don't want to be part
Speaker 1: of the hatred. Because people that like you and agree
Speaker 1: with you already like you and agree with you. People
Speaker 1: that don't like you would disagree with you. You're not
Speaker 1: doing anything to change their mind in anything. So I
Speaker 1: I resorted myself to the fact, I'm not doing anything
Speaker 1: like that anymore. I'm staying away from that. So that's
Speaker 1: how I can get along with comics that have different
Speaker 1: politics and because it's not my religion. So yeah, I'm
Speaker 1: friends with Lewis. If Lewis were to be on your
Speaker 1: show right now, I gots what's that, buddy, I'm instument,
Speaker 1: you know like that, because I do. I love Louis UM.
Speaker 1: But yeah, no, we are friends. And he wrote I
Speaker 1: wrote that goofy book. It was I told Louis. I said, hey, Louis,
Speaker 1: you wanna write the forward in this UM And I
Speaker 1: basically did it for that, just to let you know that. UM,
Speaker 1: I can be friends with people that don't agree with me,
Speaker 1: and I can still be their friends, which was the
Speaker 1: basic of a couple of chapters in the book. But
Speaker 1: the book was full of nonsense. It was all one
Speaker 1: liner jokes and stupid stuff. So but Louis did it,
Speaker 1: and uh, I'm sure he's had to feel a lot
Speaker 1: of those questions to when it's probably the same the
Speaker 1: same answer that I, um, you uh so many movies,
Speaker 1: Larry the Cable Guy, Health Inspector, Delta Farce, uh Tooth
Speaker 1: Fairy Jingle, all the way to um and the and
Speaker 1: and the Cars franchise. I mean, it's very interesting what
Speaker 1: you said about Dan uh and and Larry the Cable Guy.
Speaker 1: But Larry took over the world of of entertainment. Are
Speaker 1: you glad that it happened the way that it happened
Speaker 1: that it was Larry and not Dan. You know what? Absolutely?
Speaker 1: I mean. I here's the thing. I I don't take
Speaker 1: myself too seriously. I'm a comedian. My job is to
Speaker 1: make people laugh. I am not I am not a politician.
Speaker 1: I'm not I'm not a preacher when I'm doing Larry
Speaker 1: the Cable Guy. I'm a comedian. And so, um, that's
Speaker 1: what I'm happy with. I'm happy that it's made people
Speaker 1: laugh when I get people, uh in hospital beds that
Speaker 1: tell me that my jokes got them through a rough
Speaker 1: time in their life. When troops send you things and saying, hey,
Speaker 1: we were in Afghanistan and we were on a patrol
Speaker 1: and then one night it just we've just man, we
Speaker 1: popped in one of your c d s and may
Speaker 1: you just made a smile? And uh, you know, I
Speaker 1: did a sixty minutes interview one time and Bob Simon
Speaker 1: he told me the same thing. Bob Simon said. He
Speaker 1: said that he, uh, whenever he was in a situation
Speaker 1: that was dangerous, he would just go over comedy routines
Speaker 1: in his head that would help the uplift him. And
Speaker 1: and and he said, I was one of the guys
Speaker 1: that was in that roller dex So you know it,
Speaker 1: You're that's what God gives us all the sense of humor,
Speaker 1: that's what it's about. And we all have a different
Speaker 1: sense of humor. And I say, it's just it's like beer.
Speaker 1: You may not like that beer, somebody else does like
Speaker 1: that beer. You know what you want your what you
Speaker 1: want to do as a comic is you want to
Speaker 1: be the kind of beverage that a lot of people
Speaker 1: like to drink, you know, And fortunately for me, I
Speaker 1: was I was in a Budweiser camp. I was in
Speaker 1: a course camp, you know what I mean. And regardless
Speaker 1: if you like that kind of beverage, a lot of
Speaker 1: people did, and all it did was refreshed them for
Speaker 1: a little bit, you know. And so I have no
Speaker 1: regrets at all. Like I said, the only thing I
Speaker 1: wish I would have done different is I wish that
Speaker 1: I would have got something with my name on it attached,
Speaker 1: especially the Pixar Disney stuff. I wish my name was
Speaker 1: attached to it. And then if there was anything else,
Speaker 1: it would probably be in those early days of Larry
Speaker 1: the Cable Guy when I was single. When I hear
Speaker 1: some of those bits that I did, it's just like,
Speaker 1: oh my gosh, it's hilarious. But man, I can't believe
Speaker 1: I would I did that joke, you know. But then
Speaker 1: when you look back on that, Brian, would you have
Speaker 1: been as popular if you wouldn't have done those Because
Speaker 1: like I said, I went to the Howard Stern School
Speaker 1: of Radio, so I can look back on that all
Speaker 1: day long and though I should I have done that? Well,
Speaker 1: now I wish that I wouldn't have but now I
Speaker 1: I'm glad I did because it got you to where
Speaker 1: you're at. And that's how it is. And you know,
Speaker 1: I'll say this like I do. There's a thing here
Speaker 1: called Back to the Bible Broadcast, and I, uh, my
Speaker 1: wife writes Christian books, and I started doing a Bible podcast,
Speaker 1: you know, and just as myself, and you know, Jeff
Speaker 1: Foxworthy does it with me. Jim Brewer does it with me.
Speaker 1: I like getting comics on that loved Jesus and so
Speaker 1: I do that as well, and that brings me a
Speaker 1: lot of joy. But as as far as the career goes,
Speaker 1: it is what it is. And I never dreamed in
Speaker 1: a million years doing Larry the Cable Guy would bring
Speaker 1: all of these things to me. I never in a
Speaker 1: million years. It's like the movies brilliant. I never asked
Speaker 1: to do a movie. I was sitting on my bus
Speaker 1: one day and got a phone call and said, hey,
Speaker 1: you want to do a movie. And I'm like, are
Speaker 1: you serious? They're like yeah, I'm like, well, yeah, let's
Speaker 1: do one. What do they got They got one coming
Speaker 1: out called literally the cab I Health Inspector. We'll send
Speaker 1: you the script. And I literally said, well, have you
Speaker 1: read it? And they go, yeah, I go, is it funny?
Speaker 1: It's hilarious. All right, well let's do it so great,
Speaker 1: that's so great. I love that. And I do have
Speaker 1: to say you talked about this a little bit before.
Speaker 1: I have born witness to you, uh, specifically at a
Speaker 1: hospital with kids, and I'm telling you, the look on
Speaker 1: little kids faces who are suffering to hear made her
Speaker 1: suddenly coming out of your mouth. Well, I'll never forget it.
Speaker 1: It's it's awesome. It's yeah, it's pretty cool. Man. I'm
Speaker 1: very blessed to be able to do that. And that's
Speaker 1: why I love doing that stuff. I've had a complete
Speaker 1: change as far as of jokes and things that I do,
Speaker 1: and I just I just want to make the world
Speaker 1: a better place, you know. I just there's so much
Speaker 1: hate and I love doing those golf tournaments because what
Speaker 1: are we doing. We're raising money to help people, to
Speaker 1: make people's lives better. You know. Yes, well you transitioned
Speaker 1: amazingly as always, Uh, Dan Larry, whoever you are, has
Speaker 1: a foundation, the Get or Done Foundation. I am about
Speaker 1: to head to Nebraska. By the way, I talked to
Speaker 1: my mom last night and I said to my Mom, Yeah,
Speaker 1: I'm going to Nebraska. Why are you going to Nebraska? Well,
Speaker 1: Dan Larry the cable guy, he has he has his
Speaker 1: event in Nebraska. My mom goes, he doesn't live in Nebraska.
Speaker 1: She's like, he doesn't live in Nebraska. He's from the South. Mom, No,
Speaker 1: in Nebraska. He's always lived in Nebraska. Nebraska is his home.
Speaker 1: She didn't believe me. I had to explain it. Well,
Speaker 1: she's She's kind of right, Brian, because I did live
Speaker 1: in uh San, Florida for seventeen years. No, I know,
Speaker 1: but she was very surprised that you were. You settled
Speaker 1: by the way you traveled all around the world. You've
Speaker 1: seen everywhere. Why what what brought you back to Lincoln. Well, look,
Speaker 1: I grew up here in Poney City, Nebraska, and I
Speaker 1: loved the way I grew up. I love the small town.
Speaker 1: I love the people of Nebraska. Um, I just love
Speaker 1: the weather. I mean we're bad for maybe three months
Speaker 1: a year. Other than that, it's pretty awesome. We tell
Speaker 1: everybody it sucks all the time, so they don't move here. Um.
Speaker 1: I love Don't get me wrong. I flipped in Love Florida.
Speaker 1: It's my second home, and I got a ton of
Speaker 1: I might have more friends in Florida than I do here,
Speaker 1: but I said, when we have kids, if we have kids,
Speaker 1: I want to go back to Nebraska because I want
Speaker 1: to raise my kids like I was raised. So I
Speaker 1: love it here. I know a lot of people like
Speaker 1: the views of the mountains and the rivers and lake oceans.
Speaker 1: But I'll be honest, in October, there ain't nothing better
Speaker 1: than being surrounded by corn fields and bean fields. I'll
Speaker 1: tell you I love it. Well, I am. I'm so
Speaker 1: excited to be there. The Getter Done Golf Classic, As
Speaker 1: I said, the get Ter Done Foundation raised millions and
Speaker 1: millions of dollars. Why did you found it? Well, my
Speaker 1: you know, my kid was born with hip displacia and
Speaker 1: we went to a doctor in Omaha and they had
Speaker 1: no clue about it. They go, well, you know, they
Speaker 1: basically said, well, we can fix it when he gets
Speaker 1: a little older. It was way out, it was out
Speaker 1: of a joint. But he's definitely gonna have to have
Speaker 1: you know, hip surgery in his forties or fifties because
Speaker 1: it's not gonna And like, well, what kind of an
Speaker 1: answer is that? And so we went on the internet.
Speaker 1: They knew more about hip displacier and animals than they
Speaker 1: did in humans. And he directed us to a guy.
Speaker 1: He said, you know, there's one guy that's been doing
Speaker 1: stuff on this in Orlando. His name is Dr Chad
Speaker 1: Price at the Arnold Palmer of Children's Hospital. Chad said,
Speaker 1: you know what, I knew I can cure this. I
Speaker 1: just man, I've been going down to Mexico and I've
Speaker 1: been uh doing this, uh doing a way to swallow
Speaker 1: kids down to Mexico, and I think I can with
Speaker 1: the way that we're doing this, I think we can
Speaker 1: eradicate hip displasher newborns. But we just need some funding.
Speaker 1: So we started funding it and next thing, you know,
Speaker 1: the first donation that we made the International Hip Displacia
Speaker 1: Institute that has my boy's name on it. Whyat what
Speaker 1: the Wyatt Whitney and International Hip Displacer Institute and by
Speaker 1: guy ship works. So now when you go on the internet,
Speaker 1: all these doctors are trained in the same way coming
Speaker 1: out of that Hip Displacer Institute, and man, they're doing
Speaker 1: unbelievable work at it. And that's how it started. So
Speaker 1: we start. In the meantime, we just started just a
Speaker 1: couple of other things that we did the thing here
Speaker 1: in Nebraska. We did the Madonna Rehabilitation Center that's for
Speaker 1: people with traumatic brain injuries, and that's for kids and veterans,
Speaker 1: and then we started doving into a lot more kids things,
Speaker 1: and so it's mainly vets and children, and so yeah,
Speaker 1: we're just man, it's it's really done well. And I
Speaker 1: gotta tell you it's not huge, you know. I mean
Speaker 1: when I have the golf tournament, it's in Lincoln, Nebraska,
Speaker 1: and it's hard to get hardcore celebrities to come here.
Speaker 1: But man, I get some of the best celebs. For instance,
Speaker 1: you Brian, I can't thank you enough. I mean, you're
Speaker 1: a big star and coming to Lincoln, Nebraska, just your
Speaker 1: name on it. It really all those kind of things
Speaker 1: lifted up. It's I'm getting some of the same ones
Speaker 1: that that playing the ones that were normally, but just
Speaker 1: to get them to come to link in nebraska's pretty
Speaker 1: awesome and so I thank you for that. No, well,
Speaker 1: let me just say this for real. First off, if
Speaker 1: anybody wants to donate, if you're a fan of Dan
Speaker 1: Larry the Cable Guy, Get or Done Foundation, there's a
Speaker 1: website you can give and let me just say this.
Speaker 1: I am coming for two reasons. One because of the
Speaker 1: great work that your foundation is doing, and two because
Speaker 1: of you. Because through all the years now that I've
Speaker 1: been fortunate enough to get to know you play a
Speaker 1: little practice round, even us playing in these tournaments, your
Speaker 1: heart and your kindness comes through every single time, and
Speaker 1: it is always just a pleasure to say that I
Speaker 1: know you and who have gotten to know you over
Speaker 1: these years. So I want to thank you for that.
Speaker 1: Congratulations of course on all of your success, and I
Speaker 1: just want you to know that I am could not
Speaker 1: be more excited. Who who ever said this, I could
Speaker 1: not be more excited than to come to Nebraska and
Speaker 1: see you right, You're You're very kind. Thank you so much,
Speaker 1: and I obviously I'm so happy that you're coming. And
Speaker 1: I love playing with you out in Tahoe. Like I said, though,
Speaker 1: you're always better than me, and I'm trying to get good,
Speaker 1: but you're a very good golfers. So one day, one day,
Speaker 1: maybe I'll make a run of it. You'll you'll make
Speaker 1: a You'll make it. You'll make a run for sure.
Speaker 1: Have you ever hit have you? Have you ever? Have
Speaker 1: you ever hit anybody? I've hit three people so far
Speaker 1: in Tahoe. You know, I remember we have played quite
Speaker 1: a bit together there. I don't think you've ever hit
Speaker 1: anybody with me, but I remember one time you coming
Speaker 1: up to me shaking, very distraught in the tent because
Speaker 1: you would just hit somebody. Oh my gosh, I have
Speaker 1: not I have not hit anybody, thank you. But now
Speaker 1: you've done it. I'm going to hit somebody this year. Yeah. No,
Speaker 1: you'll be fine. You don't shank as much as I do,
Speaker 1: so you'll be good. I will tell you this. I
Speaker 1: did watch another just absolute amazing human being, Charles Barclay,
Speaker 1: so I'm not piling on. But I did play with
Speaker 1: him one time, and I can't remember if you if
Speaker 1: you were the third with us where he hit one
Speaker 1: on eighteen dead right and there was a woman on
Speaker 1: her cell phone. Had she not been on her cell phone,
Speaker 1: it would have hit her in the temple. The ball
Speaker 1: hit right on her cell phone that she was had
Speaker 1: held up to her face. Uh, and broke her cell phone.
Speaker 1: But yeah, it's scared. That's like the one I did.
Speaker 1: I hit that guy on the drive and if his
Speaker 1: cell phone, It hit his cellphone and shattered his cellphone
Speaker 1: and knocked him out gold really. Yeah, that was the
Speaker 1: first year I was there. You're not supposed to laugh
Speaker 1: like that. Well he was okay though, And he was
Speaker 1: okay though. They gave him a bunch of merchandise and
Speaker 1: gave him lifetime tickets. Oh well, that's good. He's good.
Speaker 1: You are a peach. Thank you so much for talking
Speaker 1: to me, and I will see you soon. You gotta
Speaker 1: thanks for having me on Brian and I will see
Speaker 1: you in a couple of weeks and then it will
Speaker 1: tee it up and talk baby. Yeah we will. Dan
Speaker 1: Larry Larry, Dan l D. Maybe maybe it's l D.
Speaker 1: We're gonna work on that swing in a couple of
Speaker 1: weeks in Lincoln. And now that I know how often
Speaker 1: you hit people, well, I guess it's my duty to
Speaker 1: help protect the public from your stray golf balls. But
Speaker 1: I really appreciate you talking to me and learning more
Speaker 1: about you and your life on and off the green.
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