Joe Rogan Experience #2216 - Luke Bryan

Joe Rogan podcast check it out The Joe Rogan Experience Train by day Joe Rogan podcast by night all day hey what's up Luke good this has been thank this has been a long time in the making well I need to thank you for taking care of my family when the kid see your show I hope they had a great time they had a [ __ ] fantastic time but it was also my daughter was like freaked out cuz she was going to the show she didn't know she get to meet you and her friend didn't

know they were going to get to meet you either so we were able to keep that a keep that a good little good little uh good little secret to them yeah it was cool they had the best time they they came back beaming so thank you well Vegas you know that was wrapping up Vegas so uh yeah we uh that was a that was a fun two years of of residency there did you do two years there I did yeah I did two years uh 26 shows per year dude dude man like Vegas will take

a little piece of your soul well here it's a little tiny piece every day well the thing about it is like all of that get to Vegas and Like You know you run to the craps table or blackjack table your whole life getting to Vegas dude I got all that I could I'm like I get to Vegas I'm like man let's just sit in the room watch little Sports and I got got the gambling out of the system well that's good did you used to did you used to gamble a lot you know I've always

been I've never been a sports Gambler NE uh my dad my uh but my dad raised me to kind of be a poker player kind of kid he was a like a I mean I used to joke if my dad didn't play poker we have never had Santa Claus you know he I mean he was I mean he was just a crazy little poker player and like a little pool Hustler and then uh and then um oh so he was all in he was all in one of dad's f one of my dad's famous quotes

is um so we we we he flies me out to Vegas when I'm 21 or whatever and man I had like we were in college and I had took like three three or 400 bucks with me you know just broke a [ __ ] and uh two hours in the trip lose my money and know this was like well where we were still had truck phones you know I'm not even sure we were like toen no we certainly didn't have like the motor roller razor where he could just call me so he just goes looking

for him and he calls my hotel room and I'm he's like boy what you doing he's real Geor real Southern Georgia I said I don't lost all my damn money and H hell with this place he goes well you ain't gonna win it back in the goddamn room so I mean once you have that that mindset that mindset in gambling certainly I mean when that's your dad going and so that's been a famous saying when my buddies uh you know when they're when they're down and out down two or three grand and they're pouting over

at the bar you know you're not going to win it back at the goddamn bar so but I did I went through phases where you know I I never really got financially behind when I didn't have money I would just I I controlled it pretty well and I I did my two years out there I never really uh had any big beats or anything like that but I do love to just man I love to just sit there have a drink have a cigar and watch Dice and cards cuz you're just not you're just sitting

there and your mind's checked out right it's like no different than you know going to the driving range and hitting golf balls or sitting on the bank fishing or sitting in a deer stand so it's been but I got out of there I got all my gambling at least for now out of my system but it was great to meet your kids there and I really appreciate it they they really enjoyed it and like I said they were just un they were blown away meeting you they well it was a fun show because um we

got to really do a lot of bells and whistles out there that aren't available on normal shows when you're you know out touring and stuff because you're having to take down stuff be real mobile out there we put put a lot of stuff in the room and well that's nice that the that's one good thing about the residency you know you're going back to the same spot over and over and over again and we had our routine I mean I have my my room and you know about 6:30 I'd hop in the shower run down

there and get on stage about 8:30 and knock it out and 10:30 uh somewhere at a craps table I'm I'm lucky I don't gamble I don't do it you never got into sports nope nope I I used to bet on fights back in the early days of the UFC I used to bet on fights and they one day they made it illegal but I already stopped doing it because I was like this is probably not a good thing for me to be betting on things I'm commentating on cuz I can't affect the outcome right but

sometimes still quite close I also sometimes know some [ __ ] you know this has been a bunch of times so one of my business partners I I would just I would tell him to what to bet on and we were like 84% at one time it was crazy yeah for like six or seven fights in a row six or seven fight cards in a row we were at about 84% cuz every now and then they would have these guys that were coming in from Japan or from Russia and uh the the odds makers didn't

know who these guys were and I was like oh Jesus Christ bet the house you already I knew those studying them for yeah you years so I knew I knew everything about these guys I'm like Jesus Christ bet the [ __ ] house lay up yeah there was a few like when Anderson Silva came to the UFC I was like bet the house bet the house on the Brazilian whatever you got I go throw it all at this guy you can't [ __ ] lose cuz when he came into the UFC he was like in

his prime and I got to see him evolve in Japan and then later on in England and so when when he came in the UFC I think he was a favorite over this guy Chris lean was a really tough guy but I'm like whatever the whatever the odds are [ __ ] throw it all at that guy I bet y'all were you were you betting with him too that time I wasn't betting I already stopped I was like I could get in TR I don't don't need get any trouble now either don't lose the gig

well now now the UFC made a law and it was real recent like two years ago up until like two years ago all staff anyone could bet now no one can bet really yeah because there was a scandal one of the trainers apparently was involed allegedly was involved would knew about an injury and then it turned out there's probably some other bets are a little shady that perhaps allegedly people were involved with so they're like okay we got to put a stop to this which is too bad because it was [ __ ] it's nice

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all their notes and and I'm like and I'm like dude no wonder you're [ __ ] you got all D's and you're you're you're you're about to get shipped out of college but I I survived all that and uh me and a buddy we started picking two games a week and we would load up and this was this was like um six years ago five years ago so I would load up like 20 grand a game and but I I was strict and I and I I had my deal and yeah it just uh we

like bet I mean just take Alabama and the points in the first half you do that most of the year I mean it was 80% so we did well and then my buddy moved away from me and we quit talking about it and I just then I went Rog for like two years I was betting like Utah State it it you know the West Coast game Midnight just throwing bets in and I was like man I'm out so I sto but uh did you see uncut gems yes dude that movie so much anxiety that movie

tripped me out I think it trips everybody out there what a great movie especially if you've dipped your toe into that world of like now and I've got buddies that do parlays and like I'm not even sure I even understand the inner workings of parlays now still I mean and teasers and all that and you know I'm I'm so removed from that level of SP like let you know so and so's doing four lay going to get four layups at the half and man that that'll that's that's opening up Pandora's Box there so it is

and you got to think there's people that are involved like there's been scandals where referees were involved where referees were making calls they shouldn't have made maybe calling fouls they shouldn't have called and people getting paid there's so much money being thrown around and you know the average referee what do they make you know hey dude so I saw you at the I'm a giant Georgia fan and I saw you obviously on the sideline uh on Saturday and just man so of those calls started getting weird we actually left after the first quarter went to

see Eminem So we had epic day we saw first quarter of uh UT Georgia and then jetted went to Eminem at the racetrack M the Formula 1 yeah Eminem played in front of like 150,000 people it was [ __ ] wild I what a weekend for Austin too I mean cuz I had buddies had buddies that were like why are you not coming and I'm like man I've had to be me me all year and it's like the weather's chilly in Nashville my boys want to go deer hunting I'm going to take them deer hunting

sit on my back patio and scream at the TV and but you it got a little dicey there on the back I I was like oh it was weird yeah well just the energy there's so much so much anticipation for a game like that you can't replicate it you can't replicate it in any other in any other guess those big um Global uh Brazil versus Argentina or whatever or we had some friends from England who had never been to an American football game what was their take on it they were blown away they're like oh

my goodness oh my goodness this is madness like this is Texas football it's so fun though they get serious here it's CRA I got to shoot the cannon boom did you shoot it through the Georgia shirt that one yeah oh gosh maybe I gave bad luck it hurt my heart maybe it was bad luck cuz they lost maybe what maybe it's a [ __ ] rude thing to do oh we uh yeah man it was uh it was a it was a good win for George and like I said both those programs are just so

incredible it's when you watching it behind the scenes you know watching how much organization there is and it's it's incredibly complex Through The Years Kirby and I um have gotten to be pretty good buddies you Kirby can't be buddies with anybody because uh that job requires I've never seen a requirement of a job more than being a college it's probably like being a president it's it is and and and so I don't text Kirby during the season really I I know he and uh man just watching what those guys go through trying to manage these

big programs like that I mean and when they're not coaching I mean dude they are politicking yeah I mean they got to go to the steak supper for this for this touchdown Club here out you know so man it is a it's a wild ride what those dudes go through and when you think about gambling with calls like bad calls that has got to be imagine all your money's on the line and you see some horrendous call and you [ __ ] see I'm out of that and I I I didn't really get into that

heavily even when I was betting regular games but man it's it's it's Freedom man I just watch the games with freedom and I don't I don't get in you know I'm good friends with Dana White and uh Dana is a he's a real degenerate like a hard I love how big that's the best way to describe oh he'll describe it that way yeah like they most like your big horse racing guys they all their adjective of themselves is I'm a degenerate that's the first thing that's said Jamie and I Jamie and I went to visit

we went with Shane Gillis and a bunch of other guys we went to visit Dana while he's gambling when we got there he was down $600,000 and I was like what is happening I heard him say he learned how to play back RP because you can bet more like you can bet like 500k H or something or crazy like that that's so crazy I could I I was getting anxiety just sitting there watching and so then then Taylor Lan came over and Dana and Taylor have this deal where Dana teaches Taylor what to gamble and

how to do it they're down $120,000 in what 5 minutes 5 minutes 5 minutes are down 120 grand and I'm just sitting there going what the [ __ ] man look Dana is rich as [ __ ] obviously I know Taylor is wealthy but there's like a level where you could lose $125,000 is $125,000 well yeah I mean I've learned kind of like if you're betting a th a hand you can get down 50 yeah like in quick but when you transition to that 30 40 $50,000 hand you'll be down a million a million or

two and and I I say cuz I've watched some other buddies that bet on that level I'm talking about like 15 hands swing is a $800,000 swing and I'm like but that's the scary part about gambling when you start when you don't have much money and you grow into some money but your your level of what you want to press your your anxiety level and your endorphins and all that it grows with your your wealth and man next thing you know you're well that's the only way they get their fix to they can't play $20

a hand yeah right that goes away it's like right well it's like the whole you know it's there's a lot in society that you know I think we're prayed upon with those with that thought process gambling and and a lot of Doan hits right yeah yeah yeah and then and then once one level of the dopamine levels out then you go to the next one yeah it's it's hard to watch like forget about doing it it's hard to watch like I don't I don't get it I'm glad I well I can say that that I've

always have fun with it I mean I I've always had fun gambling and and a lot of times I'd take my band after we get off stage and we'd have one band night and I'd like set them all up with some chips and and I've gotten at a craft table where I can kind of manage everybody's bets and I'm like don't do that now wait wait and it's kind of like the uh you know Ste steering the Mothership and we we had some great nights you know just laughing and cutting up and you know cheering

you know you know like I said one guy walks up and everybody rubs his head for good you know it's just it's just if you camaraderie you know at at the craps table I I I gambled so much at the craps table my last night they let my craps team that dealt me all the craps come on stage and we celebrated together I'm out there like I'm playing and I look at my you know cuz they work in teams you know they all and my team comes out on stage and dude I was roaring laughing

I'm like yeah so that's hilarious look I know people have a problem with gambling I think it should be legal but it can get away from you yeah well but that's like a lot of things in this world alcohol there's a lot of things that get away from you doesn't mean it should be illegal right well lord it's just weird that only legal in a few States I think that's expanding now and then I remember when online gambling was illegal oh yeah and then wasn't that long ago the early days of the UFC online gambling

was illegal and then my you know and cuz we're obviously Southeastern Tennessee Bible Belt and I I I don't know but there there's certain States I guess Tennessee is a legal gambling State cuz or maybe Georgia I can't tell I have to I have to talk to my nephews uh all of his buddies and see if they're on the little apps but man they'll go sign their buddies up to get the $200 free bre I mean they got all kind of little racket yeah well and then also people would go to Indian reservations that was

the big thing also crazy ging illegal the you got to pay the Indian Reservation tax right you know you got to pay your 50 Cent to do the Dollar Bet yeah do that math yeah and you only have to be like a small percentage Native American to get a piece of that so there's a lot of millionaires just hanging around that casino just enjoying it but if you got a place like in Connecticut like oh Mohan and all that great see you know typically on my way kind of the Mohan I'd go play there a

couple years or I did one night I did three nights there and dude I'm like getting off stage just sitting there gambling and you know I'm like am I coming out ah h on this gig or what but I think I got out of there making a little money yeah it's it's weird though that could do that legally like how well then even like in Tennessee and Tunica back in the day you just put a barge on the Mississippi River and you can gamble it's like well what is that all about I mean right that's

that show Ozark right yeah yeah well totally the same premise you know it's like put a barge on the river and uh now let's take all these people's money yeah my buddy Johnny used to he was a pool Hustler he used to call people Riverboat gamblers when guys would just go off and you know a guy was a gambling ass trick him into a game he's like guy's a Riverboat Gambler or yeah that's the two analogies degenerate or Riverboat Gambler yeah be be careful of all of them so it's just always been funny to me

that like Native American reservations are essentially a country inside the country and they could do whatever the [ __ ] they want like I was just reading about this Colorado wolf deal you know where they've uh relocated wolves to Colorado and the Native American reservation let them know the moment those wolves get onto our land we're flying over in helicopters and gunning them down I was I I I elk hunt every year in Colorado and and is that where you've done I've done Colorado most of the years I go to Utah yeah well first of

all cam Haynes and I you know we we've got a connection with Cam and just love that guy but yeah we so when I saw Colorado do that I was like it's just like what what are we doing guys well whenever you have biology that's getting voted on by people who don't understand it it should be decided by wildlife biology that's it that's the only people that should decide whether or not things like that happen well we can really dive into this and let's do it my thing is we are so governed in the world

of wildlife biology through the states and stuff they're not going to let animals they're not going to let humans ruin animal populations I don't think anymore of course if anything's going to happen they're going to mess it up up and let animal populations get too big uh I was I was and I don't know if I I don't know who to name or whatever but I was with some guys with Wyoming and you know we're talking about grizzly bears mhm and I said uh man you know cuz they they brought up you know grizzly bear

problems and I said uh well what what what is the deal and they said well there's 1,500 or 14 to 1500 G grizzly bears in Wyoming there needs to be 5 to 600 and and five of the, 1500 are only hunting humans like have totally have totally but there's not that many human deaths well you've bet in Yellowstone you if you pay attention there's about two or three that get that get right but those 500 grizzly bears that are just H five five five not 500 there five right there's like five gz sorry I'm this

probably won't be the first time I am not totally clear with you but yes so there's there's four to 1,400 to 1500 there needs to be 500 to 600 Grizzlies and but of the of those five to six or of the all of them five of them are have like oh we don't we don't care about salmon anymore we want to sit by this Trail and pick off this hiker Jesus and that is that is high up biologist in Wyoming telling me that and I'm like well why won't they let y'all go in there let

some Hunters think about the the you can do the math chart do a $30,000 grizzly bear tag do a $20,000 one they'll go for that yeah for sure um go in and let it manage it right but there's one federal judge that's got it all shut down one judge that's so crazy my friend went U moose hunting said he saw no moose and he saw 12 Grizzlies in Wyoming I went on a bear hunt in Alberta and there's so many Grizzlies now you can't even go it was through Cam's people John and Jen yeah they'

I saw them recently and they've had to move like they move areas yeah they have abandoned areas cuz they're overrun with Grizzlies they sent me some trail Camp picks they terrifying like little school buses they look like school buses like the size of these [ __ ] what did you did you was it you that was talking about we were try they were trying to determine a male grizzly versus a male gorilla and who would win do we ever I think I'm on team Grizzly me too cuz they eat things and kill things every day

gorillas just they they fight they just like they puff their chest out they mostly eat grass well but when you think about 30 $40,000 per Grizzly and then the The Guiding fee yeah and then the Taxidermy yeah think about the taxidermist and then the Pitman Roberts people need to understand all the gear everything 10% of that goes to Wildlife Management all of it and then at the end of that nobody's going to let the Grizzlies get exterminated right it's not it's they're overpopulated now and then when you look at the population the how beautiful the

elk population is in Colorado and how amazingly managed it is in Colorado for public hunters for a guy like me that can go get a over-the-counter tag I think they're probably going to wipe out over-the-counter tags for out ofers they're going to make it a draw tag and then now the wolves get to eat them and I don't get to bring my elk hunting money in and give it to the right but the thing is they've they always say that they're going to get to a certain level of the population and then they're going to

open it up for management but they don't wolf management yeah but what happens is people Sue and the wildlife you know all the people that are like that love wolves they F they sue and when they sue they they stop the hunt and then it has to go to court and it has to get decided and if you get a radical judge like this judge that you said that's in Wyoming and the these are all things that people in the know are telling me so Lord I don't I don't need a judge somewhere in Wyoming

like pulling my no you're probably right you're probably right everyone that I know that hunts there says there there's a lot of grizzly bears and it's concerning because you don't see all of them if you see a lot of them there's a lot more than you don't see cuz most of them are just not just out in the open hanging out with you most of them were deep in the woods well and and so I went on a uh I went on a uh salmon trip up in British Columbia and what you 99% of your

interpretation of a Grizzly is this big old fat chunky thing well so we're flying in on these helicopters to go fish the salmon runs that are running up into the mountains of British Columbia and it's an amazing trip like you fly over in the helicopter you look down you see the huge schools of salmon you take your fly rod and you go catch them and drink your beer well the helicopter pilot was like Hey man we've seen some Grizzlies in the area just and you know at the time we're like man this is all part

of the uh experience yeah it's like get a get us kind of going a little bit well we land and the night before we didn't fish that day so we' flown in and drank some wine and dude you know my eyes are like fuzzy and we're fishing and I tell my guy I'm with I'm like hey I'm going to go to the helicopter and ghetto a beer or something and and dude I get there and I pop my beer and I'm like I look down the river and I'm like [ __ ] that is a

[ __ ] Grizzly coming toward my buddy and I went Jay and dude it was slim and like a damn it was lean and like a greyhound not I I wouldn't say lean but it hadn't it hadn't got all fat on salmon yet well comes down the bank and jumps in and and we ease back to the helicopter we look back here comes another Grizzly literally 30 yards from us and I'm like we get there and I'd left my beer on the bank and my Grizzly sticks his tongue in my beer and then he jumps

in the river I run grab the beer drink I'm like grizly spit anyway the helicopter pilot goes you did not drink a beer had sip of it after I had to but that's like chosis wild [ __ ] are you going to get from that some Berry infection or what Salon in so listen dude we get on the helicopter and the Pilot's like man they're they're getting too comfortable we take all fly a mile down the river I I'd already had my fly rod together I never broke it down so I sat it in the

little basket and we land I take off about 200 yards start fishing and I had I had I had to slide down this like 20ft Cut Bank Where the River had cut the bank I look across the river here comes a grizzly bear Galloping oh boy on the other side of the river and I'm like well I've already seen the other two mature ones and I was like well that's a baby Grizzly that's I was like that's cute dude that Grizzly hits that bank on the other side of that River and jumps about 20t in

the air and lands in that River it looked like a a Volkswagen VW Bug hit that River I take off to the helicopter all my guys are like get here get here a mother and two two of the babies were on my tail oh my God and when I got to the helicopter dude ruined my whole trip I couldn't relx that's when get scary when you're around the mothers oh there they're the ones that um they [ __ ] every everybody up in two seconds yeah they don't play any games when they have their cubs

with them they don't take any chances like I'm going to incapacitate this dude y [ __ ] him it is uh so that was my that was my grizzling C I wish all these people that get to vote unlike BC when BC outlawed grizzly bear hunting I wish all those people that experience you should have to experience what it's actually like there you should have to see you should have to see the population you see what it's like experiencing them these aren't teddy bears and for you saying you shouldn't be able to manage the population

as wildlife biologist say it should be managed you're putting people in danger especially people that live up there the thing about it with me now listen I grew up deer hunting my whole life Ducks Dove quail and man I always had a soft spot for bears and probably I still it's not like I got to go shoot Bears every year I mean whatever but when you find out when you hear you are a hunter and there are like when I met John and and Jenny and they were like Luke there are so many that are

that need to be managed I was like man that's cool let's go let's go do a bear hunt had a great time and didn't you know didn't get all heady with killing a bear I mean I know guys in Tennessee and Gatlinburg Joe I mean dude they are darting black bears off Second Story Mo uh holiday in balconies they're digging in I mean they're digging in candy you know vending machines walk and I'm like dude it's just a matter of time somebody's going to walk out their balcony and these they're going to get they're going

to get got right there 100% And they Dart them and move them back into the Smoky Mountains and then you know what happened in New Jersey right the governor ran on this policy of banning the grizzly bear hunt and he got in or excuse me the black bear hunt in Jersey Jersey has the most black bears per capita in the country which is crazy I'm going to send you something cuz I sent this to cam uh last night cuz it's nuts this dude just shot the um state record so it's back in yes it's back

in immediately because they had so many interactions Joe my mother lives in Mexico Beach Florida on the pan there a lot over there too and they like trash cans turned over every day crazy amounts in in south Georgia and Florida yeah that's it so I have a photo of the bear Jamie I'm going to send it to you next to the dude who killed it that's a good one okay here I'm going send you this too uh but look at that the size of that bear so this is in New Jersey this is New Jersey

this New Jersey 770 lb bear in New Jersey I never I didn't know they were they were up there that they're dense dense with be I have a buddy who lives up there sees them all the time so down in the furthest most southern corn corner of Georgia bambridge Georgia and all that and then Mexico Beach Florida around Lake Simo I mean they're they're everywhere down there they're all over the place you got that photo of that dude laying next to it at that look at the size of that thing now that P that article

says 800 lb that's from sever broadheads it says 880 but the other article said 770 it looks it's big whatever the actual size it is it's big look at that sever hole good sh you know like I said I'm not the perfect shot I I I think there's healthy numbers of all of it and like I said when I see you know when you see I don't know wolves and Elks well there's more than healthy numbers okay there it goes you know 770 oh gutted 770 gutted whoa a that's what it is so they weighed

it in at 770 lbs gutted so I think it was about 8880 holy [ __ ] holy [ __ ] yeah you see they got it in a slide they had to put it well that's crazy man there's so many of and for people who don't know people eat beer and bears good it tastes well and you know the sad part about I think uh California you know the the whole um the whole you know the gallbladder deal I don't know much about that but you know yeah there was a black market for black bear

gall BL yeah it's in some some cultures they think it's medicine and you know so they were killing black bears just for their gallbladder yeah but I don't I think that was overblown I don't think it's going to affect the population I'm just guessing especially a place like New Jersey how are you going to affect that population they're they're everywhere there you ever see the the fights they have in Far Rock away what's Far Rock Away Far Rock Away New Jersey is like a nice suburb it's like a a nice neighborhood giant bears Jamie pull

that video up giant bears on this guy's front lawn you ever see the guy that filmed like the 10-minute Grizzly fight this might be oh yes I did see that that was insane but that's where Grizzlies are supposed to be this is in a [ __ ] neighborhood and these are Big Bears and they're duking it out on this guy's nice lawn they go tumbling down the stairs and they start fighting in the street and people are watching and they're probably fighting over trash cans look at them so look at the size of these [

__ ] imagine like you're watching TV and so these dudes they duke it out this is like Jamie how long is this video it's like a 10-minute video six minute video so six minutes for six minutes these dudes duke it out they they pile out into the street they're biting each other and this guy's filming from a car and you see it as it like tumbles down like go yeah pull pull it down so when they're in this so they come tumbling down the hill you know full UFC style duking it out passing by this

guy's tra this guy's mailbox look at him it goes on forever and they're out in the street it's a nice neighborhood and you have huge predators in front of a Volvo what the [ __ ] and this guy was trying to ban the hunt hey pal there's plenty of these Bears you should hunt them cuz if you don't hunt them they're going to hunt you but I well they're going to me you know that that's the thing I think it's no different than I mean I grew up in south Georgia with Gators and yeah same

thing you you get one comfortable with you man and it's not good it is not good at all what's the problem what we're dealing with here is ballot biology it's all people that are very emotional most of them live in cities before I ever hunted bear or before I ever hunted at all I was like kill a bear why what an [ __ ] you'd have to be an [ __ ] to kill a bear and then you get an I was same I was kind of the same way but you probably had more hunting

experience than me I grew up white tail hunting and I remember man you know being a a 14-year-old kid shooting a deer and and having remorse but then you need to have that remorse too as a hunter you need to understand you're taking a life yes and you need to and I tell my boys that my boys have grown up in it seriously and I'm like hey man hold up right let's just don't run up to the run up to it chunk it in the machine just just do a little right so go ahead but

that but the remorse go ahead the the remorse is important it's it's a part of the experience like you you are now connected to the food that you're going to eat and I think that's what most people don't have and I think I think that's bad for us I think all of human existence has been wrapped around hunting animals and we hunted them ourselves forever and then we eventually figured out agriculture but when we H we hunted them ourselves most of the time that humans were human and we had this deep connection to this animal

cuz this animal was going to sustain our family and they used it they took the the the the skin from it and they made all kinds of things they took the tendons they made strings for bows they the fur yeah the fur I mean it's what their clothes were made out of they ate all the organs they ate everything it's sustained everybody and that was how people lived and then when people stopped living like that we got a little confused I know people that eat meat like my wife was at dinner with her friends and

um the the they were from England and one of the friends said uh where's your husband and she said oh he's he's uh elk hunting and and the guy made some sort while he was cutting a steak made some sort of like oh that's atrocious like why does he do that and she goes why are you eating meat you didn't like you you paid a supermarket Hitman to go kill that [ __ ] steak like this is so stupid but when you're removed from it culturally and England is basically remov from it culturally there's Road

Deer there and there's some Stags stag yeah but for the most part England has a very small hunting population and I believe bow hunting is actually outlawed there it's outlawed in a lot of places in Europe it's outlawed in Scotland it's outlawed in a lot of places so there's like a deep ignorance as to what's going on and what it is and then they have judgment based on these cultural norms of like and there's Mo media depictions media depictions of hunters in movies they're never the good guys they're always pieces of [ __ ] the

hunters are always [ __ ] they're always drunk they're always you know trying to kidnap women or kill somebody right they're always like torturing an animal there's always something where someone has to come in and [ __ ] up the hunters because Hunters are they're portrayed as bad guys in movies yeah and then and and listen you you you know you the success rate of the the the proper ethical things always line up that that that you know you don't the success rate doesn't always go like you wanted it to right and but um you

know the fact that Hunters still are are working every day just to keep hunting and the fact that hunting is declining so bad I think it took a little uptick during Co because during Co people like hey man this [ __ ] what if there's no food my buddy lived in Asheville and uh he sent me a photo in the middle of the pandemic he goes dude he goes there's no meat and he was going down the meat aisle he's like filming it he's like there's no [ __ ] meat here one of the best

things that's just naturally happened at our house and my wife is you know my wife's like typical housewife plays tennis great shape doesn't you know when she kind of eats like a bird when she does eat but man she will call me and she'll go hey let's have elk night and cuz we keep our freezer in my garage and I've got all my tackle in there and she has Through The Years understood like hey I'm going to run out to the uh freezer we're going to do taco night I'm going to throw all the elk

meat in the sink start throwing it and man over the last 5 years we I've woke up and we haven't had we haven't had you know beef cattle and hamburger um tacos spaghetti bologan a what we haven't eaten it in 5 years at my house and it just it takes you a minute to go hey uh put it in the freezer and then plan you're plan your dinner you know we all get busy with kids and stuff like that but I'm so proud of her that she'll call me and be like hey I'm going out

to the freezer do you want me to get these elk tenderloins cuz by the time me and my I got three children that go out there with me now and two or three of us will get one I mean we got enough meat like it's awesome that it's the best food it's so good for you man when you Pat out an elk Patty hamburger like your hands have nothing on it right like I mean you could take beef patty and just like it's just like fat grease it's like cocking you know that's also why I

tastes so good right which we got a there's a time and place for that but it's pretty cool that elk gets that and they still have to add a little bit of pork fat to Elk just to keep it but uh I give a lot of meat away and whenever I do when I get text back I get excited people like damn this is so good and it makes me feel better it does make you feel like there's something about wild you get energy from it well yeah and yeah when you can go like we

uh at my place uh my deer place in Southern Tennessee yeah man we we just we make sure man we got I got a big walk-in cooler there and if we if we're if we're not going to take something in there I put I've got some red stag up my place in Tennessee uh I did a high fence down there and uh so between Stag and white till and Elk you know we're moving we're moving meat around and making jerky are they roaring on your property they do that's the craziest soundd I thought the elk

sound was crazy elk sound's probably the craziest but I'm used to it but the roar when you he bizar sounds like a lion I put one on my Instagram Story Jamie see if you can find it this dude just staring at the camera roaring I bet or I hear rather Argentina is a great place to go yeah I hear they have a lot of them down in Argentina we um it's interesting cuz Tennessee is very very strict on their white tail tail here he is listen to this [Applause] [Music] guy imagine if you were some

dude and it's like a thousand years ago and you don't know what the [ __ ] that is he through the woods so my 14-year-old has been going to Colorado with me since he was five or six and when they're that little obviously they can't bow hunt but we would get an elk down and I'd let the boys hike up with me and and pack the elk out and one day we had another Hunter with us going to get an elk and my two little ones were following me and I said well we had an

elk bugle I said hey boys stay right here and they're they're six six and eight and we went up the hill and I could keep well Tate right before I walked off he goes dad are they going to kill us if we sit here cuz those elk bugle I mean you can feel their bugles in the woods and I said no son feel them in your chest so we went up and tried to call this elk in and then some elk did actually cross in front of them and they're six and eight just sitting there

these big this big herd of elk coming by and we come back and I was watching I could see them sitting down there on this this tall blog that I put them on but I got back and they were like those help were all I mean you know having your boys I mean that's that's what I live for and to to keep the you know and I just wish we could create a narrative where getting your children doing that will will I mean I don't know well hunting has a very difficult entry it's very difficult

if you're a person who's like listening to this like I've never hunted before but I'd like to learn how to do it good luck it's very you're right very very hard it's very hard to find someone who's going to teach you who has the patience to show you what to do if you've never shot a rifle before it's very hard to understand like what is the difference between a 300 wind mag and a 7 mm what this and that that that's the that is the tricky part really with all outdoors and if you could if

you could bridge the gap between um all parts of urban life and allow urban life to to find a place to go but the when we went through a phase in Outdoors where land owners were like if you hunt my land and you twist your ankle and break your leg you're going to sue me so no you're not allowed to come hunt my land so all the deer get overpopulated eat all my crops and then so I think now States I think Tennessee has put a law in to where some of those uh getting sued

I well what I'm what I'm saying is that feeds people's inability to go find somewhere to hunt too I mean you're so many people don't have a 50 Acre Farm they can't afford it but they want to go hunt and then I just hope the hunting community and even the whole outdoor Community can make it more accessible and land owners I mean I had this little lady that that um um I wanted a turkey hunt her she had 60 Acres at barded like a 300 acre track of mine and I was like ma'am when when

I'm out hunting in some of my turkeys or our turkeys may cross onto your property do you mind if I go and and her house is a mile away from or it's 50 acres it's probably 400 yards she thought my shotgun was going to shoot through her house and kill her and I had to spend 45 minutes and she grew up in Tennessee in the country and she doesn't understand that a shotgun is not you know and so man the education of it all just the bridge and the knowledge of it gradually gets worse and

worse but the need for it gets greater and greater gets greater and greater and I tell my children all the time I'm like boys there is no drug in the world and I'm not a you know I I'm pretty straight guy never done done much of that but I said I got a lot of crazy buddies that have and when a big Elk's walking in or a big white tail or you hook a big fish there that the the adrenaline from that no drug will replace it nothing's like it I've done some wild [ __

] in my time I i' I've seen the documentation of the wild stuff so I've done some wild chip I'm I'm going to send you a video Jamie of something that happened last week so this this is the best example of that this is the best example that we had this elk and he was out at about 50 yards we'd snuck it snuck in on him he was over The Ridge at 50 yards we can see the tips of his antlers moving around I had my sight set at 50 yards and as my friend was

calling him my friend was at a tree that was about 20 yards from me he came right into our lap so it's one of those things where I had him range at 50 and then I see him coming in he's coming in I dial him I range him again at 40 I dial him in I'm like oh [ __ ] he's coming into our lap he just kept coming in watch this video say do you don't have it yet God damn modern technology it didn't make it through oh it's still going hold on compressing it

send it through I message oh is that what it is maybe okay let me said it went through did it go through just got it okay bust out those cigars you want a little heavy or mild whatever you have here it goes check this out oh listen to this listen to this when he comes over the hill and gets angry like when I heard that I was like uh oh here he comes so right now he's about 50 yards what's your heart doing right now right now I'm pretty calm cuz he's at 50 yards right

but now I'm realizing he's not going to stop so I range him again now he's at 40 oh he pauses for a second he's staring right at me I have to stop oh yeah so you're off to the right I'm off to the right and I'm pressed up against a tree full camo hiding in plain sight so now he's moving on so now I'm like oh [ __ ] I'm moving my sight to 20 so now I move my sight to 20 and I trying to figure out a time to draw so right here I

draw that's when he turns oh he he see some movement list to the other one bugling perfect that was it boom it's like that and there's so much nerves and so much like anxiety and you're ranging them and he's coming in and it's like and you think he's going to be at 50 but all of a sudden he's at 20 and then it's like don't punch the shot like relax execute a perfect shot well here's the beauty of all that in the outdoors you know when you here these are mild they're good though um man

when you when you when you kind of conquer one level of fishing or hunting then there's another one you can go learn the space in you know what I'm saying you can go right and what I say is like I just I mean from the elk hunter that I was um the elk hunter that I was 10 years ago like took so much took so much work to to even get from a 10% knowledgeable elk Hunter to a 60% now like I can watch that elk react to everything and know what that Elk's how that

Elk's reacting because I've done it for 11 12 years now and I've got I've taken my boys well so when you get tired of white tail hunting and white tail hunting gets rudimentary then go try got to dig in and take it to the next level to challenge yourself that's what's so fun about like when I got I was always a bass fisherman always a bass fisherman never fly fisherman well then I got into fly fisherman and that became the new 7year challenge that I tie your own flies I I can now the little I

can tie big streamers right but like the little bitty you got to get like goggles on oh yeah it's a real art for him totally the one of the most rewarding things you can do sure you make your own make your own fly and trick a big ass fish a big fish with it and yeah my my only problem with fly fishing is a lot of his Catch and Release and I'm like it's fun I know it's fun but you're basically just [ __ ] with fish you're just [ __ ] with them like I

could have killed you [ __ ] you know well get get the handling of the trout like when I was you know I grew up bass fishing and we're like and the bass flies out of the water we grab it and you know as kids we're like a with you know you catch a trout and it's like a it's like a creature yeah it's like a a a a team in the in the delivery room comes in to hold the the brand new baby or what heck they treat newborns they're slapping newborns around and getting

their lungs going before you know you mishandle a trout but you know the the whole Mystique of trout and and all of this stuff is is just uh man it's outlets for all of us you know I mean I'm remember when I moved to Nashville man my dad he kept me fishing and hunting and he wound up being a pretty dang successful business guy and he all he told me he goes dude when you move to Nashville don't forget to take time to go do that stuff and you know for about two or three years

man I didn't I was focusing on my career but now as I roll out you know as I'm kind of established you know I man it's it's been the highlight and the fact that three boys landed in my life like you know my wife's like you're you're it's not even fair that you have cuz I can always use one of them I was like well baby Bo you know he's really been stressed at school and he wants to hunt this even she's like I know your game I know your game but uh well we're so

lucky in this country too that there's so much places that are public land that's another thing that Europe doesn't have I mean that's what Robin Hood was all about people think Robin Hood was uh steal from the rich and give to the poor no it was about hunting lands and hunting rights people were starving and the King had all the land and there was all these deer and Robin Hood would go out and whack deer like that was the story about Robin Hood it really wasn't about stealing money it was really about hunting rights right

they don't have that over I know that that's why it's so [ __ ] over there that's why they all have this attitude and that's why that's why you know you hope um the the whole education of hunting and land owners and and conservation of the animals and all the land ties into where you know land owners need to have a better understanding of man give this old boy a break give this guy that just knocked on your door and asked permission the good oldfashioned way man give him a break and let him take his

son or go yeah go hunt you know and don't you know don't don't hoard your 15,000 acres to your right you know to your dad but hopefully he's a good guy that's the problem also is that [ __ ] ask for permission and then do something stupid you know they I had a guy shoot a stag one of first year I put my stag in my fence shot him right off the road really left him man oh my God you talk about pissed right off the road just shot him and left him shot him and

left yeah see there's people like that out there it's so [ __ ] it's bad apples you know they they're out there how could you do that to a stag too God that's so awful Y and the meat is so Sensational to know that that meat is going to go to waste that's so crazy man I don't know you know I guess enough Whiskey and a old back road and a rifle you'll you'll you'll shitty education bad childhood all the above well but um yeah all the above but yeah I mean I look at um

I've got a till my nephew he's lived with me since he was 12 and then my so Till's 22 now and Bo is uh B's 16 and Tate is 14 and till was 15 when he killed his first elk the rule has been if you can pull 55 lbs you're you're you're ready to hunt and so Bo is a lot bigger than Tate when he was 13 and 14 so Bo my 13-year-old killed a full grown elk at 13 wao with a bow with a bow totally the fraking most badass thing I've ever seen and

then just to be that young and be able to execute the shot dude he did it and he earned it and like I said I've been hiking them up those Hills that's what another like the the hunting and the the killing is that man when you pack out a damn 800 lb animal the first time I packed my lcal dude when I got got to the Polaris I mean I was like I was sobbing like from exertion exertion like delusional because we took a wrong turn we hit a big Aspen blowdown and I had to

Tote The Head and the cape out and I had to walk over blown down Aspens with that cape and once we got 500 yards into the blowdown and man we got that bug in you know all and all the hunting guyses they're the toughest they're the toughest dudes oh yeah they're doing that all year long they're grizzled they're the toughest guys I tell people man if I get called to a serious uh if I get called in a serious War I'm calling my elk gu that that's that's my first that's my first call so but

it's you know and I didn't grow up ever thinking I'd have the opportunity or the or the you know the B the ability to go hunt elk but once you start doing it and and and but you know man this this week I killed Thursday I killed my biggest white tail I ever did and man I was so I'm so like overwhelmed by killing it I haven't even like I don't even know if I've enjoyed it yet because it was it kind of happened fast but um it's just so fun picture we uh how big

is it it was big so listen now and so I didn't post it cuz it's obviously in my high fence and you know the you know but man this deer was born in the fence in Tennessee you can't bring any genetics in you can't do anything whatever herd you have when you wild whatever wild Tennessee deer you have you have to grow them and man this deer Joe when he was 2 years old we were like what in the [ __ ] what a UFO ship dropped this off in here he started with huge mass

different looking gen ICS and we watched him for uh we grew him for we feel like he's 5 and a half and uh whoa dude we we are over the moon about stag I know that's a huge deer how big is your property it's uh I guess all together it's probably 11 probably 1 12200 acres in the so that is much more space than a deer would ever travel and its natural life anyway I'll I'll put it to you this way we put about 18 Red Stag in there they're up we don't know how many

there are that dear might have get [ __ ] by his tag I think he might yeah he might have he might have crossed cross a hybrid yeah dude we will ride around we we have too many Stag and we'll try to thin them out Joe we can't find them like literally like we'll spend a day I'm like hey grab the rifle we're going to pull up here walk this bottom can't find them there's 60 of them in there we hunted them for 4 days this weekend we killed we killed two so so 1 12200

is I mean um it's much larger than a deer would have in its natural R yeah and I you know I listen I mean we there there are a million ways you can criticize me for having the high fence but you know I have low fences that we we bounce back and forth on the low fences cuz that's fun as hell too to not know what's walking in but the main thing is is I wanted my boys to have the ability to manage deer and and grow them and I grew up I love South Texas

big big I love South Texas deer hunting like but I learned I leased I leased the South Texas place down here and then I learned having you know young children and my schedule man to go own a South Texas ranch commit that much to a South Texas Ranch and get 5 days there wasn't my thing so my my high fence in Tennessee is kind of like my little ode or my little homage to to my love for South Texas white tail so so you can keep it close keep it close it's 55 minutes from the

house oh that's nice and it's a it's a retreat I get down there you know starlink has ruined us cuz now we have Internet yeah but before that man we'd pull in the pull in the holler down there and you'd have to drive up to the hill to make a phone call but oh oh Elon saved us on that so yeah the new starlinks wild it's the size of a like a notebook well what was fun the first time the first time we saw the satellites come over we were at Elk Camp you know my

nephew till he's 21 and we're all liquored up and my nephew he goes guys I know we've been drinking all day but what in the hell is coming toward us right now and we were like and then we had one guy in the group was like God damn that's Elon Musk and we watched it go over and we were like wow what a what a it's amazing we we used one in Utah for the first time this year so easy to set up set it up in like five minutes and then we're online YouTube I

mean my wife when I went to El Camp my wife was like all right I I'll hear I'll see you I'll talk to you in six days first day elk camp set the starlink out FaceTime hey baby how are you it's crazy yeah my uh buddy was um uh deer hunting recently in South Texas and he said on three different occasions in the week their deer got bumped by illegals he said it was crazy he said illegal aliens just moving through the ranch he said they they have you know a swarm of them every day

I hunt South Texas every year and the ranch we went to last year at any given moment you can drive and pick up 50 backpacks they just that ranch looks like when I and I hadn't been this Ranch was closer to the Border than I've ever been and there are piles of backpacks and tarps you know they'll take tarps and put the tarp out and they're do well they'll wait in the day and then they get you know they get picked up at night typically but but when they get picked up they chunk their backpack

and dude they like that that the ranch I was at they have to have a full-time team of people just going around picking up backpacks and keeping trash off the ranch my buddy who has a ranch in South Texas found a dead guy found a guy ran out of water just died on his rench and it it's heartbreaking because dude if anybody dude I can't imagine having to walk through that brush to get the freedom right because when I get not knowing where you're going not knowing where you're going and probably you have kids yeah

yeah dude when I leave South Texas I'm pulling cactuses out of my ass for a month yeah especially if you do you know you go rat you go rattle for them and stuff so man it's forget about rattlesnakes forget about everything else that's down there and and water yeah when you think about man you you get your water rations yeah you you miss that yeah you could Zig when you should have zagged and you're not going to run into water especially down there and it was in the summer so you know 105 degrees outside this

poor dude just died and they found him well every R every Ranch every Ranch I've went to the ranch owner um you know they're encountering two two deaths a year 15 to 20 most of the time they come up to the the main headquarters needing water and when they get to you or that's been my experience with talking to Ranch managers down there they're they're very you know they're not I don't think they're there to create any problems they just like hey you know we're we need some water and the vast majority of them are

just trying to get a better life get a better life and yeah and we would be doing it too could you imagine if you living in a third world country and you had kids and you realize you can get to America and you get a good job you got to figure out how to do it yeah I would do it we' all do it we would all do it it's just the the craziness of not knowing where you're going in South Texas which is so vast I mean I think it's one of those things where

people talk about it's almost like talking about space you know like oh the Galaxy is 200 million stars or 200 billion stars it doesn't make sense because it's like it's too big for you to understand if you had to walk through South Texas it's South Texas Texas itself is bigger than like multiple countries in Europe yeah well I think you know and even imagine before like the oil booms and oil rigs and stuff like now they have a little bit of visual right lights to walk to right right I mean man I couldn't imagine yeah

just striking out just taking Crossing Rio Grand and hoping hoping or maybe you gone with someone who went through it before and they have a vague memory of what's the best way to get to a creek I I don't know I mean I you know we we've been there and you know the guys they they open box blinds you know the deer hunting towers and there's a family sleeping in the Box blind and man you just got to you got to feel so sorry for them I mean how bad like I mean I thought I

mean dude I remember when I was 15 16 years old processing Cubans where it's so bad that you're going to [ __ ] piece together a raft MH and you're going to you're going to give it a you're going to give it a go for Miami right I remember being 16 going how bad must that be how bad must that be pretty [ __ ] bad pretty [ __ ] bad pretty [ __ ] bad their their case is a little different because they're running from a Communist dictatorship and they were like we got that's

why the most Republican [ __ ] in this country Cubans Cubans go hard they're like we've seen we've seen what all this socialist horeshit comes down to and it comes down to government control over every aspect of your life and they they enforce it with violence they enforce it with guns it's not as simple as everybody just gives up whatever they have and now everybody has an equal amount that's all nonsense that's the that's the hook but the reality is the government controls everything and you are [ __ ] and they always live in big

ass houses and they eat great food and everybody else and it's everywhere it's from from Africa to Cuba to the whole African yeah that that whole have you ever hunted in af I haven't but I know I will I I will I could go on this show and say man I'm not like a I'm not one of those guys that's like thinking about an elephant or lions and all that I just I love to bow hunt and I love I'd like ples animals you know your your Kudos and all that stuff man I I I

you know to be able to when my boys get a little older and we can do a proper twomon currently Sports and my children have ruined my hunting life or well cuz my my boys are going to play all the sports but when when we can get a I'd love to do them a gap year and let's go do a a true Safari yeah and and when I say Safari that doesn't mean I want to go like hunt 60 days want to do like your I want to see the all of the sereng getes and

all of the animals and take in the animals for a month and have like the the wives and the girls and the girlfriends and we sit out there and do The Safaris but then I want to carve out two or three days where all the boys go you know go get the true uh Planes game uh yeah and I I would love it's man I tell you it's a pretty cool story uh my um my pilot my lead pilot is South African and uh during Co man he couldn't his mother was dying and he couldn't

get down there to tell his mother bye and at this point I just I just kind of got to know AJ and man he I've always heard that South Africans are pretty badass dudes and at the time I was learning that AJ is a pretty badass dude I didn't all altogether know it but well he C he he got with me and he goes Luke man uh it's still I cannot get into South Africa it may have been his mother or his wife's mother but I called some local guys some local Congress guys in Tennessee

and we they granted him permission to um get down there and they got to tell uh either his wife's mother by it well he comes back and he's like Luke I now owe you a cape buffalo and I was like what he goes my family has a big ranch we're overrun with cap Buffalo and you now have one of my k Buffalo so dude he is going to fly me down there and I'm like and that's just kind of way he's he's he's wired but you know he's going to help us with some safari stuff

don't they call them the Black Death yeah now they are bad yeah you you don't just go running up to them yeah like with with your not your [ __ ] together that's a big animal that's like a 1,800 lb animal right maybe bigger and like all muscle so Cam and Adam Green Tree they went up to uh Australia you know Australia has like an infestation of Asian Buffalo they have I forget which type of Buffalo it is but um invasive so someone introduced it like all the animals in Australia a lot of the mammals

were introduced and they have no natural Predators so they have these Buffalo up there everywhere Cam said he shot one and he they you know they went up there with no food and they went up there to live off the land they're drinking out of [ __ ] crocodile Lakes like literally bathing in that [ __ ] filtering water filtering water eating whatever fish they caught it's Cam's new version of pushing himself now he's going to now he's G to I think it was Adam's idea he's a psycho too so the both of them are

perfect together so he said he had one piece of buffalo in his mouth for half an hour just chewing on it he said that's how tough they are he said it took forever to eat that thing yeah the true form of like yeah no uh that's even a whole another level of of true Organics when it takes you oh yeah you know when you're jerky's jerky right out of the right out of the uh you know right in the field but yeah well there's no dry-aged Buffalo out there no that's a did you say how

was the taste of it um I mean cuz most PLS animals in Africa uh historically they say are far beyond our ples animals as far as to meet like your Kudos and your I mean your I'm drawing a blank on all the PLS games and like I said this is stuff that I'm like totally Elementary in cuz I don't I just don't know much about that whole African thing it seems like the things that the big cats want to eat are all delicious right yeah like uh I shot a NE guy couple years ago and

tigers eat them right did you ever eat the ne it's delicious and the the meat is like a even more Vivid more Vivid red uh color to it than even our you know our elk and stuff well it's all delicious my favorite is still elk but another one is Axis deer they get hunted by tigers and they're some of the best tasting animals alive Axis deer are delicious I think I think cats are smart just like bears are smart too Salmon's delicious sit there and pick them off they know what they're doing well have you

done Africa are you you going to do it I would like to I'd like to go over to Africa just you you really got that cam was he kind of your Catalyst and God I mean you it's like you had it's like you had Michael Jordan teaching how to Michael Jordan teach you how to shoot free throws yeah it's so fun though but you know even with guy I tell you man I dove hard into duck hunting and you talk about you talk about I mean learning to blow a duck call and when you think

you know how to blow a duck call and then you get next to somebody that blows a duck call and you blow yours and the room starts laughing at you like like ridicule like take your duck call off and put it in your bedroom and leave it when we go hunting and I'm like dude I've been working on this [ __ ] thing for four years and they're like and it's so funny but it's like elk bugles yeah someone who sucks at bugling like you hear me like what the [ __ ] was that I

mean it's like you walking in with a with a tutu on yeah I love duck hunting too I've never done it but I love the idea of it because you're sneaking you're hiding you got fake Ducks you got the whole deal some people have ducks that even have like flopping wings dude we got listen man let me tell you something dude I got given a chocolate lab about eight years ago and here comes this wormy ass chocolate lab into my home you know scrw and since then oh my God that damn animal has thrust me

into duck hunting just so I could take him duck hunting and man it is that sounds like the same excuse you used with the kids right my kid yeah I have to go for the dog yeah for the dog dog needs some Duck huny Life man in my wife is this dog man this dog can open every drawer in our house he can open frays with his he can smack frays open and eat them he can he can he is he's he's pushed a porcelain pound cake a pound cake on a porcelain island off onto

the floor ate the pound cake and the porcelain dish and like x-ray 100 shards of porcelain in his stomach the vet's like put that [ __ ] out in the yard cuz there's and if he makes it if he lives call me back he lived and now I have duck hunting properties and my boy you know so and we're in the house blowing duck calls my wife's like you know I mean my wife's like F four boys in the house all of them blowing duck calls she's like man one day yeah so do you have

one of them setups where you're like hiding in one of those Shacks that's underr we have uh we have elevated blinds that are brushed in and some brush and then we have pit blinds that are you know when you get down in a pit blind lift it up yeah you're right along the water level and then you know we have uh you know there's experiences where you weade in the woods and they they come down in the woods and and man it's just uh and and it's a the thing about the thing that really makes

duck hunting kind of like when you're in a blind with your with your let's just say you got your buddies from way back and there's five of you and you're sitting there smoking cigars and you know you're you're you're in the blind together and you're it's very social too drinking coffee it's you know 15° coffee cigar you know and everybody say sh sh shut up shut up shut up shut up and you work the Ducks they light in front of you kill them dog gets them brings the duck back you look at the duck and

you're just like you just have big old to on your cigar and you're like y this is pretty good [ __ ] right here are you good at cooking them yeah man you know the thing about it when you do uh you know your grain Ducks your ducks that feed on your rice and your and your uh your corn mhm you know you like a a diver duck that eats uh essentially minnows yeah you know you that you don't want to eat that but uh and geese geese or you find somebody that can cook a

goose you know the story about how to cook a goose no where you get a big pot and you put your you put a put a bunch of water and then you put a concrete cinder block in there and you boil the goose and you pull the goose out and eat the cinder block but some people can make uh but I thought go well like a goose a speckled Goose Speck speckle bellies are good but like a malard and a wood duck oh man a wood duck with jalapeno and cheese and bacon wrap which nothing

nothing's bad when you do that but my friend Jesse Griff he runs this restaurant out here called die du is it it's fantastic and he serves a lot of wild game and Jesse came on this hunt with us with Steve Rell down in South Texas and Jesse cooked some diver duck and was it good it was fantastic whoever the hell Jesse is he's a wizard is is a wi well that's great he's a real Chef well that so so Ryan Crest he's like hey man Ryan Crest the radio guy my guy yeah at at American

Idol and uh CEST goes hey I've got a you need a light yeah he goes dude I booked this at EMP 11 Madison Park number one at the time number one restaurant in downtown you know Adam was uh uh Ryan was taking me and Katie and liono to dinner and I've never been to a the N certainly the number one restaurant in the world well they take us a tour of the kitchen and dude they have Ducks walls cuz all of your your French cuisine the really the centerpiece is duck that's like the duck fat

the Ducks are the the real big part of French cuisine well dude I see the these uh I see all these ducks and I'm like what are y'all doing here he goes man we're aging them so they get these now they're getting probably there they're getting farm raised organically grown ducks and they age them with with the gut [ __ ] yeah I've heard of that I've heard people do that with like pheasants too you hang them by their neck the enzymes of the guts pull stuff out of the meat well it adds a flavor

to it apparently and dude man I ate duck sketches me out yeah well here's the tricky part because dude I I don't even know if I enjoyed my meal cuz I I picked the chef's brain cuz I wanted to figure out a way to take my malards and all my ducks I kill and age them properly but what you do got to worry about is when you shoot them you know you're putting you know you're shooting it's the guts are going right through kind of in the meat a little bit so that gets you shoot

them right right that's different than I Ain got that good where I all head shot them yet but uh no when when these guys are aging them what's the temperature in the room I think it's I think it's like a of you know just above they're not freezing them I think it's however you would dry age a cow so like 40° probably 40° and 13 15 days with the guts in them and then wow 15 days with the guts in them I've heard that people hang their pheasants until their their heads fall off and that's

when they that's when they cut them like who figured that out like who is the Bold bastard it's the guy the guy that ate the first oyer right you know Drake out of the puddle right yeah and you know it is fascinating in pheasant and when you look at pheasant and quail and Chuckers and you know Hungarian Partridge now you're talking about the you're talking about the end all of of wild game in my opinion the top of the that's what you like the most well I think when you look at the pheasants you know

they're you know they call them prairie chickens and they're beautiful the meat's a little wider and less gamier so uh have you had San Hill crane yes rib out of the sky I have it but it's crazy to look at it it does look like steak it's a red meat a deep red meat and it's a bird and you know they're uh they're wild Little Creatures too man you know when you when you take your lab San Hill crane hunting you got a you got to fit them with goggles cuz of Poker yeah whoa and

then um we I I I just got in a golf course property down in Florida and uh we sold our beach house and then we're kind of migrating to this place and I fly down to the tour of the property and I'm like dude what are what what are y'all doing with all these San Hill cranes they're like what do you mean this said like a golf course guy and I said dude that's the rib ey of the sky bro he's like he looked it up and I you can't shoot San Hill cranes in Florida

what I dude there somebody called the governor everywhere really everywhere on this property you can't shoot San Hill cranes in Florida but you can shoot alligators I I unless they're lying to me because they're scared I'm going to go like uh I'm going to like you know have a psychotic episode and go running out through the golf course with a with a guns maybe it's just the area where you're at you couldn't shoot they may be protected in certain counties but you know even in Tennessee far protected under the federal they're protected under F Federal

migratory bird treaty act look at that [ __ ] wow State rule blah blah blah intentional feeding of San Hill cranes is prohibited so you can't hunt them while they're protected well in Tennessee we have uh in Tennessee There's a couple guys that got them and I think it's a draw tag you can draw you can put in to draw a San Hill crane tag and then man they make a they make a very distinct uh something like that and dude you can hear them and I'll hear them coming over my farm and uh God

if if that's the wrong noise I just made I'm going to get uh sounds good I'm going to you got it [Applause] sound whoa I love this guy I need me one to that's them wow now that's look at all of them that yeah that's yeah hear that yeah what a [ __ ] cool animal they sound like something from Avatar see those beaks yeah those are a labrador blind Labrador retri blinders right there how what how do you fasten the goggles on a dog man oh God here he goes oh my gosh this is

like the find it San Hill crane goggles for labs this is going to be great does it how does it secure on I'm thinking about a dog face I guess it's I guess you've seen those dogs in those side cars on the UHC on the motorcycles probably probably that that rig but um yeah I think that's the same yeah that's that's like a that's an aspen that's two dogs being silly yeah yeah but um the um yeah so in Tennessee you you can hire a guy and he'll take you and they'll kind of get them

coming into an area and I think you there go oh there it goes oh wow that's crazy now those look like I think those are snow geese so snow geese are probably the same look at their goggles all scratched up too yeah cran hun no those are yeah those are Sand Hills wow that's crazy dogs need to have their eyes protected yeah so when you when you get yeah well you got your golden but man if you get you la and oh man beware of that cuz you will get hooked you'll you start oh I'm

sure I would be also I love duck Duck's delicious oh on the grill marinated and marinate it properly for a day or two plan on it that's what Jesse does that's the difference that's does the diver duck I'm telling you this diver duck was Sensational well but when that and that's the that's what you got to watch in all wild game is Man play it preparation get it marinated and and and man you just can't beat it yeah you got to know what you're cooking how to cook it especially if you you're cooking something that

has low body fat you got to make sure you cook it nice and slow right you know that's one of the great things about things like a Trager and you can just set it for 265 best thing in the world leave it the new one's fantastic too it just everything comes out so Smoky and delicious if you know my dad 4th of July he was I think he was drunk and hated us on Fourth of July cuz he stayed up smoking the Boston bud every night you know I remember my dad man he he'd had

that old Char BR out there and he'd get up with his vinegar and all this [ __ ] and he would wake up all night night before the fourth and smok them butts maam and now you just walk out put that thing on 2:20 at about 8:00 p.m. wake up at wake up at 8:00 a.m. and the app tells you if you low on pellets I know it's like what are we doing here it's crazy so much easier there's something that men are attracted to like cooking over wood though like an actual fire well we're

in the heart of it in in Texas you know right here I mean these guys take a damn you know they propane tanks they glue four propane tanks together and have a smoke stack and the guy that uh what's our guy that does our charity event uh oh my God I can't believe um I'll I'll come up with him but Mark text me uh meet church have you met the meat Church dud I met that dude yeah yeah he comes and he's got some awesome rubs he's got all that but then what's funny is yeah

he pulled up to our charity event with his big smoker and man I'm like this is like Elon Musk style engineering on this thing it's pretty you know and man you know they get out there and yeah they'll look at me and you doing tagers and we're that's about like us that's our version of having a tutu on it is funny because people want to do it all themselves the offset smokers like have you ever gone to Terry black here see the lines of the offet smokers Terry black is the number one barbecue place in

the country probably in the world they cook more volume of barbecue than anywhere else on the country and they have just line after line of these giant propane tank smokers with briskets be ribs and spare ribs see when I when I moved to Nashville being a South Georgia boy I'd never even heard of brisket really we there was we only knew pork barbecue and it just so when I moved to Nashville and then like there's some dude there with a Texas brisket restaurant in Nashville I'm like what are they talking about brisket and this was

2001 I moved to Nashville this is how insulated you could be in your own you know as we talk about the ways of the world changing I mean it's like dude I lived in a section in and everybody North Carolina it's Georgia Alabama we they didn't brisket was like I think brisket was originally a German thing I think it like with the sausages like there was cuts of the meat well the the smoker thing came certainly from German immigrants that came to Texas that's where the the origin of the bar out here and then the

brisket was like cuts that nobody else wanted right so they figured out a way to take these cuts that nobody else wanted and turn them into something delicious they just had to do it over time and now it's like a preferred cut you know if you go to Terry blacks the the brisket Sensational and they're probably cooking you the preferred cuts of like which cut of the brisket would you like not not the old flank meat down there you know probably you can probably get the ribeye and all that I think it's all just how

long you cook it for how do you how you do it what temperature and they they wrap it and then they unwrap it and they spray it like they have it down to a science and then at the end it's like the the the key is you want to be able to fold it over your finger and not have it break apart just get it to just where it folds over see our deal was just always smoke a big pig you know smoke a pig you know you know not not the not the one as

big as this table but you know about about that long 100 pounder yeah and walk up there on the family reunion and all the women were grossed out cuz you know you're just pulling the the Big Pig you know the big you know you can pull that meat off a pig it's like that so go we're getting hungry Joe I know that's the the good thing about wild pigs too is they're always available to hunt like the one of the great things about Texas it's it's not good if you're on a ranch or if you

have a farm but if you're a person who wants to hunt you can hunt wild pigs 3 65 days a year and always have sausage our place in um uh me and and my best friend we've got a like a quail hunting place and down in the heart of South Georgia tons of swamps dude we were uh which you know all the math and I'm sure you've brought it up on um how many uh s pigs or you know they'll kick off 30 30 pigs a year annually yeah and then we would have we would

have them roll through our front front yard $330,000 of damage a night yeah and the most and for anybody out there listening if you have this going on we mounted um we mounted lights in all the trees around our whole Lodge and you flip them lights on and we Haden had one Wild Hog root up our yard since really they will not come around those lights they don't they it's a great tactic that's interesting yeah and when somebody told him you know some good old boy told him and he was like man we'll try anything

cuz you would walk out there and it looked like 300 landmines went off and the night before our our yard looked like austa yeah it's crazy isn't it I mean they are they are bad little dudes now they do a lot of damage I mean in Texas alone it's millions and millions of dollars of damage of crops every year they shoot him out of helicopters here you ever seen you ever done any of that have you it is man it is it's the most unfair type of hunting that's ever existed man if I don't know

you know my children I took my boys and somewhere there's a you know I hope he doesn't hear but there's a Navy sealed Marine recruiter cuz my sons are ready for Warfare after doing that I'm like but you know my the guy that we took you know he's got a big beautiful high fence and you know you if you fly around and man you can you know just he has to thin them out every year yeah you have to but it's so fun doing it out of a helicopter you don't want to thin them all

out cuz you keep wanting to you know you keep wanting to do it a little bit but uh but uh it's a you hadn't done that yet no no I'm still I just mostly bow hunt him well you know the uh our our our our pick stuff in in Georgia man it it's fun because you can go on a deer hunt you shoot some deer with a bow and then we'll take a rifle and and late in the evening the Hogs will come out and and uh you know I know a lot of guys shoot

them at at night time too yeah yeah and then thermals we have guys with the big uh you know with the big you know trap doors that trap them and stuff like that so uh I mean they're they are they're probably the number one you know Wildlife I never will forget I you know right when like maybe iPhones come out and you get your iPhone news updates and then I never even knew what the magazine like the New Yorker was or like the guardian and all those things well the New Yorker I'm scrolling through and

I see feral pigs and it was this huge article done by a guy maybe the editor of the New Yorker man he did a great job with that article and just went through and this was 15 years ago I read that article about you know the feral hog problems and you know you would think I I would I don't know I would think the New Yorker leans quite leans quite left but the fact this guy wrote the article from a p perspective of huge problem need to be need to be dealt with was pretty uh

pretty badass take on it so well once people see the sheer numbers they're so overwhelming that you go wait a minute how how you going to stop this how you going to stop it from multiplying continually every year well you're not you're not there's places you're not going to get to them Georgia and these these swampy deals you can't you know you can't you can't helicopter them there so that's when you get you know that's when you get these old boys with their with their dogs and they run off in the runoff in that'll help

but even then Joe here here's another thing you think about this so when I start my high fence the year that I the year that I started it um our Turkey population in Tennessee which it's it's been going through hell um and you'll hear this the turkey popul a in Tennessee was one of the most amazing things I've ever seen I mean Eastern Turkey Hunting one of the most beautiful things in the wildlife that the state of Tennessee has and and my turkey population was like is amazing and still is but we hired a guy

and he put 110 traps out 110 and night one had 100 over aund varmints Coons possums armadillos in the traps night one so they're just killing all the turkeys they eat the eggs yeah you know they're uh you know a turkey lays 12 to 14 eggs now listen I found this out this year this is going I hope I I if I can get a couple nuggets that you hadn't learned yet that that's kind of the goal for the day so and turkey does not lay their eggs all at the same time really they lay

their eggs one day at a time they will they lay get next to a water source they go to the Water Source hold the water in their mouth drip the water on the eggs periodically using the water to hatch them at the same time cuz a hen turkey if she had to hatch all the eggs hatch at the same time but if she had to hatch them for 12 days she couldn't ever keep them corraled properly oh so she manipulates with water and if I'm wrong now this is a biologist that told me this NE

I heard this this year totally blew my mind so in the nest and I've walked up on them they got 12 or 13 of them sitting there beautifully and whatever that hen does she manages those eggs to hatch it the same time wow and maybe maybe um now like a tortoise I guess or a beach turtle or whatever you know I think they they sped them all out that night but a hen a hen turkey does not well so one armadilla Rolls by that Nest that's a wrap that's a wrap she just lost them all

and um so there was a big study that went on in Tennessee about the decline of the Turkey population so what do they do about that they they try to hunt well you you know well trapping now is so rare you know trapping the art of trapping is gone down quite a bit and the arm of the the the um oh and I'm not even bringing up coyotes in Tennessee but uh so yeah if if you can if they can loosen up Tennessee can loosen up their trapping laws and make it more available and and

you just got to thin out those uh you know armadilla in Tennessee you would have never um uh man we woke up and we can ride around and shoot 30 a night really armadilla 30 on a on don't they carry like crazy man I wouldn't recommend touching them you know they they you know they say they do but that that's that people eat them I've never heard of that but I you probably can find some they definitely eat raccoons they definitely eat raccoons and definitely I don't know about possums but if you if you're eating

a possum you're you are you're your ass is hungry so very hungry but uh raccoons I mean yeah in Georgia where we grew up had had several old timers man they get a a [ __ ] and it was always a kind of a party deal you know what does raccoon taste like I never had I never well we got old buddy down there he's like you know what bald eagle tastes like ow so I guess you could say racu you know I had a buddy of mine tell a game W in that joke it

didn't go over well so but uh there's a lot of [ __ ] that people eat the people would go what yeah I mean when you're talking about yeah I I saw somebody do what do the pig deal with a full Gator oh I've seen that before and I hadn't done that I've had gator tail but I had take a giant smoker and put a gator in there put the whole thing on there they skin you know skin it and and all that put an apple in its mouth yeah you you know what's crazy in

Georgia there's a there's a place rural so all the chicken farms down there huge chicken farms all of them well what do you do with the chicken carcasses well I mean there's a lot they used to grind them up and feed them back to the chickens but but some of them get well they feed them to Gator Farms oh wow they put them in a put them in a um a limb a limb Shredder oh wow now you talk about the most foul smell on the planet go into a gator farm Warehouse oh Joe buddy

just right nothing can replicate maybe the s straman challenge can rep you know the the the whole s straman joke thing but what's that you've seen where the guys pop the lid on the uh the Swedish Fish no oh Joe sir stamman what is it oh we did it at our at our deer camp it's like a aged Swedish fish that's rotten in a can it's aged for years like a sardine and so yeah the s straman challenge look at this guy's face dude we pop that thing so people fish with them they use it

for bait like for catfish or something that people eat that oh foul and if you can stay in the room with it have you tried it dude no one I no I was outside 15 yards from it throwing up in the flower bed all right we got to order some Jamie order some I'm glad I didn't get you uh we might eat it on fight companion but um well Denver's on they're on the verge of passing a no fur law so if Denver passes a no fur law what are they going to do about cowboy

hats that have beaver skin lining and then if you're going to say no fur how are you going to say no fur but you're allowing Leather So skin is okay as long as you take the furry part off is the furry part what's offensive you know if you know what You' [ __ ] the the chaos that would ensue if you outlawed leather everybody's belt is illegal everybody's shoes are illegal Air Jordans are illegal they're calling it illegal illegal yeah they're trying to pass a law they're trying to pass a law where they ban fur

sorry no worries they've done it before I mean they've done it other where does it like I said where does it Joe I'm out with just keeps going that's the problem never [ __ ] ends when I'm in I know it it's never going to end they're going to keep pushing when it'll get to you can't eat meat it'll get to it has to be lab grown meat it'll get to it it could get as crazy as you can ever imagine there's animal rights people that would like to push in that direction and you would

have never thought this would be possible but you would have never thought that you would have biological males competing against females in high school sports and that's everywhere and if you complain against that you're a bigot you're seeing the craziest of crazy thinking there's people that think the pedophiles are minor attracted persons and they'll they'll talk about this as University professors teaching classes it's been recorded people have seen it it's not everywhere but it's enough where you go I see where this goes if it keeps going cuz none of this [ __ ] existed 20

years ago you go back to 2004 there was none of this [ __ ] nothing a transgender person was a rare person with gender dysphoria it was very rare and there wasn't a lot of hatred towards those people it wasn't a thing that people worried about now there is because everybody's like what the [ __ ] why is this in schools why are you having them there was a recent pool tournament where it was a women's pool tournament in the semi-finals it's two trans trans women competing against each other two men two biological men that

wear lipstick competing against each other in a women's tournament it's [ __ ] crazy so I would have never thought that would be possible so it can get point where there's no meat it can get to the point where meat there's this demonization of meat you keep hear about it all the time meat is the number one source of carbon it's [ __ ] complete total horeshit it's not even number two it's not number three it's not even [ __ ] close Cal farts yeah it's the dumbest [ __ ] ever and by the way

all of that is factory farming regenerative farming is actually carbon neutral if it doesn't if they don't sequester carbon it's actually good for carbon there's a whole reason why there's a there's a balanced ecosystem of cows eating grass and the grass fermenting in their stomach and then creating manure and that regenerates regenerates it's carbon neutral it's actually good for the environment and everything feeds off everything there's a system that nature is evolved for millions of years that's that's the normal way it's supposed to be done and you know we're just living in a crazy time

yeah when you think of Denver and Colorado and the outdoors man you got to appreciate everybody's opinion of you know you know the the gr you know I mean the the it's a it's a so so old term the granola but it ain't granola no more I mean it's it's it's they're getting a lot further than granola granola used to be normal until they see the thing is those people were weird and rare and they were tolerated but then they got online and say if there's only 10 of them in this town and five of

them in that town well then now there's hundreds of thousands of them collectively in the country all as a group and then they think that they're activists so they they think that they're doing something good so then they start saying things like no fur in Colorado pass this bill and E start saying no meat no more meat no one should have meat what are you going to do with these cows what you going to go around castrating all those bulls what are you going to do how you going to control the populations are you going

to let them go extinct you going to castrate all the Bulls or you going to let some of them breed how you going to make this distinction are you going to bring in wolves to handle them what are you going to do what the [ __ ] are you going to do what are you going to do with all those people that work at the butcher shop what are you going to do with all those people that work at the meat processing plant what are you going to do with all those people that have been

transporting meat back and forth what do you do all those jobs all those families all their income all their businesses that they've had for a hundred [ __ ] years what are you going to do with that that these people have like the most minimal understanding of the system that they're trying to influence they they don't know what the [ __ ] they're doing by releasing wolves they think wolves are beautiful yay you see the governor he's releasing the Wolves he's like Yay he's like so happy yeah they're going to be saying yay when they're

when they're damn I don't know dude the whole the dogs are getting eaten dog everything dude let me tell you something well not only that they brought in wolves that had a history of killing cattle the Wolves they brought into Colorado no different than the grizzly focusing on the on humans and man we I live just south of Nashville we got 180 Acres I've got neighborhoods all around us man about every now then email goes out little Fluffy's gone coyotes we put six coyote traps out on my farm one night six for six one [Music]

and let me tell you what else is a little vicious son of a [ __ ] a [ __ ] otter oh yeah otter will [ __ ] you up let me tell you buddy those things are I mean Joe I'm so like I mean I we like I said my my brain is bass fishing and all this stuff man we'll have otter come up into my bass Pond and [ __ ] those bass up I'm talking about they're [ __ ] gone the fish in three nights the fish are gone and the otter eat

one and play with the other ones that they kill wow and like you go by my Lake like I have a all female Bass Lake at my house which you're going to this is a whole another fun deal they will roll through there and eat my all females and just throw them up on the bank there's carcasses there's how many oh you get four otter in your pond on a 17 acre Lake they'll eat 20 bass a [Music] night and you the problem is you don't know you've been got until it's too late till you've

been got wow and so Joe a t to grow a 10B bass is about $3,000 and and think about I've been loving on these damn fish I've been walking out there making sure they're happy so we can all catch them and yeah look at and then damn them damn otter roll so they'll if you have a overflow a Spillway on your farm and it runs through your farm and dumps into a major river body of water and that otter swims by that water dumping in that River he is up that River he's up that Spillway

into your Lake and he is he has got you wow and we'll put traps out dude and man they just keep coming wow keep coming and I'm talking about otter pelts I mean like the prettiest thing you've ever seen so do you turn them into coats or anything you I mean we've got enough where you know we can we've got them skinned out in freezers and rolled up in our freezers and my my farm guys I mean I think they're but you know the sad part is there the market for that should be an amazing

Market but I I don't I think cuz everybody's scared to say they got a damn otter Pelt yeah you know but yeah fur it's fur's got a bad name if it's got hair on it leather's fine none of it's fine but leather's fine with people no one has a problem with you wearing a cowboy boots nobody gets mad yeah see leather nobody gets mad at leather all that is is fur with no no [ __ ] hair on it it's the same thing it's weird but damn otter man them Little Rascals you know they um

I got I'm building a lake at my place in Georgia and it's right on the Flint River you're running Wildlife Management I love man it's it's so fun it's so damn fun like it's it's four hours of my day and it also cleanses your mind right totally just like hunting it's totally and it is not for myself you can't my enjoyment is to watch the kid my my buddies my my children's friends come enjoy it too you know my my my sons will bring a buddy home from school and next thing you know Tate and

his 13-year old buddy are shooting bows in the front yard all weekend and this kid who doesn't have a dad that hunts or has the ability next thing you know we I got one kid my my Tate's buddy James his eighth consecutive weekend at my house hunting just loving shooting bow and arrows did you show him how to shoot correctly got it all got him dialed in he shot his first dough this weekend nice just so fun and so so you know when you meet these guys that they don't let anybody else enjoy it I

don't like those guys either yeah and and you know I love to love to enjoy it with people but you the bass fishing things a blast but my my Lake in in Georgia it's going to be about 35 acres and I think we'll do an all female Lake down there why all female so that way they can't breed your females are your trophy bass right the big fat ones the big fat ones but don't they have to get pregnant to be really big and fat you put them in and if you don't they don't have

to be pregnant well they just have to have the big eggs and when they lay them they just have to have male not fertilize them that's right of course so if you get a male in there then the male then you have a natural thriving he'll eat the babies too though right they male bass will forage on themselves yeah and uh but male B now I have three lakes that are naturally their own ecosystem where we have to you know I've got a 82 acre Bass Lake that we have to catch 3500 lbs of bass

a year just to keep them from not choking themselves out really oh yeah it's 3500 lb so how what do you do just call your friends dude we we have bass roundups and we get out there and we catch them and we'll load up coolers and take them into the little towns and give them you know have give them to people and I mean it becomes a problem it's a weird thing with largemouth bass too cuz a lot of people don't eat them and yet they're delicious they're good they're great great they're basically the same

as bluegills well Blu gills bluegills you know like all the bluegills at my lake or we feed them pellet food so they'll get big so the bass will eat them so the bass will get big and you don't want to go eat a bluegill that's been parked under a pellet yeah but a a little wild bluegill stream or a little natural Creek where I grew up in Georgia like shell crackers and bluegill that eat like a cricket or a that are eating live stuff you fet one of them real small Creek or river bluegills fry

them up oh nothing better in the world yeah and then bass is similar to that oh bass if you flaky white meat flaky white meat get you a 3 or 4 lb bass filet it like a red snapper but people like catching them so much they want you to release them we we spent our whole life my dad would catch bass we would filet them he'd put them in a Pyrex dish sauté them uh bake them and then broil them on top and we'd eat B we'd eat large mouth bass you know you could either

have salmon croquettes that stink up the whole house you know where you knew your mama was cooking them or you can have fresh bass you know so we we grew up but isn't it a weird animal or weird fish rather that a lot of people don't eat but it's eat you know you wouldn't want you wouldn't want your you wouldn't want everybody F fishing your big reservoirs like Texas is the best Big Bass Lake Reservoir state right in the country you wouldn't want everybody out there keeping them you know you want to practice you want

to practice catch and release on your big public reservoirs right but you know when you got a private empowerment where you know you know you you'd want you you want to you want to keep your bass cuz your Your Bass you'll wake up let's just let's just say you've got a nice brand new Bass Lake you built 10 acres you stock it you you spend 50 Grand to put your bluegill your your all your fish in there well you don't then you just don't ever catch them well then in 5 years you've lost it right

you have to manage it yeah you you're done your Lake's done you're you're your your three lb bass didn't have enough fish to get to four lbs and then he missed a year growing or she missed a year growing and then you just put a $50,000 investment in Your Bass Lake and then you're out you might as well drain it start over you know what I'd really like to do get a place in the north and have a a lake with Pike in it I think they might be my favorite thing to catch cuz they're

so ruthless that's such a ruthless fish animal [ __ ] dinosur a killer they look like dinosaurs first time I caught a pike I'm like why isn't this like the most exciting thing to catch they fight hard or a Musky Jesus I've never caught one of those me either that's the fish 10,000 casts yeah see I'm not a I'm not that dude now I'll I'll wait and Hunt hun a you know I'm not a um like I don't have to have the biggest best animal my whole life like I don't roll you know some people

they're like they get in numbers or size queens s yeah or score I'm I'm not that guy I'm an experienc let's have fun let's see a lot of animals let's catch a lot of fish let's keep a lot of action let's keep the kids engaged yeah you know um like when when my boys were you know when my boys were four and five I'd take them you don't want to take them out there on their first three bass fishing trips and you you burn them in the hot sun and they catch one fish right you

you want them engaged engaged and and get them get them going but uh yeah Pike and all that that you know steel heading that Northwest steel heading catching one man I I don't that's just I hadn't done that I can't do that I got that's a release fish too right don't they release oh those are those are the yeah those are high on the list of especially like uh cun steel hits MH you know you have you have some that are kind of locked in you know locked in the reservoir locked but you get those

those big cun steel heads and they they really hold them and they should hold them in high regard you you shouldn't you need to leave those alone and let them you know let them come and go yeah but then why you catching them you know what I'm saying why you [ __ ] with those fish cuz that's it's a little bit of that I get it it's fun I'm not opposed to it I get it but if I catch fish I like to eat them that's the whole reason why I'm catching fish so that you

know what T I like to catch Walley I would still say you're in the majority yeah yeah you're I think that's how it should be I mean imagine if you just run around shooting deer with tranquilized darts like I got them well little weird a little weird yeah I I've I've seen prove that you did it yeah you know then they make bumper you know they make bumper tips on bows you can d d deer in the ass and run them off and not you know and they're like why you dinking a deer in the

ass you know it's a little weird it's like they make those Club heads so you could shoot squirrels and birds yeah you know well you know man listen dude I grew up you know my little town lesburg man I mean every year I got a pill gun for Christmas and I got a I got a full a camo onesie or a coverall and dude I'd put my new pair of Chipawa hunting boots I'd put my new set of uh I'd put my new set of coveralls on with the camo patter and I'd hit the neighborhood

walking around with a pet gun shooting the neighbor squirrels and you know we we we'd eat them you know we'd eat them every now and then this little old lady Mabel coxell she we'd skin them and she'd fry them with some wild rice and they taste good if you cook a squirrel and do it right man it ain't nothing wrong with a squirrel isn't that crazy that most people don't know that right squirrels are delicious squirrel honey squirrel Dum very popular squirrel dumpling squirrel dumping yeah instead of chicken chicken and dumpling squirrel dumplings you you

you know you get a squirrel and clean it right and brine it for the night and cook it with dumplings and put some onions and celery and all that and you're you're Off to the Races people think of them they have like fluffy tail privilege rat rats with Tails because you see a rat rats have those slimy tails and people like that's disgusting and they see that fluffy tail like a so cute not much different you know well the the the fact that you know the fact that yeah I could run ramp it with a

8 year 9 years old through the neighborhood riding my Honda 50 motorcycle you know through people's backyard you know chasing squirrels and everybody's like thank you that damn thing's been in my attic chewing up my my Pink Panther insulation for uh that's Rural Life right that's people well that's people that understand what's going on yeah that's the difference between if you did that in a neighborhood in Manhattan people like what the [ __ ] is this guy doing we need these squirrels if they caught you in Central Park with a pet gun you'd go to

jail first first round ticket first yeah do not do not pass go do not click if you break into a store and Rob it nothing will happen to you they'll let you right out but yeah but if you get caught in Central Park shooting squirrels and eating them you're going to get in real trouble it's wild we live in a wild world it's a very strange distorted version of what human Big's been experiencing for most of history no I mean nothing is wrong with hunting a little bit especially when 95% of the world eats meat

it's a stupid argument well and I think you know I think it's all trendy too I think the beauty is now the education of you know I mean you look at you know you look at the how great you know carnivore diets are being you know I've never done like a big old Carn have you ever done a big carnivore oh yeah yeah yeah did it change your life oh yeah that's mostly how I eat great I eat fruit and meat great 99% I [ __ ] around like my daughter likes to cook cookies I

had a big ass cookie the other day it was awesome I I mean I'm not ridiculous I'll eat other things I'm not religious about it but most of my diet like 90% is just meat and occasionally fruit fruit before I work out fruit sometimes after I work out but mostly it's just meat well you know like I said the best thing about what you do here is you give everybody their platform to talk about their their way yeah and and you know your platform is enlightened me I mean you know dude I've never you know

I I was around some dude that was talking about you know um micro do and mushrooms and all that dude I I never saw a drug I never saw a drug until I was 30 did you see moonshine saw moonshine a lot a drug well that is a [ __ ] drug yeah well and you're right I mean you drink you drink a half jar of M you know oh yeah you're going to die that's the crazy thing about alcohol is we we put thing we are having nicotine right now this is a drug and

when I have these it's a nice Cigar by the way it's perfect it's very good very mild and uh man when I I I was 39 years old before I did any tobacco really never dipped my dad kept Levi Garrett Taylor's Pride you know the only time he wasn't chewing meant he had a life insurance policy he had to he had to he had to get blood work and didn't want to fail his life insurance policy but I was 39 my mom you know my mom's a my mom's a character she you know but um

never did tobacco never dip I put one dip in one time and threw up outside the outside my high school this old boy threw me a dip in and dude big old Kodiak and I threw up outside the high school gymnasium and missed my fifth and sixth period And I was like dude I don't need that you remember those bricks little squares of chewing tobacco you bite a chunk off just oh although and well what I was getting at is I was sitting uh we were celebrating a album release I was 39 years old one

of my best buddies brought a nice David off Churchill cigar and any cigar I'd ever done now had smoked a cigar like in Vegas and most time back then you know I done drink a handle of Crown and smoke a cigar and you wake up the next morning you're like you know your life's over essentially well it's probably the handle of Crown right well we smoked that cigar and I sat in my rocking chair and just smoked that cigar and I was like man this is kind of it's kind of nice this is kind of

like therapy right here all these people smoking cigars aren't stupid there got to be something to it and they're chilled out yeah yeah there you know it's a nice conversational thing they are chilled they are universally chilled out but it's a drug oh let's it's a drug yeah let's it's a drug we're drinking coffee that's a drug this this the problem is there's a lot of drugs and some of them were really [ __ ] bad for you here's the deal I and and I'll call my buddy every now and then that and he was

my buddy that bought me the cigar he was a lifelong Copenhagen and cigarettes here and quitting and I call called him I'll call him periodically and I'm like you [ __ ] I'm stopping at a grocer I'm stopping at a random cigar shop I've gone four days without a cigar and I'm riding down the road and I determine right now I need one you know you Weaver across four lanes of traffic find a you know and then next thing you know you're smoking a grocery store I mean a a gas station cigar to just but

but hey it keeps you keeps you keeps the head clean I like them I like I said I think it's the best things need smoke 12 of them a day you know no I don't think so either but I know people do I know people just go one to the other just chain smoke cigars yeah now my mother dude Salem ultral Light 100's three packs a day whoa four four Bud Lights a day her whole life four Bud Lights every day is she still with us she's with us damn that's the thing that always gets

people they're like maybe I should quit hold on well Mom listen my mom man dude she Joe she she's curved the beer she's curved the beer a little bit but she'll drink her couple OES but she's going to have her one or two Bud Lights every day every day she's going three packs might she's but she's like a you know it's like if she's walking in to the to the to Dillards or to the TJ Max she's like oh my God I'm walking in take a couple PS take a couple and hit you know litter

the parking lot but she'll she'll pan fry a riba in butter pan fries a ribi that's probably what's keeping her alive pan fries a ribi fries someo string french fries and that's her damn meal four to five nights a week four 76 glorious years that's probably why she's healthy and is ready to chew my ass out at any moment and how many cigarettes do you think she's down to a day I I hope she's probably at a pack and a half but man when you do the math when I used to sit her down and

do math you know her and my my her and my dad were married uh 32 years and divorced and so when she went out kind of on her own I'd sit her down and do the math on four Bud Lights two and a half packs of Salems and four pan fried ribe eyes it that becomes a damn number annually I think the ribe eyes are fine leave alone with the rib you know what but through the years I've gotten Miller Light endorsements I I would get Miller Light like a i' be like Mama there's a

Miller Light truck pulling up to your house it's going to deliver you a pallet of Miller Light just try just try to fall in love with Miller Light right bu nope Bud Light I'd get home for you know get home two months after the pallet got there you know there the pallet sits calling my buddies hey boys a lot of people had like a personal crisis when there was that Bud Light boycott there was a lot of people like I don't know what to do I don't know what to do when Kid Rock shot that

Bud Light and then he kept selling it in his bar we drank some we drank some on the podcast we did together yeah and I I love let go after a while he let it go did I love him he he's been he's been a a damn good buddy of mine and has has come to my charity event he's a wild boy he's awesome love that dude he's he's he's a lot of fun he's awesome but when I saw him do that I was like o imagine being the CEO Bud Light and seeing that you're

like oh no Kid Rock just shot our beer with a [ __ ] automatic and was like [ __ ] anheiser bush like no and I mean that alone probably cost him billions of dollars just having when our beer yeah when our beer when our beer is istic political we're like not just our beer but Bud Light Bud Light the beer that sponsored more boxing matches more sporting events more people been drinking Bud Light I mean think about all the people swear by Bud Light post Malon is always drinking bud and then you know my

my wife's dad is a is a Budweiser [ __ ] 12pack a day dude man and you know he had to he had to hear a little [ __ ] from his buddies about it but people getting fights in bars I have a friend who owned a bar we we stopped carrying at the mothership cuz nobody was buying it we stopped carrying Bud Light cuz nobody was buying Bud Light have we checked on where it it's come back fully no I don't think so I think there's a bunch of holdouts that are always going to

go [ __ ] those liberals forever but the lady who came up with the idea is gone like the whole the whole marketing team behind they're all gone and iser Bush is an American company that has employed American people forever it's a great company they just [ __ ] they get caught up in the mind virus anheiser Bush taught us that beer is wonderful for Christmas and Clydesdale and D Dalmations are the equivalent of of Jesus and Christmas well remember those uh budlike guys the real American genius guys remember that American genius they had great

commercials dude I would cry over the dalmatian Clydesdale commercial you remember when the little the little puppy yeah he's hiding on the cdes and find that Jamie oh [ __ ] it's like a freaking Hallmark you would never think that that company could get taken down but that just I think that was good it was bad for Bud Light but I think it was good here it is let's see it we're going to get all sweet here we go oh don't oh the little puppy listen to that [Music] music next oh little puppy got [Music]

out oh poor puppy's lost this for beer this is for beer yeah poor little puppy wow what a commercial who we need to find oh God wolves they're in Colorado the horses save The Puppy from the wolves have a bud very effective commercial you know real quick you're happy yeah and then there's the one where that it's the dalmati too that that grew up and then got to the the old dalmati and the little you know they're riding the in the the young Dalmation sees the old Dalmation and I think the old Dalmation kicks the

bucket and then the new Dalmation takes its place and then you're like oh my God it's the best thing ever yeah well and that company got taken out like having a transgender woman on their can but it just shows you how prevalent this whole mind virus is that it even got into Bud Light which is just bizarre bizar the lady who's responsible for it all basically [ __ ] on the entire customer base you know saying that they have a fratty sense of humor and we need to update it make it more inclusive and like

do you know what you're saying you're alienating all the people that buy it and love it and counting on people who don't buy it and love it to start buying it and loving it and maybe that'll work but you just alienated everybody who buys and love it it's the dumbest move of all time the the worst the dumbest move well you know when you look at country music too I mean with country music I mean it is what it is there's things that it is and you got to you got to love on what it

is and then you got to grow it too I mean there's there's sensible ways to grow it and but it has to be up to the artist just Express themselves honestly and if the artist is a country artist that has a different perspective let that be but leave all the the rest of it the way it is too buddy the with every successful music artist that's ever lived it it they may have faked you out that any any genre but country is even country's tough because once you show any un un unauthentic unauthenticity yeah buddy

you're you're done you're done I can imagine like dude I mean yeah like dude my biggest like when I what man you know I got my thing was tight jeans you wouldn't imagine me wearing tight jeans on stage how much that piss pisses people well it's cuz you're handsome but that's part of the problem you're good looking guy up there tight jeans shaking ass shaking that ass showing that bulge get out of here dude and then I'm like bring back Merl Haggard what the [ __ ] is this so Joe you know one thing you

know my biggest my biggest hurdle ever in my my career and it it still breaks my heart to this day I you know back when I my only way to your only way to make it in music is you've got to stop people's eyeballs on you you got to grab them vocally visually uh musically different you got to get them to stop for two seconds go what what is that what is that [ __ ] doing right there and when I came out with country girl Shak it for me on the on the CMA shaking

my ass I mean I had to do it that way in my opinion I had to go this is my moment to show country girl shck for me and I'm the guy that dances and and don't give a damn and let's have some fun and come along for the ride and it was amazing it was amazing you know the fact that I'm a Georgia boy at the time and I was talking to Texas people I was talking to everybody well then at some point a label for me came became bro country uh have you ever

even heard that term I did I did because of you yeah well so I heard it and I'm like well bro country well then I started seeing the people making fun of bro country and I'm like this is kind of [ __ ] pissing me off and then and then me and some other artists start getting looped into this bro country phase well I when I was in my form of coming up as an artist and I don't even know we can we don't have to live on this long but you'll be amazed dude so

I would go play I I I made my way by going to Georgia and playing Georgia College towns in the Southeast and even I played Alburn a little bit Alburn Alabama and that that school I ne I always wanted to break into Auburn and Tuscaloosa because I was always a Georgia artist well I started branching out well dude I'd get done with a college party I'd walk off stage the first thing that would happen is uh you know 369 damn she fine give it to me give it to me one more time get low get

low I mean and right when my set got done hip hop the the the the the vibe went to a nightclub and I'm standing I'm at the I've done walked off the stage went to the bar ordered the beer and watched everybody that just let me play Merl Haggard Johnny Cash all the classics my couple of new songs and I was like well man this is nobody's got a [ __ ] problem with this this is this is we're all together in this good time so when I did country girl Shak it for me that

made that tie crossover combined them it made it tie to a little bit and then Jason Aline had his um She's Country [ __ ] biggest song when I heard I mean at the time when Jason and I are buddies he does She's Country I do country grow check for me and he me and him are like we're like this [ __ ] our lives are I mean I tour with Jason one year and he broke all of Elvis's indoor records we did it for 2 years I was the opener and Jason was the headliner

and people and and rap was we were playing Rap before the show and and everybody was in well then broke country comes along dude I wake up on the bus one morning and I got this interview sitting there drinking my coffee and my [ __ ] underwear and this dude calls me with hits magazine and he goes well Luke you know man this bro country thing and I said well hold up buddy he here's what this is and I said and man I did this and I made one fatal error and at the time Joe

no one hated my ass I believe that I mean I didn't cuz I was coming to Billy Bobs playing and well well I had Texas I had the the the I had the I had a I'd go to I'd go to bosan Montana and play country girl shaker for me I'd go to everywhere well and I said man I don't know how to be an outlaw I'm not an outlaw I that ain't I'm a I'm a college dude that played frat parties country music I play I was like I [ __ ] didn't not go

sit in a prison Cale like Merl Haggard and write songs about guys going to death row and I didn't go to falson prison and man I I I listed all the I I was like I'm not like Willie Nelson I don't do Willie Nelson they they're Outlaws and I said if it's bro country and that's what I'm labeled as I said and where I [ __ ] up as I said I haven't woke I haven't spent the night like sleeping on the street and and I didn't say like Johnny Cash's song Sunday morning coming down

that's what I meant I just didn't tie it well that dude took that article and said Luke Bryan says Outlaw country people are B basically uh drug addicts sleep in the street and man I pissed that whole that the way they manipulated that story I lost that whole crowd right then Wow broke my heart and like I think whan jennings's daughter went real public with being I mean she's [ __ ] mad at my ass and dude she went on there going you know Luke my dad never laid and I never meant that I just

meant yeah whan was in there too but we all know what all those guys are because we got to watch all the documentaries about those guys and we got to be students of those guys well that's the problem with interviews is first of all they're trying to get you well your interviews the beauty well and you no one's no one's gotten Pop more than you because they'll take our man I hope we sit here and [ __ ] for 3 hours but they'll take your five minutes right out of context and now they'll AI you

that's happened a lot yeah so well the so what happened man that thing started growing and man I had motorcycle gangs wanting to burn my house down I had oh my when when you get misrepresented in that type of deal and then the the subcategories of Articles than the article of the article of the article what year was this man I I don't know we I don't it was probably 2012 or 13 so this was when social media was not as impactful it was becoming was YouTube even around then yes and clickbait the world of

clickbait was was getting just start getting rocking and but what so what I did is man I called whan Jennings daughter and and said I said ma'am I I just forgot to say like this like the Chris kristopherson song Sunday morning coming down that's all I meant by that and I think she accepted I called what I I text Willie he sent me the best reply he goes he goes it's okay to step on your dick just don't stand on it I called Jesse uh whan I called Jesse cter and she goes Luke what did

you mean in the interview and I told her and she goes whan stopped doing print interview and uh and it was and then but by then the the the narrative started and since then I can all I can always tell that if if that one little thing I probably would have kept that whole base and then the oh my God he wears tight jeans and he must you know he must homosexual on the side you know as I'm as I'm posing with my my my you know my All-American family I think it's probably a thing

also they think Hollywood has invaded country music which is always a big threat because there's so much money in country music that they think these Hollywood Executives that don't understand or appreciate real country are going to come in and make something inauthentic so then they hear you saying that get misrepresented and then they take it as a part of all that right Joe La so my album came out I I I I I put a I I worked on an album for 3 years it's called Mind of a country boy and I put it out

like 1 of October and I didn't want to put the damn album out because the reality is is I'm not at the height when you every artist hits their Peak every you know it I mean I sold out I was selling out football Stadium's first day three or four years I did it I know that's my Peak probably I know it is f I'm not going to even say properly I'm a realist well so we put the album out and I said you know what the albums no albums sell nothing sells anymore so I knew

there was going to be a negative take on the album I knew something negative would come by me putting the album out based on it may not sell and it it sold what it would it didn't do it did what I thought it'd do as me being the artist where I'm at in my life especially in this world of streaming right nothing's buying anymore nothing's buying well dude I did 20 40 I did 40 hours of 40 hours of uh you know all the stuff the what what's happened is because of online advertising being the

primary source of income for news they have to do clickbait [ __ ] they have to distort things and then they have editors that don't give a [ __ ] about anything other than the bottom line say you get a writer even if the writer is a good person I've had writers that I know have written about people that I know and they told me that their editor came in in and Chang things they're told me they told me their editor the editor's ass is about to get canned yeah exactly because they his company just

got bought by big conglomerate exactly that that's why artists should just stay away from that [ __ ] well and I you do and I knew it what sucks yeah is dude you know you you know it you know when you're getting baited yeah you can see it coming a mile away you have to film everything you do every conversation you have with someone you should film them all so that no one could take you out of cont and then if anything goes wrong so that guy's full of [ __ ] this is what I

said I maybe even make a video I did and those people should be shamed it's a ter it's a terrible evil ugly thing you do you crush people's perspective you change how the world looks at people just for clickbait and it could it could genuinely affect someone's life and career dud man listen you know the deal I mean I grew up in south Georgia and you know we've raised Dar dang kids like colorblind it's so awesome I'm so proud of their colorblindness isn't it funny that that is a negative thing to say today that people

don't like that idea did I just say something negative yeah there's a lot of people that don't think you should be colorblind they think you that that's a lie think that way that was what we were all working towards until about 2012 have you ever seen like the numbers I'm I'm going to send you this Jamie because this is what people need need to understand a lot of what we're all experiencing is manipulation and a lot of this manipulation might not even be from our own country a lot of this manipulation is what happens when

you have foreign entities that are manipulating people oh yeah that's it thank you look at that Jamie you're the best uh yearly mentions the Prejudice in popular US news media outlets now look at what happens look at this crazy Spike so you have every everything from 1970 until you have like 1990 see what's going on in 1990 between 8090 you have cable okay so now you have people that need more eyes on their [ __ ] so you have Fox News you have a lot of this you have people get a little bit more jazzed

up look at transphobia you never even heard what the [ __ ] that was until 2010 look look how it just jumps up in 2020 in 1990 didn't exist 19 80 didn't exist islamophobia same deal anti-Semitism scroll all the way up to the top though Jamie so look at racism racism is essentially fairly steady until around 2012 and then it goes on this wild ramp straight up the New York Times from 2010 to 2020 it goes up 72% Los Angeles Times 756 it just skyrockets all the mention of racism why because no one wants racism

no one wants to be racist everyone's scared of being called racist and all the race Hustlers love to call people racist so it becomes a commodity so people start CH trading in racism and this idea that you shouldn't be colorblind and then you should recognize race you should recognize color and stop we were on a we were on a good path to what Martin Luther King said judging people based on the content of their character we were on that path and social media and manipulation [ __ ] us and hopefully we realize what happened now

and I think there'll be a downward Trend and people sort of like wake up and uh I think that is that's one thing that is balancing out right now with the Internet is enough people are realizing they've been manipulated so it's starting to like calm down a lot of this woke [ __ ] starting to die off and it's people are coming to their senses like like everybody just woke up from a fever dream but as far as your situation and dealing with the media don't oh I know just don't you should you when you're

so dang you know the deal you you're naive you're a little bit naive cuz you're a nice guy but it's because you're a good person that's why you're naive you assume other people are good man what's amazing is when I met on American Idol that desk and I've been doing it for nine damn years and I have cried with everybody when those kids come in they are everybody walking through that door is a microcosm of America and man I've sat there and loved and loved and learned do you do you enjoy doing that like seeing

new Talent pop up nothing is more amazing than watching a broken kid with with with that's been told they're not good and they come from everywhere they it could be the man the the craziest thing is the is the is the kids that were raised in the homes of doctors that the doctor family can't wrap their head around my child wanting to go try this [ __ ] music thing what well you're we're doctors we're doctors and man when they Branch out and the family gets behind them and then they go and follow their dreams

and man it's really it doesn't get old I mean listen I mean it's a fun chair to be in it's a fun chair to be in because that door opens and it's a it's a life that comes in and you don't know what the hell you know we we have a note or two like you know just lost their father to cancer three months ago you know from a small town but other than that man we don't know what they're going to do and how they're going to react and it's pretty cool I mean you

know when and and and when I had just moved to Nashville when uh American Idol was just well I mean 40 million viewers a week and the the you know the the the tone in Nashville is that's the cheap route to get famous cuz I I I came up through you got to play a thousand nightclubs you got to go you got to go through you got to meet the record labels you got to do the radio you got to go meet everybody at radio so the whole town of Nashville was like well not totally

fair that they get to just pop on TV and and and S you know and and Skip all the but now I mean now all that's gone which is great well here's an example Oliver Anthony totally Oliver Anthony has one song He releases it's the most pull up that song because this [ __ ] song this dude releases it's just a camera and him with his guitar when I heard it I was like holy [ __ ] that's [ __ ] amazing and holy [ __ ] that guy better have some songs to come behind

yeah well he's a talented [ __ ] very very bright man and it's what life listen to that bull and back and drown away damn sh what the listen to that this dude was selling equipment he never even done on a concert first concert he does is like 18,000 people at a state fair and he's as genuine as you You' had him on here correct I had him on here and I actually gave him advice how did he do he did great because I I gave him advice before I met him cuz he was in

the middle of all this and he goes hey man he goes can I talk to you so we talked on the phone I'm like what's up he's like man I'm getting all these offers from all these people they want to buy this and buy that they want to give me $7 million if I do this and sign that I said stay independent I go you have talent everyone's saying I have to act now I go [ __ ] those people I go you don't have to act now that's famine thinking I go you're talented man

cuz I had heard a couple of his other songs as well he's [ __ ] talented and he's genuine and I go you can't fake that just stick stick stay independent man because they're not going to offer you anything those people are just going to they the reason why they want to give you a lot of money is because they're going to make way more than they're going to give you that's the only reason why they want to give you money they want a piece of you before you become one of the biggest stars in

the world and then they own a chunk of you forever because they gave you $7 million and you didn't have any money I go just Bank on yourself man yeah and guy you know the beauty of idol is is and and guys like this there's so many Avenues now you can go the oldfashioned route you can go the quick route you can go the idle route you can go stream on you know you can go video yourself on all your social platforms and the right song can blow you up but then and then you got

to go do the real work you got to do the weid other other bullets in your chamber that's what we tell the kids on Idol now I think when Idol was really really obviously when Kelly Clarkson and and Carrie Underwood won and and even people after that they went they still they went their ass to work too and it's an insane opportunity it's insane yeah and you know these kids on Idol now they love seeing their their social media platforms go up a th% and it's worth it and you know we you know and and

there's going to be bumps in the road and it's you know it's still you know it's still uh you know there there's going to be a you know a group of people saying you know American Idol May exploit these kids man I'm in the back I'm behind the scenes on everything and man we we want you know they want when we get a kid that we love man we sit around we go to dinner and we talk about that kid and love them and and the I think you know these kids um leave it going

man that was a great experience for them I hope so but you know I'm sure they do and it is an insane opportunity if you want to be a professional musician and you want to make a career out of it it's one of the most unbelievable moments you got to do your path yeah you got my path was my path and it was unique to mine and because yours is different that don't mean I need to hate you for it there's a lot of that [ __ ] with ComEd iians today too oh cuz a

comedian will have one clip where he's doing some crowd work or one clip of one bit that everybody loves then all a sudden he's selling out and everybody's like that guy he only had one good joke yeah he's only been around for three years but so what he let him run with it let him run with it you know it's it's uh we're living in a new world it's like the song it is a new world why wouldn't we all want someone else to win right what is wrong what's wrong with people winning it's like

you have figured out how to feed yourself with a guitar yeah you figured out how to tell jokes yeah and make a living and and you know all like man like I said dude I won't even post my damn deer I killed cuz I don't want to I don't want to get online and be there with a glass of wine at 3:00 a.m. and start [ __ ] like dude I I want to K I want to kill them and I I you and like I said you get over it you get over it but

man it pisses you off I I don't read anything I I tell everybody don't read anything don't read anything about you just don't don't read the good stuff don't read the bad stuff I do good with it and I mean hell I mean I'm sitting a 48y old man my shit's in the bank but it's still makes you mad it still makes you mad it doesn't matter even if you're undeniable it doesn't matter it's a human it's a human instinct to read negative things get upset because humans always had to worry about threats and if

the threats were other tribes or Predators or whatever you attack that threat so we're always we're mentally conditioned to look for threat fight or fight or flight or something well it's also it's like if you have a hundred people who love you but one that hates you that one is the one you're going to think about you're not going to think all the people that take they say you're awesome you're going to think about that one that hates you and then you have to think about the kind of people that post comments most of the

people that post comments are miserable people not the positive comments but the negative comments I started a thing you know and I know you got people in your world where man you know there's [ __ ] and you'll huddle up and you'll spend an hour talking about how you can't believe how big a [ __ ] that person is yeah and I'm like guys we're 15 minutes in on talking about this person being an [ __ ] we wasted 15 minutes life weed 15 minutes on all trying to figure out why can't they stop being

an [ __ ] you basically wasted one 100th of your day on somebody on somebody that sucks you only get a hundred of those 15 minutes in a day you wasted one talking about a [ __ ] it's a mess but it's a normal thing that people do you just got to not do it you got to realize I've got conscious where when I see when I see other bud he's doing it I'm like oh whoa whoa whoa get out of there yeah man I recognized it when I was on television before social media there

was a thing called um the there was these Hollywood magazines like variety and The Hollywood Reporter and I would always call them the devil's rag because I would get to the set of the TV show and everybody was reading the devil's rag they were like oh I can't believe they're number two we should be number we should be right after friends oh and everybody was upset and I was like you guys are I'm on TV I don't know what the [ __ ] is wrong with you people I'm on television I can't believe I'm on

TV I you guys are upset that we're number 30 instead of number two or whatever the [ __ ] it is can't we just appreciate the fact that this is back when there was only like five networks can we appreciate the fact that we're one of the luckiest human beings that have ever lived we're on a [ __ ] television show and yet you're reading these magazines and it's like is it Thomas Jefferson who wrote that quote comparison is a thief of joy but whoever it was that was it Jefferson I know we know who

it we've read it before but that quote is so accurate comparison it's that's why billionaires I I know a dude is worth like a billion and a half dollars and he thinks he's broke because he's friends with like Jeff Bezos I do not get into that you cannot get into that world they're you can't win you can't win cuz you're in a crazy [ __ ] numbers race and it doesn't mean anything you're not even enjoying what you have so my wife for her 40th birthday man I surprised her and I rented her um never

done anything we went rented like a 12 foot boat and took all our College friends down to St Bart's for new years have you ever heard of this scene no dude is it crazy Joe so first of all I mean this boat that we got is of 12 foot Westport beautiful we get to St B I didn't know what the [ __ ] we were doing oh you're in the Yacht World okay so you're entering into these worlds of 200 foot boats 250 foot boats the oligarchs yeah okay yeah I've seen that before and it's

in St Barts and they all they all float there for talking about new year uhhuh and it's all dick measuring contests dude and my captain of that little boat which that boat looked like our boat that we were on looked like their shuttle boats right and I my captain I said did you ever pilot one of those he goes oh yeah he goes I said what what the what were they doing on there he goes looking at the other boats wondering I said that dude is on a [ __ ] billion doll yacht and pissed

at the other billion dollar yacht yeah that's real they're all in competition with each other and they're all hating you know and and I'm entering in yeah you just got to get your little world like my little world now my little Tennessee hunting world I tell people all the time they're like come on down to my Ranch I'm like man I got I got my little deal yeah it's enough stay sane keep it tight what are they doing on that Bat C isn't that nuts imagine being on a 250 foot yacht looking at the dude

on the 300 foot yacht going God damn it I got to upgrade I was talking to a dude who Pilots yachts and he was telling me that they they always want to sell them they always want to sell them and get another one all these Yachts are always almost for sale I go how come he goes cuz they always want another yacht they always want a bigger yacht it's a trap it's a giant trap imagine having all that money you're not even appreciating it because you're worried about making more remember when we were kids if

you said like what would you do if you had a million dollars man i' never work again I'd [ __ ] just well you know I I remember dreaming do did you lay in bed and just be like I remember dreaming about trying to do it and how how I was going to go are you going to get rich how am I going to get I wouldn't say Rich how am I going to be able to have my own little my own bass Pond right cuz I would have to call other people and get permission

right and that dude the anxiety of calling old farmer right going hey you know farmer Johnson can I go fish Your Bass Lake I don't know Luke not today I'd be like [ __ ] and so I I remember doing that and then when you start achieving it man I I still I mean I don't I don't think it's I don't think I'm living in that world of like the other digging you know I think you can for a minute yeah I think it can I think you can for a little bit like but it's

a trap it is a trap and the problem is it's all numbers it's like you know how dudes are crazy with deer like I want a 200 in Deer 200 iner I want a 400 in Elk they get crazy with numbers you I talk this dude who worked on a ranch and they have big elk on this Ranch and he said sometimes the Cs are really happy with an elk and then they'll put a tape to it measure it and it's 396 and they get bummed out cuz it's not 400 I'm like those people are

sick you should never have them here again you should Bo ban them they should never be allowed to be here again that's a sickness but that's what happens with these people with everything man I never had a dream of being wealthy it was never a dream it was never even an never even in my imagination did I ever think I was going to be rich I never even thought about it I when I started doing standup comedy my dream was to be a professional because I always had jobs my dream was to be able to

pay my bills with comedy I looked at all the D that was yeah that was now my dream yeah let me make sure I didn't steer you wrong on that my my dream was to to do these things out of being driven like WR I mean when I moved to Nashville I wrote on a chalkboard write a number one song You Know win a win a CMA award you know oh you had like a vision board I had a little vision board nice but I I didn't understand I didn't really comprehend the money after that

cuz I didn't know it and I didn't know like like people are like I'm a big Georgia Bulldog fan and they're like did you go to Georgia and I'm like buddy me going to the University of Georgia when I was 18 years old I mean I I barely my dad barely got the money for me to go to the Community College 12 minutes down the road so going to Georgia didn't wasn't even I didn't even put it in there right so go ahead but I just saying that when I see people that that's all they

care about is the money and then they're always thinking about the richness and the I just think it's a trap and it the problem is if you're always comparing yourself to other people you're not going to enjoy what you have you're not enjoy this experience temporary experience of life right you know cuz it is temporary it's so quick I'm 57 years old how the [ __ ] did that happen all of a sudden you just keep getting older and then you know one day you're dead and I bet on your deathbed you're like how did

it happen so quick how did it happen so quick what are you doing with your time and are you enjoying it and I think you need things outside of what you do that you love and like for you and I I think it's hunting and outoors cuz I think it balances you I think there's something very spiritual about it I think there's something just being in the woods is it's a very spiritual experience like a real spiritual experience like there I think it's like a vitamin that you don't know you need until you get it

and when you get it you feel better when I'm out there I feel better I just feel better like the air is cleaner I feel more in touch with being alive it just feels better and I think I'm not thinking about anything else when I'm if I'm elk hunting I'm not thinking about jokes and I'm not thinking about podcast guest I'm not thinking about Jack [ __ ] I'm just thinking about what I'm doing that's it it's and it's it's very difficult to do and it's it's you have to really focus and you're thinking about

it you're always trying to improve and this that alone is good for your brain it's good for your life you I I lost you know I lost my brother and my sister and my sister's husband passed away and man when and then yeah sh I lost my brother at 26 my sister at 39 and her husband died at 45 and man it is present the the daily appreciation of this deal is visually present isn't that crazy about people though it's like you almost need to lose something to be able to appreciate what you have well

and I tell people man you know you you meet I tell people man really be careful because if if you make it to 80 you're going to get you're going to get popped with something I don't think you can get through this thing like some kind of a disease or something no no I don't well I'm saying you're going to lose something you're going to lose something dear you're not going to get through A to Z without really a hard a hard loss no that's it's just a part of life and but some people man

they're just delusional just well they're delusional and then a lot of people are medicated too so they don't even know what the [ __ ] is going on while they're living this life they're living this life under the influence of the pharmaceutical drug companies and they're just floating through life in a haze and they don't even know what's happening while it's happening and then they get to the end and then what' you do what' you do did you help people did you make people feel better did you inspire people did you en rich people's lives

what' you do you know and then then you have to realize like God damn it was a lot of time reading comments thank you thank you for doing that was a lot of time getting mad at I I don't do it bad though that's what's funny I don't do it bad everybody says that everybody says they don't look at their phone you let me see your screen time like 6 hours Jesus [ __ ] what the [ __ ] are you doing oh Lord yeah man I mean well we're all this is a new world

too in terms of that I keep saying this is a new world but this really is a new element to to Our Lives is this uh social media element and I think um there's not a lot of stuff that's written on it where people understand we're learning learning yeah we're the we're the Lab Rats we really are especially our kids our kids really are the Lab Rats that we the kids really are and not just that also access to violence they see so much violence they see so much online that's horrible think about I think

about this all the time I would go stay with a buddy at his house and he go man I rented Faces of Death remember those I wouldn't watch them I'd be like man my parents told me not to watch that he go what you don't want to watch this guy get electrocuted and I'm like [ __ ] no I don't want to watch a dude get electrocuted dude we're watching people we're watching people there it's yeah if you're on Instagram you're seeing people dying every every day every day I have friends send me breaking oh

yeah I mean I remember Joe fasman when Joe thasan broke his leg dude it like shut the country down yeah I know now that's nothing and now it's like that's nothing I watched a dude on a diving board and his foot fell in a crack in the D diving board had an opening in it and he went forward and his knee stayed in the same place and just snapped his leg the wrong way and he's screaming hanging from a broken leg that's just one thing I saw today I thought you don't do that I I

watch things on Instagram I just don't read comments but uh me and Tom sigura we send each other the most horrible [ __ ] every day it's ridiculous but some days he sends me things I don't even look at him I'm like not oh I can see it coming but I do love I do love the funny comical aspect of it that gets me in a cup of coffee dying laughing at some person being a goofball or memes oh some memes mes they got us yeah memes are some of the best comedy out there and

it's just random people create these funny things there's a lot of funny people out there what's amazing is we've gotten to where we can see the meme happen and predict the meme and the mem on your phone y the next day and you're like within hours they're so quick and memes are weird because a lot of times you don't even know who made it you're sharing it somebody sends it to you you send it to other people like who got who made the who's the wizard that figured this out it's a [ __ ] hilarious

St [ __ ] meme Factory well it's like jokes you remember jokes like you know two guys walking into a bar those jokes who [ __ ] wrote those we don't know but some of them were bangers they spread they just Spread spread across the whole country but somebody had to be the guy that sat down and tells the story two guys walking to a bar and then you know you know it's everywhere um well I mean there's a million places we can go but it's you know you look at yeah I mean the damn

children my kids I mean we're yelling at them every day get up get off the phone yeah get outside and they do a good job it man I I think it's just it's a part of it's part of their deal they're being influenced by things far beyond our control way different than anything that any other generation has ever experienced before like my son um he's a 16-year-old quarterback and man he watches all these other quarterbacks on on you know hell there are 14 recruiting uh download sites from that that and my son's like that dude

right there is the greatest quarterback in the country I said well how old is he Bo he's 15 Dad I'm like Bo we don't know what that look shit's going to be what are you talking about he goes well Dad he's a festar and he's 15 I'm like Bo your dad when I moved to Nashville I was a OnStar country singer if i' had a rating next to me and probability of me making it yeah I wouldn't it would have been a one star I worked myself into a hopefully a three star three star recruit

and he's looking me like like I'm crazy and so one of those kids he play he played them now my son's not starting he's backup quarterback to a great quarterback and we played him and we beat him we get down he gets home after the game I said what' you think about your uh your little savior there he goes he's still the greatest quarterback of all time I said Bo he lost the [ __ ] game he's 15 just son let it let let's let life happen before we anoint yeah you just be inspired be

inspired by other success but don't take it too seriously and also recognize that kid might start getting laid and throw it all away exactly he he don't know what's going to yeah yeah you're 15 you don't know what the [ __ ] coming your way yeah you don't know what yeah yeah you running some Russian chick in your English class yeah some new Russian exchange student that that needs a it needs an English tutor yeah then all of a sudden you don't have any sperm left in your body you're dehydrated all day long yeah you're

yeah you're getting electrolytes on the sideline and you're not doing any offseason running or lifting you're busy also people just they lose the focus you know and sometimes they get pushed too hard by their parents there's a little bit of that too the kids Rebel they don't want to do it anymore anything can happen but that's what's fascinating about life is that it's all open your daughters are or uh how old now 28 16 and 14 yeah the 16 and 14 man the 16 and 14 are going through a totally different experience the ti the

Tik Tok all girls the Tik to girls are girls are way I mean I just they're way more influenced negative way my heart aches for for girls in this uh in this well there's a there's some alarming statistics about the growth of social media from like 2009 where you see girls uh with self harm all sorts of psychological conditions online bullying because girls are [ __ ] vicious to each other online boys will run into each other and punch each other in the face but girls will attack each other's character and they'll they're reputation destroyers

and they love to like make up stories about girls and be mean about girls and talk [ __ ] about the way girls look and the way girls dress and the guys girls are dating and they do it to each other and it's just it's unfortunate but it's that's what gossip used to be gossip used to just be talking though it's like a normal where girls get around and talk but now they talk online and when they talk online then other people reading like and you're ruining people's lives and you're ruining little girls lives and

suicide is off the charts and self harm is off the charts and mostly young girls are getting affected by when you have when when I have my 14-year-old go Dad I'm anxious about this I'm like I didn't know the word anxious right I didn't know the word anxious until I was 35 years years old right right right it wasn't thought when we were kids in high school it wasn't processed as anxiety it was processed as like life yeah I'm get nervous yeah yeah I got a big test my stomach hurts I got to go take

a [ __ ] right right right yeah right now it's the thing they think about all the time and the problem with that is uh Abigail shrier wrote a book about this you focus on your problems your problems often times become bigger when you think about things like anxiety guess what makes you more anxious it doesn't help it it it actually has the opposite effect yeah it's a weird world but they're going to be okay we're all going to be okay we're just going to have to adjust and figured out on the Fly it's just

this this adjustment is bigger than any adjustment that any generation's ever had to make before but it's also like look at things like Oliver Anthony good comes out of it too yeah you know jelly roll Jelly Roll Jesus love that dude best thing ever he's one of my favorite human beings ever best thing he's such a [ __ ] sweetheart best thing ever when that guy sang that song saved me and everybody was like what is going on this this [ __ ] excon with tattoos on his face with a voice like an angel best

thing ever incredible but that's this is all possible today too so you got good and you got bad it's just you got to navigate the waters you got to know where the rocks are steer that boat young sailor you know and you what amazes me is is man what breaks my heart is when people people think they're all alone in their thing that's hanging up their life right when you meet somebody and it's all scaled way differently like when you meet you know uh you know I I've had people you know you know when you

when you grow up in a country music band and you're on the bus for hours with buddies and everybody go they got their own life and man I you find out I had one b member almost kill himself over something that if he' to just had somebody say man I have that too right right and he would have not felt alone right and and people have got to quit like thinking that they're the only ones that have gone through some [ __ ] gone through this thing yeah well that's why you need people that you

love yeah that's why you need friends see my household my household was a man we sat at the dinner table and dude it it it came out that's good and then but my wife's household was man they you know bottled it up they bottled it up and it all worked and we don't know who came out better but but me and my wife you know we we work on like you know we work on like I mean like my wife never saw her mama like in the shower like just showering you know like walk through

the house naked I mean hell we had one bathroom it was like we're a bunch of damn naked idiots running around trying to get to the bathroom and my my wife's like yeah my mama did not uh shower with the door open and I'm like or and I'm like really she's like I'm like you're kidding me never once I'm like just that's kind of crazy everybody's well when you have daughters is a certain amount of time where you can't be naked in front of them anymore once they hit like four or 5 years old okay

that's a rrap dude my my 16 year- old so my beard we're we're living in our guest house right now cuz we're doing some some work to our main house you know we're our main house had stuff that just kept happening and we were like we're moving out and when we move back in have it all fixed so we got three we got a 22y old a 16y old living in the same house when my wife stored all of my all of my bathroom stuff it's in a it's in a box somewhere on my shaving

gear I run into my son's bathro my 16-year-old and I grabbed his beard trimmer I grabbed a I grabbed his [ __ ] trimmer sitting there and I shave my beard and I'm all up under my nose and you smell ball hair no I get my truck and I'm driving on the road my son gets home from school crying laughing what Dad you shaved your beer with my ball trimmers and I was was like you little [ __ ] I'm first of all I'm like what in the hell 16-year-old manscaping what the [ __ ]

going [Laughter] on it's a new world I know I'm like dude I never imagine you had I don't think he's you know whatever these damn it's so fun man these kids my dad my my God it's so amazing dude we you know we were elk hunting man and uh my 14-year-old we we got this really cool when we go elk hunt we got a way AC cross a river to get to our elk spot and the first couple years man we didn't uh we just stripped down to our underwear and and hung our boots and

all our gear and walked underwear and dude it was kind of like a we're really men you know right and so Tate and bow bow the first time I would put him on my shoulders and walk them well then after two years we were like dude let's go by and get like eight pairs of waiters and set them on the bank and we'll leave the waiters and everybody's like that's damn good idea I'm like yeah I mean how many years it take y'all to understand go get some damn waiters so Tate for the P the

last three years I've I've toted him across the river and um man I I looked at him the last day of the hunt and this was Tate Tate's year to uh try to get an elk and he actually dad I kind of messed up the elk hunt I moved and spooked the elk which was great because he realized that just cuz you're Luke Bryan's son you don't get the damn elk but uh and um I said hey um I said uh I want to toou you across the river I said you're growing and this probably

be the last year so I tow him across the river and then on the way back he goes hey Dad I want to wait it by myself and man he uh he W you don't realize how much your kids really are watching you but we're sitting on the bank and he's watching me and I set my bow down and he takes his bow and sits it down and he watches everything I do and it was the cutest thing ever I haven't even told my wife so every year I take my boots and I time in

a knot and I and I hang them and throw them over my cuz we're tote and gear and I throw my boots over my shoulders so they're not they don't get wet and the man I looked at him and he he's sitting there tying his little string he stands up and throws in Boots and he just man watching your kids just absorb it is just uh you know it's pretty damn special sounds like you're having a beautiful life my friend well it's uh it really does kids make it it really does it really does Luke

thank you very much man this is a lot of fun I hope we how long was that more than three hours was it yeah yeah holy [ __ ] yeah it's 4:30 three hours there it is Mind of a country boy listen or download now look at you you handsome bastard well [ __ ] tight jeans at you tight jeans everybody hates me they don't hate you man just don't read the ones that do oh [ __ ] appreciate you brother thank you very much love you too love you too bye everybody [Applause] [Music] [Applause]

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