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Outta Pocket with RG3
Jeff Foxworthy & Larry the Cable Guy on Druski and Why Comedy and College Football Got So Sensitive
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Jeff Foxworthy
Steven Spielberg loved. Are you smarter than a fifth grader?
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Larry the Cable Guy
Hey everybody, this is Larry the Cable Guy. It's the same exact voice and made no change.
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Jeff Foxworthy
Ohio State plays high school teams for 10 weeks out of the season while the SEC beats each other up.
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Larry the Cable Guy
Nebraska brought 25,000 people to Los Angeles and they only had 23,000 fans.
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RG3
Welcome to out of pocket with RG3, hosted by your boy and the lovely, amazing 95 time all American, Greta Griffin. That's right. We got a great show for you guys today.
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RG3
So get ready to laugh people, because.
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Today we got a comedy powerhouse, one.
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RG3
Of the world's most respected comedians.
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He's the largest selling comedian, comedy recording.
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RG3
Artist, a multiple Grammy award nominee and best selling author of more than 20, 26 books.
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The one and only Jeff Foxworthy. But, oh, let's not stop yet.
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RG3
Oh, we got another one here with us as well. We're talking about an actor, musician, radio host and stand up icon.
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The man who made get er Done a household phrase.
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RG3
The one and only Larry the Cable Guy.
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Welcome to the show, guys.
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Larry the Cable Guy
We are about to rocket and I haven't read 26 books.
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Jeff Foxworthy
Well, when he started off with well respected, I was waiting to see which one of us it was.
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Well, you know, you guys did the.
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RG3
The Blue Color comedy tour together and, and right now I believe you guys are still doing the comedy roundup on Sirius xm. But you guys are incredible. We're very happy to have you guys on the show and we, we want to call this one the Comedy Bowl. So you guys being big college football fans, if Nebraska and Georgia played today, who wins?
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Jeff Foxworthy
Oh, please. Left us at the last minute and I, I'm very happy with Gunner Stockton. Thank you very much.
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Larry the Cable Guy
Evidently, evidently you didn't see the TJ Lateef is, I mean, pretty good.
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Jeff Foxworthy
Whatever. Give me Gunner.
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Larry the Cable Guy
Let's put this the last time Nebraska, Georgia played, who won that game? Oh, it was a, it was a bowl game.
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Jeff Foxworthy
God, when was that, the 70s or 2016?
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Larry the Cable Guy
I believe 2017.
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RG3
Might as well be the 70s at this point.
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Larry the Cable Guy
Yeah, yeah, like eight years ago Nebraska did.
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Jeff Foxworthy
Okay, whatever. Let's go play tomorrow and see who wins.
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RG3
Oh, okay. They're talking the trash.
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Larry the Cable Guy
Hey, we might get a Nebraska gets wins the next two games. We actually probably will get an SEC team, SEC team in the Citrus Bowl. So there you go.
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Jeff Foxworthy
See it's not going to be Georgia.
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RG3
These two conferences and have Devin haven't played and since 2016 and they're already got the trash talk rolling. So I want to ask you guys, how would you describe just how crazy SEC and Big Ten college football fandom is?
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Jeff Foxworthy
SEC and you only know what you know, right?
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RG3
Right.
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Jeff Foxworthy
But I don't know how quietly it is. We all think we're the best conference top to bottom. And, and I get really upset like watching the Big Ten play. Cause like Ohio State plays high school teams for 10 weeks out of the season while the SEC beats each other up and everybody gets hurt. So by the end of the year, you know, physically they're not nearly as beat up as we are. But we can tell that, we can.
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Larry the Cable Guy
Tell that as one of the SCTC teams had Citadel last week. So they'd be.
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Jeff Foxworthy
Well, I will say that. And, and, and Rob, you gotta agree top to bottom, there's, there's not as much disparity in the SEC as there is in the Big Ten.
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RG3
I don't know if I agree. You mean as in the Big Ten is better top to bottom?
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Jeff Foxworthy
No, no. Meaning in the SEC that there's very few cup mean it used to be Vanderbilt. Now Vanderbilt's good. Mississippi State is better. Florida. Lord knows what's going on down there. But, but usually every week you can, you can't look at, you can't look past anybody. And I don't know that that's the case in the, in the big tent.
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RG3
I think the SEC is a little bit topsy turvy right now. You talked about Florida. LSU is down this year, Vanderbilt is up. But I think there's a little bit of SEC bias that goes on. You hear a little bit. Yeah, a lot of bit.
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Greta Griffin
A lot of it.
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Ben.
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RG3
I think it's mostly like nil Transfer portal has kind of evened things out a little bit. And you kind of heard Dan talking about it, you know, later in the year. SEC teams are trying to play, as we call them, you know, sisters of the poor, just to get some wins in at the end of the year so they can go into the College Football Playoff. But, you know, I look at this from a, like a fandom standpoint and it's like, Jeff, you, you, you know Johnny Manziel, his story and him being in the sec, playing against Alabama and, and doing everything that he did. And I think he has one of the more crazy stories and I think it's actually derivative of sports fandom. You know, him going to Vegas, going on a bender, coming back beating Alabama and Tuscaloosa. Have either of you ever had a Johnny Manzel style bender?
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Larry the Cable Guy
If you're talking sugar, yes. If you're talking foods that are bad for you, I was on a bender last night. So Johnny Manzel was 310 pounds and 5 foot 9? Yes, I was on a bender.
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Jeff Foxworthy
I mean, I might have had a night back in my 20s, but no, nothing like. Nothing like Johnny.
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RG3
Nothing like Johnny. Okay.
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Greta Griffin
Hey, Larry, we talk about Dylan Raiola. Do you think he's cosplaying Patrick Mahomes?
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Larry the Cable Guy
No, I do not. I think that he's been grooming to be a quarterback his whole life. His dad was an all American in Nebraska or. And that kid has been groomed to be a quarterback his whole life. I mean, you see pictures of him as a little kid back when Mahomes wasn't even in the NFL or anybody knew who he was and he still had. He cut the hair the same and Wore the number 15. And so. No, I don't think so. You know, Nebraska is a fun team to bash right now because we've been down for about 20 years and people like to bash us. Why? Because Nebraska was so good for so long. I mean, Nebraska, you cannot deny. I mean, we have been a bet. We haven't been that good of a team for the last 20 years. We had Some good years with Bo Pellini where he always got flat because he couldn't win the big game. I like Bo, but look, even though Nebraska has not, has not won a lot in the last 20 years, we're still the number eight winningest team in the history of college football. And I think we were two or three until the streak started of 20 years and we've only moved back five notches, which shows you how many wins we did have. So people like to bash Nebraska because back Nebraska every, every, you know, Alabama had their 10 year run, Nebraska had their 19, 1990s run. Oh, sorry. Swallowed some dip. Nebraska had their. Holy mackerel. I gotta get some water. It's that leaf chew. Anyway, Nebraska had their run in. Nebraska's fan base is insane. It is Nebraska. Like look at UCLA. Nebraska brought 25,000 people to Los Angeles and they only had 23,000 fans. We had 25,000. So people were down. People like to kick you when you're down because they. Nebraska kicked Everybody's ass for 35, 40 straight years. And so we're a good team that you can kick kicking down. But they will be on their way back. It's gonna take a while. We got the right coach, but Dylan takes arrows because he's a quarterback at the University of Nebraska and they're a fun team for haters to hate on right now.
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Greta Griffin
You think you guys will win a championship under meth rule?
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Larry the Cable Guy
Absolutely do. And we're starting to get great mill money and you heard a speech yesterday.
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RG3
Oh, yeah.
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Larry the Cable Guy
He's not worried about that anymore. We got, we got enough money to compete, get whoever we want. And yeah, we're on our way back. I think, you know, college football's different though. I think Jeff will agree. College football is. You'll agree. I mean, it's not like it used to be, you know, because you're worried about, you're worried about guys transferring. So if you have a guy that you want to play, you're scared to play that guy for fear the other guy's gonna transfer.
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RG3
Yeah, I was gonna say like for you guys as like die hard college football fans, how has nil and reportal truly changed, like your vision of what college football was May even 10, 15 years ago? How's it affected?
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Jeff Foxworthy
I. I think from. And. And I think I probably have a unique perspective in that Kirby was, you look back to 21 and 22 Kir like Saban did it in that Kirby's an elite recruiter and he was stacking classes one after the other. So when somebody went down, the guy coming in behind him there, what you couldn't tell the difference half the time. And what Transfer Portal and Nil did was make kids not want to sit and wait their turn. And so I think if Nil and Transfer Portal hadn't happened, Kirby would be the new Saban is. So it probably affected us as much or more than, than any team in football. It affected some other ones too, but you started seeing guys that were, you know, sophomores that weren't hitting the field, were going in the portal and going somewhere else and, and going in and playing. Anthony Evans this past weekend was an example at Mississippi State, you know, and so I think it's, it's harder. You know, you've now you got to play freshman. I mean we've got two, two true freshmen offensive linemen.
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RG3
Yeah.
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Jeff Foxworthy
Which never would have happened five years ago.
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RG3
Right.
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Jeff Foxworthy
But you got to play guys young and you know, it's, it's tightened everybody up for everybody else that wasn't Georgia or Bama. It's great news. It's made, it's made it more like the NFL and the parody. But I, I for one, and I'm probably spoiled. I don't like that. I don't like the NFL because I don't know who's going to win from week to week. I like knowing going in we, we ought to beat them. That's kind of gone away.
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RG3
Yeah, there's a lot more, there's a lot more parity. And you talk about like playing the freshman. There's been games that I've called this year where they're playing six and seven offensive linemen rotating offensive lineman guys who would be like first round picks in the NFL draft are having to rotate with other guys just so those guys don't go in the transfer portal.
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Jeff Foxworthy
So one 100%. And you see that in Georgia. I mean, we're rotating guys in and out on the offensive line and getting the young kids playing time just so they, you know, they stick. And, and I think what you're going to see happen is, you know, nobody's deep anymore. So as the season wears on when you get to the end, injuries are going to play a lot into, into who wins it all.
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RG3
Yeah.
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Jeff Foxworthy
Because you just don't have the depth used to have.
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RG3
Does it take away from the pageantry for you guys as, as college football fans? Does the new age college football take away from the pageantry when you watch.
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Larry the Cable Guy
Takes away from going, man, you know what? Wait till next year. We got this guy. He was the backup. He's going to be really good next year. You don't get a lot of that because you don't know if that backup is going to be back next year because some other school might want to come in and swoop him up. I think it stinks that only the schools that have the most money can get the best players. That's not how college football should be. And also college football is about your school, your state, state. Especially if you only have one, one major team there and you play for your state, you play for your school, you play like we say, Nebraska, man, you're not, you're playing for that block of red in on the side of your helmet and all those walk ons and all those kids that came up in these small schools in Nebraska that, that played for Nebraska, they played for their state. They love their state state. They love where they grew up. They were the. Look, you know, it used to be Nebraska's a flyover state. We're a bunch of hicks and a bunch of corn farmers and well, you know what, when you get here, you'll see that red end come at you and we'll kick your ass and we'll send you straight back home and you'll know what it's like in the Midwest because we can play some pretty good football out here. And you know, so it stinks that people are now, instead of coming in and playing for that, some of them come in and they just take the money and they want to get to the pros and you know, they'll be in Nebraska for, you know, the six months of the season and then that's it. I think that takes away from some of it. But there's also some kids though that still want to play because it's Nebraska and it's the tradition. But yeah, does it take away. It does take away some of it. You know, it totally does.
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Jeff Foxworthy
I think why I've always liked college football better than the pros is just the die hard. You know, even when places when you didn't have a good team, people still tailgated, they still showed up. They just, they love their team and they love their school and I, I don't know, I mean you can probably speak to that. Oh yeah, you know, in, in your career, college versus pro. But my God, when, when, when you love a college team, it, it, you bleed it. I mean look at this. This is, that's on the wall. That's on my shirt. There's my cub. I mean it's ridiculous. Georgia, if the university of Georgia shut down. I would be naked tomorrow. I mean, I have like nothing to wear.
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Greta Griffin
Oh my God.
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RG3
And and we actually met Jeff for the first time at the national championship.
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Jeff Foxworthy
But national championship game in 21, which Robert still the best night of my life. My wedding night included. After 41 years to win a natty again. I cried like a baby. I'm not gonna lie.
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RG3
And that. And that's the beauty. That to me is the beauty of college football because that's how much it means. I can hear it in both of you guys talking about how much the. The teams mean to you and how much the pageantry means. So we appreciate you guys diving into that with us here on the show. But let's get to the fun.
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Larry the Cable Guy
Let me say before you go on RG, here we go. RG3. Do they say RG Trace in Texas? RG Tracey Trace. Last year, the Big Ten won six games against the SEC and the SEC won four against the Big Ten. And the 2024 bowl record was five to one won the Big Ten won five out of the six. That was that. Now overall, the Big Ten all time is 49 and 66 against the SEC. So. But recent quit being recent history quit.
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Jeff Foxworthy
Being butthurt that you're in the Big Ten. Let's move on to the next topic.
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Larry the Cable Guy
I'm not but hurt. I mean you are butthurt. I mean honest. I like the Big 12. Absolutely. I like the Big 12. They were awesome.
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RG3
Yeah.
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Larry the Cable Guy
Big 12, Big 8 was the Big 8 was the best.
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RG3
Everybody's got a chance now in college football.
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Larry the Cable Guy
Well, you know what else? And before you move on to something else.
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Jeff Foxworthy
Oh, for God's sakes.
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Larry the Cable Guy
I, I do miss this. I do miss. Here's what I don't like about the Big Ten, especially as Nebraska's concerned, okay. Is you lost all your good rivalries. We've been playing Missouri and Kansas since the eight late 1800s. You could drive a car six to eight hours to watch your team. Now you gotta fly all the way across. That sucks. Nebraska, Oklahoma. I mean, come on. I. Actually, that's one of my best collections. I got, I got a whole Nebraska wall. I got a helmet that Barry Switzer signed and diagrammed the wishbone on the helmet. So then I went to coach Osbor and I said, hey, Coach, Barry's did this. Can you put your sign and put your favorite play? So coach Osborne signed Nebraska helmet and. And, and diagram the. The option on it. So I got both them helmets back to back in my office. That. That kind of stuff sucks too, that those great rivalries are gone.
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RG3
I don't disagree at all. There's got to be a way to maintain the rivalries, especially the regional ones, without losing, you know, the integrity of the game. So.
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Greta Griffin
Hold on, I'll check before. Before. Everybody good to move on? We're good.
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Larry the Cable Guy
I think we're good going. I'm glad I'm healthy again. I almost gagged to death on a tobacco leaf. Jeff, did you see me? I was gagging over.
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Jeff Foxworthy
I figured you were puking off camera.
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Larry the Cable Guy
It got caught right down there in the left. Whatever it is.
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RG3
Relate to that. That is for sure.
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Greta Griffin
Oh, my God. Anyway, moving on to a segment called you might be a celebrity if.
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Jeff Foxworthy
You.
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Greta Griffin
Ever performed for a president multiple times. Which presidents? How many?
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Jeff Foxworthy
I did Clinton and Bush twice. A W. Yeah.
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RG3
Nice. What's the funniest story from those performances?
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Jeff Foxworthy
When I did Clinton, it was like when the redneck jokes were very popular. And so I did one because I found out when he was in college, he had an El Camino with astroturf in the back. So one of my redneck jokes was if you've ever driven a el Camino with AstroTurf in the back, and he just about vomited laughing. And then for W, I was in the. I was in the White House. And I thought I, I said, you know, when you're a comic, you try to find things you have in common. I said, Mr. President, you and I are both southern males. We've Both been married to the same woman for decades. We each have two daughters. In the course of your average workday, you're trying to stimulate the economy of the world's largest industrial nation while at the same time prevent global terrorism. And in the course of my average workday, I'm sitting in my office going, what rhymes with fart? Which my wife could not believe. I said in front of the President. And two years later, I was at a function in D.C. and he was there and he walked across the room and he put his arm around me and he said, hey, did you ever figure out what rhyme with fart? And so he not only laughed at it, he remembered it two years later.
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Greta Griffin
Oh, my God, I love that.
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Larry the Cable Guy
That got. That got your daughter interested in the conversation.
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RG3
Did you ever figure out what rhymes a fart?
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Larry the Cable Guy
That's hilarious.
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RG3
So, Dan, what's the most out of pocket thing that has ever happened either on the set of Cars? We know it's. It's voiceover work or just with that franchise and you.
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Larry the Cable Guy
What do you mean out of pocket?
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Jeff Foxworthy
Larry, tell them. Tell them how you got the gig. That's the best story.
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Greta Griffin
Let's hear it.
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RG3
Oh, let's hear the story of how.
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Greta Griffin
People are going to be so confused because we're calling him Larry Dan, whatever, and people are like, who are we talking to?
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RG3
They got to do their.
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Jeff Foxworthy
Well, I call him Larry Dan half the time. Larry Dan, tell him how you got the part of mater.
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Larry the Cable Guy
Well, I just said that the house one day and I got a fax. My manager told me to go look at the fax machine. I went, looked at the fax machine and there's a fax from Pixar, said that they liked my work and blah, blah, that was funny. And asked me if I wanted to play the part of this little town tow truck. And, and so I called my manager back and I'm like going, oh, man, this is kind of cool. When do I. When do I got to go out there? I mean, what do I need to do? They go, nothing. You got the part. I go, what do you mean I got the part? They go, you got the part? I'm like, I don't have to audition or nothing. You go, no. They let like, they want you to come out. You got the part. I. I'll be honest, I teared up a little bit. It was. I said, man, that is so cool. A Pixar movie. I better start watching one. I've never seen one before.
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Jeff Foxworthy
When you read the first line, they went Through.
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Larry the Cable Guy
He told me they went through about 150 voiceover artists and 200 actors, and they couldn't find the part. And he picked up a blue collar CD and heard my voice right off the bat. And he goes, that's my tow truck. So I went out there and. And you mean when I'm in the studio, Jeff, the first reading, the first line. So I was out there and I was really nervous, and, man, John Lasser was so nice to me and showed me around, but I was super nervous. But my first line was, my name's Mater. Like, to Mater without the T. That was the first one. So he. I said, do you want Mater to be like, is he like a slow talker? He goes, what are you talking about? He's you. He goes, that's why I hired you. He's you. Just be you. It will be fine. I said, well, I can be me, all right. So he did the line, and my line was next. And I just went, hey, my name's Mater. Like tongue Mater without the tuh. And he started laughing. He's like, oh, this is gonna be awes. It was kind of cool. And. Yeah. So is that part you're talking about, Jeff?
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RG3
No.
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Jeff Foxworthy
You've totally screwed it up.
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Larry the Cable Guy
What was it? What was it?
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Jeff Foxworthy
Tell them. Tell them when you're on the Disney cruise ship and they ask you to go over the mic.
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Larry the Cable Guy
So after the second movie came out. Yeah, this is crazy. So the second movie came out and we're doing. I went. I got invited to the Disney Cruise, the launch of the Fantasy Cruise, and everybody's there. Bob Iger. I mean, everybody is on this ship. So they wanted me to perform in the showroom, and I'm like, yeah, sure, that'd be fun. So I did two shows. Well, John Lasseter came up to me on the cruise ship and he goes, oh, man, that was so fun. Hey, you know what? We'd be great. Go up to the captain of the ship. Still might ask you, if you do this and take the ships. The captain's microphone and make a ship's announcement as Mater, it'll go everywhere. I mean, everybody will hear it. It's like the emergency line. They'll hear the bathrooms and the kitchens and. But as Mater, just tell everybody thanks for coming on the Fantasy Cruise. And then have Mater introduce you, and you tell everybody thanks for coming to your show. That'll be a nice gesture. And I'm thinking in my head, I'm like, well, that's weird, because I made her. You know, that's Weird to introduce me because I made her and I thought it was weird. And every time I say John Lasher. And I used to laugh about this all the time because after I got done, he was laughing. He's like, I didn't even realize what I said. That was the dumbest thing I've ever made you do. It was hilarious. But this. This was how the announcement went on the show. Hey, everybody, this is Mater. Like tomato without the tug. Boy, I tell you what, I'm happier than the tornador in the trailer park that you come on this fantasy cruise and shoot that gum. If you ever get to the Radiator Springs, you and me, we'll do some backward driving. All right, then don't forget, you and me, we's best friends now. Here's my buddy Larry the Cable Guy to say something to you.
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Jeff Foxworthy
You.
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Larry the Cable Guy
Hey, everybody, this is Larry the Cable Guy. It's the same exact voice and made no change. That's good.
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Jeff Foxworthy
Good.
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Larry the Cable Guy
That's good. That is good. We were dying after that because it's like, John, you know, it's the same person.
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RG3
Oh, my God.
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Greta Griffin
Have you guys ever met somebody throughout your career or that you have performed to that you thought would absolutely hate your jokes, but ended up just, like, being your biggest fan?
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Jeff Foxworthy
Robert Plant. I was performing at Zany's in Nashville, and he walked in and went up in the balcony. And after the show, I saw him walk in, and I'm like, man, I want to meet him. And I went up there and he said, I heard you on the radio this morning telling the redneck jokes. And I grew up in Birmingham, England, and all the guys in London used to call us a bunch of bloody hicks. So I'm laughing me ass off at the redneck joke, Joe. And I thought, robert Plant likes redneck jokes. Who would have thought?
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RG3
Oh, my gosh, that is hilarious.
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Larry the Cable Guy
Yeah, there's all. But there was all kinds of people that would come up to us. You go, man, that's so cool. They're fans. I would have never thought they'd be if just that we've met along the way, you know, I mean, remember, we were. We were in the blue collar. In spite. I think it was all of us, Jeff. It might have been Yumi, I'm not sure. But Alex Trebek came in and he was like, man, I brought. You brought us stuff, man. I brought you guys something. I'm a big fan.
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Jeff Foxworthy
Steven Spielberg loved are you smarter than a fifth grader? Which just used to make me laugh. I'm like, really?
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Greta Griffin
That's awesome.
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Larry the Cable Guy
Yeah, you never, you never know who's going to walk in. ZZ Top was huge fans of ours. Yeah, they were, they were huge fans of each one of us individually and blue collar and man, there's so. And then Billy, Billy Bob Thornton was a big fan. And you know, there's all kinds of people that you would not. One time I was sitting in Los Angeles doing a meeting and I was at the buffet. George Hamilton, he was at the buffet. And, and I'm getting something standing next to him and I'm not saying anything. And he looks over and he goes, goes, hey, Larry, what are you doing? Hey Larry, what are you doing in town? I'm a big fan. I'm like going, holy smokes, George Hamilton. Are you kidding me? Don Johnson. One time I, I was somewhere, Don Johnson was across the room and I, you know, my eyes met his and he goes, he looks at me and he smiles and he goes, he mouse. Get her done. Kidding me. Yeah. So there's all kinds of people that you would never know that are fans.
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Jeff Foxworthy
Yeah.
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Larry the Cable Guy
One being my family, by the way, Robert and Greta.
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Jeff Foxworthy
A lot of Larry's stories start with I was at the buffet.
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RG3
Oh my God.
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Jeff Foxworthy
That is true.
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Larry the Cable Guy
I met a lot of people. Buffet people.
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RG3
Oh my God, Dan, you're talking about, you know, people being fans of Larry the Cable Guy and just really what you guys have done. And Jeff, you're, you're in Atlanta, correct?
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Jeff Foxworthy
That's right. Yeah.
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RG3
So you know, Dan, you were in Tyler Perry movie. Jeff, have you ever met Tyler Perry, being there in Atlanta?
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Jeff Foxworthy
I'm not, I've, I have not. I mean, I've seen him across the room, but we've, we've never had a conversation.
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RG3
So I mean, Dan, what's, what's your wildest or craziest Tyler Perry story from just being in, in the movie with him and obviously he was a fan of, of blue collar TV because he brought you into the fold with him.
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Larry the Cable Guy
Oh, absolutely. I remember I got done filming the award winning jingle all the way to up in Canada. I came home and, and I got a phone call and it was Tyler Perry. And he says, hey, listen, don't talk. It's just, he goes, just listen, I know you just got home from filming something, but what do you think of this, Madea? Larry the Cable Guy can't miss you in. And I'm like, well, when do you want me to do it? And it was crazy. Super nice. He said, well, I want to get you out of here. I know you were Just gone for six weeks. So I'd like to get you out of here in four days.
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RG3
Oh.
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Larry the Cable Guy
And I'm like, four days? So I said, yeah, I'll do it. Yeah. You know, I did everything. I. I've. Every movie I've ever done, I've done it without reading the scripts. Oh, my God. I went down. So he sends me the script, and. But this one I looked at. He sent me the script and I go, there's no way he's gonna get me out of here in four days. I'm in two thirds of the movie there. How are we gonna do this? So I flew down there, and then he came to my bus, and he goes, I. I took my bus down there, sorry. And then. Or did my bus meet me? It doesn't matter what my bus did, But I was in my bus, and he came up to me and he goes, hey, good news. I'm gonna get you out of here in two days. I'm like, two days? So I showed up. I don't listen. So I showed up for the first day on the set, and, you know, I'm just standing there, and he's out in the pig pen doing his thing dressed like Madea. And I'm like, there's. Everything he's saying I'm trying to find is nowhere on the script. And I know at some point I have to talk to him because I'm in the script talking to him in the big bed, but there's nothing. And all of a sudden, one of the. One of the guys there just points at me, goes, go in, go in, go in, go in. So I go in there and he asked me some question, and I'm like, yeah, I started ad living with him, and then he says, we got a couple laughs. He said, cut. Let's. He goes, cut. Let's run that. I like that one. Let's move on to something else. So then he turned around, said hi to me, said, I'll be right back. I got to change. And he left. And another guy came up. You ever worked with Tyler before? And I said, no. And he goes, well, let's put it this way. You got to be on your toes, because a lot of this is ad libbed. And I'm like, oh, okay. And that. And that made for one of the funnest tapings I've ever done in my life. Because we would. We knew what the scene was, right? And he basically told us, you guys are good at what you do. This is why I hired you. You're funny. This is where we are. This is where we need to get to. And I don't care how we get there. If we go off script, do whatever you want. Let's just make it funny and get to this spot right here. And that's how we did it. So when you watch that, you know the scene, the scene where me and Kathy Jimmy are in the bedroom and you know, the lady comes in and we're wrestling in the sheets and, and I come up out of the bed and it looks like I got the klan suit on, you know, because it's the sheet over my head. She already thought we were clan members. That whole thing was pretty much ad libbed. The entire thing. Almost everything I did in that movie with Kathy and Tyler, it was, it was ad libbed. It was fun. And he was right, it was quick. He got me out in two days.
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RG3
That is absolutely nuts. Jeff, you. Do you have any experiences like that?
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Jeff Foxworthy
No, I just, I just love it that Larry said, you know that scene in that movie, you're assuming anybody's watched that movie when you say that.
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Greta Griffin
We, first of all, personal, big fan. So I love that movie. And we literally just watched it like 2 days ago at like 11pm I put it on, I was like, are we watching Medea? And I'm like, yes, we are. All right. Moving on to another segment called Viral Spiral where we talk about kind of viral topics and you know, both you being known as in the redneck community. We want to talk about Drewski who went viral for doing the White Face and the Redneck Super NASCAR fan. And you know, it had a lot of support but also a lot of backlash. So what did you guys think about it?
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Jeff Foxworthy
We've kind of lost the ability to laugh at ourselves. And it's like when I was doing the redneck jokes, if I was doing press in New York or la, they would always ask me, how many people are offended by this? And the honest answer was, nobody. It's because, hell, I had done half of them. There wasn't research going on. But instead of being offended, people would bring me the books and they'd go, hey, look here, we've done everything in here except for this one and this one and we're going to try to do this one next weekend. So I think as long as it's funny and people have the ability to laugh at themselves, I'm cool with it.
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Larry the Cable Guy
There's nothing better. And this is how I wish everybody operated. Like a comedian. Green room in a comedy. Green room. You have every ethnicity in there. And you have jokes flying. You have people doing jokes on one another, and they're all friends, and they're getting big laughs, and they're. The camaraderie is so good. Nothing offends them, you know, perfectly.
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RG3
When you were going back and forth with the Wayans, we happen to be really good friends with Marlon Wayans and, like, great guy, you know, great, you know, comedian, you know, person. Just a good. Just a good dude. And I think laughing together makes us realize how similar we are. And being able to have that banter back and forth, like, what's ghetto? What's redneck? What's this? What's that? And if we can just laugh sometimes, you know, we could solve a lot of the world's problems. And one of the things that came up after the Drew Ski thing was, well, then some. Some white comics, like Theo Vaughn said, all right, well, I'm gonna do blackface. And it's like, that's a little.
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Jeff Foxworthy
That's a little different.
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Greta Griffin
Yeah.
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RG3
But, like, for you guys, do you think that something like that is different? I think it is. I'll answer the question. I think it is because of the historical context of it, but it is. It is. You know, in some comedy spaces, it's fair game. If one side is going to do it, then the other side feels like they can as well.
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Jeff Foxworthy
The first part of your question, I think you could take people from opposite polar, opposite sides of the political spectrum, and if you just sat down with them one on one and talked to them and said, what do you want out of your Life? I think 85% of it would be exactly alike. Everybody wants to be loved. Everybody wants to be able to take care of their kids. Everybody wants to be able to feed their family. And instead of celebrating the 85% where we're alike, what we do is take the 15%. We hammer each other. And I was thinking the other day, I. You know, I would love the world where we quit identifying people by the color of their skin, their ethnicity, or their sexual preference and just go.
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Larry the Cable Guy
Like.
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Jeff Foxworthy
Talking to you guys, I'm talking to a man and a woman. Right. I don't. Because that's what. What we really are. I mean, you and I have different amounts of melanin in our skin, but other than that, we're exactly the same. And I think if you want to end racism, let's quit identifying. It's, you're a man and I'm a man. Right. And don't lead with your race. Don't leave with your sexual preference differences. Let's just all be God's creation. Human beings and God, we're a lot more alike than we are different. And let's start celebrating that more instead of arguing about the 15%.
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Larry the Cable Guy
What do you think?
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Jeff Foxworthy
I agree.
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Greta Griffin
I think it's important to know what the other person has gone through. That's why you. I feel like I don't really.
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Jeff Foxworthy
100%.
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Greta Griffin
I don't really like the fact that when people say, like, oh, I don't see color, because I feel like you should see color. And you have to see color to be able to understand each other and know what that person has gone through, what you have gone through, whatever, and, you know, kind of just have a level head. But I agree. I think everybody's way more alike. The world could be so much more of a peaceful place if people just treated each other as human beings, you know?
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RG3
No, I agree with that. No, I totally, totally agree there. And, like, you kind of taking the conversation a different direction. And it's like that to me. I love these conversations. So let's go ahead and get to our next segment. Man, the deep end you got. You guys willing to go on the deep end with us here for a little bit?
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Jeff Foxworthy
Sure, why not?
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RG3
Like, this is one thing I've always loved about comedy, and you guys can appreciate this. There's always a message at the end of the day. The question I want to ask and want you both to answer is, like, at this point in your life, like, what keeps you up at night?
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Larry the Cable Guy
The.
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Jeff Foxworthy
The. The thought of good and evil. I think about that a lot. I'm just the way I'm wired. I don't put myself first in my family and my community and people that. That don't have regard for other people, for their. For their physical welfare, for their emotional welfare or what. And I just. I don't understand that. That's what makes me lay awake at night and go, I don't know, get it. Why, you know, you see so much of it on social media. People have to be right. Well, when you have to be right, that means the other person has to be wrong. And nobody wants to engage in a conversation where they've got to be wrong. And again, I think it comes down to laughing at yourself. And that's what comedy does. Is. Doesn't matter where you're from, doesn't matter how much money you've got. I always operate. I write to, hey, if I think something, if my wife says something, if my family does something, I'm going to trust other people. Are Thinking and saying and doing the same thing. And when you throw it out there and they're laughing is you realize, oh, I'm, I'm not so unique. We are all alike. We're all in this together. And I think that's a good feeling. I think we all need to belong to something bigger than ourselves.
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Larry the Cable Guy
Oh, yeah. No, I'm, I, I don't. You know what? I, not the thing that keeps. Nothing really keeps me up at night. I mean, I, I worry about my kids futures. I want my kids to grow up like I grew up in a night in a good free country where government movement stays off our ass as much as possible. And you know, and, and I want this country, to my kids to grow up with just how I grew up. That's the one thing I think that I just want. That's. I mean, if there was anything that was going to keep me up at night, that would be what it is. I worry about. A lot of people go how this young generation I worry about. I'll be honest with you, I don't worry too much about the young generation because I think the young generation's got a lot of really, really good, patriotic American kids that love the country. You know, my kid is five weeks away from graduating from the army Cav, and I go down to Fort Benning and I see all those kids down there and they're disciplined and they're, they love their country and they, they're good kids. Yes, sir. No, sir. And I mean, they're. You know what I mean? They're, they're just good. So there's tons and tons of good kids that your future looks pretty good on. But I don't really. Nothing really keeps me up at night. I'm a father. Look, I'm, I'm a Christian. I got Jesus living in my heart. So, so that's my identity. You know, comedy is what I do for a living. It's not my identity. Because I'll be honest, if you put all your identity into what you do for a living, once that's gone, once it doesn't go the way you wanted it to go, then what do you got? You got nothing. And you're depressed and you wonder why. Well, because that's not my identity. My identity is in, in Jesus and who's pulled me through a lot of situations that if I didn't have that, it could be. It could have been pretty bad. So that's. I realize that life is but a speck, but eternity is forever. And so I just try to Be kind, do what I'm. Do it. Love my neighbor, do the best that I can, which is hard for people to do. So I, I sleep pretty good at night knowing that, that my. That I'm secure in that. And I live by the promises that Christ says, and so that's what I live by. I'm not per. I think people misunderstand the Christian life. That's, you know, once you, once you do, things aren't going to go perfect and everything's going to be great. You're still going to have problems. But I have a. I have someone that I can reach out to in those times when I'm going through the desert of life. And so I do not. I do not really lose a lot of sleep over things that go on because I do know that God is in charge. Nothing is going to happen without him already knowing about it, planning out for it. So we live in a fallen world. I get that. We weren't promised tomorrow.
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Greta Griffin
I have a question based off of your. Your fate. So how has God shown up in your career when you kind of feel like the world wasn't showing up for you?
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Jeff Foxworthy
Well, you know, I don't know why I'm funny. So I believe it was a gift. Some people's gift is taking care of old people. People. Some people's gift is like Robert, where you just have all these physical skills and, you know, but I think if you acknowledge that, that, hey, this is a gift from God, and you're like, okay, how can I use it in the best way? How can I leverage it? And as, as, you know, Robert, I mean, whether getting hurt or whether, like us, where you go through periods where you're not doing as well, it, like, like Dan said, it's not your identity. You know, this is what I do. It's not who I am. So I, I feel very blessed to have had this gift. I, I love it. I wouldn't have wanted to do anything else for a living, but hopefully I've. I've been honoring with it what's the most.
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Larry the Cable Guy
Yeah, God gives everybody gifts. I mean, you just have to find those gifts that he gave you, and you have to. To use those gifts in the right way. Absolutely. Everybody has gifts.
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Jeff Foxworthy
Yeah.
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RG3
And, you know, people use those gifts and like you said, in certain different ways, but we all go through challenges and adversity. So, like, for you guys, like, what's the most adversity that you've. That you've had to face in your career, and how did you overcome it?
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Jeff Foxworthy
Wow. You know, I was, I was lucky in that mine was kind of stairstepped. It didn't happen like it did for Eddie Murphy.
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RG3
All the.
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Jeff Foxworthy
All of all at once at 19. So, you know, I had chances to adjust to it and not lose my mind. You know, it's kind of weird now. Comics are young and. And I'm no longer young and. And so I'm getting these feelings like, you know, maybe I should step away. Nobody wants to be the old guy. That's not funny anymore. But I still enjoy it. You know, you can't do it forever. And so I'm trying to find a great, graceful way to hop off the train, you know, and pass the baton to the ones behind us because there's so many great comics that are in. Comedy will be fine without Jeff, but Jeff, you know, Jeff wants to be able to be fine without comedy too. So, you know, and Robert, you. You adjust to that. It's like, you know, everybody knows you as a football player, but you're so much more than that. And hopefully I'm so much more than just a comedy coming.
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Larry the Cable Guy
Absolutely. And that's what helps. That's what helps you. That's why when I talk about my faith or Jeff talks about his faith, I mean, because it's hard when you're at the top of your game and then all of a sudden, because it doesn't last forever. It doesn't last forever. That's why you cannot put your. You have that, that cannot be your identity. It's what you do because you're going to have a whole nother life when that one starts to fade away. And you want to make sure that you got your eyes on the right. On the right topics, you know, on the right things. But yeah, it's. If you're going to talk about any adversity, you're just trying to be. Just doing stand up itself. There's a lot of adversity. There's so many comedians. And you have to be.
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Jeff Foxworthy
You want to.
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RG3
You.
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Larry the Cable Guy
You want to be the person that people notice you. So you have to. Have to find something that separates you from other people, what makes you unique. All those nights of driving in your car at night and staying in a hotel and performing for 15 people and people in your family telling you, you know, maybe, you know, that Macy's managerial thing is hiring. Maybe you should go into, you know, the executive training program. You know, I mean, all of those things are adverse to what you're trying to do. And so I think just persevering and using the gift that you have and knowing that you can make people laugh and not quitting and working hard at it. You know, Jeff, I always say this to people. Jeff always says this great thing that I always remembered when I was coming up. It's called show business for a reason. There's the show and there's the business. Business. There may be a lot of people that are funnier than me, but there's not going to be a lot of people that are going to work harder than me. And that's why you see some people succeed in what they want, some people don't, because some people just work harder than others and get a few more. The harder you work, the more lucky breaks you make for yourself.
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RG3
And.
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Larry the Cable Guy
And so there's adversity. There was adversity through the entire career, and I think Jeff will say that. But then once you get to the top, you like it, you want to stay there, but there's other people trying to tear you down and come after you. So the. The real trick is to stay happy and stay positive and stay funny. When you went from selling 15,000 tickets a night to selling 1700, you know, that's the trick. Are you just as happy doing that as you were doing the other one? And if your heart's in the right place, absolutely. And so you persevere, and your life continues to go on and spread joy and spread love because of who you are, not what you did.
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RG3
Well, I mean, wow, what a way to finish the episode. So I think you guys are spot on. You know, for me, personally, I basically retired four years ago. And like you said, Jeff, sometimes, you know, you. You decide when you want to stop, and then sometimes the business decides when you're going to stop. And I think a lot of people at home, whether they're athletes, business people, entertainers, a lot struggle with that. Because I can only imagine, like you're saying, Dan, going from. From selling out stadiums, and then it's like, all right, well, now you got 1500 people here to. To watch you make them laugh. Can you find the same. Same joy in that? I know for me, I found that joy in. In being a dad, being a husband.
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Larry the Cable Guy
Absolutely.
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RG3
I stayed around the game by being a broadcaster and being able to have fun and be in those environments. But there's no replacement for what that was. Like, somebody said, right? Like, yeah, in football, there might. I've played in front of 100,000 people before, and I've played in those stadiums when they're cheering for you, and I've played in those stadiums when they're not cheering for you. No one's cheering for you like that when you walk into Walmart.
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Larry the Cable Guy
Okay.
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RG3
And you have to be okay with that. And I think some people struggle finding their next mission in life. And I'm just thankful to have my wife here along the journey with me. Me and have our four daughters, because that, to me, that was always my why. So I just took that why from playing for him on. On Sundays and Mondays and Thursdays to now just being that person every single day that I possibly can be. And you guys have been awesome to talk to and really dive into this with. And I think the people who listen to this will walk away, haven't learned something, and can even apply it to their own life.
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Larry the Cable Guy
Yeah, I hope so. Absolutely. And okay. And I'll say this with me and Jeff, I mean it. It may be 1500, it may be 2500, it may be 3000. I'll tell you what, the shows are just as. As funny as they've ever been, and we're thankful for those 1500 or 3000 that are still showing up. That's a fact.
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RG3
Yeah.
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Greta Griffin
Hey, we. We will be there.
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RG3
No doubt. We. We love you guys. Thank you. And appreciate, you know, just the humanity. Like, you guys are just good humans. So we appreciate you guys coming on the show. Everybody that listened to this episode and made it all the way to the end, we appreciate you for. For clocking in with us. Make sure you, like, subscribe to our YouTube channel. Like we said, go find us on social media, follow us there, and then, of course, go leave a review on Spotify or Apple podcasts. This was out of pocket with RG3, and we definitely got out of pocket on this episode. See y' all next time. Peace.
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Larry the Cable Guy
Get her done. I'm glad I didn't die on a tobacco leaf.