FULL SEND PODCAST - Luke Bryan x Nelk Boys | Ep. 55

Episode Date: September 3, 2022

Luke Bryan Reveals What Katy Perry is Really Like and Calls Out Fake Country Artists! Presented by Happy Dad Hard Seltzer. Find Happy Dad near you http://happydad.com/find (21+ only). Video is available on http://youtube.com/fullsendpodcast/videos. Follow Nelk Boys on Instagram http://instagram.com/nelkboys. Part of the Shots Podcast Network (shots.com). You can listen to the audio version of this podcast on Spotify, Apple Podcasts & anywhere you listen to podcasts. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

We want out, we want out, we want out, we want out. Nice and loose, a little control. No headphones? I feel like a rap. I feel like a rapper when I went to headphones. Gabe is the best mic checker in the game, eh? The best mic first mic first mic. Like, unnecessary mic checker, but yeah.

Yeah. You should see the one he ripped on Mark Cuban. Like, it looked like he was like going to give him head and he just fucking picks up. Especially some people, too. It's not like it's their first interview. Like Mark Cuban knows how to like handle a mic too. Yeah, he was like, no, like you don't need to do that right now, bro. There's no one to do that for it.

to do it. Fixing the mic for it. He's gonna have to fix this so you can. He's doing it. He's fucking it up now so when Luke comes in, he can do it.

It's actually kind of smart. How is Thailand, boys? Well, also we got a guest host today, Sugar Sean. Thanks for coming. Yeah, of course.

Appreciate it. How's, uh, how's the training going? Dude, I've been dialed in for about four or five weeks. No, uh,

no traveling, just been fucking training. Um, I pretty much went from camp and then I went to Miami with you guys. And I pretty much got right back in the camp. So I was like back to back camps, body feels really good.

I'm going to be in the best shape I've ever been in going into this fight against Peter Yon, who's on the top, I think 15 pound for pound best fighters in the world. This is a big fight, massive fight. What's the date? October 22nd in Abu Dhabi. I don't know if it's

going to be like at nighttime over there in daytime here or vice versa. Really? You don't know that yet? I mean, I guess I probably could look it up or ask someone, but just thinking about it, I think Sammy asked me, and I said, yeah, I'm fucking how was it it was night at night there right it was it was it early as fuck it was it was like five in i've heard night there was it but was it like two a m or was it no i think it was like regular

time like the main event ended at like 12 12 30 okay interesting maybe they'll do the same curious last 10 fights been here in baggis dude so it's going to be a little bit different my entire u sc career has literally been in vagus you know i don't think it's going to play any negative rule or anything but it's going to be interesting fighting over there when do you go out there i'm going to go out october 6th so sure i'll do like my hard yeah i'm going to do my hard last sparring wednesday and then i'm going to head out that next thursday be there for like two and a half weeks it's going to be sweet if you ever watched peter fight yeah i haven't watched too many of his fights he's probably one of my favorite fighters to actually watch he's got a sweet style hands up

real good high guard really good boxing really good everywhere um which makes this fight so excited for me because a lot of the fights I go into I'm like a huge favorite like oh how is sugar gonna knock this guy out now you're like a big underdog right now it's like I'm an underdog and it's like that's exciting it does a little bit but it just like it's more motivating I guess it's it's different this fight feels different it feels like a big fight like when I got in the UFC I wanted to be in big fights I'd see Connor versus you know the Jose or like him being in those big fights I was like that's what I want I want who's the biggest guy he's fought our biggest name um Peter he was the champ. He beat Al Jermaine. Well,

he got a disqualification. He's basically one-on-one with the champ. He beat Jose Aldo. Corey Sandhagen. Although just fought, right? He lost. Your eye favor. Your eye just, yeah, lost some boring guy. Yeah, it's a big fight, dude. And then Charles Olivera versus Islam's the

main event. That's a huge fight. That is. I want to see Charles win, dude. Me too. I don't want to see Islam go out there and grab him and win. And it's like, I just feel like there's not as many as exciting fights if Islam's a champ. Charles Yeah

Charles's on fire too Bro I feel like Islam's just gonna like The problem You're talking about like Those guys bro They'll die before they lose though The Russians

Yeah Yeah Peter's a little Russian Have you seen the videos too Of like how Khabib coaches Islam From the corners Yeah It's fucked It's like play by play

It's intense Yeah Habee was a character Yeah I think Yeah that's style And Peter Like this might be stupid

Do you guys ever talk like on the side it's funny actually I've messaged him on Instagram when I was trying to get this fight because I honestly didn't think he would take this fight I'm ranked number 13 he's ranked number one like I didn't think he's going to take this fight so I was in the DMs like you won't like calling him out like personally to make it a little more like what motherfuckers

did he open it yeah yeah we've talked back and forth we've had some silly little interactions but uh nothing nothing too crazy where is he trained because he's not in the US he's in Thailand hanging out the lady boy Oh, shit. I know. I heard you were over there.

Good thing we didn't fucking cross past with him. You should have been filming some secret shit for me. Why didn't see him, bro? You're too busy with the lady boys. Hey. That's funny. That's all right. Whoa,

whoa. You guys rocking the same APs over here. Are we? Damn, that's clean. Oh, no, you got the...

He's a little bit more big daddy style. Is Luke's a little better? His looks a little bit more bigger. Whatever, I got a similar watch did Luke. Oh, that is fucking sick, though. All right. I'll just tuck mine in my,

in my pocket or some shit. We'd swap them up a little bit. It's been like my third Seltzer attempt. Really? Like tasting ever? So it's 5 p.m. right now. Happy dad.

What do you think? Will it help my dad, bod? A little bit. I mean, we can't say it's healthy, but if you look at the macros, like if you check the back, it's not bad. What's in this thing? I think it's like 100 calories.

So Tulane is 99. So we got your ass on that. Oh, shit, really? We're already whipping. We're already getting in some of that. no that's good though i could drink that i hadn't we did it anyway there you go here we go it's not cold enough that's fire it's good i actually really like guys i ought to know how to make a damn beer y'all are quiet the cruise dude this is smooth this is fire are we live on this

yeah we're live we just go for it so do you drink before shows often man i'm a little this is going I'm drinking a little early right now. I typically drink, I love breakfruit juice and vodka. I drink one of those about that big before the show. And then... Every show, like you like to go with a little buzz? Every show. That's awesome.

You know, I tried one time. Sorry, I got to get this damn couch game going. Get comfy. There we go, but we did, I like had a wine drunk. You know, you have all that. anxiety. Wine drunk is dangerous. They're awful because you have anxiety.

And then you quit drinking. I swore off drinking and I tried to do a show in Orlando. Like, nothing in me. Like, no. Now, and like my brain runs and then I start thinking about lyrics. And then you're like, the lyrics are in your brain. And then you start, and then it's like, it starts snowballing. So that was the last.

time i tried to just go not anything but i don't drink so when you're sober you can't remember the lyrics well when i when i'm you know when i'm when i'm just like dead sober i hadn't tried it in a minute i may i may be like another time i took a i took a night off and i did okay but like but it's nice to get out there like a little buzz gives you that confidence i mean there's just that slight edge with the little buzz right yeah there's it doesn't do you any good like um um I used to do these spring break shows several years ago. And historically, that was the only time I would, like, just get... Too wasted?

Like, no, it was, that was the point. Right. I would just, I would get drunk on stage. And I did, I did okay on it, you know, but it's still not. When you get too drunk up there. Have you ever got, like, what's one time where you got, like, a little two hammered on stage? Man, the first time I ever, I've had about five or six something through the years. And one of them, I mean, this was back before I had just gotten signed to Capitol.

And we were in Centerville, Iowa, in a hayfield, literally. And, man, it was first day of football season, you know, college football. I was on the bus. And, man, we just got, I got trashed. And I got on stage. And it was awful. And, you know, it was 200 people there. So I didn't really, I didn't really do too much.

damage to myself, but literally, like, it felt like I just couldn't, I couldn't get it together. And I never got it together. And like, so I couldn't. Yeah, how does a crowd react? No, I got through it. I did the whole show. And by the end of the show, I'd kind of sobered myself up, but it was bad. And so, you know, so other than the spring break shows, and then the last night, when we

do Crash My Flyer in Mexico, the final night is just all the artists come out. just start and we just start playing whatever we want to and I'll I'll and I'll get I'll get pretty lit up and then one night we had a charity event at my house and I drank like a whole bottle at home you got to get extra hammered when it did it was not the time to do it and I drank a whole bottle of Casamigos on stage and dude it was bad yeah like we're in Nashville and it's like in October we're out in the country. Yeah. You know, we had like

five, six hundred people at our house. We're jamming. What's your house, though? The guests are going to be pissed. They're happy to be invited, right? Well, no, the people there weren't pissed. It was the neighbors

that were sitting on their back porch like a mile away. It was like a calm night. They called the cops? They didn't call the cops, but I said, you know. While you're cursing at the neighbors? I said, fuck, about a zillion times on the mile.

And like a million people. heard it throughout the county but I woke up the next morning I was like oh god I had to make some phone calls yeah anxiety kicks in you're like fuck what have I done well I mean I've heard don't you fall off the stage a few times too I do that you only do that in North Carolina which is that like a drinking thing or it's North Carolina that's from sober times falling off the stage I you know I'm not that like I said I mean if it's it's just being goofy and not altogether. You know, sometimes we'll get out here in Vegas, and then, like, the stage is set out here,

and then, like, well, you know, stages have little nuances that are different, man, you miss one little deal. But, like, that night in North Carolina, the last one, I'd actually kicked my beer over, and then I stepped in the beer, and then I, you know, I was about to do a split. So other than try to save it, I just kind of rode it on down, and, you know, if, you know, flopped around like a like a damn harpooned whale up there or something but yeah country like we listen to like a lot of rap too but i listen to a lot of country and just going to country events is like the best like the best crowds to people that have never been like you've got to go

like well it's fun man you know everybody everybody everybody's got you know in my world um you know in the music you know i mean i make some serious music and then i make some fun music people dance to and party to. Man, I think most of the time people just want to come have fun and not, you know, not deal with a bunch of, you know, they just want to come and dance and drink and dance with the girl and hook up, meet the girl and all that. And, you know, gosh, I've, you know, got a few years under my belt now. So I've been there, done that and seen it a million times.

But walking out on stage, you know, night in and night out. And even this year, this year has been one of our most. successful years touring and when I walk out there and I've gotten to, I mean, I'd say I'm 11, 12 years and they're like headlining my own stuff and the fact that people are still showing up every night. I'm like, that's fucking sick. It's amazing. I think it's because they're so drunk. They don't remember the shows. What do you mean by it's been the most successful year in terms of something? Well, it's just like, you know, coming out of COVID, I toured last year and we had a crazy good year.

year. But, you know, I think, you know, we had obviously 2020 nothing, 2021. I think, I think like 25% of people just didn't want to be around other people. It was still, now whether you were like, you know, whatever I'll, you know, if you were, no matter what side of the aisle you stood on and however, if you were, you know, whatever you felt, you know, I just felt like 20% at the crowds, we're kind of like, you know, maybe we ought to give it one more year. We still had a great year last year, but this year's been, you know, I mean, we've been selling out and having a blast. Everything's been huge.

You know, I walk out there every day and I'm like, gosh, I can't believe this, you know. That's awesome. It's fun to get to, you know, get to do this so long. Did performing come natural to you? Are you, like, naturally a performer? Performing is what I always kind of hung my hat on, you know. Hey, so what did you want to talk about? Well, I want to tell you about Wagovi.

Wagovi? Yeah, Wagovi. What about it? On second thought, I might not be the right person to tell you. Oh, you're not? No, just ask your doctor. About Wagovi. Yeah, ask for it by name.

Okay. So, why did you bring me to the circus? Oh, I'm really into Lion Tamers. You know, with the chair and everything. Anything? Ask your doctor for Wagofi by name. Visit Wagovi.ca for Savings. Exclusions may apply. I always really pride of myself to try to just be the best entertainer I could be and the best. You know, I think when it comes to, I think sometimes, you know, vocally people may not give much credit for being a singer night in and night out. But I think at the end of the day,

people, people just want to come see me up there having fun, not being too serious, being loose, being chill. And I did that from the time, you know, I started getting on stage 16, 17, playing little bars and stuff. And man, I just always have fun up there. And so when I moved to Nashville, I started writing. And then, you know, there's, I'd always written some all through high school and college and stuff, but never really got serious.

So, I mean, when you're writing for yourself and your career, you need to be able to write. It's all got to line up. You've got to have a great live show, and then you've got to write the great songs and sing them great. It's all got to come together at the same point. Thankfully, you know, I always was really working hard writing so I could get back on stage. You know, some people come. They're great writers, great singers, but you put them up there, and they have no, you know, they have no stage presence. they have no personality they have you know and it gets a little tricky for them so was it hard

to switch from cover bands to writing your own stuff yeah you know when you're cover bands you know you're singing like other people right so that's the point it's to try to actually kind of match their voice rather than well i mean naturally you do it i mean i was 18 years old playing in bars and trying to sound like my heroes now whether i sounded like them or not it's a different story but you know the main thing with me is when you when you leave like a cover band college band, you know, frat party, we were like, you know, growing up in Georgia, the thing about growing up down in Georgian in that part of the country. I mean, you can go to colleges and play college bars, frat parties as a college band,

you know, down in, you know, in that part of the, and so, you know, you're doing all the covers, you're doing like, heck, we did, when we played everything, rap, rock, whatever. I was doing, whatever made people have fun. And, but getting to Nashville, you know, you got, it takes a little time to kind of figure out what you're going to be as an artist, you know. It's not like, you know, I had to, I had to just kind of really even dive in vocally what I was as a singer and, and, you know, I may have moved to Nashville thinking I sound a good singing something, but when you step in front of a microphone, you're recorded in the studio, you know, you can kind of go, I didn't really sound. Did you have a coach for vocals? I never had a vocal coach. I mean, my producer, who's still my producer,

a guy named Jeff Stevens, and his son produces me also. But Jeff, the reason why it worked is Jeff knew how to coach me along, knew how to, when he and I wrote a song, just magic shit started happening. You know, so it was like, I mean, you can go right with, a hundred people and nothing like the the magic dust doesn't happen but then when you go find

the right four or five and like when y'all sit in the room just like and you didn't even mean for it to happen so with jeff just the magic kind of started happening and he coached me along and maybe you know just you get better and better and better and better as a singer do you do you ever still write for other people you know it's funny i i i don't write like a ton as much as I used to. I used to, you know, two songs a day and four days a week and, you know, just writing and just in there, in the trenches. I mean, just by yourself in a room or?

Well, no, you know, you got co-writers scenarios. I mean, like, like, this looks like a co-wrote. This looks like we're ready to write a song right now, you know, just have a guitar and start. Let's try it. Come on, you never know. But the main thing with, in those days, you know, you know, just writing with your buddies and um one of my buddies dallas davidson you know we went to college

together and he calls me up can i come up and write songs and you think i'd be a good songwriter and i'm like man i'd rather have your crazy dumb ass up here writing songs that a bunch of people that didn't grow up loving country music man he moved up slap on my couch and hell he's at 25 28 number ones you know he some of the songs he you know he some of the songs he he he you You know, some of the songs that he and I've written have, you know, really define my career. So when did you go from, like, playing in bars and frats to doing the real big shows? Well, you know, I mean, when my first single that came out was called All My Friends Say, and it was pretty, you know, it went to number five on the country charts,

which was a miracle, you know, for your debut single. Then my second song didn't do well. it died at like 35, which was pretty rough, pretty depressing, because it was one that I had a lot of, you know, I had a lot of high expectations for. So, I mean, like, when it flops, does I kill your confidence? Oh, it kills you. Yeah. It's a nightmare.

How old are you at that time? Man, I'm 28, 20, no, I'm not, I'm 29, I'm not 29, 30. No, I may have been right around 30. But, man, you just, and it was a song that I had, that I had played in Georgia. It was called, we rode and truck. and it was about where I grew up, we rode in trucks. You know, that was what all the, and man, it was a damn good-ass song. And, I mean, I would go play college bars in Athens, Georgia, and all over the south

and sell them out right that because they wanted to hear we rode in trucks. And then I put it on the radio and it didn't, it flopped. It sucked. And, um. But I mean, like, you think it's good and then you put it on the people don't like it? You know, there's a lot of, there's a lot of, there's a lot of, There's a lot of nuances behind it when you're a young artist. You don't realize what's going on.

But it just, it just. How so? Like what type, what kind of nuances? Well, you know. Like business shit behind the scenes. Business shit, little things where like little internal label stuff where, I mean, there was some stuff that went on that I couldn't do nothing about. And, but thank God, you know, I just kept writing.

Like, so when we rode in trucks died, it was like almost two years before I came with my first number one, a song called Do I? And then I had a couple number ones, which was a huge thing. And then at that point, I'm starting to open for like Jason Aldine. Oh, shit, nice. And I'm out on tour with him, and Tim McGraw had me out. And then, so I'm actually like, I'm getting a tour bus at this moment and going and actually. you know, doing it on the road. But then when country girls shake it from me came out,

it was fucking, it was over. Yeah, that's just over. It was over. And, you know, that's the coolest thing about it. And once you drop a big one, you know. What was that song releasing that song like? Oh, man. It was, it was awesome.

I mean. Were you confident that one was going to bang? Yeah, I knew it was good. Yeah. I mean, and you know what, but there were still people, you know, there were still people, I mean, they didn't, they didn't hear it. they didn't get it and they didn't, they thought it was, you know, they thought it was this and that. Like before you released it?

Just, that's just what it is. I mean, when you, you know, when you're working with labels and you're getting people's opinion, you know, some people just, I mean, you know, country girls shake it for me in the world of country music at the time. It was like a little too, it was a little more poppy than like. It was just the subject matter. I mean, sitting there going, you know, shake your ass for me and, you know, it was. It was, you know, I mean, that was a... It was like older people at the label and shit? Yeah, not older people, but just people that just

were purists, maybe country music purists and stuff like that within the label. But, you know, they said, hey, if you're behind it that much, rock and roll, and what's funny is it didn't go number one, it went to number five. Really? And sometimes, sometimes polarizing, not polarizing, songs. like that can do that, you know, a lot of, historically, a lot of big songs over the years that had pretty risky, risque, I mean, which, like I said, you guys, to hear me say country girls shake it for me is risque for y'all, y'all, y'all, I'm probably makes y'all giggle,

but. No, but I see you mean, like, because there's like a standard, like, is this country or is it pop? Like, that's a real thing, right? Well, and, and what is it, you know, mainly and and uh but you know every artist that segues into the now you can go you can go jack around and make a little money but any artists that transitions into like large you know going to big headline and selling out there's a song that was just so unique and different enough that moved the needle to create that moment and once country goes shake it from me happened you know it was like that set the tone for like people just going with this guy's a little you know he's a little different and he's not up there it seems like the country pop ones are the ones that go crazy though

they do and you know at the time you know what made country grow shit you got to think about this i'm playing college bars yeah and you know i mean literally i hit my last song and freaking ying ying twins comes on you know to the windows to the walls And people are, I mean, and all the, you know, hell, 50 cents and all that. All the college kids, they were piled up coming to the country shows. And I was playing all the big old covers and my songs and 2,000 people. But when the rap stuff came on, I mean, it was just mayhem. So I was like, God, dog, if I could ever.

Become a rapper? Well, I wouldn't, I wouldn't ever want to go down that path. But, you know, there's a lot to be said for, I think music these days, I mean, everybody's listening to everything, you know. I got a, my nephew who's lived with me since he was 13, I mean, he's in college and, man, he comes home from, he's in Athens. Man, his playlist is everything. I mean, every rap song he knows, every country song he knows. I mean, it's really rap I mean, in the South, I mean,

it's like the rappers in the country and even like, you know, my children, they're 14 and 12, but my 14-year-old, you know. What do they listen to? There's no telling the same. You know, I was riding around, listening to NWA as a kid, and Easy E.

What's like their favorite, like, rap? They listen to rap? Oh, they, I don't even know. I don't ask them. They're into music, too, though? Are there in sports? They're into music for the, They're not playing.

I wonder we're like a 12-year-old. But it's different too, though, because, like, you grew up on a farm, right? Yeah, and, like, the NWA and, like, you know, Luke Skywalker and all that stuff, like, when we were kids, like, we would have to go, like, we'd have to go hide to listen. I mean, like, we. Sure. Like, I've got enough sense to know my boys, when they're riding in the, when they're with their buddies and nobody's, And they're listening to the damn, they're listening to the, little baby. They're listening to all of it.

Yeah. Because, I mean, when I, when I listened to EZE back then, man, we thought it was just the most. It was way more controversial back then. Oh, y'all don't even realize. Now it's not controversial. No, now it's just about, now it's about what can I say to be so far out there that just makes you listen. But back then, I mean, I mean, NWA and, you know, even Luke Scott.

I mean, I never, I mean, I mean, I, you know, in my little town, I live next to, you know, some of my best friends were these two black kids, Tambor G and Thomas G. And, man, they come running down the street one day and they had Luke Skywalker, you know, hey, we want some pussy on. And when I saw that and they're listening to it, I mean, you do not understand what, I'm like, like, dude, what are you doing? Yeah, yeah. I mean, our parents are going to kill you. For sure. And so from them, man, it was like, you know, and then you go into like, when I, like,

y'all were, I don't know, y'all are you a lot younger than me, but when you go into like nothing but a G thing and all that. And that's when we were in high school, man, and we, we just listen to that 24-7. Oh, yeah. We still listen to that. Yeah, and we, you know. So do you get inspiration from any of that or was like all yours came from? I think you get inspiration from all of it.

You get inspiration from, yeah, I mean, what makes people get invested in, you know, in you and what you're singing. And I think the second, like, I mean, I think the second you quit watching what your fans are doing and what they're responding to, then you've kind of, you've kind of, you know, jump the shark at that point. And so, I mean, I've done, you know, heck, I've got, like I said, years, years into this whole thing. And it's really important for me just to stay who I am, but then try to, you know, I think if I try to go write some songs like, oh, baby, you know, get, you know, give me a lap dance. I mean, hell, that ain't going, I can't do that. Yeah. I mean, you know, that's for some other crazy ass country kid coming around down the past. half, but when I kick into Country Girl's Shaker for me and watch every, and even other

songs after that, that's my kind of night where people are dancing. It's just like, man, it worked. It's crazy. I want to ask you off that, though, because you see, like, so nothing but a G thing, right? NWA, the rap game's changed a lot with country. Does it, like, evolve like that, or you think it kind of stays like, you know what I mean? Like, it's kind of like the same, like. I think all, you know, I think there's all in country, you know, people, people always are, our life. We want it to be older and we want it to sound old. And that's a good thing for some things. But I think, I think it always has to evolve. I mean, even when you look at the sounds of rap or rock or anything, first of all, the tracks and the music and the way it's all

built is so different. Right. Which makes it sound different. You know, I mean, when you listen to, I mean, heck, you know, any, like a Justin, I mean, I'll listen to like Justin Bieber stuff and the sonic sounds of all that stuff is so new and cutting edge. And the guys producing it are just making stuff. I mean, it's still normal lyrics, really. Yeah. I mean, simple lyrics that relate. But I think as when you look at country music, when you speak to country crowds to what they want to hear. But you've got some production behind it that's really new and fresh. That

takes you to another level. I mean, you know, and you know, when you, and that's kind of what was going on with me and what I still try to do is just have little production things that

really move the needle. I mean, if I sat with just me, my voice, a fiddle and a kick drum and a, you know, I could go sound like something very, very old school. Yeah. But it would sound like I'm trying to do that, you know.

Sure. Now, you got guys like Chris Stapleton. He's stripped down very simple, but no one on planet Earth, their voices sound is good, like Chris Stapleton. Yeah, yeah. And even like Morgan and, you know, and I know y'all done one of these with Luke combs, you know. At the end of the day, those guys, their voices set them in a different level.

And then they put production and new songs and ideas around it. And that's what you've got to wake up every day and try to recreate an event. And I think rappers are out there. You know, you're not going to go make it as a rapper sounding like, you know, I guess two chains was like huge, what, five, six years ago. And you can't go do two chains again. You got to go. And I'm not plugged into all I know is when we're.

You listen to any rapper now? I don't listen to much, but all I know is when we're on a wake surfer boat. Who do you slap on the wake surfing boat? there is any rappers. Who do I put? Yeah, who you're bumping. I don't even know, man. I'm like, I go so, I'm so.

Little Jack Harlow. I can see you bumpings of Jack Harlow. I mean, I'm in on Jack. Like, I don't have his album, but I know, you know, first class and all that. And I can't tell you all the lyrics of that. But I guarantee you my 12 year old and my 14 year old can sing every word. And anytime, like, that's the way I know, like, if we're on like a wake surfing boat. And I don't even know they're, and then they play one of them, they're back there, you know,

wake surfing singing everywhere and I'm like when did you learn all this shit where are you where are you sneaking at to go find all this stuff but how about country artists who's like top top three of your favorites well I mean I've you know I was you know I had Morgan Morgan his first year out on the road with me his first year I'm kind of in a big you know the first one to bring him on tour I was the first one I think put him in a stadium environment. I think the years that I had Morgan out, I mean, Morgan was, I was doing, I think I did like 12 or 13 stadiums that year. And he just, the second I heard his first single up down, the second I heard it. Is that with Florida, Georgia. He wrote it with

them. And the second I heard it, I said, I knew something was up. I was like, I knew wherever he was coming from to write that because I was like, God, dang. He's on fire. Yeah, but I would have loved if I'd have heard that song first listen, I would have went right to the studio and recorded it and just friggin loved it. And when I heard up down, I was like, hey, get him out. And I even remember, we got him out. And then, but just watching him, you know, go from having a couple singles to certainly where he's at now. And, you know, the thing about Morgan is he,

and the thing about him and like the guy, you know, when me and Aldine were like, it was me and Al Dean, we were like, you know, we just like from 2000 to 2020, nobody, like, we were just like, you guys were the shit. Top two dogs, yeah? It was just bananas.

Were you guys competitive or no? No, we've been always, we've loved, We love each other for all the right reasons. And we have a damn blast with each other's success. Like, he would win, like, artists of the year, and then I would win an album of the decade. Or he won an artist of the decade, and I won an album of the decade.

And we're, like, drinking and shooting tequila about it. And we don't, you know, man, we had so much fun together. I toured with him a couple years. You know, he got to win some entertainers of the year. I did. How many are you in five? I see like five entertainers over here. I've won five and had a couple.

50 major music awards. I've won five. You got those like all in your house? Yeah, for sure. You show your kids those. What's that? Daily and started paying the judges. No, hell, you know, he actually won one when he should have won it, in my opinion.

Ah. You didn't say that to him, did you? Yeah, I've told him that. What year was that? But then there was one year that I thought I got screwed out of one that he didn't win, that I thought that he, I forgot he was even in there with me. He was like, well, what about me that year? So we've had some fun, but, you know, at the end of the day, man, I mean, I look back. So when you look at like Luke Combs and where Morgan are, they're in that zone, man.

And when I talk to those boys and talked to them on the phone, I'm like, you know, having fun. having fun and that's what they ought to be doing you know they they they shoot i mean they they're out there they're out there like is there anyone in the scene that like you think is like doing it wrong you don't have to say their names but oh man you know there's there's ding doms and dumb ass that are like big right now uh you know i think that even if they are big right now i think in country music when you don't when you have this when you have this air about you and i think it catches up with you i think you can kind of you kind of trick people for a little bit what i mean like you're like fake country you're not really a country boy that's what i was going to wonder

because like some rappers it's like you're not actually hood like is there some country people that are not country like they'll just throw on their hunter's jackets how do you take a photo and then take the jacket to me like they don't even drive a truck too well here's what I can I can unequivocally say without a shadow of a doubt

that if you sing about hunting and fishing and drinking and trucks and shit and I get you on my farm in one minute I can tell if you're a poser or if you're not legit

that's funny like I can hand you a fishing rod and be like The farm test. Yeah. Oh, I got in. And, you know, and, and then I, but, no, that doesn't mean that every, every country. Oh, yeah.

Wait, were they pulled up to you? That's funny. No one will pull it like, you're not driving a Tesla. They can't even cast the rod off the, off the fifth line? That, that is correct. Oh, God. So me and my buddy, Dallas, we're like, we got a, we got a barometer that we rate, that we rate, um, when I'll take these guys fishing

and I'm like they don't know that I'm fucking I'm checking them out they just think I'm being nice taking them fishing and Dallas call me he goes because the first no-no

in fishing is in bass fishing is are you able to set the hook on the fish properly I mean did you look like a complete I mean do you look like a complete idiot setting the hook or do you look like a damn man

do it So Dallas had called me, and he'll go, what's the, how they set the hook? And I'm like, he's clear. He passed. He's like, oh, great. I was hoping you'd say that. Is there anyone you could say that failed the farm test? No, I ain't doing that.

I'm not starting that headline. We heard that you did catch your biggest fish on your birthday recently, right? It won my birthday, but, man, I finally, so, you know, I grew up in South Georgia, and bass fishing's huge where I grew up, and man, I, I, And I never caught a fish every 10 pounds. And I'd always, so I'd always, when I would, you know, we didn't, no, we, we, my dad did pretty good. And there was always kids that struggled a lot more than us, but we didn't have much. So I would always have to ask permission to go fish in somebody's lake.

And I remember the anxiety of like having to ask. yeah because you know that you're calling these old farmers that's got this bass lake sure and you're like you know mr so-and-so do you mind if i go fish your lake and sometimes they'd be like no buddy not today yeah and you'd be like yeah that's funny but you'd have then you know sometimes we'd sneak into them and fish them so how big was the one you caught it's 116 nice but i actually called it so when i had when i started having success my lifelong dream was like one day I'm will have my own bass lake

that I cannot have to call anybody and have the anxiety of getting said no to so I built my own bass leg so I kind of cheated you know I fed them so much they're they're quite you know robust

you know bass did you send that picture out like do you send it to Aldine and let them know or well Al Dean does pass the hook setting test. Oh, okay. So, I figured he would.

I mean, I put him at a seven, a half out of ten on hook set. How do you think you'd do standing on the farm? I could do it. You would not do well. I would pull up in a tundra to your house. A tundra. Well, what? Tundra's not a real, real pickup?

Tundras are, you know, I could cut you some slack on that. It just pins a little bit. If you got rid of. Is that a Toyota? Okay, well, what do you drive? Bro, no Toyota's on the farm. Well, fuck, I don't. I drive.

What is it? Ford's and Chevy's on. you know. Oh, my God, bro. It's a F-150, right? No, I'm a Chevy guy. I always have been. I have a, I've got, actually never had two GMCs at once. Actually, damn, Toyota.

I know I fucked that up. Well, but you're good. We'll catch you some slack on some tunders, but I mean, there. But I have a, so I, you know, my nephew lived with me since he was 13, and then I've got two boys, and then I'd have my pickup truck. Well, then they would always have like five or six buddies that would want to go to the farm, but I couldn't fit them in the back of the pickup truck.

So I went and bought like this Denali, this suburban GMC Denali with all the second row seats. I put like an eight-inch lift kit on it. Like it's mean. Like spray rhino. How many trucks you got now? Man, I got quite a few. How many?

I got two Ford Broncos. goes, the new ones. I've got like, I've got, I've got a GMC, I got two pickups, I got a Denali, and I got a bunch of farm trucks and stuff. That's dope. And it was cool. My wife, my brother passed away back in 96, and I got his 96 Chevy. And when, after I got it, I drove it a little bit, and it started having problems,

and I'm in college and I don't have enough money. And, man, I traded it in and got a, got like a GMC Yukon. And, you know, for years, I was like, man, I should have never sold my brother's truck. And when my wife went and found it and got it back. No, no way. We restored it and it's, I got that one too. Yeah, that's great. Big play by the wife.

What's that? So that's a big play by the wife. Yeah, man. It was like, you know, because, you know, the truck, like, well, up to Louisiana. I mean, it was, you know, but it was the truck and we got it back. And so, but yeah, I've got, but, you know, we've got some farm. So we keep a couple on the farm just to kind of, you know, tear up when we're down there and get in the mud.

That's dope. Where is the farm? Well, I've got a place in Georgia where I grew up. And then I've got some stuff in Southern Tennessee, too, that we do a lot of deer hunting and turkey hunting. I've got some, you know, I've got some bass lakes down there. And then, um, and then the last couple of this past year, two years, I've been apeshit over duck hunting. So I've got a duck hunting farm now. That's sweet.

Yeah, it's great. How was being a judge on American Idol? Man, it's awesome. Yeah. You know, it's good. It's fun. I mean, um, Lionel and Katie or, you know, Lionel Richie is just one of the baddest-ass human beings that's ever lived. You know, Katie Perry is what you see is what you get.

She's a hell of a lineup right there. Well, she's just, man, you know, like, you know, people are like. She's got a lot of bangers too. Like hits. Yeah. Oh, my God. California girl, Teeny Street. Oh, man, man, you don't, you know, the songs that she.

Big bangers. You know, no one really knows this. I think for a minute there it was like Katie and Michael Jackson tied for most number ones in pop music history. They both had 12 or 13 And the thing about Katie is You know People are like well how's Katie Perry

And I'm like well you got to grade a pop star on like a curve anyway Like how so what does that mean Well like how much do they go pop star on you Ah Like are they like Diva Like over the top Like show up hour late

You know got You know 40 people entourages And you know Katie's just, you know, she's just a real girl that is not, you know, what the most endearing thing is she's not afraid to have, she's not afraid to be a goofball and cut up with herself and show all that. She's not afraid to just say, you know, fuck it, just be stupid and have fun and don't worry about, you know, I think sometimes in entertainment, girls feel a lot of pressure to really put out things, you know, be real polished and real. perfect all the time and I think Katie really embraces just being out there having fun and not taking herself too serious which helps the show you know if I if if she if if you know if if our dynamics off you know then we don't have you know we don't have you know we don't have

you guys have done what five seasons together yeah we did our fifth fifth season who's uh who's the biggest talent over your five seasons you guys got the you know I would say the most the most uh the person that really um sits with me the most as far as talent was a Alejandro or Ronda.

I don't know if y'all watched him, but he's the guy that really plays the guitar he plays guitar and piano as good as anybody in the world and he does it in like a style that's he's almost created his own genre.

It's like it's like savant stuff. when I look at like and then there's like I mean I'm not just saying this I mean Chase Beckham and I have Chase won the year before last Chase is doing really well and great singer and songwriter

he's he's awesome we had one girl that I had a lot of high expectations and she bowed out of the competition do you keep it real with him or do you are you like nice do you like tell him how you feel

if you don't like how they perform? You know, I think historically, I've kind of spoke, I've been a little more real, maybe the, you know, I know I've gotten more booze and more kind of hate mail on socials from maybe saying a kid didn't do great. But we keep it pretty, you know, we keep it pretty safe for them too. I mean, it's a different day and age. I think that, you know, I think these kids on Idol, I mean, even if we don't say they

sub, you know, when they go to their Instagram or whatever. I know. That's the difference now, right? Yeah, I mean, I all get it. I mean, y'all are reading your stuff every day and you don't, you know. Before they just get roasted by Simon, now they get roasted by like that. Well, yeah, it's layers. And so I think, I think, you know, when you look at, um,

You know, I think when you look at the generation that these kids, you know, are coming up in. And I kind of had to live the social media generation, like, in real time. Like, I mean, I had to, you know, when I started, there weren't, you know, you don't, you know, I didn't get, I mean, I was one of the first guys that would, you know, pick up my social and some guy would, you know, be talking shit to me. And I'd be like, I'm going to go, I got to beat, I got to beat this guy. ass, you know, like, where do I go to beat his ass? Do you ever read your DMs now and stuff? Yeah, I read them sometimes and like, sometimes. You got a lot of support, though, too. Yeah, but, you know, that's what sucks about the world is you just focus on some dumbass. Yeah. In his underwear in a basement, you know, and, but I've gotten better. I don't, stuff doesn't bother me.

I mean, there was one guy, like, I'm pretty sure if I ever see him, I'm going to try to, I mean, I'm going to fight him. Like, no doubt, going to hit him. Why do you do? What did he say? Just talking shit constantly. You should block that guy, bro. No, he needs to say. You want to find him?

Do you watch any fights or any sports? Oh, I watch it all. Yeah, like, I mean, I'm into the whole. Wait, but y'all asked me. Oh, but yeah, I mean, I'm into, like, any time, like, I was a huge Floyd Mayweather fan. I mean, I, every fight he ever did, I watched, loved everything. I mean, I'm totally into the whole Logan Paul shit. I love all that.

Just it's fun. You see, Jake might be fighting Anderson Silva. I don't know if you're familiar with that, but I heard that might be getting in the house. Man, I think it's crazy. I like I said, you know, I mean, everybody wants to sit back and judge maybe how somebody gets their street cred or, you know, like even in the industry now, you know, somebody's like, well, they're just TikTok sensation. they haven't earned or even Idol. You know, if you win American Idol, they haven't earned their right. I'm like, at some point to go from making $200 grand a year to $200 million,

you don't have to earn your street credit. Sure. So your street credit is coming. Yeah. If, you know. Well, yeah, congrats on your American Idol bag, by the way. What's, oh, well, it's. It's on the internet.

So I'm showing you. How many Toyota Tundra is going to buy it? The fucking shitload. You know, just more hunting land, boys, deer stands. Yeah. Big old, big old bass. How does this work for you with your residency here? Like traveling, you travel from Georgia?

Like, y'all, I mean, I woke up in Tennessee at 6.10 this morning, a.m., which is 4.10 here. Have you slept since? No. So at 6.10, we had to get the boys. We went down to another farm because they've been wanting to go down there and ride their full wheelers. And my 12-year-old had a football game at playing a school down there. So we, and anyway, we went down there and did his football and then stayed at our place down there. But it's about an hour and a half to get them back to their school.

So we got them back to school and then flew here, landed here. here at, like, 12, went to lunch. I did two hours of rehearsals because this show is different than my touring show. Okay. Which is a, which is. It's a night's show here, right? Yeah. Okay.

But you got to understand for two months, I've been doing a different show. Like, that's the big audience shows. Right. My touring deal. Right. So to reprogram the brain, we have to run the show. because just to make sure you're sharp

yeah we would get through but but like there's differences there's a lot of differences than they're just showing our so like yeah what is the difference like I know it's I know the venue here

is only 5,000 so it's more private right well when you look at what this show is the cool part about this show is I sit down I do a piano moment where I just sit at the piano and start playing

whatever comes to my brain I mean, hell, I may play Florida, my house, and I may play, you know, some song, you know, whatever. But in a 5,000-seat theater, when you start talking to people, like, you got them, like, in the palm of your hand. Yeah, for sure. I mean, if you're at a amphitheater and there's 24,000, and like, 12 of them are back there in the long shotgun and beers, you can't start, you can't start telling random-ass stories. yeah because they're not you know yeah you just got to hit them with the music but here like i mean i can sit there and tell jokes like some some days the shows an hour and 40 minutes some nights it's two hours and 10 minutes because because i just go off on it and that that's a fun i love

that aspect about Vegas you know trying to create um a little bit of a different experience out here night in and night out and thank god my voice holds up out here i i can't believe my voice holds up. Like, I mean, I've been at the tables gambling, smoking cigars, and drinking vodka, and then woke up the next day, and I'm like, oh, my God, I can still sing. That's not a good thing. So do you go fire at the tables after your shows? Yeah, I do.

Any big wins lately? I play craps and blackjack. Nice. You've had some big wins, probably. I've had some big ones, and I've had some. My big ones are always when I'm down and I come back even. Yeah, that's the biggest thing. So I got to go and I got to go and y'all are like this.

I come out to tour of the theater. And the theater, you know, it's like scaffolding. There's people fucking welding in there building the stage. And I'm like, cool. And I go sit at the blackjack table. I get like 10 grand. Dude, dealer runs me off 19 in a row. 19 wins?

19 hands in a row Are you playing one hand One hand $180,000 And 19 hanged I would have hopped off Oh I did I took it

And I've never How long do you think that was like 20 minutes Five You lost 19 in a row One 11 180 Oh hell yeah That's flip

What time is this That's the best feeling That's the hardest thing You can't lose No the hardest You ever like when you're playing You're just like How am I not losing?

Oh yeah I mean Like I said, I mean, I didn't even, I just sat down. I put like a $500 bet, hit it, took it to $1,000, hit it, took it to $1,500, hit it, $2,000, hit it $4,000, double down, split, 4,4, take it to 8, and then I was at table max. I was at table max for like 11 hands, 10 grand. I was just like, that's amazing. Good for you for getting up, too, because if that was us, we'd be like, yo, we're going for the million and probably lose it all. You know, well, I've got some crate, y'all. I've learned some funny shit out here.

That's the hardest thing, though, is getting up? But, yeah, it's... Is it? Yeah. When you're up? I'm kidding. Well, I mean, they just... For me, getting up.

You know, there's little ways they got you. But... Well, they always have an edge, right? Like... They got the edge. Are y'all, are y'all... Yeah, we like to gamble. You're...

28. Oh, yeah. You all are in this. No, we love to gamble. We do online, too. Y'all are still stupid. never sat down at a table still don't yeah it's the worst i kind of like online better now because the second you're losing you can just switch tables well i used to hate online but now i like

it we play on steak a lot so yeah my nephew's doing that and he's like you know my dad was a it was like a damn you know my dad's a crazy gambler he like the only way we had like christmas money was he would go like pool halls and like when it when pool halls and and poker games and you know he uh he uh he's got a famous saying i i was 21 came out to Vegas and uh had like 400 bucks lost it in the first two hours i was here and i went to the room and you know hell we we didn't have cell phones or whatever we i think he called me in the room what are you doing And I said, oh, shit, I'm in the room and I lost all my money. He goes, well, you ain't going to win your money back in the goddamn room.

Get down here. Oh, shit. I'll give you some money. That was his. He goes, you ain't going to win it back in the room. So we always joke about it. We get a little down out here. That's a big joke.

But we've had some good. I mean, craps has been good to me lately. I used to win money on blackjack get crushed on the craps table. But I got crushed down there earlier, so I'm down a little bit already. but I don't think I don't go at it I go at it just have fun and talk shit to buddies and drink and you got to play with what you know

like you might lose yeah I mean everybody's got to be careful with and that's the sad part with somebody I've always managed you know like I'll go down there and put a $50 bet down a $100 bet and start there you know I got buddies I mean I got some buddies that they come

and they're 10,000 $20,000 a hand the whole weekend and that's just the way they roll but I don't I don't need like that much like adrenaline from it whatever you're buying in with like just consider it gone possibly whatever you put in chips

my favorite moment my favorite moment when you gamble is when you're on the craps table and you've started you built your bets and you just got them out there and you're like this is the shit

and down one time one time I had maxed all of my crap's bets out last a couple months ago where every number on the table was table max and I could put no more money out there and that was I don't know if I'll let I may not ever do that again the rest of my life and it was anxiety you talk about lighting up a big old cigar and drinking and having fun with it when you look you're like sir mr. Brian you can't give us any more money you're all your numbers are you pretty buzzed up at that point or you've

dialed in yeah So you're doing three shows here, right? Yeah, we got Wednesday and then we typically do a Friday, but we got Friday off, got Saturday and Sunday. And are those both residents here? Okay, got it. But you also announced the tour that you're doing too, right? Farm tour?

Yeah. Yeah, we do a farm tour where we go, man, we go to these big old fields. It's all charitable, right? Well, no, we do a lot of charitable aspects. I mean, like I said, I make good money doing it, and we do scholarships, and we work with a bear chemicals in the ag side and do a lot of scholarships for kids. And we do every community we go to, we give scholarships and stuff. But there are a lot of charitable aspects.

But, you know, but we've been doing it for many, many years. years now. We're in the Midwest this year. We started in the southeast and we pop around, but it's like a traveling circus. We pack our stage up, put it in the middle of a, in the middle of a hayfield, you know, 15, 20,000 people start rolling in. It's pretty, it's pretty, it's pretty magical, yeah. It's wild now. We should after the fight. Have you ever had Foohoo downstairs? Yeah. How good is Foohoo? It's pretty good. That's probably for me, the best place I've ever eating that it's good stuff now how how much are y'all here are y'all doing what i mean shan fights in the ufc okay i come here a couple my last 10 fights have been here so i'm here

three four times a year how how's your record now thought i recognized you from all that's undefeated yeah you're undefeated undefeated basically yeah 15 and o's 16 that's scary that he's that he could just thrash like you got to come to a ufc fight you're Yeah. Man, I, anytime. Yeah. When's your next fight? Next, next one's in Abu Dhabi, October 22nd.

It's gonna be like probably the biggest card of the year. Massive fight. What weight class are you? Bantam weight, 135. So, U.S. Avers of Russia, this next one. It's just amazing that he could just tear your ass up that bad, yeah. Why, you thought you had him before you knew that, right? No, yeah, I know better than that.

Maybe after a couple more grapefruit buckus though. Yeah, yeah. No, I'm not. I'm smarter than that. You're getting any scraps. You got a bar fight half to you. Man, you know, I, you know, I. I wasn't a big fighter.

I got like, I mean, we used to tussle in the yard, get sucker punched. You know, I had one of my buddies pop me pretty good and blood in my lip, my nose. I've gotten a couple things I can't talk about. Got a couple little scuffles, but I'm not a big, I do know that I'm not like a big fighter. Like, I was never that guy that go drink a lot of liquor and just want to start. And I had all my buddies were the ones that wanted to go, start knocking people out and bars and stuff. I really, I'm not a mean, you know, but I, you know, I've been, I feel like I could probably handle some punches, you know, I think.

Yeah, you're a big dude. But I mean, I don't, I've historically always been pretty tough, like when it come to, like, getting hit in football or getting hit baseball. I never, like, flopped around a wine. Like Stiney, flop around? But I could imagine just getting just stung right there and having to wear it. No, can't do that. I'm not doing that.

Ideally, that doesn't, yeah, it doesn't happen. man i got a buddy though that my whole life man he was little and just right off the bat he just popped somebody he already had you and he it was over and pick the biggest dude and just go crack him yeah exactly so stony does yeah no steinney's undefeated too actually yeah i'm three no fight i fight within the company though co-workers only thumb wrestle yeah him and gabe uh full i slept to him one time he's a Brazilian heavyweight. So when did you start fighting? I was 16 years old.

You started like really training? Yeah, I just grew up playing football, basketball, soccer, baseball, and I just wanted to do something more like one-on-one sports. Like if the team lost, I hated that feeling. So it was like I wanted to transfer over to some of those one-on-one. What camp are you in? Or is that a smart question to ask? I trained in Phoenix.

I trained in a couple different gyms there. You know, I'm in training camp right now, about 12 weeks out. So for three months, like I'm dialed in, just focused on one specific opponent and diet, sleep, training. My life revolves around that October 22nd. So you got an October? 20 second. And you'll train how many hours a day till the year? You know, the biggest thing I've been training for 11 years, the biggest thing I think over the last couple years I've learned is not overtraining.

I think a lot of people overtrained and try to train too much because you're going to do a fight. you know you mentally you're like i gotta just gotta keep training so i think the biggest thing for me is training less still you know two hours three hours a day don't fatigue your body i mean you got to do a point to kind of push it past you know you got to keep building up building up uh cardio but not over training that's when you get injured and that's you know a lot of fighters go in the fights injured more than you probably even think um yeah it's crazy crazy crazy do you uh so do you uh so do you you, do you, are you motivated by money or you just fucking love performing? Man, I just love this.

Yeah. I mean, I do. I mean, I enjoy money and I enjoy like, it's awesome having and it's fun. Yeah. It's like so cool and like not really like stress about that. Stress about that aspect of life. And it's so cool like hooking your buddies up. Like, man, let's let's go on this trip and go, go fly here and go shoot some deer and shit, man.

And, you know, the fact that I've had like fishing trips and take, so, I mean, I'm very aware of business aspects about this. I mean, I'm pretty sharp as far as, but I'm also, you know, like, I'm not so, like, I'm not frugal with money to where I can't go, like. Spend $50,000 on a crazy trip with the boys or something. Well, yeah, like, you know, my, you know, like even my, my wife had some friends fly to the U.S. Open and nobody realized that the, the, that the tickets were going to be so expensive for the Serena match, because it may be, I mean, people are trying to go buy the U.S. Open stuff. And I was like, baby, just tell your friends, we'll get them, just tell them to get in the dam. Just get in the building.

Quit worrying about it. Yeah, I bet that's nice. So it's fun to be able to do it. And it's, it's actually a family member that we got in. And so I don't think you can be, I think, I think the sad people, are the ones that are just doing it for the money. Because I think when you're, I think when you hear somebody that just doesn't look like they're in a good mood,

I think those are people that they're just out there feeding the beast and feeding. But like, I mean, I spent eight years like doing this shit for nothing. And then maybe even longer from 12 years for just, you know, talking about waking up and throwing a bunch of instruments in a truck and driving through the night and making a hundred bucks so i think we we you know so i do it 100% for the

love and you got to love it you know the deal i mean you know you probably your first so many fights you probably didn't make a dime and you know the love separates the men from the boys in my opinion i get jealous how much you get to perform and like artists get to perform because we get a you know get in the cage two times three times max four times a year and it is. It's just that performing is so fun, and I love it. But unfortunately, can't sing. You know, over my career, you know, I've gotten to meet a lot of athletes. And athletes that I grew up idolizing, athletes that were the highest paid athletes in their sport. And man, when those guys have to, when they have a shelf life, and that's the beauty of music. I mean,

I'm 46. I feel pretty damn good. And as long as I feel good and seem like I want to, I mean, I can do this for quite a while. And like, me and Chipper Jones are pretty good buddies. And, you know, Chipper was certainly one of the best ever. And to watch him love the game so much, but I have to retire just because. I'm scared of that. It sucks. But me and Adam Wainwright, I don't know if y'all follow me and Adam Wainwright are pretty good buddies.

And hell, Adams pushing 40 and he's pitching better. ever pitched his whole life. Yeah. Chipper's a legend. How old's Chipper now? Chipper's a couple of years. Chipper may, I think Chipper just had his 50th. Oh, whoa.

And, uh, how many shows do you do usually on a tour? You know, currently, you know, I'll do 26 Vegas shows this year. Probably about 45 to 50, maybe 45 touring shows. I'll do six farm tour shows. two play of shows. And then I'd get some privates, you know, some people. And American Idol? And American Idol.

And I work a lot. Hosting awards, those too. Yeah. Oh, yeah. What the fucking CMA is with Peyton Manning, bro? Yeah, that's going to be awesome. Peyton and I are good buddies. That'll be good.

It's going to be good. He hosted something before. I can't remember if he hosts like. Well, he did Saturday Night Live, which. He's funny. He's great, man. He's a class act, and we're going to have a good time together. Yeah.

Oh, yeah. speaking another guy that sadly had to have a shelf life so sorry guys we got a cut all right Gabe's assistant now I guess yeah you've taken for the night oh shit they're like killing me girl I'm like I'm trying well let's cut it shout out to Gabe yeah thanks thank you yeah thanks Luke that was awesome bro yeah thank you we'll definitely have to check out one of those shows though that'll be fire shout out to Luke thank you bro we really appreciate it and shut out to resorts world best casino in Vegas they're always so good to us shut out to resort world

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