March 1, 2021 • 13 mins
On this episode of the Cody Cast Podcast, Luke Bryan checks in on Cody Alan after learning about Cody’s COVID-19 diagnosis. It’s safe to say that everyone is on the upswing. Listen in to hear the country superstar tell secrets behind his skivvies ad, overshare what his wife, Caroline, thinks of his Jockey underwear, and give fans a sneak peek into what’s coming down the line.
Plus: Luke reveals how he is bonding with his fellow judges on American Idol this season.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
This is Cody Allen's podcast. This is Cody Cast. So
the beginning of February, I had COVID and talked to
Luke Brian, who was, UM, We're already chatted a little
bit about my symptoms and stuff beforehand, but that's the
beginning of this conversation with Luke. Good news is I'm
fine now, thank you, um, and feeling great. So let's
(00:23):
roll our Luke conversation most recently from February. How you doing,
I'm good. How are you doing? I'm good. How you feeling?
Thank you for asking. I'm feeling okay. I've suffered through
the like the weekend and you know, I'm well into
a week now. I can't taste or smell at this point.
That's the only thing I'm still suffering with. Really. That's weird, though.
(00:44):
Have you ever had a sensation where you cannot taste
or smell anything. It's like, it's so strange. Now. My
wife actually, when she had COVID, she was very excited
about not being able to smell because of me. Well,
I get that part. But when you see a big
if you'd like our fart and amason jar and send
it to you and then you just every morning check
(01:06):
it and the day you smell it, just that'll be
your first smell. When you see a big old slice
of pizza and you can't taste it when you put
it in your mouth. It's weird. It is weird. Man. Yeah,
anything that would motivate me not to taste and eat
and all that, I probably need that more never right now? Yeah,
same here. I feel like the after the coronavirus a year,
(01:27):
we've had the pandemic year. I mean, yeah, I'm with
you on that. So I'm trying to eat things I
wouldn't normally eat, trying to like slim down a little bit.
Speaking of um, we saw the underwear commercial on the
Super Bowl on how much grief have you taken over that? Well?
I mean it's like, you know, if anybody wants to
make fun of me for you know, being in my
(01:49):
jockeys and maybe they just need to call my account
it no man, you know it's I tell you what
I mean. Um, First of all, you're you're gonna wear underwear, right,
I mean, unless you know there's some people out there
(02:10):
doing some some some hefty free balling. Um. But um,
but you know what I mean. The jockey partnership. When
when when when I learned about the company and the
values of the company, I mean, it's a hundred forty
four year old company and it's just got it just
felt right and we you know, any time. I mean,
(02:31):
I've been in wonderful partnerships through the years, and I've
been in partnerships where they could really you know, they
just wanted to put my face, put the product out there,
and there was really no emotional you know. Well with Jockey,
I mean, we were were having fun planning stuff together
and we we hope to have a really long future
together as a partnership. And the fact that I could
(02:54):
be in the commercials with Caroline and watch her, I mean, heck,
she impressed the hell out of me. And she was
she did a great job kind of being an actress
and and we had fun on set and you know
for it too, you know, when when we're shooting the
Jockey ads, and obviously I knew that I would I would,
you know, it would probably be me and jeans and
(03:15):
a T shirt. I'm not quite ready to just go,
you know, just to to you know, lay it all
out there and just and just the Undy's. But but anyway,
I mean when when when it makes it to the
super Bowl and stuff like that, you're it's when you're
it's just you know, it's pretty uh, pretty mind boggling,
and and just been been real fun working with John. Yeah,
(03:36):
you were at the super Bowl as well. You. Um,
I saw the photo you and Caroline posted in the
I guess the press box there. So, um, who would
you run into while you were there? Other famous people? Yeah,
I mean I got to meet actually I met Mike Tyson,
which was which which was a trip, I mean, very
very cordial, very nice. I didn't get a picture with
(03:57):
him because he had actually he gotten in kind of
a stressful situation getting into the stadium and some of
the guys that were with him. It's kind of hard
to hide Mike Tyson, you know, even even if he's
wearing a mask. And so when he got into the UM,
when he got into the Um, the suite we were in,
he looked a little flustered. So I didn't wanna. I
(04:19):
didn't want to um like germ him with a picture,
so I didn't. I didn't take a picture. But then
I did get to meet Shock, which was which was man,
I mean, it was you know, I've I've I've obviously
always been a big fan of him and his personality,
and um, it was I mean, but you know, you
can never mentally prepare yourself for meeting Shack because you
(04:41):
always imagine how big he's gonna be, and then he's
actually bigger than you. Um, you know, he's actually bigger
than you anticipated. So he's you know, he's got a
picture with him and and uh, it was funny. I
looked at him, and you know, he's got a he's
got like a a you know, we're both wearing like buffs,
(05:02):
like not a mask, but we have our you know,
like a like a buff that in anyway, Um, he
he looks at me, and I can tell he kind
of knows who I am. And I'm like, uh, I'm like,
hey man, I'm Luke. And he's like and he points
at me, you know, and he's like, oh, I got you.
I know who you are. And I'm like, sweet, Shack
(05:23):
knew who I was. So you know, we had a
little moment and it took a picture, and it was
it was great to meet. That's how I feel every
time I'm around you were like, oh Cody, right, and yeah,
all right here Luke remembers me the old code code,
so down to one is close to being number one,
like what I did there? Um, very thank you. I've
(05:47):
trained in professional here, um learned it at jockey it
Uh this jockey school school, Um, which will be my underwear.
You'll be called disc jockey. That's that's a very good idea.
Why haven't I thought of that before? That is brilliant.
I'll put you in job, send some jockeys and then
(06:07):
you could you know you take all those pictures with
your shirt off and stuff on the beach. Uh you know,
so here it'll be Cody Allen jockey and a jockey. Um,
when it comes to down to one. You did not
write this one, which I was surprised by because this
sounds like, um, a great Luke Bryan song. It's got
(06:27):
nicely grieved to it. I could hear you writing this one,
but you you didn't, And so who wrote it? And
why did you want to? You know? Included on the album?
Why did it stand out to you as being the
riders were Dallas, Davidson, Um, Kyle Fishman and Justin Eboch
and um, you know Dallas has a pretty nifty craft
(06:48):
and being able to write songs that sounded like me
because he kind of you know, you know, he and
I've grown up together and knows so much about one another.
But you know, in in in the second I heard it,
it was just like something you know, Um, it was
just something that it was kind of like, it felt
like a me song, you know. I mean, if I
could ever say when I hear a song that sounds
(07:09):
like something I need to sing, this was certainly one
of them. And and you know when I when I
get a song sent to me, I plug it into
my world and then I'm playing it around the house.
And Caroline really loved it, and my nieces really loved it,
and my whole inner circle and then people on my
you know, people that work with me and for me,
everybody was all of the all of the little um
(07:31):
you know, fireworks were going off around it. So it
just felt like the right song. And certainly glad it's
it's doing well and going up the charts. Of course,
that one's on the original Born Here, Live Here, Die
Here album. You got the deluxe version coming out. Six
new songs on there. So Luke, of the six you've added,
which one is your standout favorite? I know that's hard
(07:52):
to say because they're all your babies. But oh man,
I mean, you know, there's a song on there called
Bill Old Dance And if you're not a hardcore fisherman,
you're it maybe foreign to you. But Bill Dance is
a famous bass fisherman. You know, you can recognize him
because he's always worn a Tennessee hat. And Bill and
(08:16):
I have become kind of, you know, good fishing buddies,
and I just kind of got to write a tribute
to him and um, and just kind of through song
tell him he's a hero of mine. And when you
can write a song about a guy like Bill and
uh and play it for him and and and you know,
(08:36):
his wife emailed me thanking me for it, was just
an amazing moment. So I'm really emotionally attached to that
song just because, um, you know, I grew up as
a kid watching Bill Dance fish on TV and uh,
and you know, he's an eighty year old man that's
left an amazing Um, he's left an amazing imprint on
(09:03):
on the fishing world. And it was pretty cool getting
to play that song for him. I think you and
I should go like maybe fishing or hunting together sometime, Um,
and I was any time, buddy, anytime. What what are
the things we would need on a fishing trip? Let's
just say, what are the three like main items I
would need? Well, a boat, a boat is very empty,
(09:24):
poured in a fishing reel. And a cooler of a
cooler of my new beer to you that you see
that shame you see that? Plus see how I hold
my beer. I sold Jock, I sold unawear and beer.
And now now American Idol. Let's sell American Idol to
the people. Okay, it is back Lady's Idol season again.
(09:49):
Fourth season as a judge. Walking into this season and
basically every time you come back, Now, what is it
you look forward to most? Is it America's Sweetheart? Ryan
Seacrest or what I'm just if Ryan? Here's this? I mean,
you're you're dead him? I know he does not you
(10:15):
know with me? I mean I enter into every season, um,
with that excitement of finding the special you know, the
special talent or talents you know. I mean, Um, that's
the beauty of the show. Just when you think you
have heard and seen and and discovered, um, just when
you think you've discovered you know all of the talent
(10:37):
in the world. Then there's a whole another crop of
fifteen year old that can go audition, And then there's
a whole another crop of people that that have always
um kind of wanted to do it, but the family
pushed them and pushed them, and so you know, just
the excitement of of finding potentially a huge star is
(10:59):
what brings the act. And it's fun. I mean, um,
you know, I wouldn't be thankfully, I wouldn't be doing
anything in my career unless I was having fun with it.
And um, to be there with Lionel and Katie and
and you know what I mean, to sit there and
and and and and have the long days of the
auditions and we duke get out and fight it out
(11:20):
and sift through the talent, it's it's fun. Yeah, No,
I can tell you're having a really good time. And
I feel like every year gets a little better. As
far as the bonding between the three of you, Like
at first it was like does Katie like Luke or yeah?
I mean, you know the beauty of all that is yeah,
I mean we didn't you know when they when they
chose me in Lineling Katie to be dudget It's not
(11:42):
like we went to some two week camp to where
we learned industry together. You know, they just kind of
they just kind of put us in the chair and
and you know, kind of kind of just through caution
into the wind. And so now through the years, I
think that we all, you know, Katie didn't under you know,
Katie didn't know if I would try to come in
(12:03):
there and you know, control the narrative and Lionel either.
But we've we've all learned that we're not really doing
it for ourselves, um to prop up our our egos
in our world. I mean, you know, there's there's no
egos involved. There's no there's no oh well let me,
let me, let me overshadow everybody else the whole time.
(12:27):
And so you know, we truly work as a great team.
And I mean it was interesting this year. You know,
Katie is a new mother. I mean she's coming in,
she's been up all night with a newborn. And some days,
you know, I'd look at her and she's like, oh
my god, You've got to help me through this day.
Because she's she's like I may mentally check out, and
then she can look at me when I've mentally checked out,
(12:49):
and we can look at Lionel and everybody. We're we're, we're,
we're a fun team. You know, it's suck up, you know,
we're we're a football team out there. Yeah, thank god
for Lionel right there. He's the stabilizer. I feel like, yeah,
he's the glue. All right. We'll be looking for you
on Sunday nights. Thank you, Luke, good catching up man, buddy.
Thanks for listening to Cody Cast. Follow Cody right now
(13:11):
at Cody Allen on Twitter, Instagram, and Facebook. Care Cody
on hundreds of radio stations every day, and watch Cody
on twenty this weekend Saturday and Sunday at ny M
eight Central on CMT. Bye for now,
This is Cody Allen's podcast. This is Cody Cast. So
the beginning of February, I had COVID and talked to
Luke Brian, who was, UM, We're already chatted a little
bit about my symptoms and stuff beforehand, but that's the
beginning of this conversation with Luke. Good news is I'm
fine now, thank you, um, and feeling great. So let's
(00:23):
roll our Luke conversation most recently from February. How you doing,
I'm good. How are you doing? I'm good. How you feeling?
Thank you for asking. I'm feeling okay. I've suffered through
the like the weekend and you know, I'm well into
a week now. I can't taste or smell at this point.
That's the only thing I'm still suffering with. Really. That's weird, though.
(00:44):
Have you ever had a sensation where you cannot taste
or smell anything. It's like, it's so strange. Now. My
wife actually, when she had COVID, she was very excited
about not being able to smell because of me. Well,
I get that part. But when you see a big
if you'd like our fart and amason jar and send
it to you and then you just every morning check
(01:06):
it and the day you smell it, just that'll be
your first smell. When you see a big old slice
of pizza and you can't taste it when you put
it in your mouth. It's weird. It is weird. Man. Yeah,
anything that would motivate me not to taste and eat
and all that, I probably need that more never right now? Yeah,
same here. I feel like the after the coronavirus a year,
(01:27):
we've had the pandemic year. I mean, yeah, I'm with
you on that. So I'm trying to eat things I
wouldn't normally eat, trying to like slim down a little bit.
Speaking of um, we saw the underwear commercial on the
Super Bowl on how much grief have you taken over that? Well?
I mean it's like, you know, if anybody wants to
make fun of me for you know, being in my
(01:49):
jockeys and maybe they just need to call my account
it no man, you know it's I tell you what
I mean. Um, First of all, you're you're gonna wear underwear, right,
I mean, unless you know there's some people out there
(02:10):
doing some some some hefty free balling. Um. But um,
but you know what I mean. The jockey partnership. When
when when when I learned about the company and the
values of the company, I mean, it's a hundred forty
four year old company and it's just got it just
felt right and we you know, any time. I mean,
(02:31):
I've been in wonderful partnerships through the years, and I've
been in partnerships where they could really you know, they
just wanted to put my face, put the product out there,
and there was really no emotional you know. Well with Jockey,
I mean, we were were having fun planning stuff together
and we we hope to have a really long future
together as a partnership. And the fact that I could
(02:54):
be in the commercials with Caroline and watch her, I mean, heck,
she impressed the hell out of me. And she was
she did a great job kind of being an actress
and and we had fun on set and you know
for it too, you know, when when we're shooting the
Jockey ads, and obviously I knew that I would I would,
you know, it would probably be me and jeans and
(03:15):
a T shirt. I'm not quite ready to just go,
you know, just to to you know, lay it all
out there and just and just the Undy's. But but anyway,
I mean when when when it makes it to the
super Bowl and stuff like that, you're it's when you're
it's just you know, it's pretty uh, pretty mind boggling,
and and just been been real fun working with John. Yeah,
(03:36):
you were at the super Bowl as well. You. Um,
I saw the photo you and Caroline posted in the
I guess the press box there. So, um, who would
you run into while you were there? Other famous people? Yeah,
I mean I got to meet actually I met Mike Tyson,
which was which which was a trip, I mean, very
very cordial, very nice. I didn't get a picture with
(03:57):
him because he had actually he gotten in kind of
a stressful situation getting into the stadium and some of
the guys that were with him. It's kind of hard
to hide Mike Tyson, you know, even even if he's
wearing a mask. And so when he got into the UM,
when he got into the Um, the suite we were in,
he looked a little flustered. So I didn't wanna. I
(04:19):
didn't want to um like germ him with a picture,
so I didn't. I didn't take a picture. But then
I did get to meet Shock, which was which was man,
I mean, it was you know, I've I've I've obviously
always been a big fan of him and his personality,
and um, it was I mean, but you know, you
can never mentally prepare yourself for meeting Shack because you
(04:41):
always imagine how big he's gonna be, and then he's
actually bigger than you. Um, you know, he's actually bigger
than you anticipated. So he's you know, he's got a
picture with him and and uh, it was funny. I
looked at him, and you know, he's got a he's
got like a a you know, we're both wearing like buffs,
(05:02):
like not a mask, but we have our you know,
like a like a buff that in anyway, Um, he
he looks at me, and I can tell he kind
of knows who I am. And I'm like, uh, I'm like,
hey man, I'm Luke. And he's like and he points
at me, you know, and he's like, oh, I got you.
I know who you are. And I'm like, sweet, Shack
(05:23):
knew who I was. So you know, we had a
little moment and it took a picture, and it was
it was great to meet. That's how I feel every
time I'm around you were like, oh Cody, right, and yeah,
all right here Luke remembers me the old code code,
so down to one is close to being number one,
like what I did there? Um, very thank you. I've
(05:47):
trained in professional here, um learned it at jockey it
Uh this jockey school school, Um, which will be my underwear.
You'll be called disc jockey. That's that's a very good idea.
Why haven't I thought of that before? That is brilliant.
I'll put you in job, send some jockeys and then
(06:07):
you could you know you take all those pictures with
your shirt off and stuff on the beach. Uh you know,
so here it'll be Cody Allen jockey and a jockey. Um,
when it comes to down to one. You did not
write this one, which I was surprised by because this
sounds like, um, a great Luke Bryan song. It's got
(06:27):
nicely grieved to it. I could hear you writing this one,
but you you didn't, And so who wrote it? And
why did you want to? You know? Included on the album?
Why did it stand out to you as being the
riders were Dallas, Davidson, Um, Kyle Fishman and Justin Eboch
and um, you know Dallas has a pretty nifty craft
(06:48):
and being able to write songs that sounded like me
because he kind of you know, you know, he and
I've grown up together and knows so much about one another.
But you know, in in in the second I heard it,
it was just like something you know, Um, it was
just something that it was kind of like, it felt
like a me song, you know. I mean, if I
could ever say when I hear a song that sounds
(07:09):
like something I need to sing, this was certainly one
of them. And and you know when I when I
get a song sent to me, I plug it into
my world and then I'm playing it around the house.
And Caroline really loved it, and my nieces really loved it,
and my whole inner circle and then people on my
you know, people that work with me and for me,
everybody was all of the all of the little um
(07:31):
you know, fireworks were going off around it. So it
just felt like the right song. And certainly glad it's
it's doing well and going up the charts. Of course,
that one's on the original Born Here, Live Here, Die
Here album. You got the deluxe version coming out. Six
new songs on there. So Luke, of the six you've added,
which one is your standout favorite? I know that's hard
(07:52):
to say because they're all your babies. But oh man,
I mean, you know, there's a song on there called
Bill Old Dance And if you're not a hardcore fisherman,
you're it maybe foreign to you. But Bill Dance is
a famous bass fisherman. You know, you can recognize him
because he's always worn a Tennessee hat. And Bill and
(08:16):
I have become kind of, you know, good fishing buddies,
and I just kind of got to write a tribute
to him and um, and just kind of through song
tell him he's a hero of mine. And when you
can write a song about a guy like Bill and
uh and play it for him and and and you know,
(08:36):
his wife emailed me thanking me for it, was just
an amazing moment. So I'm really emotionally attached to that
song just because, um, you know, I grew up as
a kid watching Bill Dance fish on TV and uh,
and you know, he's an eighty year old man that's
left an amazing Um, he's left an amazing imprint on
(09:03):
on the fishing world. And it was pretty cool getting
to play that song for him. I think you and
I should go like maybe fishing or hunting together sometime, Um,
and I was any time, buddy, anytime. What what are
the things we would need on a fishing trip? Let's
just say, what are the three like main items I
would need? Well, a boat, a boat is very empty,
(09:24):
poured in a fishing reel. And a cooler of a
cooler of my new beer to you that you see
that shame you see that? Plus see how I hold
my beer. I sold Jock, I sold unawear and beer.
And now now American Idol. Let's sell American Idol to
the people. Okay, it is back Lady's Idol season again.
(09:49):
Fourth season as a judge. Walking into this season and
basically every time you come back, Now, what is it
you look forward to most? Is it America's Sweetheart? Ryan
Seacrest or what I'm just if Ryan? Here's this? I mean,
you're you're dead him? I know he does not you
(10:15):
know with me? I mean I enter into every season, um,
with that excitement of finding the special you know, the
special talent or talents you know. I mean, Um, that's
the beauty of the show. Just when you think you
have heard and seen and and discovered, um, just when
you think you've discovered you know all of the talent
(10:37):
in the world. Then there's a whole another crop of
fifteen year old that can go audition, And then there's
a whole another crop of people that that have always
um kind of wanted to do it, but the family
pushed them and pushed them, and so you know, just
the excitement of of finding potentially a huge star is
(10:59):
what brings the act. And it's fun. I mean, um,
you know, I wouldn't be thankfully, I wouldn't be doing
anything in my career unless I was having fun with it.
And um, to be there with Lionel and Katie and
and you know what I mean, to sit there and
and and and and have the long days of the
auditions and we duke get out and fight it out
(11:20):
and sift through the talent, it's it's fun. Yeah, No,
I can tell you're having a really good time. And
I feel like every year gets a little better. As
far as the bonding between the three of you, Like
at first it was like does Katie like Luke or yeah?
I mean, you know the beauty of all that is yeah,
I mean we didn't you know when they when they
chose me in Lineling Katie to be dudget It's not
(11:42):
like we went to some two week camp to where
we learned industry together. You know, they just kind of
they just kind of put us in the chair and
and you know, kind of kind of just through caution
into the wind. And so now through the years, I
think that we all, you know, Katie didn't under you know,
Katie didn't know if I would try to come in
(12:03):
there and you know, control the narrative and Lionel either.
But we've we've all learned that we're not really doing
it for ourselves, um to prop up our our egos
in our world. I mean, you know, there's there's no
egos involved. There's no there's no oh well let me,
let me, let me overshadow everybody else the whole time.
(12:27):
And so you know, we truly work as a great team.
And I mean it was interesting this year. You know,
Katie is a new mother. I mean she's coming in,
she's been up all night with a newborn. And some days,
you know, I'd look at her and she's like, oh
my god, You've got to help me through this day.
Because she's she's like I may mentally check out, and
then she can look at me when I've mentally checked out,
(12:49):
and we can look at Lionel and everybody. We're we're, we're,
we're a fun team. You know, it's suck up, you know,
we're we're a football team out there. Yeah, thank god
for Lionel right there. He's the stabilizer. I feel like, yeah,
he's the glue. All right. We'll be looking for you
on Sunday nights. Thank you, Luke, good catching up man, buddy.
Thanks for listening to Cody Cast. Follow Cody right now
(13:11):
at Cody Allen on Twitter, Instagram, and Facebook. Care Cody
on hundreds of radio stations every day, and watch Cody
on twenty this weekend Saturday and Sunday at ny M
eight Central on CMT. Bye for now,
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