Episode 46: Common Sense with Larry the Cable Guy

a ventilator or died from COVID or overweight. Yet you had the media like peddling and pushing Krispy Kreme giving out free donuts to get a vaccine. I think it was like cheeseburgers or hamburgers in New York City, which pretty much summarizes how dumb the past two years have been. But even more than that, it's like this elitism thing where they just don't care. They don't care about the carnage that they've done, they don't care about how much

harm they've caused, like real Americans. So today we're gonna get to heart the heart of all of it and some common sense and some laughs and some levity with Daniel Whitney Larry the Cable Guy. I don't know if you have all been following him on Twitter, but I have. He's been dropping truth bombs left and right, making fun of these people, calling attention to the insanity of all of it. So that's what we're gonna do today. We're going to make fun of all of them. We're going

to laugh, We're gonna mock these idiots in charge. With Daniel Whitney Larry the Cable Guy. We're also going to talk about his work. We're gonna talk about the blue Collar Comedy Tour. We're gonna talk about what it is like to sit in that chair on Comedy Central and just get roasted. So a lot of laughs, a lot of fun, and a lot of levity. Stay tuned for Daniel Whitney Larry the Cable Guy. So I'm sure everyone

has noticed, but basically, the world's insane. Everyone's lost their mind, nobody knows how to reason anymore, there's no common sense. So I wanted to bring someone on the podcast this week to bring some levity to the situation, someone who is hilarious but also very wise. And common sense. If you follow him on Twitter, he makes a lot more sense than a lot of the public health official and the crazy people have been guiding us over the past couple of years. Uh So, Larry the Cable Guy wrote

Daniel Whitney, otherwise known as Larry the Cable Guy. You know, Dan, thanks so much for joining the show. Um so good to have you. Oh yeah, thanks for asking me to come on. And I apologize I'm in my car right now because I got my time zone screwed up. But no, I'm happy to be on. Thank you. Also, are we close enough for me to call you? Dan? Are we? Is that? Uhstely? Absolutely? You know that's a That's the

crazy thing about my whole career. You know. Um, I'm a kid, you know, I'm in that long line of one liner character comedians. And uh I did a bunch of care acts, but the Letter the Cable Guy thing just took off and just real briefly, I'll tell you I was working on this character way back in the late eighties the early nineties, and uh, I'll tell you

who gave me incentive to keep doing it. I got off stage one night at the Comedy Corner in West Palm Beach, Florida doing the character, and just so happened to work that week. They were co headlining was David Spade and Rob Snider from Saturday Night Live, and both of them came up to me and said, man, damn, you gotta keep doing that. That's hilarious. That's like a

Saturday Night Live character. That was so funny. And I was just blown away by it because those guys were out Saturday Night Live and you know, and so I did. I just kept working on it, and I'm friends with those guys, uh today, and uh so it's just crazy. So everything I did from that point on it became

it just became the huge deal. And you know, we had merchandise and all kinds of stuff, and there were times when I said, it's like when I did to pitch our stuff, and when I did made her, I was like, you know, I'd like to do this as myself, as Dan Whitney, and then my management would always go, no, man, Larry the cable guy in a brand. It's a brand. You've got a whole brand. You gotta keep it in the brand. And so so I did. So it's really funny now every time I do something people are conflicted

of what sh they call me? But I mean like you turned a bit into like a huge thing, right, like as you mentioned, like Made Her and cars. Like my producer was like, oh, like, my son's like so stoked because you know it's you're from Made Her, right, Like You've done I mean you've had billboards, comedy albums that have certified gold, you know, multiple movies. I mean, you've done the blue collar comedy. I mean you've done

like so much with it. So it's like, I mean, is it kind of blow your mind that you sort of like you know, kind of came up with this idea, this like character, and then now it's sort of morphed into this like monster thing you talked about, like merchandise and like all this other stuff. It's kind of crazy to back on all that. Yeah, it's it's been amazing. I'm very thankful. I you know, I never expected any

of that. I just, unlike a lot of comedians, you just wanted to die into the business because you like being funny and you like making people laugh, and you just wanted to make the living at it and do something that you loved. And anything else that came along was extra and so like all that stuff, the movies, the book, all that stuff just came along. I didn't even ask for it. I remember when I did my first movie, I didn't even know it was for theatrical

release till the last week of filming, you know. I mean that came to me and said, hey, we want to do a movie. You want to do a movie, and I'm like, yeah, let's do a movie. You have to be awesome. Well, well you should ask well kind of movie because I could also get you well exactly. Well. The first thing I ever did was Yer the Cave by Health Inspector, and uh so they got this good. They go, we got this movie called The Health Inspector.

Lardy the cable guys the Health Inspector. It's a funny script. And so we're thinking about doing some movies with you. And I'm like, man, that is awesome, and they go, um, you want to do it? And I said, well, was it funny? And they go, well, we'll send you the script. And I said, well did you read the script? And they go yeah, And I go is that funny? They go, yeah's hilarious. I said that's good enough for me. Well, and it all worked out. Yeah, most of this stuff

I had lived to it anyway. So but you know, I've just been very grateful, very thankful, uh that people enjoy my sense of humor. And I've always been a fan of one liner comedians and old time comics and and so yeah, it's it's been pretty awesome. So you left college to try to pursue comedy, right, Yeah, I actually did you know? I played baseball in college and I wasn't a very good student. I wasn't you know. I I enjoyed school because I enjoyed people, and I

was just having fun in college. But I didn't know really what I wanted to do. But I I set out a semester. I went to semester so that I could make money. So this is back when parents actually made um their kids work for college, you know. Yeah, I actually had to get a job and play for college. And so I sat out and I started working, and then I was making good money as a bellhop and man, I just I my friends dared me to go on stage. One night. I went on stage and I just got hooked.

I loved stand up, I loved comedy, and I just never went back to school because I kind of figured men, I really like doing this, And that's when I said, man, in fact, can make a living doing this and I'd be happy. So that's why that's when I started doing it. How hard is it? I imagine, like because there's so many people, I mean, it's such a competitive industry, right, Like there's so many improvs, there's so many people trying

to get in to make a name of themselves. I imagine it's just got to be like an incredibly tough industry to cut your teeth in and make a name in. How hard is it? Yeah, you know it? Uh, man, it takes a lot of work. It's it's it's changed from today than it did when I started. Um uh, you had to do a ton of one night or as he had to pack your car and then a lot of comedians still do that. But you know, we

didn't have those. Uh, we didn't have podcasts, and we didn't have all these other venues to get your name out. We had you either did it two ways. You either just your butt on the road constantly, or you moved to l a New York and you went up constantly every night hoping that you would be discovered by somebody. Um, I took a more unconventional route where I did not go to Layer, New York. But I started pushing my character Larry the Cable Guy on radio stations all across

the country. And so what I did was I just became a part of everyone's everyday routine. Because back in those days, back in the eighties in the early nineties morning radio, everybody had their favorite morning radio show when they would go to work and come back home, and they had those familiar voices. So I became part of everyone familiar voice on the way to work and the

way home from work. And that's what enabled me to uh start doing Larry the Cable Guy in comedy clubs in the cities where I was on on the radio, and it just became popular that way. So I never had to go to l A or New York. I did it um just by merely getting up early every morning at six o'clock every morning and going through a rolodex of of morning shows across the country that had put me on to do three and a half four

minutes of comedy in the form of a commentary. So how much of like jokes are like you're you're you know kind of just like in the car, you think of something funny, you write it down, versus like you're just on stage and you're like freestyling. Like, what what's sort of that like process like in terms of you know, coming up with some of these jokes, coming up with some of these bits. What does that look like for

a comedian? Well, you know, early on, you have a set of jokes that you know we're gonna work, and you try and you go up and you have to you do those every night. You're not comfortable, you haven't done a stand up. You're trying to figure it out. But when you get a few jokes that work, obviously you go up and do those and then you try out other material. But the more you do it, it's like Steve Martin said, it takes a good ten years just to get comfortable with yourself on stage to where

you can really let loose. And that's pretty much what happened to me. After a while, when you get a pretty good set list down and you're feeling comfortable on stage, that when you just start tagging jokes and creating material while you're on stage and uh so, uh it starts

out slow. You know, you bomb a lot and then you get a joke here and a joke there, and and then as you continue to do it, and time goes on and you get more and more stage time, you get start feeling really comfortable, and then the real you starts to show up and and then you can really really um start to to write as you're on stage. Um. I want those comics that do that. I know there's some comics that stick to a script, but I do a lot of I definitely do a lot of my

writing on stage and adding onto jokes. I'll do a one liner and then I'll follow it up with another punch, another punch, and another punch. And some of those are you just sit down and think of him, man, But a majority of them or you're just in the zone and you're on a roll and man, it just it just pops in your head and you just go with it. How much fun was the Blue Collar Comedy Tour? Oh man? That was probably the greatest thing ever. I mean, those

are some of the greatest memories I'll ever has. Um. You know, it's really cool. And they started calling this uh the uh the redneck um uh rat the redneck rat pack, you know, because it really was. It was like a redneck rat pack, and I don't think there'll ever be anything else to come along like that. It happened just at the right time, at the at the exact moment it should have happened, and uh, we just had a blast. Those are memories that none of us

will ever forget. And and people always ask what we ever do it again? And I'm gonna be honest, I don't know if we ever will do it again, because here's the risk you run. It was such an awesome it was such an awesome thing to do and to have that. I don't think it can ever be replicated, you know. I mean, you don't want you want people to remember for what it was. You don't want to start to do it again and then people go, ah, it was funny, but boy, back in the day it

was even better. You know, we'd like to avoid those back in the days. You know, you don't want that, do you want to be remembered? Well, no, that's that's totally fair. Because like I'm watching the like Sex and the City reboot, it's like nothing, you know, first of all, it's been so long, but it's like it's not out. It doesn't capture with like sex in the city, you

know what I mean. So it's like sometimes I think like people try to remake stuff and it's just like, you know, like keep the magic, how people remember it, you know, like sometimes you don't recruit, you can't recreate magic. Sometimes, you know, absolutely when you when you it's never the same. It's like when they try to recreate TV shows or were classics, they're just not the same. They're funny and there's some good ditch and they're they're not the same.

We we're trying to that that. We don't want that to happen, you know. I know, I'm not discounting one day when we're all in our seventies, maybe seeing us for a weekend in Vegas as a reunion tour. But I mean, but as fun as right now, we don't even we don't even entertain that idea. So what's it like to get roasted? Because you did? You got roasted

in a Comedy Central. I always like watch those and I wonder what it feels like to be the person who's just getting like, you know, completely botted by the people around you. What's it what's it like to be roasted? Well, number when you gotta have real thick skin, and you've got to be able to take a joke, which I can. You know, there's you got. If you're gonna dish it out, you gotta be able to take it, and you gotta

have thick skin. But it was well, you know, first of all, it was an honor because when I did it, those things were very young. You know, those were just brand new things. And uh, I was able to pick my roasters. There was only three people that were on that dais that I didn't pick. The Comedy Central said they had to have. But everybody on there was a friend of mine, and so I knew what was coming.

And I remember my buddy Nick Depolo. Um, he came up and he goes, hey, Dan, he goes he would he actually would like um because it okay, here's a joke. I said, Nick, just dude, it's a roast. Man. I get it. We're buddies. But do what you gotta do. Man, just hammer me. It'll be a blast. Just came and me and so that's what they did, and it was looked. I knew what it was, and uh, it was. It was fun. I enjoyed it. Now, I will say this. I said that my mom is probably gonna watch this.

So I told everybody I said, looks trying not to be super dirty, because my mom's gonna watch this. And so I picked certain people that I knew that wouldn't you know. But then when they aired it, it was like, oh, it was balls out. So I was like, well, so much for that. I'd better not tell my mom. Yeah, you're like, don't don't watch mom, Actually, never mind. Remember

that thing I told you about. You don't need to watch, because that's that's what I always like wonder like if you're ever sitting there and like obviously most of it, you're probably like, oh, this is like hilarious. You know,

you're comedians. You dish it out like I'm sure like at some point you're probably like that kind of like that hits a little different, or I don't know, because there is there ever a time when you're in it or you're like, oh like that like kind of you know that that lands a little tough or anything, or is it just you know you're you just laughed the whole time, you know, I I just see this. Look, I'm a comedian. I can handle it. I mean that

there was something that was intentionally to hurt my feelings. Uh. None of them did that. And you can tell if they're just up there and they're mad at you. I remember that. Uh uh. People. The one that everybody always talked about was when Greg rest in peace. Greg Giraldo came with me really good. But I knew Greg, and I knew that he was gonna hammer me like that,

and everybody thought those were major insults. And he did say a couple of things where you're like, oh, oh, man, you know, but you know, he came up to me literally after the roast and uh he said, Man, Dan, I just really you know, he goes, Uh some of those things I said, he goes, Uh, he goes, Look, I'm not mad at you, he goes, I'm more mad at myself. Um, because of the time that I've wasted doing certain things and drinking. You know. He pretty much opened up to me and said, look, I get it.

He goes, Am I upset of your success? He goes, Absolutely, he goes, not because I don't like you and I don't think you're a good guy. I'm mad at your success because that's the success that I want to have. But I screwed it up doing stupid things, and that's just a nice intimate conversation that I had with him, and he gave me a hug, and it was it

was good. That was you know, that was the only thing that u uh where somebody had said something where people thought, man, he really hates Dan, he really hates her to you, But he doesn't. He didn't hate me. He was just mad that I was successful because he wanted to have his way. And I mean, nobody really knows those things because those are things that happened afterwards. But um, as far as the roast itself goes, you know, I did it because it was I thought it was

an honor. And I think the roast later on dot to the point where they did start getting people up there that they just hated and they wanted to hammer them. You know. So it's like, uh, what's her name that went up that was you know, the political lady? Um, uh, you know what I'm talking about, Ann Coulter. Oh yeah, yeah, yeah. It just means, you know, it's like when Anne did it,

I didn't find it funny at all. They didn't really like her, and so it was just an opportunity to just go up at hammer and I think the whole purpose of it was for that, but she wanted to sell that book. You know, she was selling a book, and I get it, but I think those you know, I think early on it was a pretty good honor to be able to get one of those, and I don't know, I think later on it just turned into I mean, you can only do so many you know, by the way, what can I say on this show

about cancer? Oh you can say whatever you want. It's a podcast, so oh yeah, but you know, there's only so many. There's only so many Dick and Veginia jokes that you can do, you know, in an hour and a half, where at some point you're like, okay, let's

get something clever. But it's like, yeah, I feel like sometimes people like with jokes either sometimes it's like way too vulgar, and I'm just like I'm kind of you know, like it's sort of like come on, you know, it's's kind of uncomfortable and most or like when I went it was like during Trump stuff, so it was like all basically like anti Republican, anti Trump, and I'm like, dude, like, you know, we're not some of us are conservatives here, you know, like what do you what do you think

of like today's comedy compared to like, you know, back in the day, Like how much has it changed? Well, you know, here's the deal. I'm I'm a fan of comedy, and anybody that has a following, they have worked hard to develop that following. So I don't really blast you know, even comics that I don't like. It's like, hey man, they're doing stand up. Somebody must like them. They're selling tickets somebody, you know. So I'm not you know, I don't. I'm not one of those ones that tells anybody what

to do in their act. If that's what they want to do, that's what they want to do. If there I've always been this, if their act offends, you don't go see them. Let the free market place decide who's funny and who should be rewarded. I've always been like that, So I you know, if they want to bash conservatives all day long, I honestly do not care. I mean, it's none of my business. I'm just not going to go see them. The problem is, it's it's like a

one way street when it comes to that. It's like, uh, certain certain jokes now seem to be a kay and other ones aren't okay. And um, they'll let certain comics tell certain jokes and other comics instead of just not listening to them and saying, well, that's inappropriate, I'm not going to go see him. They try to force comedy clubs or try to force theaters or try to force people from hiring them because they don't like what they're saying. That's when it goes too far. I don't want that

for anybody. It's like the guy that they said was saying this stuff and he got he booted off Saturday Night Live. And now you know it's like, well, you know, let's let the marketplace decide, you know, just let the Saturday Night Live. It's supposed to be a place with all different kinds of humor, and they bambooze everybody it used to be. Um, it's just I've always been a comedian, and I've always stuck up for all comedians, whether I

like what they're saying, whether I don't like what they're saying. Um, I'm just not gonna be a part of it. I mean, I don't understand why people just can't do that now they if they don't like what and obviously it's coming from It comes mainly more, I would say, from the far left and the far right, because um, they always try and just you can't work anymore if you don't if you can continue to tell these jokes, you can't

work anymore. And I always I don't care. The far right shouldn't be canceling any comedian for what they say, and the far left shouldn't be canceling any comedians for what they say. We live in a free country. Let the free market decide. I totally agree. But it's like, you know, we watch like S and L and it's like all bashing Republicans and it's like it's fine, Like I can totally laugh, Like people can make fun of

me whatever. Like I grew up with three brothers. Basically, you know, it's just like a lifetime of like emotional physical abuse when you have three brothers. It's like, can't wait, girl, you know, so like totally fine with it, don't care. But it's like, I mean, well you look at Biden. That's the target rich environment, you know, but like he

basically remains unscared. I mean, the guy is like essentially it depends and it's like you know what I mean like you think that there would be some jokes there for like S and O that they could cover. You know, well, there's a ton of Biden jokes there. There's a ton of Biden jokes there. And that's the thing that's very

frustrating with the late night comedians. Um, if you're telling jokes and you're just getting applause and not laughter, you're more of a political pundit than you are a comedian. I mean, Johnny Carson was the best day that he land blasted everybody. He did a joke about everybody. Uh, and you couldn't really tell which way Johnny leaned. And Um, but you know, here's the thing now, Lisa, that I see.

It's almost like Hollywood and the media have their own alternative world where they don't care about this x percentage of the country. It's like they do. It's like the late night shows. As long as they can get their two point seven or their three point one or whatever it is they they need to pull in their advertising dollars. As long as they get that percentage, they don't care about anything else, and they will only do jokes that that part of their audience likes. And the hell with

everybody else don't listen to us. They don't care. They don't care if the right listens to them. They don't need them to stay in business. And when I say it's almost like an alternative world they've created, it's like when you sit down and you watch television, you know, we saw all these commercials around Christmas about now it's time that we finally can get together with family members and we can finally enjoy at Christmas, And you're thinking, for the last year and a half, that's all we've

been doing is living our life normal. So it's almost like they're only broadcasting for certain areas of the country that buy into everything they're selling, and it's the heck with everybody else. When it's like, well, wait a minute, you do realize the majority of the country is living life as normal. Why would you run that commercial? Because they're running those commercials for just those people that they

are talking to. I think that's what nils it because it's it's even like it's almost moved beyond just like right versus left stuff. Right, Like it's like it's almost like an elitism versus the rest of America thing, And like there's so many parts of the country as you pointed out, that are just being left out of the conversation that you know that they, like our officials right

now don't even care about that. The media doesn't even try to speak to that, Hollywood doesn't try to speak to and that's what you spoke to with like the blue Collar Comedy Tour and some of the jokes that you did. So it's like, I think you kind of hit the nail on the head that there's like this huge part of the country that is just being left out of the equation right now. Absolutely, and you know that's exactly what it is. It's like you can't, like,

it really sucks. I used to love watching the shows at night that you can't even watch them. They literally, they literally don't do one joke about the current president, who is a mine field of comedy entertainment. If if this was Trump or this was just some other conservative president, that it would be full of sketches and videos and but nothing. They don't touch any of it. And it's unbelievable. So it just just lets you know that they don't They have certain people they want to make happy, and

the heck with everybody else. They don't care if you believe me, they don't care. They do not care if you don't as long as they're pulling in the number they need, they don't care. And uh, I mean that's the way it is now, that's the way it's gonna be. When you watch television, literally all the commercials that are being run, all the advertising that is being run, for the most part, does not pertain to anybody that I've

been hanging out with. I mean, I mean We've literally been meeting as families and having dinners together and going out and I mean it's it's it's crazy. It really is crazy. But you know, and it's SU's as far as me being a comedian, it's you know, now you have to like think twice before you do send out a joke that's a Biden joke for fear that woke mob is going to jump on you for the joke. And it's you know, you never used to have to do that. Um. I still send some stuff out there

I think is funny. I'll still do it, but it's like, man, just the fact you have to have that second thought. Um. But like I said, I'm a comedian first, I stick up. I stick up for the business. I stick up, you know, and I'm glad that Bill Moore does that too. I don't agree with a ton of stuff Bill Moore says, obviously, of everything he says, I don't agree with. But I stick up to Bill Martin because Bill Mare is a

comedian and he's sticking up for an industry. He is sticking up for comedy and freedom of expression, and that's what comedy is all about. And so did Dave Chappelle. I mean, you know, they try to cancel him, and I think he did the smartest response, which was just not to back down and to continue to make jokes about it, you know. So I mean it's like they even came for Dave Chappelle. Yeah, and Chappelle is awesome. He's a super nice guy and he's super way more

smarter than all everybody. But you know, I think it's funny though, when they come out and they go finally there's a comedian out there that's actually doing comedy. It doesn't care what anybody thinks. Let me tell you, there's a lot of them out there that are still doing comedy and don't care what anybody thinks. They're just not getting any breaths. Do you think your character could have taken off today in today's world with just like all this like woke sort of anti blue collar sentiment in

the country. Almost No, absolutely, absolutely not. I mean that's like, uh, that's like saying, can some of these shows from the seventies takeoff? Can can you running all in the family anymore? Of course not, because nobody can take a joke. I mean when my character started, it's evolved so much from what it was because I never thought I'd ever do it on stage. My character was a total Archie Bunker type character that was only for radio and it did

social commentaries. So no, I mean when I used to get away with in the nineties would never ever fly today. So no, I don't believe it would um the jokes, I but maybe as myself doing the jokes, But I don't, I don't, you know what it's hard to say, but the character itself. No, I can pretty much say that that wouldn't have got the time of day if I started it now. But isn't it like beyond even comedy.

I feel like Americans have lost a sense of humor, Like everyone takes themselves so seriously in today's day and age, no one can take a joke. It's like there's such a heaviness to like the country, right, It's like when when did everyone did so lame? And how did that happen? And why did it happen? Yeah, that's that is the big mystery. You know, God has given everyone a sense of humor because a sense of humor helps you deal with situations that everybody is created with a different sense

of humor. Some of that. That's how you develop a following, you know, you find people that have the same sense of humor that you have. That's why some comics get followed by other people because they have a different sense of humor. But people have just taken their sense of humor and put it in the closet for some reason. And it is really sad that people can't laugh. I

just did. I spend had a joke the other day about um about pertaining the I was eating something about a Costco hot dog, and I said, if you think those people were you think that people were shocked that they were eating bats in China. I said something about try eating a hot dog at Costco. I think I found ground zero for the next pandemic, you know. Just yeah, I didn't realize that people loved those hot dogs so much,

and people were mad at me. They were literally furious that I was making fun of the Costco hot dog. And I'm thinking to myself, holy mackail, it was just a joke. I'm sure the hot dog is delicious. That's not the point of the joke. It's it's just a

stupid one liner joke. It's like, holy Maco, but they really have people have just gone nuts quick commercial breaks or with Larry the Cable Day, don't It's funny sometimes like what ends up like setting rights, Like you can say all this stuff that like you think, like, oh am I gonna get in trouble with this, like you know what I mean, Like people truly, you know, people

aren't gonna love what I'm saying. And then like you say something that you think is completely innocuous and like you know, you don't even worry about and then that ends up being like you know what I mean, Like I don't know, it's like weird sometimes, Like you know, I work in media is obviously much different than comedy.

I'm not like funny like you, but you're like sometimes like you'll say something and you're like you just think it's like completely innocuous, and then like that's what people get upset about. And you're just like what like like you were saying, like the hot dog ended up being like the crime, you know, like that's what was offensive. It is like the Yeah, absolutely, you never know what you never know what it's going to be. It's like, you know, it's like a zip that propert up on

the face. You have no idea where it's gonna pop up. You know, it's yeah, it's it's amazing. It's just it's always something. But I gotta you know, I just don't care. And I'm gonna do my jokes until I can't do them anymore. And I think more people should be like that, just do your jokes until you can't do them anymore. And and I mean, hopefully there'll be enough comics that come out and stick up for comedy that we can continue to do what we want to do. You know,

they say that that will never happen here. Comedy will always be but you know, in Canada there were two comics that were already fine for being offensive in Canada and had to pay money. And and I tell everybody, that's all that's gonna tell you. And as you start sticking up for comics that you don't even like they got in trouble for saying something, it's gonna come here.

All that's gonna take is for one person to get offended of the comedy club and sue the comedy club and find a judge that agrees, and the comedy club gets sued and they have to pay money, and that's all it's gonna take, because after that they're gonna want. Well, let's see what you're going to talk about, rightious, the script of what you're saying, we don't want to get sued. You think I'm kidding, but I'm not kidding. We are not far from that right now. Now, I I don't

think you're kidding, and I totally agree. And I feel like similarly with media, it's like, okay, you can try to moderate everything you say so like you don't risk you don't increase your risk of being fired or cancelation

or canceled. But then it's like what's the point in doing that, right, Like why you even have a platform then if you're not saying what needs to be said and like to your point about like what's going on in Australia just like we're in such dire times right as a country, and like we're almost truth needs to be out more than ever, and so it's actually like more important than ever, like you said, to just do your job, to just keep making jokes, to not worry

about the consequences. And I feel the same with the media is it's just more important than ever to say what needs to be said, to speak the truth because to your point, we might not be able to you know, if we don't write that course now, then we might we might lose that opportunity in the future. Well, absolutely, that's a fact. And that's why as a comedian, I mean I know about comedy, but that's what comics need to do. Just do what you do and critics be damned,

you know, just have some balls. And whether you're a political comic or a one liner comic or a character comic, do what you think is funny. Do what you think is funny. Let the free market this side if they think it's funny as well. I mean, that's that's what you need to do. And it is. You know, we talked about it earlier, but it was harder for me than to do staying up than now, how how or

was it to get started? I would say now, comics that already have a following like me, like Chappelle and Bill Burr and all these guys that already have a following, they don't care because they're always going to have a following. People are gonna come see them regardless. People are going to book them because they sell tickets. The people that are gonna have a hard time are those comics now, the ones that are up and coming, the ones that

are trying to get there. I mean, they're you know, it's going to be harder for them to do jokes, to come up with other jokes, because they're gonna get shut down. I mean, there'll be certain groups that don't like what they're gonna say. And I mean, you know, our our material, we already got it out there and people know what we're all about, and they like it.

They think it's funny. They're gonna come see us. The problem now is these comics, Uh, can they do the same Can they continue to do such same kind of material and build up an act or are they going to be told what they can and cannot say we weren't really told what we can or cannot say. We said whatever we wanted and developed the following. Now you're being told what you can or cannot say anyway. That's

what it seems like to me. Well, and what's weird too, is it's like, you know, like so we I've like retweeted stuff, and you've retweeted stuff like with COVID, you know, both on our Twitter, and it's like, first of all, like everyone's gone insane with it, Like you were talking about how they're like, oh, we can finally spend time, you know, a girl like I've moved to Miami a year. I've been going to like clubs, you know, like I've

been living my life. And but like, what is what blows my mind is like, so you know what like a year ago, two years ago, you couldn't say I mean I said them anyways, but like you really couldn't say some of these things without condemnation. And now like this CDC is just casually dropping all these truth bombs on the public. Like there's a difference between going into the hospital with COVID from cloth masks don't work if you're obese, you know, like all these things that we've

been saying. But yeah, it's like the they're like, we may have like destroyed all of your lives for like the past two years, but like, by the way, you're all right, you know, it's like like what do you even make of that? I mean, isn't it just like I like, I can't even get over this. It's just it's like it's mind blowing. It's it's really crazy. I was laughing about that because it's like anything I ever

sent out that I took flak on has happened. But we were crazy, like right, they were calling this crazy. We've been right. I know. It's it's it's undescribable. I mean, you know, it's, man, I don't know what to say about it is it is just so dumbfounding that people still it doesn't matter if it came true, they still and and I've noticed a lot of this too. It's like when somebody comes out with some information and you're like,

wait a minute, maybe there should be examined. It's like when the it's like when the whole uh iver met and thing came out, you know, and uh well, instead of actually being journalists and going well let's see about this,

let's see they attack anybody that brought it up. Instead of somebody going out and finding information and putting that information out and people that's value valid information, it seems like the person sending out the information starts getting attacked and they don't ever talk about the information, you know. And I think that's why Rogan gets it gets hammered so much, because Rogan is actually having people on that

are scientists talking about the information and about what this means. It's, uh, they always they always go after the deliver of the news that they don't like instead of looking at the news.

So in saying no, I totally see you're saying. And he's smart, like you were saying, like you are as well, and like Chappelle of like you know, he doesn't back down, right because like the second, like if the mob wants to take you down, like the second you give them n inch, they're gonna kill you, right, So it's like you just cannot you cannot back down, like you just have to stand paul against them. And then eventually they find like their next target and they move along. But yeah,

it's like it just it just it blows. And then the thing too, is like I think you're such an elitism with it as well, is It's like even in like our personal like I'm sure you have, like you know, if had friends kind of be upset with me, maybe turn their back on me a little bit. Family members get upset. I've lost job opportunities, you know, like you've had these consequences. But there are people who have lost like I've committed suicide, like overdoses, like you know, people

have lost their life. I mean they're there are, yeah, Like there's real harm that has been done to like so many people, and it's like they just don't even care. Well, like you know, I don't know if they I think you're just I think a lot of these people that have been pushing this that has turning out now to be absolutely wrong information. Even CNN now's backtracking and starting

to say things that we've all been saying. Um, they're trying to cover themselves, you know, they're they they're they're scared. They don't want that. They just can't admit that they were wrong. They can't admit they're wrong. They cannot admit anything. If they admit they're wrong, Uh, then that's coming down

on them. So they can't admit it. And it's you know, it's like It's like in India and in Africa, these certain parts where they completely are done so well with containing and getting rid of it, but yet nobody's investigating why that is, why, what did they use what? It's like the media, it just shuts down. They don't investigate

any of this stuff. It's like all of these people that all these doctors that came out, uh some that I know that come out and say, this is what we did and this helps, this is what we did and this helped, this is what we did this well, instead of like, man, let's uh, let's interview them. Let's go, we're journalists, let's see what they did. Let's see if there's something to this. Instead of that, they just shun it. And it's like these guys suck, they're not good doctors.

And it's like, well, wait a second, where does what does this attitude comes from. It's really a bizarre thing. And I remember this a long time ago. March of CNN had on John Loonidas, John lon and IDAs, and they literally build him as the most downloaded, the most per reviewed epidemiologist in the world, John Lononidas from Anford and you can look him up and after this interview you didn't hear from me much anymore. They all said he was a cook and a whack and kind of

trying to ruin his life. This is what he said, lisaid March. Now that they have information from all around the world, here's what they've they're concluding. Um, he wasn't sure about the two weeks. Um they've never done this before, but since they really didn't have a handle on it,

he understood why they did it. Now that we have all this information from around the world, it's not a good idea to do anymore lockdowns because lockdowns will cause so much mental problems, drinking problems, drug abuse, and we can't keep kids out of school. They're gonna fall behind if we continue to do some sort of a lockdown. This is going to be more harm, way more harm

than what we're seeing with this. He said. If you are sixty five and older and you have secondary third health conditions, this is more dangerous than the flu, and you should be careful, and you should be careful going out in public. I would even say if you need to go out and you think you need to wear a mask, were one. If you're sixty five and under

and you are a fairly healthy person. We're finding out that this is equal to or less than the flu the younger that you get, this is rarely affecting any young people. Anybody twenty four and under is pretty much this isn't affecting. And he went through everything that is happening today John Loewan and IDAs said March of and he was shunned and ridiculed, and now everything he said

has come true. And that's the problem. Is actually why that's actually why I started this podcast was during the age of COVID because I read his out ed and stat news from Stanford and it made so much sense to me, and he was really the only one that was making sense at the time, and so that that's why I started it, because I was like looking around and I'm like everyone is pushing the extreme in these Drewconian policies and we have terrible data and no one's

trying to get to the truth. And so that's why I wanted to build this podcast was to have a place because I was like, there's so much freaking noise out there in the media. There's so much group think. Everyone's just following along. It's like no one's even trying to dig deeper and like get to the truth or even having people like you know, Dr needs On, who's a freaking you know, an expert in this right, Like

no one's even trying to give him a platform. And so that's why I wanted this podcast was to really like build a place to have some of these conversations that you can't have elsewhere, and to dig deeper than like all the group thinking all the noise that was going on, and it's like, and you're right, his out ed is he stild? Right? Everything he wrote back then held true to and like what's what's insane all this

stuff too? Was you tweeted about this U recently? I saw on your tweets about like okay, so basically the CDC just said that, um what I think. It's like almost of the people who were hospitalized, placed on eventor died from COVID nineteen were overweight. Yeah. Like media was like pushing free Crispykreme donuts to like go out and get vaccinated. You had like this places in California filled skate parks of sand, like we've you know, we pushed

all this body positivities. It's like like we we literally live in an insane like, it's insane. We live in a insane world. There's another thing I sent out from. It was from I can't remember what country was. It was from one of the South American countries, but anyway, sent somewhere anyway, but they were running commercials and I said, how come we're not running these commercials and it's and it was a whole commerce full about, uh, we care about our citizens and in order to fight COVID, we

need to have a healthy country. We encourage you to get outside, get fresh air, um, eat the right foods, eat that you know, and they were showing the get a nice diet, get a good workout plan, go to the gym. It was a whole thing about getting in shape, getting fresh air, getting your body moving. And guess what, Uh, social media took it off. Social media took off a commercial about getting in shape and bettering yourself. And people wonder why we're so hesitant for this or why do

we question that. I'll tell you why, because a crap like that, Because that's exactly why it's everything's being questioned because of that kind of crap. And then they wonder why people are hesitant to take a vac scene. I'll tell you why they're hesitant to take the vaccine because the news media didn't not being but demonized the vaccine for for seven months until Trump got out of office, and then all of a sudden it was the greatest vaccine on the planet. You can't for seven months demonize

something saying something might kill you. I don't trust something that's rushed like this. Never have we ever done this before. I don't trust this. And then two weeks later, after your guy gets in office, tell everybody, oh, it's sake, you're an idiot if you don't take it. I mean, it's it's looney bien. We're living in well. And then

it's also they're like, oh, you can't have questions. But then previously they're like, if you get the vaccine, you're not going to get COVID, And then obviously that's not happening because everyone's getting COVID regardless of your backs there and I and then you have the head of Fighter basically just recently said like two doses doesn't really do anything.

You need to do three. So it's like but then there's simultaneously being they're like, you can't ask questions, and I'm like wait, wait, wait a minute, Like, first of all, like you know, you said this one thing that has and held up. Now you've got that, you know, you know what I mean, Like you have all this contradictory information, and then they're just like shut up and get it.

And then like you don't ask questions, and I'm like no, like wait a minute, yeah, of course I'm going to ask questions because you people keep lying to me, and you keep lying to the public, and then you don't even care about the damage in the carnage you're creating in the process. So like, you know what, go after yourself.

I'm not going to get it. No. Absolutely, it's absolutely insane that they think by going to understand why people are so because because because you're you're banning, um, you're banning very knowledgeable epidemiologists that have just as many credits as Fauci from the internet. You're taking them off YouTube, You're you're banning anybody that has a dissenting opinion that are just as smart as the other guy. It's like, look, we've tried what this guy is selling. It ain't working.

Maybe we should try one of these other guy's ideas that you keep banning, and the more you bann and the more people are gonna be hesitant, and the more people are gonna be questioning the more you ban. Uh, it's absolutely ridiculous. And I think more and more people are starting to catch onto this thing. I think they forget there's a YouTube out there, and I think they forget that people. Uh, there's we've been talking about nothing for the last two years. So we remember two years

ago what you said and it's not happening. And now you're changing what you said two years ago and saying you didn't say it when you did say it. Um, I mean it's yeah, it's it's oh my gosh. It's just I try not to I try to live my life and just I turn off news and I I think, you know, it's just oh my gosh. Here's what they should have done. They said, you're giving me a heart attack. Here's what they should my stress levels going through the rip.

Here's what they should have done. What they're doing in Florida. If you're if you don't feel safe, then by all means, whatever you need to do to make yourself feel comfortable, feel comfortable. If you're comfortable, if you want to get a vaccine. Get the vaccine, Talk to your doctor, see what he thinks. UM, wag it out. We're gonna leave all this up to you, guys, because obviously, um uh, obviously um. If uh you get this, seven percent of you are going to be completely fine. Most of you

aren't even even know you have it. UM. So you do what you feel best that you need to do. But one thing you don't want to do is divide the country over stupid stuff. Obviously, mass don't work. They don't work. If they work, If they work, things would be going down, things would be so they don't work. So why don't you give people the choice? You know you're in Florida. I got a place in Florida. I go to Florida a lot. And it's a whole different world.

Nobody's at each other's throats. If people want to wear a mask, nobody's yelling at them as they want to wear a mask. But the difference is nobody's being forced to do it, and people are getting along. And so anywhere you're getting forced to do it, you're having people at each other's throats and it's doing nothing but dividing

the country and um over something that doesn't work. I got to tell you though, like, um, I just had COVID and UM, like a few weeks ago, and when I got it, I was like, just don't die, because there's way too many people that would feel like dancing on my grave. So I was like, just you cannot die. Unfortunately it was fine, but yeah, it was like going down. I know that would be horrible, and I do be one of the ones going Danniel, Dannilies, why did you

shut up? But it seems like here's the thing that you've seemed. Just look, I'm just living my life. I wanted to what's best for my family and kids. I'm not I'm not dictating anybody do anything, but just in your normal life and what you hear on TV and the news and and what you see are two different things. There are two different things. And so you know, I'm going by what my doctors say and I'm going by what I see in real life. UM. You know, and that's that's the only thing I can do. You know.

I know this. I know that I had COVID and UM, I know that I've never gotten it again. And I know a bunch of people that have gotten vaccinated and every one of them go COVID. I mean, it's it doesn't make any sense what's happening. It makes no sense. So I think we would get along so much better if they didn't dictate what you do with your health, and you leave it up to that person's individual safety. Leave the kids, uh personal stuff up to their parents

and their doctors. I think I think if we did exactly what they're doing in Florida, everyone would get along so much better and you would see a lot of things. Uh. I think this might be. And I heard a thing today where um, it's coming out of Israel of the UK or said something that amcron is a good thing. This means it's the end of it. It's it's more contagious, but it's way less. I mean, it's way less deadly

than anything. I mean, it's like a cold. And they said they think it's going to peak in three weeks and that's gonna be the end of it. It's gonna it's it's literally acting like a normal food season. I hope so, because I'm just I'm tired of all the crazy. I'm tired of all the lectures. I mean, I think there needs to be like retribution for all the damage done and the people replied and stuff like, I'm just so ready to like I'm tired of just all the

crazy that has come over the past two years. Like I just I want and I feel like some of the some people I know that have been like more kind of crazy about it, they're starting to realize. I think that basically everyone's gonna get COVID and there's not much you can do, so you just gotta live your life.

No exactly, And you know, it's like you said earlier, we both read the same guy, John Lewan, and I just he told us exactly what's going to happen and how to deal with it in the outcome of it, and everything he said has come true, And you're right, everybody's going to get it. It's he was exactly right in his diagnosis of what it was. So we're going to have to live with it. And the one thing we don't want to do is end our country over it.

I mean, to to make people lose jobs and and and and and ruin your kids and and all these mental problems. You definitely want to do that. But you said, I hope there's some retribution and some people pay they're not I have I don't think it's gonna happen because they'll pass the blame. They'll pass the buck. They'll blame it on somebody else. These people that are in charge right now don't give a ship. Uh, they will pass

the buck. They will pass them. And they're already starting to change their narratives and nobody's gonna nobody's gonna have any any any They're not. Nobody's gonna get in trouble for any of it. It's it's just gonna pass. And then they're gonna be onto something else. And then the medi'll create some other little thing that everybody's going to pay attention to, and then all this will blow over, just like everything else, and people forget about it. I mean,

I hope not. I believe me, I hope not. Somebody better pay for this, because every decision they've made is wrong. Every decision these leaders have made with the lockdowns and people losing their jobs, they're responsible for every one of these suicides at all of this, And I'm with you. I hope there's retribution and they pay and they get caught and they have to answer for their bullshit. Uh.

Bad diagnosis is But I don't think it's gonna happen. Well, And to like one thing that anways me is like they're like somehow if you're against lockdowns, you're against all these are coning and policies like you don't care about like protecting Grandma that didn't work. Like we did all these things and we had Grandma. Still, you know, we still had a significant loss of like even more under you know, Biden than we did even under Trump during all of this, So we still had a significant loss

of life. And then you you had the added loss of suicides and all the unnecessary carnage that came on top of it. So it's like, no, actually you're the one that is not only were the elderly still put at risk, but we've also done all this additional carnage. So but and it was before we go I wanted to get you on on Bob Sagga because I saw your tweet tweeted that you hung out with them one night at the Orlando Improgue. You know, what was that night like? And what was he like? No? He you

know what, he was just super nice. I I went down, I did a guest said I had I was working up some jokes for an album that I was doing, and he was working there that night, so I they they asked Bob, they said that I was going to come down, wanted to come down and try as he said,

Oh yeah, man, I didn't come down. I'd love to see him and he can have as much time as he wants, so, you know, he actually gave me twenty minutes of his time to my wife and I went down, went backstage and we just talked about comedy and we talked about life and comic friends that we knew, and he was delightful. He was funny, He was very nice, very complimentary of me. I was very complimentary of him, you know, because he's like one of those guys you

grew up with. He was Mr Entertainment, you know, he did uh He's been on me for home videos and then the the Full House, so he's been around forever. And he was just fun to talk to. You know. I like talking to guys like that. He was like a legend. He'd been around for and did so many things and was well liked. But it was just a fun night. It was just uh. I was there for a couple of hours and he was very cordial, very

nice and and we had a really nice time. And of course that's the last time I ever got to work with him and see him. But it was just a fun memory because he was, you know, he's a big time he was a big dumb comic. He was, he was, he was, He's one of the legends. So it was just it's fun to be able to hang out with those guys and picked the brain. But he was Honestly, everybody always says, oh, he's just that. He really was. I mean, and so if he did something goopy,

I'll tell you. But he was super nice. Well, you were a legend to Dana Whitney, Larry the Cable Guy, thanks so much for joining the show. This was really fun. What to do it again? Well, I appreciate you getting my blood pressure up. I was doing good until we started talking about all this other stuff. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I was prepared. I was prepared for it. But I'll be all right. I'll go I'll go have a salad. I'll be fine. Sorry about that. Well, appreciate you joining

the show. I'm taking the advice of other countries other than America telling me I need to start to lose some weight if I want to beat COVID, so that's what I'm doing. Unlike you know, Blasio telling me to come get a cheeseburger for a cheeseburger doughnut. So smart that, I mean that really is like America's response to COVID, right like that, that just summarizes how dumb it's all bad. It's so ridiculous, it really is. It's cartoonist when you

think about it. You know, oh, beef, people are dying of COVID. So in order to entice you to get a vaccine that doesn't prevent you from getting COVID, um, come get a cheeseburger and a hot dog, which is one of the reasons why you're getting COVID because you're fat. I think we we we've we've practiced. Uh, it's it's it's also stupid. But Dan, thanks so much for joining the show. I really appreciate your time. You've got to leave.

Hey listen, and I appreciate you to in in your ground and being another voice out there, you know in media. It's it's really awesome, and I know you're catching a lot of flak for it, but we do appreciate it. Thank you, Thank you, sirry that means a lot, really means a lot. Thank you. I gotta do this one time. Yes, awesome, Well thanks for asking me what a thank Dana Whitney where the cable guy again? For such a funny interview.

It was so nice to kind of like just do something different, laugh, make fun of all the idiots in charge. I want to thank you guys at home for listening. If you enjoy today's show, please leave us a review and rate us five stars on Apple Podcasts. You can find me on Twitter, Facebook, and Instagram, and at least and read booth on a bank. Our team, producer John Castio, and our executive producers Debbie Myers and speaker New Gingrich all part of the Gingridge three sixty network and team