The Yak - Luke Combs Swings By Amid The Latest Nicky Smokes Drama | The Yak 7-28-25

Episode Date: July 28, 2025

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Yeah, are you are you done with the thing well I had to sit here because this is the this is this is the host chair, and I couldn't let my ego My ego couldn't let it be empty. Yeah. So I just sat here. Plus, Luke Combs was going to stop by earlier. He can't stop by earlier. Luke Combs is going to stop by later. And I thought it would be funny to put him in it. Oh, OK, yeah. That is funny.

Wait a second. Hold on. That's fucking hilarious, right? Yeah, that's funny. That's pretty fucking funny. Hey, Luke Combs, what are you doing? What are you doing in Brandon Walker's? What are you doing?

Hang on a second. What are you doing in that nook right there? Hold? Hey, honestly, we're doing that nook right there Hold up. Yeah, have you ever considered Luke combs sitting there? No, no in all my years at one time if you can all my years so Speaking of Luke combs, he is in the office. Correct. He's doing the dog walk right now a draft or just the just the show Just a little sit down. No draft. Okay, so he'll he'll be he'll join us later Eddie will also come down as soon as they get finished, right? Correct. Apparently Luke Combs ran a little long in his first interview, mostly sports.

So Eddie will be along and maybe, oh there he is. So Eddie should be here now. There's no excuse for Eddie not to be sitting in this. Is Eddie lying to us? Cause that's Luke Combs. It's gotta be. That's not Luke Combs. That's not Luke Combs. That's not Luke Combs. Luke Combs, wait,

did that guy just wear a mossy oak shirt? Was he cool? That's one of ours, right? Yep. That's one of our guys. That's one of our interns that just wore a mossy oak shirt. I'm from West Point, Mississippi. I didn't wear a mossy oak shirt. Wow. Oh, they're practicing the apron toss. Got to get that down.. Gotta imagine being embarrassed.

So Eddie should be here right now. Anyway, Danny, let's talk about your bush. Okay. A lot of people were asking at the wedding. I tweeted by far the most amount of people that have ever asked me about my pubic hair at a wedding. By far. Really? How many? Set the record. About seven. Before it, it was two.

How was the wedding though? It was your brother's wedding, right? Yep, fantastic. Celebrated the sacrament of matrimony by getting incredibly fucked up, drinking all day. And yeah, it was just a tough one to explain when the bride's family's over here, kids asking me if I shaved my bush or not, but we powered through.

Simple yes and move on yeah And you were a best man that was best man. How did that go? You have other brothers? No one brother two sisters I should yeah Do you feel you fulfilled your duties to the yeah as I started with I hate to see your worst man Pause for laughter, but no it was no How long did you have to pause to let the laughter die down from oh they were roaring and Brandon get this guy off stage you know so the speech went okay though speech went okay it was a

little long did you tear up didn't tear up everyone else did obviously but not me tears of laughter long you said how long we talking I don't know exactly but I addressed the longness. People said it didn't feel long, which I guess is the goal. Like 18 minutes? Are they talking about your speech? 18, right? 18, you're a brick.

That's what I heard. That's the Scotty report. 18 minutes? No. Oh, Danny. Seven minutes, maybe. He's lying. He's lying to you people.

I know some people who are that, that's what I heard. Speaking of being there, you're going to be a crucial character witness as we unfold something. Oh, no We don't really have anybody who's here to report on the Nicky Smokes birthday parties Oh, yeah, the the day party and the night party. I could you attend both or just the day just a day so because There you go. There's there's Eddie walking up getting this beers. I bought two pitchers and Call it a night Special yes, I showed my face. I had a beer with with the birthday boy in his nice tank top There is and that is a that is a big cat Photoshop, correct?

There is and that is a that is a big cat Photoshop correct The has to it is no he stopped by for a little bit. Did he yeah? Oh no, but that's a Photoshop. No he did Yeah, he came by It's it's not the worst Photoshopping no it's almost too realistic it kind of ruins the joke or like oh was he there or not It does kind of it also looks like Yeah, this is this is smokes birthday. This is smoke. No no no this is smoke's day birthday day birthday But you're right, but Eddie you got front center in that picture That's good positioning. Yeah, I I carve out my Thing about me I carve out my spot and then, you know, I'm there.

Let everything fold around. Yes, exactly. That's kind of how I do it. Was that it? Lottie's? Happy camper. Happy camper, okay. So Smoke's turned 21? Like, he had a date birthday party and a night birthday party?

26. Oh, 26. 26, which is after 21, probably the biggest birthday of the 20s. So he turned 26 he organized both parties himself of course as you do. He set himself up for the day party which Eddie attended and the night party which there's your controversy because Dante is tweeting that Smoke stood him up for that asked for a table and he stood him up and he wouldn't show up and all that stuff and then smokes had receipts and said hey I canceled it and stuff like that anyway anytime two of our worst people argue. We have to go over it god

I really hope this all blows over before Beach House You would never guess who reached out about getting a complimentary table this Saturday night for their birthday and then no call No called no showed straight class. Oh playing girl This Saturday night for their birthday and then no call no called no showed straight class. Oh playing girl She's just got some reply guy to her, huh? She does no, I Think by Nicky's response. I think Nicky got kind of hosed here. Did you see the response? Yeah, I missed it I feel like he won the he won the exchange

I never asked for a comp you tried to big dick me as if I was looking for a handout I canceled at 10 a.m. Through the email that was sent to me acting like I just know showed last minute is insane I can set you up brother. How many people how many other places said no to Comping you for you to this day So that's Dante saying how many other places said no to comping you before you sent this text. So that's Dante saying, how many other places said no to comping you before you sent this text, to be honest? And I can see him having it, being funny there, but I can see him taking that. It's like, whoa, what the fuck?

Yeah. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Danny Detectives also wants to bring up the fact that Nicky said he canceled it at 10 in the morning, but really Dante later showed his receipts saying that it wasn't until, he didn't cancel it until about 6 p.m. Oh. Oh.m. Oh.

Oh. Oh. Oh. Yeah. Uh oh. I think it should be a reply to. Oh, now Nikki, I try to have your back. I know, but Dante, classic boomer Dante,

replied with his own receipts to like a random quote tweet of a stoolie. So it's possible a lot of people didn't even see that. So just in case I had to tweet it off my own account. Yeah. Did that say $1 hundred dollar minimum. It sure did you can spend fifteen hundred dollars at a bar? No, oh a bottle is like a thousand. Yeah, what's that bar in the Hamptons a plate of chicken fingers is $150 where? 44 you're not 84. Well I'm 46 and 84 are closer than 46 and like 28.

Me and my friends back in the day could spend over a grand at a dive bar on a solid afternoon. You can put in the work. I think my highest bar tab ever is still south of triple digits. Two brothers? No, I pay for myself. Less than $100. Yeah, my understanding that I've never like the way you said Yeah, so I'd probably Say less than $100 What you basically just said is I've never spent $100 at a bar before correct

Yes, a quarter for a beer back in your day. That's great. I guess I guess it was a lot I haven't been to a bar in 20 years. Well did you ever go to a club before Barstool for not really? Yeah, not like a city club not like what you guys call and I get like the sparklers and no no No, I hate to say can I ask a question like you guys say bottle service? I really don't even know what that is Is that just me they bring the bottle to you? Yeah, and if you get a table you have to get bottle service So you're gonna be spending whatever that bottle cost which is usually so to get a table We usually just have to get there early

Yeah, but that's different from Table you're under the impression that like you're just going to everybody at the bar has a table right now the club There's only so many tables ready familiar with the club 11 in Miami Yeah, that's where gas hangs out and checks his emails you want to see the table bottle service price list 11 in Miami, I guess we're here God I guess we're here. Isn't that what Mook bought jeans for? Yes, that's my Mook ball pants. Oh my God. What? Okay, well I don't mean to make you about this,

I just didn't know. You saying you've never spent triple digits on a bartend makes me think you might be a tightwad. Like are you not buying drinks, are you not buying rounds? Are you the guy who goes to the bar to buy one for yourself? Are you casting aspersions on me this easily

in this way? I mean, right? I said one thing. I told him it was more of a you're not out for very long amounts of time. Yeah. You would go out. I'm not a bar guy or club guy. Yeah. So I'm more of a hang out and play NCAA football together guy.

I'm not a... But you're a wine guy. Yeah, but that's, that's, I feel like at a restaurant dinner with your wife is a different wine with an H I would just spell wine with an H. Why? Yeah, I guess I have had a I've had a bottle of wine that cost more than that So yeah, you got me on that and the oysters those add up. What those now we're eating Now we're eating you're talking Yeah, these are different these are different animals if we're eating all bets are off I

Don't think it's that insane that you've cuz I You're talking just go out to a bar. Yeah a couple buddies have a few drinks. There you ever spent $100 That's all I've ever done. I don't think I It's kind of surprising. I don't think that's stunning. Yeah 20 years over 20 year. Yeah And you're probably going to like special nights lady cheap cheap bars. Well, that's not we're probably just going to It's going to Rick's you've never showed up to a bar Like I did and just like bought around and kind of Grandpa Simpson it and left like you've never done that.

That's crazy what you just said. You just walk into a bar, buy it and then leave? Loose. I stayed there for like an hour and a half. Oh, no, I can't say I've ever done that. Okay. We'll see for Cody's birthday then if you're going to come or not. Who?

Captain Ford. What's his birthday? I don't know, but I assume he's a birthday guy. What do you mean? You don't know you just had it I feel you just had it. Did he yeah. Yeah, I was this weekend. Oh, I was really yeah wait our Cody Yeah, it was Thursday well there Cody cuz he came back he came back from from vacation so he can have his birthday here It was Friday He didn't go no. I didn't go well. You didn either, apparently. I wasn't invited. I wasn't invited. You were.

No, I said, Eddie, friend, I have, I don't get invited to much. I don't get invited to much here because people know I'm- They know you're not going to come. I know I'm not going to come. I'm invited to your party though. I'm excited about it. I can't wait. I can't come, but I can't wait.

Do you even, when you get invited, do you even come up with an excuse? No. You just say no. I just, well, I, you know, obviously I'm excited about it. I can't wait. I can't come but I can't wait Do you even when you get invited do you even come up with an excuse? No, you just say no I just like well, I you know, I'm not like if Cody Cody earnestly was like Brandon All the all the boys are getting together for my birthday on Saturday. What do you say? You just go no I think I would be like Cody obviously I'm not coming but I'll send money And then you won't send money What I mean by that is I'll send Mark Titus yeah he'll take care of it see that's what got me to go to smokes as he hit me with a I know you're not gonna come man but you're invited like my birthday smart smart move and I was like damn I have that like where he's already like

expecting the least out of but that's just how he hits on people we think Hey, I know you're not gonna say yes, but you want to get out tomorrow night. Yeah But at least like chief was there it wasn't just you and Annika and Ella Griff and Nikki smokes. No. Yeah, there was a good button Nick was there It was a good spot my lot to say what Nick bought Yeah, no what he bought Tell us what he bought For your party or was it for your party or was it for a Nikki smokes his party? It was for my party Well, what is it? Can we give a clue yeah, I'll tell you what it goes great with yeah a

little bit of Tang oh Okay, all right. Yeah, so the the thing they talked about the other day. Yeah. Yeah, yeah happy and dying Well that it's that's another incentive for going to your party. Exactly. I will be there I'm going I ran into Cody on the Riverwalk when I was out partying on Saturday Me and all my mom friends were Were you again some wine and there goes right in button? Yeah, he did he sat down with the gals Yeah, you had a mom outing this weekend sure did live with that We're yelgin' some wine and there goes Cody. He'd probably fit right in. He did, he sat down with the gals. You had a mom outing this weekend?

Sure did. We coulda lived with that. What's that? We coulda lived with that, the mom outing. Had a mom outing, went to a key bar. What do you call it? Is that Piano? Key club?

A key club. It sounds like a swinger's thing, but it's not. There's all these little private bars around Chicago that like, I don't know, how do you become a member? You have to know. I see it's got someone vouches for you. So then they all get keys to the bar, but it's not, it's open whenever somebody

with a key walks in. And then it's all vending machine. So I'm explaining this terribly, but we have one in my neighborhood that I've been dying to see inside, and we had to connect. So before we went to our outing, all the moms evaded this key club and

You got repeaters in there you can exclusive club that you could drink at any time you want if you have a key to it So it's essentially a storefront that someone puts a bar into and they black out the windows And then they give out keys, and then they only allow their friends in the key club. Oh It's a membership. You can go behind the bars But this place hadn't been updated since like 19 So fast I'm glad you're here We were talking about you just a second ago. Hey, that's Luke's chair Yeah, that's not your just Luke combs chair

Quite the investigation chair. Yeah, you just said yeah, yes it over here Luke combs chair That's crazy that you would built that just for Luke combs. Anyway Dante we were talking earlier obviously obviously this was the big story of the weekend was the day and night, Nicky Smoke's birthday parties. And you found yourself to be a key player in this as you guys had it out over Twitter concerning whether he ghosted you guys or tried to set something up, didn't set it up, when did he cancel it and stuff like that. It's not even that, man. Your side, please.

It's not even that. It's just side, please. It's not even that. It's just, let me ask you a question. Yep. If you had a friend who, let's say a restaurant, you don't look like a bottle service type guy. If you hit up a friend for a reservation. That was easy. On a night that they're booked out, sold out, it was a favor.

And your friend made room for you Got you in not even talking about complimenting or comping the dinner just Made your reservation and then for whatever reason in the world you couldn't go. Yeah, would you? What would you do? How would you let how would you? Let the front know yeah, I believe I'd call the friend and say hey listen I know we've been texting about this, but I really something came up. I can't come I apologize It means a lot to me that you were making room for me and next time Maybe we'll be able to pull it off a little bit better. That's like southern gentleman over the top You don't even need to that you could at least send. I was just trying

I get you could at least send any demand. I feel like a phone call was fine. No need to mention. You can't come all right anyways So he didn't do that. No. He didn't do that he I Got we do like a nightly like recap like going into the night. This is our reservation list Our lead host sends it out. I'm on the thread He's like hey is this Nikki smokes table still coming in and I'm like gosh shit, table still coming in? And I'm like, ah, shit. So I reach out, no response. I'm like, ah, he might be passed out or whatever. So send him another text, no response. And I'm like, has anyone heard from him?

No. So then I go into our reservation system. It says canceled. And I'm like, OK, who did he cancel with? And everyone's like, not me. He knows my GM really well. He knows my lead host just Laney really well. They both are like we haven't heard from him So I'm reaching out to him. He's not responding so we're like

What do we do in the meantime people are showing up saying we're here for Nikki's birthday party? We're with his table, so my door guys are like what the fuck do we do? Is this happening or not? So I'm like Nikki what like Fucking respond to me dude if you're not coming just tell me you're not coming whatever At the same time Donnie and Goldfinger hit me up and are like hey, we're with all the bald stool guys We want to come by and film bald stool guys, we want to come by and film like a finale thing and they want a party, can you help us out? So I'm like how many? They said like eight. Nicky's table I think

was like 11 or 12. So we reserved that, you've been a John Boy, that big giant table I had reserved or my GM had reserved for them. So I was like all right. Maybe I can put them all at one so luckily they Came and it wasn't a complete loss, but I mean that's like If we ate that that would have been like a big blow so of course I was like kind of like dude at least fucking Be considerate enough to tell me like hey. I'm not gonna make it. I got too fucked up. That's fine Yeah, if if you're gonna text me and make the reservation and text me when you can't so then I didn't even realize he went online This is way harder than sending a text by the way. He like went online logged on to seven rooms Which he didn't book it through he just got a confirmation email and he canceled it on the back end

Which again? I don't know why he didn't just text me and he canceled it on the back end, which again, I don't know why he didn't just text me. So I didn't, none of us knew that until the next morning when he woke up and tweeted, but. You had no correspondence with him until the tweets. No, and then, no yeah, he just. He didn't. Yeah, so.

All right, I'm back on Dante, so. I'm too. So I was just like, dude, it's not a huge deal like the cancellations happen shit happens But you don't just go somebody that's doing you a favor on a Saturday night Which I'm not trying to suck my own dick But we're sold out weeks in advance on Saturday nights the in what's even worse than Nikki are his little fucking minions on Twitter Who are sitting here like you know? Oh, you had five hours to book another table like my that's more than enough time. That was the other thing. He said he canceled at

10 a.m. No, he canceled at six o'clock. Danny Detectives brought that up too. Yeah. So and and. Why does Danny Detectives talk in the third person? To top this all up, when I search my email to see if I had this cancellation email. Not Brandon the one no no The first thing that popped up was the reservation from last year that he canceled and I forgot he did the same thing last The same exact thing last year he got too blacked out And he canceled his table that we held for him gonna be an all-nighter. I was like I was like this is on me I'm an idiot. It's like that Japanese parable with the mongoose carrying the snake across the water or just fool me once. No. Yeah I'm just I'm a fucking idiot. So what was I expecting? So why did I get mad to begin with?

That's why I was like I'm not gonna smokes here. No, I know it's Monday You can't expect a party devils advocating this what what is his what could he possibly because this sounds pretty damn, you know Like what could smoke his angle posses? Did he have the nice party somewhere else? That he got he got too fucked up, but you said he logged into some website at six Yeah, so like if he was if his excuse was like I was too fucked up to text you my bad Then how did he lock into a website? Dude? I don't know but I am yeah, there's like I'm also Stunned he got I saw Eddie out during the day. Yeah, I was there at the party. I was like damn. I oh

We missed out you guys went too hard during the day Yeah, I mean we I left around three and he was already like on the fritz so it happens being a 27 I would sure I I was in his shoes before but I would be apologetic I would wake up the next morning be like dude I'm sorry. I got blacked out. But instead he's like, you know, how dare you like Think that I was asking for a comp and no showed him. But he was like indignant about it. So I Don't know I think my respect for Nikki smokes is quickly evaporating

Again, it's my own fault for being surprised by this I I And then it is still showing up being like I'm here first. Hey, what's a whole other price? That's the biggest issue. I think yeah, you had the balls to it like nobody knew Yeah, and then your boy Cruz shows up me as I'm walking out my boy Hey, I was with Nikki all day for his birthday. Not my boy, go on. I'm like sweet. Well he also didn't tell the people.

Not here, he's not here. He didn't tell the people that were coming to his party that he wasn't gonna be doing it? So he apologized. That's an asshole. Okay, so these are what he apologized for. Wait, real quick though, there's only 11 people. I could see if he sent out a mass text,

like oh, John Boy Saturday, but he couldn't tell 11 people. So this is what he apologized for So credit to Nikki for this he apologized for not telling his friends. He wasn't going I bet this isn't gonna be and he apologized for Not responding to my texts. That's what he apologized for but not nothing else, okay The rest it was just a misunderstanding Where the fuck is he? There's another party today

He's gotta be here. No, I haven't seen him. I have a lot to teach this boy in the Jersey Shore Oh, well, I forgot about that about manners and consideration and just common decency. We're still going through with that I mean someone's bedtime just got a little earlier Nikki. Are you hashtag done with him? No, I'm not done with him. I just He's got a little he's got to learn some things man Am I listen? I know you guys all think I'm fucking batshit crazy. Am I crazy for well? I was on his where I'm at on this I was on his side initially after I saw his text, but then you your contacts here is very important. Yeah Maybe a stupid question Why do you have two cups?

It's too hot. You're drinking lean tea All right, all the Stella blue cups are gone So I had to go poitilos and enough and the regular cup is too hot Dante appreciate it. I think you have flipped some public opinion at least my public opinion of course as soon as Nikki smokes comes in I'm flipping right back But but thank you I was really hoping we'd burn enough time for Luke combs to Get done cooking with Donnie and come over here, but you just want to hang out with the combs Whatever he picked smells so good you can you come back when Luke Combs is back.

All right, I would love that. We should do a Barstool backstage segment on the deck for you instead. We should get Luke Combs' opinion, and his is the final opinion on Nicky Smokes or Dante. Actually, great idea, Kate. We can combs through it. Don name names, let's lay out the scenario.

Yeah. Kate, I got something. This is the, I got something for you, Kate. So I went golfing Friday. I went playing golf Friday. A lot of people don't like saying golfing. So my club was closed because they had the club championship.

I wasn't in it. So I had to go somewhere else. So I make a tee time at this place near my house for 4.20 on a Friday. And they put a single with me, as they'll do. And the single shows up and walks up to me and says, hey, I'm Andy, and I said, hey, I'm Brandon. He said, I know who you are.

I'm like, okay, well, he's a Barstool fan, cool. But he doesn't push it, doesn't do anything. So we're standing on the number two tee, and he goes, I don't want to make you talk shop, but there's a one person I've always wanted to ask about. You know, you get to work with a lot of great people. I want to ask about something. And he goes, is Kate as nice as I think she is?

And out of all the barstool people, he never asked about Dave, never asked about Big Cat, never asked about anything. He said he just wanted to know about Kate. Wow. What'd you say? I said, yeah Kate's awesome Kate's Kate's super funny and super nice and everything and he was like that makes me feel good good cocksucker cuz if you said something I fucking kill you yeah no you're right I

said good cocksucker okay good cocksucker oh great cocksucker. Oh, she's a great cocksucker. Great cocksucker. Good cocksucker! Whoa, whoa. She always cups them all. Sorry, that was weird. The way you said it and the tone you used. I was like, that's what you meant.

That was forward. If that was transcribed as being, oh, she's nice, she's funny, then good cocksucker. Is she nice? Yeah, she's nice. She's funny and then good cocks Is she nice yeah, she's nice, but great Better than being a bad cocks No, but that's Timing wise hey, why are you not here? I'm moving into my apartment right now. I got movers coming back and forth again

What you of course you couldn't move in on Saturday because that was a birthday party to be fair One so he's got to get him out now. Yeah Wasn't he also part of bald stool? Uh Yeah, no, he does. I don remember. Double missed, John Boyce. That's right, yeah. So, Nicky, your friend Dante has been here and has laid out his side where you basically got too drunk in the afternoon, canceled your Saturday night party, and really fucked him over in the process. Thoughts?

I did get hammered on my birthday during the day I canceled the reservation six to seven hours before it's a club in Chicago let me stop you there let me stop you there he said that you reported you canceled it at 10 a.m. he says you canceled it at 6 p.m. Yeah, the timing was probably wrong on my end Fast Yeah, I mean I'm not like kind of like big up Dante I just think it's a little insane that like that like he wants to like treat me like I'm some scumbag fuck that gave no Notice whatsoever and he's acting like he has he doesn't have the most

Popular club in West Loop that he can't fill that with six to seven hours I think that did you know? My table was never caught no he's coming back coming back Did you not understand what I said I said that you according to you you canceled at 10 a.m According to Dante you canceled at 10 a.m. according to Dante you cancel at 6 p.m. 549 p.m. To be okay still six hours before my reservation Saturday night key we're booked out weeks in advance on Saturday nights

You know this 11 people aren't waking up or or walking up to a club and saying hey, let's drop $2,500 tonight. They're planning these nights. I feel like they do all the time every time I'm at John Boyd. I've never not seen a table filled. Because we're booked out weeks in advance. Oh my god. People are celebrating birthdays, bachelorette parties, all this shit. This is not looking good Nicky. Why did you say you canceled it at 10 a.m. if you canceled it at 5 or 9 p.m.? Because I think why did you say you cancel at 10 a.m. If you cancel it at 549 p.m So I think I was looking at canceling at 10 a.m. And I just didn't cancel it till whenever I can

I've been to John boy people have been there at every single table Brandon Yeah, you know what those people did they booked him and didn't cancel. I Mean look I I didn't mean to fuck over Dante. I do feel bad. He sent me a text I didn't see it or I would have answered it But it's not like I just no called no showed like I cancelled it you did though Why didn't you just text me and say hey? I'm not coming tonight hammered Dante like I started drinking at 10 a.m. With all my fucking boys like I I couldn't even speak English

But why am I gonna like want to sit but Nikki but you what you harder than tech? Yeah What you did was harder than sending a text going in seven rooms and canceling a reservation is more difficult than sending me a text Okay, then that's on me. I apologize. Oh Was it cuz you felt awkward canceling was it like an anxiety thing great point? Yeah, it was one it was a little bit of that and to like I was just like so blasted is like why like Say but I called on hey like it's still gonna be the same thing I might as well just cancel the reservation now, and then that was it

I mean I even if I called him like what would change But it's like it's a respect thing. It's just a you know Thank you courtesy courtesy yeah, right the basic like when I woke up the next day, and I saw it I did I not reach out to you Dante Yeah, you were like forget fucked on Twitter. I didn't no-call no-show you were you weren't dude if you had woken up and been Like hey, I'm sorry. I got annihilated yesterday. I fucked up that would have been it. That's all dude I don't hold grudges all I need is you fucked up. We're human I did the same shit as you at your age I get it, but instead you were like I did nothing wrong. I fucking I didn't no call no show

I canceled on the back end blah blah blah blah like I was like okay I'm the crazy one then because I'm upset and apparently I shouldn't be upset And then you got your little fucking minions on Twitter telling me Y'all Dante's trying to make this about him trying to make this about him smokes as minions Like if I did fuck up which evidently I did Like I would want you to like call me or text me now like run to Twitter to be Like you'll never guess who asked for a comp table on his birthday I was texting first of all never asked for a comp and it was a $1,500 table

So it wasn't even comp so I don't want to hear that and I never Look I fucked up. Yeah, call me text me like like there's no reason for you Staring at my phone while I'm boozing with my friends all day long. I'm absolutely hammered at one point I had a good mook my phone Oh fuck People that were showing up being like hey, we're here for Nikki's table like that weird that's weird I have three guys. It was three separate guys and Plus Cruz plus Cruz later so for and what Cruz was with me at big that's good They hey people know I'm there all the time. So they probably name dropped me to get like through. They said they were with your table

and they were confused that you weren't there in my door. Was it the ball still guys? Mikey was texting, no, they came with Donnie and Goldfinger. This was separate. So we were legit confused. Like, is he gonna show up? Is he not gonna show up? Do we flip this table?

And you weren't responding. So that's why I was pissed off. do we flip this table? And you weren't responding so that's why I was pissed off And for that you're right, and I apologize for that. That's nice. Thank you Spoken thank you Water under the bridge Here today that a month a month lease or No, I'm honestly fucked if I get fired. I'm not gonna lie this place is expensive But then I guess I could just I could just bartend that job boy so I Can start as a bar back first right? Yeah work my way up. All right. Thanks, Nikki. Thanks

Boy, I hopefully this is not He sucks did that generation What he said every time about John boy every table's full That broke me that was incredible, but you could have so lack of awareness night of though right like it's that popular We take trying to keep defending him, but like it is no but we take a hit like you can't charge a minimum To a walk-up what you can advance didn't know but you also have he has to know the tables available Yes, totally doctor right em and and he still thinks the guy is coming He's not gonna give us table away exactly Nicky Nicky's wrong again a simple text message would have

Would I would I have busted his balls a little yeah? But that's that comes with territory you blackout during the day you get your balls busted He didn't have I wouldn't have been I wouldn't have been off. He was so fucked up I would have been like go like you're an asshole. I would have I would have said okay We got a table this happens every week well any kept saying like you could have texted me you texted him three times Seeing those texts little do we know? Texted him three times over and over and over seeing those texts little do we know? Solved all this what a bad guy

All right, thank you Dante again Dante We'll put out the call when the cone shows up I guess all right what he's making over there smells unbelievable, right? Walk over there and take a bite right chicken. I just Oh you did okay? Oh, sorry. I was told by his friend Austin that he does want to do the gauntlet Oh, he does yeah. Oh hell yeah Okay, well, I think we do have the gauntlet set up so Luke Holmes, I don't know you had him on dog walk right yeah He walked into mostly and sat down and talked to us like we've all been old friends for for Yeah, like he's been working here. Oh, yeah, he's just been over. I have my better chemistry with him than Connor I

Felt like yeah, I felt like I knew him better than his are weaving Connor Griffin. Yeah Now we have one more weekend thing. I'd like to talk about that you're a cocksucker We have one more weekend If you guys were at a community pool But you had a good content idea for doing a cannonball into said pool What's the? What's the etiquette there?

What's the what's the ad just do you dive all the way in as far as you can and splash everybody and it's okay because you You asked them permission beforehand or did you ask them permission? What what are we going with is our etiquette for our cannonballs into pools? I think you probably It's a kid learning to swim It's a kid learning to swim. Floating on learning how to swim. The Yale. The cannonball. He's shutting up, right?

Yeah, I. I heard a lady voice. Is that the sound that sounds like speeding speed demon? Yeah. I heard a lady voice Look at the first wave go over the dad that covers the dad the dad had to protect the son All right, so but he did say that he he asked permission So I guess he probably walked up to each person individually said I work for partial sports I'm about to do a cannonball. Is that okay with you? I was gonna say, what do you think the line of questioning was? I think they all probably said no and he just said okay. Thanks. I'm like, yeah You just said he asked for permission. He didn't say he was granted it

True everyone said no fuck it. We were somewhere in Chicago and started doing yoga weekly for Marathon Training Company. Buddy, there's a lead called yoga. That's going to be tough to find a place to do yoga in Chicago. Yeah, or any city really. Does anybody know of a yoga studio in Chicago? There's two words he didn't add. the two words at the end are for free Anybody and while ready anybody know places serves alcohol Yeah, just looking for a place one place no anywhere with good pizza in Chicago pizza places there

Is he here today? Yeah, he is Yes, I haven't heard him. Confirmed. Doesn't mean he's not here. I just thought that when I saw the cannonball, I was like, oh cool, cannonball. And then the second time I was like, damn, there's people all over that pool.

There's people around. And that's not a big pool. A cannonball from a 40 year old is scary anyway, to put it. I actually like that he asked, though, I have to say. We don't know that he asked. There's no way. He had him all final waiver.

If he did, I'd like that. I asked? Yeah, he asked the people in the pool, and they said it was fun. Oh, the people in the pool. Glad this was cleared up. Brandon, what do you do in a pool? I just.

What's a brand? You got a pool at the club? Yeah, I haven't go yeah, yeah, I will once about once every Once a summer I'll go with my kids and show them some stuff off the diamond board stuff like that Although our pool doesn't have one now. Yeah, once a summer. I'll break out the diving board material for my kids and give them a thrill Okay, we broke out the slip and slide yesterday. Oh Yeah, like down the hill down the hill. Oh, wow. Yeah, and then the lake Yeah, no, it was down the hill into the into the neighbors are but no Into the lowest part of our yard then you straighten That was big. That's that's a part of that's white trash, right?

That's that's a part of that's white trash right if we're all being Slide being the peak of your summer the Kennedys are doing no The best part is there's always a kid that knocks the wind out of himself on it. Yeah There we go hey We got the special seat over there just for you, this is your seat Yes, sir Yes, sir. You can sit right here. Good to see you again. Hey, Luke. Luke Holmes. How is the, I'll let you sit down and get your headphones on and your microphone right

now. Get your bag in. What? Yeah, look at him. It's so fun. Yeah. He's in his own room. Yeah, he has his own little nook right there.

Thanks for zooming in, Luke. Has all his sports memorabiliaia has got an Elvis statue right there struggling with these headphones and you're a lot of work you probably don't have to use headphones oh yeah it's not you it's us it's our bad headphones want some proof the guy who normally sits there has big loose ears it's very odd so they yeah it's he's big hair to cover it up. You can't tell loose loose is not really He does have big poppies. Hey Luke. Hello. How was uh, how would you cook over there? garlic parm wings

About 42 few for me was this a situation where you had your own recipe or is this like no no no Donny's he was asking. He's like, what do you want to do? I'm like I want to do wings Okay, so he gave me like do you want to do like barbecue or garlic parm? I'm like garlic parm for sure not a big barbecue flavor guy I'm I love barbecue by like a barbecue chip. I agree with this like what barbecue I don't want barbecue Pringles like what are we so do you not put barbecue sauce on your no? I love barbecue sauce on meat. Love it. But anything that's artificially flavored like barbecue,

I'm completely out on. Yeah, completely out on. I go the opposite with orange. I don't eat oranges, but I love orange flavored things. Really? With barbecue, I'm the same way. I don't really like barbecue flavored stuff. I like barbecue.

That's a good point. A lot of people have beef with grape flavored stuff. There's a lot of people that- I'm sorry? A lot of people dislike grape flavored. I despise it because of a diamond tab growing up. You think maybe there's something to that. When you said beef with grape flavored stuff, I was like beef and grape don't go together

at all. Though I do have a friend who used to marinate meat and soda like any flavor soda so possibly a grape. Yeah you can do that. I don't think grape soda. Grape soda steak would be a wild thing to try. I'll get Donnie to do it. Yeah he could do it.

It'll probably be done by the time we're done here honestly. Asking for a friend, do y'all have any of those wings left? No unfortunately. We passed the rest out, you guys were kind of in the middle of this figured not interrupt you guys with delicious home-cooked wings you know thanks for asking supposed to do that it's alright job you cook much I do I do cook quite a bit actually like a smoker you like to to smoke things? I do, yeah. I do. I like to smoke stuff.

I like to, I'm a, I would say I cook 90% of the meals. No shit, really? Yeah. I just like, I like to cook. I truly enjoy cooking. What's your best meal? Uh, I'd probably go steak on you, I think. I mean, not that it's gonna be the best steak you've ever had,

but it's gonna, you're gonna be like, this guy knows how to cook a steak. Which kind? You grilling, you reverse searing? What are you doing? Uh, I can go going to be like, this guy knows how to cook a steak. Which cut? You grilling? You reverse searing? What are you doing? I can go both. Sometimes I'm going just a pan sear.

Obviously, if it's a thin enough steak, you're just going in the pan. If it's a real thick, I can go traditional sear or reverse sear. To me, they're very similar. God damn, this guy knows how to sear. I'm asking because one of our producers took an entire year of research to finally settle on what kind of grill was the best grill to use. Stephen Che over there in the booth, what kind of grill are you going with? What's the number one?

You big green egg guy, you charcoal guy? What was your, what did you find? Oh my God. We settled on a Napoleon grill. Really? I've never even heard of that. It's deep knowledge. No, it's not.

It's not deep knowledge. He probably got it at Walmart for like 18 bucks I got any money mo what's the what's the what's the fuel on that? Is it like a is it a gas yes, so it's basically another gas it's an oven right he Looked for a grill for a year and decided it was an oven correct was the best one No, I would say if I had a preferred method, I would just go and just in a pan, like a cast iron pan and finish it in the oven is great. Yeah, you just finish it out. They got those thermometers now. There's no excuse to not be able to cook an A plus steak

with all the technology we got now. Smoke up your house though. Of course, you probably got a bigger kitchen than I got. I don't. My house is 2,200 square foot. What? That doesn't. Two bedroom, two bath. Two kids. Three-year-old, two-year-old.

What's he doing? Maybe he's a simple man. A simple guy. Yeah, a simple man. Is he a better guy than us? He might just be a better guy than us. My kitchen and my dining room are the same room it's like one it's like speak for yourself Brandon my place is small Maybe being a country music superstar doesn't pay like Maybe we just assume I just spend it on other stuff

Yeah, it's it's it's a good spot what is a it? What is a luxury? What is a what's a splurge? I know it's a splurge thing What is something where you're like I know I I know I'm humble and I told everybody I'd be down to earth when I got Super famous right here's my spaceship, but I can't I can't resist I got is my laser I think it's a lot of it's gonna be stereotypical country guy stuff I went guitars first because I'm like, oh my gosh nice guitars. Like what are those never played those before? And so I did that so I've got I've got some really nice old gibsons and

Stuff like that just stuff that plays good. I'm not a very good guitar player, but I really enjoy playing I love a good sounding guitar. So that was number one And then watches man, I got bad and I'm bad and into watches man. It's really bad. You're speaking his language now Yeah, it's bad. How does that happen? How do they get us Luke? I don't know man I don't even have watches like that. I just like I'm just like on my phone just Watches, I don't know why I'm drawn to this. Yeah, you're like, why don't why can't I have that? And you still can't afford a brick watch? Yeah, it's it's crazy, dude It really is watches and then I mean land Haunting land is up there. That's a country ass answer. Yeah

Yeah, that's me that's the Mississippi answer. Yeah, you you know I look at land on the computer every single day same every single No all the time even though I know I'm not gonna get anything. I'm just like I like to know that it's available Yeah, I'm like, oh, that's yeah just to keep in mind. I also in my mind land stays available available forever Yeah, well you see it on Zillow once it's never it's never gonna sell and then in ten years when you're ready to buy What are the hallmarks of good land? What sets apart some land from other land when you're looking on Zillow? If to me, size of the body of water, like I'm looking for a lake. I want a lake on my land.

You're looking for a pond. Anything over 15 acres, now I know I got a good piece of land. But if it's like a three acre pond, that's nothing. So I'm going. So you want a 15 acre pond? Well, I consider it to be a lake. OK. That's highly, highly wealthy of you.

When do you think a pond becomes a lake? Oh, man. I feel like a lake, to me, lake, there's public use. No, I believe, and I've never looked it up. I think a pond becomes a lake at 30 acres. So there is a definition? There is a definition. Okay. Anybody with water landlocked over 30 acres is a lake. He's self-conscious. He lives on a pond. By what definition? Miriam Webster got together. Miriam Webster had a meeting. And a pond becomes a lake at 30 acres. And

that is the definition. That is scientists, all of our top scientists got together. All of our top scientists got together. Pond versus lake scientists. What's your edited Wikipedia together? What are you looking for? Are you looking for turnkey, like hunting properties? Yeah, I'm looking for, I mean, for me, I think,

I mean, it depends. What do you want to hunt? Certain type of trees. What do you want to hunt? Right, it's like, do you want to hunt right? It's like do you want to deer do you want to have turkeys? Do you want to you know? So many things you look into you know, it's a mix obviously you want some hardwood timber on it Yeah, obviously you got to have that going if you want at least in certain areas of the country It depends where you're looking at hunting land. Yeah, if you're looking at Kansas, you don't you're not looking the same stuff

Are you looking 100% totally different? It's a little different have you done the wild boar oh? Yeah, yeah, yeah, Mississippi did West Point done in West Point. He's been to my hometown hunting Yeah, yes, did they take you where they have the dog kennel? No, we'd never we never made it over there. I've been down there gosh five or six times. You've been in the store. Yeah, oh yeah Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah Yeah, it's weird. My hometown's known for Mosse Oak camouflage, which he's wearing, and Brandon Walker,

which is getting bigger than Mosse Oak camouflage. Brandon Walker is me. So those are the two things we're known for. And a big golf course. That's it, three things. And great high school football, four things. Great high school football. 12 time state champions, yeah.

Most ever in Mississippi. That's awesome. Yeah, it might be 13, I might be wrong. And Brandon's gonna, the high school, you sponsored the light show that's gonna go off when they score touchdowns. Yeah, through Brandon Walker. Brandon Walker.

Yeah. That's awesome. I might be a couple of payments behind. So we might not have, what's the word? Light. Money. Lights, yeah. Yeah, we might not have lights. Lollapalooza this weekend? Yeah, Thursday.

That's so intimidating to me. That's some of my younger cousins here were like, you gotta come with us. And I was like, I'm too old. What is the stereotypical crowd? I mean young people obviously, but it's just high school kids? Yeah, but like that's how it's become within the what, the last like five to eight years? Yeah, younger 20s maybe a little after. But it what the last like five to say yeah younger younger 20s Yeah, but it'll look like a million people out there. Oh, yeah, there'll be a hundred and some thousand for sure

Yeah, the whole park is like do you know what the biggest crowd you ever played in front of us? I'm trying to think Some there's on festivals like that right yes. Yes. I would say I played a festival in festivals like that, right? Yes, yes. I would say I played a festival in Quebec that's called Festival d'etat, which is a big contemporary festival there. That was like 77,000 that night that we played.

I'm trying to think of some of the other biggest ones that we've done. We've done some stuff like, we played a thing on the beach in Virginia Beach that was like 65, 70,000 people on the beach. Stagecoach is huge. That's probably pushing 80s, I would imagine. Now, when you play a show that big. Bonnaroo. We just headlined Bonnaroo this year for it.

You got 80,000 people out there. Are they singing the songs back to you just like a crowd of 10,000? Yeah, big time. That has to be goosebumping. Yeah, it's electric. Yeah, it's unreal. I would say the best sounding, like the craziest sounding ones are like when we do the football stadiums and it's an indoor stadium. Because it's just like, because when you're in like,

let's say we're playing in Charlotte at the Panthers Stadium, all the sound escapes out of the top. But if you're up, if you're at US Bank doing it, everything's just reverberating through that enclosed space and it's wild sounding in there. Does it ever mess you up? Have you ever like get on beat people? What the hell? Does it like- Well, so it's interesting, like when I talk into this microphone, you're hearing me almost instantaneously. But when it's coming through the PA, the farther you get from the PA, the longer it takes to

reach the people in the back. And it's even noticeable, like if I'm at the end of the thrust, like the ego catwalk thing that you see at most concerts, even by the time I'm just out to the end of there, it's half a second off of where I'm at. So I have my in-ears in and that's what I'm hearing. That's essentially, it's molded to my ear so that no sound can really come in. To an extent, if there's an airplane or the speakers, you're going to hear them. I know how you feel. I commentated a dog show here once and my sound was a little off, so

it's... I get it. But it can become an issue if the PA is overpowering your ears And then you're hearing yourself a half a second ago as opposed to what you're actually needing to do next Scrambles your brain so the crowd is a little bit behind Where you are in theory, and it's just an even a millisecond matters in a three-minute song You know so it could be easy to get off in that amount of time. But yeah, it's awesome. Not a big problem.

Good problem to have. Good problem to have. Good problem to have. Good problem. First country star at Lalo, right? Yeah. First country headliner at Lalo, every. Yeah, that's so cool.

Yeah, yeah. Very excited about that. That's awesome. That's very cool. That's crazy. I mean, it's not awesome that you're not doing it. I just would have, like, Garth back in the 90s and stuff like that. You would have thought Maybe maybe was asked and just didn't you know, yeah, maybe it was it was I just think that some of these

You know some of the contemporary festivals have just always kind of it's been So it's a risk. Yeah for them because they're like well I don't it's like, you know If you if you got a bunch of't, it's like, you know, if you got a bunch of people showing up to see, you know, Tyler the Creator, like, in their mind, like, how could those people ever like me? When I think in reality, most people kind of like a little bit of everything. Yeah.

You know, there are some people that will only listen to metal or only listen to this. There are obviously those people exist, but they're a small percentage of people that listen to this. There are obviously those people exist, but there are a small percentage of people that listen to music. I would say generally everyone you know listens to a little bit of everything and country is as popular as it's ever been. I think you're a good, but also bad ambassador for country. And I'm basing this off of my wife said you're the only reason she's, she got, she didn't listen to country music. She heard a couple of your songs. She was like, Oh my God, I maybe I was wrong about country music. Like this guy fucking rules. And then she started listening to to country music. She heard a couple of your songs. She was like, oh my god I maybe I was wrong about country music like this guy fucking rules and then she started listening other country music She's like no, I wasn't wrong

So, you know, I wasn't wrong. It's just Luke I'm selling these guys. I brought my 16 year old daughter here because you were gonna be here today Yeah, and I I had not listened to my last country music was like Brad Paisley and all that sure I hadn't listened anything past 2005 sure and she's your favorite and she started playing in the Jeep with me and I started listening I'm like, okay. Well, I was the same as his wife. I can get down with this guy Yeah, and then I have to listen to Hardy too because that's my boy. Oh, dude. He's great. He's Mississippi State guy That's my guy. That's my guy. Hardy's the man. Yeah, yeah

It's I mean I think country really is I think it just kind of gets, when I started out, I knew early on that when I moved to Nashville, one, everybody was hot and I was not. Okay? I mean, it's not, I don't think it's insane to say that I'm in the bottom tier of looks as far as country music. They get hotter too, don't they? Yeah. Somebody's like, who's the guy that's like-

What lab are they building these guys in? It's Hit Homer's at like- Oh, that guy. Riley Green. Who's that guy? Holy shit. There's just tons of them, dude. It's like every year there's a new guy that's just like,

whoosh, just ripped out of the frame, dude. So I'm like, I'm coming into town, and I'm like, hey, I want to be an artist. And they're like, yeah, good luck guy. Yeah. How's that going to go for you? You know? So I always knew early on, okay, okay. If you're, if you look at, if you have a chance to listen to five new country

artists on paper, I'm the last guy that you're going to pick on paper. Okay. And I knew I'm going to have to earn every fan I have, which means I'm going to have to like, I got to get people to a show. If I can get you to a show, my goal was to not have you walk out of there and go, this guy's my favorite guy ever. I love this guy's music. He's the best guy ever.

Because that's incredibly unrealistic. My goal by the end of the show was to earn your respect of okay You know what this guy's not maybe he's not my favorite country artist ever But he sings real good and he puts on a good show and I can respect that and I know that if if that was The worst thing that happened at the show It can only be good from there because if 200 people come the next time I come back Maybe they'll all bring someone else and then it's 400 and then it's 800 and then it's 1600 and the next thing You know, you're a lala. We're doing double nights at stadiums

It's like and it worked but it just took I just needed to get people in front of me and I knew that if I could do that I could win people over and you're also they got you gave out free garlic parm wings to everybody at your old shoes. Yes. Yeah 100% I don't do that anymore. I usually just eat them all I don't have enough There's just usually not enough for everyone anymore Hey Luke, I'm Dante Thank to come back when you were here. Welcome to the show.

At least you have the name right. Welcome to the show. Yeah. Thank you, I'm honored. Did you guys talk about Lala at all? We did, yeah. You were standing right there when we talked. I couldn't hear, I was in the other room,

there's a delay and all that, but yeah, this is incredible. We talked about the delay. No, no, no, hold on, hold on, hold on. I don't think you guys understand, you're not like Danny and Ed, Yeah, this is incredible about the delay I don't think you guys understand you're not like Danny and Ed know they're from Chicago But this is I think the first time in Lala history. There's been a country No, that's crazy. Do you have a I mean you back to bathroom home to? No, I mean that's like insane. What are you expecting? Do you have any expectations? I mean, I'm expecting it to be a good time for sure. I know at least I for sure

I'm gonna have a good time in hopes that the crowd will enjoy it. There's always a little bit of like you don't know what to expect because it is It is just something that's a little out of the norm, obviously for Lala. We did Bonnaroo, which was again, out of the norm for Bonnaroo. That had never happened either. We did Newport Folkfest two days ago. First country headliner there. And it's like, so we just wanted to go and do all these different kinds of things, just because it's like, I just thought it would kind of be sick to do that. You know what I mean? I like, I just thought it would be kind of sick to like do that. You know what I mean?

Like I enjoy the challenge of doing something different and trying to win a different crowd over like to me that's what it's all about is one, doing what you love to do and two, you know, doing it in ways that continue to be new and challenging and exciting and figuring out how to make things work that aren't just the same thing. Like I don't want to't just the same thing. Like, I don't wanna just do the same thing all the time. You know, I wanna continue to enjoy myself, and not that doing the same thing isn't fun.

It is a lot of fun. But if I can, you know, what can I continue to learn? How can I continue to learn and improve and adapt? I love it. The buzz is crazy. I think you're gonna have the biggest crowd of the weekend. It'll be fun I'm excited about it and you do in the metro, which is yeah tomorrow night legendary legendary venue 400 cedar it's gonna be fun. What's the I saw you bring you have a special guest for that

Yep. Yep. It's gonna be it's gonna be exciting times man this week. I'm looking forward to, I mean, we're all big Chicago fans, too, just as a city. So this is, I feel like really the first time we've gotten to spend some time in the city and be here and enjoy it, and just really take it in. We've always wanted to have a trip here. You always, when you're in the music business, you always do the week in New York for press stuff or the week in LA for this thing or that thing But it's like you rarely do you get a chance to come to Chicago and spend time here. He's stuck and it's cool, man It's a great city man. It's a everybody super. I know you love my lord Danny's got the shirt. Yeah Lord dude, we always have that on hand backstage seriously always by choice. Oh, yeah, but you're not just in Chicago everywhere everywhere

We got it. Oh, dude. You got to go to the distillery while you're here. It's right down the street. Oh, man Ed and Dan and I went we got to see how it's made and try it It looks like a, it looks like a, a hay. Be careful. Yeah, it looks like hay. And it's the worst tasting stuff you've ever put in your mouth. Well, it sounds delicious. It is like, it's like paint cleaner or something.

So if you tell your brain it's medicinal, it is getting easier for me to drink Malort. I'm like, this is good for you, like kombucha tastes like shit, but it- They started making it softer. You trick yourself into drinking it? When? Yeah. They started, when they changed production production they started making it a little bit less with a punch Is that a fact?

Maybe that's why This is the kind of stuff Eddie knows Remember when they ruined Four Locos when I was in college Yeah Took all the energy drink out and it's just booze Question about that. What what's it like going to school in a dry town? Well, okay, so wasn't actually dry my sophomore year they got liquor, my sophomore year.

Oh, all right. Which was great, but I heard all the stories, Appalachia State. Did you meet Hannah? Boo in North Carolina, right? Yep, Boo in North Carolina. So what were you supposed to do before that? Just bring brown baguette everywhere?

Well, so you could drive to Blowing Rock, which was like 15 minutes away. It was in the next county over, so you could go you could drive to blowing rock which was like 15 minutes away It was in the next county over and you could get booze there so people just go there and freshman year you weren't old Enough to drink anyways yeah, so of course I wasn't right you know like nobody drinks like long They're started drinking at 21 right of course just like guitar. That's why I started learning guitar It's also illegal to play guitar before I started learning alcohol. Yeah Yes, you thought you're gonna be a homicide detective Is that correct? Yeah, is that yeah, do I have that story, right? Yeah, that was a bit of a pipe dream

I think but yeah, that's what I wanted to do. It'd be sick if you did both now What a great one season show that Country star music detective in a year. Like what a great one season show that people are like, man, this stinks, dude. The country star music detective? Yeah. He does it. You'd be like, what was that Miley Cyrus? She was Hannah Montana.

What was that show called? Two Lives. What was that show where she was Hannah Montana? What was the show? It was called Miley Cyrus. That was the name of the show. Combing it over. Yeah.

Oh. Cold. Oh! Oh! Perfect. Yeah. It was all right. We're in. He's untangling crime. Oh! That's perfect.

All right, we're in. He's untangling crime. Oh. Yeah. Luke Combs. Unweaving the web. Yeah. While on tour.

Yes, while on tour. I have a dumb music question. I don't get to talk to Luke Combs very often. Come. These big, like you said, you were just at Newport and now you're doing Lala and it's all these different genres of music. Have there ever been any cool connections you've made? Like, do the artists mingle backstage?

Are you ever like? Yeah, I think, yeah. It depends on the festival and what the setup is. Every festival's different. I was just telling Donnie, he was asking me a similar question, and it was like, he was like, what do you like over festivals

versus your own shows or vice versa? The festivals you are at the mercy of whatever the festival is, whatever their setup is, is what the setup is. So that be food, green rooms, showers, like that's the thing that 99% of artists care about. It's like, what's to eat? Is there a good shower?

Yeah. And it's not even for the artist really, it's for their crew. So does my crew have a nice place to have their bags and change clothes? That to us is the most important thing, or at least to me, to make sure that my guys are taken care of. So I know when I'm on my tour, I am providing all that. We're bringing our own catering, so I know the food's good.

We're in a stadium, so everybody, like the women we have out have their own room that's to themselves, and the guys have their own showers, and everybody's got their own stuff going on, and everyone's comfortable. And the festivals are not always like that. And that's, sometimes that's because it's just not physically possible, because there's so many artists, and so many people working for those artists. It's not possible for everybody to have their own nice shower. So like you can, it's understandable that that's not a possibility.

Sometimes you're like, Shakira's holding up the bathroom again. 100%. You know how it is. Right, right. And each artist camp is like... I'm sorry, I don't talk to musicians. Shakira. Shakira.

But each artist camp... Frank Sinatra's eating all the breadsticks again. But it really is. It really is. It's very subjective to each artist... Frank Sinatra's eating all the breadsticks. But it really is. It really is. It's very subjective to each artist. Everyone is so different. But have you ever met anyone that you're like, oh damn, we really hit it off. Has it ever led to a collab or a friendship that was kind of unlikely?

I mean Tracy Chapman thing was one for sure, which was, I mean, we hit it off really, really well. And I mean, there's been so many over the years where it's just like you meet people and you're like, man, this guy, like, rips, or I thought I would not like this guy and I love this guy. Yeah. And then you meet guys that you're like,

oh, I'm gonna love this guy, and then you don't like him. It's like, it's just like meeting anyone. Yeah. It's just like meeting people in life. Like, there's people you love and people you gravitate towards and people you don't, and that's okay. Do you ever check anyone else's act out before you go on?

Yeah from time to time it's harder at these big festivals to do especially when you're headlining because There's a lot of you also don't have any control of who and what is backstage at the big festivals That's up to the festivals, you know all the artists that are have, the guy on the B stage, his brother's in town too, so he's got him a pass. And then all of a sudden there's a thousand people that have access to the backstage and every one of those people knows. Even though that's supposed to be the most private area, it really just turns into, if you're Taylor Swift, you can't,

she can't operate in that environment, even though that is the most safe environment at the festival. Right. It's still that her thing is a whole another level. You know, there's just certain people that usually the headliner of a festival is tough because everyone knows you're there. Everyone's coming to see you. And if you're backstage, even that environment,

which is usually kind of cool, turns into like, everybody's wanting to get pictures and everybody's coming up. And it's like, then you, that's a lot of people just stay on the bus all day. It's just easier to not have to, not that they don't want to. It's like Brandon Walker at a dozen tournament.

Yeah. You can't just slip along. Brandon Walker and West Point. Yeah. That's right. Yeah, very similar. Yes You have something in common Dante. You both don't have control backstage Come on man Gauntlet I used to have a I used to run it. I used to have a music show here Luke I still have it It's just not with bar so anymore because the labels took us down

Sure, you know yeah, yeah, okay, all right Are you running the gauntlet? Have they told you about it? Yeah, okay, so you're good. You're ready Yeah, give me I mean give me the quick quick talk there. So it's a it's one cornhole Okay, so as you make a cornhole you're going to soccer. Yep. We'll have a goalie out there and everything As soon as you make a soccer you you run to that wiffle ball bat and you hit a baseball over this studio Okay, after that you pick up a football you throw it through throw it through one of those body armor flash IVs Okay over there on the wall after that three-pointer On both ends three pointer first three

pointer second and you sit back in that chair and you'll do a quick little trivia to ten I'll show you the trivia right now it's not a classic you know answer the question trivia it's like it's like lists nine highest selling country music artists of all time or something like so you just have to get ten total yeah I'll be Kevin Costner sports movies it won't be these but it would be like this seems Alan Iverson played for right did he really have ten sports movies oh yeah save that one and let me he's like I'm in I need to I need to play this one are you an athlete no no we were though right played football

right yeah I mean your team you can't be called an athlete rugby. I played college rugby. It was awesome. Oh, yeah Yeah, I know that I liked hitting people. Let's put it that way. Yeah Go show up all these muscular country artists or whatever they're called All we said there were hot not muscular all these former D one athlete Can also saying and stuff yeah, they all flame out and then they pick up a guitar some people got it all you know I mean all right man. Let's do this. I'm ready all right. We'll come with me then Eddie you count it off when we get out there Yeah, I got you All right, let's go you got this I got you game time

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Download the game time app today. What time is it game time? All right It's good to see let's go it was fired up for it How you feeling Don I'm good. I'm just looking at How big this guy's feet are? How you feeling Don? I'm good. I'm just looking at how big this guy's feet are. I tell you how big your feet are. Yeah, we're good. All right.

You got some big feet. Oh, thanks man. TJ, how we doing? Ready. All right. Okay. You ready? That means something.

Ready? Three, two, 1, go! And rough. Oh! Switch! What a start! Holy shit! We got Owen in at goal.

What a start, dude. Oh, good save by first time goalie, Owen. Oh! It's OK, he's got plenty of time with that first cornhole there. Oh, a little high. Holy shit. He's got some power. I wouldn't want to try out some. Kick his ass, Luke Combs.

There we go. There he goes. It's all right, Luke. Here we go, dinger. Dinger. I hope Riley Green's watching this. Suck it, Riley. Dinger right here. Ohuck it, Riley. Oh yeah. Lefty.

Good times. Let's go train it Luke. He's all Oh, I thought that was it. Look at the wrist. Almost. Okay, okay. He's there, he's there. There we go. There we go.

Alright, now just do it again. Still a great time though. Yeah. He's got good follow through. Nice. There we go. We've got a great time so far. Great time, Luke.

All right. Three colors on the Italian flag. Oh my God. Red, green, and white. Red, green, and white. Eight studio albums by Beyonce. Eight? Yeah.

Can't say one. Four Seinfeld actors. 10 movies with Francis Ford Coppola. Nine San Spurs main characters of Mickey Mouse Club. Oh, yeah Mickey Mouse Clubhouse No Spurs me these do I need to get I need to get there for right now. Okay, six more. Oh So not to get all of them. No You're being Jerry Seinfeld. Yeah What is it oh gosh Jason Alexander yep

Michael Richards These are tough this is Justin Timberlake? Does that count? Mickey Mouse Club? I don't know. We're thinking cartoons. The cartoon. Mickey. There we go. Minnie.

Got him. Great one. 2.45. Wow. Good time. You're way ahead of a bunch of pro athletes. This was the toughest trivia I've seen. Best a country star has ever done.

I like it. That cornhole off the gate, out of the gate was electric. Yeah, I feel like, you know, soccer I was feeling good about. Good goalie in there, man. Yeah. Slouch. He's strong. No slouch. Yeah, we improved the goalie a couple of days ago.

We had a- I appreciate that. We had a shitty, shitty goalie. Yeah. Although, we knew you days ago. We had a pretty shit You made it pretty fast, you know, I was bringing rockets you're right between Fred Smoot and Rg3 okay, you'd be big justice Yeah, Brooks Keppka there we go, okay Greg Olsen. Yeah Panthers Lot at lot it runs here. Yeah, it's it's it's it's big Julian Edelman you beat him Yeah, beat the shit out Cam Newton. I don't even know where he is Yeah

Wow Yeah, there's some there's some some, yeah, there's some. A lot of folks on this list. Luke, what's the loser in your fantasy draft doing this year? We haven't decided yet. Harp, do you know? How are you gonna up,

how are you gonna one up singing at one of your concerts? You had him on stage last year, right? That's what you did? Yes, Harp was one of those, by the way. Harp's one of the singers there. Wait, you were up there?. Yep come over here real quick Grab over here have a mic right over there. Yeah grab and sit in this is also the commissioner of our league nice how many years Oh, so you guys are here like life. Yeah, I love that. I have a lead like that, too

That's the best one long-standing so as commissioner Do you have to sign off on punishments? Oh, yeah, but it's a democracy a bit a bit Where there any were there any that were shot down I? Don't think so we can talk about I don't think there's I don't think I don't think that there's been anything that's been too Out there. You're not trying to like ruin anyone's lives or no no no no no what was it like except for me and the other guy? That was it like standing on stage in front of was it like 25,000 people. I don't remember. I blacked out Yeah, it was it was fun man for me

I mean it was really fun so harps not only my one of my best friends my best friend from growing up. He's also Literally like runs my whole life For me, so we get to work together every day. That's awesome. And then when he puts Kamish hat on I'm like I hate him just like everyone else Yep, and then Luke just falls in line after I do I'm like one of the Mike sir Yes, sir, yes, sir, like I'm just a player in this league. What's your league, are you guys a keeper league auction?

We do a keeper, we might do something a little different this year to where you can keep, what was it again? Whoever you keep replaces whatever round you pick them in the draft. Yep. So if you got a great value pick at seven, you can keep him and he's your seventh round. So it incentivizes people who draft well. So you because your first round or you're losing

a first rounder. Exactly. That's what it used to be. So if I got a guy in the sixth round, I don't get any rewards for having been good at drafting players and getting a value pick. I love that. So I like the idea of it, but I do too. This year one of our buddies has to dress up as a clown and entertain our kids for an hour. Getting back together in the hometown of all the kids and he has to do full clown and like do a full clown show. Has to do a full act. Oh, yeah like balloon animals whole thing oh right out of old school yeah yes exactly that's gonna be well aware they're going to attack him by the end oh yeah that's what my little minions are yeah they're let loose at that part they might be terrified of them true yeah

what if he one-up Sean just a scary clown want this well here's the tough thing he's got a daughter as well that's going to be involved. Okay, so he has some incentive to not scare the children. That he can go for he may see this and decide to go that route. Do you really need incentive to not scare children? You shouldn't. You shouldn't need that, you know. But we've tossed around. Oh, yeah. So we the winner of the league usually

comes up with the punishment. Oh, after after winning, yeah. So we, the winner of the league usually comes up with the punishment. Oh, after winning? Yes. So they know who the loser is, so they can. No, no, no, no, no, it's for the next year. So whoever won the league last year, then when we do the draft in August, he will go, I've thought of this thing.

That's another great idea. It's another incentive to win the league. To win the league, and then you get to, you get to pick the punishment for the next So who won the league and that person will miss learn? Fortunately, unfortunately our other best what if they pick their own punish how we let that happen does that ever happen? No, no pick your own punishment If I win this year and I choose the punishment and then I tank now I don't think anyone's had to do that yet

No, no, we have a lot of repeat losers and I choose the punishment and then I tank next. Oh, I don't think anyone's had to do that yet. Nope. We have a lot of repeat losers, myself being one. Yeah, we had a loser trophy that you won three years in a row and then it just kind of mysteriously vanished. Mysteriously, it was gone. What happened there? I think it was left in a rental car. I think you threw it out the window of the rental car.

I didn't throw it out the window. I wouldn't have done that because I have reasons to want to get rid of it, especially on a three-year heater of losing. Sounds like you did get rid of it. True. OK. But I have reasons to want it to be in someone else's home. Because it was prominently displayed

in my home for three years, which are also part of the league. Has to be prominently displayed. Well, how big of a trophy are we talking? I mean, it was a substantial item. Like, if you walk in the hall, you would know. You would know. It wasn't like, yeah, it was not nothing.

I want to just randomly show up in your bus again, like the Annabelle doll. Can you just see you walking and sitting in there? Yeah. I haven't lost in a while, though. I also have multiple second places, which is just only hurts a lot I've never won it never won the league Hurts it hurts a ton to have never won it do y'all draft in person. Do you do a big deal about yeah recently?

We have yeah. Yeah there for a while where we were kind of all across the United States We did the online thing, but we did an on we did an on the field draft Combine at the Panthers Stadium that is three years ago yeah incredible and then last year we did a combine at the bangles practice facilities combine many you did you did all the combine so hot dog eating contest yes then we do an aggregate of best overall scumbag athletes. What are the contacts? Is that how you term a draft order?

Yeah. Okay. Forty yard dash, which I'm always losing it. Beer pong. We did beer pong. We did beer pong standing vertical this year. How'd you do in that one? Actually not the worst guy.

Okay. On paper I should be, certainly. The years have not been kind to a few of our buddies athletic. Yeah sure sure Someone pulled a hammy at the 40. Yeah, and then we did like one of the years we had to do Do you had to do the whole combine with an open beer? So we had to make a field goal from 20 yards out. Jake DeLone was throwing passes to us You had to catch one handed with a beer. That's in your hand It was in the 40 yard dash with the beer open beer so like I was doing full like elbows

to the sky and there's just beer sloshing everywhere it's we have a good time with it we do we do have a good time you might need to throw a cornhole in there cornhole yeah or we could maybe we could do the gauntlet hey if you bring the guys back and just do the gauntlet as part of your job, you can have the building Can I get that in writing? You win this year is that trophy going on your trophy stand with Here's how much it means to me sadly. Yeah, he's saying yes. Absolutely. Yeah, if if I ever win the league I will get a permanent replica made Did me have other guys that have won it three times or like yeah, whatever I wanted a bunch of time meaning 30 years from now. You'll have a shelf of Grammys and then your replica

I don't have any of those either. So it's no worries. I got no Grammys. No fantasy championships You've got like 20 CMAs though I do have some of those yeah, so this will this will be your prized hardware Yeah, this is yeah, love that the Mona Lisa my collect one of the two bedrooms will just be that Yeah, you don't have its own bed. Are you guys in the league? Are you like do you love how much speak up a little yes? He wants to win and can't absolutely yeah, they it's all part of it. Yeah, it's it's I almost feel at times There's been some it's tough outside in collusion

There's some there's some things there's some asterisks Allegedly a little have to holler I've had I had some only other I mean We're me and Harper in two together. One being like a tour league that we have. Oh, so that was lesser? That one, well it's newer. Okay. And so it's like, it's kind of a rotating cast. We had Bergmans in it with us. My wife's

in that league with us. So like, it's like second or third, Bergmans won the league. You've won that league. Yeah. Yeah. Looks like a fantasy winner. Dude, interesting guy, this guy. Is he? Yeah.

Very interesting guy. Oh, hell of a guy. Miami Hurricane. Okay. Well, no Canes guy. Yeah Hell of a guy Miami hurricane Canes guy you they learn her last picture last picture Dale Earnhardt ever taken was taken by this man Oh, yeah, it was like in the infield or something or oh Wow, how many how many si covers we got Bergman you were for? 13 si color 13 si covers only two artists he's ever worked for have the same birthday myself and Von joe be Wow same birthday Different years for sure not the same. We're not the same age, but yeah in this other league. I was Undefeated one season 13 and oh and in the semifinals lost to my wife who?

Card and she won the she won the league and she's just like yeah It's like cool like you win like every other year you win right like that's just what happens. I'm like oh, yeah It's not like I'm not like it's not the most painful thing who cost you do you remember who? Somebody got hurt for sure right no it wasn't no and I like my team was we were just blasting dude And then it was just the one bad week was that week was the like the semi-final game and that was the That was the bangles Steelers game The in the game that ended and then there was that's the reason there was two guys that lost the league

Yeah, and the Hamlin thing happened. Yeah That was championship week for everyone's so him and my other best friend Zach were in the loser bowl together So the loser of the league is not by record There's a losing playoff bracket and the worst the guy that loses both of those games is a loser So they decided because there was the weird points thing. They're like, well, we'll just both do it Yeah, like we yeah in it weird. Yeah, that may had to make it easier I'm not gonna like get off the hook a a little bit there You would think that but dude sixty thousand people. That's a lot of people dude. It was it was nerdy I love it. Yeah, I don't know how you're gonna top it

I'm pulling for you to win one day fantasy league more than I'm pulling for you to win a Grammy. Thank you It means a lot to me really does you, I see. It means a lot to me. It means a lot to me, it really does. Get it done. Yeah, we'll see. What do you mean the last picture of Dale? Like before he got in the car? He's in the car.

He's in the car? Right after he got in the car, right before he put on his helmet and took off. Wow. February, 2001. That's crazy. I'm trying to get a copy of the picture. Thank you.

Did you see my collection? Bergman was saying it's in your office. The picture. Oh really commemorative. Yes, I commemorate the oven your desk. It's in the that's you. I took that picture. Look, I have the yeah, I guess it's in my look at full circle here. I crazy. Crazy man. Yeah, crazy. You just ride around with an interesting crew. Yeah, we're just with Junior. I just did my last music. Oh yeah, I saw that. Yeah. And the king. That's

right. 88 guy drove himself two hours to the video shoot. Where was he? He's 88. He's 88 years old. Yeah. Where was that track? It was in the hickory. Try counting motor speedway. That looks awesome. Yeah. And they're racing there soon, right? Yeah, he's racing there. And actually, Dale, he's actually super late model race there in October. So when I pitched him the idea I was like, hey would you want to do this? He's like absolutely. He called the video company and like can we do it here? Cuz I got a race there in October and I want to do practice laps. I've never actually

Yeah Cool we can do it here and I'll just run test laps in my super late model car. I'm like, okay, cool, love that. Were you more of a football guy growing up or a NASCAR guy growing up in North Carolina? I mean, I'm a football is my number one. NASCAR will always be near and dear to me because me and my grandfather watched it all the time.

My grandfather was a courier, so this is obviously pre-internet and direct deposit bank stuff. So he would actually deliver the paychecks to the drivers. He was the guy that would go around and be like, here's your check, sir, for the race. So like, we always watch the races on Sundays. I have all kind of insane like memorabilia that he would get for me from the drivers. Like when he would see them like, Hey, we signed this for my grandson. That's awesome. So I got Dale Earnhardt signed

stuff and Darrell Waltrip and all those 90s legend guys, because my grandfather was just delivering their paychecks for them. You a memorabilia guy? Little bit, yeah. See? Little bit. That's why we built him his own nook.

Yeah, memorabilia guy. I do enjoy it. All the stuff behind you is there because it was in Brandon's car, and he only had room for himself and so we built this to clear his car out correct and then he's got a whole basement full of knickknacks he's like Brandon goes to antique stores and just buys everything he's on a heater doesn't know what to do with it.

Hoarder. We were just talking last night about the guy that it was it like 2020 something he was like yeah I got a couple cards in the in the attic or whatever yeah and he had like eight Babe Ruth autographed car like he was like, yeah, I got a couple cards in the in the attic or whatever. Yeah. And he had like eight Babe Ruth autograph card. Like he had like $10 million worth of sports cards. He always made the joke to his kids that Babe Ruth was living upstairs, but they didn't understand it because he would never let them go into the attic. Oh my God. And then when he died, they went up there and he's hit a hundred thousand baseball cards. And he would, he would write letters to every player and send them a card and just go,

hey, would you just sign this card? And then they would just send it back to him. And he just kept them, never told anybody, and then that's what was his inheritance to his family. That's how I wanna die. That's what he's inspiring to be. I'm just gonna die slumped over a Jeep steering wheel. But with all this stuff in the car.

With a sonnet corndog in my mouth yeah there's the picture whoa yeah yeah shout out Bergman he kind of looks like he's tired of your shit he looks like he's awesome in that he's like all right get the I look at Bergman like that all the time yeah can I ask a very? Sensitive North Carolina question Be honest what what's the sentiment down there or over there with the whole bill Belichick situation? Oh his girlfriend running the team you're speaking a person who I'm a Massachusetts guy Belichick is like sure was sure like

I mean, I think you I think I mean, I think everybody's rooting for it to go well. I don't think I am I Want to go as poorly as possible I want her to be like the defensive coordinator about I want her cussing bill out and I want her like cussing players out and grabbing them by the face mask So you're going like maybe they're cheese pure and our later and then that maybe they split up midseason. Maybe she fires him I don't know Something like I want I want her standing on the sideline during a game this season. Whoa. I don't I don't wow this is ultimate chaos I don't open for like that. You're hoping for like the reality show entertainment value. I'm hoping for the storyline I don't think we're that far off. No, we're pretty close pretty close. It's good

It's it's like well, like I don't think any of us really know like what to expect from like from the Like what it could just go anywhere. I think like it was our it would be enigmatic without the girlfriend dynamic anyway Yes, he's the greatest football coach of all right It's so that like that would be a mystery in and of itself and now you have this new layer mixed in I've been told It's not as big of a deal as people are making it. I've also heard that have you been talking to her people are making it. I've also heard that. Have you been talking to her? One of my friends just took over director of comms for North Carolina. So the secretary. So the director of propaganda. This is a good guy and he just wants the truth out there all right harps a die-hard Harps a die-hard Carolina basketball guy and

Yeah, it's that's our poor. We thinking tough strategy. We're thinking heels basketball. I believe in Hubert. No no you believe in The way your foot's bouncing I can tell that you don't believe I believe in Hubert the way your foot's bouncing. I can tell that you don't believe that. I believe in Hubert. No, I think we're going to have a good team this year. I don't know if we're going to win at all, but that's the expectation. Carolina to the SEC, they're saying. That's what I heard. We talked about that yesterday. I think they're too weak in basketball right now to join the SEC. What a shot! Too weak in basketball to join that oh, man. That's tough I mean he's not I wish there wasn't any credence to you enjoy the shit talk. I do I really do I love it honestly I'm a big fan. It makes life interesting to me. Yeah, but I think I don't think you're off base there

We were talking about conference dynamics last night in the hotel. Yeah, we're talking about what? last night in the hotel. We're talking about what other teams mean as much to a conference as Duke and Carolina mean to the ACC. We came up with an answer. I think it's Michigan and Ohio State for Big Ten. That stands. It was Texas, Oklahoma for the Big 12. Yes, we said that. But the SEC's too spread out because you've got like six or seven teams. There's so many good teams.

Yeah. It's Michigan and Ohio State for the Big Ten. Yeah. Yes. We talked maybe even in the glory days, Pac-12, USC, Oregon. When they were both firing a little bit, maybe the Oregon thing was after the USC days. My problem with crowning them is they just

left at the first opportunity. 100%. Maybe UCLA basketball back in the 70s, but I don't't know like Michigan if Michigan, Ohio State left the entire big 10 Maybe not now. Maybe it doesn't collapse now would have collapsed in like 1995 for sure but now it's it's like world, you know nationwide you could argue maybe like like Florida State football and Well, yeah, yeah, but I mean in the Bobby Bowden days, you know when they were crushing when Miami was crushing too You know when they had some teams, dude

Were you trying to signal him to make sure he said Miami But it's it was yeah we were talking about last night just because we're like man Carolina and the SEC would just be the weird so weird He doesn't what it doesn't it's like Oregon the USC in the Big Ten like I just feel weird money wise It'll be fine But it just it's gonna be weird and and that's as myself as a guy who has argued for a while I'm so perplexed that there was never a team from North Carolina in the SEC anyways just because of the name the Southeastern Conference. Yeah we went to Missouri and Oklahoma before we went to North Carolina. I mean even I mean even Kentucky is in the ACC now. Yeah. But you don't want to if North Carolina was to join the SEC you don't want to

break up with Duke. You don't want to break up with Duke. That was gonna be my point. That was gonna be my point. As much as I hate Duke. Does it change that? Does you know I respect Duke. Right. And if Carolina goes to the SEC, then that may ruin that thing. They play every year, but then we wouldn't be competing in the standings. And they wouldn't be playing twice. Yeah. Brandon, what rivalries have been ruined by conference realignment? Oh my God. Well, I mean, A&M in Texas was ruined for a solid decade before they got back together. Yeah. And they were ruined by it. I don't really, that's a good question because so many have stayed together. I guess Oregon, Oregon State's just pretty much done. Oklahoma, Oklahoma State's ruined.

Bedlam is ruined. Bedlam was great for years. That one's out the window. So what's that? Apple Cup. Yeah. Yeah. Oh yeah. Apple Cup. That sucks yeah, you got a you got a bunch of them that have been ruined But I you know it hasn't touched the you know Auburn, Alabama's of the Ohio State Michigan's yet So it doesn't feel as uh, do you think there's any do you think there's any new rivalries that have been brewing in the recent years? Oh, yeah I I think I think you know over the next 10 15 years will have a lot because you look in the SEC alone like LSU LSU in Florida had a stretch where there was huge rival, and then LSU Alabama, LSU without a pure, what's it,

geographical rival is able to just bounce around to the biggest team. So we'll see, like Oregon will pop up and be huge rivals like Penn State out of nowhere for reasons unknown. So they will pop up, I haven't really seen them yet. Early Kirby, late Saban, Alabama, Georgia was getting there. Some of those SEC Championship games. It certainly was. But if you were to see, if you were to see like Clemson jump the SEC,

well Georgia and Clemson are very close geographically. And they're fighting over the same Northeast Georgia recruits. That would be a rivalry that would pop up and this has been sports talk We don't often do this over the act we're doing sports talk with Luke Holmes today Yeah, I love Luke's interview Brandon. I'm trying a fair part of the interview. I love it I'm eat up my meet up with it man. So I hope it happens because I want to see Belichick play SEC teams and not I don't know I just don't see a world where I'm watching Bill Belichick coach North Carolina football in three years

He's so old anyway, he's 70 does feel one foot out the door Yeah, and he barely got one foot in the door Yeah, like I don't know it feels a lot like it's a bridge to Steve Sure Steve Belichick who brought in as his defense coordinator. It feels like all right I'll come do you the solid I'll give you two years. Yep. Then you got your own head coaching job. Yep. Here you are. Yeah. Yeah. And that's lay the foundation. Awesome for them but I just I don't know that I can see North Carolina and Georgia playing with Kirby Smart and Bill Belichick shaking hands in 2030.

It just doesn't make sense. Yeah.ick shaking hands in 2030. It's just it doesn't make sense. Yeah. Yeah, I can understand that. It's it's interesting. I last sports thing I'll harp on. I got to give my app state shout out. I'm an app state guy. Bones a beautiful play in L to me is hurts. It's tough for an app state type school who was built on

being an underdog strictly on the basis of bringing in undersized, under recruited kids. Yeah, the gritty guys. Gritty guys. And it hurts because it's, we were already, it felt like a coaching wise of stepping stone place. When I was there during war was there and he never, he didn't leave, he retired as the coach of AP after we won the three national championships, beat Michigan. That was my senior year of high school when they beat Michigan, so I went to AP the next year. You know, Armando Edwards is there, you know, when I'm there. It's the golden age of, you know, AP State

being this giant killer team. We took Tennessee to overtime. We took Penn State to overtime. All these big games have happened. And ever since the NIL thing has come in, it's like when we had Drinkwitz, who went to Mizzou one year, and then we had Satterfield,

who went to Louisville and is now Cincinnati, correct? That's right. And it's just been, it's hard for us to keep, it was already hard for us to keep stuff, because we were at the step right before the big step. Well now listen. But now Aguilar, our quarterback from last year, is the quarterback of Tennessee.

NIL though. It's great for the players, undoubtedly. You're doing pretty well. I was going to say. You're doing pretty well. Listen, hey. He's got cars. The whole football program well is a different thing.

Listen, the avenue or the roadway to become a winning program in college football is just paved with money these days and you just need some alumni or some supporters. You have to downsize to a 1700 square foot house. Say goodbye to one of your bedrooms. Might just be your choice. Edge rusher. If you want to go ahead and, you know.

Brandon's right, he's right. Yeah, that's true. He's not wrong I did I did donate two hundred and fifty dollars to Mississippi State's in IELTS just Bought a pair bought a pair of socks Did you got one kid's lunch that's gonna come maybe come to school there? Yeah, yeah, yeah You hanging out all day or what we're heading out at two at two o'clock Cuz you got here like ten o'clock you know y'all came

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nerdiest sportiest thing you've ever seen. Sounds incredible. Yeah I'm excited about it myself. Of course you'll be doing singing singing your songs to 80,000 people. Singing things, yeah singing things. That's important. You know, probably be probably busy. You won't be able to go because maybe some sports guys will come to my singing thing. Maybe they will. Maybe that would be cool. You know, my singing thing.

Yeah. Yeah. Where are you playing this little club? I don't know. The Metro right across from Wrigley tomorrow. Doing the legendary. Have you ever been there? I have not actually.

It is played there. It is one of the coolest has so much character Yeah, is it like a smaller? Yes, 400. Oh, that's cool. It's alica played it like two years ago. Yeah Yeah, it's it's gonna be sweet. Everyone's played it. It's legendary Chicago venue Joe Shanahan the owner Salt of the earth guy nice. Yeah, I'm looking forward to it. It's gonna be a lower-key Performance or I think they announced it today. So it's kind of a surprise that kind of was kind of a surprise Oh have they announced it yet? Yeah, they know they did they did. Yeah, they released tickets to at 11 a.m Yeah, did you get some I know I got the announcement. I was like

Goddamn, that's gonna be an awesome show. Err, Nicky smokes got 20 Is text him back. Got a 20? Got a block of 20 tickets. Should we post this situation to Luke? Should we throw, should we back up the bus order? We're all on your side, Dante. Okay, all right. You don't have to.

Never mind. Dante got a guy a comp table, not even a comp, but a table at his club on Saturday night. The guy no-showed. The guy canceled the reservation. And Dante's been on a crusade ever since to get public opinion on your side. And you won! You won! Yeah, you won! Play the sword down. You've already... Alright. Well, he also apologized to you.

Alright. He is... You're right, you're right. Is he the biggest asshole we got? Yes. Yes. Should you ever help him out? No. Done. We're done. Fair. You win, Dante. I don't know how many wins you get, but you get this one fair Okay, all right. You still want to say something don't you know no no no Kate Just brought up bring bring it pose in the situation to Luke Holmes, and I got excited about that scenario

But we already you just nailed it did son did Kate bring it up. You brought it up. You completely brought it up She said let's ask Luke when he gets here what he thinks about it. Oh. I love that. She said that like last week. Yeah, never mind. Two folks in the past. You got any plans, things you got to eat in Chicago

or something? Had some deviledogs last night. Great spot. Delicious. So delicious, man. The original one in Linkin Park? Do you forget that you have a microphone sometimes? I'm just Italian I get excited about food I Talk loud

One of them is very delicious we got the Chicago dogs we got the best hot dogs in the country here I love a Chicago dog. What's the competition? Like San Diego's like we got a fucking beach Have to be York swears they have the best. I don't think they do yeah, they know they do I think they say any back me up here I think so there's there's a little bit of competition there But I'm not not so strong you guys love a Chicago dog anybody a big Chicago dog I like them a lot. I would love I I love them, but I would love them even more if they allowed the ketchup I

Was gonna bring that up. Y'all are y'all are snob. Chicago's not a snobby city, but you mentioned ketchup on hot dogs Y'all become the biggest food snobs in the world because it doesn't blend with the other ingredients. It does though I can put ketchup on anything. I want to I put ketchup on an Oreo cookie if I wanted to what so Danny was you logic on ketchup on hot dogs like Eddie said there's already enough going on I don't need ketchup on there see they make me even a lot I don't I don't I don't like shame people but I just I think Brandon's point is then you don't need to put ketchup on there just let him put ketchup yeah oh yeah don't like shame people, but I just I think Brandon's point is then you don't need to put ketchup on there Just let him put ketchup. Oh, yeah, don't judge me for putting ketchup on my judge you from plenty of other reasons besides that I don't need to add ketchup to the mix. Oh, Luke. I know where you need to go wiener circle wiener circle

That's for the chocolate shake get a chocolate shake. Yeah blow your mind Bitch bingo that they have in the back on Tuesday's So do you stock up on a bunch of Malort every time you're here yes I am this is like I can't tell if he's joking about my I can't either you should be on a watch list if you're Have you tried my lord Brandon? Yeah as a joke one time, but I can see funny as like does it clear your vote. I'd be like this color No, it's strictly to make other people unknowingly drink it. That's why Okay, it's like we keep it because like a lot of people like obviously here

It's famous like it's a very cult following like if you know about it, you know about it If you don't you don't right and so we always have a thing in the road case Like we have a bar cart that runs around with us and we has all the you know Jack in it or whatever anybody wants to drink so we have tons of guests that shows and if they're in the green room you know you can kind of gauge like if you pull it out it kind of gets an instant oh yeah I know what that is or I don't and if it's I don't know what that is it's like dude you gotta try this man it's like because like people are gonna all it's guys a country singer like he has access to

really good And so they generally trust my opinion on that kind of stuff. So I'm like dude this stuff you got it You're like you got to try this stuff man It's so good, you know and you pour them up a little Shot glass of it and they rip it down and then you just you know, you get to flip them off their face You just watch them get ragged But do they ever pretend like they like it so they don't just for sure You know what we do on that ends week We always do pre-show shots and we'll have you know If there's 30 people around we'll pour 30 shots and everybody just kind of come grab one

Well, just one of them will be in Malort and we did it like nobody knows what it is And so since someone grabs it and like two or three of us will know like that. There was one Malort and we like see the guy that grabbed it and they'll drink it down and a lot of times they're like it's a guest there's someone who's not generally around a lot and usually gets it and so they're kind of like you know you can see them like but then they they're looking at everyone else because they're like everyone just took that and like no one's even batting an eye at it. They say legend has it the guy say Legend has it, the guy who made it had like mouth cancer, right? And he just wanted something that he could taste, period.

That's what I've heard. So I came up with that. He was a guy with like no taste buds. Yes, no taste buds. And so he was like, I want to create something that I feel like I can taste. And this is a product that is sold to people? Oh, they don't have the billboards

that say do not enjoy responsibly? Yes, do not enjoy. They're social media. Like they're very're very they lean into like this tastes like shit They have a great marketing thing we did a video with them a few years ago And yeah the people who bought the recipe and distillery saved it it went it almost went extinct because the old lady who? Had it in her family passed away We went I was at I was in the UK in 2020 in March like literally days before COVID happened and I was at Ed Sheeran's house and he was like oh

you gotta have this chartreuse you know I love chartreuse and he's like he's like how he's like how bad is this stuff you know like taste it or whatever and I'm like buddy I got I sent him whole case of my Lord across the pond dude, and he sent me an email was like buddy this is Worst thing ever and I was like, isn't it awesome? He's like, it's so Yes, I love that your friends with him because when you were talking earlier about coming up and how Because you didn't have this look sure how you had to work extra hard I've always thought the same thing about Ed Sheeran. Yeah, I've always been like he is the antithesis of the pop star Yeah, look, you know, he blows them all out of the water talent wise. It's unreal, dude

I mean, it's just on it's unlike anything. I mean, there's just he's so next-level man. It's crazy You guys got to do something we did we did I did a song on his? I did a song with him on his last record before last I believe And we yeah, we just we've stayed in touch over the years man And anytime he comes to the states we try to get together and he's we have a lot of similar Outlook on life, you know, like he's got kids and he's just real family kind of oriented guy and cares about that kind of stuff and Rip some more down together Good stuff

Well, I don't want to take up your time. I think you've been very very generous. Yeah, of course I'll day you keep hanging out if you want Probably gonna go grab some grub here. Oh, what are we what is our suggestion? This is well? I the place you're going here tonight or tomorrow. I'm not gonna say it aloud, but you told yeah, let me ball I'll tell to that I brought glenny balls there. He said it's the best meal he's ever had okay Well a lot of hype that's saying something a lot of hype there. Yeah, McDonald's Okay, a lot of hype that's saying something a lot of hype there. Yeah McDonald's What should we go lunch quick lunch right now we're leaving the building quick lunch right now And those 40 chicken wings didn't do it for you Well, I'd like six you got everyone talks about the deep dish the hot dogs. You got to try an Italian beef

Yeah, we've been hearing that yes What was the place our portillo is great you got um it's Monday Mondays are tough cuz a lot of places are closed Graziano's clothes yeah I think tempest is closed Classic yeah portillo's you can never go wrong every single thing on the menus lights out and their sponsor. Yeah, okay There's one close to here. It's like there's one on Just use that as your coffee cup you held it up like yeah, I just got it today Tea excuse me. It's got a very KFC look at for a second. I was like my guys rocking a KFC

That's wild the wild pool. They're great. Yeah, but we're gonna. I'm gonna try that for sure they got Italian beefs sausages hot dogs What else the chicken sandwiches like our Bojangles like that's like That's saying it's our Chicago regional thing you know what I mean yeah, where cookout I got I was just are you going Are you pro Bojangles? Oh, I'm very pro Bojangles. Yes. I think dirty rice and Bojangles? Oh, I'm very pro Bojangles. Yes. I think dirty rice and then free piece with dirty rice. I knew I liked it. It just elevated. I mean it elevated. I mean to a level that I didn't think was possible. I lived in Southern Virginia for six months one time and the best fast food restaurant They had a Chick-fil-A and a Bojangles and a couple other things and I eat eight Bojangles for the first time on a Tuesday

The second time on a Wednesday, the second time on a Wednesday, and the third time on a Wednesday. Yeah, dude, it hits. Yeah. It hits, man. When it hits, it hits. You know what I mean? Any restaurant, they have a biscuit-making competition.

Yeah. Because all the biscuits are made from scratch in the stores. The biscuits. Wow. And so then they get all the biscuit makers together in North Carolina, and they have, like, a biscuit cook-off. Yeah. For, like, which person makes the best biscuit get all the biscuit makers together in North Carolina, and they have like a biscuit cook-off Yeah, or like which person makes the best biscuit? Biscuit bill sneaky like like I said you cook out there. You gotta be a cookout. I love that's my favorite thing about

Yeah, okay. Yeah, absolutely, I'm greener-bounced. Of course I'm a drunk. Go to Cookout at 11, go to Cookout at 11.30 with eight bucks and just get 37 food items. I could fill up my house with the amount of cooking trades I've eaten. You can get a quesadilla as a side.

Dude, a quesadilla as a side is unreal. Why isn't it bigger than it is? Every time I drive through a Carolinas, I'm like, Gatekeeping, dude. For me, it's gatekeeping. It's growing in the South, though. It is. That's my...

It's in Alabama, it's in Georgia, it's getting out there. I had never heard of it. If not the first, one of the first locations is in Boone. And so when I got to school at App, it's like the word of the day is like, hey, we're going to Cook Out. I'm like, what is Cook Out? Even in North Carolina, I had never heard of it, which is where it originated Walk up there's no inside at all. There isn't even an inch the window It's a walk-up window and two drive-through windows. I saw so many fights dude in the park

It was awesome. That's got to be the original that has to be the I think it's the I think it's the first one I definitely the first one I had to was with you Yeah, cuz that he was you know going to school in Raleigh So it's like there wasn't one there and then now they're everywhere. I bet it's OG dude They have real they have real char marks on the burgers. They're like, oh burgers are great. They're legit grilling that burgers are great I've been saying you like chicken tender wrap as a side is Yeah, no case. Do you mean? Casey's aside. Oh, it's like the best we got him in Nashville now

Yeah, they're blowing up. They're blowing up. Anyways, we're gonna go get go get some Good-luck in fantasy you really should do your fantasy thing here if you want Yeah, Austin you killed it man. Appreciate it. I love watching this show by the way. Oh, thank you. Oh, thanks. 10x 10x Alright gang See you guys. Thank you Yeah, go ahead. You can do whatever you want Yeah, well, we're kind of doing a show right now

Yeah, if you'd like, just stop. Yeah, we'll take a picture. Caught us at a bad time. Everybody stand up and take a picture with Luke Clark. Yeah, hold on. Guys, we'll be over here for a second. Okay, take it over. Where you want to go?

Brandon's booth? Yeah, just sign up. You get in there. You get close. Now, Blake, a couple more. You don't want to make it. A couple more. Got it. Anybody else? Hold up some of these. Thank you. Screenshot it for this guy.

Well that was awesome. Luke. We want to come to a show. Count us in. Get us to a show, I got you on a table at John Boy. Um. Is that the most down to earth megastar that there is on the planet? We're about to find out.

Oh. Oh. Oh. Oh. I wanted to be jaded. Just two girl guys giving each other a hug. Yeah, the juxtaposition of Nicky Smokes on the show, and then we kick him off to have Luke Holmes. And Nicky Smokes acts like he's been famous for yes

Nicky Smokes acts like he's headlining Lollapalooza. I cannot Luke Holmes is just your buddy from down the street I cannot believe how cool The wave of people. Let me find out really quick, or we'll knock them out, guys. All right, let me go ahead and do this. We'll get out of the way. Pardon My Cheese Steak has a brand new combo on its menu, introducing the big one, an original classic cheese steak, your choice of brownie bites or donut dippers, and a drink,

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