February 5, 2025 • 63 mins
Bobby Bones and Matt Cassel talk about Super Bowl Media Day and Myles Garrett asking to be traded. Matt describes the experience of changing teams and the chaotic impact it has on your life. Singer Luke Bryan sung the anthem for the Falcons/Patriots Super Bowl and recalls living through the 28-3 collapse. Luke reveals how he had Tim Tebow's Heisman trophy for a year and how Tebow came to have Luke's CMA Award. Luke wraps up looking back at this career and revealing his favorite memorabilia collected along the way. Check out Luke's Tour schedule HERE.
Matt and Bobby give their Super Bowl picks and discuss heading to New Orleans!
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Speaker 1 (00:05):
Lots to say with Bobby Bones and Matt Castle is
a production of the NFL and iHeart Podcasts. We got
lots just say, we got lots just.
Speaker 2 (00:17):
Say what Becker here? And we hope you say because
we got a lot to say.
Speaker 1 (00:27):
Yeah, we got a.
Speaker 3 (00:28):
Lot to say. Here's Bobby and that.
Speaker 4 (00:33):
We're waiting for Luke Bryan to come by.
Speaker 5 (00:36):
We record and shoot the show from my house, and
so when he gets to the gate, I will say
Luke is now called, and we will go get him
and bring him in. But until then we'll we're good.
Speaker 6 (00:47):
Right, Yeah, we're good. We're here.
Speaker 5 (00:49):
We're not gonna do like some sophisticated thing where we
finish a segment and then Luke's here. We're just gonna say, well,
I think he's here, and then we'll go get him.
Speaker 6 (00:58):
Sounds like that's what we are. Hey, how ready are
the players to do? Game week?
Speaker 2 (01:05):
You know you have that buffer week, right, and so
as you're building, it's all this build up to this moment,
and you know, the coaches do a really good job
too of explaining what's going to go on, particularly for
the guys that maybe haven't been to a super Bowl before.
But both these teams have experience going to the Super
Bowl just two years ago, but they explain, look, media
day is an absolute you know what show, right, It's
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every media outlet that you could possibly get. You're going
to be doing interviews, you're gonna get stupid questions, or
you're going to have certain guys up on the podium,
and so that is the most hectic part of your week.
And then as you get to Tuesday, you start to
lock in a little bit more. You might go out
to a team dinner or something like that, but then
your week starts. And I think it's really important for
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like the team leaders as well as the coaches that
we're here for one job. It's for business, right, We've
got to get ready for this game. And I know
that the players also understand what's at stake. So it's
no longer going out. You might see your family, maybe
get go out to a dinner or something like that,
but people are pretty locked in. You're isolated at the
hotel for the most part, and you're just getting ready
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and going through and you're trying to watch as much film.
You're trying to understand the game plan as well as
possible and get yourself prepared for the biggest game.
Speaker 5 (02:17):
Is everybody required to go to media day, even if
you're not one of the guys that's going to have
nine rows reporters around you.
Speaker 2 (02:24):
Oh yeah, So I'd go there in my jersey and
I just walk around and give people thumbs up, like, hey,
what's up?
Speaker 6 (02:29):
What's up?
Speaker 2 (02:30):
You know, you've got your important players that are up
there on the podium, they've got their name plate and
they're sitting there, and there's a mic and all that stuff,
and you know, open questions all over. I'm just literally
standing with my buddies who aren't getting interviewed, and there
might be some offshoot of some random person that wants
to write an article about a USC guy. Hey, I
used to cover the Trojans back in the day, so
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we might have like a quick little conversation, no love whatsoever.
Did you get to jump out early though? No, I
have to stay there the entire time because we take
team buses to that. It's like a major function, right,
So we'll probably do like a little walk through or something,
then go to this media day and for us that
it's really not important for us to talk at all.
Speaker 6 (03:07):
We just kind of stand there.
Speaker 5 (03:08):
I'll talk about trades for a second, which this has
been a very trade heavy week basketball and Miles Garrett
saying hey trade me, and Miles Garrett put out on
Monday the statement saying, hey Cleveland, a lot of love,
like thank you for having me.
Speaker 4 (03:23):
You've been the best, but like I want to go
play for a winner basically.
Speaker 5 (03:26):
Right, So he's requesting it trade and you have Luca
get traded, which was wild, which I thought was fake
when it happened too, I thought it was somebody have
been hacked. And so I want to talk about trades
for a second, because you've been involved in a few
of them. I want to go first to what it
feels like and what really happens when you get traded?
Does someone call you? Do you get called to an office?
And then I was the new kid at school a
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bunch like four or five times I had to move
in my life, right, And you walk into a classroom
and there are just all these kids you don't know,
and you don't know who's your friend, who's not.
Speaker 6 (03:56):
What happens when you get traded.
Speaker 2 (03:57):
Well, sometimes it's one of those situations where like when
I was in Minnesota, they drafted Teddy Bridgewater I broke
my I was arding the year that he came in,
but I broke my foot and he played the rest
of that season, so I knew I was going to
go into that backup role. So then your agents sometimes
will be like, hey, well we know that Buffalo or
so and so is going to be looking for a quarterback,
and then he'll start working his angle and he'll be
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talking to our GM for the Minnesota Vikings, and then
all of a sudden, it kind of comes to fruition.
And so sometimes you anticipate, sometimes you don't. Doubts the
one from Buffalo to Dallas. I wasn't anticipating that, the
one from Minnesota to Buffalo earlier that year, I was.
But again, like you said, you're coming into a brand
new environment, all new coaches, and at least they wanted
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you enough to bring you in and usually have a
good conversation with the coaches before it happens. But then
you get there and it's all new surroundings, all new teammates,
and you got to go out there and start to
build those relationships slowly but surely.
Speaker 6 (04:53):
But it's a great example is new kid at school.
Speaker 2 (04:57):
You walk in and hey, Bud, how are you and
you know you might have a reputation at that point
because I played that was year nine for me.
Speaker 6 (05:03):
You're going into year ten.
Speaker 2 (05:05):
So they I knew a lot of these guys just
from playing against them, but no real relationships. And then
from the one that I was surprised about was week
two of that year when I got traded and I'm
just coming off this practice field. I actually took some
reps in practice and all that stuff, and I just
randomly saw that my agent had called ten times, and
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I'm like, why does he keep calling me? And so
I finally get a chance to call me. He said,
are you sitting down. I'm like, yes, I'm driving home.
Speaker 6 (05:33):
What's up?
Speaker 2 (05:34):
And he's like, you just got traded to Dallas. You
got to get down a plane tomorrow morning. I was like,
have you called my wife? And he's like, yes, I've
called your wife. She's really excited. So I was like, okay,
I went home because she was pregnant thirty four weeks
pregnant with our four. So those are the type of
ones that kind of they shake you to your core
a little bit because you're not anticipating it. So then
you've got to get your mind right to be on
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a plane the next day and things are moving so fast.
And then plus it was in season, so as I
get there, you got to learn a brain new You've
been grinding all off season, going through two weeks of
game plans with one coordinator with Greg Roman. Now you
got to go and learn Scott Lenehan system in Dallas,
which was completely different terminology. So that was a grind
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because I just stayed at the stadium and tried to
learn as much as possible and absorb as much as
possible when I got there.
Speaker 5 (06:22):
I'm glad in this business that doesn't happen because I
know I'd get a call going, hey man, we traded
you in two sets of headphones for caller Daddy over
at Spotify, and I'd be like, dang, Like we don't
have to.
Speaker 6 (06:33):
Worry about that. That is a weird thing in sports.
Speaker 5 (06:36):
At any time you can get a call to go,
you have now been relocated for somebody else. When that
happens and you're going to Dallas, are they immediately emailing
you the playbook? Are they sending you study guides?
Speaker 2 (06:50):
Like?
Speaker 6 (06:50):
How is that?
Speaker 5 (06:51):
How are you able to fully like engolf yourself in that?
Speaker 6 (06:55):
What they're doing there with language.
Speaker 2 (06:57):
Well, you know, I've been around a long time, and
so a lot of when you think about it, conceptually,
a lot of route patterns conceptually are very similar. You
got your high low reads, you got your vertical stretches,
you got your horizontal stretches. But it's more terminology. How
they call even something as simple as your cadence and
how they call their cadence might be a little bit
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different in terms of the rhythm and how it comes
out and how these offensive linemen fire off the ball.
Speaker 6 (07:24):
But that's why they get you on the plane.
Speaker 2 (07:25):
The next day, you go straight into a physical straight
to the facility, meet with the coaches, and they hand
you a playbook. And because what makes it more complicated
during season is the fact that these coaches are involved
in game planning throughout the course of a week, they
don't have time to really sit down and help you understand.
So I'd spend hours and hours after practice watching film,
going through the playbook, understanding stuff from two minute drill
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to the basic run scheme, and then rehearsing the calls
of the plays so that you can get into a
huddle confidently and say those things I think.
Speaker 5 (07:57):
Part of the human element is lost in trades in
some situations, especially with fans, because we see athletes as
these fictional figures for these teams that we loved as children.
So nothing is real. It's all fantasyland. But in reality,
like Luca get not married with kids, so this will
be a smaller version of that. He just bought a
fifteen million dollar house, like last week, like closed the house.
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That's so good last week, and again nobody's going to
shed a tear for them. But that's real life. But
mostly like if you have lived somewhere for seven eight years,
your kids are in school, right, and the whole family
either has to stay behind while you go and live
somewhere else right or up route and everything moves. Yeah,
schools change teachers, the vet like, everything has to change.
Speaker 2 (08:45):
And that was the absurd part of my life at
the tail end of or after Kansas City, because I
went four years in New England no kids. Then we
started having kids in Kansas City. Then I went to
from Kansas City, I went to Minnesota for two years,
but the whole family comes and we just had our
third child, my first son, so we're up there with him.
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Then I get traded to Buffalo. I enrolled them in school.
You've got to get a place to live. You got
to do all that stuff before the family comes out.
Then they come out, and then the girls had just
started their first week of school. Now we're going to Dallas.
So then my wife's got to go. She's pregnant. We
got to find a new doctor number one because she's
about to give birth. And we were like three weeks in.
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She gave birth into Dallas, is what I'm saying. So
you got to find new school, new pediatrician, all those things,
and a home to live. So we lived in a
hotel for the first two weeks. I mean it was
my wife's mother, it was a family friend because I
wasn't there. I was trying to grind it. And then
my three kids and we're living in a hotel like
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side by side right there, trying to find a house.
Then we find a house and the next week I
have I'm told you're going to start on the Monday night.
We were at a Sunday night game. You're going to
start this week for your first start, and I was like, whoa.
Then we had a bye week, wife gives birth. It
was just chaotic so then I become a free agent.
I'm here to Tennessee. Whole thing again. You got to
find a house and to find school. It's just there's
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a lot that goes into it, particularly when you have
a family and you've got responsibilities beyond yourself.
Speaker 5 (10:15):
I'm assuming there are teammates though, that think it's going
to be a short run, so they don't move the
family like they play with their team, right and like
that's like work, and then off week, off season, or
the family may come out for a little bit, but
they're still going to school back home, right, Like that's
got to be.
Speaker 6 (10:32):
Happening, though it does happen.
Speaker 2 (10:33):
I've got quite a few buddies that near the end
of their career family was stable at one place. They've
been here for a long period of time, particularly here,
and the family stayed behind. They went and played for season.
The family would fly out on weekends the home games
and do that. It's difficult, I think on the player
themselves because you're always thinking about your family. But at
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the same time they know that it's for a small
period of time. It's good money that I'm making. I've
got to do this, and then once it's all said,
and done. It's done right, and they are able to
come back and this is where they ultimately to live.
They didn't want to uproot the young children. So I
totally understand that aspect because I went through that. At
the very end, I didn't know whether I was going
to continue to play, and I said, if I get
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picked up again, and if I decided to play, I
think the best bet would be for you guys to
stay here and do that because the kids are now
getting a little bit older. School is important just structure wise.
It would just kind of throw them in a tailspin.
Speaker 5 (11:28):
Let's talk about the super Bowl halftime show at the
super Bowl that you were in.
Speaker 6 (11:33):
Who played?
Speaker 5 (11:33):
You know?
Speaker 6 (11:33):
I think it's Tom Petty.
Speaker 4 (11:35):
Did you have any option to like even watch it
on a tiny screen?
Speaker 6 (11:40):
No chance, no chance.
Speaker 2 (11:41):
And that's the thing about I was like, wait, do
we get to like walk out and watch a little
bit of a halftime show because it's a big deal, right, Like, No,
what are you talking about? Castle, You're an idiot? And
I was like, I know, but Tom Petty played. They
said it was a great show, but I didn't get
to see it. No monitors anywhere, No, no, no, you
were in there, just like game planning our stuff. We're
getting ready for the second half, rah, rah, this, that
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and the other. And like I said, it's a long halftime.
It's thirty minutes. So you can hear the base in
the boom, but you can't hear or see anything.
Speaker 5 (12:08):
When you go into the locker room at halftime of
the Super Bowl. Do you immediately go into.
Speaker 6 (12:14):
For example, I'll give a terrible analogy high school football.
Speaker 5 (12:18):
We go, we all send the same floor, and head
coach comes and gives us our comeup ins or your
good jobs, and here's what we're going to do. Or
are you breaking into small because it is longer, right,
are you breaking into small groups differently.
Speaker 6 (12:30):
Than you would during a normal game, or is it
everybody at once?
Speaker 2 (12:32):
No, it's usually what happens is you have an offensive
side and the defensive side. So then the coaches get
together first and foremost, so you might get a chance
to go in, go to the restroom, grab a snack,
do whatever you want to do, and kind of gather yourself,
and then the offense sits together, defense sits together. Then
the coordinators come out and talk about adjustments that then
we want to make in the second half, the themes
that we're seeing occur throughout the first half, and what
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they might do to counterbalance that. So the chess match, right,
and then what we're going to do to come out,
and how we're going to start the second half if
we're getting the ball, if we're not getting the ball,
and so we talk about all those things. Then the
team usually comes together. Head coach addresses the entire team
and it's a hardcore breakdown. Let's go fired up boys,
we're back out on the field. But on those and
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at the super Bowl, when you got an extra fifteen minutes,
it's a little bit longer, so they give you a
little bit more time just to kind of sit with
the guys and talk and do that before you actually
get going.
Speaker 5 (13:26):
My wife is walking Luke and carry down here right now.
Luke Bryan's here, awesome, and my wife knows them.
Speaker 6 (13:32):
We're waiting on Luke to call, but we'll.
Speaker 4 (13:35):
I guess he just kitlin, can I come in?
Speaker 6 (13:39):
That's probably what he did.
Speaker 4 (13:41):
Okay, So country superstar Luke Brian will be joining us
into a.
Speaker 5 (13:44):
Second and now one introduce my friend and he's got
so many freaking number one songs and he's also been
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Entertainer of the Year at the CMA's and he's also
an American Idol for like I don't know, seven eight,
twenty seasons and he's just a great guy.
Speaker 4 (14:13):
It is Luke Bryan. Be sure to catch him on
his country Song came On tour.
Speaker 5 (14:18):
The guest that he has opening for him George Burgh, Randall, King, Averyanna,
a bunch of others. It starts in May and New York, Savannah, Dallas, Toronto,
Saint Louis, a bunch of other big cities. Tickets through
on sale now at lukebryan dot com. Here he is
country megastar Luke Bryant. Luke I said before you got here,
I said, I didn't give Luke a lot of direction,
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not needed.
Speaker 3 (14:41):
Yeah, And.
Speaker 4 (14:43):
You know, luckily my wife knows you because I think I.
Speaker 3 (14:48):
Just came up to the front door. You know, I
saw the dogs.
Speaker 6 (14:52):
Just what did they jump? Did you walk in the house?
Speaker 3 (14:53):
Oh? Yeah, but I got my dogs. I mean they're
I mean, essentially, yeah, I'm I'm in your world where
your dogs have kind of ruined your life, but they'
at some point they've added positive aspects too. So dogs
jumping on me as a common when I make my
coffee every morning, my little English cocker that's mine in
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his time for the day, yep, because he meets me
at the coffee pot and while my coffee's making, that's
our little moment. And like, yeah, so I'm good with
dogs jumping on me.
Speaker 6 (15:27):
Okay, then we're all good.
Speaker 5 (15:28):
I just saw you guys coming through and I was like, man,
anybody else I'd be worried, but uh, I don't have
to worry about you.
Speaker 3 (15:34):
No, I'm easy as a get hopefully.
Speaker 6 (15:37):
Okay. A couple of things.
Speaker 4 (15:38):
One, have you ever been to a Super Bowl yet?
Speaker 3 (15:40):
Well? I sing the anthem at the Super Bowl for uh. So,
I grew up a I mean grew up a huge
Falcons fan. I mean being a South Georgia kid. And
my dad's I mean, my dad's just a crazy Falcons fan.
We never missed watch, sitting down watching it together. And
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then so I get the gig to do. We know,
I'm performing the anthem, and then the Falcons get in
and they played the Patriots, and so here it is
I do I do the anthem, which was probably the
most intense situation I've ever been in as far as
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being a performer and then at halftime, my team's up
twenty eight to three, and like, and I mean like,
we're drinking vodka, beer's champagne. We're like, we've just beat
the Patriots. And then so all of that positive drinking
turned into mournful, sorrowful drinking in just two quarters of football.
Speaker 2 (16:49):
At one moment in that game where you're like, oh
my god, the Patriots mate.
Speaker 3 (16:53):
Actually, well it just you could do it come back.
It's funny because we were I was we were talking
about this yesterday. My son's football coach and a new
offensive line coach. We were visiting yesterday and we were
talking about that game, and I just remember hearing the
Patriots fan start to roar in that and uh, I
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guess it was its Reliance stadium. You could just hear
him roar and you could just tell that that the
momentum was shifting. And then and then we got bradied.
And then my I went to another Super Bowl with
Brady when he won, when he wonted Tampa Bay too.
So so yeah, Brady comes out of retirement and he
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wants to win another Super Bowl. I probably need to
be I need to be present, I need to be
in the room hold on, I'm gonna move this a
little closer. But but yeah, what.
Speaker 6 (17:47):
Was so intense?
Speaker 5 (17:49):
I mean, I know why would be intense, but what
was so intense about singing the anthem at the Super Bowl?
Like what elements were around you that aren't normally when
you like tonight you're singing it by the way, the
Predsiga the hockey game.
Speaker 3 (17:59):
Well, one thing is I had had a hiccup doing
the anthem at one point, and I think the anthem
is always challenging. I've probably seen the anthem twenty thirty
times at events, and two of them have been you
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know you it's just the anthem. It's tough. But the
main thing is when you know there's one hundred and
thirty hundred and forty million people watching that moment. And
what was interesting for me is I had to get
to Houston on like Wednesday or Thursday before before Satday.
Speaker 6 (18:43):
That's a lot of days for.
Speaker 3 (18:45):
Well, so you're sitting there and you go run it
on Thursday and I didn't do a I didn't do
any tracks. I didn't do a click tape. I didn't
I mean a click track like if I was going
to be and they needed to time it out, but
I was doing it purely acapella, so I mean, and
I wanted to do it that way, and I wanted
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to be like it was kind of like a little
bit of a personal challenge to me to go and
put myself in such a you know, I think, well,
but I think I think, as you know, throughout my career,
anytime you can challenge yourself to do something that's like,
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that's a challenge. And it was really exciting. But the
biggest hurdles were I get there Thursday, I have tons
of friends there and they're like, hey, come party with us,
Come let's go, you know, and I'm like, no, I'm not.
Speaker 6 (19:40):
I'm not.
Speaker 3 (19:41):
I'm not going to party with y'all Thursday night, Friday night,
Saturday night and roll into the anthem, you know, with
with like, you know, hoarseness. So I really stayed on
I really stayed on structure. But the most nerve wracking
thing is no matter what you know, at six or
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five fifty eight pm, and you know it ain't five
fifty fifty seven, it is five ffty because that thing,
I mean, you know, they got over, they got stealth
bombers banking, and I remember, you know, that morning just
it's it's just like an imminent it's just really really
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stressful and we get to twenty minutes out and uh
and I had already, like I mean, even early in
my career, my first CMA performance is like I remember
those moments where you're like on the borderline of a
panic attack and anxiety and all that. But I stayed
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pretty cool, and I remember walking on the field, walking
out and really got comfortable. Eli Manning won like the
Walter Payton Man a Year award that year, which got
to say hey to Eli. And I was in a
pretty cool space when I went out there. I felt,
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you know, I felt, I knew I wasn't gonna beat
Whitney Houston. And then you know, my main thing was
just go out there. And when I got done with it,
it was like a you know, a big, big pressure valve.
But it was a wild day. I mean it was
a wild day. I mean totally crazy.
Speaker 2 (21:29):
It's the anticipation of it all I can only imagine.
All right, So how long after the anthem did you
have your first cocktail?
Speaker 3 (21:34):
I would say there were there were cocktails waiting in
the suite and my dad and my my father in
law and my wife they were in the suite and
and there, so we we went right into the game.
And by the time I got up there, the game
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and kicked off and we were the Falcons really had
the momentum, and man, we were. I was. Michael Phelps
was in my I met him that night and literally
he had just come off the Olympics and Bobby's been
around me. When when I get you know, get to
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feeling good on the old vodka and I mean Michael
Phelps and I think Michael was like maybe you know,
like it was like dry January for him or something,
so he was and man, I was like, I was
just I.
Speaker 6 (22:34):
Was like, dude, I don't give it.
Speaker 3 (22:36):
You're the baddest. I mean, I was like, you're the baddest.
Speaker 4 (22:39):
You can say whatever you want to say.
Speaker 3 (22:41):
I was like, You're the baddest. I'm like, and I'm
just like hitting him. I'm like, dude, you know, and
I just I mean, and He's just like, okay, man,
thank you, thank you. And then I was like and
it went on, and I think a couple of days
later I got his number and I was like, hey, man,
you know, he's like, oh, we're good, Like you didn't.
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You didn't. You weren't bothering me. You were actually claiming
me to be, uh yeah, the next Messiah or something.
And I was like, well, man, I was telling what
I was saying, but you know, I was a little
lamped up. But he turned out to be a I mean,
it was a fun relationship to get to know him,
but uh, but it was it was a fun day.
I mean, I had the opportunity to go to this.
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I got an invite to go to the super Bowl
this year. But Bobby knows, like we're doing uh, we're
doing Hawaii for idol. I've got to do the waste
management open on I'm playing I guess it's called the
Crow's Nest on on Thursday. I got to come back,
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go to Hawaii, come back. So I was like, man,
I'm just gonna put the big screen on the at
the house, put some ribs on, and watch the watch
the super Bowl with the boys trip.
Speaker 5 (23:53):
Why is it lovely beautiful place we did that for
You've done it way more than me. Right the first
four years that you did it, I was we did
it and we flew out there together.
Speaker 3 (24:02):
Yeah, a couple of times I did a lot that.
Speaker 4 (24:04):
Is a brutally.
Speaker 5 (24:06):
That is once I think I flew, I went, I
was joining you guys late and Lionel was having a
concert and he was like Lionel Richie was like, you
gotta come to the concert.
Speaker 4 (24:17):
And I got such food poisoning on the plane.
Speaker 6 (24:19):
On the way over there.
Speaker 5 (24:19):
I was not able to go to the Linel Richie concert.
That's my worst memory. Secondly was us not having internet
on the flight. Remember the whole flight like twelve hours
no internet.
Speaker 3 (24:28):
Yeah, because you're over the the No, it's because the airline.
Speaker 4 (24:32):
Remember the airline was like, we don't have any internet.
Speaker 3 (24:34):
Oh well, and and it gets you better have your net.
You better have all your shows. Yes, yeah, downloaded, downloaded
for that. And then you know the time that you
flew with me, you and your wife had just met
and you.
Speaker 4 (24:50):
Always stopped over in ls R for like ten minutes.
Speaker 3 (24:52):
You rapped in the you stopped in in the FBO
and y'all and that was the y'all had just got
about that.
Speaker 2 (24:59):
Luke was like, you need to marry her and she
come with you guys on the I was like that
would have been a super big I was living in.
Speaker 4 (25:05):
California and we stopped in California and she came.
Speaker 3 (25:08):
In to us. Yeah, my plane. We had to refuel
in in LA and Bobby was like, how long? How
long is the refuel process? You know it's young love.
I forgot about that, and I said, why do you ask?
And he goes He's like, oh, there's somebody I've been
(25:29):
talking to out here. She may come over, and you know,
come over. I didn't know they were going to have
sex in the pilot's lounge, so.
Speaker 4 (25:38):
I wish that'd have been awesome.
Speaker 6 (25:40):
I wish that would have happened.
Speaker 3 (25:41):
No, I don't think that happened. But we went and
did a little food run and then come back and
they got to visit a little bit, but we refuelled
and took on off to Hawaii.
Speaker 4 (25:51):
So who was your favorite player A Falcon favorite player
going up?
Speaker 3 (25:54):
Man Dion Sanders was just I mean, I go back to,
like my first memories were Steve bark Kowski as the quarterback.
That was as a player, Billy White Shoes Johnson. I mean,
how do you not as a five year old kid
cheer for Billy White Shoes Johnson and then through and
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then when we got Don, I just and it was
like the whole mc hammer, Dion two legit to quit
days and where the Falcons really flipped over into like
the Black Jerseys and Jerry Glanville he had his Harley
and and you know, being a Falcons fan was pretty Uh,
(26:38):
they're the dirty bird, right, well, they became the dirty
So even in the Dion in the Dion era, the
dirty Birds hadn't even started. The dirty Birds only started
when the first time, when we the year that we
beat Minnesota to go into our first Super Bowl. But
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so yeah, the Don the Don years were when and
and you know people don't remember this, but Dion was
really he agreed to be a Falcon. You know, we
were just losing our minds as Falcons fans. And then
like his first game, like that week he had hit
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a home run for the Yankees flew and his and
I think I'm remembering this properly. His first he may
have filled it a punt and fair catched it, but
his first attempt at a punt return, he tries to
fill the ball, drops the ball, picks it up and
(27:43):
takes it to the house. And at that moment, Dion
Sanders owned every I mean, he owned the state of
Georgia and then went on to be Atlanta Bras. That
was pretty special stuff.
Speaker 6 (27:54):
It is incredible when any think about Den.
Speaker 2 (27:56):
All Right, I know that you're a big Georgia Bulldog
fan as well, So you've got to have a little
love for the Eagles right now, you know, because their
whole entire defense is Georgia Bullden.
Speaker 3 (28:07):
Yeah, you know, I'm yeah, somebody just had and listen.
I really, I really I don't have any I don't
have any ill will against the Chiefs. Over the summer,
Josh Allen and I play a little golf together and
got you know, got to play in some golf. So
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I really want to see Josh Allen hopefully get get
beyond that Chief's hurdle. But I feel like just with
the the way the Eagles have built their team with
so many Georgia Bulldogs, it's really gonna be uh, it's
gonna be really hard for me not to pull for them.
And when I think na Kobe Dean went down with
(28:52):
a knee injury, it was really sad to see. But yeah,
I mean ninety currently, ninety percent of my football like
bandwidth in my brain is really dedicated to what George
is doing. And gotten to be really really good friends
with Kirby through the years, and and he's just he's
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just a great dude, like one of the best hangs
in the world. And he's just you when you meet
these coaches that have that power to motivate and speak,
and it's it's been fun getting to know Kirby.
Speaker 4 (29:32):
I was talking about the time you brought the heisman
over to the.
Speaker 3 (29:34):
House gotten ah, well, the go ahead, well, and I.
Speaker 5 (29:39):
Was trying to explain to them and I didn't have
all the details that it was Tibo's heisman and you
guys had a bet and you had my bulldog like
Peanut Butter off the heisman. But I would like for
you to tell this story in its entirety because I'm
sure I left out some details.
Speaker 3 (29:53):
Well, t Bow, So we have a charity event at
my house for the Brett Boyer Foundation, and t Bow
has been as Tebow is, he's been just a champion
and has been to several of our events at the house.
Well this particular, this particular year Tebow auctions. The beauty
(30:22):
of te Bow is that he's like, I don't want
to sit there and just stare at my heisman. So
he takes this heisman to charity events and auctions it
off for the year, and he's he does it at
multiple charities, so his heisman is never at his house
and he grabs it and well, my wife bid it,
(30:47):
and my wife bid for the heisman in one and
I'm like, and at our own charity event, and I'm
just rolling my eyes. But so the heisman, his heisman
stayed at the house, which I tell people at the time,
I was a little frustrated at what she paid for,
but having the heisman at your house, Like, I kept
(31:10):
it in my songwriting room and I'd have these songwriters
come over and you know, they're like settling in, they're
getting their laptops out, and they're like, is that a heisman?
And I'm like, it's Tim Tebow's heisman. And then we
went to the story. Well, so, in an effort to
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I'm blanking on your dogs in that day, Stanley, So
in an effort to kind of me and Tibo were
gonna have some fun on socials. It was a big
Georgia Florida week and I said, Tibo, we need to
really like, we need to hype this Georgia Florida rivalry
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and I called him up and I said, hey, why
don't you steal my CMA because I had one Entertainer
of the Year that year. So once you steal my
CMA award and you'll have it to do you know,
kind of trash talking things, and then I'll do some
stuff with your heisman. And certainly I was like, who
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do I know with an English bulldog? And then I
called Bobby and we came over here with Stanley. But
it was a fun moment for Tim and I and
I think, uh, I think Georgia's probably about five and
one against the dogs since Tebow and I have started
our kind of our bromance together. So I'm doing pretty well.
But it's gonna take a lot of years for me
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to get over what Tbou did to us when he
was at Georgia's, I mean when he was at Florida.
Speaker 5 (32:41):
So, yeah, my dog like Liak peanut butter off the
Heisman if it was like a bulldog.
Speaker 6 (32:44):
That's a good movie.
Speaker 3 (32:45):
Yeah. Oh we were like yeah, so we we were
having fun with it. And uh, like I said, we
never I never got a never got a call. Maybe
t BO got a call from from from uh the
Heisman people. Maybe saying, you know, that's enough enough. But
a funny joke is Adam Will wrote she was a
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He played for the Braves and was a first baseman
for ten or twelve years in the big leagues. Adam
would stay in my barn in Tim's Heisman trophy case.
Lived in the barn, and Adam had a His signature
thing was to draw penises everywhere. He drew them all
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over my barn. He drew them on the all the
rear view, all the flip down mirrors on all of
our cars. But he does a great job with the
penis drawings. They're like, they're not your typical penis, they're
a little extra. Well, he drew one on t Bow's
heisman case with what a sharpie did he really? So
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t Bo's like what is that?
Speaker 6 (33:53):
And I'm like, what do you think it is? It's
pretty self explanatory to the right.
Speaker 3 (34:00):
So yeah, I mean, man, it's it's a zoo around
my place. You never you know, you never know, And
still to this day we have like there's you know,
there's a little we'll pull up in a closet door
in the barn and we find, you know, we find
new penises every day.
Speaker 6 (34:17):
So that Adam Drew.
Speaker 2 (34:34):
So CMAS, you you host, that is that nerve wracking
you're with Peyton. Let's see it looks like it just
comes off effortless between you two.
Speaker 3 (34:42):
Yeah. I mean year one, I hosted it by myself
and that was pretty That was another one of those
situations where you get the call and you're like, wow,
I got the call on this and I can't believe
I'm in a situation where I can host the CMAS.
(35:03):
So yeah, we roly and year one did it by myself,
and then they reached out. The big joke was you know,
you did great, you did so great. Yeah, You're gonna
do it with Peyton Manning next year. I'm like, I did?
Did I do it? Anyway? But so Peyton and I started,
and then obviously Lanie Wilson hosted with us last year.
(35:26):
But Peyton and we've we've had a great time doing
that together. And through that Peyton and I, Peyton and
I have kind of we tried to do a couple
of golf trips a year and and Peyton has uh
had me uh you know on some golf trips with
Eli and Cooper and man, you know, when you're on
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a golf trip with those guys. It's pretty pretty fun stuff.
And I've gotten to, you know, meet Peyton's dad several times,
and man, what a what a really really special family
they are And when you look at their their fingerprint
on NFL and sports and media, what they're doing is
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pretty incredible. I mean, I went to the I went
to the Georgia Old Miss game this year and and
Peyton found out I was there, and I had never
done I'd never been to Oxford for a game. So
we get the tour bus and my we get my boys,
(36:30):
we load them up and we're all amped up to
go to Georgia Old Miss. Pull up on the bus
and and it was kind of like my my one
big week because I think I only had like one
chance to go watch the Dogs, and uh, well, Archie
had found out that I was there, and Peyton's like, hey,
(36:51):
my dad knows you're there. He wants to see you.
And I'm like, okay, well that I'm kind of like,
I'm kind of like, yeah, okay, maybe, I mean, it's
a lot like it's it's Archie knows I'm there, but like,
well then about well, I'd never been to the grove.
So we just get a security guy and we go
(37:13):
into the middle of the grove and it's like so fun.
It's chaos. It had rain. It was raining that day.
I mean, you know, people were trump and running mud
and taking you know, there's moonshine pass around. It was
the grove and uh, well then I look at my
phone and Peyton's like, hey, literally like my dad is
(37:35):
where are you my dad? And I was like, oh,
I get it. He does want to see me. So
got to go to the game and took my boys
on the sideline and then got to hang with Archie
and you know in in when you're when you're at
Old miss in Archie manning suite, I guess it's probably
well there's manning Way and then there's it's probably manning Field,
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I'm assuming, but it's pretty pretty cool to be there
with him. And he's so engaging and what a what
a figure, you know, what a great what a great dude.
Speaker 5 (38:05):
I remember a conversation you and I had about music.
It's been four or five years ago, and you were going,
you know, because at the time, top of the world
still are It's gonna be my point, but you were
like you were like, you know, it's about time for
our generation to kind of give way to the younger.
And you were just talking about the natural cycles of artists, right,
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and it was a bit of you going, you know,
things can be slowing down pretty soon. Maybe I'm gonna
slow down. But I was looking at your last four
they're just as big as they were then.
Speaker 3 (38:35):
Well, the situation that I will fight for currently in
a long time is my boys are sixteen and fourteen.
My nephew's twenty three. I really missed. I've done all
I can to hit all the sports stuff. But when
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let's just say from twenty ten to twenty twenty two
or twenty one in fifty sixty seventy shows a year,
you know, last year I dialed it back to thirty
five or forty shows. I cleared all my Friday nights
in the fall for Bo and Tate. They're both Tate
is a rising ninth grader and they're getting up every
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morning doing football workouts. So anything that I've done career
career wise to do less shows is totally really my best.
I'm doing my best at moving stuff around to be
at more sports stuff. But you say that, I mean
last year my summer tours were and that's like they
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were as good as they've ever been, which I wake
up every day and I'm so thankful, thankful that I'm
not going to a twenty thousand seat amphitheater and there's
seven thousand people out there and that and thank god,
uh that hasn't happened, and and and as long as
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I can feel that, I'm like imported, imported to a
certain extent and relevant. It's really fun to go do
do the shows.
Speaker 5 (40:21):
I mean, you're putting yourself out the pasture. And I
was like I was talking about and then again I
was looking at because we were talking about your tornament
ago and where people can get tickets and some of
my friends are opening and all this stuff, and I
was like, there as big now as they were then
in five years before that. And for that, sustainability is
so rare, especially when you sit in front of me,
were like, I think it's so I think I'm going
to start to have the less people and less people
(40:42):
aren't coming.
Speaker 3 (40:43):
Well, you know what's interesting when you look at like
when you look at like where Morgan Wallen and where
Morgan and Luke Colmb's are and even jelly Roll, I
mean jelly Roll and these and and I'm only just
bringing up uh the male artist, but and even Laney
and all that. When and what was interesting is my
(41:07):
three or four years that I did stadiums, I didn't
realize there were still people that couldn't get into the
stadiums that missed the show because we were selling out
stadiums like that. Well, then we went and did double
amphitheaters like for two years, which was like way like
so much. That was more fun than stadiums because at
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double amphitheaters, we wouldn't have to like we wouldn't have
to move our whole circus. So if we were in
Tampa for two nights, then we'd have all the bus
drivers and truck drivers and we'd cater in food and
have a DJ come in and it was like a
tour party. And now as i've as I'm in this
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part of my career, yeah, I mean, when I go
to Tampa and we can, we can sell out Tampa
or Boston or whatever, or northern California. And what's funny
is I didn't We missed some cities this year that
will probably go hit next year. But some of those
cities are like pissed at me. So it's as long
as as long as you know people are doing that stuff,
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I will. I'll I'm guilty of loving. Like when you
look at somebody like you, Matt, I mean as a
as an NFL player or a sports guy. You guys
have have a shelf life. And that's the unfortunate. Me
and Chipper Jones got to be good buddies. And when
I talked to Chipper, He's like, man, I want to
(42:40):
play three more years, but these old knees. When I
was like, man, it's just I remember processing Chipper, when
y'all love sports as much as I love being on stage,
and as much as you love what you do, Bobby,
and as long as I can, you know, as long
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as my voice holds up, which I've tried to smoke
cigars and drink enough to mess that up, and it's
like it's it's pretty sturdy. But I've always really had
a soft spot for athletes that have a shelf life.
And I've always laid awake at night going, thank God,
I can. I can do this for a long time
because you know, when you look at all the great
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athletes throughout history that you know, they they probably played
one year longer than they should have, but just they
love it. It's a part of your it's a part
of your DNA and who you are. Like at this point,
I never did music to like fulfill this ego or like,
(43:44):
I never did it to like to fulfill this to
you know, pour something into and to try to fulfill it.
I just did it because heck, I just loved love
being up there, you know, and love love all the
all the little you know, the different cities and the
(44:05):
different towns, and so as long as I can do
that at this level and really be creative with music
and try to be a little bit better guitar player
or singer every year, you know, it's I'm gonna still
try to try to do all that. So it's pretty
pretty crazy when when we keep having really really solid
(44:26):
years and what really what really kind of hurts me
a little bit about last year is I did do
I did Atlanta, and I did Atlanta and I did Wrigley.
So I did Truest Park in Wrigley in those two weeks.
I mean, I went half the year with like this
borderline pneumonia thing that I thought in those two shows,
(44:47):
I struggled through them, and I'm like, ugh, my two
stadiums that I sold out, Thank god I sold them out.
I wasn't one hundred percent as a singer, but the
fans still kind of had my back and we had
a great time.
Speaker 2 (44:59):
But when you started out as an artist, did you
ever envision this type of success in your career? Because
I think even for me as a young athlete, right,
you come in, you someday hope, right then you make
it and it's just kind of like that aha moment
won the first part of the question, did you ever
envision yourself there?
Speaker 6 (45:17):
But two? When? What was your aha moment? Like I've
made it.
Speaker 3 (45:22):
I never you know, I set goals. I had an
apartment down in Franklin, and I had a dry race board,
and I never will forget. I wrote, write a number
one song, performing number one song, CMA Award, ACM Award,
play the Grand Old Opry, you know, win this. And
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I wrote twenty things and I wrote them down, and
damn it if I didn't do them all, and I did.
I guess you go into it blindly like naively ignorant.
Maybe I think with me, I always took every I
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always took every little step along the way as a win.
I never looked back and I never was complaining about
what I didn't have going on. I just was like, well,
I wrote one number one song this year and I
had a top five as an artist. I wasn't pissed
that it wasn't a number one. And then my second
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single died at thirty five, which totally like recalibrated my
trajectory of my career. It kind of stalled me for
about a year and a half because we didn't need
another one to be unsuccessful. And I went into my
label and Mike Dungan, the president of my label, I
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turned six songs in. He didn't I wasn't getting my
positive response from the six songs. He kind of roughed
me up a little bit. And then I and wrote
do I and Range is a good thing and that
got my momentum going. And then Country Girls Shake It
from Me was when which people don't realize this. It
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didn't go number one, it was like a top five,
but it was such a it was such a statement
song and became so much of like what the country
music fans they were like, we know kind of that
dude's vibe. We know that this guy's the fun guy
(47:39):
that likes to throw the party in the at the concerts,
and so at that point, I'm just at that point,
I'm just kind of taking taking what I'm getting and
not even realizing, not even realizing that this album did this,
(47:59):
and you know, we would have these parties and everybody's
handing you plaques of streaming and all this, and I'm
just like, oh, thank you. Thinking then, so you're kind
of in the middle, and I would imagine, I mean
you Bobby has experienced that too, where it's just like
and then you two when you're in it, you're just
you're not really processing it. But I had I had.
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I had fun at every level. I had fun when
we were in a fifteen passenger van with a U
haul trailer playing for Turn I mean, playing a college
bars and frat you know, backyards at frat houses. And
then when I played the biggest you know, when I
went up to Indianapolis and played the biggest nightclub there
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and sold it out. So when you're when you have
two three hits and you go sell out two thousand
seat honky tonks and nightclubs, You're like, this is the
greatest day. Of my life. I just sold out, you know,
the biggest thing in Charlotte, North Carolina, and you just
take each you know, you take each little, each, little
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levels as you know, wow, and then it was a
it was a ride. But now you look back and
even we were watching, uh, we were kind of tinkering
with a little spring Break documentary thing from when I
did my spring Break shows and my last one was
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ten years ago, and I look at I mean, I can't.
I'm just like only ten years ago. It didn't. It didn't.
It feels like like twenty years ago maybe, And my
body certainly looked like I was like, God, look, God,
damn skinny I was, But I was probably I was
skinny because you know, doing two hundred shows a year,
(49:49):
you're not you know, you're just running and gunning, working out, eating,
you know, and all that. But I'm like, and I
guess to Bobby's point, maybe I was trying to set
myself up as if things if things do taper off,
I can kind of mentally prepare, if you know, not
(50:10):
to not to. I never wanted to be the old
guy that just is just just grumpy and just like ah,
you know, like even like the guys that just go wha,
it ain't want it what it once was. You know,
you should have seen how we did it. We were
the best. We you know, we used to you know,
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write songs, you know, in the back of a whatever.
I mean, my I mean, I don't maybe I'll do that,
but I just think every generation is different in new
and fresh for their generation. And that's the generation.
Speaker 6 (50:47):
So final question.
Speaker 5 (50:48):
And by the way, we mentioned your tours and it'll
be on the show notes as well. How to get
tickets Lukebrian dot com at your house. If a favorite
piece of sports memorabilia that it's either yours or somebody else's.
Speaker 3 (51:01):
A man, let me think of my favorite once Tim
Tebow's heisman got got got put back in the penis crate. Yeah.
If you're just tuning in, you need to go. You
need to go listen to the front part of the uh.
But there's a special jersey that at the time Todd
(51:28):
Gurley and a guy na and a running back named
Keith Marshall. They made a three and a four because
they were because Gurley was three and Marshall was four
at Georgia and they both signed it. But Herschel's number
was thirty four, so I got to get Herschel to
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sign it. So that's when I when people see that,
they're like, well, is that a Herschel jersey, And I'm like, no,
it's actually Todd Gurley and Keith Marshall put them together
because that year Keith they both went on to play.
I think, did you ever play with Keith Marshall anywhere?
I thought he may have went through New England at
one point, But so that that was a pretty cool one.
(52:12):
I need to I think I've got a Dell Earnhardt signed,
like little die cast number three Dell Earnhart that he signed,
which is is pretty cool. I've got a I've got
a signed Chevy Chase Christmas vacation photo that Chevy Chase signed.
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He's wearing the Santa Claus hat. That's pretty It's not
sports memorabilea, but it's pretty uh pretty iconic. But but yeah,
the the Todd Gurley and the Keith Marshall wents pretty
pretty special. And I got to do a I got
to do like a a sports a sports cast, and
and Keith Marshall was on it and told him about that. So, uh,
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sports have been really important in my life, and I
was always an athletic little kid. But everybody else grew
and I didn't. I didn't grown till I was seventeen,
and thank God because that's why I picked up the guitar.
But when I look at me and my children and
how there there. I mean, I think when you work
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hard at sports and you see the you see the
your hard work get you know, validated on the field,
it's pretty pretty special stuff. So my boys are in
the thick of it.
Speaker 4 (53:34):
Well, we appreciate you coming by it. Love you, Thank y'all.
Speaker 3 (53:36):
I love y'all. This is awesome.
Speaker 5 (53:37):
Good luck over at the at that stadium hole, oh yeah,
at waste Management.
Speaker 3 (53:44):
Yeah, I'm going for you. Is it number seventeen, I
believe so.
Speaker 6 (53:49):
I think it's seventeen, and there's gonna be a lot
of well, I.
Speaker 3 (53:52):
Just want to be there.
Speaker 2 (53:53):
You know.
Speaker 3 (53:53):
Every year, the I think every year there's a streaker year.
You know, last year the dude, you know, and they
always have the nineteenth hole pointed to their butt crack.
So I hope I can get a glimpse of whoever
de sads streaked this year. Be pretty damn funny.
Speaker 6 (54:08):
Go watch Luke. He does. He's awesome live.
Speaker 3 (54:11):
Thank y'all.
Speaker 4 (54:11):
All the notes go go see Luke.
Speaker 6 (54:13):
All the links are up.
Speaker 3 (54:14):
Luke. Good to see you, Buddy, Good to see y'all.
Speaker 2 (54:16):
Thank you.
Speaker 5 (54:32):
Thanks again to Luke Bryan for coming by. I've known
that dude forever. He's never changed. I mean, he's awesome.
It's funny. The fact they just walked through the house
is hilarious because our studio is not even at the house,
and then he always stays regardless of what's going on,
if it's at the studio, if it's because we again
we worked together four years on American Idol, like he
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stays and just tells stories after every time. So we
got the benefit of that today too. So thanks to
Luke Bryan for coming by. So we'll be from the
super Bowl next episode later on this week, probably Friday, maybe.
Speaker 6 (55:09):
Saturday, whatever the case is.
Speaker 5 (55:10):
But we'll be out there and I'm very much looking
forward to it. Are you going to that fancy commissioners thing?
Speaker 6 (55:17):
I am perfect. I am.
Speaker 5 (55:18):
It's gonna be awesome and I won't feel like the
only person that doesn't belong.
Speaker 4 (55:23):
I always have a friend that does belong.
Speaker 6 (55:25):
No, no, I definitely don't belong there.
Speaker 2 (55:27):
Let's be honest. When they said the commission, I was like, really,
this is a big time deal. The only reason I
was invited because you're invited. That's not true because I've
never been invited before in my life and even when
I was a player, So I know that it's because
of you.
Speaker 6 (55:41):
So thanks for that.
Speaker 4 (55:41):
Are you taking a suit?
Speaker 6 (55:43):
Yes? I remember the other night I was like, is
this black tivan?
Speaker 5 (55:46):
Because I just should have said yes, or I should
have said Hawaiian shirt. Yeah, that would have been funny, supernatural, casual.
Speaker 6 (55:53):
Yes. I walk in all the owners everybody's.
Speaker 2 (55:55):
In just full black tie, and I'm like, oh my god,
that would have been actually great.
Speaker 6 (56:00):
I would appreciated that.
Speaker 4 (56:01):
Luke was talking about playing the waste management.
Speaker 5 (56:03):
Have you done one of the fancy big golf tournaments
to play one of the part three holes.
Speaker 2 (56:07):
Well, I played Tahoe Tahoe Tournament, the American Century Tahoe Tournament,
and there is pressure, like you get the warm up round.
I think it was Thursday, and it's Friday, Saturday, Sunday
something like that.
Speaker 6 (56:18):
Way too much golf for me. I'm not a good golfer.
Speaker 2 (56:21):
I was like three above Charles Barkley at one point
like that that's where my my I just went downhill
right because the night time you're partying, you're having so
much fun. But then they get to that par three
and I forget what it is is it?
Speaker 6 (56:34):
I don't know.
Speaker 2 (56:35):
It's like right on the water, all the boats are
pulled up and you've got a bunch of people that
just follow these guys around. I hit somebody, but it
knocked my ball back onto the green.
Speaker 6 (56:44):
I was like, yes, and it's.
Speaker 2 (56:46):
Like literally roped it to the left and it goes boom,
hits off somebody's leg, goes onto the green. I was like,
I went and apologized, signed something or did that for him,
and then I went up.
Speaker 6 (56:57):
I was like, that was awesome. Did you know it
hit somebody? When you hit somebody, I.
Speaker 2 (57:01):
Knew it was either going to be way out there.
But then I heard people go oh, And I walked
up and the you know, they've got staff out there
to go check these people, so particularly on the part three,
because everybody's right there and so they are already kind
of checking. So I went over to check, and sure enough,
I hit somebody right in the leg. I think it
was a guy and but the ball ricocheted off him.
It hit him hard enough to where it went onto
the green. I was like, oh, this couldn't have worked
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out better.
Speaker 5 (57:22):
I was playing the Pebble Beach pro am was lucky
enough to get invited to that, and that's going to
be hard too. It's nerve wracking because again, I'm not
a good golf I'm a fine golfer at times, right,
but I'm not naturally a good golfer. And I'd really
played a lot leading up to it, and I was
probably shooting mid eighties, which is the best that consistently
I've ever been. So I go and the day before
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the tournament, you go and you play this part three
competition and Jim Nantz is calling it.
Speaker 6 (57:51):
That's cool.
Speaker 5 (57:51):
And so you're on the t box and Jim nance
is right beside you and he's like, up next.
Speaker 4 (57:58):
And I had a show on Peacock at the time.
Speaker 5 (58:01):
This was an NBC thing called Snake in the Grass
And he's like the host of Snake in the Grass
us and nationally syndicated. And I can hear it because
he's from me to you that wall, right, and there
are people everywhere, and like Eric Church is about it
after me and Nate forgot see that the lead singer
of train just hit and everybody's in groups and the
winner of each group goes to the finals and the
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competes for the championship. And I just didn't want to
kill anybody, right because I know I'm not good enough
to win the thing. So I get up. It's like
slow motion. I can hear jim nance vividly, and I'm like, well,
just trust.
Speaker 4 (58:41):
The work, Just trust the work, trust it.
Speaker 6 (58:44):
But also such a gift.
Speaker 5 (58:46):
Just I'm like begging myself because I don't get nervous
that often. Occasionally I will be nervous for things, but
generally I love things that make me nervous because I've
done a lot of stuff and I've succeeded and also
failed miserably. And at the end of the day, the
sun comes up and you go on with life. And
I think that's real superpower to know that regardless of
what happens, life moves on. And so I'm like, Son's
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coming up tomorrow if you hit a gooder bed. But
I still tremble a little bit. And I switched balls,
and I decided to change balls, and I put a
pink ball down instead, and they're like in the pink ball, and.
Speaker 4 (59:19):
I hear it and it sounds so clean, and I.
Speaker 5 (59:23):
Don't see it because your head zone, because my nerves
and my eyes were sweaty.
Speaker 4 (59:27):
I mean, that's why I wish it were that.
Speaker 5 (59:29):
I was so focused and I hear the guy goes, oh,
it's up there.
Speaker 4 (59:33):
Boom, it lands rolls by the hole and it's like
eight feet.
Speaker 6 (59:37):
I come. I stuck it.
Speaker 4 (59:39):
It's one of my greatest athletic achievements.
Speaker 6 (59:41):
Stuck it.
Speaker 5 (59:42):
And so I go to the finals and I compete
in the finals and I finished like fourth or something.
Speaker 6 (59:46):
I'm not sure. It doesn't matter.
Speaker 4 (59:47):
I made it a I'm feeling good about myself.
Speaker 6 (59:48):
You finished for how many contestants?
Speaker 4 (59:50):
Well, it was all celebrities, so it's like, right, forty celebrities.
Speaker 6 (59:53):
Probably you finished well.
Speaker 5 (59:56):
But if you won your heat. I won my heat
because you get two balls.
Speaker 6 (01:00:01):
That's impressive. Wait, so I.
Speaker 5 (01:00:04):
Won my heat and then I'm I'm down and it's cool,
and I didn't win the whole thing, but I didn't
think I should be in the finals. So the next day,
I feeling really good about myself and I'm playing and
there's a part of three and all the cameras are
out and I'm like, first two holes have been great, right,
And I was like, I'm about to stick Like I
was just feeling so confident.
Speaker 4 (01:00:24):
Boom, I hit it up and I see.
Speaker 5 (01:00:26):
It and it's not really over the green, but the
wind was blowing and I'm left handed. I got a
natural look and I see the ball hit and then
roll onto the green and it kind of it was
kind of off to the side. I much in a
rock or something, and that's like a fun event where
you walking, you give everybody. I'm going crazy giving everybody
high fives running through and I got back to get
my club. I hit a girl on the face. Oh yeah,
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she was. I had too much confidence from that day before.
She was like in the side green gallery. Hit her
right in the face and like yours, rickycheta right onto
the middle of the green.
Speaker 6 (01:00:57):
Not my best achievement.
Speaker 5 (01:00:59):
I think I still part of the hole, yeh, off
of her face. But that that one was embarrassing.
Speaker 6 (01:01:03):
You know.
Speaker 2 (01:01:03):
It's funny because I was at that Taho te Marcus
Allen is up on the tee box and there's a
par three. Well, his girlfriend at the time was walking,
She's wearing all white. He hooks this ball, ball hits
her directly on the top of her head. But not
only did it hit her on the top of the head,
it's split her head open. So she's got this all
white on I mean blood everywhere. And so he obviously
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everybody comes out checks on her medical tent and he
he goes over, but he's in the middle of a round.
Speaker 6 (01:01:29):
So he checks on her and he's like, all right,
I'm gonna go.
Speaker 2 (01:01:31):
I think he probably said like, I'm so sorry, but
I got to finish this round. He went back played,
she had to go. I see her later that night.
She's got staples in her back of her head, and
I was like, oh gosh, because that's my worst nightmare.
She's like truly injuring somebody and those But how do
you not, as a fan like sit there and.
Speaker 6 (01:01:47):
Go, I've got a real risk. I just watch I've
got a real risk. Yeah.
Speaker 5 (01:01:50):
I did maintenance on a golf course for a long time,
and so doing maintenance and having to take care of greens,
I get so mad if I'm playing someone hits on us,
because I just get trunk, like Trump from watching all
of us workers get this smacked with golf balls. All right,
it's almost we're going to do another show before the
super Bowl, so we don't even have to be like
who's gonna win. But I'm still sticking with the Chiefs
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and you are.
Speaker 2 (01:02:17):
I'm torn. I'm torn, Bobby, I'm torn. You know that
I'm sticking with the Chiefs because there you go. I'm
sticking with the Chiefs because last week I said Bills
and it took all of me to say that. But
you want the Chiefs, and I agree with you. You
got to beat the Chiefs in order to become the champion.
Until you do, until you can prove it, I'm going
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with the Chiefs.
Speaker 6 (01:02:40):
We're done.
Speaker 4 (01:02:41):
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Speaker 5 (01:02:42):
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Speaker 6 (01:02:50):
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Speaker 6 (01:02:59):
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Speaker 4 (01:03:00):
Thank you guys and We've had lots to say.
Speaker 6 (01:03:02):
See you later this week.
Speaker 1 (01:03:10):
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Speaker 2 (00:17):
Say what Becker here? And we hope you say because
we got a lot to say.
Speaker 1 (00:27):
Yeah, we got a.
Speaker 3 (00:28):
Lot to say. Here's Bobby and that.
Speaker 4 (00:33):
We're waiting for Luke Bryan to come by.
Speaker 5 (00:36):
We record and shoot the show from my house, and
so when he gets to the gate, I will say
Luke is now called, and we will go get him
and bring him in. But until then we'll we're good.
Speaker 6 (00:47):
Right, Yeah, we're good. We're here.
Speaker 5 (00:49):
We're not gonna do like some sophisticated thing where we
finish a segment and then Luke's here. We're just gonna say, well,
I think he's here, and then we'll go get him.
Speaker 6 (00:58):
Sounds like that's what we are. Hey, how ready are
the players to do? Game week?
Speaker 2 (01:05):
You know you have that buffer week, right, and so
as you're building, it's all this build up to this moment,
and you know, the coaches do a really good job
too of explaining what's going to go on, particularly for
the guys that maybe haven't been to a super Bowl before.
But both these teams have experience going to the Super
Bowl just two years ago, but they explain, look, media
day is an absolute you know what show, right, It's
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every media outlet that you could possibly get. You're going
to be doing interviews, you're gonna get stupid questions, or
you're going to have certain guys up on the podium,
and so that is the most hectic part of your week.
And then as you get to Tuesday, you start to
lock in a little bit more. You might go out
to a team dinner or something like that, but then
your week starts. And I think it's really important for
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like the team leaders as well as the coaches that
we're here for one job. It's for business, right, We've
got to get ready for this game. And I know
that the players also understand what's at stake. So it's
no longer going out. You might see your family, maybe
get go out to a dinner or something like that,
but people are pretty locked in. You're isolated at the
hotel for the most part, and you're just getting ready
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and going through and you're trying to watch as much film.
You're trying to understand the game plan as well as
possible and get yourself prepared for the biggest game.
Speaker 5 (02:17):
Is everybody required to go to media day, even if
you're not one of the guys that's going to have
nine rows reporters around you.
Speaker 2 (02:24):
Oh yeah, So I'd go there in my jersey and
I just walk around and give people thumbs up, like, hey,
what's up?
Speaker 6 (02:29):
What's up?
Speaker 2 (02:30):
You know, you've got your important players that are up
there on the podium, they've got their name plate and
they're sitting there, and there's a mic and all that stuff,
and you know, open questions all over. I'm just literally
standing with my buddies who aren't getting interviewed, and there
might be some offshoot of some random person that wants
to write an article about a USC guy. Hey, I
used to cover the Trojans back in the day, so
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we might have like a quick little conversation, no love whatsoever.
Did you get to jump out early though? No, I
have to stay there the entire time because we take
team buses to that. It's like a major function, right,
So we'll probably do like a little walk through or something,
then go to this media day and for us that
it's really not important for us to talk at all.
Speaker 6 (03:07):
We just kind of stand there.
Speaker 5 (03:08):
I'll talk about trades for a second, which this has
been a very trade heavy week basketball and Miles Garrett
saying hey trade me, and Miles Garrett put out on
Monday the statement saying, hey Cleveland, a lot of love,
like thank you for having me.
Speaker 4 (03:23):
You've been the best, but like I want to go
play for a winner basically.
Speaker 5 (03:26):
Right, So he's requesting it trade and you have Luca
get traded, which was wild, which I thought was fake
when it happened too, I thought it was somebody have
been hacked. And so I want to talk about trades
for a second, because you've been involved in a few
of them. I want to go first to what it
feels like and what really happens when you get traded?
Does someone call you? Do you get called to an office?
And then I was the new kid at school a
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bunch like four or five times I had to move
in my life, right, And you walk into a classroom
and there are just all these kids you don't know,
and you don't know who's your friend, who's not.
Speaker 6 (03:56):
What happens when you get traded.
Speaker 2 (03:57):
Well, sometimes it's one of those situations where like when
I was in Minnesota, they drafted Teddy Bridgewater I broke
my I was arding the year that he came in,
but I broke my foot and he played the rest
of that season, so I knew I was going to
go into that backup role. So then your agents sometimes
will be like, hey, well we know that Buffalo or
so and so is going to be looking for a quarterback,
and then he'll start working his angle and he'll be
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talking to our GM for the Minnesota Vikings, and then
all of a sudden, it kind of comes to fruition.
And so sometimes you anticipate, sometimes you don't. Doubts the
one from Buffalo to Dallas. I wasn't anticipating that, the
one from Minnesota to Buffalo earlier that year, I was.
But again, like you said, you're coming into a brand
new environment, all new coaches, and at least they wanted
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you enough to bring you in and usually have a
good conversation with the coaches before it happens. But then
you get there and it's all new surroundings, all new teammates,
and you got to go out there and start to
build those relationships slowly but surely.
Speaker 6 (04:53):
But it's a great example is new kid at school.
Speaker 2 (04:57):
You walk in and hey, Bud, how are you and
you know you might have a reputation at that point
because I played that was year nine for me.
Speaker 6 (05:03):
You're going into year ten.
Speaker 2 (05:05):
So they I knew a lot of these guys just
from playing against them, but no real relationships. And then
from the one that I was surprised about was week
two of that year when I got traded and I'm
just coming off this practice field. I actually took some
reps in practice and all that stuff, and I just
randomly saw that my agent had called ten times, and
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I'm like, why does he keep calling me? And so
I finally get a chance to call me. He said,
are you sitting down. I'm like, yes, I'm driving home.
Speaker 6 (05:33):
What's up?
Speaker 2 (05:34):
And he's like, you just got traded to Dallas. You
got to get down a plane tomorrow morning. I was like,
have you called my wife? And he's like, yes, I've
called your wife. She's really excited. So I was like, okay,
I went home because she was pregnant thirty four weeks
pregnant with our four. So those are the type of
ones that kind of they shake you to your core
a little bit because you're not anticipating it. So then
you've got to get your mind right to be on
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a plane the next day and things are moving so fast.
And then plus it was in season, so as I
get there, you got to learn a brain new You've
been grinding all off season, going through two weeks of
game plans with one coordinator with Greg Roman. Now you
got to go and learn Scott Lenehan system in Dallas,
which was completely different terminology. So that was a grind
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because I just stayed at the stadium and tried to
learn as much as possible and absorb as much as
possible when I got there.
Speaker 5 (06:22):
I'm glad in this business that doesn't happen because I
know I'd get a call going, hey man, we traded
you in two sets of headphones for caller Daddy over
at Spotify, and I'd be like, dang, Like we don't
have to.
Speaker 6 (06:33):
Worry about that. That is a weird thing in sports.
Speaker 5 (06:36):
At any time you can get a call to go,
you have now been relocated for somebody else. When that
happens and you're going to Dallas, are they immediately emailing
you the playbook? Are they sending you study guides?
Speaker 2 (06:50):
Like?
Speaker 6 (06:50):
How is that?
Speaker 5 (06:51):
How are you able to fully like engolf yourself in that?
Speaker 6 (06:55):
What they're doing there with language.
Speaker 2 (06:57):
Well, you know, I've been around a long time, and
so a lot of when you think about it, conceptually,
a lot of route patterns conceptually are very similar. You
got your high low reads, you got your vertical stretches,
you got your horizontal stretches. But it's more terminology. How
they call even something as simple as your cadence and
how they call their cadence might be a little bit
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different in terms of the rhythm and how it comes
out and how these offensive linemen fire off the ball.
Speaker 6 (07:24):
But that's why they get you on the plane.
Speaker 2 (07:25):
The next day, you go straight into a physical straight
to the facility, meet with the coaches, and they hand
you a playbook. And because what makes it more complicated
during season is the fact that these coaches are involved
in game planning throughout the course of a week, they
don't have time to really sit down and help you understand.
So I'd spend hours and hours after practice watching film,
going through the playbook, understanding stuff from two minute drill
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to the basic run scheme, and then rehearsing the calls
of the plays so that you can get into a
huddle confidently and say those things I think.
Speaker 5 (07:57):
Part of the human element is lost in trades in
some situations, especially with fans, because we see athletes as
these fictional figures for these teams that we loved as children.
So nothing is real. It's all fantasyland. But in reality,
like Luca get not married with kids, so this will
be a smaller version of that. He just bought a
fifteen million dollar house, like last week, like closed the house.
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That's so good last week, and again nobody's going to
shed a tear for them. But that's real life. But
mostly like if you have lived somewhere for seven eight years,
your kids are in school, right, and the whole family
either has to stay behind while you go and live
somewhere else right or up route and everything moves. Yeah,
schools change teachers, the vet like, everything has to change.
Speaker 2 (08:45):
And that was the absurd part of my life at
the tail end of or after Kansas City, because I
went four years in New England no kids. Then we
started having kids in Kansas City. Then I went to
from Kansas City, I went to Minnesota for two years,
but the whole family comes and we just had our
third child, my first son, so we're up there with him.
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Then I get traded to Buffalo. I enrolled them in school.
You've got to get a place to live. You got
to do all that stuff before the family comes out.
Then they come out, and then the girls had just
started their first week of school. Now we're going to Dallas.
So then my wife's got to go. She's pregnant. We
got to find a new doctor number one because she's
about to give birth. And we were like three weeks in.
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She gave birth into Dallas, is what I'm saying. So
you got to find new school, new pediatrician, all those things,
and a home to live. So we lived in a
hotel for the first two weeks. I mean it was
my wife's mother, it was a family friend because I
wasn't there. I was trying to grind it. And then
my three kids and we're living in a hotel like
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side by side right there, trying to find a house.
Then we find a house and the next week I
have I'm told you're going to start on the Monday night.
We were at a Sunday night game. You're going to
start this week for your first start, and I was like, whoa.
Then we had a bye week, wife gives birth. It
was just chaotic so then I become a free agent.
I'm here to Tennessee. Whole thing again. You got to
find a house and to find school. It's just there's
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a lot that goes into it, particularly when you have
a family and you've got responsibilities beyond yourself.
Speaker 5 (10:15):
I'm assuming there are teammates though, that think it's going
to be a short run, so they don't move the
family like they play with their team, right and like
that's like work, and then off week, off season, or
the family may come out for a little bit, but
they're still going to school back home, right, Like that's
got to be.
Speaker 6 (10:32):
Happening, though it does happen.
Speaker 2 (10:33):
I've got quite a few buddies that near the end
of their career family was stable at one place. They've
been here for a long period of time, particularly here,
and the family stayed behind. They went and played for season.
The family would fly out on weekends the home games
and do that. It's difficult, I think on the player
themselves because you're always thinking about your family. But at
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the same time they know that it's for a small
period of time. It's good money that I'm making. I've
got to do this, and then once it's all said,
and done. It's done right, and they are able to
come back and this is where they ultimately to live.
They didn't want to uproot the young children. So I
totally understand that aspect because I went through that. At
the very end, I didn't know whether I was going
to continue to play, and I said, if I get
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picked up again, and if I decided to play, I
think the best bet would be for you guys to
stay here and do that because the kids are now
getting a little bit older. School is important just structure wise.
It would just kind of throw them in a tailspin.
Speaker 5 (11:28):
Let's talk about the super Bowl halftime show at the
super Bowl that you were in.
Speaker 6 (11:33):
Who played?
Speaker 5 (11:33):
You know?
Speaker 6 (11:33):
I think it's Tom Petty.
Speaker 4 (11:35):
Did you have any option to like even watch it
on a tiny screen?
Speaker 6 (11:40):
No chance, no chance.
Speaker 2 (11:41):
And that's the thing about I was like, wait, do
we get to like walk out and watch a little
bit of a halftime show because it's a big deal, right, Like, No,
what are you talking about? Castle, You're an idiot? And
I was like, I know, but Tom Petty played. They
said it was a great show, but I didn't get
to see it. No monitors anywhere, No, no, no, you
were in there, just like game planning our stuff. We're
getting ready for the second half, rah, rah, this, that
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and the other. And like I said, it's a long halftime.
It's thirty minutes. So you can hear the base in
the boom, but you can't hear or see anything.
Speaker 5 (12:08):
When you go into the locker room at halftime of
the Super Bowl. Do you immediately go into.
Speaker 6 (12:14):
For example, I'll give a terrible analogy high school football.
Speaker 5 (12:18):
We go, we all send the same floor, and head
coach comes and gives us our comeup ins or your
good jobs, and here's what we're going to do. Or
are you breaking into small because it is longer, right,
are you breaking into small groups differently.
Speaker 6 (12:30):
Than you would during a normal game, or is it
everybody at once?
Speaker 2 (12:32):
No, it's usually what happens is you have an offensive
side and the defensive side. So then the coaches get
together first and foremost, so you might get a chance
to go in, go to the restroom, grab a snack,
do whatever you want to do, and kind of gather yourself,
and then the offense sits together, defense sits together. Then
the coordinators come out and talk about adjustments that then
we want to make in the second half, the themes
that we're seeing occur throughout the first half, and what
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they might do to counterbalance that. So the chess match, right,
and then what we're going to do to come out,
and how we're going to start the second half if
we're getting the ball, if we're not getting the ball,
and so we talk about all those things. Then the
team usually comes together. Head coach addresses the entire team
and it's a hardcore breakdown. Let's go fired up boys,
we're back out on the field. But on those and
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at the super Bowl, when you got an extra fifteen minutes,
it's a little bit longer, so they give you a
little bit more time just to kind of sit with
the guys and talk and do that before you actually
get going.
Speaker 5 (13:26):
My wife is walking Luke and carry down here right now.
Luke Bryan's here, awesome, and my wife knows them.
Speaker 6 (13:32):
We're waiting on Luke to call, but we'll.
Speaker 4 (13:35):
I guess he just kitlin, can I come in?
Speaker 6 (13:39):
That's probably what he did.
Speaker 4 (13:41):
Okay, So country superstar Luke Brian will be joining us
into a.
Speaker 5 (13:44):
Second and now one introduce my friend and he's got
so many freaking number one songs and he's also been
(14:04):
Entertainer of the Year at the CMA's and he's also
an American Idol for like I don't know, seven eight,
twenty seasons and he's just a great guy.
Speaker 4 (14:13):
It is Luke Bryan. Be sure to catch him on
his country Song came On tour.
Speaker 5 (14:18):
The guest that he has opening for him George Burgh, Randall, King, Averyanna,
a bunch of others. It starts in May and New York, Savannah, Dallas, Toronto,
Saint Louis, a bunch of other big cities. Tickets through
on sale now at lukebryan dot com. Here he is
country megastar Luke Bryant. Luke I said before you got here,
I said, I didn't give Luke a lot of direction,
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not needed.
Speaker 3 (14:41):
Yeah, And.
Speaker 4 (14:43):
You know, luckily my wife knows you because I think I.
Speaker 3 (14:48):
Just came up to the front door. You know, I
saw the dogs.
Speaker 6 (14:52):
Just what did they jump? Did you walk in the house?
Speaker 3 (14:53):
Oh? Yeah, but I got my dogs. I mean they're
I mean, essentially, yeah, I'm I'm in your world where
your dogs have kind of ruined your life, but they'
at some point they've added positive aspects too. So dogs
jumping on me as a common when I make my
coffee every morning, my little English cocker that's mine in
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his time for the day, yep, because he meets me
at the coffee pot and while my coffee's making, that's
our little moment. And like, yeah, so I'm good with
dogs jumping on me.
Speaker 6 (15:27):
Okay, then we're all good.
Speaker 5 (15:28):
I just saw you guys coming through and I was like, man,
anybody else I'd be worried, but uh, I don't have
to worry about you.
Speaker 3 (15:34):
No, I'm easy as a get hopefully.
Speaker 6 (15:37):
Okay. A couple of things.
Speaker 4 (15:38):
One, have you ever been to a Super Bowl yet?
Speaker 3 (15:40):
Well? I sing the anthem at the Super Bowl for uh. So,
I grew up a I mean grew up a huge
Falcons fan. I mean being a South Georgia kid. And
my dad's I mean, my dad's just a crazy Falcons fan.
We never missed watch, sitting down watching it together. And
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then so I get the gig to do. We know,
I'm performing the anthem, and then the Falcons get in
and they played the Patriots, and so here it is
I do I do the anthem, which was probably the
most intense situation I've ever been in as far as
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being a performer and then at halftime, my team's up
twenty eight to three, and like, and I mean like,
we're drinking vodka, beer's champagne. We're like, we've just beat
the Patriots. And then so all of that positive drinking
turned into mournful, sorrowful drinking in just two quarters of football.
Speaker 2 (16:49):
At one moment in that game where you're like, oh
my god, the Patriots mate.
Speaker 3 (16:53):
Actually, well it just you could do it come back.
It's funny because we were I was we were talking
about this yesterday. My son's football coach and a new
offensive line coach. We were visiting yesterday and we were
talking about that game, and I just remember hearing the
Patriots fan start to roar in that and uh, I
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guess it was its Reliance stadium. You could just hear
him roar and you could just tell that that the
momentum was shifting. And then and then we got bradied.
And then my I went to another Super Bowl with
Brady when he won, when he wonted Tampa Bay too.
So so yeah, Brady comes out of retirement and he
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wants to win another Super Bowl. I probably need to
be I need to be present, I need to be
in the room hold on, I'm gonna move this a
little closer. But but yeah, what.
Speaker 6 (17:47):
Was so intense?
Speaker 5 (17:49):
I mean, I know why would be intense, but what
was so intense about singing the anthem at the Super Bowl?
Like what elements were around you that aren't normally when
you like tonight you're singing it by the way, the
Predsiga the hockey game.
Speaker 3 (17:59):
Well, one thing is I had had a hiccup doing
the anthem at one point, and I think the anthem
is always challenging. I've probably seen the anthem twenty thirty
times at events, and two of them have been you
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know you it's just the anthem. It's tough. But the
main thing is when you know there's one hundred and
thirty hundred and forty million people watching that moment. And
what was interesting for me is I had to get
to Houston on like Wednesday or Thursday before before Satday.
Speaker 6 (18:43):
That's a lot of days for.
Speaker 3 (18:45):
Well, so you're sitting there and you go run it
on Thursday and I didn't do a I didn't do
any tracks. I didn't do a click tape. I didn't
I mean a click track like if I was going
to be and they needed to time it out, but
I was doing it purely acapella, so I mean, and
I wanted to do it that way, and I wanted
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to be like it was kind of like a little
bit of a personal challenge to me to go and
put myself in such a you know, I think, well,
but I think I think, as you know, throughout my career,
anytime you can challenge yourself to do something that's like,
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that's a challenge. And it was really exciting. But the
biggest hurdles were I get there Thursday, I have tons
of friends there and they're like, hey, come party with us,
Come let's go, you know, and I'm like, no, I'm not.
Speaker 6 (19:40):
I'm not.
Speaker 3 (19:41):
I'm not going to party with y'all Thursday night, Friday night,
Saturday night and roll into the anthem, you know, with
with like, you know, hoarseness. So I really stayed on
I really stayed on structure. But the most nerve wracking
thing is no matter what you know, at six or
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five fifty eight pm, and you know it ain't five
fifty fifty seven, it is five ffty because that thing,
I mean, you know, they got over, they got stealth
bombers banking, and I remember, you know, that morning just
it's it's just like an imminent it's just really really
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stressful and we get to twenty minutes out and uh
and I had already, like I mean, even early in
my career, my first CMA performance is like I remember
those moments where you're like on the borderline of a
panic attack and anxiety and all that. But I stayed
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pretty cool, and I remember walking on the field, walking
out and really got comfortable. Eli Manning won like the
Walter Payton Man a Year award that year, which got
to say hey to Eli. And I was in a
pretty cool space when I went out there. I felt,
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you know, I felt, I knew I wasn't gonna beat
Whitney Houston. And then you know, my main thing was
just go out there. And when I got done with it,
it was like a you know, a big, big pressure valve.
But it was a wild day. I mean it was
a wild day. I mean totally crazy.
Speaker 2 (21:29):
It's the anticipation of it all I can only imagine.
All right, So how long after the anthem did you
have your first cocktail?
Speaker 3 (21:34):
I would say there were there were cocktails waiting in
the suite and my dad and my my father in
law and my wife they were in the suite and
and there, so we we went right into the game.
And by the time I got up there, the game
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and kicked off and we were the Falcons really had
the momentum, and man, we were. I was. Michael Phelps
was in my I met him that night and literally
he had just come off the Olympics and Bobby's been
around me. When when I get you know, get to
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feeling good on the old vodka and I mean Michael
Phelps and I think Michael was like maybe you know,
like it was like dry January for him or something,
so he was and man, I was like, I was
just I.
Speaker 6 (22:34):
Was like, dude, I don't give it.
Speaker 3 (22:36):
You're the baddest. I mean, I was like, you're the baddest.
Speaker 4 (22:39):
You can say whatever you want to say.
Speaker 3 (22:41):
I was like, You're the baddest. I'm like, and I'm
just like hitting him. I'm like, dude, you know, and
I just I mean, and He's just like, okay, man,
thank you, thank you. And then I was like and
it went on, and I think a couple of days
later I got his number and I was like, hey, man,
you know, he's like, oh, we're good, Like you didn't.
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You didn't. You weren't bothering me. You were actually claiming
me to be, uh yeah, the next Messiah or something.
And I was like, well, man, I was telling what
I was saying, but you know, I was a little
lamped up. But he turned out to be a I mean,
it was a fun relationship to get to know him,
but uh, but it was it was a fun day.
I mean, I had the opportunity to go to this.
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I got an invite to go to the super Bowl
this year. But Bobby knows, like we're doing uh, we're
doing Hawaii for idol. I've got to do the waste
management open on I'm playing I guess it's called the
Crow's Nest on on Thursday. I got to come back,
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go to Hawaii, come back. So I was like, man,
I'm just gonna put the big screen on the at
the house, put some ribs on, and watch the watch
the super Bowl with the boys trip.
Speaker 5 (23:53):
Why is it lovely beautiful place we did that for
You've done it way more than me. Right the first
four years that you did it, I was we did
it and we flew out there together.
Speaker 3 (24:02):
Yeah, a couple of times I did a lot that.
Speaker 4 (24:04):
Is a brutally.
Speaker 5 (24:06):
That is once I think I flew, I went, I
was joining you guys late and Lionel was having a
concert and he was like Lionel Richie was like, you
gotta come to the concert.
Speaker 4 (24:17):
And I got such food poisoning on the plane.
Speaker 6 (24:19):
On the way over there.
Speaker 5 (24:19):
I was not able to go to the Linel Richie concert.
That's my worst memory. Secondly was us not having internet
on the flight. Remember the whole flight like twelve hours
no internet.
Speaker 3 (24:28):
Yeah, because you're over the the No, it's because the airline.
Speaker 4 (24:32):
Remember the airline was like, we don't have any internet.
Speaker 3 (24:34):
Oh well, and and it gets you better have your net.
You better have all your shows. Yes, yeah, downloaded, downloaded
for that. And then you know the time that you
flew with me, you and your wife had just met
and you.
Speaker 4 (24:50):
Always stopped over in ls R for like ten minutes.
Speaker 3 (24:52):
You rapped in the you stopped in in the FBO
and y'all and that was the y'all had just got
about that.
Speaker 2 (24:59):
Luke was like, you need to marry her and she
come with you guys on the I was like that
would have been a super big I was living in.
Speaker 4 (25:05):
California and we stopped in California and she came.
Speaker 3 (25:08):
In to us. Yeah, my plane. We had to refuel
in in LA and Bobby was like, how long? How
long is the refuel process? You know it's young love.
I forgot about that, and I said, why do you ask?
And he goes He's like, oh, there's somebody I've been
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talking to out here. She may come over, and you know,
come over. I didn't know they were going to have
sex in the pilot's lounge, so.
Speaker 4 (25:38):
I wish that'd have been awesome.
Speaker 6 (25:40):
I wish that would have happened.
Speaker 3 (25:41):
No, I don't think that happened. But we went and
did a little food run and then come back and
they got to visit a little bit, but we refuelled
and took on off to Hawaii.
Speaker 4 (25:51):
So who was your favorite player A Falcon favorite player
going up?
Speaker 3 (25:54):
Man Dion Sanders was just I mean, I go back to,
like my first memories were Steve bark Kowski as the quarterback.
That was as a player, Billy White Shoes Johnson. I mean,
how do you not as a five year old kid
cheer for Billy White Shoes Johnson and then through and
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then when we got Don, I just and it was
like the whole mc hammer, Dion two legit to quit
days and where the Falcons really flipped over into like
the Black Jerseys and Jerry Glanville he had his Harley
and and you know, being a Falcons fan was pretty Uh,
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they're the dirty bird, right, well, they became the dirty
So even in the Dion in the Dion era, the
dirty Birds hadn't even started. The dirty Birds only started
when the first time, when we the year that we
beat Minnesota to go into our first Super Bowl. But
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so yeah, the Don the Don years were when and
and you know people don't remember this, but Dion was
really he agreed to be a Falcon. You know, we
were just losing our minds as Falcons fans. And then
like his first game, like that week he had hit
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a home run for the Yankees flew and his and
I think I'm remembering this properly. His first he may
have filled it a punt and fair catched it, but
his first attempt at a punt return, he tries to
fill the ball, drops the ball, picks it up and
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takes it to the house. And at that moment, Dion
Sanders owned every I mean, he owned the state of
Georgia and then went on to be Atlanta Bras. That
was pretty special stuff.
Speaker 6 (27:54):
It is incredible when any think about Den.
Speaker 2 (27:56):
All Right, I know that you're a big Georgia Bulldog
fan as well, So you've got to have a little
love for the Eagles right now, you know, because their
whole entire defense is Georgia Bullden.
Speaker 3 (28:07):
Yeah, you know, I'm yeah, somebody just had and listen.
I really, I really I don't have any I don't
have any ill will against the Chiefs. Over the summer,
Josh Allen and I play a little golf together and
got you know, got to play in some golf. So
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I really want to see Josh Allen hopefully get get
beyond that Chief's hurdle. But I feel like just with
the the way the Eagles have built their team with
so many Georgia Bulldogs, it's really gonna be uh, it's
gonna be really hard for me not to pull for them.
And when I think na Kobe Dean went down with
(28:52):
a knee injury, it was really sad to see. But yeah,
I mean ninety currently, ninety percent of my football like
bandwidth in my brain is really dedicated to what George
is doing. And gotten to be really really good friends
with Kirby through the years, and and he's just he's
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just a great dude, like one of the best hangs
in the world. And he's just you when you meet
these coaches that have that power to motivate and speak,
and it's it's been fun getting to know Kirby.
Speaker 4 (29:32):
I was talking about the time you brought the heisman
over to the.
Speaker 3 (29:34):
House gotten ah, well, the go ahead, well, and I.
Speaker 5 (29:39):
Was trying to explain to them and I didn't have
all the details that it was Tibo's heisman and you
guys had a bet and you had my bulldog like
Peanut Butter off the heisman. But I would like for
you to tell this story in its entirety because I'm
sure I left out some details.
Speaker 3 (29:53):
Well, t Bow, So we have a charity event at
my house for the Brett Boyer Foundation, and t Bow
has been as Tebow is, he's been just a champion
and has been to several of our events at the house.
Well this particular, this particular year Tebow auctions. The beauty
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of te Bow is that he's like, I don't want
to sit there and just stare at my heisman. So
he takes this heisman to charity events and auctions it
off for the year, and he's he does it at
multiple charities, so his heisman is never at his house
and he grabs it and well, my wife bid it,
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and my wife bid for the heisman in one and
I'm like, and at our own charity event, and I'm
just rolling my eyes. But so the heisman, his heisman
stayed at the house, which I tell people at the time,
I was a little frustrated at what she paid for,
but having the heisman at your house, Like, I kept
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it in my songwriting room and I'd have these songwriters
come over and you know, they're like settling in, they're
getting their laptops out, and they're like, is that a heisman?
And I'm like, it's Tim Tebow's heisman. And then we
went to the story. Well, so, in an effort to
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I'm blanking on your dogs in that day, Stanley, So
in an effort to kind of me and Tibo were
gonna have some fun on socials. It was a big
Georgia Florida week and I said, Tibo, we need to
really like, we need to hype this Georgia Florida rivalry
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and I called him up and I said, hey, why
don't you steal my CMA because I had one Entertainer
of the Year that year. So once you steal my
CMA award and you'll have it to do you know,
kind of trash talking things, and then I'll do some
stuff with your heisman. And certainly I was like, who
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do I know with an English bulldog? And then I
called Bobby and we came over here with Stanley. But
it was a fun moment for Tim and I and
I think, uh, I think Georgia's probably about five and
one against the dogs since Tebow and I have started
our kind of our bromance together. So I'm doing pretty well.
But it's gonna take a lot of years for me
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to get over what Tbou did to us when he
was at Georgia's, I mean when he was at Florida.
Speaker 5 (32:41):
So, yeah, my dog like Liak peanut butter off the
Heisman if it was like a bulldog.
Speaker 6 (32:44):
That's a good movie.
Speaker 3 (32:45):
Yeah. Oh we were like yeah, so we we were
having fun with it. And uh, like I said, we
never I never got a never got a call. Maybe
t BO got a call from from from uh the
Heisman people. Maybe saying, you know, that's enough enough. But
a funny joke is Adam Will wrote she was a
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He played for the Braves and was a first baseman
for ten or twelve years in the big leagues. Adam
would stay in my barn in Tim's Heisman trophy case.
Lived in the barn, and Adam had a His signature
thing was to draw penises everywhere. He drew them all
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over my barn. He drew them on the all the
rear view, all the flip down mirrors on all of
our cars. But he does a great job with the
penis drawings. They're like, they're not your typical penis, they're
a little extra. Well, he drew one on t Bow's
heisman case with what a sharpie did he really? So
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t Bo's like what is that?
Speaker 6 (33:53):
And I'm like, what do you think it is? It's
pretty self explanatory to the right.
Speaker 3 (34:00):
So yeah, I mean, man, it's it's a zoo around
my place. You never you know, you never know, And
still to this day we have like there's you know,
there's a little we'll pull up in a closet door
in the barn and we find, you know, we find
new penises every day.
Speaker 6 (34:17):
So that Adam Drew.
Speaker 2 (34:34):
So CMAS, you you host, that is that nerve wracking
you're with Peyton. Let's see it looks like it just
comes off effortless between you two.
Speaker 3 (34:42):
Yeah. I mean year one, I hosted it by myself
and that was pretty That was another one of those
situations where you get the call and you're like, wow,
I got the call on this and I can't believe
I'm in a situation where I can host the CMAS.
(35:03):
So yeah, we roly and year one did it by myself,
and then they reached out. The big joke was you know,
you did great, you did so great. Yeah, You're gonna
do it with Peyton Manning next year. I'm like, I did?
Did I do it? Anyway? But so Peyton and I started,
and then obviously Lanie Wilson hosted with us last year.
(35:26):
But Peyton and we've we've had a great time doing
that together. And through that Peyton and I, Peyton and
I have kind of we tried to do a couple
of golf trips a year and and Peyton has uh
had me uh you know on some golf trips with
Eli and Cooper and man, you know, when you're on
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a golf trip with those guys. It's pretty pretty fun stuff.
And I've gotten to, you know, meet Peyton's dad several times,
and man, what a what a really really special family
they are And when you look at their their fingerprint
on NFL and sports and media, what they're doing is
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pretty incredible. I mean, I went to the I went
to the Georgia Old Miss game this year and and
Peyton found out I was there, and I had never
done I'd never been to Oxford for a game. So
we get the tour bus and my we get my boys,
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we load them up and we're all amped up to
go to Georgia Old Miss. Pull up on the bus
and and it was kind of like my my one
big week because I think I only had like one
chance to go watch the Dogs, and uh, well, Archie
had found out that I was there, and Peyton's like, hey,
(36:51):
my dad knows you're there. He wants to see you.
And I'm like, okay, well that I'm kind of like,
I'm kind of like, yeah, okay, maybe, I mean, it's
a lot like it's it's Archie knows I'm there, but like,
well then about well, I'd never been to the grove.
So we just get a security guy and we go
(37:13):
into the middle of the grove and it's like so fun.
It's chaos. It had rain. It was raining that day.
I mean, you know, people were trump and running mud
and taking you know, there's moonshine pass around. It was
the grove and uh, well then I look at my
phone and Peyton's like, hey, literally like my dad is
(37:35):
where are you my dad? And I was like, oh,
I get it. He does want to see me. So
got to go to the game and took my boys
on the sideline and then got to hang with Archie
and you know in in when you're when you're at
Old miss in Archie manning suite, I guess it's probably
well there's manning Way and then there's it's probably manning Field,
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I'm assuming, but it's pretty pretty cool to be there
with him. And he's so engaging and what a what
a figure, you know, what a great what a great dude.
Speaker 5 (38:05):
I remember a conversation you and I had about music.
It's been four or five years ago, and you were going,
you know, because at the time, top of the world
still are It's gonna be my point, but you were
like you were like, you know, it's about time for
our generation to kind of give way to the younger.
And you were just talking about the natural cycles of artists, right,
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and it was a bit of you going, you know,
things can be slowing down pretty soon. Maybe I'm gonna
slow down. But I was looking at your last four
they're just as big as they were then.
Speaker 3 (38:35):
Well, the situation that I will fight for currently in
a long time is my boys are sixteen and fourteen.
My nephew's twenty three. I really missed. I've done all
I can to hit all the sports stuff. But when
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let's just say from twenty ten to twenty twenty two
or twenty one in fifty sixty seventy shows a year,
you know, last year I dialed it back to thirty
five or forty shows. I cleared all my Friday nights
in the fall for Bo and Tate. They're both Tate
is a rising ninth grader and they're getting up every
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morning doing football workouts. So anything that I've done career
career wise to do less shows is totally really my best.
I'm doing my best at moving stuff around to be
at more sports stuff. But you say that, I mean
last year my summer tours were and that's like they
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were as good as they've ever been, which I wake
up every day and I'm so thankful, thankful that I'm
not going to a twenty thousand seat amphitheater and there's
seven thousand people out there and that and thank god,
uh that hasn't happened, and and and as long as
(40:12):
I can feel that, I'm like imported, imported to a
certain extent and relevant. It's really fun to go do
do the shows.
Speaker 5 (40:21):
I mean, you're putting yourself out the pasture. And I
was like I was talking about and then again I
was looking at because we were talking about your tornament
ago and where people can get tickets and some of
my friends are opening and all this stuff, and I
was like, there as big now as they were then
in five years before that. And for that, sustainability is
so rare, especially when you sit in front of me,
were like, I think it's so I think I'm going
to start to have the less people and less people
(40:42):
aren't coming.
Speaker 3 (40:43):
Well, you know what's interesting when you look at like
when you look at like where Morgan Wallen and where
Morgan and Luke Colmb's are and even jelly Roll, I
mean jelly Roll and these and and I'm only just
bringing up uh the male artist, but and even Laney
and all that. When and what was interesting is my
(41:07):
three or four years that I did stadiums, I didn't
realize there were still people that couldn't get into the
stadiums that missed the show because we were selling out
stadiums like that. Well, then we went and did double
amphitheaters like for two years, which was like way like
so much. That was more fun than stadiums because at
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double amphitheaters, we wouldn't have to like we wouldn't have
to move our whole circus. So if we were in
Tampa for two nights, then we'd have all the bus
drivers and truck drivers and we'd cater in food and
have a DJ come in and it was like a
tour party. And now as i've as I'm in this
(41:53):
part of my career, yeah, I mean, when I go
to Tampa and we can, we can sell out Tampa
or Boston or whatever, or northern California. And what's funny
is I didn't We missed some cities this year that
will probably go hit next year. But some of those
cities are like pissed at me. So it's as long
as as long as you know people are doing that stuff,
(42:18):
I will. I'll I'm guilty of loving. Like when you
look at somebody like you, Matt, I mean as a
as an NFL player or a sports guy. You guys
have have a shelf life. And that's the unfortunate. Me
and Chipper Jones got to be good buddies. And when
I talked to Chipper, He's like, man, I want to
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play three more years, but these old knees. When I
was like, man, it's just I remember processing Chipper, when
y'all love sports as much as I love being on stage,
and as much as you love what you do, Bobby,
and as long as I can, you know, as long
(43:01):
as my voice holds up, which I've tried to smoke
cigars and drink enough to mess that up, and it's
like it's it's pretty sturdy. But I've always really had
a soft spot for athletes that have a shelf life.
And I've always laid awake at night going, thank God,
I can. I can do this for a long time
because you know, when you look at all the great
(43:24):
athletes throughout history that you know, they they probably played
one year longer than they should have, but just they
love it. It's a part of your it's a part
of your DNA and who you are. Like at this point,
I never did music to like fulfill this ego or like,
(43:44):
I never did it to like to fulfill this to
you know, pour something into and to try to fulfill it.
I just did it because heck, I just loved love
being up there, you know, and love love all the
all the little you know, the different cities and the
(44:05):
different towns, and so as long as I can do
that at this level and really be creative with music
and try to be a little bit better guitar player
or singer every year, you know, it's I'm gonna still
try to try to do all that. So it's pretty
pretty crazy when when we keep having really really solid
(44:26):
years and what really what really kind of hurts me
a little bit about last year is I did do
I did Atlanta, and I did Atlanta and I did Wrigley.
So I did Truest Park in Wrigley in those two weeks.
I mean, I went half the year with like this
borderline pneumonia thing that I thought in those two shows,
(44:47):
I struggled through them, and I'm like, ugh, my two
stadiums that I sold out, Thank god I sold them out.
I wasn't one hundred percent as a singer, but the
fans still kind of had my back and we had
a great time.
Speaker 2 (44:59):
But when you started out as an artist, did you
ever envision this type of success in your career? Because
I think even for me as a young athlete, right,
you come in, you someday hope, right then you make
it and it's just kind of like that aha moment
won the first part of the question, did you ever
envision yourself there?
Speaker 6 (45:17):
But two? When? What was your aha moment? Like I've
made it.
Speaker 3 (45:22):
I never you know, I set goals. I had an
apartment down in Franklin, and I had a dry race board,
and I never will forget. I wrote, write a number
one song, performing number one song, CMA Award, ACM Award,
play the Grand Old Opry, you know, win this. And
(45:44):
I wrote twenty things and I wrote them down, and
damn it if I didn't do them all, and I did.
I guess you go into it blindly like naively ignorant.
Maybe I think with me, I always took every I
(46:09):
always took every little step along the way as a win.
I never looked back and I never was complaining about
what I didn't have going on. I just was like, well,
I wrote one number one song this year and I
had a top five as an artist. I wasn't pissed
that it wasn't a number one. And then my second
(46:30):
single died at thirty five, which totally like recalibrated my
trajectory of my career. It kind of stalled me for
about a year and a half because we didn't need
another one to be unsuccessful. And I went into my
label and Mike Dungan, the president of my label, I
(46:53):
turned six songs in. He didn't I wasn't getting my
positive response from the six songs. He kind of roughed
me up a little bit. And then I and wrote
do I and Range is a good thing and that
got my momentum going. And then Country Girls Shake It
from Me was when which people don't realize this. It
(47:16):
didn't go number one, it was like a top five,
but it was such a it was such a statement
song and became so much of like what the country
music fans they were like, we know kind of that
dude's vibe. We know that this guy's the fun guy
(47:39):
that likes to throw the party in the at the concerts,
and so at that point, I'm just at that point,
I'm just kind of taking taking what I'm getting and
not even realizing, not even realizing that this album did this,
(47:59):
and you know, we would have these parties and everybody's
handing you plaques of streaming and all this, and I'm
just like, oh, thank you. Thinking then, so you're kind
of in the middle, and I would imagine, I mean
you Bobby has experienced that too, where it's just like
and then you two when you're in it, you're just
you're not really processing it. But I had I had.
(48:24):
I had fun at every level. I had fun when
we were in a fifteen passenger van with a U
haul trailer playing for Turn I mean, playing a college
bars and frat you know, backyards at frat houses. And
then when I played the biggest you know, when I
went up to Indianapolis and played the biggest nightclub there
(48:45):
and sold it out. So when you're when you have
two three hits and you go sell out two thousand
seat honky tonks and nightclubs, You're like, this is the
greatest day. Of my life. I just sold out, you know,
the biggest thing in Charlotte, North Carolina, and you just
take each you know, you take each little, each, little
(49:08):
levels as you know, wow, and then it was a
it was a ride. But now you look back and
even we were watching, uh, we were kind of tinkering
with a little spring Break documentary thing from when I
did my spring Break shows and my last one was
(49:28):
ten years ago, and I look at I mean, I can't.
I'm just like only ten years ago. It didn't. It didn't.
It feels like like twenty years ago maybe, And my
body certainly looked like I was like, God, look, God,
damn skinny I was, But I was probably I was
skinny because you know, doing two hundred shows a year,
(49:49):
you're not you know, you're just running and gunning, working out, eating,
you know, and all that. But I'm like, and I
guess to Bobby's point, maybe I was trying to set
myself up as if things if things do taper off,
I can kind of mentally prepare, if you know, not
(50:10):
to not to. I never wanted to be the old
guy that just is just just grumpy and just like ah,
you know, like even like the guys that just go wha,
it ain't want it what it once was. You know,
you should have seen how we did it. We were
the best. We you know, we used to you know,
(50:32):
write songs, you know, in the back of a whatever.
I mean, my I mean, I don't maybe I'll do that,
but I just think every generation is different in new
and fresh for their generation. And that's the generation.
Speaker 6 (50:47):
So final question.
Speaker 5 (50:48):
And by the way, we mentioned your tours and it'll
be on the show notes as well. How to get
tickets Lukebrian dot com at your house. If a favorite
piece of sports memorabilia that it's either yours or somebody else's.
Speaker 3 (51:01):
A man, let me think of my favorite once Tim
Tebow's heisman got got got put back in the penis crate. Yeah.
If you're just tuning in, you need to go. You
need to go listen to the front part of the uh.
But there's a special jersey that at the time Todd
(51:28):
Gurley and a guy na and a running back named
Keith Marshall. They made a three and a four because
they were because Gurley was three and Marshall was four
at Georgia and they both signed it. But Herschel's number
was thirty four, so I got to get Herschel to
(51:50):
sign it. So that's when I when people see that,
they're like, well, is that a Herschel jersey, And I'm like, no,
it's actually Todd Gurley and Keith Marshall put them together
because that year Keith they both went on to play.
I think, did you ever play with Keith Marshall anywhere?
I thought he may have went through New England at
one point, But so that that was a pretty cool one.
(52:12):
I need to I think I've got a Dell Earnhardt signed,
like little die cast number three Dell Earnhart that he signed,
which is is pretty cool. I've got a I've got
a signed Chevy Chase Christmas vacation photo that Chevy Chase signed.
(52:37):
He's wearing the Santa Claus hat. That's pretty It's not
sports memorabilea, but it's pretty uh pretty iconic. But but yeah,
the the Todd Gurley and the Keith Marshall wents pretty
pretty special. And I got to do a I got
to do like a a sports a sports cast, and
and Keith Marshall was on it and told him about that. So, uh,
(53:00):
sports have been really important in my life, and I
was always an athletic little kid. But everybody else grew
and I didn't. I didn't grown till I was seventeen,
and thank God because that's why I picked up the guitar.
But when I look at me and my children and
how there there. I mean, I think when you work
(53:20):
hard at sports and you see the you see the
your hard work get you know, validated on the field,
it's pretty pretty special stuff. So my boys are in
the thick of it.
Speaker 4 (53:34):
Well, we appreciate you coming by it. Love you, Thank y'all.
Speaker 3 (53:36):
I love y'all. This is awesome.
Speaker 5 (53:37):
Good luck over at the at that stadium hole, oh yeah,
at waste Management.
Speaker 3 (53:44):
Yeah, I'm going for you. Is it number seventeen, I
believe so.
Speaker 6 (53:49):
I think it's seventeen, and there's gonna be a lot
of well, I.
Speaker 3 (53:52):
Just want to be there.
Speaker 2 (53:53):
You know.
Speaker 3 (53:53):
Every year, the I think every year there's a streaker year.
You know, last year the dude, you know, and they
always have the nineteenth hole pointed to their butt crack.
So I hope I can get a glimpse of whoever
de sads streaked this year. Be pretty damn funny.
Speaker 6 (54:08):
Go watch Luke. He does. He's awesome live.
Speaker 3 (54:11):
Thank y'all.
Speaker 4 (54:11):
All the notes go go see Luke.
Speaker 6 (54:13):
All the links are up.
Speaker 3 (54:14):
Luke. Good to see you, Buddy, Good to see y'all.
Speaker 2 (54:16):
Thank you.
Speaker 5 (54:32):
Thanks again to Luke Bryan for coming by. I've known
that dude forever. He's never changed. I mean, he's awesome.
It's funny. The fact they just walked through the house
is hilarious because our studio is not even at the house,
and then he always stays regardless of what's going on,
if it's at the studio, if it's because we again
we worked together four years on American Idol, like he
(54:55):
stays and just tells stories after every time. So we
got the benefit of that today too. So thanks to
Luke Bryan for coming by. So we'll be from the
super Bowl next episode later on this week, probably Friday, maybe.
Speaker 6 (55:09):
Saturday, whatever the case is.
Speaker 5 (55:10):
But we'll be out there and I'm very much looking
forward to it. Are you going to that fancy commissioners thing?
Speaker 6 (55:17):
I am perfect. I am.
Speaker 5 (55:18):
It's gonna be awesome and I won't feel like the
only person that doesn't belong.
Speaker 4 (55:23):
I always have a friend that does belong.
Speaker 6 (55:25):
No, no, I definitely don't belong there.
Speaker 2 (55:27):
Let's be honest. When they said the commission, I was like, really,
this is a big time deal. The only reason I
was invited because you're invited. That's not true because I've
never been invited before in my life and even when
I was a player, So I know that it's because
of you.
Speaker 6 (55:41):
So thanks for that.
Speaker 4 (55:41):
Are you taking a suit?
Speaker 6 (55:43):
Yes? I remember the other night I was like, is
this black tivan?
Speaker 5 (55:46):
Because I just should have said yes, or I should
have said Hawaiian shirt. Yeah, that would have been funny, supernatural, casual.
Speaker 6 (55:53):
Yes. I walk in all the owners everybody's.
Speaker 2 (55:55):
In just full black tie, and I'm like, oh my god,
that would have been actually great.
Speaker 6 (56:00):
I would appreciated that.
Speaker 4 (56:01):
Luke was talking about playing the waste management.
Speaker 5 (56:03):
Have you done one of the fancy big golf tournaments
to play one of the part three holes.
Speaker 2 (56:07):
Well, I played Tahoe Tahoe Tournament, the American Century Tahoe Tournament,
and there is pressure, like you get the warm up round.
I think it was Thursday, and it's Friday, Saturday, Sunday
something like that.
Speaker 6 (56:18):
Way too much golf for me. I'm not a good golfer.
Speaker 2 (56:21):
I was like three above Charles Barkley at one point
like that that's where my my I just went downhill
right because the night time you're partying, you're having so
much fun. But then they get to that par three
and I forget what it is is it?
Speaker 6 (56:34):
I don't know.
Speaker 2 (56:35):
It's like right on the water, all the boats are
pulled up and you've got a bunch of people that
just follow these guys around. I hit somebody, but it
knocked my ball back onto the green.
Speaker 6 (56:44):
I was like, yes, and it's.
Speaker 2 (56:46):
Like literally roped it to the left and it goes boom,
hits off somebody's leg, goes onto the green. I was like,
I went and apologized, signed something or did that for him,
and then I went up.
Speaker 6 (56:57):
I was like, that was awesome. Did you know it
hit somebody? When you hit somebody, I.
Speaker 2 (57:01):
Knew it was either going to be way out there.
But then I heard people go oh, And I walked
up and the you know, they've got staff out there
to go check these people, so particularly on the part three,
because everybody's right there and so they are already kind
of checking. So I went over to check, and sure enough,
I hit somebody right in the leg. I think it
was a guy and but the ball ricocheted off him.
It hit him hard enough to where it went onto
the green. I was like, oh, this couldn't have worked
(57:22):
out better.
Speaker 5 (57:22):
I was playing the Pebble Beach pro am was lucky
enough to get invited to that, and that's going to
be hard too. It's nerve wracking because again, I'm not
a good golf I'm a fine golfer at times, right,
but I'm not naturally a good golfer. And I'd really
played a lot leading up to it, and I was
probably shooting mid eighties, which is the best that consistently
I've ever been. So I go and the day before
(57:46):
the tournament, you go and you play this part three
competition and Jim Nantz is calling it.
Speaker 6 (57:51):
That's cool.
Speaker 5 (57:51):
And so you're on the t box and Jim nance
is right beside you and he's like, up next.
Speaker 4 (57:58):
And I had a show on Peacock at the time.
Speaker 5 (58:01):
This was an NBC thing called Snake in the Grass
And he's like the host of Snake in the Grass
us and nationally syndicated. And I can hear it because
he's from me to you that wall, right, and there
are people everywhere, and like Eric Church is about it
after me and Nate forgot see that the lead singer
of train just hit and everybody's in groups and the
winner of each group goes to the finals and the
(58:22):
competes for the championship. And I just didn't want to
kill anybody, right because I know I'm not good enough
to win the thing. So I get up. It's like
slow motion. I can hear jim nance vividly, and I'm like, well,
just trust.
Speaker 4 (58:41):
The work, Just trust the work, trust it.
Speaker 6 (58:44):
But also such a gift.
Speaker 5 (58:46):
Just I'm like begging myself because I don't get nervous
that often. Occasionally I will be nervous for things, but
generally I love things that make me nervous because I've
done a lot of stuff and I've succeeded and also
failed miserably. And at the end of the day, the
sun comes up and you go on with life. And
I think that's real superpower to know that regardless of
what happens, life moves on. And so I'm like, Son's
(59:08):
coming up tomorrow if you hit a gooder bed. But
I still tremble a little bit. And I switched balls,
and I decided to change balls, and I put a
pink ball down instead, and they're like in the pink ball, and.
Speaker 4 (59:19):
I hear it and it sounds so clean, and I.
Speaker 5 (59:23):
Don't see it because your head zone, because my nerves
and my eyes were sweaty.
Speaker 4 (59:27):
I mean, that's why I wish it were that.
Speaker 5 (59:29):
I was so focused and I hear the guy goes, oh,
it's up there.
Speaker 4 (59:33):
Boom, it lands rolls by the hole and it's like
eight feet.
Speaker 6 (59:37):
I come. I stuck it.
Speaker 4 (59:39):
It's one of my greatest athletic achievements.
Speaker 6 (59:41):
Stuck it.
Speaker 5 (59:42):
And so I go to the finals and I compete
in the finals and I finished like fourth or something.
Speaker 6 (59:46):
I'm not sure. It doesn't matter.
Speaker 4 (59:47):
I made it a I'm feeling good about myself.
Speaker 6 (59:48):
You finished for how many contestants?
Speaker 4 (59:50):
Well, it was all celebrities, so it's like, right, forty celebrities.
Speaker 6 (59:53):
Probably you finished well.
Speaker 5 (59:56):
But if you won your heat. I won my heat
because you get two balls.
Speaker 6 (01:00:01):
That's impressive. Wait, so I.
Speaker 5 (01:00:04):
Won my heat and then I'm I'm down and it's cool,
and I didn't win the whole thing, but I didn't
think I should be in the finals. So the next day,
I feeling really good about myself and I'm playing and
there's a part of three and all the cameras are
out and I'm like, first two holes have been great, right,
And I was like, I'm about to stick Like I
was just feeling so confident.
Speaker 4 (01:00:24):
Boom, I hit it up and I see.
Speaker 5 (01:00:26):
It and it's not really over the green, but the
wind was blowing and I'm left handed. I got a
natural look and I see the ball hit and then
roll onto the green and it kind of it was
kind of off to the side. I much in a
rock or something, and that's like a fun event where
you walking, you give everybody. I'm going crazy giving everybody
high fives running through and I got back to get
my club. I hit a girl on the face. Oh yeah,
(01:00:47):
she was. I had too much confidence from that day before.
She was like in the side green gallery. Hit her
right in the face and like yours, rickycheta right onto
the middle of the green.
Speaker 6 (01:00:57):
Not my best achievement.
Speaker 5 (01:00:59):
I think I still part of the hole, yeh, off
of her face. But that that one was embarrassing.
Speaker 6 (01:01:03):
You know.
Speaker 2 (01:01:03):
It's funny because I was at that Taho te Marcus
Allen is up on the tee box and there's a
par three. Well, his girlfriend at the time was walking,
She's wearing all white. He hooks this ball, ball hits
her directly on the top of her head. But not
only did it hit her on the top of the head,
it's split her head open. So she's got this all
white on I mean blood everywhere. And so he obviously
(01:01:24):
everybody comes out checks on her medical tent and he
he goes over, but he's in the middle of a round.
Speaker 6 (01:01:29):
So he checks on her and he's like, all right,
I'm gonna go.
Speaker 2 (01:01:31):
I think he probably said like, I'm so sorry, but
I got to finish this round. He went back played,
she had to go. I see her later that night.
She's got staples in her back of her head, and
I was like, oh gosh, because that's my worst nightmare.
She's like truly injuring somebody and those But how do
you not, as a fan like sit there and.
Speaker 6 (01:01:47):
Go, I've got a real risk. I just watch I've
got a real risk. Yeah.
Speaker 5 (01:01:50):
I did maintenance on a golf course for a long time,
and so doing maintenance and having to take care of greens,
I get so mad if I'm playing someone hits on us,
because I just get trunk, like Trump from watching all
of us workers get this smacked with golf balls. All right,
it's almost we're going to do another show before the
super Bowl, so we don't even have to be like
who's gonna win. But I'm still sticking with the Chiefs
(01:02:15):
and you are.
Speaker 2 (01:02:17):
I'm torn. I'm torn, Bobby, I'm torn. You know that
I'm sticking with the Chiefs because there you go. I'm
sticking with the Chiefs because last week I said Bills
and it took all of me to say that. But
you want the Chiefs, and I agree with you. You
got to beat the Chiefs in order to become the champion.
Until you do, until you can prove it, I'm going
(01:02:38):
with the Chiefs.
Speaker 6 (01:02:40):
We're done.
Speaker 4 (01:02:41):
Thank you for listening.
Speaker 5 (01:02:42):
Please, if you're listening to this on one of the
other feeds that's not our own feed, which has lots
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loss to say.
Speaker 6 (01:02:50):
Thanks to Luke Bryant.
Speaker 4 (01:02:51):
He's Matt Cassell, I'm Bobby Jones. Thanks to our head
of photography, read Yarberry.
Speaker 5 (01:02:55):
Thanks to our executive producer, mister Kevin O'Connell, not the coach,
that's our guy.
Speaker 6 (01:02:59):
Kicked off Kevin.
Speaker 4 (01:03:00):
Thank you guys and We've had lots to say.
Speaker 6 (01:03:02):
See you later this week.
Speaker 1 (01:03:10):
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