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E509 Luke Combs

Luke Combs is an award-winning Country musician and songwriter. His new album “Fathers and Sons” comes out this Friday 6/14. Luke Combs joins Theo to chat about roughing it in the early days of his career, bug-infested motel rooms, how things have changed as the crowds have gotten bigger, why it’s important to him to make concerts better for the fans, the unexpected success of his "Fast Car" cover, how fatherhood inspired his new album, and much more. Luke Combs: https://www.instagram.com/lukecombs/ Luke Combs - “Fathers and Sons” out 6/14: https://bit.ly/4eiiTZf ------------------------------------------------ Tour Dates! https://theovon.com/tour New Merch: https://www.theovonstore.com ------------------------------------------------- Sponsored By: Celsius: Go to the Celsius Amazon store to check out all of their flavors. #CELSIUSBrandPartner #CELSIUSLiveFit https://amzn.to/3HbAtPJ Liquid IV: Go to http://liquidiv.com and use code THEO to get 20% off your first order. Shopify: Go to http://shopify.com/theo to sign up for a $1-per-month free trial. ExpressVPN: Go to http://expressvpn.com/theo to get 3 extra months free with a 12-month plan. Füm: Go to http://tryfum.com and use code THEO to get a free gift with your Journey Pack. ------------------------------------------------- Music: “Shine” by Bishop Gunn https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F3A_coTcUek ------------------------------------------------ Submit your funny videos, TikToks, questions and topics you'd like to hear on the podcast to: tpwproducer@gmail.com Hit the Hotline: 985-664-9503 Video Hotline for Theo Upload here: https://www.theovon.com/fan-upload Send mail to: This Past Weekend 1906 Glen Echo Rd PO Box #159359 Nashville, TN 37215 ------------------------------------------------ Find Theo: Website: https://theovon.com Instagram: https://instagram.com/theovon Facebook: https://facebook.com/theovon Facebook Group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/thispastweekend Twitter: https://twitter.com/theovon YouTube: https://youtube.com/theovon Clips Channel: https://www.youtube.com/c/TheoVonClips Shorts Channel: https://bit.ly/3ClUj8z ------------------------------------------------ Producer: Zach https://www.instagram.com/zachdpowers Producer: Ben https://www.instagram.com/benbeckermusic/ Producer: Nick https://www.instagram.com/realnickdavis/ Producer: Colin https://instagram.com/colin_reiner Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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	Today's guest is an award-winning country musician and songwriter.
	He's out of North Carolina and has gone on to become one of the biggest names in entertainment.
	He has a new album, Fathers and Sons, which is coming out just before Father's Day.
	And I'm thankful to sit with him today, my new friend, Mr. Luke Cone.
	Shine that light on me I'll sit and tell you my stories Shine that light on me Shine on me.
	And when you find a storm, that's galvanized, isn't it?
	It is.
	Yeah, you can just, you can really hear the nails go across it.
	That's how you know it's got rivets inside of it, you know, to make it sound like that.
	That's like redneck ASMR.
	You know, there's just some dude who woke up in his trailer and he's just trying to quietly eat the leftovers without his wife hearing him.
	Hold on, there is a guy, dude, and don't ask me how this comes across my feed.
	But it's like day 600 of me spraying dog medicine on my hands till I can strike a match off my knuckles.
	And I'm like, why do I care so much about this guy striking a match off his knuckles?
	But dude, and at the end of every video, dude, it's him.
	And at the beginning, he'll go, now there's a sensory nightmare at the end of this video.
	And it's him going, and it's like his sandpaper ass hands like going in the mic, dude.
	Dude, it's worth it.
	Here it is, dude.
	We've got it up.
	Here it is, dude.
	We got one, huh?
	Dog medicine on my hands in order to make the skin.
	Here it is.
	Don't forget to like, share.
	Wow, he's good at it.
	I went to the doctor today and asked him about Tuck Foot.
	Dude, he's sand in the wood with his hands.
	Oh, wow.
	My guy is for real.
	He's real.
	He's an instrument of the Lord, brother.
	Here's my question is, what's the end thing?
	Like, what happens at the end?
	Like, halfway is there a two.
	Here it is, dude.
	Dog medicine.
	Oh, wow.
	Now, what is the dog medicine?
	What do you think the real function of that medicine is?
	Here it is.
	Can we get some audio on this guy's hands?
	Jack us in, brother.
	Jack us into some of this guy's hands.
	Oh, wow.
	So this is a gentleman you can't see him at home, guys.
	This is sort of a Rubinesque gentleman who is making his hands rougher.
	And then.
	The sound is handed.
	It really is, dude.
	And then he just rubs them together, dude.
	Yeah.
	Dude, he will probably be the president in three terms.
	Here he is.
	He's trying to strike a match, dude.
	And here he is striking a match on his knuckle.
	Now he can strike a match on his feet, which is which is feet in and of itself.
	Yeah.
	It's wild.
	God.
	We had a guy one that came to his show and he's like, hey, man, me and my cousin are, we love you.
	And look at him.
	And he goes, he's missing 70% of his skull, right?
	And the dude had a cool thing, though, where if he like put his finger in his mouth and went, then the other part of his head would kind of show up.
	Dude, that happened.
	Yeah, dude.
	Oh, my Dykeville, Kentucky.
	That is wild, dude.
	You don't need all your skull to party over there.
	It's wild, dude.
	Dude, people are fascinating, dude.
	Oh, we had a guy.
	We used to have a really great, I want to say homeless guy, but a guy who had who was just kind of hadn't been home probably in a decent amount of time.
	Unhoused.
	Yeah, I would say on House or- Yeah.
	Yeah.
	And he could, yeah.
	And he, but when he smiled, he had a couple of his teeth in his hand.
	I guess they'd fallen out or something.
	And when he'd smile, he would still make the shape and he would show you the teeth.
	You know what I'm saying?
	Like, I was like.
	So he just had them.
	He just keeps, that was kind of his party trick.
	Yeah.
	His helped me out.
	Like, does he, do you think he's like, need money for veneers?
	Ooh, I don't know.
	Now that's the thing.
	Here's the teeth that I need.
	Yeah.
	Just reproof.
	Just reproof.
	I'm actually missing these teeth.
	Just check my work here.
	Yeah, people are just interested.
	I mean, dude, even like the places you'll stay, like I stayed at a place the other night, like sometimes we'll stay at some pretty nice spots and sometimes, you know, it's just a like an outdoor.
	When the doors are on the outside, you know that you've arrived at a certain level of establishment.
	Yeah, that's true.
	And there's nowhere to go but down from that.
	That's the top level of that.
	Yes.
	When there's doors inside.
	And then as the doors get more and more open.
	Yeah.
	I went to, we checked in one.
	It's, God, this had to be six years ago.
	And we just like, you know, we played a show somewhere, Columbia, South Carolina.
	And then we had a show in the Outer Banks the next day.
	And this is like van and trailer, no manager.
	It's just me and the band.
	Like I'm trying to check into the rooms and stuff.
	So we drove from Columbia.
	We're supposed to play a tailgate at Clemson the next morning.
	So we're trying to like get that in, make an extra like $800, me and my guitar player, and then get in the van.
	They go play our show.
	So we drive from Columbia to Clemson.
	It's a couple of hours.
	You know, the show is over at like 11 or 12. Yeah.
	So then we get to the damn hotel.
	It's, you know, two in the morning.
	Check in all the rooms.
	I get all the bangas in the rooms and I, it's one of these doors on the outside.
	And I go to my door.
	Door's open, dude.
	It's already open.
	It's already cracked a little bit.
	This door is already talking.
	And the lights are on in the room.
	And I'm like, man, this is probably good.
	So pop in that room, dude.
	And there must have, it looked like the cicadas came out of the room.
	Really?
	It wasn't cicadas.
	It was every bug known to me.
	Oh, yeah.
	Because the doors are on the outside.
	It's been open since checkout, which is at least 12 hours, dude, with all the lights in the room on.
	Go to the desk and I'm like, hey, I'm an easy guy.
	I hate to complain.
	But I can't sleep in a room full of bugs.
	And they were like, ooh, we don't have any other rooms.
	That was the last.
	That's the last thing.
	But there's nobody in the parking lot.
	No, there's nobody there.
	Well, it's more of a extended type.
	Oh, I see what you're saying.
	Stay, I would imagine.
	Yeah, if they have a blender in there, that's extended stay.
	When there's anything to cook with, you've reached another level.
	Yeah, another level of hotel.
	Yeah, some hotels, there's well, one time I remember I called down at the front desk.
	I was like, hey, do you guys have internet?
	And the guy's like, let me check.
	And I'm like, let me see.
	Hold on.
	I haven't heard of that.
	I'll get back to you.
	But then I hear him.
	He's actually clicking it up on the computer.
	He goes to Google.
	Do we have internet?
	Google search.
	It just, dude, one time we stopped in Lexington and I went in to check in and it was kind of during the pandemic.
	So people were kind of on their wit's end here and there.
	Sure, sure.
	And you'd see people wearing neck braces for no reason, all type of stuff.
	You didn't know what was going on.
	Yeah, assorted medical device.
	Yeah.
	Yeah.
	It was very assorted medical.
	And this dude, I go in there and it took him forever, bro, to just find out there's a room.
	And I was like, is there anything I can do to expedite this?
	And he's like, I'm sorry, sir.
	And then he goes, you know, I used to be in a wheelchair.
	And I was like, well, he used to.
	He used to be.
	Well, that's a thing.
	He's not currently in it.
	No, and it wasn't like I was just out of a wheelchair, like work with me here.
	You know, it was just like throwing something from the past.
	I think, yeah.
	I had a broken arm at one time.
	Yeah.
	It's not currently broken, but it was.
	Yeah.
	Excuse me.
	Did he give you any kind of so he's making an excuse for just you trying to hurry him up?
	There's no reason to hurry things here.
	He's like, hey, man, give me a fucking break.
	Yeah, I used to.
	I used to be in a wheelchair.
	I used to be in a wheelchair.
	I was like, I used to be in the fifth grade.
	We can't just really.
	It doesn't really matter that you used to be.
	Yeah.
	And keep the chair.
	If you still are in a wheelchair, if I notice to see somebody in wheelchair, I'm going to be like, what can I, you know, I'm going to work with you here.
	I'll even, you know, I'll even take a ride with you or whatever.
	But like, if there's somebody who's like, yeah, I used to be or, you know, but anyway, nice to see you, man.
	Yeah.
	We fired right into the dog medicine hands, guys, fast, dude.
	Dude, yeah.
	That's some of that, though, stay in different places.
	I mean, it's.
	It gets easier to, it's easier to rough it when you're younger.
	Dude, for sure.
	Well, once you haven't not roughed it.
	Right.
	Like when that's, when roughing it is the only experience, which was, that's what it was forever, dude.
	I mean, in the van, you know, the 15-passenger van, it's like.
	Oh, you had that long ball, huh?
	The long.
	Yeah, man.
	But when we had back rows out and it's all the gear.
	Oh, yeah.
	So it's less than 15 seats.
	Yeah.
	But there's like six guys in there, all these amps, guitars, like it was a mess, dude.
	It was truly a mess.
	Yeah.
	I feel bad for some people now, though.
	Like I think of like, let's say you're a new artist and you, let's say you have a song that blows up on the internet or whatever, and then you're just thrust into like this really like official version of yourself.
	Even if you're maybe not like ready for that.
	Oh, I see what you're saying.
	Even if you just have one or two songs, like you can have something blow up so hard online and that you have to get a label and all this stuff.
	And you, it's not that that's sick, dude.
	I'm glad that people have the capability to like to achieve that for themselves now because that was something that wasn't really achievable up until like maybe seven or eight years ago, I think.
	But you miss so much of like all those good memories from like the road and like when it sucked and like playing bars and nobody's there and all my like favorite stories, man, from like my music career, a lot of them are from that time.
	Yeah.
	Like from the like unofficial days.
	You know what I mean?
	Like there's no like the like an unofficial biography, dude.
	You know what I mean?
	It's like it's those are the days, but I feel like people are missing that a little bit.
	Yeah.
	Like if you just go right on the tour bus, dude, like there's no, there's no strife.
	Like that's all you know.
	It's a good point.
	It's kind of like catch one hit or one like melody that really like catches fire on social media and then you can be opening up for someone.
	For sure.
	And then you go, that's your first experience being on the road is I'm in a bus and I play in arenas, which, dude, that would be super amazing, but still it could set you up for some what happens when you start way up here and not that that's all the way at the top, but if you kick past people that have been doing it for 10 years and then all of a sudden you're because like in country, there's a lot of these like guitar pools and stuff where you like, like let's say there's three or four of us up here.
	We're all new artists.
	We're all playing for this radio station thing or whatever.
	It's like, let's say one of those guys makes it to the thing.
	Right.
	Well, let me, so let me just paint an example of what could happen.
	You're a new guy or gal and you have a song that blows up and that's sick, dude.
	I'm pumped for anybody that that happens to.
	But all of a sudden you're at the same level of, let's say, in the vacuum of this story, the new artist that you're up there with is Chris Tapleton.
	Right.
	And then you're sitting up there.
	You've maybe have never met anybody you're playing with.
	And they're like, all right, man, this Chris guy's going to go first.
	And then you'll play a song after him, dude.
	And he fires into just the most singing-ass guitar playing-ass thing you've ever heard.
	That guy's played a thousand shows, dude.
	And you're up there going, I got to play after this.
	And I have to do it five more times in front of all these people.
	And he's going to just blow the doors off.
	It's like you've entered your Honda Civic that won a race in your neighborhood against the guy driving a NASCAR.
	It's like, it's so hard to compete against that.
	Yeah, dude.
	Oh, no doubt.
	And your song has a dance that goes with it.
	And it's acoustic.
	So the version where the dance is cool is not even the one you get to play at this thing.
	Because it's just you and like some guy that plays guitar you met at a coffee shop, you know?
	But do you think, though, it could be a sign of like the way that things will be?
	I remember when like, because there started, I remember when vloggers came out right yep and there were people vlogging i don't even know what was going on and people and there was like people were trashing it yeah people people would trash it for sure but you would but those guys would sell out the the vloggers would sell out comedy clubs like around the country like people would come and they would do something do kind of q a with their fans and um and so that kind of came out of nowhere and then i just wonder like if the future is more instant
	right like instant success right and no judgment of it no i mean it's just the sign of the times i think just from you know maybe in 30 years or whatever that's just like you're saying that's the only way it happens right that's what i'm wondering i wonder if things just evolve where that's the only way but eventually like that thing will be monopolized by somebody like somebody will figure that out that's not it's probably already happening in some ways either i don't know who the powers that be whatever you want to call it will figure out some way to
	make this thing okay here's the formula for how you do this right and how you break this thing it's probably already happening a lot to be honest and here's how we do we got a new guy he looks really cool so here's this cool song and then go sing this cool song and that's cool yeah and then they're like great and that guy's already signed this deal yeah but everybody thinks you know what's the thing that people the conspiracy theories go oh that guy's an industry plant oh yeah that's like that's not a real thing i don't think dude like i don't think that's
	a thing especially in like if you're like gonna look at like real country culture like an industry plant dude people would notice anybody that can uh button their shirt up correctly first yeah they'd be like this guy's gonna be something dude oh yeah yeah dude in our neighborhood yeah if somebody had uh gasoline people like look at this nark they're like look at this guy with his car over here dude like oh you're working for the cops that was the biggest thing when i was growing up was always accusing people of being narcs dude
	somebody would get a new pair of shoes and he'd be like yeah ronnie's a narc look at him he's working with the man dude he's obviously an informant dude this guy but oh man it's definitely gonna be but then it's like where does it i always wonder where does it progress from there like where do you like when that's the new thing what's the next new thing there'll always be another like version of like what's the way to your path to like right achieving your music dreams or
	or your comedy dreams or whatever it may be like the path is ever evolving yeah like i think really the first the first guy that in country music that used social media to his advantage was like kane brown and like probably me yeah like the first guys that like came to nashville we had kind of our own fans going on like the internet helped us get fans and then we came to town it was like well these guys already got stuff going on so and i i'm in no way like
	shaming anybody that does that because i was the first yeah one of the first guys that like and i didn't even know i was doing it dude like i wasn't now people are probably smart enough to like they're doing that because they're smart i was just doing it because i was like oh well this will kind of like i was not you know what i'm gonna do is get all these followers and sell them the my songs like there was never that well you started on vine right you started was that the social media platform yeah and and that's the thing too it's like yeah you don't know where the next social media platform is gonna come right this is a crazy
	thing and there's a lot of artists out there like man maybe i i don't find my way with this social media platform right but there could be one about to be invented that's gonna be the one that's the next there's always something because what does it start with it starts with myspace right myspace facebook instagram dude remember they also had like friends there they had some other weird things that no tick tock wasn't it musically musically it was before only where people would like lip sync to songs that was the only
	thing yeah and i remember seeing it and i was like man this is a weird platform and they rebranded and it was the hugest thing ever oh wait was that where people would do duets together yeah no way that was tick tock that was the original no version of tick tock was that thing i had like a secret account there like a fenced account or whatever and i would go and do these duets with these japanese people it's a lot of um asian singers on there and they would do there was always duets you could do at any time of the day with people from around the world yep
	yep i mean that's invaluable yeah music musical.ly musically oh that's a horrible name so they merged so they merged so tick tock was another i guess its own company yeah they kept the name when you have a b flat or whatever that is in your word of your name dude that's i'm out yeah yeah not great marketing there dude you know oh i didn't know that who that was though yep because i remember when it came i was like man this is like brutal dude this is not
	gonna yeah they figured something out dude for anybody who had the app already musically it just became tick tock like i remember it was an old app on my phone he had it dude he was ripping dude yes dude you were ripping duets dude pull up some of your duets let's get those dude let's get those going let's be honest whole popcorn lung in there dude he's um well now uh is it hard to make more is it hard like
	once you've had you've had uh you've been real fortunate and had a great career right gosh the luckiest dude ever yeah and i didn't mean like that no i feel that i know i feel that way dude anybody who gets yeah it's like you get obviously there's a lot of good fortune that's going your way but i've dude i've thought this a million times i thought before my last record come out before the one before that came out i'm like dude this is as like the best i'll ever be dude and like everything i do from here out is just going to be bad yeah and it's like i don't know why like it's human
	nature to some extent maybe yeah that seems normal like because then like when i put my last record out and then the fast car thing happened like that was so unexpected like it was not never in a million years did i think what will be the biggest song of your whole career definitely wouldn't have cover a fast car would not been on the list yeah not because i didn't love that song but like i really recorded it on kind of a whim because we had some extra time in the studio yeah and so sometimes those decisions can be the best decisions you
	know and But I do think I'm like, man, well, you know, I mean, I'm sitting here right now, and I could tell you that today I've at some point mulled over to my, what's what happens next?
	For what's my next thing?
	And God's like, nobody cares, dude.
	And if I don't do this thing, then nobody's going to listen.
	And it's like, bro, I'm going to be playing for 120,000 people this weekend.
	And I'm still going, well, nobody cares, dude.
	Nobody wants to see me or anything.
	And it's just like, I have to remind myself all the time of like, if I try to have this conversation with myself is if I had the thought processes that I go over with myself in my head now, if I had them sell, if I had them with myself 10 years ago, what would myself 10 years ago say?
	Because this will be my 10th year in Nashville in September.
	I see.
	And so I go, man, well, I, you know, nobody, nobody cares if I post this Instagram story and it only gets only 150,000 people liked it, which is insane.
	And it's insane thought process.
	Oh, yeah.
	It's a lot of folks.
	But it's like, but you, that's what I think to myself today.
	And I base like, well, did this post, did it do good?
	And I'm like, and if you feel like it wasn't, then suddenly you're 10 years ago, 150,000 people had never even heard of me before ever, dude.
	And like never, ever.
	So, and then again, I'm like, also, I got two little kids at home, man.
	Like, my oldest son isn't even two yet.
	Oh, so he definitely is probably still eating for free over there.
	Yeah, he's not pulling his weight at all.
	That's brutal.
	You know, it's got to get to work, you know?
	I mean, it's time.
	They should.
	It's time.
	I love, I know there's a lot of play pins for children, but how about a work pin?
	We don't need a lot of work pin pin.
	It could just be like things that could be considered play.
	Yeah.
	You know what I mean?
	Like hit this nail into this thing.
	Right.
	Some yes.
	But how do we get like chainmail gloves on so that they don't hurt themselves?
	You know, like a chainmail mittens for your child.
	So you can have a Game of Thrones Halloween costume.
	Absolutely.
	How do we get chainmail?
	Chainmail children, dude.
	Dibs on that band.
	Oh, that's a good thing.
	Chainmail children is sick, dude.
	Chainmail children.
	It's a good name.
	Someone on that, like, like, like, post-punk.
	Chainmail children.
	That's what I'm going to see tonight.
	Basement East.
	Chainmail children, dude.
	Are they playing tonight?
	They're playing tonight.
	Chainmail children, yeah.
	Oh, damn, dude.
	I heard about them.
	Where'd I hear about them?
	Come to the show.
	You heard about it on this past weekend?
	And yeah, and myself.
	Was that it?
	Yeah.
	I don't know if that was it.
	That was the first reference to their career.
	Yeah.
	Yeah, it was.
	Yeah.
	It was.
	Yeah.
	I remember I went to, oh, Marilyn Manson was the first show that I ever went to.
	What was that like?
	It was scary, dude.
	How old were you?
	I was 16. They played in a bar.
	Oh, man.
	Maybe I was 15, 15 or 16 around there.
	You say they, like.
	The band?
	Is there a band?
	Is it just him?
	No, he has a.
	So there's a band and stuff.
	Like, I've never seen the show.
	Yeah.
	So is there a band?
	Yeah, like, you can't really think of like somebody being behind that guy with a trumpet, you know?
	Like, like a march, like a drum line.
	Yeah.
	Interesting.
	Who'd they have?
	They had Twiggy Ramirez.
	I don't know who's still in it.
	Oh, so this is like there's a whole there's kind of a persona to the band as well then, huh?
	Oh, yeah.
	The whole band was, I think, semi-deceased or whatever was what they were going for.
	Semi-deceased?
	Another great band.
	By the way, we got to trademark all these, dude.
	Semi-deceased opening for chainmail kit.
	Chainmail children.
	Oh, that happens.
	That happens, dude.
	And there's mosh pit training if you show up a half hour early, bro.
	That was the best.
	Safety training.
	How to stay safe in the mosh pit.
	Dude, my buddy used to referee mosh pits, and he would give him like 50 bucks a night or something.
	Wait, so is there penalties?
	Like, is there laundry on the field, dude?
	Like, is he like, beep, beep, beep, but hold on, dude.
	You hit that guy improper, dude.
	Improper hit, dude.
	Is it like a bouncer situation?
	I think, well, yeah, he's just like, he was the guy that's like, but it wasn't like, don't hurt this guy.
	He was like, just don't come on the stage.
	No, he was.
	Stay away from the stage.
	No, he was like, once the mosh pig got going, he would kind of cruise in and out of it, kind of like keeping things cool, whistle, sometimes a little flashlight.
	It'd be sick to have a guy in there that's just like, you get a couple like lesser known UFC guys and you just kind of put them in the crowd and you're like, dude, just wreck people in there.
	You know what I'm like?
	If some guy's out of hand, just flatline this dude in front of everybody.
	Everyone's like, man, we should chill a little bit.
	Just become your own policeman.
	Yeah, this is it.
	Okay.
	Oh, that guy didn't like some of the other guys' behavior.
	So that guy was, in theory, what your friend was, what I just said.
	You go in and just jaw a guy and make an example out of somebody.
	I love that, dude.
	What a gig, dude.
	$50?
	That seems underpaid for that a little bit, dude.
	I think, yeah, we probably, there might have been some fiscal discrepancies over here.
	You know, I've had some bad habits and I've tried to kick them and sometimes I'll go a few weeks and I'm doing well and sometimes I have a setback.
	You know, and it's true that 73% of Americans have a bad habit or behavior that they find unhealthy.
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	What was I even going to ask you?
	I don't know if I've even asked you anything.
	Fathers and sons, your new album is coming up.
	Yeah.
	Right?
	That's it's wild.
	Yeah.
	It's like, you know, it's crazy to like for the sake of what it is, like not having really talked about it at all, really.
	Is it, you know, when you put out a new album, does it, how tough is it to like, because like you know what your fans like, kind of or people that come to see you, have a general idea.
	For sure.
	And then, yeah, is it spooky to like try and change that, but also evolve for yourself?
	And then like, who am I even becoming?
	Like that sort of thing?
	Yeah, man.
	And I think about that a lot, you know, going back to when we were talking a little bit ago, like, what do you think about yourself or your career?
	What's next?
	And it's, I've always, I've always said this to myself was like, I want to like grow up with my fan base.
	Like, you know, somebody that listened to me, that's been a fan of me.
	Well, maybe it's been 10 years, dude.
	I mean, I'm 34. So when I was 24, I just moved to Nashville.
	I did have some fans, not a lot, but some.
	And I meet people that are like, dude, I was a fan, been a fan since the Vaughn days, dude.
	You know, like I meet, still meet people that say that.
	And so if you were a fan of mine then, let's say you were, even if you were 18, so you were six years younger than me.
	Well, now you're, you're not 18 anymore.
	Like you're 28. You know, you could be 28. You could be married with kids, whatever it is.
	Like, you know, and there's a huge part of me that, that I worry, like, well, will I age myself out?
	Like, am I, does anybody even want to hear songs about being a dad or whatever?
	And it's like, I hope so, but like, I also, I don't want to, you know, I feel like I could go get with, you know, I'm not the world's best writer, but I'm lucky to be friends with a lot of guys that are, I feel like.
	And so I could go get in a room with them and write, you know, something like Beard Broke My Heart or, you know, When It Rains It Pours.
	Like I could try to recreate that time and time again.
	And I, sometimes I, like, I want to do that because I selfishly, I'm like, well, that would make me this or that would give me another big song or whatever.
	But it's like, I've just been, you know, like I said, I've got, I've got two boys that are under two years old, man.
	So like my life is dominated by the thoughts of like being there for them.
	And like, you know, I want to be their dad first.
	And so I had to like write this, I had to do this project because it's the only thing that's been on my mind.
	Like when I go get in the writing room and someone's like, man, let's write something fun, dude.
	And this up tempo thing.
	And it's like, it's hard to like get in that mindset because all the things I'm doing is like, like grilling dogs and like, like playing in the kiddie pool.
	But it's hard to like get in that, like, the mindset of like, you know.
	Yeah, you can't have tickle that kiddo and have it be, you know, chainmail children.
	That's one of their songs.
	And this is going to turn into a fundraiser for kids who have been abused.
	But it's funny that you say some of that because I sat one day I was sitting with this guy that owns a management company for comedians.
	They own probably the biggest management company.
	And he was saying, well, you want to grow up with your fan base.
	You know, you want because they're going to evolve.
	And if you just stay like this, like not stay, but if you're kind of a, you know, they've, they.
	If you fail to evolve, then.
	Right.
	It could be, you're just, you're not going to.
	Well, it can become stale.
	Yeah.
	It's like it just becomes, okay, man, well, I've, you know, I mean, except for the one guy that's eating 10,000 Big Macs or whatever it is, you can't eat it every meal, dude.
	I mean, not that they're not good.
	Yeah.
	But you want a little something like the menu's got to expand a little bit.
	Yeah.
	And not that you can't come back to the classics at some point.
	Oh, yeah.
	My mother would always get a McFish, I remember.
	McFished.
	And it always.
	Is that the pre-filet of fish?
	The second shorted, I was like, I don't even know her anymore.
	McFished.
	Isn't that crazy?
	Yeah.
	I didn't know they had it.
	She did it to kind of be like.
	She was involved with her fan base, dog.
	She was.
	We were learning new.
	You were learning flavor of the week, dude.
	He's a McFish guy.
	You know what I mean?
	But she would get us to be quiet and then she would order the McFish.
	And I would be like, nobody cares if we're loud while you order it.
	It's not going to make us any not poor.
	It's not going to make us.
	The people at the window will think we have class if you guys aren't screaming while I order the SmigFish.
	You know what I mean?
	That right there, that is exactly who my mother is.
	That's exactly who she is.
	I've never been able to put it in order.
	You damn kids, shut the hell up on me order SmigFish right now.
	And it's like, yes.
	Yeah, little Theodore will have a junior children's meal.
	And I'll have.
	He's definitely not a shit ass who stole a bike last week for sure.
	And I'll have a McFish.
	Like, that was the classy.
	Now, is that wild-caught or is that farm raised?
	I'll take blackened, the blackened McFish.
	I'll have it.
	Yeah, yeah, dude.
	Blackened.
	Such a trap.
	Oh, it's wild caught, dude.
	It says.
	Is it weird?
	No chance, dude, that it's wild caught.
	It does.
	Hold on.
	There is no chance.
	Well, Luke, now give them their chance.
	Look, Luke, this is probably legitimate information.
	They have a JPEG with it.
	Our fish sandwich recipe features a crispy fish fillet patty.
	That's interesting.
	Fillet patty is a weird term.
	Fillet patty?
	Complete contradiction, dude, right there.
	That's like saying, dude, this ribeye steak, that's now a hamburger, though.
	But it was a ribeye steak at one point.
	Yeah, this fillet McNugget really up to no good.
	Yeah.
	It says wild-caught Alaskan pollock on melty American cheese, and it's topped with creamy McDonald's tartar sauce.
	Wow.
	Next guest for the show needs to be a guy that works on the McDonald's fishing vessel.
	How do...
	Like, because we need a little bit of...
	The McSkipper, dude.
	We need the McSkipper.
	We should get to the bottom of...
	Is it really...
	My McFish.
	He's out there, dude.
	He's out there.
	He's in Alaska right now, dude.
	I don't know if he's in Alaska.
	The salty dog, dude, that caught that McFish, dude, is out there, dude.
	I will not believe that the guy's ever been to Alaska.
	Wild caught, dude.
	Wild caught, though.
	That's the part I'm not sure of.
	I don't even know what we've talked about so far.
	But it's about father and something.
	I know you have some new children, right?
	Yep.
	And I know your family moved here.
	I remember hearing you talk before on Joe Rogan that your family had moved to town.
	How's that been?
	It's been awesome.
	I mean, it's been an adjustment for them.
	I mean, most of my life lived in Asheville, North Carolina.
	It's funny that Orange Peel.
	We played there before.
	I love the Orange Peel, man.
	It's a great place.
	That whole town is just, and also the hillside, you could just roll off of a building and end up in a damn different county almost.
	You could, dude.
	And it's, it's, but it was an adjustment period for, especially my dad.
	You know what I mean?
	Like, I mean, all his buddies live there.
	Yeah.
	You know, but it's, I remember a buddy of mine telling me, you know, I think it's just, you know, it's the, it's the, like this whole dad's project is just all these different thought processes that happen with, you know, excuse me, the way my dad sees things and the way that I see things now and the way I see things, maybe what was his perspective when he was doing this with me or, you know, what are my kids going to think about me or how am I going to be remembered by them?
	And I remember a friend of mine who rode on this project with me, he was telling me it was his dad's 70th birthday recently.
	And he called his dad and he was like, well, you know, old man, how's it feel?
	You know, and he said, well, ain't no way around it, pal.
	This is the ninth inning.
	And I just remember being like, God, like, what a thought.
	Like, what a like, damn.
	And it was just like, I remember like ever, I've never forgot that quote because, you know, I think that a lot of the, the, you know, the, the struggles that, you know, my, my dad had coming here or it was a combination of like, okay, well, he's moving on from, you know, they lived in Asheville for 25 some years, dude, in the same house.
	Yeah.
	And like raised me there and all these memories that are left behind and friends that are left behind and everything that you know has changed.
	And then also coming to terms with the fact that you, that you, you yourself are aging and kind of like maybe that that fear of what's next or, you know, how long do you have?
	Like, I can't imagine what that process is like, but that quote stuck with me.
	Did your relationship with your dad change after you had boys?
	You have two boys?
	I to have two boys.
	Yeah.
	And yeah, man, it became, you know, I had a lot more, I had a lot more understanding and grace for, you know, decisions that, that he made or, you know, things that maybe I did that I didn't understand.
	Well, why is he upset about this thing?
	Or why would this make him upset?
	Like, you know, and I've had friends in the last couple of years that have lost their dads and watching them go through that.
	And it's just all, it's just this constant theme of like, that's where we are in life.
	Like we're at this weird like kind of turnover point where like people begin to lose their parents and then you are, you like soon you will be the oldest man in your family.
	Yeah.
	Which is a scary thought, even though I'm only 34, but like you're like, okay, well, if I'm 40, am I like, I'm the oldest generation of maybe man that my children will know?
	Yeah.
	It's a weird thought.
	It's a weird thought.
	You know, it's just like, it's a strange.
	Oh, yeah.
	It's a strange, strange time for sure.
	In a good way, but it's just.
	Yeah, there's so many little phases you go through.
	Like you, you know, you could be a son, a brother, an uncle, a dad, a grandpa.
	You know, there's all like these little roles and stuff that you have.
	And yeah, getting older, like almost all my friends have children except me.
	I was like, I got to get some damn children, but you can't just be yelling that off your back porch, you know?
	Yeah.
	So you got to actually have a game plan too and get a spouse.
	That would be a good strategy for sure.
	That'd be a good start, for sure.
	It'd be a good start.
	Good jumping off point, I think, you know.
	What were some of the songs?
	I listened to Front Door Famous.
	That's awesome.
	Yeah, I love that.
	That one made me really feel something, you know?
	Yeah, I love the whole thing, man.
	It turned out, I cut the record live, so it was just like we just cut it on the floor, like me, two different sessions.
	One evening, we cut five songs, the other evening we cut seven.
	And so when you say cut it live, like what does that term mean?
	So like we would just like, well, let's say we're in a room like this, and it's almost set up like a show in the studio.
	And then they just hit record and play the whole thing down.
	And like, that's what you're hearing.
	You know, we did that twice for each song.
	And then they went, okay, well, this one's better than the other one.
	So that's the one we're using.
	So it's just, there's no, like, when we normally make a record, you know, it's not, it's more of a timed.
	So like, I think you'd have to fact check me on this, but like, I don't think in some ways that Stapleton gets the credit he deserves because he records all of his records like that.
	Wow.
	And it's so hard to do that, dude.
	Like you have to be, the artist has to be so dialed in.
	Obviously, the musicians are unbelievable anyways.
	Like those are.
	That's just one take.
	That's it.
	Yeah.
	Or and if you mess up, it's like, well, we got to do another take now.
	It's not like there's no stopping and starting.
	There's no mixing and matching.
	There's no mixing and matching.
	It's all just top to bottom.
	Like, you know, and I would do every record if I could like that.
	I enjoyed that process so much because like the stakes feel high, you know?
	Right.
	It just means something.
	Like, hey, man, like, I got to like bring something to this take, dude.
	Like, it's not another sing this line six times.
	And then if you package it together.
	Right.
	So it separates in a lot of, dude, and I'm not, I mean, with the Stapletons of the world, like it separates the, the, the, you know, the, the strong from the weak.
	Like, if every record had to be recorded like that, a lot of your favorite artists would not be recorded.
	Yeah.
	You know what I'm saying?
	Like it just, it takes such a level of talent.
	And I'm not saying that I have that.
	I don't want to sound like that.
	But when you look at the criticism of the world and the other people that do that, and I mean, the studio musicians deserve so much credit, dude.
	I mean, those guys are wicked, dude.
	I mean, it is unreal how good those guys are, man.
	Yeah.
	Such underappreciated players.
	I've never been a studio musician, but it looks insanely hard.
	It's really hard.
	And it's a lot of the best people in the world, really.
	I would say, yeah, a lot of the best musicians in the world live in Nashville.
	I mean, without a doubt.
	And not just country singers.
	We're talking bass players, guitar players, drummers.
	And it's like a lot of them are guys that unless you live in that super niche community, like you've never heard of.
	Some of the best drummers in the world, you've never heard of them, but they play on every record that you've ever listened to.
	I know.
	It's kind of wild, huh?
	It's really kind of wild, the limitedness that we usually know about like the people on stage a lot of times.
	Yeah, like the behind the scenes guys, dude.
	And even like my guys in my band, like they're not even the guys playing on the records, dude.
	What?
	Oh, because you use a different group to.
	The session players are a whole different thing than the studio guys.
	Not that those guys couldn't be both if they chose to, but most of the best session players are just session players.
	I mean, they go, and dude, I'm talking, you would just blow your mind.
	Like, your favorite drummer's favorite drummer is a session player.
	Right.
	Your favorite bass player's favorite bass player is a session player.
	Like, and those guys are just underthought of.
	Like, if you go looked at the credits of any country album for the last 10 years, like who's playing Fiddle or who's playing Dobro, it's the same 3-4 cats.
	Any instrument.
	I mean, there's 3-4 guys of any instrument that's like, that's the guy you call or that's the girl you call.
	They're just probably year-round doing it, huh?
	Every day.
	They're doing it every day.
	God.
	God, we should have gotten into a different trade.
	Those guys are, they're, they're wild, man.
	That's what I'm thinking about.
	They're so good, dude.
	Yeah.
	So, yeah, I guess being like a parent, it's like you get to see like where all your parents, like just things that they didn't do or that they couldn't do, it makes a lot more sense.
	Yeah, I mean, there's so many things where you go, you know, you think when you're a kid, right, or my mom or my dad did this thing and I would never do that.
	You know, I wouldn't ever do that to my kids or whatever.
	And, you know, sometimes those things end up being like, yeah, man, I still would never do that.
	And sometimes you go, oh, now I get why they did that thing.
	It makes a lot of sense now.
	Like it, to me, it unlocks this some, at least for me, it did.
	You know, it unlocks some part of your brain that's inaccessible in some ways.
	Like once the kid, that's happened, dude, it's this whole new level of like caring about something or loving something that's like, you know, it's not the same way you love your wife or your husband or whoever you love.
	It's a different kind of thing.
	And you were shocked it was that new, huh?
	Yes, dude.
	It was just like, you know, because you hear.
	It's like a whole new chord or something.
	Yeah, like all those cliches, dude.
	You hear about, well, you wait to how fast it goes.
	And, you know, just you're going to find out.
	Like all that cheesy shit.
	Yeah, when it's true.
	Right.
	It's all true, dude.
	Like all that stuff makes so much sense.
	Like when and all they're cliches because they, people say them all the time because they're true.
	Yeah.
	And it really is.
	It's really been a wild experience.
	The juxtaposition too is weird.
	Like, cause I'm on this tour right now and, you know, people are like, and I, it's no fault to anybody, but they, a lot of people don't really know what touring is like.
	So they kind of assume like what is why you ever see your kids.
	You must be gone all the time.
	And I'm like, dude, I'm home more days a week than I'm gone or the same amount.
	Right.
	Like I'm home like three and a half days a week.
	I'm gone like three and a half days a week.
	So that's more than most people that work 40 hours a day get to spend at home with their kids.
	You know, so like I get to, but it's such a weird juxtaposition to go from you go out, let's fly to, you know, Phoenix or wherever, and you play two nights in the same stadium, dude.
	And the next day you're home, dude, and you're just dad and there's nobody there.
	I mean, we live in a two-bedroom, two-bathroom house that's 2,100 square foot, dude.
	Yeah.
	And the kids are, what, general admission?
	Yeah, they're GA.
	They don't even pay.
	Well, they just know they just get in free.
	Kids eat free, dude.
	Oh, yeah.
	So they just come in and just take the place over, dude.
	That would be the best tour you could have if you had a kids eat free tour.
	But dude, sponsored by Ryan's buffet.
	Yeah.
	Or going crowd.
	Either one.
	Oh, yeah.
	That would be the best.
	And they should have a contest, too.
	What's the farthest somebody can hum a McNugget and another kid catches like a beer Olympics, but it's Buffet Olympics.
	Just a McNugget.
	There's something so American about seeing a McNugget go through the air.
	A good McNugget cannon.
	If you could jam like 100 in the t-shirt cannon and just blast McNuggets out into the crowd, dude.
	Everybody's just catching them.
	It'd be some good slow-mo shots.
	It's like that kiss cam with the McNugget.
	McNugget can, dude.
	But dude, that's how it's going to get.
	I think if people, if it gets so bad where people can't afford to eat or whatever, then they're going to be like- Yes.
	Food will be how to get people to America.
	Got it.
	100%, man.
	That's the thing you're going to need.
	Yep.
	Pay for the show, stay for the food.
	You know what I mean?
	Could you even imagine what a huge buffet would be like at a freaking...
	Like if it was every world's longest buffet, you know, is it like, it just snakes through the whole floor?
	Yeah, let's bring that up.
	Where is the world's longest buffet?
	Okay, let's take bets.
	What do we think?
	I'm going to guess probably in like a Midwest, somewhere in the Midwest.
	Okay.
	I'm going to guess.
	I don't know, by the way.
	I really don't know.
	I'm going to go with a little bit more of the orange Midwest.
	I'm going to say China, I think.
	World's longest.
	So world's longest.
	World's longest because they are buffet.
	Is longest or largest?
	Is that different?
	Oh, it's a good question.
	Biggest.
	Pennsylvania, dude.
	Wow.
	Not Midwest.
	Is it Midwest?
	I think it's Upper Midwest.
	It feels very Eastern Midwest.
	Really?
	It's Lower Dutch.
	I know.
	In 1962, under Maple Trees, Mr. and Miss Henry Martin sold produce along the road.
	That was the beginning of the Shady Maple Farm Market, according to Shady Maple.
	The largest buffet in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania.
	Shady Maple Smorgasborg.
	Smorgasboard.
	There used to be a smorgasbord in Hermitage when I lived out there.
	Really?
	It was called...
	It's just a place to eat as much as you can?
	It's yes.
	Well, I think I believe.
	Now, this is big, big English language guy, big vocab guy here.
	But I believe a smorgasbord means there's a lot of different kinds of food in one place.
	Whoa, God, that sounds insane.
	It's like you make a stuff elite literary knowledge.
	Let's see.
	What is smorgasbord?
	Self-service luncheon or supper offering a large variety of foods and dishes.
	Oh, wow.
	From Swedish smorgasbord.
	A buffet meal.
	Oh, it sounds great.
	Yeah, that smorgasbord.
	So it's just Swedish for buffet.
	Yeah, it's just, yeah.
	It's the Swedish version of buffet, dude.
	Yeah, why do they make it sound so crazy?
	Yeah.
	I feel like everything you want to eat is just, even that word has all, it feels like it has a lot of calories in it, just smorgasborg.
	What was your first car, Luke?
	Speaking of your car song doing so great.
	My first car I got was a, dude, a purple Subaru Outback.
	Used.
	Why?
	The lady my mom worked at got a new car and she gave my mom a deal on it.
	And it, dude, it was actually purple they had.
	Purple.
	It was like a, it was a deep indigo.
	It was a deep indigo.
	It was much older than these versions you're looking at.
	These are way newer.
	This is probably a 2000 and maybe a 99, 2001, 2000 type model.
	There we go.
	That's the one, dude.
	There she is.
	Ooh.
	I mean, that's about the exact car.
	That's beautiful.
	Now, about three months after I got it, totaled it.
	Dude, and it had, I'm talking about, I didn't realize how nice it was because it had leather seats, heated seats.
	And I was like, but I was like, dude, I'm driving around in this like mom wagon, dude.
	Wrecked it.
	And then my parents bought me a $500 Dodge Neon that had been previously totaled.
	Dude, look up a 2,000 Dodge Neon.
	Base level, no automatic windows, no automatic doors, carpet seats.
	My God, it's beautiful.
	Oh, there she is, dude.
	Probably that fourth picture on the top.
	It was probably exactly what I was cruising for.
	My mother got a Dodge Neon, and we used to, me and my brother used to go sleep in it at night.
	We'd go sit out there and sleep in it.
	And it was beautiful.
	I would like to say that.
	But also, yeah, it is crazy how they will sell you in this country.
	They will sell you a previously totaled beat.
	That has been destroyed.
	Somebody out there has my total purple outback right now.
	It's like selling somebody a dead friend or whatever.
	And they're like, yeah, but he's like, he's all good now.
	You know what I mean?
	Like, now it's cool.
	But, dude, that's in the past, bro.
	His death was in the past.
	You have to give him a second chance.
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	Dude, I don't know if I was talking, just made me think of this, but two of my best friends, dude, we play this game all the time called Are You Garbage?
	Yeah.
	Have you heard of this?
	I think there's an actual game.
	They might need an internet checkout, or it's like Are You Trash or something like that.
	But there is no game.
	It's essentially just, hey, man, like if you're in a group of people, you go, hey, if you do, are you garbage?
	There it is.
	Card game.
	Card game.
	So we've played this, but now we have a list going on our phone that's like hundreds of items long because we played the game so much that we ran out of stuff.
	Right.
	And that said, that tells people they are garbage, huh?
	So it's, oh, Shane Gillis has played.
	Are you garbage?
	It looks like.
	So we have, I was going to pop it in this.
	All it is is really a conversation starter.
	Yeah.
	Fodder.
	But all the ones we've come up with over the years.
	So it's really just, it provokes a conversation amongst friends.
	Let's see.
	Like, okay, like you take a tour of a factory.
	Are you garbage?
	Oh.
	Like it's all just little things like that.
	That's a great question.
	Where you're like, if you, let me see this.
	Yeah, because.
	Attempting to light a fart on fire.
	Oh.
	Garbage.
	Yeah.
	If you're a woman, yeah.
	Yeah, I think, I think, yeah.
	If you're a guy, you're an indoor.
	It's just ingrained.
	Okay.
	Let's see what else we got in Susie.
	If you're a guy, you might be one of the Wright brothers.
	I have no idea.
	I don't want to stop your fire, but.
	But yeah, if you're a woman and you're indoors, that's a.
	Like having crackers as a topping on like a casserole trash.
	That's complete trash, dude.
	Yeah, dude, if you've ever crumpled up a couple crackers.
	And that's like your topping on top of your dish.
	Yeah, yeah, dude.
	If you have to, also, if you use a lot of toppings, toppings are totally fixins, dude.
	Fixins are a whole thing.
	Why is this stuff making me die last night?
	But yeah, if you have that much fix-ins, dude.
	Just we're like trash to like buying merch from a gas station.
	Like if you buy like a clothing item from a gas station.
	Oh.
	Non-ironically.
	Right.
	If you're like, yeah, wonder what they got.
	You were like, man, I bet they got something nice.
	Like, you ever hear the Loves?
	And like, there's a guy for a spring collection.
	There's a guy that's unironically foaming through the shirts and he's like, oh, yeah.
	These are kind of fire.
	You know, like, he's thinking, like, these are pretty fire shirts, dude.
	God, some of these.
	The trucking community.
	Yeah.
	A lot of the trucking community, they'll be like, oh, this shirt goes with that statue.
	And they'll always say that, too.
	They always have like a lot of like, it'll be like a dolphin unicorn, like, but single animal, merged animal.
	It'll be like merged animal.
	That'll be the section.
	It's like Liger.
	Yeah, like Liger.
	It's like a centaur.
	Yep.
	Centaur tits and a horse body.
	Yep.
	Dude, another R regards is using the, like using the bathtub or a sink at a hotel like as a cooler.
	So like putting ice in it and then like filling, like putting your drinks in that receptacle.
	Because if you don't use a shower at all, that's the thing that's even worse.
	Yeah, that's.
	What are you, you're not showering in lieu of having your coat.
	Yeah, just some cozy cold drinks.
	It's a very spring break feel.
	I feel like to that.
	What did we do, dude?
	My first car was an 84 Ford Escort.
	And somebody had...
	Well, it's pretty much semi-beautiful, probably.
	And somebody had stole the passenger seat out of it, right?
	Like, this happened while you owned it.
	Or when you got it, it had already been thieved.
	When I got the vehicle, I had it for like three days and somebody sold it.
	I think it was the guy.
	I think he didn't want to sell the whole car.
	So he fenced it.
	He fenced the seat.
	He came in and was like, you know what?
	I'm taking this back.
	I didn't mean to sell you the whole car.
	I wanted that seat out of there, dude.
	Forgot, dude.
	Hey, I forgot my wife told me not to.
	Hey, we had our first kid on that seat and she told me not.
	That's a memento.
	It was an 84 Ford Escort, baby.
	And I got, God, I paid 600 large for that.
	What color was it?
	Which one?
	Like, what's the most accurate representation on it?
	Gray.
	They only had, I think, of the 84 hardtop.
	Hard top, dude.
	Dude, I love how this too clean 1984 Ford Escort, dude.
	I'm saying hard top like there was any other seven like a drop top, dude?
	You got some coin now.
	Go buy an 84 escort and chop the top off of it, dude.
	Get a convertible top one, dude.
	No, I think it's supposed to have the top on it so you can get safely to school.
	That's what I did in it, but somebody stole my passenger seat I had for three days.
	So then the crazy part was you go pick a girl up and they get in the car in the back.
	But they had to get it in the back through the front, like it only had the front door.
	Yeah, yeah.
	So then just well, at least you didn't have to flip the seat up.
	Yeah, so that part was actually nice.
	But then if somebody wanted to be right by you, that have to get right on their knees.
	Yeah.
	So they could just, but it's like built-in like lounger, though, kind of.
	That's true.
	They just want to sit in the back and chill.
	For girls.
	It's like a king vibe.
	For girls, girls didn't like it.
	Yeah, probably could see that.
	Yeah, girls are like, I don't know what's happening.
	They were like, man, this car is like really trashy.
	And you were like, no, it's cool, dude.
	I love it.
	I love this car.
	Oh, dude.
	And then one time it got T-boned outside of this place called Isadores or something.
	Some little sandwich shop, Iggies or something.
	Smorgasboard.
	Yeah, smorgasbord.
	Yeah, smorgasbords, fucking bird snacks, baby.
	But yeah, so, and I got T-boned.
	And then after that, I was dating this cute girl.
	But every time I'd go to her house, I would try to hide the car at an angle.
	It was so banged up now.
	Where like almost the angle she'd walked and get in, she wouldn't really be able to see all the damage.
	The damage.
	My neon used to, when I would stop, the radiator would leak a little bit.
	So like if I wasn't driving, like the radiator, like there was a lit, it was like that, like kind of that rubberized like top on the radiator tube there.
	And it had just the littlest crack in there.
	And me and my dad, we tried to fix it a million times, but it would get so hot that like no matter what you put over it, it wouldn't stick.
	Like all the best, like lock tight bond and all that stuff.
	Like the heat would get it.
	So it would like spit stuff out of it.
	And then that would get on like the engine block.
	And so anytime I would stop, it would just smoke just a little bit, dude.
	So I'm already like spending my last two dollars.
	I was spending my last $2 buying fish tacos at, you know, Long John Silver's.
	Anyways, I'm already embarrassed with myself.
	And then like, they're like, if there was anybody that you would see and you're in the drive-thru waiting to get your $2 tacos and your car is like smoking and they're like, dude, maybe, and they look at you and you're 300 pounds, dude.
	And they're like, you probably shouldn't be getting these tacos, you know?
	Yeah, I guess.
	Like they're like, just fix the car, man.
	Like, just miss a couple tacos.
	Like, you're going to be fine.
	Yeah, yeah, at a certain point.
	Wait, dude, you got to look at the scale.
	Yes.
	Just do you need to.
	Do you need Baja Fish tacos?
	You don't.
	You don't, dude.
	It's like the McFish.
	Do you don't need it?
	You know what I mean?
	When she ordered it, though.
	And you would see other people in the distance look over at us when she ordered it and shit.
	And I'd be so ashamed.
	I'll be like.
	But it was wild caught, though.
	So it's fine.
	Yeah, I don't know where they seemed like they, I would say, yeah, it seemed like outdoor caught.
	Some of it was kind of darker, some of the fish.
	Out in caught in nature would be like a better caught in the wild.
	Caught in the wild.
	I think it's open.
	Coerced, it said on the side.
	Wildly coerced.
	I don't know if this is good fish or not.
	And do you take any good trips recently, man?
	Have you been anywhere fun?
	For vacation?
	For vacation?
	Gosh, dude, we hadn't been on a real vacation.
	Like, me and the wife, I mean, we haven't gone on vacation.
	I mean, we got two.
	We have two kids back to back, dude.
	So we're like.
	Do they sleep in y'all's room, y'all's children?
	No, we have, we just, the youngest one, he just left our room a month or two ago.
	So our boys share a room right now.
	Oh, that's fun, huh?
	So it's, I mean, you know, if they were older, I think it'd be fun.
	But I think now they're just kind of like, how can I keep the other one awake?
	Like, they don't really know what they're doing or why they're doing it.
	Yeah.
	One of them's always making noise and the other one's like looking.
	And like, our one's like, he can't even, like, he's just now able to kind of like pull himself up.
	So he's like a fall risk just all the time.
	Yeah.
	He's like in the crib and he's like trying to look at the other one because he's rattling the blinds.
	Right.
	It's like, they're always doing something.
	Seems like a band that's on drugs.
	It's kind of, it kind of is some of the stories.
	To think back on it, you know, some of our guys have probably done some similar things at times, dude.
	You know?
	Oh, my God.
	But it's, we haven't gone.
	I mean, we, gosh, man.
	I mean, I've been.
	It feels like I've been all over the world in the last couple of years, but like, it's just going on a vacation.
	I know it's hard to find a spot and really get in.
	You're like, all right, let's go do it.
	Yeah.
	And it's like, it's weird too.
	Cause like, you know, vacation for me is like getting to be home.
	Like that feels like vacation to me.
	Yeah.
	But then like my wife is home a lot with the kids and stuff.
	So she does want to like make like get away and go somewhere and do something.
	And it's like, you know, finding that time where, you know, I don't feel like I'm traveling somewhere every week and going back and forth.
	Yeah, stuff can burn you up, man.
	You know, it's just, it's a wild, it's a wild thing, man, right now.
	We're just in this weird balance because of the kids right now because they're so small.
	And there's nothing you can do.
	You have to take care of them every day.
	100%.
	Like, I mean, that's the number one thing, dude.
	I mean, there is no, you know, the kids don't care about the state.
	They don't know anything.
	And do they rate you guys or anything?
	Like, how do you know?
	There is a complaint box.
	Or is yeah, do you guys like get an email every week from them?
	Like, how do you know how you're doing?
	You don't.
	They're alive.
	If they're still alive and kicking, dude, at this point, you're doing a pretty good job.
	But there's not.
	There's not.
	There's not somebody that comes when they're like three years old and gives you like a performance review.
	Just like somebody should.
	Well, you know what?
	We were saying this when we had our first kid.
	We walked out of the hospital and I'm like, dude, we had this kid two days ago.
	And, bro, I got to take a test to drive a car, dude.
	And they'll just give you a human life.
	Like, all right, dog, here you go.
	Don't matter who you are, what your background is.
	There's no questions asked, really, dude.
	Yeah.
	They're just like, hey, man, Like, you'll be good, man.
	Like, you'll, people, your parents figured it out.
	Oh, yeah.
	You know, if you want a mixed kid, they'll just hand you one down there a lot of these places.
	I'm like, all right.
	It's a wild west, dude.
	The kids thing is like, it's a wild west, man.
	It's that, it's like, there is no, you know, I read all the like, well, how to be a rodeo bad.
	How to be eight seconds with my son.
	Right.
	Yeah.
	The wildest 18 years of your eight second life.
	You know, it's like, but yeah, parenting and fishing.
	How parenting is like noodling.
	You know, it's like, yeah.
	It's just stick and pray, baby.
	You know what I mean?
	It's a wild ride, man.
	But the dad thing was really fun to do.
	And that's just where my head's been recently.
	And do you start to think like, hey, we got to get this third or fourth or fifth child out of the way now?
	Or do you start to strategize it?
	I mean, the deadlines do feel looming, right?
	Like if you want to have, you know, I mean, because every time you have a kid, it's like it starts over.
	Like the whole like, okay, well, now it's like when we don't have kids, it's 18 years from now, now, again.
	Right.
	Again, we just restarted the clock.
	Restarted.
	It's like going back to the jail of kids.
	Like a loving jail with other people.
	Nice.
	Like the best jail ever.
	It's like, but it does, it's such a best jail ever.
	That's one of the songs on the new album.
	On the chain mail children, dude.
	Yeah.
	The best jail ever.
	Yeah.
	Work pen, dude.
	Yeah.
	You should have the best jail ever.
	But I don't, we think about it's like, well, how, you know, then you think about, well, how close do I want the kids to be to each other?
	Right.
	Like, how, you know, how does it, where's, what's Tor look like next year?
	Is it going to be extra busy?
	Or we have a light year.
	Like, it's weird to think about that stuff because at the end of the day, you're talking about like potentially like a person that will be like a person doing like that, they'll have an entire life, you know?
	And so like, I don't know.
	I often wonder, you know, often, I often not fantasize is the wrong word, but like think about, you know, it just being a, like being like my kids' parents is like, I almost worry about them like finding out what I do in some ways.
	You mean dance at night?
	Yeah.
	Like we have like put on a nice vinyl, you know, dance at a living.
	Wouldn't that be great if that's what you meant?
	Like, I just don't want to that I dance.
	That sometimes I'll occasionally dance.
	Classically trained.
	Yeah, I'll dance for their mother in the evening.
	Big boy ballerina in the evening.
	You know what I mean?
	Yeah, I guess I wonder how kids, you know, because it is so tough.
	You see so many kids that are somehow traumatized or face some sort of like their parents.
	Just the byproduct of their parents being in the limelight, especially maybe in, I don't know if especially in music, maybe not especially, but just in the limelight.
	Yeah, I think about it a lot, you know, because I go, you know, I don't like, and it's going to sound weird.
	It's like you almost wish they could just not know in some ways.
	And not because I don't want them to know.
	That's not what I'm getting at.
	It's like, I almost just want them to be like naive to the whole thing for as long as it's humanly possible.
	Yeah.
	Like I want them to, only thing they're worried about is like riding bikes and playing trucks and, you know, riding around on the Polaris with mom and dad.
	But there gets to a point, like, you know, as soon as like school is looming, like, you know, I've got some other artist buddies that have kids and they're like, well, you got to tell them or somebody else is going to tell them.
	It's almost like telling your kids there's no Santa.
	Or something.
	But it's like the opposite of that.
	It's like the opposite of that.
	Like telling your kids there is a Luke Combs.
	Right.
	Yeah.
	And it's like, I don't want them to like ever.
	I don't want my kids to ever think of me that way.
	Like, sure, I want them to be really good.
	Dad was good.
	Some of his early stuff I like better.
	But I still love him.
	The last couple albums were just garbage, dude.
	Once he had us, they just, you know, they just really stunk.
	Can you imagine if that happened to a kid where their dads, their sales weren't as good after they had children?
	And they were like, we have the, me and my buddies have the golf theory, dude.
	Once you start playing golf, shit gets bad?
	No.
	Well, for sure, I think for me at least.
	But it's once like the great golfers, once they have kids, it gets harder to maintain like because the amount of like practice and stuff that they have to do.
	I mean, I don't, I know next to nothing about being a professional golfer, by the way.
	This is just a guy who watches golf and like wishes that he could do golf.
	Yeah, I always pretend like something came up and my friends asked me to go play golf or something.
	You're like, sorry, man, I gotta.
	I gotta go do something.
	I gotta go vote.
	I'll even say that.
	Yeah, and they're like, what?
	And you're like, you're like, yeah.
	Yeah, they're voting for the comp troller.
	Yeah.
	City comproller.
	Want to just practice them for the big game in November?
	I was having a practice Super Bowl party tonight.
	So I actually can't.
	I wanted to make sure the Super Bowl party would be good, but it's not.
	I have a run-through.
	Have you played the Super Bowl yet?
	No.
	There hasn't been a country artist in the Super Bowl in a long time.
	Who was the last one?
	It was a big medley of people.
	I believe it's Clint Black, Travis Tritch, Shania, Tanya Tucker.
	Wow.
	It was like a bunch of country artists that did like a big medley thing, I believe.
	Now, there's been a bunch of artists that have done the anthem.
	Right.
	But as for the halftime show, there hasn't been one since you'd have to look it up in the mid-90s.
	Oh, Reba McIntyre is coming up.
	The anthem, though.
	Oh, the anthem.
	The anthem.
	You mean like the actual halftime show?
	Yeah.
	It's been, it only happened one time.
	Only one time ever?
	Yep.
	Wow.
	That seems unreal, huh?
	So it's Shania Twain, Gwen Stefani, and Sting.
	Okay, so Shania was different than the other medley thing.
	Right.
	So they had Shania twice.
	Yeah, so twice ever.
	I would imagine that at some point Taylor Swift has to do it at this point.
	Oh, it's a good point.
	But I don't know if that would still be considered a lot of people.
	I don't know if that would start as a considered a country artist now doing that.
	It's kind of universal.
	But like to think, a guy like Garth's never done it.
	I know.
	A guy like George Strait's never done it.
	So many of these guys.
	Oh, yeah.
	I've watched Garth sink.
	Have you gotten to spend much time at Garth ever?
	I have.
	Not a ton of time.
	But we've spoken many times.
	I took my band out to see his show out in Vegas.
	I was out there.
	I was playing a private event, and it didn't start until like 11.30 or something, like super late night.
	It was like a birthday party thing.
	And so, you know, we got out to Vegas in the morning.
	So I'm like, what the hell do we do all day?
	So I start looking stuff up.
	I'm like, oh, my gosh, Garth's playing tonight.
	He's doing his show.
	Got to see it.
	So I'm like, and the band, like, I told the band, I was like, I hit my manager up.
	I was like, hit up Gar's folks and see if we can maybe get some tickets.
	And, you know, so man, yeah, he came in, dude.
	We got over there and, dude, he came in and said, hey, to the band.
	And like, the band had no idea we were going to meet him at all.
	Cause like some, dude, my band guys are like, and a couple of them's from Oklahoma and stuff.
	They love him.
	They probably love him, dude.
	Drawings of him.
	And so 100% they do.
	But he came in and talked to everybody and got us great seats.
	They let us come in like, because, you know, those shows, they're like no phones or whatever, I think.
	Like a lot of the Vegas stuff, you can't have your phone or something.
	Yeah, because they don't want it.
	Yeah, I think they don't want anybody having their phone.
	To like see, so they can't like record stuff, people sell it, like streams, Vietnam, all kinds of stuff.
	Yeah.
	So they let us come in like right when the lights went down.
	They like brought us in because like, I was like, hey, man, I want to come, but there's no like at those theaters, there's not really like suites or like backstage.
	Right.
	You don't want to take away from his attention.
	Yeah.
	I'm like, hey, man, I just want to like come in, like just sit this thing and like not, you know.
	Yeah.
	It's weird.
	Like I tell people, I'm like, man, I don't really like being the center of attention as weird as that is considering what I do.
	Yeah.
	It makes me like really uncomfortable.
	Like when people make like a big deal about me like being that stuff.
	Oh, baby.
	Yeah.
	And I'm just like, oh, gosh, man, like, I don't, I don't really try to not think about myself that way.
	Yeah.
	Well, it's interesting, yeah, because if you start thinking about yourself that way, I think it's almost better to try and purposely not think of yourself as that way.
	For sure.
	Almost like, let me add in some things that'll be, seem a little bit more normal.
	You know, I got this cyber truck and that was been kind of a nightmare because it's fun to drive, but it's just too much attention, you know?
	I saw it.
	And then I'll be hiding in it and I'm just.
	Do you like it though?
	It's fun.
	Yeah.
	But it's, it's quiet too.
	It's like pixelated.
	It looks pixelated, you know?
	Yeah, it feels like you just travel.
	Literally, it feels like you'll put, like you'll press the gas and you'll wake up in damn August, dude.
	Yeah, you're gone.
	And it's like instant torque in those things.
	You were into the future.
	You could go zero to 60 in like two seconds in that thing.
	In half a yawn, brother, you'd be over there.
	Damn, get you there quick.
	I got electric Polaris, dude, and it's the same thing.
	It cooks, huh?
	Absolutely crushes.
	But it doesn't smell like gas, dude.
	My car used to have loose gas in it.
	I remember when I was in high school.
	Yeah.
	My second vehicle, it was a Ford Jimmy.
	GMC Jimmy.
	Yeah, GMC Jimmy.
	Actually, I think it was a GMC Ford Jimmy.
	It was two cars mixed together.
	It was a merger of a vehicle.
	Welded together vehicle.
	It was previously owned.
	Yeah.
	Yeah.
	Previously totaled.
	Are there parts that like, because once you get to a certain level of just being known, you can't, there's, you can never kind of go back to some of those just like it's weird in life.
	Sometimes it feels like you'll be able to go back and you can't.
	Right.
	You can't get back like.
	Just how you felt at the time.
	Sure, sure.
	You know?
	Yeah.
	And I guess it's just life.
	Do you ever feel like, and I, and this, I, I don't know much about the, the world of comedy other than just being a fan of it, but like, is you ever get sometimes where you're like, man, you kind of like saw how the sausage was made a little bit.
	And you're just like, man, like, you saw behind the curtain a little bit.
	You know what I'm saying?
	Like, you haven't heard, you've heard that.
	Seeing behind the curtain?
	Seeing how the sausage is made?
	You know what I mean?
	You know what I'm saying, dude.
	I do not brother.
	I want to get told, dude.
	Yeah, you do.
	Do you mean like you've heard that?
	Seeing how like movies and TV and music are made?
	Yes.
	Oh, 100%.
	Yes.
	Yes.
	You know, like no one, if you saw them in a hot dog, you probably wouldn't want to eat the hot dog.
	You know what I'm saying?
	If I saw them eating hot dogs, I would A, call child protective services.
	But I feel like sometimes the entertainment business can be that way.
	Oh, I agree.
	Where you're like, man, it just, it loses that like.
	It loses that thing, the magic.
	Right.
	Like the shine or the whatever is like, you know.
	Oh, there's something wonderful about sitting at home just thinking like, man, what it would be like to be on this thing, like the voice or like a show, you know, like, but then you don't realize if you are on that, like, all this, just like you see all the behind the workings.
	So it's still part of a dream, but it doesn't have the same look as if you're just like, just viewing it, you know?
	Yeah, you lose, you just lose a lot.
	Well, I just like, I can't even like, and you're, you may be this way with like comedy and stuff, but I can't even like consume music the way I used to.
	Like I'm constantly like not critiquing it, but I'm looking through at it through a different lens.
	Through business more lens, different things.
	Yeah, and I'm like, man, well, this is so good because this thing and that.
	And before it was just good.
	Yeah.
	Like the song was just good or the artist was just good.
	It wasn't like, well, this guy is really, he's playing this character or this girl is really great at this one vocal technique thing.
	It's like, you did any almost like when you don't know why it's good, it's better.
	You know what I mean?
	Oh, yeah, dude.
	And now sometimes I'm like, now I can.
	You read the ingredients now.
	Right.
	And I'm like, oh, it's good because this thing happened or that thing happened or, you know.
	Yeah, things were said.
	Yeah, everything had a little bit more magic in it before you knew what was going on.
	Yeah.
	And it's, you'd love to be able to kind of get that to be able to recapture that.
	Yeah.
	You know, and there's moments.
	I mean, you know, I mean, dude, it's still the best.
	I mean, we're still living our dream in a lot of ways, you know, in almost every way possible, I am, you know, so I have zero complaints really about my life, dude.
	But it's just you, you want, you kind of like you can't recapture that.
	Right.
	Yeah, you just can't.
	Yeah, you can never kind of go back to where you were.
	That time, that like the chase, like the being excited about being where you are now.
	Yeah.
	That's half the fun is like trying to get there and trying to figure out how to get there and doing everything it takes to get there is like a lot of the enjoyment of the process.
	Yeah.
	And yeah, they always say that, but you don't really realize it while it's going on.
	Yeah, for sure.
	And then all of a sudden you realize there's, you can't, what you can't recapture it.
	You're like, dang, man, I wish I would have bottled that up somehow.
	Don't know this thing or done that more.
	Do you think, though, like, do you look at, because you've gotten to have a great trajectory, just a great career.
	You just, you know, you've worked hard and you've also been fortunate, right?
	Yes, very much so.
	So how do, does it get to be like, well, what else is there to shoot for?
	Kind of like, does that kind of become a, and not like in a net, like a, just curious, like, how do you find a motivation if you're, do you feel like it could be a trap?
	Like, oh, I don't want to lose motivation here because things have gone so well.
	Yeah, for sure, for sure, man.
	Cause you, you know, you kind of get to this place where you're like, man, I feel like I've done, you know, a lot of the stuff that I feel like I can do almost, like, as far as achievements go or whatever it may be.
	And yeah, you think, you know, you have to do as much work or more work than you've ever done to stay in that place.
	And so before, if you're doing that amount of work, you're constantly moving towards a goal.
	Right.
	Right.
	It's like if you work all this time to climb Mount Everest and it's say it's so hard, you know, to you've got to cross the crevasses and do all these different things to make it to the top.
	Well, it's like once you get there, you need oxygen just to even breathe while you're up there.
	And so it may take a higher toll on your body to stay at the top than it does to come back down or than it did to even get up there.
	And so it feels like it can have, there's somewhat of like a hamster wheel feel to it.
	Like when you get to this certain level, because you're like, man, I'm working so hard just to like compete against the, A, the other guys that are up here too, and all the other people that are coming up to the top as well.
	Like you're like, you're doing all this work to stay, well, do I want to, do I have to continually try to, you know, compete with this guy and this guy?
	And there's other people going, we're coming, dude, and we're ready to just, this is Sparta your ass off the top of this thing if we get the chance.
	God.
	So there's scared.
	It's like there's, there's always that next, but that's, again, dude, it comes back to growing up with your fan base and just growing yourself is learning that nobody stays at the top forever.
	And it's okay to not be at the top.
	It's okay to, you know, you shouldn't be scared of the fall because you can build up these things in your life, these, you know, these kind of soft places to land being your family, your friends, the things that really matter.
	The things that when you're 80 years old, would you rather have spent more time with your kids or made another album that was successful?
	I feel like a lot of people would choose be with your kids or, you know, have gone on another trip with your wife or, you know, went, you know, fishing with your dad again or went golfing with your buddies one more time or go hunting with your friends or whatever.
	Like those are the experiences that ultimately will come to be the defining moments of your life.
	You know what I mean?
	Like your career achievements, yeah, they're really great and you should be really proud of them.
	And I'm insanely proud of everything I've done and I will continue to work hard to be the best I can be.
	But I'm also not afraid of knowing that one day people are going to be like, damn, dude, that some bitch is old, dude.
	You talk about washed up, dude.
	Like that's going to happen to me at some point.
	Right.
	Like, oh, look at him.
	Yeah, he's over there.
	Right.
	Look at this.
	Look at this old cat.
	Look at this.
	I can't.
	Yeah.
	Yeah.
	Drinking gasoline or whatever.
	Like all that scenes.
	Yeah.
	Guys, that's not even him.
	That's just some guy that looks like Luke Cohen, you know?
	There's a lot of those.
	Nobody's ever had so many people look like him at one time on one planet, I don't think.
	100%.
	I mean, there is.
	I've got a, there's like a stat sheet thing.
	And so not really a stat sheet, but there's like a, if you're 5'8 to 6'8 and you're 200 pounds to like 600 pounds and you have like the Amish style beard, people are like, dude, you look just like me, dude.
	And that's male or female?
	100%, dude.
	And they'll be in the meeting group like, dude, everybody says I look like you.
	I'm like, bro, you are 6'8.
	Yeah.
	And you're like 180 pounds.
	You don't look anything like you don't look anything like each other.
	But there are some good ones, though.
	There are some good.
	But there's a lot of people that are desperate to look like you as well.
	I think there's a lot of people.
	Oh my God, that's not you.
	Yeah.
	There's a lot of them, dude, that are good.
	There's some really good ones out there, man.
	You've got to adopt one.
	Or how old do they have to be to get adopted?
	Dude, this guy's doing like a kind of a promo shot here.
	I haven't seen a lot of these.
	Yeah, some of these.
	That's like a remake of that promo photo.
	That's like you and me merged in one.
	Look at the one second to the right.
	No, left, left, right.
	Yeah.
	That's my nose, your face.
	There's somebody, I don't know who that is.
	Yeah, there's a lot of closeted Amish or Luke Brown.
	Sorry, or Luke Combstan.
	Amish, dude.
	A lot of closeted Amish.
	Yeah.
	You think that closeted Amish is such an interesting.
	Well, the craziest part is the one guy who he was like, there used to be a show.
	It was like Amish, something Amish.
	Yeah.
	Something Amish.
	And they just wanted something Amish.
	This one dude kept like mowing his grass.
	He had to use that old school cutter, the Spin wheel thing.
	And he's like, This sucks.
	I was adopted.
	I'm not even supposed to be Amish.
	He said, I'm not even supposed to be.
	Was it escaping Amish or breaking Amish?
	Escaping or breaking.
	Breaking Amish.
	Yeah.
	And he's like, I'm not even supposed to be Amish.
	I was adopted.
	Like, damn, dude, it sucks to be you.
	Dude, I feel like the Amish beat.
	That's a tough poll, dude.
	That'd be hard.
	Yeah, I think they'll be, but they don't get autism in their communities.
	There's a lot of health benefits of being Amish.
	Yeah, look up the health benefits of being Amish.
	Health benefits of being Amish.
	And you get on, think of the things that would be fun.
	I bet sneaking off and talking to a girl would be unreal.
	Oh, it'd be sick, dude.
	You'd be like, like, meet me over there in that area.
	Conscious behaviors are considered the normal, I guess.
	Less tobacco, less alcohol, less salt, more vitamin and mineral supplements.
	And by less, they mean no tobacco, no alcohol, right?
	I mean, I'm sure they're not allowed to have that.
	Yeah, I think prayer, like praying fast is like kind of their booze.
	I have no idea what that is.
	I'm looking.
	I love this.
	I don't know what it is.
	Maybe just close the window.
	Dude, a phantom ad?
	The just phantom ad that's playing right now, dude?
	What will you guys do for Father's Day, man?
	Dude, so talk about how kids change your life.
	My first son was born on Father's Day.
	Wow, so it's his birthday.
	Well, it won't be every year, his birthday, but same like weekend or within a day or two for sure every year.
	Wow.
	So I'm sure it will just be like, oh, yesterday was Texas birthday.
	And then the next day's Father's Day.
	And they'll be like, oh, cool, man.
	Like, thanks.
	Thanks for your sperm.
	Yeah, cool, dog.
	Appreciate it.
	Like, yeah, we're going to get you something, but we're all tired from like Texas birthday and stuff.
	So we didn't get anything.
	I'm like, you're tired from a two-year-old's birthday.
	Yeah, we're all out.
	Yeah, sorry.
	Oh, yeah.
	I remember one time buying drugs at a one-year-old's birthday.
	It was like one of the low points of my life.
	Did you bought it from the, was it one-year-old?
	No, just an associate that was a friend of his.
	Yeah.
	Friend of the one-year-old, dude.
	Yeah.
	Yeah, he'd fallen in with a couple two and a half year olds.
	Yeah.
	Had a couple side men, dude.
	You know what I mean?
	One of them had taken things to another level.
	Yeah, what else was I thinking about?
	Dude, I took a fucking...
	My brain has been rocked.
	Has it?
	Dude, I took a straight up CTE fall yesterday.
	Really?
	Yeah, yeah.
	Oh, for what?
	A little scramble, dude, today, too.
	Really?
	We all swimming or something?
	Yeah, we were pooling it, but we were in the yard, like in the grass.
	Like we had one of those splash pads out.
	Oh, yeah, those are nice.
	The kids were out like splashing around it and stuff.
	And I was wearing these like super dad like moccasin shoes.
	Like they're just like leather bottom.
	Yeah.
	And they said they literally don't have tread.
	Like it's like, it's like walking on a like marble on the bottom of your feet or something.
	Yeah, I've seen those.
	Those always seem like you're not sure what this guy's going to be like when you see him.
	And they're dude.
	They're insanely comfortable, but it rained so much the last couple of days.
	So my yard is like, this is, I mean, our house is from probably the 60s or something.
	So when they built the house, there wasn't like the same kind of like grading, permitting that goes on now.
	So like the house kind of sits on this hill, but the back, it's just a small hill, but the backyard is all kind of sloped down towards the house.
	And then right before they built the house, there's just a little bit more of a slope as to where now they would kind of have to grade it out and smooth it out.
	Back then, those bitches were a little choppy.
	Yeah, they were just like, whatever, just pop the house anywhere, you know?
	And so I'm walking down in the moccasins, dude.
	And I was, my kid was in the splash pad, dude.
	And he was like, we got him this little slide and we put him down there and he like, it like scared him and he's like crying.
	I'm like, oh, you're good, dude.
	It's cool.
	I was like, do you want to see dad jump in the big pool?
	Like, cause we have a little pool.
	Oh, yeah.
	And he was like, yeah, man.
	He's like, dude, like, cheer him up, you know?
	So I go to go down the hill, dude.
	I'm in the moccasins.
	And just, dude, both of my feet just go.
	And I'm talking about, dude, I hit the ground like my back.
	So like the way the hill is, like the flushest you could ever hit something.
	Oh, wow.
	It was like my entire back hit the ground at the same time.
	Perfectly light.
	And just boom.
	And I was just like, I mean, I just remember sitting up and I just sat there and my, my wife, my two kids are behind me.
	I can't see them.
	I'm just like, and I knew I was like, this could be serious because my wife isn't even laughing.
	Like she wasn't like, ha, you idiot.
	Like you fell.
	Like it was just, I just kind of sat there for a second and was like, and just kind of processed like, am I, is everything fine?
	Yeah, is everything.
	Like, am I cool?
	Like, can I get up from this?
	And then my wife is just like, you okay?
	And I was like, yeah, I'm good.
	Just kind of, yeah.
	But it's kind of felt like getting like, you know, I played football in high school or whatever.
	So it kind of felt like getting like just absolutely blind side blocked.
	Like, I mean, just rattling.
	Yeah.
	I mean, luckily the ground was soft because it was so wet and stuff.
	But yeah.
	It just hit flush.
	There's moments as an adult when you hit, when you get hurt and you're like, dang.
	You're like, dude.
	I'm not doing good.
	Yeah.
	You're like, man, this is 15, 20 years from now, this would be a huge issue.
	We would have a big problem, dude.
	Well, a lot of grandparents go missing, even if there's like just a slippery floor or whatever.
	Yeah.
	You have to get a skid steer out on me in a couple years from now, dude.
	Dude, imagine somebody's opening a can of peaches to make a pie or something.
	They spill some peach syrup onto the ground.
	Pop pop comes motoring through later.
	Okay.
	To get in here to get him a couple saltine crackers.
	He's got the moccasins on.
	He's got the mockies on, dude.
	Yeah, he's mocked.
	He just slips out.
	And he just slips.
	ACL goes on the way.
	Both of his knees.
	And he just, oh, yeah, that's brutal, dude.
	I never, like, yesterday was the, it was the first moment where I was like, I'm good, but like, man, this could have been like a not good situation, dude.
	You know what I mean?
	Like, it could have been not good, dude.
	It's risky now, dude.
	You don't know who's what.
	You just don't know what's going on.
	It's slippery out there in those mockers.
	Well, it's just, what, um, what did I see?
	You had done a gender reveal?
	Was it something I saw?
	Oh, I've done a few.
	Yeah.
	I've done a few.
	Yeah, do you guys get some big requests for stuff like that all the time?
	A lot of them are just like people in the crowd will have like signs, like, do this gender reveal.
	And I'm like, oh my gosh, like, we're like, you're there.
	Like, they're here, like, with the envelope.
	Like, they've waited this whole time, dude.
	Like, I always try to ask, like, what is it?
	What, you know, was it your first kid?
	What do you think it is?
	I think we're going to go, boy.
	Justin, who do you think is going to be?
	It's your girl, dude.
	Oh, that girl.
	That guy's a pervert, huh?
	Come on, guy.
	First one.
	Massey, is this you on the sticks here?
	Filming this?
	Yeah, dude.
	It's kind of nervous.
	It's like a big moment, you know?
	Oh, for sure.
	If you find out if your kid is going to be cool or not.
	Yeah, that's crazy.
	I always think what if the kid hated country music later on in life?
	For sure.
	And uses that as a thing.
	And that was their gender reveal.
	And you're like, dude, I hate that guy's music stinks, dude.
	That guy did my gender reveal?
	That was the plan, dude?
	That would be brutal.
	But dude, look, bro, at that time, we could be online doing gender reveals on cameo for people.
	You know what I'm saying?
	Like, who knows?
	There's no way that's a real thing.
	People do gender reveals on cameo all the time now.
	I saw one where they got the guy, I feel like it was the lead singer of Sugar Ray to like break up with their girlfriend.
	Yeah, it was wild, dude.
	There's some wild cameos out there.
	That's when Fly, remember that song?
	Just want.
	That song is around forever, bro.
	Here it is, dude.
	Woman on her Sugar Ray frontman, dude.
	Let's see it, dude.
	A lot of people that are just coming out of the closet now, it's adults that's doing gender reviews.
	People are like, what?
	The message was both called Cameo, which lets you pay celebrities to send you a message to your phone.
	What's up, Brayden?
	It is Mark McGrath from the band Sugaray off the charts, but always in your hearts.
	And this cameo is a little bit more.
	This is crazy.
	Okay, so Mark McGrath tells a guy named Homalone's brother.
	Dude, Buzz?
	Buzz, your girlfriend.
	Woof, dude.
	He looks like Buzz if Buzz got some different, like some facial reconstructive surgery, I feel like.
	Dude, but what did he do?
	Nothing?
	It looked like they were over-dubbing it.
	We can watch all the way through, but the news guys recently.
	Oh, he break up with a boyfriend?
	Yeah, he broke up with a boyfriend.
	Yeah.
	To break up with her.
	So a girl hires him to break up with her boyfriend.
	That's demon level.
	Yeah, it's pretty demon level.
	That's demon stuff there.
	I'm trying to think of the first time.
	I wonder if it was like his favorite band, too.
	Like, was it an Uber personal Sugar A, you mean?
	Was it like, dude, my boyfriend always loved Sugar A, so I'm hiring the lead singer to break up with him.
	Like, almost just to make him, like, hate the band or something.
	Like, was it really dark in that sense?
	Like, if you love Doritos or whatever.
	And you could hire Doritos together.
	And you could hire like Jerry Cool Ranch or whatever to break up with your girlfriend.
	Or you wrote it out in like bags of Doritos.
	It was like, we're breaking up with you.
	But like, how did they decide on the lead singer, Sugar Ray?
	Was the question?
	Was it a question of affordability?
	I don't know.
	It's a good question.
	Are you like, hey, I was going to do Hulk Hogan.
	Right.
	I was going to do Hulk Hogan, but there's a sale over here.
	There's a sale at Sugar Ray.
	Yeah, there's a sale at Sugar A for the next 30 minutes.
	Next 30 minutes.
	Breakups are half off with on Mark McGrath.
	God, that's crazy that that's even a thing now.
	It used to just be Valentine's, like you sended somebody something positive.
	And now it's like, watch me ruin this lady's heart.
	Times have changed, bro.
	I love how he said off the charts, but forever in your hearts.
	That's such a great line, dude.
	That is a good sign, dude.
	That guy's looking beautiful.
	A lot of men, sometimes they'll look so beautiful, they look like women sometimes, too.
	He's definitely aged gracefully.
	Oh, he will be a hot chick in two or three years.
	There's no doubt there's a lot of people.
	They just run that gamer.
	The full circle.
	It's not over here.
	It's a big circle.
	Oh, it is a.
	Yeah, they're just spinning around.
	Oh, definitely.
	Oh, definitely.
	There's a lot happening.
	Beautiful.
	The hair is quaffed.
	It's good.
	The hair is good, man.
	So is it whenever you start a new album, do you then have to go tour it after?
	Is that kind of how it goes?
	I think traditionally, that's how a lot of folks do it.
	This album, it feels like, in a lot of ways, non-traditional in the sense of like, it started out as just kind of this like, you know, wild idea of like, I had written a couple of these dad songs that I really liked.
	And I was like, man, I feel like, you know, these three of these songs are really great.
	I love them.
	But I was like, but I have to like choose one if I'm going to do a record because like you can't put a record out and then it's like, oh, there's like three or four dads.
	And I was like, we get it.
	Dude, we've heard that.
	Right.
	And I was like, well, would it make sense to like to do something that's, I don't want to say side project.
	That's not the right term because it is me.
	It is my stuff.
	But like, I hate the word concept album because like it feels like that's too smart for something that I'm capable of doing.
	Right.
	Like someone that makes a concept album to me is like Martians or whatever.
	Super like genius level musician.
	And I'm not that at all.
	But it's like it's like a cornbread concept album.
	Okay, you know what I mean?
	Like, but it's just, I was like, well, if I made a whole record of just these songs, you know, and then I got like, like a lot of my buddies, we're all the same age.
	So they're having kids.
	So, you know, they're, you know, they've got aging parents too.
	And so all these themes are running through all of our lives.
	And so they would start sending me little clips because, you know, they knew I had kids or whatever.
	And so they'd send me a star to something.
	And I'd go, God, man, I really love that.
	I'd love to like get together, work on that or whatever.
	And next thing you know, I end up with, you know, a whole record full of these songs.
	And I was like, we should just record these and like just do a project that's just, you know, So it's like, it's my next record, I guess, but it also doesn't feel like my next record, if that makes sense.
	Like, it's not like if you went and listened to all my other records, it's not logically the next step from like where you would think that it would go.
	It's just kind of like where my life has taken me.
	Like sonically, it's very, like I said, we recorded it live.
	So it's very, like, it's very traditional country sounding stuff because it's all just live instrumentation.
	There's a lot of fiddle.
	There's a lot of dobro.
	Like it's very natural sounding.
	And so.
	Yeah, it sounds groovy.
	I mean, I've only listened to maybe six or seven songs or something.
	But it's definitely got its own vibe to it.
	Always leaving.
	What's that one?
	Oh, yeah.
	All I ever do is leave.
	Yeah.
	That's a hammer song, dude.
	God dang.
	God, that song's brutal, dude.
	There's hodmone eyes in my ass, dude.
	I've definitely got some problems, but yes.
	There's some good ones on there, man.
	Sometimes I think it's easier for people to leave than stay, man.
	Like that.
	Some people, they just know they can't change themselves.
	Right.
	And so they'd rather leave somebody and eliminate themselves from the situation.
	Dude, that's crazy, man.
	Yeah, that's for sure, man.
	It happens all the time, dude.
	It happens all the time.
	Oh, dude.
	But yeah, when I was a kid, country music, they had this thing called crying, loving, or leaving.
	You'd call the radio station.
	Okay.
	And you'd tell them if you were crying, they'd be like, are you crying, loving, or leaving?
	And you had to tell what was happening in your life.
	And then they would play a song, but Dorothy Stole My Car Tires or whatever.
	Wow.
	And then you'd be like, all right, well, you know, and you'd be like, I'm loving.
	What it is, dude, it's still there.
	Tell her this song.
	That was it.
	107.7, crying, loving, or leaving.
	And that was it.
	You'd call in there, and then they'd play some of them.
	You'd have to wait and see.
	Dude, that's wild.
	That's a pretty cool title, though.
	It was pretty good, man.
	And you sometimes, yeah, you'd be like, this is for Tiffany.
	She's passed on.
	And they'd be like, God, I'm so sad.
	And you and Tiffany would be sitting there howling, laughing.
	One of my favorites is the some of my favorite radio skits, the John Cena one, dude.
	Oh, yeah.
	You know what I'm talking about?
	Yeah.
	Where he's just, they're spamming that lady with the like WWE paper.
	Wait a few.
	It's like a phone call.
	Yeah.
	And it's this, it's some telemarketer trying to.
	Play it up.
	It's a long play, dude.
	Hello.
	I have just one question for you.
	Are you ready?
	Am I ready for what?
	Who's this?
	Are you ready for this Sunday night when WWE Jim John Cena gets to the music?
	Dude, the music.
	And this goes on.
	They continue to call this woman on there.
	She hangs up a bunch of times, and they call her back, dude, and she gets...
	No, there is not any chance in hell that we're ever going to have wrestling in this house again.
	But thank you.
	But no.
	Because the husband called and said, hey, my wife, we bought this pay-per-view.
	And our son destroyed something.
	She got really pissed off.
	goodbye to everyone standing in John Cena's way!
	laughter
	Dude, there's one they say this spit swapping makeout match, dude.
	It's on.
	It gets to the point where at the end, they skip to like.
	Dude, she gets pissed, dude.
	Like, probably towards attitude, but keep y'all.
	She gets mad, dude.
	Yeah, I'd say probably this mark somewhere.
	She needs to get some vitamin D, probably.
	It can mess with your cortisol.
	There's one where.
	I can't handle this.
	I can't not handle this.
	No, she hangs up a bunch of times when they continue to call her back, dude.
	And then this lady has CTE, I think.
	Are you talking about the one where they fake being someone else or something?
	There's a point where they get, and this lady, when she picks up, she's like, stop coming.
	And this is like, ma'am, ma'am, ma'am.
	She's like, I have a quick question.
	Do you support our troops?
	She's like, oh my God, I'm so embarrassed.
	Like, you thought it was somebody else?
	Had been calling me or whatever.
	And they were like, and she was like, yes, I support the troops.
	And she was like, because American hero needs your help, dude.
	It's a former Marine.
	And she's like, really?
	His name's John Cena.
	Dude, she loses her mind.
	It's quite the troll, dude.
	It's the shorter version, but it's got this weird video.
	Oh, the shorter version with one of those weird TikTok videos?
	Yeah.
	Why do kids do that now?
	Like, it's just like a video of them playing Grand Theft Auto, but it's like a video just going along with videos.
	It just keeps people engaged without them having to do anything.
	Dude, that's crazy.
	It's like psychology level stuff.
	Yeah, it is.
	It's like, oh, watch this.
	Yeah, maybe.
	You're like, watch this car bounce down the road, dude.
	Oh, this is it.
	This is the one.
	All right, let's see it.
	Well, this at least has the audio.
	Can you knock it off or fight?
	So the start of this one is the audio.
	It's like the fourth time they call her when she's like, hey, do you support our troops or whatever?
	But the videos, they're mind-membing.
	Yeah.
	I swear to Jesus, this is those wrestling f ⁇ ks again.
	Okay, good morning.
	Hi, I'm just calling this morning to ask if you're a supporter of the United States military.
	Oh my God, I apologize.
	We've been getting calls all morning.
	I apologize, and yes.
	Yes, I am.
	Great.
	Are you a supporter of the Marine Corps?
	Yes, absolutely.
	Go ahead.
	Absolutely.
	Great, because a former decorated member of the United States Marine Corps needs your support.
	And his name is John C. Are you kidding me right now?
	Dude, whoever did that prank was that's an elite level.
	I guess at least No matter what, we could always just make TikToks, you know?
	Yeah, because all we need is like stock video game, like mod a video game and just do stock videos of a car like falling out of the sky.
	Well, I've had a vision for years that it's going to come down to everybody's going to be in like gig economy and people are going to be like holding each other at gunpoint to be each other's uber fares.
	So it'd be like two Uber drivers.
	Both of them need to make money though.
	Yeah.
	She'd be like, you be my fare.
	You know, that's what it's going to come down to, dude.
	I always think of iRobot when they're just in the like the floating.
	I never saw it.
	No, Wally.
	Have you seen Wally?
	Oh, yeah.
	I love Wally.
	You can watch it in Spanish, too.
	The Titanic, the space Titanic, and they're all in the chairs with like the VR headsets on and they just, they're all like 800 pounds.
	I haven't seen it.
	It's like, man, it's a terrifying potential reality for you.
	Do you guys use a lot of VR over at the house?
	Dude, no.
	Dude, what?
	Do I use a lot of VR, dude?
	What would I be using?
	I don't know.
	What do you think would be happening, dude?
	Buck hunting.
	Here's the wall.
	This is the wally visual.
	Muffin making.
	I have no idea what it would be for.
	Dude, integrated reality muffin making is what it is.
	Yeah.
	You can just point at the muffins and they go into the oven.
	Yeah, which is crazy.
	Oh, my goodness, dude.
	Dude, that would be so nuts if we had a VR, like if your whole life was VR.
	Like Neuralink, dude.
	Yeah, they just got the guy.
	You see the kid?
	Yeah, saw the guy with the Neuralink thing.
	You can play chess or whatever.
	But it seems like you can just play shitty games that they had on your cell phone like 15 years ago.
	That's the thing about Neuralink that seems so trash, too.
	It's like just Mind Sweeper.
	Yeah.
	Yeah, it's just getting there.
	It's just getting, you know.
	Yeah, it's just missing a lot of stuff.
	A guy paralyzed from Mario Kart using a Neuralink brain implant.
	Yeah, I would just.
	That's pretty gas, though.
	Yeah, I mean, he could just look at it and tell it what to do.
	It's better than not playing Mario Kart.
	That's true.
	Because that's like the other option, I think, right?
	It's like to not be playing Mario Kart.
	Yeah, I think you can.
	So that could be cool.
	Yeah, that's a good point.
	You know, if you couldn't do anything, playing chess would be cooler than like not doing anything, I think, is the alternate version.
	Yeah, but it seems like they just have a limited amount of games and stuff.
	I don't know if I'd rather Neuralink or just get a PS5 or whatever.
	Or just get a VR headset.
	Yeah.
	VR is crazy, though, man.
	You can like, there's people like having their own, like guys will get a VR and then they'll have their own family inside of the VR world, even though they already have a family in their house.
	I feel like people have already been doing that, but just in real life, people have been doing that for some time.
	People have been cheating, but this guy is doing an even less admirable version of cheating in some way, dude.
	If you'd make cheating even less admirable, it would be that version of it.
	Yeah, this dude's not even brave enough to go out there and fucking cheat and use a little gas money.
	He's just like, shut up, honey.
	I'm with the other family right now.
	In the living room, he's like, he's just dialed in, dude, to the house.
	Oh, my God.
	My other family's naked.
	It'd be like, what are you talking about, dude?
	Somebody brought one out on the road recently.
	And that's maybe been last year or something, but it was like this.
	We had a bunch of our crew guys popped it on or whatever.
	And it was like, you would get, so essentially you'd stand in this, you know, just any room or whatever, I guess.
	Saw VR works.
	Anywhere's anywhere, right?
	Oh, you could stand anywhere, yeah.
	So you have to like, you have the like thing, and you hit this button on like the elevator and you get in the elevator.
	And then when the door opens, you're like at the top of this skyscraper.
	Oh, like right, like when you'd open it, it's just the skyscraper.
	And there's a wooden plank that comes out.
	And is it windy or what?
	Well, I don't think so.
	There's no way I know one.
	Unless we had a fan on.
	Yeah, you could turn a fan on and get maybe the wind effect, you know?
	But dude, like you, so physically in the VR, like you have to like step out onto the plank.
	And you obviously know you're just like in a room.
	But it looks so weird.
	Half the guys like wouldn't get out of the elevator.
	Wow.
	And then we had one guy, my buddy Harp, just went out to the end and he was looking down and he was just like, he just jumped.
	No way.
	I was like, bro, are you good?
	Bro, I used to be in a wheelchair.
	I used to be in a wheelchair.
	That's what he's saying, dude.
	He straight up jumped off the end.
	Oh, that's full lunatic.
	If people, yeah, some people in VR are totally people that they can't be in real life.
	Like, they should have said VR Amish or VR simulator.
	Amish simulator.
	Yeah.
	Amish simulator would be so great.
	There you're going there.
	Dude, you have to actually learn Pennsylvania Dutch to play the game.
	Already a thing, dude.
	Amazimulator?
	Yeah, get in there.
	See if there's any...
	An hour and 40 minutes, dude?
	Yeah.
	Bro, you think you can be Amish in what?
	15 minutes.
	Here it is, dude.
	God, you are lying to me, dude.
	This is fully integrated.
	Amish.
	Dude, yeah, if I meet one more guy who wants to be Amish quickly, I'm going to.
	You got to work for it, dog.
	You know what I mean?
	Oh, that's awesome, man.
	And this is Amish Simulator.
	Yep.
	Activated winner.
	But the thing about being Amish, dude, imagine, bro.
	You get to sneak off all the time and try to like meet a chick or something.
	Because you can't date, I don't think, until you're 30 or what.
	What's the age of 30?
	No way.
	They have severe dating issues.
	Yeah.
	You can't date until you're 30?
	How do they have?
	No, dude, that can't be right because they have a bunch of kids.
	16. Yeah, never mind.
	I was like, 30, dude.
	Wow.
	That is like, how did that thing survive this long, dude?
	I don't know, man.
	That's crazy, dude.
	What is this?
	Is this me and the VR thing?
	Oh, no.
	This is the elevator thing.
	VR people always look.
	They always stand like they're completely naked.
	It just...
	I do look very tense.
	Yeah, you look like you're going to get I feel like they always think you're about to get busted for a crime or something too oh my god that just scrolled eight million like I just turned it and it just scrolled like eight billion pictures that your phone did yeah there's a lot of alarming stuff on people's phones um this says dating among the Amish typically begins around age 16 with most Amish couples marrying between the ages of 20 and 22 to find a perspective date the young adults socialize at functions such as frolics dude i'm in that's going with smorgasbord dude frolics church or
	home visits bro that would be me dude door to door where's the chick one of the most popular activities is the sunday night singing dude that would be you i'd be killing it at sunday night singing they would dude they oh my gosh sunday night singing they would get out the churn and get you out there milkmaids the final churn that would be your band name heavens churn yeah yeah yeah this is
	a wonderful what do they say right here um sunday evening singing with the amish the buggies were lined up for an amish singing in bell center ohio uh we happened to be camping and we're out enjoying an evening drive all of a sudden we started seeing buggies coming from all directions and we saw them all pulling into a lane there they sure looked handsome a lot of men in their sunday best they sure looked handsome what an interesting blog here dude they are a state of homestead youth culture sunday evening singings this is often
	where teenagers meet their future mates make friends and just have some good clean fun food is served peefy future mates is like gross yeah sounds very like primal you know yeah future mates say like spouse or like but i remember dude when i was growing we grew up in a pretty small town so it was like you knew you were probably gonna have to marry somebody in town somebody in the and they would even tell us that in school i remember when we're in like second grade you're probably gonna marry somebody yeah they would like look around the classroom
	there's one other classroom has kids in it you can look at some of them but you guys this is kind of the talent this is it guys yeah this is kind of everything we got going you'd be like this is bad this is definitely tough dude this is got to get out of here dude this is pretty limited um do you manage your tours differently as time goes on where you're like okay i want to do just certain cities and just or do you choose that or how do you guys put that together yeah i think you know we've had we've always had a long strategy
	on how do we you know how do we maximize this or that you know we we have certain goals you know playing overseas was always a big goal for us like consistent playing overseas consistently to the point where we feel like we had really fostered a fan base that could almost be self-sustaining in the sense of well like you know you could go tour one year you could just go tour in europe and then never play any shows in the states you know like so as to not burn every market right right if
	you go see me you know if i play every summer in you know tallahasse well it's like if that happens five or six years in a row like eventually people everybody in that market's gonna be like well i've seen that dude yeah so the idea is if i play i don't know why i picked tallahassee such a random city yeah i don't know if we've ever even played there before i haven't been there if like if you picked that city and we played there let's say i played there in 2018 right and
	then let's say obviously that's a weird year because covet happens or whatever but it's okay still a year yeah let's say i play there in 2021 and then the next time i'm gonna play there is not until 2024.
	so in those three years so much will have happened in my career i maybe i could have maybe two new albums a bunch more hit songs and those people in that market they'll have only had the opportunity to see me the time before right so they'll go well now i want to hear this song and this song and this song and like he never comes down here so i want to go like yeah i i like i i just want to be able to tour at a high level for a long time and i think to do that you have to have a really long play strategy it
	can't be about well how can i make the most money this show this weekend and charge my fans the most for tickets and do the most and sell vip things like i've never sold a meet and greet in my life yeah like that's a big point of revenue for a lot of artists is and nothing against anybody that does that by the way i just always felt weird about it um the first meet and greets i ever did were 50 and we donated all the money to a camp in georgia for children that have cancer oh yeah ever since then we've never even charged for a meet and greet all you have to do is join the
	fan club and have tickets to the show and you're entered into a lottery to win oh damn that's a good way to do it yeah like so you join the fan club and then you just put in for whatever show you're going to and it's completely free oh that's cool i come in the room like do a q a thing take pictures with everybody like and i just feel like there's so much to already like pay for yeah there's so like there's t-shirts there's beer there's food there's parking there's hotels there's babysitters there's tickets
	there's everything dude you're charged at every turn yeah and the whole experience and like i just want to meet people who came to the show man like whether it's their first show or their 15th show or whatever it is man like it's just a way for me to like i just want to say thank you to just regular folks who come to my show man like because they are the only reason that we have shows yeah like oh it's crazy to think that you can't figure out a way to thank them all the time it feels like you can never thank them enough enough dude and like it really is like i think
	about it all the time it's like you know sometimes i feel like the fan is the last person thought about in the music business wow like and that to me is really sad well they just started um they're finally bringing sanctions against uh live nation i think can you look that up i saw something about this recently they're finally bringing sanctions against him or ticket mas one of them for yeah i saw something about this on the news like two days ago but i don't know enough about it but there's definitely you're definitely right he definitely just saw something about that yeah the justice department is suing ticketmaster
	and live nation what does that mean for concert goers is it for like the fees or something i think the justice department on thursday accused live nation of engaging in a slew of practices that have allowed it to maintain a stronghold over the live music scene they accused it of using long-term contracts keep venues from choosing rival ticketers blocking venues from using multiple ticket sellers and threatening venues that they could lose money and fans if they didn't choose ticketmaster which in then they can they can jack up the prices of tickets
	in so they own 70 of ticketing that's wild that's unbelievable that's a lot dude how do you ever let that happen it just seems like they wouldn't let that happen um did you ever go see widespread panic never did man my so my best friend harp the guy that jumped off the end that's his like favorite band ever oh yeah yeah he loves them dude but i've never been i've never seen him i like them dude they're they jam though they jam for sure did you follow a jam band ever no
	i never followed a jam band around dude really never followed around the country god damn you i don't i haven't lived man i haven't lived yeah it just seemed like you were being so lazy back then it was didn't you want to make grilled cheeses own a german shepherd i wanted to sell seashell earrings out of my van dude you know what i mean like dude one time this dude was selling grilled cheeses and the dog looked like it wanted out of there yet lives in a it probably does never gets any grilled cheese by the way oh it was yeah the
	dog i think was running on a little treadmill even just powering the grilled cheese maker like sometimes those van guys in those um outside of concerts are pretty wild they got figured out is there like a big uh tailgate do some artists have like a big tailgate thing that that's part of their culture yeah for sure you know we do gosh we do a big uh a big tailgate on like you know this weekend we have or this year we have friday and saturday shows that so all the same cities so on saturday we have you've heard of whiskey jam i'm sure oh yeah it's fun so
	ward and the whiskey jam folks come out and they bring uh up and coming artists out we have a stage outside the stadium um and all that's free oh wow so i mean you don't really don't even have to have a ticket to the show to come to that if you don't want to so on saturdays man like we really try to we've worked hard to like build to like foster the culture of of our shows and how we want that experience to be for our fans like i mean the whole weekend like they get discounts at certain hotels if they're in my fan club
	and like we work with all these different people to wow to make them have yeah like to make them have the best experience that we can have you know um and so yeah the tailgating thing dude i mean obviously the chesney tailgate culture is unbelievable yeah um as was like the buffet stuff you know um we went out you know but i i think country has such a great it's just in general kind of tailgating vibe because i think a lot of those fans like i think of like the college football fan base to me
	like there's so much there's so much correlation in the in the country music fan base to that and that culture is so similar it's just fun right like that's what it should be i think people want to have fun yeah yeah for sure the other night we're in miami i was with caleb actually yep your buddies with him yep and um and we were going to some club but then we had more fun in the car on the way there just listening to country music yeah and then we got to the club and we're like this sucks yeah you're like
	dude i can't imagine so that's just trash dude i love caleb dude he's oh he's something else he said he used to manage you too did he i don't think i don't i wouldn't say that probably no no definitely not he seems like somebody who would be lying about that probably he could be could be known yeah yeah he's a so yeah he's a special guy man he's one he's a one of a kind dude we were we were buddies back in the day man like he was i think i was a senior and he was a freshman i think but he was like and
	what was he like the rapunzel of the team cousin wasn't he was like the guy like if eight quarterbacks got hurt right like as a freshman he would like come in then he would get a notification on his phone and then he could show up to the game right yeah he got a free ticket to the game but we dude but i rode the pine hard and obviously he wasn't playing because you know he was a freshman or whatever so and because yeah he wasn't ever gonna but did you um did were you any good at football no i was trash really oh yeah
	it was terrible gosh didn't apply myself man i feel like i could have been good but dude i was too busy singing all the time dude i mean i was in choir every day of high school for i mean every day of public school from sixth grade to when i graduated i was in chorus class every day and did you ever uh integrate or try and date women that were on the flag team we didn't have that no flag team yeah how do you not even have a flag team you don't have like a local military or anything you mean like rotc yeah oh
	you mean like yeah i thought you meant like oh yeah we had flag team you said there was a lot of crossover in that you think oh a lot of rotcom a lot of rotc men are the children of flag team women that's that can't be real dude that can't be a real stat i hope that's a real stat you're telling me you're honestly going to tell me luke that a lot of rotc men aren't the children of it's possible i think of uh flag
	team women flag team relationships yeah yeah flag team relationships okay yeah i think there's a possibility that there could be some correlation there you know i think there is high probability yeah high probability the new album um it comes out friday before father's day friday before father's day yep yep um fathers and sons yeah fathers and sons yep should be good man i'm excited hope people enjoy it you know yeah for
	what it is you know um well it's important too for people to take time if you can to reflect on those relationships it's hard sometimes sometimes you get so busy you don't even think about what somebody means to you sure sure man it's it's important stuff man and i think you know there's so many different paths that people have had growing up with their with their dads or their moms even you know what i mean like yeah i think there's something in these songs that you know can translate to anybody you know it's it just happens to be fathers and sons for me because you know i got two boys and you know maybe that changes
	one day and they'll be uh mothers and yeah you never know you know i you know i never know where it could lead but you could be a woman the songs mean a lot to me and i think you know i hope that i hope that people um can relate to them and listen to them and love them as much as I do for sure.
	Yeah, it's important to have anthems that go along with how we feel sometimes.
	No doubt.
	That's about it, Luke.
	Thanks for having me.
	You had a nice chat, man.
	Absolutely.
	Yeah.
	Thanks for coming in.
	Absolutely, man.
	Before you go, do artists start thinking more about collaborations now these days?
	Does that seem like something that goes through phase where it seems more fun or more accepted or more?
	I think there's definitely phases to it.
	You know, I think there's a lot of, I think I've noticed that a lot of brands are doing collaborations now too.
	Like, I don't know, like the McDonald's and Long John Silver's, the McFish Silver.
	Oh, yeah.
	You know what I mean?
	The McFish silver, dude.
	You know?
	Oh, yeah.
	There's always something.
	But it's like Crocs and, you know, Jacquar Noir clone.
	You know, it's like a scratch and sniff Jakar Noir Croc or something.
	You know what I mean?
	It's like something like that.
	Yes.
	Available only at Walgreens or something.
	You know what I mean?
	I have for sure a pair of KFC branded Crocs that smell like KFC chicken.
	Ooh.
	That's a real thing.
	I have that in my head.
	God.
	You don't get a lot of shots to have those.
	But I have the rare, dude.
	Hit stock those, dude.
	Get you a pair of dude.
	You know what I mean?
	Get you a limited release, dude.
	You know what I mean?
	Yeah, you gotta get it.
	It's how funny all my Crocs are just clabs that smell like sweat.
	Once you see, if you had mine, there it is, dude.
	Kentucky fried sold out, dog.
	God damn, they're sold out.
	And they got a chicken gibbet on top, dude.
	Oh, wow.
	It's like a drumstick.
	It comes with it, dude.
	I hope it doesn't cost extra, yeah.
	Put these on your bucket list.
	God, that's beautiful.
	And you open them, you can tie them tighter by those little nuggets.
	Those little nuggets, they smell like chicken.
	Oh, damn.
	Bro, I'll pay more for ones that don't smell like chicken.
	Don't smell like chicken.
	What about fried gibbets, dude?
	There they are.
	Fried gibbets right there.
	Damn, brother.
	I might have to get me a set of gibbets.
	Smell like fried chicken, dude.
	It says it on there.
	It does, really?
	Yep.
	Oh, God.
	They're not going to be offering that for long.
	I will say this, though.
	Did you see the squalet?
	It's like a wallet, a squirrel wallet.
	Go to squalet website.
	Squall it.
	They're sold out for years to come.
	No, just till September of 24. Yeah, get that squalid.
	Get on there.
	Look at this, bitch, Tommy.
	And this is supporting our veterans.
	Unbelievable.
	Hold on, this does support our veterans.
	I love that.
	I love that.
	Does that mean I can't laugh at it, though?
	Which you can laugh for sure with.
	It's awesome, dude.
	Yeah, I hope we help them to sell some right here.
	The squalet.
	These squirrel wallets are made with real squirrel pelts.
	I love this so much.
	The fur is super soft and pliable.
	Why is this something I need?
	I need one of these, too.
	I'll get you a dang squalid.
	Give me a squalet, baby.
	Give me a squalet.
	Well, where are you going to keep all your love for your lady at?
	You don't have a damn.
	The squirrel.
	The squalid.
	And look, can you look at some of the other products, please?
	So we're not just oggling the squalid, yeah.
	Just go to shop, maybe.
	See what they got.
	You got a skunk koozie right there.
	The scoozy.
	They got a scoozy racuzy as well.
	Raccoozy, dude.
	Golf club head cover?
	Now we're talking, dude.
	Let's see it.
	Zoom, yeah.
	Let's get this going.
	Oh, and that's fresh.
	Oh, that's a possum, dude.
	Zoom in on it.
	Not the back side of it.
	This guy's a damn pervert.
	Zoom in on the front, you creep.
	Yeah, it's a golf head club.
	Oh, wow, it's fresh possum.
	It's only 54. Be the head of the links.
	Yeah, dude.
	Gosh.
	Oh, man.
	The eyes are scary looking.
	Play dead.
	Play dad, it says as well.
	That's a father's day gift right there.
	Play dad, dude.
	Play dead.
	And one other, they got to have one other good item on here.
	We had a guy that sold a German Shepard fur coat by us.
	Kayuzi.
	That Kayusey and that's coyote, maybe?
	Yep, Kayuzi was a coyote koozie.
	That squoozy.
	Let me see that squoozy, bro.
	The skoonzie.
	Oh, yeah, that's beautiful.
	Skunk.
	Look at the eyes, though, dude.
	The eyes are freaking me out, dude.
	Yeah, you might be able to buy little shades for them.
	But these are sick.
	These are almost $65.
	They can a variety of sizes, such as tall boy, slim, and standard.
	Yeah.
	I love the happy St. Patrick's Day.
	This is the themed out.
	What are we doing, dude?
	Why is there a Happy St. Patrick's Day?
	Fucking scum.
	God, that just shows what they think of the Irish right there.
	That's the worst part.
	Are the tall boy ones more expensive than the other ones?
	No, actually the Schoonzie is, that one's almost $65.
	The Squalid was only $54.
	$54 now, you know.
	Squalid.
	But yeah, we had a dude selling a German Shepherd fur coat by us when I was young, I remember.
	This whole deal.
	He only had one.
	He might have had two.
	Seems like there's probably a lot of regulations to this business here.
	Like to be selling just kind of random animal pelts to people.
	You know what I mean?
	Like, are these farm raised?
	Are we wild caught here?
	This is farm to table, buddy.
	This is street to table, dude.
	You know what I mean?
	Hey, go to my TikToks real quick.
	I'm going to see one that I looked at.
	You see this?
	I had a big band.
	A couple of white kids made a bought for $100, took it to Minnesota on that.
	Didn't make a sauna, just strapped it instead.
	Lemousine sauna.
	So I had two.
	Figured one of the sauna and had a use on my straps from a few sauna jobs I did.
	And the chimney came off the top of this building.
	If you want to have an infringement, bro, this is on fire.
	Believe.
	On the outside.
	Do an outside now.
	Why do they have burners, ginger ails on top, dude?
	And how are these men just meeting each other?
	And then they're just getting in the snow.
	See, this is why I don't meet men online.
	That's America, dude, right there.
	That is.
	Okay, what state are we going with here, dude?
	What's our state guess?
	Oh, this, well, you have to have snow.
	I'm going to say Sauna.
	I feel like.
	Oh, there's a license plate.
	What was that license plate?
	I'm going to say Canada, probably.
	Southern Canada, Northern America.
	Saunazine, dude.
	Tea trademark.
	I love how you put the trademark on there.
	Someone's going to be like, man, I got to get that Saunazine.
	I got to steal that idea.
	That said New Hampshire.
	New Hampshire.
	There we go.
	Saunazine, dude.
	But the wood looks extreme.
	The fumes from that wood could easily kill all four or five of those men.
	For you guys that can't see at home, there's a lot of men getting into a sauna has been created inside of a limousine.
	That's definitely just smoke in there, dude.
	I feel it is full of hot smoke.
	And why is there ginger ales on top, dude?
	That's the real question.
	That's a beverage bar, dude.
	You have to have a ginger on top.
	That's open bar.
	Open bar on the Sanazine.
	That's open bar, Luke.
	Luke Combs, congrats on the new album, man.
	Thank you.
	Yeah, making sure to check it out.
	Congrats on being a father and a son.
	Yeah, absolutely.
	Thank you, buddy.
	And thanks for hanging out with us today.
	Yes, sir.
	Now, I'm just floating on the breeze, and I feel I'm falling like these leaves.
	I must be cornerstone.
	Oh, but when I reach that ground, I'll share this piece of mind I found.
	I can feel it in my bones.

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