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Joe's like, come, I really want to talk 0:02:49.800 --> 0:02:51.520 to you, Come do the show. I want to talk 0:02:51.520 --> 0:02:54.160 about hunting, and I'm like, dude, I don't want to 0:02:54.200 --> 0:02:55.640 fly to Austin. 0:02:55.320 --> 0:02:57.560 All the way over to off. Well, but. 0:02:59.040 --> 0:03:02.400 I've spent four decades on airplanes and hotel rooms. 0:03:02.639 --> 0:03:06.320 I got you. Yeah, comedy, you can't finish farm No, 0:03:06.320 --> 0:03:07.800 I didn't. I want to finish my intro. Then I 0:03:07.800 --> 0:03:09.200 want to get into what you were talking about. I 0:03:09.200 --> 0:03:13.120 hope it's good. Well, here here's the problem. Problem is 0:03:13.200 --> 0:03:19.519 Krinn wrote the intro okay, but on the subject to Krinn, 0:03:20.560 --> 0:03:23.000 our producer Krinn, as everyone knows is Chinese and Jewish, 0:03:23.040 --> 0:03:26.400 and Jeff's already got half act. That's just such a 0:03:26.440 --> 0:03:29.560 weird combination. I'm not gonna tell anybody the jokes. I 0:03:29.560 --> 0:03:31.960 don't want to ruin him. He's got half act. What 0:03:32.120 --> 0:03:33.520 was the last one? 0:03:34.200 --> 0:03:37.040 The only place that you can go to somebody's house 0:03:37.040 --> 0:03:38.280 and eat Moushu matzabo. 0:03:38.520 --> 0:03:42.640 There you see, You see where it's going. Comedian actor, author, 0:03:42.720 --> 0:03:46.080 television hosts and writer. The reason I was criticizing Kren's introduction, 0:03:46.480 --> 0:03:47.800 she said last night, do you think we should have 0:03:47.840 --> 0:03:51.240 an introduction for Jeff? And yeah, I make one, but 0:03:51.360 --> 0:03:56.200 she only put she put perhaps your greatest work last, 0:03:57.520 --> 0:03:59.200 and you probably don't realize it was your greatest work, 0:03:59.200 --> 0:04:02.920 which is The Incomplete Deer Hunter. Oh my god. So 0:04:03.440 --> 0:04:05.800 i'd like to say. Jeff Foxworthy is the creative of 0:04:05.800 --> 0:04:09.880 The Incomplete Deer Hunter and a comedian, actor, author, television 0:04:09.920 --> 0:04:12.880 hosting writer. He's been nominated for a Grammy. Has a 0:04:12.920 --> 0:04:17.919 book of poems for kids New York Times bestseller. Is 0:04:17.960 --> 0:04:20.880 a member of the Blue Collar Comedy Tour with Larry 0:04:20.880 --> 0:04:22.599 the Cable Guy, who I had no idea his name 0:04:22.640 --> 0:04:24.080 Wasn't Larry, did you not? 0:04:24.360 --> 0:04:26.760 No, you need to get out more. You've spent way 0:04:26.800 --> 0:04:28.040 too much time in the woods. 0:04:28.400 --> 0:04:30.320 You were talking today about how he's played golf for 0:04:30.360 --> 0:04:34.120 thirty years and never got one struck better never, it's 0:04:34.160 --> 0:04:38.760 not even humanly possible. Comedy specialist on Netflix, the good 0:04:38.760 --> 0:04:44.120 old days. And then of course what she has at 0:04:44.120 --> 0:04:46.279 the end, The Incomplete Deer Hunter. And I want to 0:04:46.320 --> 0:04:51.840 add just another thing of your many funny jokes. One 0:04:51.839 --> 0:04:54.720 of my favorites is in one of your records. I 0:04:54.760 --> 0:04:57.320 can't remember which one. You're talking about the impulse too. 0:04:57.520 --> 0:05:00.520 I thought of this being in here, people's impulse to 0:05:00.640 --> 0:05:04.719 dress taxider me up. Yeah, well that's what you don't do. 0:05:05.000 --> 0:05:08.120 And and you were commenting that sometimes people put so 0:05:08.240 --> 0:05:11.080 much stuff on their deer mounths that it looks like 0:05:11.120 --> 0:05:13.480 they got killed at Marty Groun. Yeah, oh yeah. 0:05:13.560 --> 0:05:17.240 They have like beads around them and sunglasses and you know, 0:05:17.400 --> 0:05:19.680 Christmas time you put a little Santa hat on them. 0:05:19.680 --> 0:05:20.640 But they yell a lot of them. 0:05:20.680 --> 0:05:23.039 They stick a cigarette in their mouth and beads on them, 0:05:23.040 --> 0:05:24.599 and dude, I laughed a. 0:05:24.600 --> 0:05:30.240 Lot of shot them at Marty. Yeah. Uh man, let 0:05:30.240 --> 0:05:32.760 me do here. Here's the thing I don't know, Like, 0:05:34.200 --> 0:05:36.000 I got one thing I want to talk about, all right, 0:05:36.080 --> 0:05:38.920 because we do listener feedback, okay, which I'm cutting it 0:05:38.960 --> 0:05:40.640 all all right, So I want to get to your 0:05:40.640 --> 0:05:42.920 story that you're just talking about about how musicians got 0:05:42.920 --> 0:05:45.360 it made and comedians don't. Yeah, but I want to 0:05:45.360 --> 0:05:47.120 tell you one thing because you might have made this mistake. 0:05:47.320 --> 0:05:50.200 This is just one I hate to exclude the audience. 0:05:50.279 --> 0:05:52.800 I want to do one listener feedback, and we like 0:05:52.839 --> 0:05:59.280 to focus on criticisms. Okay, excuse my pedantry. This is 0:05:59.320 --> 0:06:08.080 from a guy named Alex. What's a pedantry? Uh like teachy? Okay, preachy? Right, pedantry. 0:06:08.800 --> 0:06:11.680 Anytime someone starts out a letter with excuse my pedantry, 0:06:11.760 --> 0:06:15.400 you know you're in trouble. Excuse my pedantry. But I 0:06:15.440 --> 0:06:19.080 have noticed Steve committing a pet peeve of mine that 0:06:19.200 --> 0:06:24.240 seems common to most writer types, and it pains me 0:06:24.360 --> 0:06:28.719 not to point it out. He has on multiple occasions, 0:06:28.800 --> 0:06:34.680 most recently, in episode five fourteen, used the phrase reached 0:06:34.839 --> 0:06:41.680 a crescendo to describe an apex or climax. You follow the. 0:06:43.440 --> 0:06:46.400 Look, I'm so glad the criticism is against you. I 0:06:46.800 --> 0:06:49.080 just breathed a sigh of relief. So go so be 0:06:49.240 --> 0:06:52.880 like around midnight. Yeah, it reached a crescendo of noise. 0:06:53.040 --> 0:07:00.520 Yeah, what should it be? Well, However, a crescendo is 0:07:00.839 --> 0:07:07.200 a rising action. It means to increase volume. Crescendo from 0:07:07.279 --> 0:07:10.880 piano quiet to forte loud. It's a musical term. Sure, 0:07:11.400 --> 0:07:15.640 in this example, the forte volume would be the peak 0:07:15.880 --> 0:07:23.720 of intensity. It's not the crescendo. He's right, Yeah, the 0:07:23.840 --> 0:07:29.800 inverse of crescendo would be to d crescendo. My realm 0:07:29.840 --> 0:07:32.480 of expertise is only musical, but my understanding is that 0:07:32.520 --> 0:07:35.320 the same holds true of the word and non musically 0:07:35.400 --> 0:07:40.280 related Italian as well. Italian. I appreciate that. 0:07:40.800 --> 0:07:44.320 Yeah, well, that's what I say about me aging is 0:07:44.400 --> 0:07:49.360 I have eclipsed the apex of my splendor God, which means. 0:07:49.720 --> 0:07:53.560 You know that you're on the now. I want to 0:07:53.560 --> 0:07:54.720 get I want to get back to think you were 0:07:54.720 --> 0:07:59.000 talking about a minute ago and saying that you were 0:07:59.040 --> 0:08:03.360 telling me before alterned the machine on. The musicians got 0:08:03.360 --> 0:08:07.080 it made because the musician can have four hits, yeah, 0:08:07.120 --> 0:08:09.480 and then spend the rest of his life playing those 0:08:09.520 --> 0:08:11.240 four songs, and people are gonna come out. 0:08:11.480 --> 0:08:13.480 Yeah, you'd be ninety years old. They're gonna come to 0:08:13.520 --> 0:08:15.960 hear those four songs. They might like your other stuff, 0:08:15.960 --> 0:08:17.560 but they're there for songs. 0:08:17.640 --> 0:08:18.120 Yeah. 0:08:18.200 --> 0:08:21.080 A comedian, it's the opposite is you know, back in 0:08:21.120 --> 0:08:22.960 the day, you did a record or you did a 0:08:23.000 --> 0:08:29.560 CD and you record a special and people go, oh, 0:08:29.600 --> 0:08:31.840 that was funny. What have you got that's new? Yeah, 0:08:32.200 --> 0:08:35.480 so is a comic. It would be like a musician 0:08:35.520 --> 0:08:38.040 going I'm never playing the hits again. I'm going to 0:08:38.080 --> 0:08:41.960 go write a new album, and once I release that album, 0:08:42.040 --> 0:08:44.960 I'll never play that again. And that's what a comic does, 0:08:46.440 --> 0:08:50.439 which is one of the most agonized. After forty one 0:08:50.520 --> 0:08:53.320 years of doing stand up. It's like I did that 0:08:53.400 --> 0:08:57.640 last special and I'm like, okay, yeah, starting over from camprest. 0:08:57.880 --> 0:08:59.960 Now I'm back to the club with thirty people in 0:09:00.040 --> 0:09:02.600 and no cards in my hand, going is this funny? 0:09:02.679 --> 0:09:05.240 Is this funny? Is this funny? And that's how a 0:09:05.320 --> 0:09:09.760 comic works. The writer David Remnick once observed he was 0:09:09.800 --> 0:09:14.920 profiling Bruce Springsteen, but he observed that he was talking 0:09:14.920 --> 0:09:18.160 about the Rolling Stones. How a band can eventually become 0:09:18.640 --> 0:09:22.199 its own cover band. Yeah, you know, but you're right. 0:09:22.320 --> 0:09:25.960 Your comic can't do that now Springsteen. He can't be 0:09:26.000 --> 0:09:27.680 like I just want to wait till he does the 0:09:27.720 --> 0:09:29.560 one bit and then we'll go home. Yeah. 0:09:29.760 --> 0:09:32.120 No, they don't want to get they've heard that now. 0:09:32.960 --> 0:09:37.480 But I got to meet Bruce one time, and my 0:09:37.679 --> 0:09:40.840 question for him was, I said, how is a twenty 0:09:40.920 --> 0:09:45.120 year old could you write lyrics like young girls sitting 0:09:45.160 --> 0:09:47.560 on the hood of a dodge drinking warm beer in 0:09:47.600 --> 0:09:50.880 the soft summer rain. I said, nobody twenty should be 0:09:50.920 --> 0:09:54.600 able to write that, and he goes, you know, I just. 0:09:55.240 --> 0:09:57.360 Wanted to be writing stuff. I wasn't going to be 0:09:57.400 --> 0:10:02.079 embarrassed singing thirty years later. I'm like mission a conference. 0:10:02.120 --> 0:10:03.360 That's a good that's a good approach. 0:10:04.160 --> 0:10:04.280 Uh. 0:10:04.559 --> 0:10:06.960 Tell everywhere we're at right now, we're at my farm 0:10:07.600 --> 0:10:11.000 about an hour south of Atlanta. Uh, this is my 0:10:11.960 --> 0:10:15.400 if I'm not working, this is my sanctuary, this is 0:10:16.040 --> 0:10:19.320 this is my happy place. I always say when I 0:10:19.360 --> 0:10:22.280 go through the gate, I'm no longer Jeff Foxworthy. I'm 0:10:22.320 --> 0:10:26.080 just Jeff cheapest labor on the farm. I will work 0:10:26.120 --> 0:10:28.319 all day long with a bag of jerky in three 0:10:28.360 --> 0:10:32.880 waters and get on a tractor and happy as a clown. 0:10:33.520 --> 0:10:37.320 You were telling me earlier how people are surprised. Some 0:10:37.360 --> 0:10:40.880 people were surprised that that you wanted land and not 0:10:40.960 --> 0:10:45.760 like Jerry Seinfeld wanted cars. Well, you observe the attractor 0:10:45.840 --> 0:10:47.560 costs more than a lot of his cars. Yeah. 0:10:47.640 --> 0:10:51.800 Well, like when when I did my sitcom, it was 0:10:52.600 --> 0:10:56.040 we film right next to Seinfeld, and so Jerry and 0:10:56.040 --> 0:11:00.400 I had parking places next to each other. He had 0:11:00.440 --> 0:11:03.400 like an aircraft hanger full of Porsches, so every day 0:11:03.600 --> 0:11:06.280 he'd come in with a different Porsche. I had a 0:11:06.320 --> 0:11:10.880 pickup truck. I literally went to Beverly Hills Dodge and 0:11:10.960 --> 0:11:13.840 I said, I want one of the new Ram trucks. 0:11:13.880 --> 0:11:17.240 And the guy goes to drive. He goes to, we 0:11:17.320 --> 0:11:20.160 don't sell those here. I had to go out somewhere 0:11:20.160 --> 0:11:22.360 from so I would pull into it with my pickup 0:11:22.400 --> 0:11:24.320 truck in the spot, and Jerry would wheel in with 0:11:24.360 --> 0:11:26.680 his porch and get out and go, good morning, loser, 0:11:27.320 --> 0:11:30.840 you know, the dude in the pickup truck. But yeah, 0:11:30.840 --> 0:11:33.280 I didn't. I mean, that wasn't my thing. I didn't 0:11:33.320 --> 0:11:36.080 care about car. I want a car, guy. I wanted 0:11:36.120 --> 0:11:39.160 a farm. I wanted to land, and so that's where 0:11:39.200 --> 0:11:41.520 my car money. But I did tell Jerry, I said, 0:11:42.320 --> 0:11:45.640 you really need to come film an episode of comedians 0:11:45.720 --> 0:11:49.120 drinking coffee and tractors, because some of my tractors cost 0:11:49.200 --> 0:11:50.280 more than your porsches. 0:11:50.640 --> 0:11:53.360 Yeah, have you comedians getting beer and tracks? Right? 0:11:54.400 --> 0:11:57.080 I think he would love a tractor or a bulldozer 0:11:57.120 --> 0:11:59.280 and just fill the joy of pushing a tree over 0:11:59.440 --> 0:11:59.880 or something. 0:12:00.120 --> 0:12:03.920 You know, how did uh you have a property because 0:12:03.920 --> 0:12:07.520 you like the hunt? Yeah, it's beautifully managed. You managed 0:12:07.559 --> 0:12:10.720 as a wildlife. It's like you manage for wildlife, deer 0:12:10.840 --> 0:12:14.040 in particular, but you managed for wildlife when you were 0:12:14.040 --> 0:12:16.400 growing up. What was your what was your understanding of 0:12:16.480 --> 0:12:18.280 deer hunting spots? Like what kind of ground did you 0:12:18.320 --> 0:12:19.240 guys hunt as a kid. 0:12:19.360 --> 0:12:21.640 Well, it's funny like growing up in Georgia, we didn't 0:12:21.679 --> 0:12:24.360 have deer when I was a kid. We but you 0:12:24.400 --> 0:12:27.360 squirrel hunted, You quail hunted, your rabbit hunted, and it 0:12:27.480 --> 0:12:31.400 was usually on some relatives farm. Everybody had small farms 0:12:31.440 --> 0:12:35.800 back then, so and my dad didn't have a bird dog, 0:12:35.960 --> 0:12:39.120 so he would buy me briar bridges and then go, hey, 0:12:39.160 --> 0:12:41.680 get down there and walk through there, and I was 0:12:41.760 --> 0:12:42.199 the dog. 0:12:42.280 --> 0:12:44.280 I flushed. What'd your dad do for a living? 0:12:44.520 --> 0:12:46.680 My dad grew up on a farm, but he worked 0:12:46.720 --> 0:12:50.680 at IBM. He did, yeah, he had he was a 0:12:50.720 --> 0:12:52.959 smart dude. But we'd go back to these little farms 0:12:53.000 --> 0:12:56.440 and that's how I learned to hunt. Was like I 0:12:56.520 --> 0:12:59.319 remember being four or five years old and going squirrel 0:12:59.400 --> 0:13:01.280 hunt and learn it. And you got to sit still, 0:13:01.400 --> 0:13:04.880 you can't talk, you can't move, and then it was 0:13:04.960 --> 0:13:07.840 quail hunting. Then it was dove hunting, and then it 0:13:07.880 --> 0:13:12.280 became deer hunting. I hunted by the time I was 0:13:12.280 --> 0:13:15.000 a teenager in Georgia. I hunted two years before I 0:13:15.040 --> 0:13:18.600 saw a deer. Now that was Jeddicart deer two years 0:13:18.600 --> 0:13:21.240 before he saw a deer. Yeah, getting up every weekend, 0:13:21.559 --> 0:13:25.800 going through the motions, getting up Saturday morning, Saturday evening, 0:13:25.880 --> 0:13:30.720 Sunday morning, never saw a deer. And it took me, 0:13:31.200 --> 0:13:33.520 I think, three years, and I finally shot a little 0:13:33.679 --> 0:13:37.040 five point buck, which I thought. 0:13:37.840 --> 0:13:39.960 That's the one he showed me. Well, no, that was 0:13:40.000 --> 0:13:40.559 the second one. 0:13:40.559 --> 0:13:42.640 That was the eight point buck, which had a basket 0:13:42.679 --> 0:13:46.120 wrack like this that I literally I think I didn't 0:13:46.160 --> 0:13:48.080 clean it for three days. I kept driving it through 0:13:48.120 --> 0:13:50.600 town because I was pretty sure it was the state record, 0:13:50.679 --> 0:13:53.600 and I wanted everybody to say I saw it. I 0:13:53.760 --> 0:13:55.520 saw it on the tail gate of his truck. 0:13:56.880 --> 0:13:57.120 You know. 0:13:57.280 --> 0:14:00.000 But you only know what you know. I knew nothing 0:14:00.160 --> 0:14:03.680 about deer hunting. I would I would go like behind 0:14:03.720 --> 0:14:07.920 grocery stores and get palettes, and go to construction sites 0:14:07.960 --> 0:14:09.920 and get two by fours and I would make my 0:14:09.960 --> 0:14:13.640 own stands. I'd get like railroad spikes and go up 0:14:13.640 --> 0:14:15.640 a tree with two by fours and put a palette 0:14:15.679 --> 0:14:18.080 up there, and never thought about the wind, never thought 0:14:18.080 --> 0:14:20.960 about is there a food source or a bedding probably, 0:14:21.000 --> 0:14:25.760 never thought about the safety was no safety, harness, no, 0:14:26.240 --> 0:14:28.840 but never thought about any of that stuff, and climb 0:14:28.920 --> 0:14:30.840 up and you know, after three years one of the 0:14:30.840 --> 0:14:35.520 steps would rote and you'd drop. I mean, it's a 0:14:35.560 --> 0:14:39.680 wonder we're still here. But I knew I loved it. 0:14:39.720 --> 0:14:43.960 I knew I loved being out in the woods by myself, 0:14:44.680 --> 0:14:47.920 which is kind of crazy because like on my dad's farm, 0:14:49.240 --> 0:14:51.800 me and two friends would leave in the morning with 0:14:51.920 --> 0:14:55.040 a twenty two and a twelve game shotgun and take 0:14:55.040 --> 0:14:58.280 off through the woods. We had no cel phone, nobody knew. 0:14:58.120 --> 0:15:00.360 Where we were. We didn't know where we were were. 0:15:00.840 --> 0:15:03.320 You know, we just go explore the woods and ended 0:15:03.400 --> 0:15:06.080 up on a road and walked back home. And it 0:15:06.160 --> 0:15:07.720 was just a totally different time. 0:15:08.520 --> 0:15:11.680 I've told you a couple of times today that I 0:15:11.720 --> 0:15:16.080 had no idea that here in Georgia, you guys, deer 0:15:16.160 --> 0:15:19.760 numbers were so bad that they actually brought in deer 0:15:19.840 --> 0:15:22.280 they had to restop. Yeah, I mean there's a lot 0:15:22.280 --> 0:15:24.400 of areas where it got bad. But I just was 0:15:24.440 --> 0:15:26.360 not aware that they had to do like that, they 0:15:26.360 --> 0:15:29.240 had to do a white tailed deer reintroduction in Georgia. 0:15:29.320 --> 0:15:32.160 Yeah, yeah, and did it during the fifties. It's like 0:15:32.160 --> 0:15:35.040 I told you as a kid, Yeah, never saw a deer. 0:15:36.040 --> 0:15:37.880 And we're lucky here at the farm because most of 0:15:37.880 --> 0:15:40.160 the deer they brought into Georgia they brought from Texas. 0:15:40.760 --> 0:15:43.840 In our particular area, they came down from Wisconsin, so 0:15:43.920 --> 0:15:47.320 our deer were kind of bigger horned and bigger bodied, 0:15:47.360 --> 0:15:50.520 and it's just a real good portion of the state. 0:15:50.240 --> 0:15:52.840 To hont end. When you were little, what kind of 0:15:53.680 --> 0:15:57.440 you've done a lot of comedy about hunting and sort 0:15:57.440 --> 0:16:00.160 of like parodies on hunting. When you were little, you 0:16:00.520 --> 0:16:04.320 were you aware of any kind of like hunting videos 0:16:04.360 --> 0:16:06.520 and stuff like were you going out and buying VHS 0:16:06.560 --> 0:16:09.200 tapes the instructional hunting content? 0:16:09.320 --> 0:16:12.440 Dude, I had no idea. So when I was a kid, 0:16:12.880 --> 0:16:15.120 I would save my allowance and I would buy comedy 0:16:15.160 --> 0:16:20.000 records Bill Cosby, Flip Wilson, Jerry Klower, you know, and 0:16:20.040 --> 0:16:22.320 I'd memorize them and I'd go to school and I 0:16:22.320 --> 0:16:26.640 could do the whole album, and so, you know, I 0:16:26.720 --> 0:16:32.080 was the funny kid. But I never, you know, hunting 0:16:32.280 --> 0:16:34.760 was hunting. And I remember the first time I was 0:16:34.840 --> 0:16:41.840 probably thirty, that I saw a real tree hunting video, 0:16:41.920 --> 0:16:46.560 a deer hunting video, and I'm like, oh my gosh, 0:16:46.600 --> 0:16:51.840 people other people can experience deer hunting. Of course, it 0:16:51.960 --> 0:16:56.160 was way bigger deer than I ever had seen, you know, 0:16:56.280 --> 0:17:00.560 But but it kind of led to in you mentioned 0:17:00.640 --> 0:17:06.320 this in the intro part of hunting. There's that solitary 0:17:06.920 --> 0:17:10.560 part that's really good, but there's also that communal part 0:17:10.880 --> 0:17:13.680 that you get in a deer camp, not when you're 0:17:13.720 --> 0:17:18.240 out actually hunting, but in the camp where it's a 0:17:18.400 --> 0:17:21.160 very social thing and there's a lot of laughter going on. 0:17:21.560 --> 0:17:24.919 And so I thought, well, if guys are watching videos 0:17:24.920 --> 0:17:28.320 of hunts, why wouldn't they watch funny videos too, And 0:17:28.400 --> 0:17:31.359 so I came up with the Incomplete Deer Hunter. Somebody 0:17:31.400 --> 0:17:33.919 asked me a while back, they said, who did you 0:17:34.000 --> 0:17:38.359 write those? I went, right, yeah, No, we were in 0:17:38.359 --> 0:17:41.719 the woods with deer suits. We had made going what 0:17:41.760 --> 0:17:44.640 if we do this, this and this? But I thought 0:17:45.680 --> 0:17:48.520 and it was it was a crazy idea. We sold 0:17:48.840 --> 0:17:50.280 millions of those. 0:17:50.960 --> 0:17:54.560 But it's like, maybe you didn't write them, but there's 0:17:54.600 --> 0:17:58.359 a lot of you know, this is the thing I 0:17:58.359 --> 0:18:00.359 want to ask about. Anyways, this is the there's like 0:18:00.440 --> 0:18:03.560 laughing at your culture from the inside and laughing from 0:18:03.600 --> 0:18:07.320 the outside. And this is something you know intimately. Well, like, yeah, 0:18:07.640 --> 0:18:10.840 your whole expertise is laughing from the inside. 0:18:11.280 --> 0:18:14.199 Well, I'll give you a great example. Like, so you 0:18:14.280 --> 0:18:18.280 grew up in Michigan, right, And so I was the 0:18:18.359 --> 0:18:24.960 kid when I started comedy. I wore jeans, I wore boots, 0:18:25.880 --> 0:18:30.439 I drove a truck, and I was I was just 0:18:30.520 --> 0:18:33.119 the outdoor kid. But I'm the comedian now in the 0:18:33.119 --> 0:18:36.560 clubs and I'm up in Michigan and it was like 0:18:36.960 --> 0:18:39.200 November and I'm like, man, I ought to be sitting 0:18:39.240 --> 0:18:41.080 in a tree in the morning. You know, it's the 0:18:41.080 --> 0:18:42.760 middle of the road. I need to be in a tree. 0:18:42.760 --> 0:18:45.879 And they were kidding me. I was playing right outside Detroit, 0:18:45.960 --> 0:18:49.120 little town called Lavonia. 0:18:48.200 --> 0:18:48.600 And. 0:18:50.359 --> 0:18:52.080 We were sitting around and they were going fox for 0:18:52.240 --> 0:18:54.760 of you nothing but an old redneck from Georgia. Well, 0:18:54.880 --> 0:18:58.040 the club that we were playing in was attached to 0:18:58.160 --> 0:19:02.360 a bowling alley that had parking. And I said, if 0:19:02.359 --> 0:19:04.359 you don't think you have read Nicks in Michigan. Go 0:19:04.440 --> 0:19:08.439 look out the window. People are valet parking at the 0:19:08.720 --> 0:19:13.880 Bowling Alley. And I went back to the hotel that night, 0:19:13.920 --> 0:19:15.680 and I didn't think it was going to be a hook. 0:19:15.720 --> 0:19:17.399 I didn't think it was going to be a book 0:19:17.520 --> 0:19:20.760 or t shirts. I just thought, maybe this is funny material. 0:19:20.760 --> 0:19:22.520 And I wrote ten ways how to tell how you 0:19:22.560 --> 0:19:25.640 might be a Redneck? And I went back the next 0:19:25.760 --> 0:19:28.120 night and just try to stand up. And not only 0:19:28.160 --> 0:19:30.520 were people laughing, they were pointing at each other. Well, 0:19:30.560 --> 0:19:33.320 every one of them was things my family had done. 0:19:33.960 --> 0:19:36.280 You know, if your front porch collapses and kills more 0:19:36.320 --> 0:19:39.120 than three dogs, that was my uncle Bob's house. When 0:19:39.160 --> 0:19:41.199 you pulled up in the driveway, the whole bottom of 0:19:41.200 --> 0:19:44.320 the house just erupted with dogs. If you have a 0:19:44.320 --> 0:19:46.760 complete set of salad bowls and they all say cool 0:19:46.760 --> 0:19:50.680 whip off the side, that's my sister. It's nothing but buttertubs, 0:19:50.720 --> 0:19:54.680 cool whip dubs, and jelly glasses. So I wasn't laughing 0:19:54.720 --> 0:19:59.880 at somebody, I'm laughing with, you know, And that's kind 0:19:59.880 --> 0:20:05.000 of always spend my comedy. My My template is is 0:20:05.080 --> 0:20:07.320 I feel like if if I think something or my 0:20:07.359 --> 0:20:10.639 wife says something, or my family does something. I'm gonna 0:20:10.680 --> 0:20:13.760 trust other people are thinking you're saying and doing the 0:20:13.800 --> 0:20:14.280 same thing. 0:20:14.520 --> 0:20:18.359 That that that that the one it works is because 0:20:18.400 --> 0:20:22.239 there's an expertise of the subject matter, you know. And 0:20:22.240 --> 0:20:26.040 I'm like laugh about your incomplete deer hunter thing is 0:20:26.160 --> 0:20:28.800 when you guys have the deer suits on and the 0:20:28.840 --> 0:20:30.879 deer kind of like coaching all the other deer about 0:20:30.960 --> 0:20:33.760 coach fucking coaching. Yeah, like this year's game plan, and 0:20:33.800 --> 0:20:37.600 there's like very sort of like specific references the coach 0:20:37.680 --> 0:20:40.800 is telling the other deer. He's like when all you 0:20:40.920 --> 0:20:45.000 does and little bucks come out in the field, don't 0:20:45.040 --> 0:20:47.399 look back when I come out in the field. 0:20:47.520 --> 0:20:51.159 Yeah, just tell them I'm coming. 0:20:51.320 --> 0:20:54.000 Yeah, but that was all experienced. Oh yeah, that's what 0:20:54.000 --> 0:20:56.119 I'm saying. It's like you're like you're watching it, like, no, 0:20:56.200 --> 0:20:58.960 these dudes actually hunt, because no one would ever, like ever, 0:20:59.640 --> 0:21:02.200 if I the outsider was goofing on redneggs, a goofing 0:21:02.240 --> 0:21:05.040 on deer hunters, they would never know that little bit 0:21:05.080 --> 0:21:08.280 of body language. Yeah, where a hunter's like there's something 0:21:08.320 --> 0:21:10.440 in the wood still because those deer keep looking back 0:21:10.480 --> 0:21:10.840 in there. 0:21:11.480 --> 0:21:14.280 And that's what I tell young comics, I said, talk 0:21:14.280 --> 0:21:17.639 about what you know about uh huh uh. It's like 0:21:17.760 --> 0:21:20.040 when I wrote ten redneck jokes, I thought, well, if 0:21:20.040 --> 0:21:22.119 I write ten, kind of write fifty. And then we 0:21:22.160 --> 0:21:23.879 wrote fifty, I might kind of write a hundred. And 0:21:23.880 --> 0:21:26.000 I got like three hundred of them. I sent them 0:21:26.040 --> 0:21:30.680 to fourteen different publishers and got rejected, Well you did, yeah, 0:21:30.840 --> 0:21:33.639 rejected by the first fourteen. And I sent it to 0:21:33.680 --> 0:21:35.840 the fifteen and he called me and he said, come in, 0:21:35.960 --> 0:21:40.360 let's talk. And he said, he said, I think this 0:21:40.440 --> 0:21:45.359 is funny. He said, how does fifteen hundred dollars set Steve? 0:21:45.359 --> 0:21:47.959 I thought he was asking me for fifteen hundred bucks, 0:21:48.080 --> 0:21:51.560 and so I'm like, uh, because I didn't have fifteen 0:21:51.640 --> 0:21:54.679 hundred bucks. And he goes, no, no, no, we'll pay you. 0:21:54.720 --> 0:21:57.520 I'm like, hell, yeah, let's do it, you know. And 0:21:57.560 --> 0:21:59.880 I remember asking him, I said, how many of these 0:22:00.119 --> 0:22:02.720 you think we'll sell? How many books? And he said, oh, 0:22:02.760 --> 0:22:05.360 I bet we sell five thousand of them. I think 0:22:05.400 --> 0:22:08.640 we sold four million of them. You know, because who 0:22:08.720 --> 0:22:13.760 was the publisher Longstreet Press, but small publisher in Atlanta. 0:22:14.040 --> 0:22:19.000 But but from doing comedy, I'd been to all fifty states. 0:22:19.040 --> 0:22:21.879 I didn't hang in LA in New York. I was 0:22:21.920 --> 0:22:25.520