WEBVTT - Episode 46: Common Sense with Larry the Cable Guy 0:00:00.080 --> 0:00:02.800 Pop next The Truth with Lisa bof Are the game 0:00:02.840 --> 0:00:09.520 which we live in a bizarro world. Everyone's gone mad. 0:00:09.640 --> 0:00:12.160 People have literally gone in spaine. We've seen this. CDC 0:00:12.400 --> 0:00:15.560 recently just casually dropped truth bombs that you weren't allowed 0:00:15.560 --> 0:00:19.040 to say a year ago, a few months ago after 0:00:19.200 --> 0:00:24.040 you know, destroying all these lives, and like peak insanity 0:00:24.160 --> 0:00:26.120 of it is we've recently found out. I mean, we've 0:00:26.160 --> 0:00:28.640 known this, but they've recently admitted that you've almost eighty 0:00:28.680 --> 0:00:30.560 percent of the people who are aspal it's placed on 0:00:30.600 --> 0:00:33.479 a ventilator or died from COVID or overweight. Yet you 0:00:33.560 --> 0:00:36.960 had the media like peddling and pushing Krispy Kreme giving 0:00:36.960 --> 0:00:39.199 out free donuts to get a vaccine. I think it 0:00:39.280 --> 0:00:42.760 was like cheeseburgers or hamburgers in New York City, which 0:00:42.800 --> 0:00:46.720 pretty much summarizes how dumb the past two years have been. 0:00:46.760 --> 0:00:49.000 But even more than that, it's like this elitism thing 0:00:49.000 --> 0:00:51.080 where they just don't care. They don't care about the 0:00:51.120 --> 0:00:54.240 carnage that they've done, they don't care about how much 0:00:54.280 --> 0:00:58.120 harm they've caused, like real Americans. So today we're gonna 0:00:58.160 --> 0:01:00.040 get to heart the heart of all of it and 0:01:00.120 --> 0:01:03.040 some common sense and some laughs and some levity with 0:01:03.120 --> 0:01:05.480 Daniel Whitney Larry the Cable Guy. I don't know if 0:01:05.480 --> 0:01:07.480 you have all been following him on Twitter, but I have. 0:01:07.600 --> 0:01:10.160 He's been dropping truth bombs left and right, making fun 0:01:10.160 --> 0:01:13.320 of these people, calling attention to the insanity of all 0:01:13.360 --> 0:01:15.080 of it. So that's what we're gonna do today. We're 0:01:15.080 --> 0:01:17.440 going to make fun of all of them. We're going 0:01:17.480 --> 0:01:20.480 to laugh, We're gonna mock these idiots in charge. With 0:01:20.560 --> 0:01:23.240 Daniel Whitney Larry the Cable Guy. We're also going to 0:01:23.319 --> 0:01:26.800 talk about his work. We're gonna talk about the blue 0:01:26.800 --> 0:01:29.280 Collar Comedy Tour. We're gonna talk about what it is 0:01:29.319 --> 0:01:32.080 like to sit in that chair on Comedy Central and 0:01:32.120 --> 0:01:36.240 just get roasted. So a lot of laughs, a lot 0:01:36.280 --> 0:01:39.679 of fun, and a lot of levity. Stay tuned for 0:01:39.800 --> 0:01:51.840 Daniel Whitney Larry the Cable Guy. So I'm sure everyone 0:01:51.880 --> 0:01:56.600 has noticed, but basically, the world's insane. Everyone's lost their mind, 0:01:56.720 --> 0:01:59.520 nobody knows how to reason anymore, there's no common sense. 0:01:59.600 --> 0:02:02.320 So I wanted to bring someone on the podcast this 0:02:02.360 --> 0:02:05.640 week to bring some levity to the situation, someone who 0:02:05.720 --> 0:02:09.079 is hilarious but also very wise. And common sense. If 0:02:09.080 --> 0:02:10.880 you follow him on Twitter, he makes a lot more 0:02:10.919 --> 0:02:13.239 sense than a lot of the public health official and 0:02:13.280 --> 0:02:15.280 the crazy people have been guiding us over the past 0:02:15.320 --> 0:02:19.800 couple of years. Uh So, Larry the Cable Guy wrote 0:02:19.960 --> 0:02:24.200 Daniel Whitney, otherwise known as Larry the Cable Guy. You know, Dan, 0:02:24.280 --> 0:02:26.679 thanks so much for joining the show. Um so good 0:02:26.680 --> 0:02:29.239 to have you. Oh yeah, thanks for asking me to 0:02:29.320 --> 0:02:31.919 come on. And I apologize I'm in my car right 0:02:31.960 --> 0:02:35.360 now because I got my time zone screwed up. But no, 0:02:36.320 --> 0:02:39.120 I'm happy to be on. Thank you. Also, are we 0:02:39.160 --> 0:02:41.120 close enough for me to call you? Dan? Are we? 0:02:41.320 --> 0:02:45.800 Is that? Uhstely? Absolutely? You know that's a That's the 0:02:45.840 --> 0:02:49.679 crazy thing about my whole career. You know. Um, I'm 0:02:49.680 --> 0:02:53.760 a kid, you know, I'm in that long line of 0:02:54.360 --> 0:02:59.560 one liner character comedians. And uh I did a bunch 0:02:59.639 --> 0:03:02.959 of care acts, but the Letter the Cable Guy thing 0:03:03.320 --> 0:03:06.640 just took off and just real briefly, I'll tell you 0:03:07.280 --> 0:03:09.720 I was working on this character way back in the 0:03:09.800 --> 0:03:13.800 late eighties the early nineties, and uh, I'll tell you 0:03:13.840 --> 0:03:16.079 who gave me incentive to keep doing it. I got 0:03:16.080 --> 0:03:18.240 off stage one night at the Comedy Corner in West 0:03:18.280 --> 0:03:22.960 Palm Beach, Florida doing the character, and just so happened 0:03:22.960 --> 0:03:25.519 to work that week. They were co headlining was David 0:03:25.520 --> 0:03:29.280 Spade and Rob Snider from Saturday Night Live, and both 0:03:29.320 --> 0:03:32.640 of them came up to me and said, man, damn, 0:03:33.120 --> 0:03:36.480 you gotta keep doing that. That's hilarious. That's like a 0:03:36.560 --> 0:03:40.280 Saturday Night Live character. That was so funny. And I 0:03:40.360 --> 0:03:42.400 was just blown away by it because those guys were 0:03:42.400 --> 0:03:45.440 out Saturday Night Live and you know, and so I did. 0:03:45.520 --> 0:03:47.760 I just kept working on it, and I'm friends with 0:03:47.840 --> 0:03:53.120 those guys, uh today, and uh so it's just crazy. 0:03:53.240 --> 0:03:58.120 So everything I did from that point on it became 0:03:58.840 --> 0:04:02.920 it just became the huge deal. And you know, we 0:04:03.000 --> 0:04:05.720 had merchandise and all kinds of stuff, and there were 0:04:05.800 --> 0:04:08.920 times when I said, it's like when I did to 0:04:09.040 --> 0:04:11.200 pitch our stuff, and when I did made her, I 0:04:11.320 --> 0:04:15.120 was like, you know, I'd like to do this as myself, 0:04:15.200 --> 0:04:19.839 as Dan Whitney, and then my management would always go, no, man, 0:04:19.960 --> 0:04:22.240 Larry the cable guy in a brand. It's a brand. 0:04:22.360 --> 0:04:24.279 You've got a whole brand. You gotta keep it in 0:04:24.320 --> 0:04:27.400 the brand. And so so I did. So it's really 0:04:27.480 --> 0:04:30.159 funny now every time I do something people are conflicted 0:04:30.200 --> 0:04:33.839 of what sh they call me? But I mean like 0:04:34.160 --> 0:04:36.760 you turned a bit into like a huge thing, right, 0:04:36.800 --> 0:04:39.320 like as you mentioned, like Made Her and cars. Like 0:04:39.360 --> 0:04:41.880 my producer was like, oh, like, my son's like so 0:04:41.920 --> 0:04:43.840 stoked because you know it's you're from Made Her, right, 0:04:43.920 --> 0:04:48.239 Like You've done I mean you've had billboards, comedy albums 0:04:48.240 --> 0:04:51.280 that have certified gold, you know, multiple movies. I mean, 0:04:51.279 --> 0:04:53.480 you've done the blue collar comedy. I mean you've done 0:04:53.520 --> 0:04:55.840 like so much with it. So it's like, I mean, 0:04:55.920 --> 0:04:57.719 is it kind of blow your mind that you sort 0:04:57.760 --> 0:05:00.400 of like you know, kind of came up with this idea, 0:05:00.680 --> 0:05:03.640 this like character, and then now it's sort of morphed 0:05:03.680 --> 0:05:06.880 into this like monster thing you talked about, like merchandise 0:05:06.920 --> 0:05:09.359 and like all this other stuff. It's kind of crazy 0:05:09.440 --> 0:05:13.800 to back on all that. Yeah, it's it's been amazing. 0:05:13.839 --> 0:05:17.720 I'm very thankful. I you know, I never expected any 0:05:17.800 --> 0:05:21.360 of that. I just, unlike a lot of comedians, you 0:05:21.520 --> 0:05:23.680 just wanted to die into the business because you like 0:05:23.800 --> 0:05:26.960 being funny and you like making people laugh, and you 0:05:27.120 --> 0:05:29.800 just wanted to make the living at it and do 0:05:29.920 --> 0:05:32.880 something that you loved. And anything else that came along 0:05:33.040 --> 0:05:37.240 was extra and so like all that stuff, the movies, 0:05:38.080 --> 0:05:41.279 the book, all that stuff just came along. I didn't 0:05:41.279 --> 0:05:43.200 even ask for it. I remember when I did my 0:05:43.279 --> 0:05:46.520 first movie, I didn't even know it was for theatrical 0:05:46.640 --> 0:05:50.320 release till the last week of filming, you know. I 0:05:50.360 --> 0:05:52.440 mean that came to me and said, hey, we want 0:05:52.480 --> 0:05:53.920 to do a movie. You want to do a movie, 0:05:54.040 --> 0:05:56.320 and I'm like, yeah, let's do a movie. You have 0:05:56.480 --> 0:06:00.240 to be awesome. Well, well you should ask well kind 0:06:00.240 --> 0:06:04.600 of movie because I could also get you well exactly. Well. 0:06:04.640 --> 0:06:06.800 The first thing I ever did was Yer the Cave 0:06:06.880 --> 0:06:11.039 by Health Inspector, and uh so they got this good. 0:06:11.080 --> 0:06:13.480 They go, we got this movie called The Health Inspector. 0:06:13.560 --> 0:06:16.800 Lardy the cable guys the Health Inspector. It's a funny script. 0:06:17.360 --> 0:06:19.520 And so we're thinking about doing some movies with you. 0:06:19.720 --> 0:06:22.600 And I'm like, man, that is awesome, and they go, um, 0:06:22.680 --> 0:06:24.120 you want to do it? And I said, well, was 0:06:24.200 --> 0:06:26.200 it funny? And they go, well, we'll send you the script. 0:06:26.200 --> 0:06:27.839 And I said, well did you read the script? And 0:06:27.839 --> 0:06:29.280 they go yeah, And I go is that funny? They go, 0:06:29.360 --> 0:06:34.640 yeah's hilarious. I said that's good enough for me. Well, 0:06:34.960 --> 0:06:37.760 and it all worked out. Yeah, most of this stuff 0:06:37.800 --> 0:06:40.279 I had lived to it anyway. So but you know, 0:06:40.400 --> 0:06:44.719 I've just been very grateful, very thankful, uh that people 0:06:44.880 --> 0:06:48.600 enjoy my sense of humor. And I've always been a 0:06:48.640 --> 0:06:54.480 fan of one liner comedians and old time comics and 0:06:54.480 --> 0:06:57.440 and so yeah, it's it's been pretty awesome. So you 0:06:57.640 --> 0:07:01.800 left college to try to pursue comedy, right, Yeah, I 0:07:01.839 --> 0:07:05.640 actually did you know? I played baseball in college and 0:07:05.680 --> 0:07:07.960 I wasn't a very good student. I wasn't you know. 0:07:08.240 --> 0:07:12.600 I I enjoyed school because I enjoyed people, and I 0:07:12.640 --> 0:07:14.960 was just having fun in college. But I didn't know 0:07:15.640 --> 0:07:18.880 really what I wanted to do. But I I set 0:07:18.920 --> 0:07:22.920 out a semester. I went to semester so that I 0:07:22.960 --> 0:07:26.960 could make money. So this is back when parents actually 0:07:27.680 --> 0:07:34.680 made um their kids work for college, you know. Yeah, 0:07:34.680 --> 0:07:37.080 I actually had to get a job and play for college. 0:07:37.680 --> 0:07:40.880 And so I sat out and I started working, and 0:07:40.880 --> 0:07:44.960 then I was making good money as a bellhop and man, 0:07:45.040 --> 0:07:48.080 I just I my friends dared me to go on stage. 0:07:48.080 --> 0:07:51.760 One night. I went on stage and I just got hooked. 0:07:51.960 --> 0:07:55.160 I loved stand up, I loved comedy, and I just 0:07:55.240 --> 0:07:58.080 never went back to school because I kind of figured men, 0:07:58.160 --> 0:08:01.200 I really like doing this, And that's when I said, man, 0:08:01.200 --> 0:08:03.760 in fact, can make a living doing this and I'd 0:08:03.760 --> 0:08:07.040 be happy. So that's why that's when I started doing it. 0:08:07.320 --> 0:08:09.520 How hard is it? I imagine, like because there's so 0:08:09.560 --> 0:08:12.200 many people, I mean, it's such a competitive industry, right, 0:08:12.200 --> 0:08:14.880 Like there's so many improvs, there's so many people trying 0:08:14.880 --> 0:08:17.360 to get in to make a name of themselves. I 0:08:17.360 --> 0:08:20.760 imagine it's just got to be like an incredibly tough 0:08:20.760 --> 0:08:22.760 industry to cut your teeth in and make a name in. 0:08:23.120 --> 0:08:26.600 How hard is it? Yeah, you know it? Uh, man, 0:08:26.840 --> 0:08:31.080 it takes a lot of work. It's it's it's changed 0:08:31.160 --> 0:08:38.280 from today than it did when I started. Um uh, 0:08:38.440 --> 0:08:40.800 you had to do a ton of one night or 0:08:40.800 --> 0:08:43.160 as he had to pack your car and then a 0:08:43.200 --> 0:08:46.360 lot of comedians still do that. But you know, we 0:08:46.400 --> 0:08:52.200 didn't have those. Uh, we didn't have podcasts, and we 0:08:52.240 --> 0:08:55.280 didn't have all these other venues to get your name out. 0:08:56.720 --> 0:08:59.480 We had you either did it two ways. You either 0:08:59.559 --> 0:09:03.640 just your butt on the road constantly, or you moved 0:09:03.640 --> 0:09:06.600 to l a New York and you went up constantly 0:09:06.640 --> 0:09:11.160 every night hoping that you would be discovered by somebody. Um, 0:09:11.280 --> 0:09:15.840 I took a more unconventional route where I did not 0:09:15.960 --> 0:09:21.000 go to Layer, New York. But I started pushing my 0:09:21.240 --> 0:09:24.600 character Larry the Cable Guy on radio stations all across 0:09:24.640 --> 0:09:28.839 the country. And so what I did was I just 0:09:28.920 --> 0:09:33.800 became a part of everyone's everyday routine. Because back in 0:09:33.880 --> 0:09:37.600 those days, back in the eighties in the early nineties 0:09:38.200 --> 0:09:41.840 morning radio, everybody had their favorite morning radio show when 0:09:41.880 --> 0:09:44.079 they would go to work and come back home, and 0:09:44.440 --> 0:09:48.560 they had those familiar voices. So I became part of 0:09:48.600 --> 0:09:51.199 everyone familiar voice on the way to work and the 0:09:51.280 --> 0:09:55.280 way home from work. And that's what enabled me to 0:09:55.679 --> 0:09:59.720 uh start doing Larry the Cable Guy in comedy clubs 0:09:59.800 --> 0:10:02.360 in the cities where I was on on the radio, 0:10:02.880 --> 0:10:05.160 and it just became popular that way. So I never 0:10:05.200 --> 0:10:07.280 had to go to l A or New York. I 0:10:07.320 --> 0:10:12.480 did it um just by merely getting up early every 0:10:12.520 --> 0:10:16.720 morning at six o'clock every morning and going through a 0:10:16.880 --> 0:10:23.199 rolodex of of morning shows across the country that had 0:10:23.440 --> 0:10:25.640 put me on to do three and a half four 0:10:25.679 --> 0:10:28.480 minutes of comedy in the form of a commentary. So 0:10:28.760 --> 0:10:32.360 how much of like jokes are like you're you're you 0:10:32.400 --> 0:10:33.920 know kind of just like in the car, you think 0:10:33.960 --> 0:10:36.280 of something funny, you write it down, versus like you're 0:10:36.280 --> 0:10:39.000 just on stage and you're like freestyling. Like, what what's 0:10:39.000 --> 0:10:42.000 sort of that like process like in terms of you know, 0:10:42.040 --> 0:10:43.760 coming up with some of these jokes, coming up with 0:10:43.800 --> 0:10:45.719 some of these bits. What does that look like for 0:10:45.760 --> 0:10:48.840 a comedian? Well, you know, early on, you have a 0:10:48.960 --> 0:10:51.200 set of jokes that you know we're gonna work, and 0:10:51.280 --> 0:10:53.880 you try and you go up and you have to 0:10:54.000 --> 0:10:56.400 you do those every night. You're not comfortable, you haven't 0:10:56.400 --> 0:10:58.440 done a stand up. You're trying to figure it out. 0:10:59.240 --> 0:11:02.720 But when you get a few jokes that work, obviously 0:11:02.760 --> 0:11:04.839 you go up and do those and then you try 0:11:04.840 --> 0:11:07.199 out other material. But the more you do it, it's 0:11:07.240 --> 0:11:09.560 like Steve Martin said, it takes a good ten years 0:11:10.120 --> 0:11:12.760 just to get comfortable with yourself on stage to where 0:11:12.760 --> 0:11:15.680 you can really let loose. And that's pretty much what 0:11:15.760 --> 0:11:17.880 happened to me. After a while, when you get a 0:11:17.880 --> 0:11:21.199 pretty good set list down and you're feeling comfortable on stage, 0:11:21.800 --> 0:11:26.720 that when you just start tagging jokes and creating material 0:11:26.840 --> 0:11:32.400 while you're on stage and uh so, uh it starts 0:11:32.400 --> 0:11:35.920 out slow. You know, you bomb a lot and then 0:11:36.000 --> 0:11:38.640 you get a joke here and a joke there, and 0:11:38.640 --> 0:11:42.480 and then as you continue to do it, and time 0:11:42.559 --> 0:11:44.959 goes on and you get more and more stage time, 0:11:45.720 --> 0:11:48.680 you get start feeling really comfortable, and then the real 0:11:48.800 --> 0:11:52.080 you starts to show up and and then you can 0:11:52.160 --> 0:11:59.520 really really um start to to write as you're on stage. Um. 0:11:59.559 --> 0:12:01.760 I want those comics that do that. I know there's 0:12:01.760 --> 0:12:06.280 some comics that stick to a script, but I do 0:12:06.400 --> 0:12:08.800 a lot of I definitely do a lot of my 0:12:08.960 --> 0:12:12.560 writing on stage and adding onto jokes. I'll do a 0:12:12.640 --> 0:12:15.440 one liner and then I'll follow it up with another punch, 0:12:15.440 --> 0:12:19.960 another punch, and another punch. And some of those are 0:12:20.000 --> 0:12:21.880 you just sit down and think of him, man, But 0:12:22.200 --> 0:12:25.040 a majority of them or you're just in the zone 0:12:25.160 --> 0:12:28.040 and you're on a roll and man, it just it 0:12:28.200 --> 0:12:30.959 just pops in your head and you just go with it. 0:12:31.280 --> 0:12:34.960 How much fun was the Blue Collar Comedy Tour? Oh man? 0:12:35.040 --> 0:12:38.360 That was probably the greatest thing ever. I mean, those 0:12:38.400 --> 0:12:41.960 are some of the greatest memories I'll ever has. Um. 0:12:42.000 --> 0:12:44.240 You know, it's really cool. And they started calling this 0:12:44.559 --> 0:12:52.000 uh the uh the redneck um uh rat the redneck 0:12:52.120 --> 0:12:55.560 rat pack, you know, because it really was. It was 0:12:55.600 --> 0:12:58.640 like a redneck rat pack, and I don't think there'll 0:12:58.679 --> 0:13:01.319 ever be anything else to come along like that. It 0:13:02.160 --> 0:13:05.800 happened just at the right time, at the at the 0:13:05.960 --> 0:13:10.240 exact moment it should have happened, and uh, we just 0:13:10.400 --> 0:13:13.560 had a blast. Those are memories that none of us 0:13:13.640 --> 0:13:17.440 will ever forget. And and people always ask what we 0:13:17.480 --> 0:13:19.440 ever do it again? And I'm gonna be honest, I 0:13:19.480 --> 0:13:21.720 don't know if we ever will do it again, because 0:13:22.160 --> 0:13:25.439 here's the risk you run. It was such an awesome 0:13:25.800 --> 0:13:29.840 it was such an awesome thing to do and to 0:13:30.040 --> 0:13:33.480 have that. I don't think it can ever be replicated, 0:13:33.840 --> 0:13:35.880 you know. I mean, you don't want you want people 0:13:35.880 --> 0:13:39.400 to remember for what it was. You don't want to 0:13:39.440 --> 0:13:41.800 start to do it again and then people go, ah, 0:13:41.920 --> 0:13:44.240 it was funny, but boy, back in the day it 0:13:44.360 --> 0:13:47.400 was even better. You know, we'd like to avoid those 0:13:47.440 --> 0:13:50.640 back in the days. You know, you don't want that, 0:13:50.720 --> 0:13:52.800 do you want to be remembered? Well, no, that's that's 0:13:52.840 --> 0:13:55.360 totally fair. Because like I'm watching the like Sex and 0:13:55.400 --> 0:13:57.840 the City reboot, it's like nothing, you know, first of all, 0:13:57.880 --> 0:14:00.160 it's been so long, but it's like it's not out. 0:14:01.000 --> 0:14:02.920 It doesn't capture with like sex in the city, you 0:14:02.960 --> 0:14:04.520 know what I mean. So it's like sometimes I think 0:14:04.720 --> 0:14:06.800 like people try to remake stuff and it's just like, 0:14:07.520 --> 0:14:10.520 you know, like keep the magic, how people remember it, 0:14:10.679 --> 0:14:13.920 you know, like sometimes you don't recruit, you can't recreate magic. Sometimes, 0:14:13.960 --> 0:14:18.200 you know, absolutely when you when you it's never the same. 0:14:18.280 --> 0:14:20.520 It's like when they try to recreate TV shows or 0:14:20.520 --> 0:14:23.720 were classics, they're just not the same. They're funny and 0:14:23.760 --> 0:14:25.760 there's some good ditch and they're they're not the same. 0:14:25.840 --> 0:14:28.960 We we're trying to that that. We don't want that 0:14:29.080 --> 0:14:32.080 to happen, you know. I know, I'm not discounting one 0:14:32.160 --> 0:14:34.880 day when we're all in our seventies, maybe seeing us 0:14:34.960 --> 0:14:38.840 for a weekend in Vegas as a reunion tour. But 0:14:39.440 --> 0:14:42.160 I mean, but as fun as right now, we don't 0:14:42.160 --> 0:14:46.640 even we don't even entertain that idea. So what's it 0:14:46.760 --> 0:14:49.400 like to get roasted? Because you did? You got roasted 0:14:49.560 --> 0:14:52.080 in a Comedy Central. I always like watch those and 0:14:52.120 --> 0:14:54.760 I wonder what it feels like to be the person 0:14:54.880 --> 0:14:58.480 who's just getting like, you know, completely botted by the 0:14:58.520 --> 0:15:02.360 people around you. What's it what's it like to be roasted? Well, 0:15:02.440 --> 0:15:04.640 number when you gotta have real thick skin, and you've 0:15:04.680 --> 0:15:06.880 got to be able to take a joke, which I can. 0:15:07.560 --> 0:15:09.760 You know, there's you got. If you're gonna dish it out, 0:15:09.800 --> 0:15:12.280 you gotta be able to take it, and you gotta 0:15:12.320 --> 0:15:15.200 have thick skin. But it was well, you know, first 0:15:15.240 --> 0:15:17.840 of all, it was an honor because when I did it, 0:15:17.960 --> 0:15:21.240 those things were very young. You know, those were just 0:15:21.480 --> 0:15:27.240 brand new things. And uh, I was able to pick 0:15:27.400 --> 0:15:30.880 my roasters. There was only three people that were on 0:15:30.920 --> 0:15:34.520 that dais that I didn't pick. The Comedy Central said 0:15:34.520 --> 0:15:37.560 they had to have. But everybody on there was a 0:15:37.560 --> 0:15:41.360 friend of mine, and so I knew what was coming. 0:15:41.440 --> 0:15:45.800 And I remember my buddy Nick Depolo. Um, he came 0:15:45.880 --> 0:15:48.320 up and he goes, hey, Dan, he goes he would 0:15:48.400 --> 0:15:52.480 he actually would like um because it okay, here's a joke. 0:15:52.520 --> 0:15:55.480 I said, Nick, just dude, it's a roast. Man. I 0:15:55.600 --> 0:15:57.800 get it. We're buddies. But do what you gotta do. Man, 0:15:58.160 --> 0:16:00.920 just hammer me. It'll be a blast. Just came and 0:16:00.960 --> 0:16:04.520 me and so that's what they did, and it was looked. 0:16:04.880 --> 0:16:08.440 I knew what it was, and uh, it was. It 0:16:08.560 --> 0:16:10.600 was fun. I enjoyed it. Now, I will say this. 0:16:11.400 --> 0:16:13.680 I said that my mom is probably gonna watch this. 0:16:13.880 --> 0:16:17.560 So I told everybody I said, looks trying not to 0:16:17.760 --> 0:16:21.400 be super dirty, because my mom's gonna watch this. And 0:16:21.880 --> 0:16:24.960 so I picked certain people that I knew that wouldn't 0:16:25.200 --> 0:16:28.360 you know. But then when they aired it, it was like, oh, 0:16:28.400 --> 0:16:30.800 it was balls out. So I was like, well, so 0:16:30.880 --> 0:16:35.600 much for that. I'd better not tell my mom. Yeah, 0:16:35.600 --> 0:16:39.000 you're like, don't don't watch mom, Actually, never mind. Remember 0:16:39.040 --> 0:16:41.160 that thing I told you about. You don't need to watch, 0:16:41.680 --> 0:16:43.520 because that's that's what I always like wonder like if 0:16:43.520 --> 0:16:46.440 you're ever sitting there and like obviously most of it, 0:16:46.480 --> 0:16:48.480 you're probably like, oh, this is like hilarious. You know, 0:16:48.520 --> 0:16:50.800 you're comedians. You dish it out like I'm sure like 0:16:50.840 --> 0:16:53.880 at some point you're probably like that kind of like 0:16:54.280 --> 0:16:56.320 that hits a little different, or I don't know, because 0:16:56.320 --> 0:16:57.760 there is there ever a time when you're in it 0:16:57.880 --> 0:17:00.360 or you're like, oh like that like kind of you 0:17:00.400 --> 0:17:03.360 know that that lands a little tough or anything, or 0:17:03.400 --> 0:17:06.520 is it just you know you're you just laughed the 0:17:06.560 --> 0:17:11.720 whole time, you know, I I just see this. Look, 0:17:11.800 --> 0:17:13.920 I'm a comedian. I can handle it. I mean that 0:17:14.040 --> 0:17:19.440 there was something that was intentionally to hurt my feelings. Uh. 0:17:19.640 --> 0:17:22.240 None of them did that. And you can tell if 0:17:22.240 --> 0:17:24.199 they're just up there and they're mad at you. I 0:17:24.280 --> 0:17:29.840 remember that. Uh uh. People. The one that everybody always 0:17:29.840 --> 0:17:33.520 talked about was when Greg rest in peace. Greg Giraldo 0:17:34.200 --> 0:17:37.240 came with me really good. But I knew Greg, and 0:17:37.280 --> 0:17:39.200 I knew that he was gonna hammer me like that, 0:17:39.960 --> 0:17:42.840 and everybody thought those were major insults. And he did 0:17:42.920 --> 0:17:46.760 say a couple of things where you're like, oh, oh, man, 0:17:47.400 --> 0:17:50.359 you know, but you know, he came up to me 0:17:50.600 --> 0:17:54.760 literally after the roast and uh he said, Man, Dan, 0:17:54.960 --> 0:17:57.960 I just really you know, he goes, Uh some of 0:17:57.960 --> 0:18:02.120 those things I said, he goes, Uh, he goes, Look, 0:18:02.160 --> 0:18:06.560 I'm not mad at you, he goes, I'm more mad 0:18:06.600 --> 0:18:11.600 at myself. Um, because of the time that I've wasted 0:18:11.720 --> 0:18:15.360 doing certain things and drinking. You know. He pretty much 0:18:15.400 --> 0:18:19.600 opened up to me and said, look, I get it. 0:18:19.840 --> 0:18:23.560 He goes, Am I upset of your success? He goes, Absolutely, 0:18:24.160 --> 0:18:26.200 he goes, not because I don't like you and I 0:18:26.240 --> 0:18:28.080 don't think you're a good guy. I'm mad at your 0:18:28.160 --> 0:18:30.800 success because that's the success that I want to have. 0:18:30.920 --> 0:18:35.280 But I screwed it up doing stupid things, and that's 0:18:35.320 --> 0:18:38.440 just a nice intimate conversation that I had with him, 0:18:38.520 --> 0:18:40.600 and he gave me a hug, and it was it 0:18:40.640 --> 0:18:43.840 was good. That was you know, that was the only 0:18:43.920 --> 0:18:48.440 thing that u uh where somebody had said something where 0:18:48.440 --> 0:18:51.600 people thought, man, he really hates Dan, he really hates 0:18:51.640 --> 0:18:53.880 her to you, But he doesn't. He didn't hate me. 0:18:54.840 --> 0:18:58.159 He was just mad that I was successful because he 0:18:58.280 --> 0:19:02.840 wanted to have his way. And I mean, nobody really 0:19:02.880 --> 0:19:06.560 knows those things because those are things that happened afterwards. 0:19:07.200 --> 0:19:11.320 But um, as far as the roast itself goes, you know, 0:19:11.560 --> 0:19:14.960 I did it because it was I thought it was 0:19:15.000 --> 0:19:18.760 an honor. And I think the roast later on dot 0:19:18.800 --> 0:19:22.040 to the point where they did start getting people up 0:19:22.080 --> 0:19:26.080 there that they just hated and they wanted to hammer them. 0:19:26.119 --> 0:19:29.600 You know. So it's like, uh, what's her name that 0:19:29.640 --> 0:19:35.880 went up that was you know, the political lady? Um, uh, 0:19:36.080 --> 0:19:40.320 you know what I'm talking about, Ann Coulter. Oh yeah, yeah, yeah. 0:19:40.480 --> 0:19:42.760 It just means, you know, it's like when Anne did it, 0:19:42.880 --> 0:19:45.480 I didn't find it funny at all. They didn't really 0:19:45.520 --> 0:19:48.840 like her, and so it was just an opportunity to 0:19:48.960 --> 0:19:50.880 just go up at hammer and I think the whole 0:19:50.920 --> 0:19:53.679 purpose of it was for that, but she wanted to 0:19:53.680 --> 0:19:55.800 sell that book. You know, she was selling a book, 0:19:55.840 --> 0:19:58.840 and I get it, but I think those you know, 0:19:59.280 --> 0:20:02.200 I think early on it was a pretty good honor 0:20:02.280 --> 0:20:04.240 to be able to get one of those, and I 0:20:04.320 --> 0:20:06.600 don't know, I think later on it just turned into 0:20:07.320 --> 0:20:09.760 I mean, you can only do so many you know, 0:20:11.160 --> 0:20:12.680 by the way, what can I say on this show 0:20:12.720 --> 0:20:15.960 about cancer? Oh you can say whatever you want. It's 0:20:15.960 --> 0:20:18.840 a podcast, so oh yeah, but you know, there's only 0:20:19.080 --> 0:20:23.320 so many. There's only so many Dick and Veginia jokes 0:20:23.359 --> 0:20:26.119 that you can do, you know, in an hour and 0:20:26.160 --> 0:20:29.440 a half, where at some point you're like, okay, let's 0:20:29.480 --> 0:20:31.600 get something clever. But it's like, yeah, I feel like 0:20:31.600 --> 0:20:35.040 sometimes people like with jokes either sometimes it's like way 0:20:35.080 --> 0:20:36.919 too vulgar, and I'm just like I'm kind of you know, 0:20:36.960 --> 0:20:38.720 like it's sort of like come on, you know, it's's 0:20:38.800 --> 0:20:41.560 kind of uncomfortable and most or like when I went 0:20:41.640 --> 0:20:43.199 it was like during Trump stuff, so it was like 0:20:43.320 --> 0:20:47.119 all basically like anti Republican, anti Trump, and I'm like, dude, like, 0:20:47.680 --> 0:20:50.360 you know, we're not some of us are conservatives here, 0:20:50.480 --> 0:20:52.040 you know, like what do you what do you think 0:20:52.040 --> 0:20:56.040 of like today's comedy compared to like, you know, back 0:20:56.040 --> 0:20:59.359 in the day, Like how much has it changed? Well, 0:20:59.720 --> 0:21:02.520 you know, here's the deal. I'm I'm a fan of comedy, 0:21:02.800 --> 0:21:05.520 and anybody that has a following, they have worked hard 0:21:05.560 --> 0:21:09.480 to develop that following. So I don't really blast you know, 0:21:09.600 --> 0:21:12.920 even comics that I don't like. It's like, hey man, 0:21:12.960 --> 0:21:15.520 they're doing stand up. Somebody must like them. They're selling 0:21:15.600 --> 0:21:19.320 tickets somebody, you know. So I'm not you know, I don't. 0:21:19.520 --> 0:21:21.960 I'm not one of those ones that tells anybody what 0:21:22.080 --> 0:21:23.800 to do in their act. If that's what they want 0:21:23.800 --> 0:21:26.400 to do, that's what they want to do. If there 0:21:26.800 --> 0:21:30.760 I've always been this, if their act offends, you don't 0:21:30.760 --> 0:21:34.719 go see them. Let the free market place decide who's 0:21:34.760 --> 0:21:38.439 funny and who should be rewarded. I've always been like that, 0:21:38.680 --> 0:21:41.600 So I you know, if they want to bash conservatives 0:21:41.640 --> 0:21:44.840 all day long, I honestly do not care. I mean, 0:21:45.000 --> 0:21:47.119 it's none of my business. I'm just not going to 0:21:47.200 --> 0:21:51.679 go see them. The problem is, it's it's like a 0:21:51.720 --> 0:21:55.639 one way street when it comes to that. It's like, uh, 0:21:56.080 --> 0:22:01.040 certain certain jokes now seem to be a kay and 0:22:01.160 --> 0:22:06.080 other ones aren't okay. And um, they'll let certain comics 0:22:06.200 --> 0:22:09.720