On this episode of the BobbyCast, Bobby sits down with country music superstar Luke Bryan. Luke talks about how passing on songs that eventually became hits was because he fell victim to his own success and got in his own head. Bobby also asked Luke which song is the most important and impactful of his career. Plus, Luke discussed being on American Idol for his 8th season and went back in time to the first call he ever got from the network about potentially hosting!
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Speaker 1 (00:06):
I passed stupidly on the Morgan saying in my boots
because I had a lot of negativity on socials that
I was getting pegged as maybe a one trick.
Speaker 2 (00:19):
Pony in that Lane.
Speaker 3 (00:23):
Episode four ninety nine with Luke Brian, well, well, well
he's back on American Idol. Idol runs through May I
encourage you to watch it. This is Luke's eighth season.
Pretty cool this year because Carry is a judge. His
country song came on Tour Happening, Farm Tour Happening, and
that when he pays for all himself sets up literally
(00:45):
in a farmer's I won't say yard, but field all
the tickets to that at Lukebryan dot com.
Speaker 4 (00:52):
Luke is my friend. That's pretty cool.
Speaker 3 (00:55):
Luke's got a Hulu series called It's All Country that
you can check out. We get to a lot of stuff.
And I will say before the show, before this happened,
he broke the chair. Now, the chair was already an
old chair. I did not rewarn him that if you
sit down hard, it's like a little love seat. But
it's from like nineteen thirties. We just got it because
(01:15):
it looked cool. He was at the house just prior
we talked about this coming up, but he was at
the house like four days prior and I was like,
be careful in the chair, and he did. And this
time we were just talking, he just sat down. It's
bound to go anyway. Luckily, he's pretty athletic, so when
he fell, it looked like a really good athletic stop
dropping roll, like if you're on fire. And then he
(01:36):
got up and we did the show.
Speaker 4 (01:38):
We did the hour.
Speaker 3 (01:41):
I love Luke. I hope you like this. I feel
like there's parts of Luke here that he hasn't shared yet.
Find him on socials at Luke Bryan, get all the
tickets to all the stuff Lukebryan dot com.
Speaker 4 (01:52):
Mike any thoughts.
Speaker 5 (01:54):
I mean, he's just the presence when he walks in,
even just go into the bathroom meeting like Telly's in there,
came in and sat down.
Speaker 2 (02:01):
I was like, Oh, there goes that chare Well.
Speaker 4 (02:02):
He's a big guy, yeah, and big presence.
Speaker 3 (02:06):
And I think I do talk about how we would
be at dinner me Luke, Lionel, Ritchie Seacrest, Katie Perry,
a couple of producers, and that everybody's fighting for oxygen
in that room. I'm not I don't want to even
talk if it's just me and my wife and a
few of us, but they want attention. He dominates and
not on purpose, like he just has that kind of
(02:27):
presence here. He is my friend in yours, Luke Bryant,
let's address this. First, he did fall over.
Speaker 2 (02:33):
Just yes, the chair, Bobby has a uh.
Speaker 4 (02:36):
But first you knew about it.
Speaker 2 (02:38):
How can I remember you knew about it.
Speaker 4 (02:41):
You knew as soon as you fell. You were like,
oh yeah, I remember, now.
Speaker 1 (02:44):
Yeah, that went through my mind as I was as
my ass was going over my head. But yeah, this
chair has a a leg. That's I went on and
finished off. But I'm just gonna stay on this side.
Speaker 3 (02:57):
I think it's a lot of tents in your body
for the next forty minutes. What's that You're gonna have
to sit there for forty minutes? I can engage the
core you fell over that you fell back in the chair.
You did sit hard, to be honest, And it's a
chair from like eighteen ninety and I was like, you
were here a week or so ago. I was like, hey,
do be careful on that chair because you might fall over.
You dominated it today though, yeah, I mean athletic too.
Speaker 2 (03:18):
I will sayin' I mean.
Speaker 1 (03:20):
It was I wish we would have had it would
have been worth having.
Speaker 2 (03:24):
I'm good at falling, Bobby, it was.
Speaker 4 (03:26):
An athletic fall. And now now, now.
Speaker 2 (03:29):
Now this microphone needs viagra?
Speaker 4 (03:33):
Reed, do you want to bluepill this thing?
Speaker 2 (03:35):
Oh? There it goes. I think.
Speaker 4 (03:39):
It looks like a guy that's done that a few times.
Speaker 3 (03:41):
Do you have a nervous ticked because I do with
a microphone when I first get it at all times,
just like reset it?
Speaker 1 (03:46):
Well when or was that one just not set? Because
I will grab It's just it's just sagging. You got
to understand when you're at I'm at a piano. Yeah,
you gotta get it where you like. I agree, you know,
it's just like.
Speaker 4 (04:01):
See that cherirsday. Are you okay?
Speaker 1 (04:03):
I'm okay with the chair and okay, I just got
done with four days of snowskiing and yeah, so I
have fallen and chased my children up and down the
mountains and falling and cracked vertebra and all that.
Speaker 2 (04:19):
So I'm good.
Speaker 4 (04:19):
I'd like to ask you about snowskin.
Speaker 3 (04:20):
I've never been You've never been, no, And I if
I'm just guessing I would imagine you didn't go till later.
Speaker 1 (04:26):
I didn't snowski until I was gifted for college graduation.
At twenty three, my dad we took a big me
and a bunch of my fraternity brothers went on a
trip and that was the first time I learned. And
it was Jackson Hole, Wyoming, And it's like a hard
ass mountain to learn on. But yeah, I didn't start
(04:49):
till twenty three. But then since then I've gone every year.
Speaker 4 (04:52):
Yeah, we didn't have snow.
Speaker 3 (04:53):
I mean, you're from Georgia, from Arkansas, I like, ye,
anywhere around us?
Speaker 2 (04:56):
Well, what were the money?
Speaker 1 (04:57):
I mean when you start looking at Western no skiing
and the costs, I mean, it's a it's a booger.
Speaker 4 (05:06):
Again, which is why we probably didn't go when we
were young.
Speaker 1 (05:08):
We wouldn't even my parents wouldn't have even have the
wouldn't have even known ho to. I mean, we we
did good to get the Panama City to the beach.
But but if you do do it, and I think
you all too scared of a c l M c
l's I'm scared to tell have you ever torn one?
Speaker 4 (05:24):
But that's why I don't want to go snow skiing.
Speaker 2 (05:26):
You're not gonna tear one when.
Speaker 3 (05:28):
You fall, as was evidence with your fall here. It's
different when you're an adult.
Speaker 1 (05:33):
Yeah, but they'll set your skis and and all your
your buying. They'll make it where when you you know
they all your settings. When when when the boots and
the skis don't like the way they're turned, the you'll
pop out of them. The only way you're ever gonna
you would ever blow in a cl well. First of all,
I was gonna tell you if you do you ought
(05:54):
to do it, first of all. Secondly, day one, get
a get get an instructor for three days, and they're
that and learn, learn properly, learn the right way, and
all your skis and bindings. If you make a hard fall,
your skis pop off. What what blows your legs out
is when you stay hooked to your skis.
Speaker 3 (06:14):
Which also is what added to acls and MCLs. But
we lived near water, so we would ski and then
we'd wakeboard, wakesurf and not getting out of a wakeboard
like when you I.
Speaker 1 (06:25):
Think that's more way more dang, because you're you're in,
you're not coming. I mean, like Jacob and Jake's torn.
I mean he's torn his knees a lot because he
waked wakeboarded every day.
Speaker 3 (06:36):
So which is why eventually we just started wakesurfing and
wake skating.
Speaker 2 (06:40):
Oh, wake surf, I'm off of that.
Speaker 1 (06:41):
If you wipe out, Yeah, and when you fall wakesurfing,
it's just like.
Speaker 3 (06:44):
Like you fell like a slow mode again. And I'm
not I'm not being funny about this. You fell very athletic.
You did fall well.
Speaker 1 (06:53):
Like I said, I'm still I mean, I'm still jacked
up from us being ten feet in the mountains.
Speaker 2 (07:01):
I'm still.
Speaker 4 (07:02):
But when you're twelve, were you an athlete?
Speaker 1 (07:05):
I was a pretty good athlete as a kid. I
was a very proficient athlete. I mean baseball and football
All stars every year until like eighth or ninth grade.
I did not grow. Everybody else grew. So when everybody
else hit puberty and all that, here I am. And
(07:29):
I was the youngest kid in my whole grade. My
birthday was July seventeenth, and back then the cutoff the
starts were like August. I think, so I should have
been held back a year, but I wasn't. So here
i am. I'm the youngest kid in my grade, and
I'm the latest blooming boy in the grade. So I
(07:53):
made the ninth grade baseball team. I made the tenth
grade baseball team. I didn't even go out for football
because football was our football program was not that good
and I just didn't need to be on the field.
Speaker 2 (08:06):
But then going into eleventh.
Speaker 1 (08:07):
Grade, I still was like I just said, I went
to my coach and said, man, everybody else can hit
homers and hit it off the wall. I said, man,
I'm not going to be able to compete. And that's
when I essentially started really getting into music, thank god,
you know. And really the time that I dedicated to
(08:31):
maybe baseball and football practices and all that, I would
I would start. I had a little high school band
and we'd go, you know, play the Leonard Skinner's songs
in the garage on Tuesdays and Thursdays, and you know,
that's kind of what got me into music.
Speaker 4 (08:45):
How big your daddy?
Speaker 1 (08:47):
My dad's six six'. One, yeah so he's he's six
one two. Fifteen his whole, life you, know he was
he was kind of a you, KNOW i didn't know
he was a big. Dude and then all my buddies
would be, like, man your dad's your Dad's i'm a big,
guy so you're a big.
Speaker 4 (09:01):
Guy like people have to be surprised when they meet,
you how large you.
Speaker 1 (09:04):
Are, WELL i, think, YEAH i think people are, like,
yeah people are Always that's the first THING i say was, like,
man we didn't realize you. Were, well you know what's
funny is Like blake's a big. Dude blake is bigger than.
Me he's probably an inch too taller than. Me but
then like IF i throw on a pair of cowboy,
Boots i'm six four all day, long so that makes
(09:26):
me even More like people are, like, well BUT i
Mean i'm six, too you, know and a little heavier
THAN i want to.
Speaker 2 (09:33):
Be but working on.
Speaker 3 (09:34):
That but With Tracy launch yesterday and we were talking
about country music and to, me WHEN i was a,
kid country music talked about WHERE i was, from AND
i felt that related, there but like alternative music talked
about HOW i felt right because country music used to
be a bit. Older they would sing a lot of
parent songs when we were, Younger like country music was
(09:54):
definitely like adults singing to adults a, lot no, Doubt
and just kind of talked to him about how that's
changed a. Lot and the, ARTISTS i, mean including, you
especially when you start our, younger the country music messaging
is more.
Speaker 4 (10:07):
Broad it's gotten far more populous.
Speaker 3 (10:11):
Popular has your music changed and what you're looking to
record when you're twenty five versus now just as you growing?
Speaker 1 (10:21):
Up, YEAH i MEAN i think NATURALLY i entered in
and when you look at my first two, albums there
were it was very VERY i mean fiddle, heavy steal
guitar heavy country songs like and AND i, had you,
KNOW i THINK i had a lot of those aspects
(10:43):
of kind of some classic country stuff in those first two,
albums and then kind of morphed into AS i was playing,
clubs college bars and WATCHING i, MEAN i was a
wrecked reflection of watching college kids right WHEN i got off,
(11:07):
stage AND i would play all of the big Covers i'd,
play you, Know i'd Play fishing in The dark and
you never even call me by my, name And skinner
and all The brooks And done stuff And Tracy, lawrence
and we'd play even you, know like we would learn
like modern Like Gary allen songs at the, time songs about,
(11:29):
rain and we were playing these. Things and then right
WHEN i got, done they put on the biggest hip hop,
songs and that's when the energy level in that college
bar went to. Eleven and so that's WHEN i started, going,
well If i'm, gonna If i'm gonna really kind of
dance in this, space you, know you gotta be able
(11:52):
to relate to that demographic and so, yet but you
know what's, Interesting, bobby when you look at somebody like
Like morgan and even LIKE i don't know how, old,
UH i, mean when you look at Like Connor smith
or some of these kids that, WELL i, Mean morgan
(12:14):
really got.
Speaker 2 (12:14):
Going when he was twenty four twenty. FIVE i really got.
GOING i was thirty.
Speaker 1 (12:18):
Two, really thirty thirty thirty to thirty two is when, like.
Speaker 4 (12:24):
Like you're already a full adult, then.
Speaker 1 (12:26):
RIGHT i MEAN i didn't move To nashville UNTIL i
was twenty, Five SO i was tricking people a little
bit in My like WHEN i look At Thomas, ritt
he was like twenty, kid he was a, baby and
he's calling me.
Speaker 2 (12:43):
Like what did you?
Speaker 1 (12:44):
Do AND i was, like, DUDE i was you, KNOW
i was going through where you're you're twenty. ONE i
was thirty. ONE i had you, KNOW i had a
baby at home and a, wife and and so you,
know it was a little bit different from me because you,
KNOW i JUST i didn't get to town UNTIL i
(13:04):
was twenty. Five and you know that the reason why
that happened IS i had lost my brother in the car.
WRECK i was moving here WHEN i was, nineteen and
when when he passed away in ninety, six that kind of.
DELAYED i was already had an apartment here and, Then,
(13:26):
yeah so ninety six i'd have been. Twenty so THEN
i just kind of shut her down four minute and
THEN i went and did college and worked for my
dad a couple of. Years so it kind of just
threw me, off Which i'm GLAD i came here with
a mature. MINDSET i think IF i think if moving
away From, Leesburg, georgia straight To, tennessee there's no telling
(13:49):
HOW i would have reacted in. That SO i think
going to college and getting some getting away from home
and then coming here was.
Speaker 3 (13:58):
Perfect but can you, imagine, though those einteen year old
athletes that go to THE nba, though because you're talking
about you, know you're glad at nineteen because you don't.
Speaker 1 (14:04):
Think you had The, YEAH i, MEAN i think THE
i think imagine that you get the. DECK i think
the odds in the deck are stacked against. THEM i
mean it's REALLY i can't imagine.
Speaker 3 (14:13):
Resources like, crazy like millions of dollars and now you're
nineteen and you're living In La New, York, boston, wherever.
Speaker 2 (14:20):
LISTEN i, mean it's a. Lot you have to give.
Speaker 1 (14:23):
Grace you have to give them some grace in the,
good the positives and the. NEGATIVES i, mean they're still, boys,
REALLY i mean well mostly.
Speaker 3 (14:35):
Too like the music even, Then LIKE i can look
at some of the songs like Mister mom or like
some of The Colin ray.
Speaker 4 (14:39):
Stuff it was very adults singing to.
Speaker 1 (14:42):
ADULTS i sang along with those songs BECAUSE i was
such a radio same. GEEK i, MEAN i was a
top forty country radio. GEEK i DIDN'T i didn't know
Any texas. ARTISTS i didn't know like your underground like
You're Robert Earl.
Speaker 2 (14:59):
King king is It King? King K E E.
Speaker 1 (15:04):
N i didn't really know their. MUSIC i didn't know
like the lyle Of it. SCENE i didn't know the
you know those under those kind of underground, things.
Speaker 4 (15:15):
The texas red dirt.
Speaker 3 (15:16):
Stuff it just barely got To, arkansas SO i can't
imagine it was In.
Speaker 1 (15:19):
Georgia well the only, thing, yeah like we had like
if we had any, well so, yeah and then and
if we had any like Underground georgia, stuff it would
have been like a driving and.
Speaker 2 (15:32):
Crying do you remember?
Speaker 1 (15:33):
Them? Yeah and like uh LIKE R E m was
almost a little too alternative really for us to get.
INTO i, mean we KNEW R E. M because you,
know they were a you, know a global, band and even.
Speaker 2 (15:49):
You, know in.
Speaker 1 (15:49):
COLLEGE i, mean Obviously Dave matthews was kind Of East coast,
underground and Obviously hoodie and The.
Speaker 2 (15:55):
Blowfish but but.
Speaker 1 (15:58):
The bottom line, IS i, THINK i think WHEN i
look back WHEN i got here in two thousand and,
one like Mister mom and and and.
Speaker 4 (16:08):
Just Another day In. Paradise that's an adult.
Speaker 3 (16:10):
Song, yeah it's a massive, hit but it's an adult country,
song which there aren't a lot of those, now, right
but as the young.
Speaker 2 (16:17):
Guys but, when but WHEN.
Speaker 1 (16:19):
I think about college and AND i think about, what
WHEN i think about what really shaped, me it Was
tim Mcgrawl Green Grass, Grows and it Was Kenny, chesney you,
know back back WHERE i come, from and that's what
we were, jamming and that's WHAT i was covering in
my in my cover. BAND i didn't really BUT i felt, like,
(16:43):
yeah there was there was a. More there was that
forty five year old woman demographic going, on and certainly
that's flipped a little.
Speaker 2 (16:52):
Bit.
Speaker 6 (16:53):
Currently let's take a quick pause for a message from our.
Sponsor mm, hmm, wow and we're back on The Bobby.
Speaker 3 (17:07):
CAST i feel like it's flipping back, though because the
young guys of you guys are now ten years in
and you're starting to change it back to it being
it's allowed to be a little more mature.
Speaker 4 (17:17):
Now Was my point was.
Speaker 3 (17:19):
That like you And jason and you can Do jake
And dirk's and you guys have been around for fifteen, years, Right,
yeah and the music things we were singing about then
was very young and the young is still. Here but
also you guys are so established and still relevant that
you can sing older songs, now which was, well my
question was leading to it was, like are you now
(17:41):
at times picking songs that you wouldn't have cut five
years ago because of the of what the song's.
Speaker 2 (17:45):
About, WELL i.
Speaker 1 (17:48):
For, instance four by four by, YOU i mean there
was one point in my, CAREER i had sang about
trucks enough to WHERE i MEAN i passed stupidly on
The morgan saying in my boots because it Had chevrolet in, it.
Speaker 4 (18:10):
And you felt it was just too much truck because
you were DOING i.
Speaker 2 (18:15):
Just felt like. THAT i just went through two years
of my.
Speaker 1 (18:18):
LIFE i went through two years of my life WHERE
i was, Like, MAN i have sing you, KNOW I
i sing about trucks a. Lot i've sing about, tailgates
and you, KNOW i kind OF i THINK i got
in my head a little bit BECAUSE i think IF
i had a lot of negativity socially on, socials THAT
(18:41):
i was getting pegged as maybe a one trick pony
in that, lane.
Speaker 4 (18:44):
You're also a victim of your own, success which is
a great way to which.
Speaker 1 (18:47):
Happens, YEAH i, mean Which i'll take. That i'll take
that any damn day of the. Week, well, NOW i,
think And, bobby what's interesting. Too WHEN i was doing
spring break, STUFF i was thirty, four thirty, five thirty,
six thirty, Seven, like making spring break albums appealing to
(19:11):
twenty year old.
Speaker 4 (19:12):
Does that feel weird for? You, well it got a little.
Speaker 1 (19:14):
Weird it didn't get. Weird it just felt, like you,
know it's time to move on from maybe the spring
break me trying to sing college. Songs but it was
fun for me and it was, awesome and it totally
told the world that that's my. PERSONALITY i. THINK i,
(19:36):
think no matter how people want to categorize, ME i
think people generally think my personality, is let's have some.
Fun and If i'm known for, that IF i don't
get A Male vocalist of The year And grammys or,
whatever BECAUSE i may be known as the guy that
(19:57):
has had fun through his career and put out lot
of fun, Songs i'm cool with. THAT i, MEAN i think,
VOCALLY i may have been overlooked for that. PARTINESS i
think there's stuff out there That i've done vocally that
certainly it's Not Chris stapleton vocals And Ronnie dunn vocals
(20:18):
and and the guys that are really really known as.
Vocalists BUT i THINK i might have gotten overlooked in
that a little, bit which is.
Speaker 2 (20:25):
Fine LIKE i, SAID i.
Speaker 3 (20:26):
AGREE i think that the character that people painted over,
you because what's so dominating about your presence is like
you walk in a, room you own.
Speaker 5 (20:33):
It.
Speaker 2 (20:35):
Inadvertently oh for.
Speaker 3 (20:37):
SURE i don't think it's your pressing to do. It,
YEAH i JUST i would watch a room WHEN.
Speaker 4 (20:42):
I was On idol those.
Speaker 3 (20:43):
Years we'd go to dinner everybody and it's, crazy who's
gonna win that room because it ain't me And katie was,
big and and you if you came your, room it
was really cool to watch you come in and you
did not dom dominate the room on, purpose but you
have such a magnetic personality and it is quite large
(21:05):
WHERE i could see that people would and that's partly
what allowed you to rise was but well then they
got so, big people wouldn't see the other things that
you could, do which is Why idol was so, great
because you would sit at a freaking piano and people
would have their mind blown to watch you go what
do you? Do and then just pour a straight vocal
over keys and they're, like we didn't know we could do.
(21:25):
That now you've been doing it the whole.
Speaker 4 (21:26):
Time.
Speaker 1 (21:27):
YEAH i think people thank you for saying all, that
AND i think it's just. LISTEN i mean to get
to a level of every artist that makes the leap
from throwing out some radio, hits they got to have
something that's like takes them to that kind of LIKE
(21:52):
i didn't never know i'd be like what's termed as a.
SUPERSTAR i mean every time somebody introduces me As looke
country music Superstar Luke, brian, like it still freaks me,
out like It's i'm still.
Speaker 2 (22:07):
Like how in the hell DID i pull that title?
Speaker 1 (22:11):
Off so when you look at somebody that goes from like, climbing,
digging digging digging one hit, two hit three or, four
then next thing you, know they blow up to be a,
superstar there's something about them that kind of made that.
Happen and with, ME i think it was personality and
(22:35):
my willingness on stage to just go for whatever that
to dance and cut up and Be AND i think
that was different enough to set me apart WHERE i
think when you Got Jason aldeen that went into superstar.
Speaker 2 (22:53):
Mode it was that Rock southern.
Speaker 1 (22:56):
Rock she's kind electric, guitar it was a troupe, guitar
walls like layers of a.
Speaker 2 (23:04):
Lecture and then when you look At, chesney it.
Speaker 3 (23:08):
Was like it was it was he to, me he's
beat like all beach all the. Time because the Early
CHESNEY i wasn't into SEE i.
Speaker 1 (23:16):
KNEW i was into everything he did from the first.
Album knew every song on His capricorn.
Speaker 3 (23:24):
Album, YES i only got Into, CHESNEY i would say
early mid so you were in early Early.
Speaker 2 (23:32):
Oh LIKE i might have been fan number. One there
Was we were talking about this and.
Speaker 3 (23:39):
That albe did posted this on a story AND i
actually replied in His instagram story and he posted a
meme from somebody that was, like who's the one artist
or what was the one artist that made you love country?
Music and SO i was just being. FUNNY i applied
Him lil NAS x and he thought and SO i
thought that was SO i took it on the show
AND i was talking, about like the song and you
only pick one song one. Artist the song that made me,
(24:01):
go holy crap Was tim. McGraw i don't take the
girl BECAUSE i was like a story. Song, oh AND
i remember, like oh my god that you lived LIKE
i was a, kid AND i was like.
Speaker 4 (24:09):
That song it wrecked. Me first song that really wrecked.
Speaker 3 (24:11):
Me but the artist to me Was garth because he
was larger than, life, right everything about. It so same,
question to you give me this one song one? Artist
oh that made me fall in love. With it's an impossible.
Speaker 2 (24:23):
Question it.
Speaker 1 (24:24):
Is it was hard for, me BUT i had to
boil it IF i got to say the, most the,
most the most definite. Thing WHEN i was in my formative,
LIGHT i would Say Clint Black Killing.
Speaker 2 (24:36):
Time, god it's such a.
Speaker 4 (24:37):
GEMLINE i could think of exactly WHERE i was and
that someone come, on.
Speaker 1 (24:40):
Right and when WHEN i now now, listen you've got to,
Understand i've got like there are Four Conway twitty, songs
there's Seven alabama. Songs there's Eight millsap. Songs there's Eight
Earl Thomas, conley's there's Two mel. McDaniels i, mean when
you think About Louisiana saturday night And i'm five years
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old and my parents are drinking beer in the kitchen
dancing to, THAT i.
Speaker 3 (25:08):
Mean That's John anderson for me with my grandma like,
swinging oh, yeah like that same kind of.
Speaker 1 (25:13):
Memory but when When Killing time came out and and
then you, know just that, album when when you're a
kid AND i went and bought that album and you
did like WE i had a, stereo you, know A
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cd player and these huge speakers AND i just sit
there and listen to it for every. Day every DAY
i would dedicate that album and just sitting there and
listening to it and thumbing through Bass masters magazines or.
Whatever but that was a big one for. Me but you,
KNOW i, MEAN i was so into that top forty.
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COUNTRY i, MEAN i, mean there's there's Ten George straits
that REALLY i, mean The George strait song that really
probably hit me the most Was. Run WHEN i Heard
run for the first, Time and the fact That george
did that to, ME i, mean he already had me
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with twenty five other. Songs but the fact that you,
KNOW i would, assume What's george, now he's probably.
Speaker 2 (26:28):
Mits Is George mit?
Speaker 3 (26:29):
Sixty now IT'S i would think late seventy, huh, Well
mike seventy.
Speaker 2 (26:34):
Two so think about.
Speaker 1 (26:36):
THIS i moved to town in two thousand and, one
two thousand and, two and he came out With run
in two thousand and two or, three so that would
have been fifteen years.
Speaker 2 (26:49):
Ago so he was the eighty.
Speaker 4 (26:51):
Two we're getting DoD that's like twenty years so.
Speaker 1 (26:56):
He would have been fifty two and Drop run and
then he drops give It. Away and those are Giant
like If i'm forty eight and IF i can figure
out a song that at the end of the, year
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through all the new artists coming, out all the men
outis And george dropped to at fifty two years, old
that still slayed the country music. MARKET i mean when
he put Out Give It, away he owned the radio
with that song and he talked in that, song, right,
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which so that's my job to try to attempt to.
Speaker 2 (27:42):
Do at the age of forty, eight.
Speaker 5 (27:45):
The Bobby cast will be right. Back this is The Bobby.
Speaker 3 (27:58):
CAST i think the environment was a bit different than
because older artists were able to. Exist BUT i think
the guys that are still cool now that have been
around fifteen years ago can actually shift that back to
that where you guys are able to put out music that's,
adult that's not tailgates are whiskey that adults who've grown
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up with you can still enjoy without feeling like they're
living a lie by making out.
Speaker 2 (28:25):
Them, WELL i think with, ME i, MEAN i think i've.
Speaker 1 (28:30):
When you look at my first album all, country, country
second album eighty percent.
Speaker 2 (28:35):
COUNTRY i, mean what else is?
Speaker 4 (28:38):
It what's the other twenty?
Speaker 1 (28:38):
Percent H well, Whatever i'm Just i'm not even speaking. Correctly,
yeah it's one hundred percent, country and it's in my,
opinion it's always been one hundred percent. Country it's just,
people you, know people that judge so don't necessarily didn't
necessarily appreciate country growth checking for me or. Whatever that's,
Fine but what they don't know about me is they
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don't know that name a song from eighty FIVE nama
song that was on the road are from nineteen eighty
five till present. Day AND i guarantee YOU i could
play it and sing. It oh, yeah from Mister mom
To Phil weisser To Diamond, rio all of them BECAUSE i.
Listen that's but my thing, is so WHEN i go,
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back like my current, song country song came, on it's
a throwback song for. Me but some people may be, like,
well That's luke pandering to maybe what's. Pop, no it's not,
pandering like it's me being Authentically like that song spoke
to me LIKE i was, like, hell, Yeah i'm cutting.
Speaker 2 (29:43):
That that's.
Speaker 3 (29:43):
ME i also don't think you would have cut that
ten years. Ago, uh probably, not even though you would
have loved it then as. WELL i think you.
Speaker 1 (29:51):
Were BUT i think as as as as country music is,
broad it gets sucked into everybody doing one, thing then
it broadens back out AND i think we're in the
broadest time period ever where you can Be morgan In
Little dirk doing a, thing and then you can Be
zach top.
Speaker 3 (30:12):
Well and that's the beauty of having all the outlets
tap for it to, exist from the streaming to it's
not just, radio which it used to. Be but you,
like you got, streaming you got the digital social, media
you got, radio you have all of that allows all
of that to be successful in different.
Speaker 1 (30:28):
WAYS i, mean every TIME i clicked on TikTok and
you heard Do You? BUN i was, like that's how
that song got fed to. Me and that's, great the
fact that artists can get broke like, that artists.
Speaker 2 (30:44):
Can get broke to streaming.
Speaker 1 (30:46):
Stories on streaming, STORIES i, mean LIKE i, SAID i
mean WHEN i See zach top post him sitting on
a damn log with a with a pair of jeans
schortz by the lake and he plays the guitar and
SCENE i watch.
Speaker 4 (31:00):
It it's very blue grassy as.
Speaker 2 (31:02):
Well.
Speaker 3 (31:03):
Totally SO i don't think, again if we just do
ten years, AGO i don't think he would have been
allowed to have the airspace to see if people liked
him ten years ago because everybody was, like we only
have so much room and this is not the current what.
FITS i don't think Zach topp would have happened like
he's happened, today.
Speaker 1 (31:22):
Right AND i don't think you would. Have you, know
you got a band like Parmal le out there that's
delivering straight down the, path big, old big old radio,
hits and then you've GOT.
Speaker 2 (31:36):
I just think it's.
Speaker 1 (31:37):
INTERESTING i think IT'S i think there's hits that are,
hits and THEN i think they're hits that massively impactful
for your.
Speaker 2 (31:48):
CAREER i, MEAN i, think.
Speaker 4 (31:50):
What's the most impactful song you put?
Speaker 2 (31:52):
Out?
Speaker 1 (31:53):
IMPACTFUL i think the most important SONG i EVER i,
ever obviously ever did Was Country. Girls Shake it From.
ME i think WHEN i look at the most maybe you,
know WHEN i look at a drink of beer or
most people are. Good those those were my opportunities at
songs THAT i thought would be up For song of The,
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years AND i never got A song of The, year
which that's WHEN i was kind of, like, man you,
KNOW i really thought those would at least get nominated for,
something and they never. Did and THEN i was, like,
well you, know at this point in my, CAREER i
just need to be free with WHAT i, do don't you.
Speaker 3 (32:33):
Know AND.
Speaker 1 (32:37):
I mean WHEN i look at One margarita and what
that does for my. Career, man it is fun in the.
Room it is fun in the summertime with twenty thousand.
People you don't get no more fun than performing One.
Margarita and IF i, can IF i can periodically have
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A Knocking boots and One margarita partnered up with my
big up tempos from kick The Dust up and all,
THAT i think it's about like in the next year or,
Two Like i'd love to have a big old fun
summer anthem pop up because that's fun to. Have now,
WHAT i gotta go write it OR i got to
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go find, it AND i HOPE i can find, it
AND i hope that it can be kind of coined
song of the summer and fun and people can be, like,
oh That's luke with one of his party, songs you,
know and and so and but either, WAY i, mean
it's so fun Where i'm at my, CAREER i can
just build my set list with my songs to create
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the vibe THAT i want to. Create and just the
fact THAT i can do that as a dream come.
Speaker 3 (33:47):
True what song did you almost not? Cut could have
been yours or someone else and it got and you
almost didn't and you were, LIKE i don't know if
we're gonna put the, Zong but it ended up being a.
Speaker 1 (33:56):
MONSTER i never even thought about rain is a good
thing as being a. Single what was one that.
Speaker 4 (34:03):
Was, like do you know the answer to?
Speaker 3 (34:05):
That? Carrie what did the almost not? Cut and maybe
he had to be convinced or he had to convince, somebody.
Speaker 2 (34:11):
You, KNOW i tell you what drunk on?
Speaker 1 (34:13):
You you got to understand that at the, Time i'm
on the bus with like my band AND i think
at that Time Cole swindell was living on my, bus
my merch, GUY i mean a couple of other like
and drunk on, you essentially me watching the people in
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my inner circle react to that, song like convinced you
convinced me that it was something that was more special
THAN i thought it. Was and that was one THAT
i almost could have let slip.
Speaker 2 (34:51):
Away BUT i, mean.
Speaker 4 (34:57):
Give me some of.
Speaker 1 (34:57):
That uh, YEAH i had get me some of that
Because michael, uh my guitar, player wrote.
Speaker 2 (35:06):
That another one, was, uh, hey, girl what's your? Name?
Speaker 4 (35:12):
Girl Billy, Cranton, yeah AND I i don't.
Speaker 2 (35:16):
KNOW i MEAN I i was, closer but you.
Speaker 4 (35:21):
Didn't cut that one. Though that's a.
Speaker 2 (35:23):
Difference you're, RIGHT i didn't cut.
Speaker 3 (35:25):
It.
Speaker 2 (35:25):
UH i think the one that.
Speaker 3 (35:28):
That was a jam thoughf you had have sang that
one come on and Then billy crushes it. Too but it's,
different it's. Different it would have been two different.
Speaker 4 (35:34):
Songs.
Speaker 1 (35:35):
Yeah one THAT i WISH i would have singled THAT
i didn't was a song.
Speaker 2 (35:41):
Called Way Way Back well with back o Dirt.
Speaker 1 (35:46):
ROADS i, MEAN i will still have artists kind of
like in my you, know like artist in my friend
group that they'll be on.
Speaker 2 (35:54):
The bus listening to. That And i'm, like, DAMN i should.
Speaker 1 (35:57):
You, Know bobby one of the Most AND i think about,
this this is one of the. Funniest this is WHERE
i knew things were stupidly successful for, me which it's
so funny to think. About but on my last spring break,
ALBUM i put out a we had like A i
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guess it would have been A crs kind of get.
Together AND i was doing an interview talking about my
spring break album and all, that and a couple of
the programmers go off your Spring break, album.
Speaker 2 (36:34):
Which song would you choose to be a?
Speaker 1 (36:37):
Single AND i, said, man right, NOW i cannot stop
thinking about a song Called games THAT i wrote me
And Ashley. Gorley we literally wrote it by, ourselves AND
i put on the Spring break.
Speaker 2 (36:51):
Album well THAT i.
Speaker 1 (36:54):
GUESS crs is always this time of year In, february
so we were ramping up our promotion for the Spring
break album In. February the label had already Picked kicked
The Dust up to come out as the lead single
from my new album that we'd already had, done So
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kick The Dust up was supposed to come out In.
April when we busted up FOR, crs all of the
programmers started Blaring games.
Speaker 4 (37:24):
Started playing, games which pressures you're labeled.
Speaker 1 (37:28):
Well so as a huge as. One as long AS i,
LIVE i will deem this as a mistake of. Mine
games got to sixteen on the charts back. Then if
this were, current we could have just put both of them,
Out but back then it was so taboo you didn't
even you didn't even drum up trying to work two
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singles at one.
Speaker 3 (37:51):
Time it was the label Promoting games once people started
to play, it or was it the?
Speaker 1 (37:54):
Label we were all jacked. Up but what we should
have done is, delayed, delayed kick the dust.
Speaker 2 (38:02):
Up but.
Speaker 1 (38:05):
But like we had this whole thing behind kicked the
dust up, too like it it just got and We
games would have went to number, one AND i Think
games would have probably been maybe one of my bigger singles.
Speaker 2 (38:23):
Ever and we killed it on.
Speaker 4 (38:25):
Purpose you cannibalize. Yourself we totally.
Speaker 1 (38:28):
Did AND i looked back And i'm, like AND i
looked back me And Ashley, gorley And ashley's, like can
you believe we actually killed a song to put Out.
Speaker 2 (38:40):
Kick the Dust?
Speaker 4 (38:40):
Up five years? Later it had been?
Speaker 3 (38:42):
Fine is what's funny to the timing the you know
what year it was maybe, Ten but, yeah now you
can do, that no.
Speaker 4 (38:47):
Problem you have three on at the same. Time and so.
Speaker 1 (38:51):
And what was interesting is Even latin not this past.
Year the year BEFORE i played a full version Of
games like in my concert and, man it went over.
Speaker 3 (39:03):
Great you KNOW i WONDER i did a charity event
With darius once AND i asked him before the. SHOW i, said,
hey my favorite because it was a Massive hootie fan
loved new ever song to a SIDE, b SIDE, c
SIDE f. Sides it didn't matter, LIKE i loved it.
ALL i burned the tape, out, like played it so.
Much you, know the words came off of.
Speaker 2 (39:20):
It right the correct.
Speaker 3 (39:21):
Review and SO i, said, hey used to listen to
this one in football practice every. Day there's a song
Called running from The. Devil AND i was, like and he's, like,
MAN i haven't played that in twenty. Years but he's,
like if you give me like fifteen minutes BEFORE i go,
on we'll learn. It and so it was the coolest.
Thing and again he went on stage the full. Band
then he's, like run, in Run in from The, devil
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And i'm, like it was.
Speaker 4 (39:43):
Like it like meant something to. Me but he went
and relearned that. Song and he has the musical prowess
to do that.
Speaker 3 (39:50):
Too if someone came to you and said a song
you haven't heard one of your first records in forever
and said, MATTER i really want you to play, this
and he's, like, MAN i barely remember.
Speaker 4 (39:57):
That how long until you could get that and play
it full band on?
Speaker 1 (40:00):
Phone? OH i would probably be able to do that
What darius. Did really NOW i can go back IF
i get a couple. Listens i've always Thank, god my my,
uh my level of being able to pull. PULLS i
just need one or two listens and it'll all come.
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Back now that doesn't Mean i'm not ASSURING i wouldn't blank.
Midway but what's been fun through the years is every
night before a, show it's it's not the thing to,
do BUT i will do a little two or three
song acoustic set for like VIPs that that have bought
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the tickets for this LITTLE vip. Experience AND i know
better than to do, it but every now and Then
i'll ask the crowd for any. Request, well they always
request some random damn song from you, know one of
my first, albums and then we'll we'll go down the,
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wormhole which is fun because it's it's not me just
doing my standard little couple. Songs get, It and so
ONCE i see the lyric and remember the, melody then
then it'll, start it'll start popping. Back but, like, uh,
like for, instance IF i know that like We'll i'll
go two months without doing like a full band concert
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like The Houston rodeos coming, up And i'll go down
there AND i will go listen to the songs and
and Because i've Had i've had some moments WHERE i
didn't prepare and AND i would blank on a few
words here or. There But i'm pretty good about retaining you,
know chords and lyrics and stuff like. That BUT i would,
say you, know you still need to be a little
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more prepared AS i, get you, know but back WHEN
i was thirty, five you, KNOW i was doing two
hundred something shows a. YEAR i mean it was so
there was never a break to get. Rusty do you
use a? Click there is a click in my?
Speaker 2 (42:04):
Ears you sing to? CLICK i, can, REALLY i can
sing to. Click you do you need to sing to? Click?
No but WHAT i CAN i. Listen i'll tell you
What i'm good at and What i'm bad. At What
i'm really good at is pocket on the acoustic. Guitar
like like.
Speaker 1 (42:23):
When we start drinking, Beer i'm not on the. Click
but when my, band when my drummer, fires the click
with me playing my tempo is on the.
Speaker 2 (42:35):
Click natural you will just stay on it and the
band comes. In now we you, know year after, year
WE i prefer the. Click i've just now it's gotten
to be A i prefer.
Speaker 4 (42:52):
It if you don't have it as a weird, No.
Speaker 1 (42:55):
I'm i'm LIKE i, said my ability like this. Foot
if you see that foot doing. That If i'm on
piano or you want a, Guitar i'm locked. In AND
i learned that by. YOU i didn't have that on
my first record. DEAL i didn't have. THAT i learned
that by going on radio tours and playing playing two
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hundred people college bars with just me and my. Guitar
and if you don't have that pocket dialed, in then
then you need a.
Speaker 4 (43:25):
Band do you need microphones on stage hear the? Crowd
do you need crowd?
Speaker 1 (43:28):
MICS i have crowd, mics BUT i do that FOR
i more or less do that to pick up the
ambient room, noise to make the mix in my ears
feel uh not, isolated like right now you AND i are.
ISOLATED i want to feel all of the, sounds AND
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i want TO i want it to feel vibrant and
and and all.
Speaker 4 (43:55):
That what about because there's a bit of delay on
those right when the crowd.
Speaker 3 (44:00):
Cheering into the mic into the, board into your, ears
even if it's Split like when we would play click
stuff briefly when we did full band stuff at, FESTIVALS
i would be, Like, god ain't this?
Speaker 4 (44:09):
Delay the? Hay oh there they are. There they, are
but you're probably so used to, that, right.
Speaker 2 (44:14):
You, Know, yes so all my.
Speaker 1 (44:17):
Stadiums you, know you could never sound check a stadium.
Properly it's different with people and it doesn't. Work and
you know you could go set your, levels but the
levels throw them out the. Window, well, well so we
sound checked for. STADIUMS i never really geeked out on
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it BECAUSE i knew everything would. Change, well THEN i
would come up in the middle of the football. Field,
well the only WAY i could get on time was
to watch my. DRUMMERS i MEAN i would watch My
i'd make a visual. Click, yeah, oh that's the only.
Speaker 2 (44:55):
Way. Wow and we would start With.
Speaker 1 (45:00):
Stone LIKE i got that real, good And i'd have
to Watch i'm fifty yards from him watching this is
he being Over he's being overly. Dramatic and once once
we got through most of like that's my kind of.
Night then my my ear mixed, guy he had the
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clicks and all the snare hitting hard enough to override.
Speaker 3 (45:25):
EVERYTHING i have like two other THINGS i want to talk,
About and we talked about before you came.
Speaker 4 (45:28):
In we talked about idol and idol. Starts actually let these.
Speaker 1 (45:33):
Go oh HAVE i been here yet about an. Hour
i'm good on. Time now we DON'T i, mean if
we're snowed, in you, know it's LIKE.
Speaker 4 (45:42):
I never want to like keep running You but do
you want to talk idle for a.
Speaker 6 (45:45):
Second let's take a quick pause for a message from our. Sponsor,
wow and we're back on The Bobby.
Speaker 4 (45:59):
Cast are you? Seven is this your seventh?
Speaker 2 (46:05):
Eighth we're in the eighth? Year god, Dang, yeah that's. Crazy.
Speaker 3 (46:10):
OKAY i want this story about the first time it
was even an option or a conversation that you might
be On American, Idol like the first call you, get
who is?
Speaker 2 (46:21):
It? Like?
Speaker 5 (46:22):
What?
Speaker 4 (46:22):
LIKE i want to know about.
Speaker 1 (46:23):
That So i'm at my beach house and, well my, Manager,
carrie she calls me and, says we've been contacted about
the reboot Of American. Idol AND i had already we
had already seen some headlines At Katie. Perry you, know
they Signed katie and then they launched a big you,
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know you knew the show was coming, back and so
they reached out to my.
Speaker 2 (46:54):
Manager AND.
Speaker 1 (46:57):
I must SAY i was seventy percent against it to,
start BECAUSE i, REALLY i, mean at that, MOMENT i
was at the height of, stadiums and and didn't want
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to get didn't want to get.
Speaker 2 (47:26):
What what's the Word i'm looking?
Speaker 1 (47:27):
For JUST i didn't want to get my mental focus
going down like life was so good just being you.
Speaker 4 (47:33):
Don't wanna lose your focus on what you would, killing.
Speaker 2 (47:35):
Right and BUT i was at the beach house and
this is the, truth.
Speaker 1 (47:45):
And AND i was, like, MAN i cannot go to
Like la Or New, york And i'm not gonna go
up there and do this meeting THAT i don't want to.
Do carrie calls me and she, goes they want to.
Come they would have come to THIRTY a and they
want To they'll fly to.
Speaker 4 (48:07):
Us so they were gonna go pitch you basically right
down In.
Speaker 1 (48:10):
Florida SO i, said all, right Well i'm you, know
and back then you. Know, Anyway carrie, goes all, right
they'll be here On wednesday, night just right over To.
Speaker 2 (48:22):
Alice.
Speaker 1 (48:23):
Beach AND i drove over and help carry rode a
bicycle there and we sat down and we meet with
two of the you, know two of the people you
know AT abc person and A fremantle. Person i'll leave
their names, out but they KNOW i love, them and
they they started pitching, it AND i told Them i'm
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really probably not. Interested i'm Really and what's funny about
those the people that, like they have no, Idea Luke.
Bryan they don't know That i'm like doing sold out
stadiums and double, amphitheaters and That i'm making enough money
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touring THAT i don't Need like at the, time like If,
IDLE i didn't need to give up money here to
go spend more time doing. THIS i just needed to
go throw shows up and go. Rocket but and maybe
this is too much, information but either, WAY i went
back AND i AND i CALLED i started Calling blake
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And Keith, urban AND i Called blake and we had
a great talk and And blake went. Through he was, Like,
luke he was, like there THE tv opens up another
domain and. Dynamic AND i Called Keith, urban And Keith urban, said,
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man he had loved, it and and after when he
Did idle and and so ONCE i GOT i, mean
those are two guys THAT i love and, trust and
and then THEN i THEN i, said you, KNOW i
mean we kind of threw them out of crazy number
and damn, it they paid it.
Speaker 3 (50:14):
Here that people knew how much money you made for
a contract because athletes they have.
Speaker 1 (50:18):
That but you, KNOW i think it's a little weird
that that info gets leaked. OUT i don't understand. WHY
i don't understand how that info.
Speaker 3 (50:28):
Leaks OH i think you said you don't know why
people are Like i'm, Interested but, YEAH i KNOW i get,
It like, somebody, right somebody knows.
Speaker 1 (50:35):
Somebody is leaking that info BECAUSE i know it AIN'T
i know it ain't anybody on our, side but but
somebody leaks it AND i don't. KNOW i, mean you,
KNOW i think here's the. DEAL i think the generation
that we grew up, in our parents like nobody talked
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about their. Finances AND i think this day and, age
everybody's especially in the public, eye you, know from athletes to,
entertainers AND i mean when you google Net worth And
forbes and what.
Speaker 2 (51:12):
You.
Speaker 1 (51:12):
KNOW i, MEAN i think and now it's almost like
a little bit of a. BARAGGADOCIOUS i think you kind
of need To people need to know how they need
to know a little bit of how successful you are
as a little bit of a like this is how
good his you, know there's a there's a little healthy
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dose of. That But i've never been a fan of.
Speaker 3 (51:37):
IT i feel the need a, bit AND i was
AGAIN i was with having a conversation yesterday THAT i
was talking about With Tracy. LAWRENCE i feel the need
now if because he was just asking me my story
and we eventually took it on a. MICROPHONE i feel
the need now to talk about my success so it
doesn't feel Like i'm pandering with all of my upbringing
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because it grew up very. Poor Stamp kid, trailer, right you,
Know mom, Died dad left all of, That and by
the end of, IT i was, LIKE i don't want
to come off as. Disingenuous i'm rich, now. Right AND
i used to feel like that would set people in
a like a wrong like not feel. Good BUT i
feel now it's the most honest THING i can, do
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BECAUSE i don't want people to Think i'm mean dishonest
by not saying, that or That i'm feeding them, alive
That i'm just, Like, oh it's. Tough you, KNOW i
have the understanding of my whole life not being Like
i'm as new money as it can possibly.
Speaker 2 (52:32):
Be me, Too, Yeah and BUT i think you're.
Speaker 3 (52:35):
RIGHT i think for me to be totally, HONEST i
have to somewhat share that that's my. Story but If
i'm being totally, honest Now i've had success and it's
not like that, anymore you.
Speaker 2 (52:46):
Know AND i think what's.
Speaker 1 (52:47):
INTERESTING i don't think you want to get around a
group of people that are not. Successful If i'm talking about,
MONEY i want people to, understand like if somebody asking
me money, advice like they're, LIKE i want them to
be able to freely talk about money with me because
they know there's no that there's they know there's no
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weird psychological stuff going. On it's like like IF i,
know LIKE i, mean there's some people in my world
THAT i can tell they're about to get. Successful And i'm, like,
hey just so you, know don't don't do this until
you run a few things by.
Speaker 2 (53:27):
Me and AND.
Speaker 1 (53:30):
I love the ability to do, That AND i, think
and THEN i love to get around people that are
in the same income bracket and we can talk the
income bracket, freely and we can laugh about the old
days and how we didn't have these, problems and we
can laugh about you know this and. That SO i
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think there's a healthy dose of PEOPLE i never will,
Forget LIKE i never will. FORGET i was doing some
some land, clearing and this old guy was on a
big old excavator on my property AND i pulled up
just to see what they were. Doing AND i get
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out and he shuts some machine off and he just
runs down and he shakes my. Hand he, goes, Man
i've never shaken a millionaire's, hand AND.
Speaker 2 (54:19):
I JUST i was, like you don't have to think
of me.
Speaker 4 (54:22):
Like, that, right because you don't think of you like.
Speaker 1 (54:24):
That, NO i, said you just think of, me good
old boy That i'm happier out. Here he, goes, WELL
i just never shaken a millionaire's, hand AND i KNEW
i was working for, you AND i KNEW i wanted to.
Shake so stuff like that is really endearing and.
Speaker 3 (54:37):
COOL i also think it's, important, though with your story
and mine to. Go it's not like either one of
us had an uncle that got us, in or we
don't come from.
Speaker 4 (54:44):
Money and THEN i had no.
Speaker 3 (54:46):
In it's, like if you or me can decide to do,
this commit ourselves to, it take some, risks, strategize, fail, fail,
fail get back, up if we can do. It the
REASON i like to share it, ONE i think people
just want to authentic more than they want to be
one hundred percent relatable because you're very, relatable but there's
parts of you that aren't because of your. Success BUT
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i think with, me it's important to go IF i
can do, it really anybody can do, it that it's not, unattainable.
Speaker 1 (55:15):
Right AND i think us talking about it props up
The american.
Speaker 2 (55:21):
Dream fully, agree even more fully, AGREE i think, That.
Speaker 1 (55:26):
AND i think The american dream is on one hundred different,
levels but even the hope of it.
Speaker 2 (55:35):
Is really really.
Speaker 4 (55:37):
SPECIAL i Mean, Leisburg, Georgia Mountain, Pine. Arkansas if you
can come from, there you can come from, LITERALLY.
Speaker 2 (55:44):
I think you can come from. Anywhere AND i think THAT.
Speaker 1 (55:51):
I tell, YOU i MEAN i went to school with
kids listen that even were one hundred percent worse than.
Me and knowing that some of those boys THAT i
grew up with went to become two of them are.
Doctors and that's just a one.
Speaker 2 (56:08):
Girl one.
Speaker 1 (56:10):
Girl she was our valedictorian and her mother Drove she
drove a tractor for the dairy and she became valedictorian
and it was so and so those are those were
the success stories far beyond me out of my little
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group Of, Leesburg.
Speaker 3 (56:32):
Georgia BUT i also think The american dream he brought,
UP i think it's not even about. Money it's about, fulfillment.
RIGHT i think if you can do something and be
fulfilled by.
Speaker 1 (56:41):
It, yeah if you grow up in a trailer park
and you become a, pharmacist, yes that's The american dream
and you're fulfilled by, it like IF i can, now
or if you go you get out and you go
play college, football you blow your knee, out but then
you go coach three state championships just because you got
A d one, scholarship.
Speaker 3 (56:59):
Because you love doing it and you're able to pay the.
Bills that's why we wanted to do. That we just
wanted to pay the bills doing something we.
Speaker 4 (57:05):
Loved.
Speaker 2 (57:05):
Well and, LISTEN.
Speaker 4 (57:08):
I.
Speaker 1 (57:08):
JOKE i had this conversation with a very famous athlete
two days. Ago there's only so MUCH i can do
as a country music. SINGER i did not go To
stanford and write an app that will ever make me
worth ten billion Dollars like that wasn't my. Path my
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job is to be as happy AS i can be
having done as well AS i can do as a
country music. Singer, now the guy that wrote the app
that sold it To microsoft and got ten billion. DOLLARS
i hope his job is to have as much, fun
AND i hope the football coach is having the same
amount of.
Speaker 2 (57:48):
Fun so it's just funny how.
Speaker 1 (57:52):
It's just about where you're at mentally through the whole,
process and, man you, know it's just been a damn
blast for.
Speaker 3 (58:00):
Me well THEN i want to let you, go But
i'm going to ask you this last. Thing you ever
drive by big houses and go how do they make their?
MONEY i do that crap all the.
Speaker 2 (58:06):
Time, well what's funny is?
Speaker 1 (58:08):
There LIKE i, said when you're scrolling through, TikTok there's
this country. Girl she's like on a lake In, alabama
and she's, like what did these people?
Speaker 2 (58:16):
DO i feel the same.
Speaker 3 (58:17):
Way i'm, like how do people make? Money BECAUSE i
feel LIKE i caught lightning in a. BOTTLE i THINK
i did a lot of things, right a lot of things.
Wrong i've learned from. It have, tenacity that's my, SUPERPOWER
i know How SO i don't THINK i was. LUCKY
i THINK i had some tough decisions made them bounce.
Back but, AGAIN i caught lightning in a bottle, still
because you can do everything right and this isn't going
to happen nine times out of ten Run AND i am,
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like how do people make?
Speaker 1 (58:40):
Money, WELL i, think in my, OPINION i, think And
i've seen. IT i think there's a tremendous amount of
money out. There AND i tell you, what there's a
tremendous amount of money out there by people that have
went and busted their. Ass now there's a tremendous amount
of money that needs to be out there to help
a lot of people. Too in my, OPINION i. AGREE
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i mean WHEN i go TO la and WHEN i
go to these big cities and and you know, so
SO i think that and AND i will always uh you, know,
now whether one administration did this and one administration who's
running the country and, whatever you, KNOW i will always
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believe that there's enough money in this country to where
no one should be, hungry and no, teacher NO i
mean a teacher that's, underpaid or a, firefighter a firefighter
or a veteran or anybody like that wanting for anything
in this. COUNTRY a child.
Speaker 4 (59:41):
Hungry, Yeah food and security is my biggest.
Speaker 2 (59:43):
THING i mean a.
Speaker 4 (59:44):
Child it's WHAT i probably put the most money.
Speaker 3 (59:46):
Into it's WHAT i wind up IF i run for,
politics that'll be the thing BECAUSE i had, that and
so that that to me Is i'm in shock that
there's so much and some people still have so.
Speaker 1 (59:59):
Little, Listen, BOBBY i mean when you think about if,
THERE i, mean we could spend two days talking about.
Stuff but when you think about a plate of food
that gets served to us at a restaurant and us
(01:00:19):
eating half of it in every restaurant in this, country
throwing away a half of a plate of, FOOD i
can't understand why we as a. Nation you just tell the, restaurant,
hey just bring me a little food and then charge
me the same and then the food that's in the
kitchen back, there sir, LIKE i don't. KNOW i MEAN
(01:00:41):
i like the food waste in THE i don't. Know
we could go down a whole another deep dive with.
Speaker 3 (01:00:48):
That the last, thing And i'm in a real. QUESTION
i mentioned it before you got, here the farm farm
toory Doing california. Show, yeah is that the first?
Speaker 2 (01:00:55):
Time first time?
Speaker 4 (01:00:55):
Ever well give me thirty. Seconds why here here's.
Speaker 2 (01:00:59):
My thoughts About.
Speaker 1 (01:01:00):
California california is a giant state with many many untapped
cool little Market senate through the years of going to
small markets In illinois And michigan and all that and
selling twenty thousand. Tickets Like we'll roll up to these
towns and it's like the coolest thing in the. World
it's amazing to be In. MICHIGAN i mean these towns
(01:01:24):
through the years of fifteen sixteen years a farm. Tour
when fifteen twenty thousand people pull up in a, field
it's it's awesome and mind. Blowing and THEN i look at,
LIKE i, mean every Year i'll go To california And
i'll Do, Sacramento La San diego and Then i'm. Out
But i'm, like there's sixty million people living In. California
(01:01:45):
IF i go to some of these, things it's got
to be people have got to want to come to.
It and what's cool about it is it's in These
we got to Remember california is is still probably the
largest agriculture, state and we need to get them in
a situation where they're happy about that and it's. Uplifted
(01:02:07):
it seems Like california. Doesn't SO i want to bring
awareness To california Ag and it's not ALL.
Speaker 2 (01:02:13):
La it's not ALL.
Speaker 1 (01:02:15):
La It's Bakersfield reading and it's these towns we're going,
to and it's orchards and it's ALMOND i mean it's
almond makers and and pecan orchards and orange groves AND
i mean it's it's a lot of. Farming so it's
going to be fun to go. There and we just
wanted to celebrate celebrate that aspect Of california, Too AND i,
(01:02:35):
thought what better way than to go park you, know park.
There AND i think we'll be able to do that
out there for. Years ARE i, mean we're we're selling
tickets as fast as we ever have out there and
it's really really.
Speaker 3 (01:02:46):
Exciting lukebriyan dot com all the tickets idol Back march,
ninth we talked about.
Speaker 4 (01:02:51):
That all, right, BUDDY i love, You thanks, SO.
Speaker 2 (01:02:53):
I love, you thank. You this is a.
Speaker 3 (01:02:54):
Song and then, yeah well we'll see you. Soon that's
it's a dude of killing. It it's super.
Speaker 4 (01:02:59):
Cool you're killing.
Speaker 3 (01:03:00):
It and for those that missed, it we're Gonna we
edited out a lot of. Stuff he got very controversial and.
Naked we edited it all up and he. Fell it
was the whole.
Speaker 2 (01:03:08):
Thing oh, GOD i WOULD i would let you run all,
that JUST i don't want you to run.
Speaker 3 (01:03:13):
It, no we don't want, to because you, KNOW i
don't want my friend canceled because he said a.
Speaker 2 (01:03:16):
Lot oh he got real.
Speaker 4 (01:03:17):
Bad all, right At Luke, bryan all, Right, luke.
Speaker 5 (01:03:22):
Thanks for listening to A Bobby cast. Production
I passed stupidly on the Morgan saying in my boots
because I had a lot of negativity on socials that
I was getting pegged as maybe a one trick.
Speaker 2 (00:19):
Pony in that Lane.
Speaker 3 (00:23):
Episode four ninety nine with Luke Brian, well, well, well
he's back on American Idol. Idol runs through May I
encourage you to watch it. This is Luke's eighth season.
Pretty cool this year because Carry is a judge. His
country song came on Tour Happening, Farm Tour Happening, and
that when he pays for all himself sets up literally
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in a farmer's I won't say yard, but field all
the tickets to that at Lukebryan dot com.
Speaker 4 (00:52):
Luke is my friend. That's pretty cool.
Speaker 3 (00:55):
Luke's got a Hulu series called It's All Country that
you can check out. We get to a lot of stuff.
And I will say before the show, before this happened,
he broke the chair. Now, the chair was already an
old chair. I did not rewarn him that if you
sit down hard, it's like a little love seat. But
it's from like nineteen thirties. We just got it because
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it looked cool. He was at the house just prior
we talked about this coming up, but he was at
the house like four days prior and I was like,
be careful in the chair, and he did. And this
time we were just talking, he just sat down. It's
bound to go anyway. Luckily, he's pretty athletic, so when
he fell, it looked like a really good athletic stop
dropping roll, like if you're on fire. And then he
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got up and we did the show.
Speaker 4 (01:38):
We did the hour.
Speaker 3 (01:41):
I love Luke. I hope you like this. I feel
like there's parts of Luke here that he hasn't shared yet.
Find him on socials at Luke Bryan, get all the
tickets to all the stuff Lukebryan dot com.
Speaker 4 (01:52):
Mike any thoughts.
Speaker 5 (01:54):
I mean, he's just the presence when he walks in,
even just go into the bathroom meeting like Telly's in there,
came in and sat down.
Speaker 2 (02:01):
I was like, Oh, there goes that chare Well.
Speaker 4 (02:02):
He's a big guy, yeah, and big presence.
Speaker 3 (02:06):
And I think I do talk about how we would
be at dinner me Luke, Lionel, Ritchie Seacrest, Katie Perry,
a couple of producers, and that everybody's fighting for oxygen
in that room. I'm not I don't want to even
talk if it's just me and my wife and a
few of us, but they want attention. He dominates and
not on purpose, like he just has that kind of
(02:27):
presence here. He is my friend in yours, Luke Bryant,
let's address this. First, he did fall over.
Speaker 2 (02:33):
Just yes, the chair, Bobby has a uh.
Speaker 4 (02:36):
But first you knew about it.
Speaker 2 (02:38):
How can I remember you knew about it.
Speaker 4 (02:41):
You knew as soon as you fell. You were like,
oh yeah, I remember, now.
Speaker 1 (02:44):
Yeah, that went through my mind as I was as
my ass was going over my head. But yeah, this
chair has a a leg. That's I went on and
finished off. But I'm just gonna stay on this side.
Speaker 3 (02:57):
I think it's a lot of tents in your body
for the next forty minutes. What's that You're gonna have
to sit there for forty minutes? I can engage the
core you fell over that you fell back in the chair.
You did sit hard, to be honest, And it's a
chair from like eighteen ninety and I was like, you
were here a week or so ago. I was like, hey,
do be careful on that chair because you might fall over.
You dominated it today though, yeah, I mean athletic too.
Speaker 2 (03:18):
I will sayin' I mean.
Speaker 1 (03:20):
It was I wish we would have had it would
have been worth having.
Speaker 2 (03:24):
I'm good at falling, Bobby, it was.
Speaker 4 (03:26):
An athletic fall. And now now, now.
Speaker 2 (03:29):
Now this microphone needs viagra?
Speaker 4 (03:33):
Reed, do you want to bluepill this thing?
Speaker 2 (03:35):
Oh? There it goes. I think.
Speaker 4 (03:39):
It looks like a guy that's done that a few times.
Speaker 3 (03:41):
Do you have a nervous ticked because I do with
a microphone when I first get it at all times,
just like reset it?
Speaker 1 (03:46):
Well when or was that one just not set? Because
I will grab It's just it's just sagging. You got
to understand when you're at I'm at a piano. Yeah,
you gotta get it where you like. I agree, you know,
it's just like.
Speaker 4 (04:01):
See that cherirsday. Are you okay?
Speaker 1 (04:03):
I'm okay with the chair and okay, I just got
done with four days of snowskiing and yeah, so I
have fallen and chased my children up and down the
mountains and falling and cracked vertebra and all that.
Speaker 2 (04:19):
So I'm good.
Speaker 4 (04:19):
I'd like to ask you about snowskin.
Speaker 3 (04:20):
I've never been You've never been, no, And I if
I'm just guessing I would imagine you didn't go till later.
Speaker 1 (04:26):
I didn't snowski until I was gifted for college graduation.
At twenty three, my dad we took a big me
and a bunch of my fraternity brothers went on a
trip and that was the first time I learned. And
it was Jackson Hole, Wyoming, And it's like a hard
ass mountain to learn on. But yeah, I didn't start
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till twenty three. But then since then I've gone every year.
Speaker 4 (04:52):
Yeah, we didn't have snow.
Speaker 3 (04:53):
I mean, you're from Georgia, from Arkansas, I like, ye,
anywhere around us?
Speaker 2 (04:56):
Well, what were the money?
Speaker 1 (04:57):
I mean when you start looking at Western no skiing
and the costs, I mean, it's a it's a booger.
Speaker 4 (05:06):
Again, which is why we probably didn't go when we
were young.
Speaker 1 (05:08):
We wouldn't even my parents wouldn't have even have the
wouldn't have even known ho to. I mean, we we
did good to get the Panama City to the beach.
But but if you do do it, and I think
you all too scared of a c l M c
l's I'm scared to tell have you ever torn one?
Speaker 4 (05:24):
But that's why I don't want to go snow skiing.
Speaker 2 (05:26):
You're not gonna tear one when.
Speaker 3 (05:28):
You fall, as was evidence with your fall here. It's
different when you're an adult.
Speaker 1 (05:33):
Yeah, but they'll set your skis and and all your
your buying. They'll make it where when you you know
they all your settings. When when when the boots and
the skis don't like the way they're turned, the you'll
pop out of them. The only way you're ever gonna
you would ever blow in a cl well. First of all,
I was gonna tell you if you do you ought
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to do it, first of all. Secondly, day one, get
a get get an instructor for three days, and they're
that and learn, learn properly, learn the right way, and
all your skis and bindings. If you make a hard fall,
your skis pop off. What what blows your legs out
is when you stay hooked to your skis.
Speaker 3 (06:14):
Which also is what added to acls and MCLs. But
we lived near water, so we would ski and then
we'd wakeboard, wakesurf and not getting out of a wakeboard
like when you I.
Speaker 1 (06:25):
Think that's more way more dang, because you're you're in,
you're not coming. I mean, like Jacob and Jake's torn.
I mean he's torn his knees a lot because he
waked wakeboarded every day.
Speaker 3 (06:36):
So which is why eventually we just started wakesurfing and
wake skating.
Speaker 2 (06:40):
Oh, wake surf, I'm off of that.
Speaker 1 (06:41):
If you wipe out, Yeah, and when you fall wakesurfing,
it's just like.
Speaker 3 (06:44):
Like you fell like a slow mode again. And I'm
not I'm not being funny about this. You fell very athletic.
You did fall well.
Speaker 1 (06:53):
Like I said, I'm still I mean, I'm still jacked
up from us being ten feet in the mountains.
Speaker 2 (07:01):
I'm still.
Speaker 4 (07:02):
But when you're twelve, were you an athlete?
Speaker 1 (07:05):
I was a pretty good athlete as a kid. I
was a very proficient athlete. I mean baseball and football
All stars every year until like eighth or ninth grade.
I did not grow. Everybody else grew. So when everybody
else hit puberty and all that, here I am. And
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I was the youngest kid in my whole grade. My
birthday was July seventeenth, and back then the cutoff the
starts were like August. I think, so I should have
been held back a year, but I wasn't. So here
i am. I'm the youngest kid in my grade, and
I'm the latest blooming boy in the grade. So I
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made the ninth grade baseball team. I made the tenth
grade baseball team. I didn't even go out for football
because football was our football program was not that good
and I just didn't need to be on the field.
Speaker 2 (08:06):
But then going into eleventh.
Speaker 1 (08:07):
Grade, I still was like I just said, I went
to my coach and said, man, everybody else can hit
homers and hit it off the wall. I said, man,
I'm not going to be able to compete. And that's
when I essentially started really getting into music, thank god,
you know. And really the time that I dedicated to
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maybe baseball and football practices and all that, I would
I would start. I had a little high school band
and we'd go, you know, play the Leonard Skinner's songs
in the garage on Tuesdays and Thursdays, and you know,
that's kind of what got me into music.
Speaker 4 (08:45):
How big your daddy?
Speaker 1 (08:47):
My dad's six six'. One, yeah so he's he's six
one two. Fifteen his whole, life you, know he was
he was kind of a you, KNOW i didn't know
he was a big. Dude and then all my buddies
would be, like, man your dad's your Dad's i'm a big,
guy so you're a big.
Speaker 4 (09:01):
Guy like people have to be surprised when they meet,
you how large you.
Speaker 1 (09:04):
Are, WELL i, think, YEAH i think people are, like,
yeah people are Always that's the first THING i say was, like,
man we didn't realize you. Were, well you know what's
funny is Like blake's a big. Dude blake is bigger than.
Me he's probably an inch too taller than. Me but
then like IF i throw on a pair of cowboy,
Boots i'm six four all day, long so that makes
(09:26):
me even More like people are, like, well BUT i
Mean i'm six, too you, know and a little heavier
THAN i want to.
Speaker 2 (09:33):
Be but working on.
Speaker 3 (09:34):
That but With Tracy launch yesterday and we were talking
about country music and to, me WHEN i was a,
kid country music talked about WHERE i was, from AND
i felt that related, there but like alternative music talked
about HOW i felt right because country music used to
be a bit. Older they would sing a lot of
parent songs when we were, Younger like country music was
(09:54):
definitely like adults singing to adults a, lot no, Doubt
and just kind of talked to him about how that's
changed a. Lot and the, ARTISTS i, mean including, you
especially when you start our, younger the country music messaging
is more.
Speaker 4 (10:07):
Broad it's gotten far more populous.
Speaker 3 (10:11):
Popular has your music changed and what you're looking to
record when you're twenty five versus now just as you growing?
Speaker 1 (10:21):
Up, YEAH i MEAN i think NATURALLY i entered in
and when you look at my first two, albums there
were it was very VERY i mean fiddle, heavy steal
guitar heavy country songs like and AND i, had you,
KNOW i THINK i had a lot of those aspects
(10:43):
of kind of some classic country stuff in those first two,
albums and then kind of morphed into AS i was playing,
clubs college bars and WATCHING i, MEAN i was a
wrecked reflection of watching college kids right WHEN i got off,
(11:07):
stage AND i would play all of the big Covers i'd,
play you, Know i'd Play fishing in The dark and
you never even call me by my, name And skinner
and all The brooks And done stuff And Tracy, lawrence
and we'd play even you, know like we would learn
like modern Like Gary allen songs at the, time songs about,
(11:29):
rain and we were playing these. Things and then right
WHEN i got, done they put on the biggest hip hop,
songs and that's when the energy level in that college
bar went to. Eleven and so that's WHEN i started, going,
well If i'm, gonna If i'm gonna really kind of
dance in this, space you, know you gotta be able
(11:52):
to relate to that demographic and so, yet but you
know what's, Interesting, bobby when you look at somebody like
Like morgan and even LIKE i don't know how, old,
UH i, mean when you look at Like Connor smith
or some of these kids that, WELL i, Mean morgan
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really got.
Speaker 2 (12:14):
Going when he was twenty four twenty. FIVE i really got.
GOING i was thirty.
Speaker 1 (12:18):
Two, really thirty thirty thirty to thirty two is when, like.
Speaker 4 (12:24):
Like you're already a full adult, then.
Speaker 1 (12:26):
RIGHT i MEAN i didn't move To nashville UNTIL i
was twenty, Five SO i was tricking people a little
bit in My like WHEN i look At Thomas, ritt
he was like twenty, kid he was a, baby and
he's calling me.
Speaker 2 (12:43):
Like what did you?
Speaker 1 (12:44):
Do AND i was, like, DUDE i was you, KNOW
i was going through where you're you're twenty. ONE i
was thirty. ONE i had you, KNOW i had a
baby at home and a, wife and and so you,
know it was a little bit different from me because you,
KNOW i JUST i didn't get to town UNTIL i
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was twenty. Five and you know that the reason why
that happened IS i had lost my brother in the car.
WRECK i was moving here WHEN i was, nineteen and
when when he passed away in ninety, six that kind of.
DELAYED i was already had an apartment here and, Then,
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yeah so ninety six i'd have been. Twenty so THEN
i just kind of shut her down four minute and
THEN i went and did college and worked for my
dad a couple of. Years so it kind of just
threw me, off Which i'm GLAD i came here with
a mature. MINDSET i think IF i think if moving
away From, Leesburg, georgia straight To, tennessee there's no telling
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HOW i would have reacted in. That SO i think
going to college and getting some getting away from home
and then coming here was.
Speaker 3 (13:58):
Perfect but can you, imagine, though those einteen year old
athletes that go to THE nba, though because you're talking
about you, know you're glad at nineteen because you don't.
Speaker 1 (14:04):
Think you had The, YEAH i, MEAN i think THE
i think imagine that you get the. DECK i think
the odds in the deck are stacked against. THEM i
mean it's REALLY i can't imagine.
Speaker 3 (14:13):
Resources like, crazy like millions of dollars and now you're
nineteen and you're living In La New, York, boston, wherever.
Speaker 2 (14:20):
LISTEN i, mean it's a. Lot you have to give.
Speaker 1 (14:23):
Grace you have to give them some grace in the,
good the positives and the. NEGATIVES i, mean they're still, boys,
REALLY i mean well mostly.
Speaker 3 (14:35):
Too like the music even, Then LIKE i can look
at some of the songs like Mister mom or like
some of The Colin ray.
Speaker 4 (14:39):
Stuff it was very adults singing to.
Speaker 1 (14:42):
ADULTS i sang along with those songs BECAUSE i was
such a radio same. GEEK i, MEAN i was a
top forty country radio. GEEK i DIDN'T i didn't know
Any texas. ARTISTS i didn't know like your underground like
You're Robert Earl.
Speaker 2 (14:59):
King king is It King? King K E E.
Speaker 1 (15:04):
N i didn't really know their. MUSIC i didn't know
like the lyle Of it. SCENE i didn't know the
you know those under those kind of underground, things.
Speaker 4 (15:15):
The texas red dirt.
Speaker 3 (15:16):
Stuff it just barely got To, arkansas SO i can't
imagine it was In.
Speaker 1 (15:19):
Georgia well the only, thing, yeah like we had like
if we had any, well so, yeah and then and
if we had any like Underground georgia, stuff it would
have been like a driving and.
Speaker 2 (15:32):
Crying do you remember?
Speaker 1 (15:33):
Them? Yeah and like uh LIKE R E m was
almost a little too alternative really for us to get.
INTO i, mean we KNEW R E. M because you,
know they were a you, know a global, band and even.
Speaker 2 (15:49):
You, know in.
Speaker 1 (15:49):
COLLEGE i, mean Obviously Dave matthews was kind Of East coast,
underground and Obviously hoodie and The.
Speaker 2 (15:55):
Blowfish but but.
Speaker 1 (15:58):
The bottom line, IS i, THINK i think WHEN i
look back WHEN i got here in two thousand and,
one like Mister mom and and and.
Speaker 4 (16:08):
Just Another day In. Paradise that's an adult.
Speaker 3 (16:10):
Song, yeah it's a massive, hit but it's an adult country,
song which there aren't a lot of those, now, right
but as the young.
Speaker 2 (16:17):
Guys but, when but WHEN.
Speaker 1 (16:19):
I think about college and AND i think about, what
WHEN i think about what really shaped, me it Was
tim Mcgrawl Green Grass, Grows and it Was Kenny, chesney you,
know back back WHERE i come, from and that's what
we were, jamming and that's WHAT i was covering in
my in my cover. BAND i didn't really BUT i felt, like,
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yeah there was there was a. More there was that
forty five year old woman demographic going, on and certainly
that's flipped a little.
Speaker 2 (16:52):
Bit.
Speaker 6 (16:53):
Currently let's take a quick pause for a message from our.
Sponsor mm, hmm, wow and we're back on The Bobby.
Speaker 3 (17:07):
CAST i feel like it's flipping back, though because the
young guys of you guys are now ten years in
and you're starting to change it back to it being
it's allowed to be a little more mature.
Speaker 4 (17:17):
Now Was my point was.
Speaker 3 (17:19):
That like you And jason and you can Do jake
And dirk's and you guys have been around for fifteen, years, Right,
yeah and the music things we were singing about then
was very young and the young is still. Here but
also you guys are so established and still relevant that
you can sing older songs, now which was, well my
question was leading to it was, like are you now
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at times picking songs that you wouldn't have cut five
years ago because of the of what the song's.
Speaker 2 (17:45):
About, WELL i.
Speaker 1 (17:48):
For, instance four by four by, YOU i mean there
was one point in my, CAREER i had sang about
trucks enough to WHERE i MEAN i passed stupidly on
The morgan saying in my boots because it Had chevrolet in, it.
Speaker 4 (18:10):
And you felt it was just too much truck because
you were DOING i.
Speaker 2 (18:15):
Just felt like. THAT i just went through two years
of my.
Speaker 1 (18:18):
LIFE i went through two years of my life WHERE
i was, Like, MAN i have sing you, KNOW I
i sing about trucks a. Lot i've sing about, tailgates
and you, KNOW i kind OF i THINK i got
in my head a little bit BECAUSE i think IF
i had a lot of negativity socially on, socials THAT
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i was getting pegged as maybe a one trick pony
in that, lane.
Speaker 4 (18:44):
You're also a victim of your own, success which is
a great way to which.
Speaker 1 (18:47):
Happens, YEAH i, mean Which i'll take. That i'll take
that any damn day of the. Week, well, NOW i,
think And, bobby what's interesting. Too WHEN i was doing
spring break, STUFF i was thirty, four thirty, five thirty,
six thirty, Seven, like making spring break albums appealing to
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twenty year old.
Speaker 4 (19:12):
Does that feel weird for? You, well it got a little.
Speaker 1 (19:14):
Weird it didn't get. Weird it just felt, like you,
know it's time to move on from maybe the spring
break me trying to sing college. Songs but it was
fun for me and it was, awesome and it totally
told the world that that's my. PERSONALITY i. THINK i,
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think no matter how people want to categorize, ME i
think people generally think my personality, is let's have some.
Fun and If i'm known for, that IF i don't
get A Male vocalist of The year And grammys or,
whatever BECAUSE i may be known as the guy that
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has had fun through his career and put out lot
of fun, Songs i'm cool with. THAT i, MEAN i think,
VOCALLY i may have been overlooked for that. PARTINESS i
think there's stuff out there That i've done vocally that
certainly it's Not Chris stapleton vocals And Ronnie dunn vocals
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and and the guys that are really really known as.
Vocalists BUT i THINK i might have gotten overlooked in
that a little, bit which is.
Speaker 2 (20:25):
Fine LIKE i, SAID i.
Speaker 3 (20:26):
AGREE i think that the character that people painted over,
you because what's so dominating about your presence is like
you walk in a, room you own.
Speaker 5 (20:33):
It.
Speaker 2 (20:35):
Inadvertently oh for.
Speaker 3 (20:37):
SURE i don't think it's your pressing to do. It,
YEAH i JUST i would watch a room WHEN.
Speaker 4 (20:42):
I was On idol those.
Speaker 3 (20:43):
Years we'd go to dinner everybody and it's, crazy who's
gonna win that room because it ain't me And katie was,
big and and you if you came your, room it
was really cool to watch you come in and you
did not dom dominate the room on, purpose but you
have such a magnetic personality and it is quite large
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WHERE i could see that people would and that's partly
what allowed you to rise was but well then they
got so, big people wouldn't see the other things that
you could, do which is Why idol was so, great
because you would sit at a freaking piano and people
would have their mind blown to watch you go what
do you? Do and then just pour a straight vocal
over keys and they're, like we didn't know we could do.
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That now you've been doing it the whole.
Speaker 4 (21:26):
Time.
Speaker 1 (21:27):
YEAH i think people thank you for saying all, that
AND i think it's just. LISTEN i mean to get
to a level of every artist that makes the leap
from throwing out some radio, hits they got to have
something that's like takes them to that kind of LIKE
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i didn't never know i'd be like what's termed as a.
SUPERSTAR i mean every time somebody introduces me As looke
country music Superstar Luke, brian, like it still freaks me,
out like It's i'm still.
Speaker 2 (22:07):
Like how in the hell DID i pull that title?
Speaker 1 (22:11):
Off so when you look at somebody that goes from like, climbing,
digging digging digging one hit, two hit three or, four
then next thing you, know they blow up to be a,
superstar there's something about them that kind of made that.
Happen and with, ME i think it was personality and
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my willingness on stage to just go for whatever that
to dance and cut up and Be AND i think
that was different enough to set me apart WHERE i
think when you Got Jason aldeen that went into superstar.
Speaker 2 (22:53):
Mode it was that Rock southern.
Speaker 1 (22:56):
Rock she's kind electric, guitar it was a troupe, guitar
walls like layers of a.
Speaker 2 (23:04):
Lecture and then when you look At, chesney it.
Speaker 3 (23:08):
Was like it was it was he to, me he's
beat like all beach all the. Time because the Early
CHESNEY i wasn't into SEE i.
Speaker 1 (23:16):
KNEW i was into everything he did from the first.
Album knew every song on His capricorn.
Speaker 3 (23:24):
Album, YES i only got Into, CHESNEY i would say
early mid so you were in early Early.
Speaker 2 (23:32):
Oh LIKE i might have been fan number. One there
Was we were talking about this and.
Speaker 3 (23:39):
That albe did posted this on a story AND i
actually replied in His instagram story and he posted a
meme from somebody that was, like who's the one artist
or what was the one artist that made you love country?
Music and SO i was just being. FUNNY i applied
Him lil NAS x and he thought and SO i
thought that was SO i took it on the show
AND i was talking, about like the song and you
only pick one song one. Artist the song that made me,
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go holy crap Was tim. McGraw i don't take the
girl BECAUSE i was like a story. Song, oh AND
i remember, like oh my god that you lived LIKE
i was a, kid AND i was like.
Speaker 4 (24:09):
That song it wrecked. Me first song that really wrecked.
Speaker 3 (24:11):
Me but the artist to me Was garth because he
was larger than, life, right everything about. It so same,
question to you give me this one song one? Artist
oh that made me fall in love. With it's an impossible.
Speaker 2 (24:23):
Question it.
Speaker 1 (24:24):
Is it was hard for, me BUT i had to
boil it IF i got to say the, most the,
most the most definite. Thing WHEN i was in my formative,
LIGHT i would Say Clint Black Killing.
Speaker 2 (24:36):
Time, god it's such a.
Speaker 4 (24:37):
GEMLINE i could think of exactly WHERE i was and
that someone come, on.
Speaker 1 (24:40):
Right and when WHEN i now now, listen you've got to,
Understand i've got like there are Four Conway twitty, songs
there's Seven alabama. Songs there's Eight millsap. Songs there's Eight
Earl Thomas, conley's there's Two mel. McDaniels i, mean when
you think About Louisiana saturday night And i'm five years
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old and my parents are drinking beer in the kitchen
dancing to, THAT i.
Speaker 3 (25:08):
Mean That's John anderson for me with my grandma like,
swinging oh, yeah like that same kind of.
Speaker 1 (25:13):
Memory but when When Killing time came out and and
then you, know just that, album when when you're a
kid AND i went and bought that album and you
did like WE i had a, stereo you, know A
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cd player and these huge speakers AND i just sit
there and listen to it for every. Day every DAY
i would dedicate that album and just sitting there and
listening to it and thumbing through Bass masters magazines or.
Whatever but that was a big one for. Me but you,
KNOW i, MEAN i was so into that top forty.
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COUNTRY i, MEAN i, mean there's there's Ten George straits
that REALLY i, mean The George strait song that really
probably hit me the most Was. Run WHEN i Heard
run for the first, Time and the fact That george
did that to, ME i, mean he already had me
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with twenty five other. Songs but the fact that you,
KNOW i would, assume What's george, now he's probably.
Speaker 2 (26:28):
Mits Is George mit?
Speaker 3 (26:29):
Sixty now IT'S i would think late seventy, huh, Well
mike seventy.
Speaker 2 (26:34):
Two so think about.
Speaker 1 (26:36):
THIS i moved to town in two thousand and, one
two thousand and, two and he came out With run
in two thousand and two or, three so that would
have been fifteen years.
Speaker 2 (26:49):
Ago so he was the eighty.
Speaker 4 (26:51):
Two we're getting DoD that's like twenty years so.
Speaker 1 (26:56):
He would have been fifty two and Drop run and
then he drops give It. Away and those are Giant
like If i'm forty eight and IF i can figure
out a song that at the end of the, year
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through all the new artists coming, out all the men
outis And george dropped to at fifty two years, old
that still slayed the country music. MARKET i mean when
he put Out Give It, away he owned the radio
with that song and he talked in that, song, right,
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which so that's my job to try to attempt to.
Speaker 2 (27:42):
Do at the age of forty, eight.
Speaker 5 (27:45):
The Bobby cast will be right. Back this is The Bobby.
Speaker 3 (27:58):
CAST i think the environment was a bit different than
because older artists were able to. Exist BUT i think
the guys that are still cool now that have been
around fifteen years ago can actually shift that back to
that where you guys are able to put out music that's,
adult that's not tailgates are whiskey that adults who've grown
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up with you can still enjoy without feeling like they're
living a lie by making out.
Speaker 2 (28:25):
Them, WELL i think with, ME i, MEAN i think i've.
Speaker 1 (28:30):
When you look at my first album all, country, country
second album eighty percent.
Speaker 2 (28:35):
COUNTRY i, mean what else is?
Speaker 4 (28:38):
It what's the other twenty?
Speaker 1 (28:38):
Percent H well, Whatever i'm Just i'm not even speaking. Correctly,
yeah it's one hundred percent, country and it's in my,
opinion it's always been one hundred percent. Country it's just,
people you, know people that judge so don't necessarily didn't
necessarily appreciate country growth checking for me or. Whatever that's,
Fine but what they don't know about me is they
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don't know that name a song from eighty FIVE nama
song that was on the road are from nineteen eighty
five till present. Day AND i guarantee YOU i could
play it and sing. It oh, yeah from Mister mom
To Phil weisser To Diamond, rio all of them BECAUSE i.
Listen that's but my thing, is so WHEN i go,
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back like my current, song country song came, on it's
a throwback song for. Me but some people may be, like,
well That's luke pandering to maybe what's. Pop, no it's not,
pandering like it's me being Authentically like that song spoke
to me LIKE i was, like, hell, Yeah i'm cutting.
Speaker 2 (29:43):
That that's.
Speaker 3 (29:43):
ME i also don't think you would have cut that
ten years. Ago, uh probably, not even though you would
have loved it then as. WELL i think you.
Speaker 1 (29:51):
Were BUT i think as as as as country music is,
broad it gets sucked into everybody doing one, thing then
it broadens back out AND i think we're in the
broadest time period ever where you can Be morgan In
Little dirk doing a, thing and then you can Be
zach top.
Speaker 3 (30:12):
Well and that's the beauty of having all the outlets
tap for it to, exist from the streaming to it's
not just, radio which it used to. Be but you,
like you got, streaming you got the digital social, media
you got, radio you have all of that allows all
of that to be successful in different.
Speaker 1 (30:28):
WAYS i, mean every TIME i clicked on TikTok and
you heard Do You? BUN i was, like that's how
that song got fed to. Me and that's, great the
fact that artists can get broke like, that artists.
Speaker 2 (30:44):
Can get broke to streaming.
Speaker 1 (30:46):
Stories on streaming, STORIES i, mean LIKE i, SAID i
mean WHEN i See zach top post him sitting on
a damn log with a with a pair of jeans
schortz by the lake and he plays the guitar and
SCENE i watch.
Speaker 4 (31:00):
It it's very blue grassy as.
Speaker 2 (31:02):
Well.
Speaker 3 (31:03):
Totally SO i don't think, again if we just do
ten years, AGO i don't think he would have been
allowed to have the airspace to see if people liked
him ten years ago because everybody was, like we only
have so much room and this is not the current what.
FITS i don't think Zach topp would have happened like
he's happened, today.
Speaker 1 (31:22):
Right AND i don't think you would. Have you, know
you got a band like Parmal le out there that's
delivering straight down the, path big, old big old radio,
hits and then you've GOT.
Speaker 2 (31:36):
I just think it's.
Speaker 1 (31:37):
INTERESTING i think IT'S i think there's hits that are,
hits and THEN i think they're hits that massively impactful
for your.
Speaker 2 (31:48):
CAREER i, MEAN i, think.
Speaker 4 (31:50):
What's the most impactful song you put?
Speaker 2 (31:52):
Out?
Speaker 1 (31:53):
IMPACTFUL i think the most important SONG i EVER i,
ever obviously ever did Was Country. Girls Shake it From.
ME i think WHEN i look at the most maybe you,
know WHEN i look at a drink of beer or
most people are. Good those those were my opportunities at
songs THAT i thought would be up For song of The,
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years AND i never got A song of The, year
which that's WHEN i was kind of, like, man you,
KNOW i really thought those would at least get nominated for,
something and they never. Did and THEN i was, like,
well you, know at this point in my, CAREER i
just need to be free with WHAT i, do don't you.
Speaker 3 (32:33):
Know AND.
Speaker 1 (32:37):
I mean WHEN i look at One margarita and what
that does for my. Career, man it is fun in the.
Room it is fun in the summertime with twenty thousand.
People you don't get no more fun than performing One.
Margarita and IF i, can IF i can periodically have
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A Knocking boots and One margarita partnered up with my
big up tempos from kick The Dust up and all,
THAT i think it's about like in the next year or,
Two Like i'd love to have a big old fun
summer anthem pop up because that's fun to. Have now,
WHAT i gotta go write it OR i got to
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go find, it AND i HOPE i can find, it
AND i hope that it can be kind of coined
song of the summer and fun and people can be, like,
oh That's luke with one of his party, songs you,
know and and so and but either, WAY i, mean
it's so fun Where i'm at my, CAREER i can
just build my set list with my songs to create
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the vibe THAT i want to. Create and just the
fact THAT i can do that as a dream come.
Speaker 3 (33:47):
True what song did you almost not? Cut could have
been yours or someone else and it got and you
almost didn't and you were, LIKE i don't know if
we're gonna put the, Zong but it ended up being a.
Speaker 1 (33:56):
MONSTER i never even thought about rain is a good
thing as being a. Single what was one that.
Speaker 4 (34:03):
Was, like do you know the answer to?
Speaker 3 (34:05):
That? Carrie what did the almost not? Cut and maybe
he had to be convinced or he had to convince, somebody.
Speaker 2 (34:11):
You, KNOW i tell you what drunk on?
Speaker 1 (34:13):
You you got to understand that at the, Time i'm
on the bus with like my band AND i think
at that Time Cole swindell was living on my, bus
my merch, GUY i mean a couple of other like
and drunk on, you essentially me watching the people in
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my inner circle react to that, song like convinced you
convinced me that it was something that was more special
THAN i thought it. Was and that was one THAT
i almost could have let slip.
Speaker 2 (34:51):
Away BUT i, mean.
Speaker 4 (34:57):
Give me some of.
Speaker 1 (34:57):
That uh, YEAH i had get me some of that
Because michael, uh my guitar, player wrote.
Speaker 2 (35:06):
That another one, was, uh, hey, girl what's your? Name?
Speaker 4 (35:12):
Girl Billy, Cranton, yeah AND I i don't.
Speaker 2 (35:16):
KNOW i MEAN I i was, closer but you.
Speaker 4 (35:21):
Didn't cut that one. Though that's a.
Speaker 2 (35:23):
Difference you're, RIGHT i didn't cut.
Speaker 3 (35:25):
It.
Speaker 2 (35:25):
UH i think the one that.
Speaker 3 (35:28):
That was a jam thoughf you had have sang that
one come on and Then billy crushes it. Too but it's,
different it's. Different it would have been two different.
Speaker 4 (35:34):
Songs.
Speaker 1 (35:35):
Yeah one THAT i WISH i would have singled THAT
i didn't was a song.
Speaker 2 (35:41):
Called Way Way Back well with back o Dirt.
Speaker 1 (35:46):
ROADS i, MEAN i will still have artists kind of
like in my you, know like artist in my friend
group that they'll be on.
Speaker 2 (35:54):
The bus listening to. That And i'm, like, DAMN i should.
Speaker 1 (35:57):
You, Know bobby one of the Most AND i think about,
this this is one of the. Funniest this is WHERE
i knew things were stupidly successful for, me which it's
so funny to think. About but on my last spring break,
ALBUM i put out a we had like A i
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guess it would have been A crs kind of get.
Together AND i was doing an interview talking about my
spring break album and all, that and a couple of
the programmers go off your Spring break, album.
Speaker 2 (36:34):
Which song would you choose to be a?
Speaker 1 (36:37):
Single AND i, said, man right, NOW i cannot stop
thinking about a song Called games THAT i wrote me
And Ashley. Gorley we literally wrote it by, ourselves AND
i put on the Spring break.
Speaker 2 (36:51):
Album well THAT i.
Speaker 1 (36:54):
GUESS crs is always this time of year In, february
so we were ramping up our promotion for the Spring
break album In. February the label had already Picked kicked
The Dust up to come out as the lead single
from my new album that we'd already had, done So
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kick The Dust up was supposed to come out In.
April when we busted up FOR, crs all of the
programmers started Blaring games.
Speaker 4 (37:24):
Started playing, games which pressures you're labeled.
Speaker 1 (37:28):
Well so as a huge as. One as long AS i,
LIVE i will deem this as a mistake of. Mine
games got to sixteen on the charts back. Then if
this were, current we could have just put both of them,
Out but back then it was so taboo you didn't
even you didn't even drum up trying to work two
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singles at one.
Speaker 3 (37:51):
Time it was the label Promoting games once people started
to play, it or was it the?
Speaker 1 (37:54):
Label we were all jacked. Up but what we should
have done is, delayed, delayed kick the dust.
Speaker 2 (38:02):
Up but.
Speaker 1 (38:05):
But like we had this whole thing behind kicked the
dust up, too like it it just got and We
games would have went to number, one AND i Think
games would have probably been maybe one of my bigger singles.
Speaker 2 (38:23):
Ever and we killed it on.
Speaker 4 (38:25):
Purpose you cannibalize. Yourself we totally.
Speaker 1 (38:28):
Did AND i looked back And i'm, like AND i
looked back me And Ashley, gorley And ashley's, like can
you believe we actually killed a song to put Out.
Speaker 2 (38:40):
Kick the Dust?
Speaker 4 (38:40):
Up five years? Later it had been?
Speaker 3 (38:42):
Fine is what's funny to the timing the you know
what year it was maybe, Ten but, yeah now you
can do, that no.
Speaker 4 (38:47):
Problem you have three on at the same. Time and so.
Speaker 1 (38:51):
And what was interesting is Even latin not this past.
Year the year BEFORE i played a full version Of
games like in my concert and, man it went over.
Speaker 3 (39:03):
Great you KNOW i WONDER i did a charity event
With darius once AND i asked him before the. SHOW i, said,
hey my favorite because it was a Massive hootie fan
loved new ever song to a SIDE, b SIDE, c
SIDE f. Sides it didn't matter, LIKE i loved it.
ALL i burned the tape, out, like played it so.
Much you, know the words came off of.
Speaker 2 (39:20):
It right the correct.
Speaker 3 (39:21):
Review and SO i, said, hey used to listen to
this one in football practice every. Day there's a song
Called running from The. Devil AND i was, like and he's, like,
MAN i haven't played that in twenty. Years but he's,
like if you give me like fifteen minutes BEFORE i go,
on we'll learn. It and so it was the coolest.
Thing and again he went on stage the full. Band
then he's, like run, in Run in from The, devil
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And i'm, like it was.
Speaker 4 (39:43):
Like it like meant something to. Me but he went
and relearned that. Song and he has the musical prowess
to do that.
Speaker 3 (39:50):
Too if someone came to you and said a song
you haven't heard one of your first records in forever
and said, MATTER i really want you to play, this
and he's, like, MAN i barely remember.
Speaker 4 (39:57):
That how long until you could get that and play
it full band on?
Speaker 1 (40:00):
Phone? OH i would probably be able to do that
What darius. Did really NOW i can go back IF
i get a couple. Listens i've always Thank, god my my,
uh my level of being able to pull. PULLS i
just need one or two listens and it'll all come.
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Back now that doesn't Mean i'm not ASSURING i wouldn't blank.
Midway but what's been fun through the years is every
night before a, show it's it's not the thing to,
do BUT i will do a little two or three
song acoustic set for like VIPs that that have bought
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the tickets for this LITTLE vip. Experience AND i know
better than to do, it but every now and Then
i'll ask the crowd for any. Request, well they always
request some random damn song from you, know one of
my first, albums and then we'll we'll go down the,
(41:05):
wormhole which is fun because it's it's not me just
doing my standard little couple. Songs get, It and so
ONCE i see the lyric and remember the, melody then
then it'll, start it'll start popping. Back but, like, uh,
like for, instance IF i know that like We'll i'll
go two months without doing like a full band concert
(41:27):
like The Houston rodeos coming, up And i'll go down
there AND i will go listen to the songs and
and Because i've Had i've had some moments WHERE i
didn't prepare and AND i would blank on a few
words here or. There But i'm pretty good about retaining you,
know chords and lyrics and stuff like. That BUT i would,
say you, know you still need to be a little
(41:48):
more prepared AS i, get you, know but back WHEN
i was thirty, five you, KNOW i was doing two
hundred something shows a. YEAR i mean it was so
there was never a break to get. Rusty do you
use a? Click there is a click in my?
Speaker 2 (42:04):
Ears you sing to? CLICK i, can, REALLY i can
sing to. Click you do you need to sing to? Click?
No but WHAT i CAN i. Listen i'll tell you
What i'm good at and What i'm bad. At What
i'm really good at is pocket on the acoustic. Guitar
like like.
Speaker 1 (42:23):
When we start drinking, Beer i'm not on the. Click
but when my, band when my drummer, fires the click
with me playing my tempo is on the.
Speaker 2 (42:35):
Click natural you will just stay on it and the
band comes. In now we you, know year after, year
WE i prefer the. Click i've just now it's gotten
to be A i prefer.
Speaker 4 (42:52):
It if you don't have it as a weird, No.
Speaker 1 (42:55):
I'm i'm LIKE i, said my ability like this. Foot
if you see that foot doing. That If i'm on
piano or you want a, Guitar i'm locked. In AND
i learned that by. YOU i didn't have that on
my first record. DEAL i didn't have. THAT i learned
that by going on radio tours and playing playing two
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hundred people college bars with just me and my. Guitar
and if you don't have that pocket dialed, in then
then you need a.
Speaker 4 (43:25):
Band do you need microphones on stage hear the? Crowd
do you need crowd?
Speaker 1 (43:28):
MICS i have crowd, mics BUT i do that FOR
i more or less do that to pick up the
ambient room, noise to make the mix in my ears
feel uh not, isolated like right now you AND i are.
ISOLATED i want to feel all of the, sounds AND
(43:49):
i want TO i want it to feel vibrant and
and and all.
Speaker 4 (43:55):
That what about because there's a bit of delay on
those right when the crowd.
Speaker 3 (44:00):
Cheering into the mic into the, board into your, ears
even if it's Split like when we would play click
stuff briefly when we did full band stuff at, FESTIVALS
i would be, Like, god ain't this?
Speaker 4 (44:09):
Delay the? Hay oh there they are. There they, are
but you're probably so used to, that, right.
Speaker 2 (44:14):
You, Know, yes so all my.
Speaker 1 (44:17):
Stadiums you, know you could never sound check a stadium.
Properly it's different with people and it doesn't. Work and
you know you could go set your, levels but the
levels throw them out the. Window, well, well so we
sound checked for. STADIUMS i never really geeked out on
(44:39):
it BECAUSE i knew everything would. Change, well THEN i
would come up in the middle of the football. Field,
well the only WAY i could get on time was
to watch my. DRUMMERS i MEAN i would watch My
i'd make a visual. Click, yeah, oh that's the only.
Speaker 2 (44:55):
Way. Wow and we would start With.
Speaker 1 (45:00):
Stone LIKE i got that real, good And i'd have
to Watch i'm fifty yards from him watching this is
he being Over he's being overly. Dramatic and once once
we got through most of like that's my kind of.
Night then my my ear mixed, guy he had the
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clicks and all the snare hitting hard enough to override.
Speaker 3 (45:25):
EVERYTHING i have like two other THINGS i want to talk,
About and we talked about before you came.
Speaker 4 (45:28):
In we talked about idol and idol. Starts actually let these.
Speaker 1 (45:33):
Go oh HAVE i been here yet about an. Hour
i'm good on. Time now we DON'T i, mean if
we're snowed, in you, know it's LIKE.
Speaker 4 (45:42):
I never want to like keep running You but do
you want to talk idle for a.
Speaker 6 (45:45):
Second let's take a quick pause for a message from our. Sponsor,
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Speaker 4 (45:59):
Cast are you? Seven is this your seventh?
Speaker 2 (46:05):
Eighth we're in the eighth? Year god, Dang, yeah that's. Crazy.
Speaker 3 (46:10):
OKAY i want this story about the first time it
was even an option or a conversation that you might
be On American, Idol like the first call you, get
who is?
Speaker 2 (46:21):
It? Like?
Speaker 5 (46:22):
What?
Speaker 4 (46:22):
LIKE i want to know about.
Speaker 1 (46:23):
That So i'm at my beach house and, well my, Manager,
carrie she calls me and, says we've been contacted about
the reboot Of American. Idol AND i had already we
had already seen some headlines At Katie. Perry you, know
they Signed katie and then they launched a big you,
(46:45):
know you knew the show was coming, back and so
they reached out to my.
Speaker 2 (46:54):
Manager AND.
Speaker 1 (46:57):
I must SAY i was seventy percent against it to,
start BECAUSE i, REALLY i, mean at that, MOMENT i
was at the height of, stadiums and and didn't want
(47:17):
to get didn't want to get.
Speaker 2 (47:26):
What what's the Word i'm looking?
Speaker 1 (47:27):
For JUST i didn't want to get my mental focus
going down like life was so good just being you.
Speaker 4 (47:33):
Don't wanna lose your focus on what you would, killing.
Speaker 2 (47:35):
Right and BUT i was at the beach house and
this is the, truth.
Speaker 1 (47:45):
And AND i was, like, MAN i cannot go to
Like la Or New, york And i'm not gonna go
up there and do this meeting THAT i don't want to.
Do carrie calls me and she, goes they want to.
Come they would have come to THIRTY a and they
want To they'll fly to.
Speaker 4 (48:07):
Us so they were gonna go pitch you basically right
down In.
Speaker 1 (48:10):
Florida SO i, said all, right Well i'm you, know
and back then you. Know, Anyway carrie, goes all, right
they'll be here On wednesday, night just right over To.
Speaker 2 (48:22):
Alice.
Speaker 1 (48:23):
Beach AND i drove over and help carry rode a
bicycle there and we sat down and we meet with
two of the you, know two of the people you
know AT abc person and A fremantle. Person i'll leave
their names, out but they KNOW i love, them and
they they started pitching, it AND i told Them i'm
(48:45):
really probably not. Interested i'm Really and what's funny about
those the people that, like they have no, Idea Luke.
Bryan they don't know That i'm like doing sold out
stadiums and double, amphitheaters and That i'm making enough money
(49:09):
touring THAT i don't Need like at the, time like If,
IDLE i didn't need to give up money here to
go spend more time doing. THIS i just needed to
go throw shows up and go. Rocket but and maybe
this is too much, information but either, WAY i went
back AND i AND i CALLED i started Calling blake
(49:31):
And Keith, urban AND i Called blake and we had
a great talk and And blake went. Through he was, Like,
luke he was, like there THE tv opens up another
domain and. Dynamic AND i Called Keith, urban And Keith urban, said,
(49:53):
man he had loved, it and and after when he
Did idle and and so ONCE i GOT i, mean
those are two guys THAT i love and, trust and
and then THEN i THEN i, said you, KNOW i
mean we kind of threw them out of crazy number
and damn, it they paid it.
Speaker 3 (50:14):
Here that people knew how much money you made for
a contract because athletes they have.
Speaker 1 (50:18):
That but you, KNOW i think it's a little weird
that that info gets leaked. OUT i don't understand. WHY
i don't understand how that info.
Speaker 3 (50:28):
Leaks OH i think you said you don't know why
people are Like i'm, Interested but, YEAH i KNOW i get,
It like, somebody, right somebody knows.
Speaker 1 (50:35):
Somebody is leaking that info BECAUSE i know it AIN'T
i know it ain't anybody on our, side but but
somebody leaks it AND i don't. KNOW i, mean you,
KNOW i think here's the. DEAL i think the generation
that we grew up, in our parents like nobody talked
(50:56):
about their. Finances AND i think this day and, age
everybody's especially in the public, eye you, know from athletes to,
entertainers AND i mean when you google Net worth And
forbes and what.
Speaker 2 (51:12):
You.
Speaker 1 (51:12):
KNOW i, MEAN i think and now it's almost like
a little bit of a. BARAGGADOCIOUS i think you kind
of need To people need to know how they need
to know a little bit of how successful you are
as a little bit of a like this is how
good his you, know there's a there's a little healthy
(51:35):
dose of. That But i've never been a fan of.
Speaker 3 (51:37):
IT i feel the need a, bit AND i was
AGAIN i was with having a conversation yesterday THAT i
was talking about With Tracy. LAWRENCE i feel the need
now if because he was just asking me my story
and we eventually took it on a. MICROPHONE i feel
the need now to talk about my success so it
doesn't feel Like i'm pandering with all of my upbringing
(51:58):
because it grew up very. Poor Stamp kid, trailer, right you,
Know mom, Died dad left all of, That and by
the end of, IT i was, LIKE i don't want
to come off as. Disingenuous i'm rich, now. Right AND
i used to feel like that would set people in
a like a wrong like not feel. Good BUT i
feel now it's the most honest THING i can, do
(52:18):
BECAUSE i don't want people to Think i'm mean dishonest
by not saying, that or That i'm feeding them, alive
That i'm just, Like, oh it's. Tough you, KNOW i
have the understanding of my whole life not being Like
i'm as new money as it can possibly.
Speaker 2 (52:32):
Be me, Too, Yeah and BUT i think you're.
Speaker 3 (52:35):
RIGHT i think for me to be totally, HONEST i
have to somewhat share that that's my. Story but If
i'm being totally, honest Now i've had success and it's
not like that, anymore you.
Speaker 2 (52:46):
Know AND i think what's.
Speaker 1 (52:47):
INTERESTING i don't think you want to get around a
group of people that are not. Successful If i'm talking about,
MONEY i want people to, understand like if somebody asking
me money, advice like they're, LIKE i want them to
be able to freely talk about money with me because
they know there's no that there's they know there's no
(53:10):
weird psychological stuff going. On it's like like IF i,
know LIKE i, mean there's some people in my world
THAT i can tell they're about to get. Successful And i'm, like,
hey just so you, know don't don't do this until
you run a few things by.
Speaker 2 (53:27):
Me and AND.
Speaker 1 (53:30):
I love the ability to do, That AND i, think
and THEN i love to get around people that are
in the same income bracket and we can talk the
income bracket, freely and we can laugh about the old
days and how we didn't have these, problems and we
can laugh about you know this and. That SO i
(53:51):
think there's a healthy dose of PEOPLE i never will,
Forget LIKE i never will. FORGET i was doing some
some land, clearing and this old guy was on a
big old excavator on my property AND i pulled up
just to see what they were. Doing AND i get
(54:11):
out and he shuts some machine off and he just
runs down and he shakes my. Hand he, goes, Man
i've never shaken a millionaire's, hand AND.
Speaker 2 (54:19):
I JUST i was, like you don't have to think
of me.
Speaker 4 (54:22):
Like, that, right because you don't think of you like.
Speaker 1 (54:24):
That, NO i, said you just think of, me good
old boy That i'm happier out. Here he, goes, WELL
i just never shaken a millionaire's, hand AND i KNEW
i was working for, you AND i KNEW i wanted to.
Shake so stuff like that is really endearing and.
Speaker 3 (54:37):
COOL i also think it's, important, though with your story
and mine to. Go it's not like either one of
us had an uncle that got us, in or we
don't come from.
Speaker 4 (54:44):
Money and THEN i had no.
Speaker 3 (54:46):
In it's, like if you or me can decide to do,
this commit ourselves to, it take some, risks, strategize, fail, fail,
fail get back, up if we can do. It the
REASON i like to share it, ONE i think people
just want to authentic more than they want to be
one hundred percent relatable because you're very, relatable but there's
parts of you that aren't because of your. Success BUT
(55:07):
i think with, me it's important to go IF i
can do, it really anybody can do, it that it's not, unattainable.
Speaker 1 (55:15):
Right AND i think us talking about it props up
The american.
Speaker 2 (55:21):
Dream fully, agree even more fully, AGREE i think, That.
Speaker 1 (55:26):
AND i think The american dream is on one hundred different,
levels but even the hope of it.
Speaker 2 (55:35):
Is really really.
Speaker 4 (55:37):
SPECIAL i Mean, Leisburg, Georgia Mountain, Pine. Arkansas if you
can come from, there you can come from, LITERALLY.
Speaker 2 (55:44):
I think you can come from. Anywhere AND i think THAT.
Speaker 1 (55:51):
I tell, YOU i MEAN i went to school with
kids listen that even were one hundred percent worse than.
Me and knowing that some of those boys THAT i
grew up with went to become two of them are.
Doctors and that's just a one.
Speaker 2 (56:08):
Girl one.
Speaker 1 (56:10):
Girl she was our valedictorian and her mother Drove she
drove a tractor for the dairy and she became valedictorian
and it was so and so those are those were
the success stories far beyond me out of my little
(56:31):
group Of, Leesburg.
Speaker 3 (56:32):
Georgia BUT i also think The american dream he brought,
UP i think it's not even about. Money it's about, fulfillment.
RIGHT i think if you can do something and be
fulfilled by.
Speaker 1 (56:41):
It, yeah if you grow up in a trailer park
and you become a, pharmacist, yes that's The american dream
and you're fulfilled by, it like IF i can, now
or if you go you get out and you go
play college, football you blow your knee, out but then
you go coach three state championships just because you got
A d one, scholarship.
Speaker 3 (56:59):
Because you love doing it and you're able to pay the.
Bills that's why we wanted to do. That we just
wanted to pay the bills doing something we.
Speaker 4 (57:05):
Loved.
Speaker 2 (57:05):
Well and, LISTEN.
Speaker 4 (57:08):
I.
Speaker 1 (57:08):
JOKE i had this conversation with a very famous athlete
two days. Ago there's only so MUCH i can do
as a country music. SINGER i did not go To
stanford and write an app that will ever make me
worth ten billion Dollars like that wasn't my. Path my
(57:31):
job is to be as happy AS i can be
having done as well AS i can do as a
country music. Singer, now the guy that wrote the app
that sold it To microsoft and got ten billion. DOLLARS
i hope his job is to have as much, fun
AND i hope the football coach is having the same
amount of.
Speaker 2 (57:48):
Fun so it's just funny how.
Speaker 1 (57:52):
It's just about where you're at mentally through the whole,
process and, man you, know it's just been a damn
blast for.
Speaker 3 (58:00):
Me well THEN i want to let you, go But
i'm going to ask you this last. Thing you ever
drive by big houses and go how do they make their?
MONEY i do that crap all the.
Speaker 2 (58:06):
Time, well what's funny is?
Speaker 1 (58:08):
There LIKE i, said when you're scrolling through, TikTok there's
this country. Girl she's like on a lake In, alabama
and she's, like what did these people?
Speaker 2 (58:16):
DO i feel the same.
Speaker 3 (58:17):
Way i'm, like how do people make? Money BECAUSE i
feel LIKE i caught lightning in a. BOTTLE i THINK
i did a lot of things, right a lot of things.
Wrong i've learned from. It have, tenacity that's my, SUPERPOWER
i know How SO i don't THINK i was. LUCKY
i THINK i had some tough decisions made them bounce.
Back but, AGAIN i caught lightning in a bottle, still
because you can do everything right and this isn't going
to happen nine times out of ten Run AND i am,
(58:39):
like how do people make?
Speaker 1 (58:40):
Money, WELL i, think in my, OPINION i, think And
i've seen. IT i think there's a tremendous amount of
money out. There AND i tell you, what there's a
tremendous amount of money out there by people that have
went and busted their. Ass now there's a tremendous amount
of money that needs to be out there to help
a lot of people. Too in my, OPINION i. AGREE
(59:00):
i mean WHEN i go TO la and WHEN i
go to these big cities and and you know, so
SO i think that and AND i will always uh you, know,
now whether one administration did this and one administration who's
running the country and, whatever you, KNOW i will always
(59:21):
believe that there's enough money in this country to where
no one should be, hungry and no, teacher NO i
mean a teacher that's, underpaid or a, firefighter a firefighter
or a veteran or anybody like that wanting for anything
in this. COUNTRY a child.
Speaker 4 (59:41):
Hungry, Yeah food and security is my biggest.
Speaker 2 (59:43):
THING i mean a.
Speaker 4 (59:44):
Child it's WHAT i probably put the most money.
Speaker 3 (59:46):
Into it's WHAT i wind up IF i run for,
politics that'll be the thing BECAUSE i had, that and
so that that to me Is i'm in shock that
there's so much and some people still have so.
Speaker 1 (59:59):
Little, Listen, BOBBY i mean when you think about if,
THERE i, mean we could spend two days talking about.
Stuff but when you think about a plate of food
that gets served to us at a restaurant and us
(01:00:19):
eating half of it in every restaurant in this, country
throwing away a half of a plate of, FOOD i
can't understand why we as a. Nation you just tell the, restaurant,
hey just bring me a little food and then charge
me the same and then the food that's in the
kitchen back, there sir, LIKE i don't. KNOW i MEAN
(01:00:41):
i like the food waste in THE i don't. Know
we could go down a whole another deep dive with.
Speaker 3 (01:00:48):
That the last, thing And i'm in a real. QUESTION
i mentioned it before you got, here the farm farm
toory Doing california. Show, yeah is that the first?
Speaker 2 (01:00:55):
Time first time?
Speaker 4 (01:00:55):
Ever well give me thirty. Seconds why here here's.
Speaker 2 (01:00:59):
My thoughts About.
Speaker 1 (01:01:00):
California california is a giant state with many many untapped
cool little Market senate through the years of going to
small markets In illinois And michigan and all that and
selling twenty thousand. Tickets Like we'll roll up to these
towns and it's like the coolest thing in the. World
it's amazing to be In. MICHIGAN i mean these towns
(01:01:24):
through the years of fifteen sixteen years a farm. Tour
when fifteen twenty thousand people pull up in a, field
it's it's awesome and mind. Blowing and THEN i look at,
LIKE i, mean every Year i'll go To california And
i'll Do, Sacramento La San diego and Then i'm. Out
But i'm, like there's sixty million people living In. California
(01:01:45):
IF i go to some of these, things it's got
to be people have got to want to come to.
It and what's cool about it is it's in These
we got to Remember california is is still probably the
largest agriculture, state and we need to get them in
a situation where they're happy about that and it's. Uplifted
(01:02:07):
it seems Like california. Doesn't SO i want to bring
awareness To california Ag and it's not ALL.
Speaker 2 (01:02:13):
La it's not ALL.
Speaker 1 (01:02:15):
La It's Bakersfield reading and it's these towns we're going,
to and it's orchards and it's ALMOND i mean it's
almond makers and and pecan orchards and orange groves AND
i mean it's it's a lot of. Farming so it's
going to be fun to go. There and we just
wanted to celebrate celebrate that aspect Of california, Too AND i,
(01:02:35):
thought what better way than to go park you, know park.
There AND i think we'll be able to do that
out there for. Years ARE i, mean we're we're selling
tickets as fast as we ever have out there and
it's really really.
Speaker 3 (01:02:46):
Exciting lukebriyan dot com all the tickets idol Back march,
ninth we talked about.
Speaker 4 (01:02:51):
That all, right, BUDDY i love, You thanks, SO.
Speaker 2 (01:02:53):
I love, you thank. You this is a.
Speaker 3 (01:02:54):
Song and then, yeah well we'll see you. Soon that's
it's a dude of killing. It it's super.
Speaker 4 (01:02:59):
Cool you're killing.
Speaker 3 (01:03:00):
It and for those that missed, it we're Gonna we
edited out a lot of. Stuff he got very controversial and.
Naked we edited it all up and he. Fell it
was the whole.
Speaker 2 (01:03:08):
Thing oh, GOD i WOULD i would let you run all,
that JUST i don't want you to run.
Speaker 3 (01:03:13):
It, no we don't want, to because you, KNOW i
don't want my friend canceled because he said a.
Speaker 2 (01:03:16):
Lot oh he got real.
Speaker 4 (01:03:17):
Bad all, right At Luke, bryan all, Right, luke.
Speaker 5 (01:03:22):
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