Luke Bryan | Club Random with Bill Maher

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Speaker 1 I see her play for the first time, and I was like, that may be the biggest star I've ever seen. You knew right then.
Right then.

Speaker 1 You get blood all over you if you. All over you.
And you want that? That's just the way it is. Jesus, what a bunch of redmen.

Speaker 1 I like this.

Speaker 1 Did you dress me or did I dress you? Oh, yeah.

Speaker 1 What a great pleasure to meet you. Hey, great to see you.
Music Royalty in the house. Oh, well, royalty.
Royalty's

Speaker 1 careful with that one. Are you

Speaker 1 here for the Grammys or the fire?

Speaker 1 Well,

Speaker 1 we're typing Idol tomorrow. But are you involved in the Grammys this year? It's coming up in a minute, right? It's coming up.

Speaker 1 Kind of missed out on some Grammy nominations through the years. Well, sweetheart, you're talking to the old time.
I've had 40 nominations and they would never give it to me.

Speaker 1 It's not about me. Is it Susan Lucian?

Speaker 1 Is it like Susan Lucia? Is that the right reference?

Speaker 1 It's not.

Speaker 1 I understand where it comes from. Oh, nice there.
But

Speaker 1 what can I do? See, see, I haven't drank yet today

Speaker 1 because

Speaker 1 I'm on do vodka grapefruit.

Speaker 1 Can you bring your own grapefruit? We provide it. We provide good.
Somebody,

Speaker 1 one of your people,

Speaker 1 yeah, I'll taste that. I'll try that one.
I have a do a little half shot at it. Sure, the one that's I have a specific grapefruit person on the staff who just handles grapefruit.

Speaker 1 That's what a baller I am, Luke. Are you serious then? No, of course I'm not serious.

Speaker 1 You're kidding. Hell, I do.

Speaker 1 Hell, I was saying we're a millionaire. What do you have? Like a big, big-ass ranch, I'm guessing,

Speaker 1 Bill, I

Speaker 1 really,

Speaker 1 really fortunate.

Speaker 1 Cheers. Don't be modest.
Thank you for coming. Thank you.

Speaker 1 I highly overpoored, but we'll fix that.

Speaker 1 No, it's good. So my business manager called me years ago, 2011, and

Speaker 1 one of his clients in town. had a farm that was coming on the market.
I had just started

Speaker 1 getting to where I was making a little money and could start thinking about a farm and a place to kind of settle. And

Speaker 1 we

Speaker 1 found a hundred, it's about 150 acres about 20 minutes south of Nashville. Literally cow pastures.
This is where you guys all live.

Speaker 1 I'm surprised there's that much land still available since everybody seems to have the same fucking ranch with the cow pasture. Don't they butt up against each other?

Speaker 1 It'sn't like Brad Paisley's cow is always coming on your land.

Speaker 1 Brad's got his farm in the holler.

Speaker 1 The holler. He's kind of in a holler.

Speaker 1 I'm in a cow pasture. I'll build up.
I thought a holler, and the only thing I know about a holler is from the movie with Sissy Spacek. Right.
Where she played Loretta Lynn.

Speaker 1 Right, a coal miner's daughter.

Speaker 1 Coal miner's daughter. Butcher holler.

Speaker 1 Butcher holler. I always thought a holler was like a ghetto in the country, like the

Speaker 1 really

Speaker 1 a bad, kind of poor area,

Speaker 1 but country version. Well,

Speaker 1 a holler, the best way to describe a holler is

Speaker 1 there's an old classic song that Brad actually, Brad Paisley actually re-recorded called You'll Never Leave Harlan Alive.

Speaker 1 and it's the the a famous line is the sun comes up about 10 in the morning and it goes down about three in the day so a holler is you're you got two mountains it's essentially uh an appalachian valley it's what uh a gully a gully a glen a glen or what Well, you know, like from Glen to Glen.

Speaker 1 You know that from Danny Boy, right? You know Danny Boy. Don't know Danny.
Oh, come on. Is that a Danny Boy? Everybody, oh, Danny Boy.

Speaker 1 This is a bad thing.

Speaker 1 Is that a musical? It's like the Irish anthem. Danny Boy.
I'm sure. Hell, I'm redneck.
I don't know that. Everybody knows that no matter what color their neck is.

Speaker 1 Go back to your crew

Speaker 1 on Idol and ask them about Danny Boy and

Speaker 1 they'll all say, of course. Well, is it a musical? Oh, Danny Boy.
No,

Speaker 1 it's like the Irish traditional folk song.

Speaker 1 It's with bagpipes. It's awful.
But

Speaker 1 you've heard it. I'm not probably singing it well, but that to me is what I feel like.

Speaker 1 Because, you know, I mean, Ireland, places like that, that's my heritage.

Speaker 1 You know, very similar in ways to

Speaker 1 Appalachia and, you know, very rural,

Speaker 1 clannish.

Speaker 1 I mean, the southern part of the United States

Speaker 1 has sort of its character because it was

Speaker 1 founded and populated by Scots and Irish. Have you ever seen Gone with the Wind? Certainly.
Okay, Scarlett O'Hara. Right.
And her father has

Speaker 1 the brogue campaign. However, that was an original, an O'Brien.
Oh, is that right? And they moved the...

Speaker 1 And my mother

Speaker 1 is adopted. So what was funny is we never knew anything.
I've always had dark complexion, and we always thought that I had maybe some Native American in me or something like that.

Speaker 1 But we, I'm, I'm 33% Scandinavian and about 20% Irish. So another few

Speaker 1 percent

Speaker 1 what? 2% West West African. You are.
Yeah. Oh, you had your thing done? You had your wow.

Speaker 1 2%

Speaker 1 West African. Yeah.
Yep. Well, that didn't come over in the Mayflower.

Speaker 1 That was a much worse ship.

Speaker 1 Yeah,

Speaker 1 we did some bad things, But, you know, the good thing is, as Obama used to say, the arc bends more toward justice. You know, we keep, I think, basically getting better.

Speaker 1 I mean, don't tell that to the kids because they like to believe that.

Speaker 1 I have to live

Speaker 1 with the hope that we are getting better. I believe it.
You are sparking out over there?

Speaker 1 It's hysterical that these things, I say this every week, but how did they burn down half of Vietnam with these Zippo lighters?

Speaker 1 I just can never get, I get it at home, I put the lighter in, the fluid, and then I get here and it never works. Here you go.

Speaker 1 But I don't want that one.

Speaker 1 I want it to look like this.

Speaker 1 Cool. These look like.
See, Bill, you didn't even do the cool flicker. Cool.
I can't even do it with two hands. It's not me.
It's this fucking thing. I don't know why I

Speaker 1 don't know what I'm doing. I'm getting cigars.
I'm doing wrong. I may get a cigar.

Speaker 1 You can. I mean, I never understand what anyone sees in them, but if it makes you happy, I'm more than happy to.
What is that?

Speaker 1 No, it's just a little recreational. I don't know.
I don't do it that much. I mean, I'm sure

Speaker 1 there are people who've sat right there who do it all day long, you know, but I never was that kind of guy. But for a special occasion with a special person, it's great to get to know you.

Speaker 1 You know, I have to

Speaker 1 be honest, growing up in New Jersey, you know, country music was just not on my radar. It's just not something we we did.

Speaker 1 So I'm slowly catching up to it because, like, for so long, and it was my fault, I just wrote it off as like, that's just a different kind of music that I, I don't.

Speaker 1 And then slowly, I, you know,

Speaker 1 even starting like back in the 90s with, I remember Brooks and Dunn, and then Obama used to play their Only in America song, which I love. And I was like, wow, this is not

Speaker 1 my granddaddy's country, you know, it's a great old

Speaker 1 morphed into

Speaker 1 Americana americana and with rock and roll and i tell you when i go play um when i'm in jersey when when

Speaker 1 when i'm up there in that part of

Speaker 1 when i'm up there in that part of the world and i see part of the world

Speaker 1 well that's

Speaker 1 like we're eskimos or something

Speaker 1 it's new jersey we have a turnpike luke we have a turnpike that you pay a toll on. Oh, we pay too many tolls.

Speaker 1 Too high taxes. The

Speaker 1 and when I say that, when you grow up in South Georgia and you

Speaker 1 start your music journey and then you arrive in New Jersey and people are screaming your music, it's one of the most

Speaker 1 proudest moments you could have as a musician because,

Speaker 1 and what was my term I use

Speaker 1 up up there or what did I just say that you people that

Speaker 1 no you that

Speaker 1 part of the world that part of the world that unexplored

Speaker 1 foreign land mark grab me a cigar out of my green bag please if you get a minute done sit here and let this man smoke alone club cigarettes

Speaker 1 that's what i used to call it because i thought they wouldn't let me do it but yes so again we've changed so much 32 years old 30 32 years ago reluctantly tried weed and man it's been something that i never uh never done a lot of but i don't have those stigmas

Speaker 1 why do you say reluctantly

Speaker 1 because man i grew up in the bible belt where right it was built it was seriously what does the bible say about it because i don't remember anything well i i don't even know why they called it the bible belt until somebody explained it to me but i don't remember anything in the Sermon on the Mount.

Speaker 1 I remember things about, you know, the meek shall inherit the earth. And, you know, there were other very interesting, I mean, Jesus was quite the revolutionary philosopher.

Speaker 1 I don't remember anything about not sparking up,

Speaker 1 you know, that it would corrupt you or, you know, whatever they said later about it.

Speaker 1 Well, it's devil's weed. No, no, no, no.

Speaker 1 The gateway.

Speaker 1 Gateway. Well, actually, it's funny.
That's ironic because the gateway drug is actually beer, which is. Well, and your parents' beer.

Speaker 1 Well, I mean, the love that you country people have for beer is just something I've never, ever seen on this earth. I mean,

Speaker 1 the devotion to the singing about it, the encomiums. Well, and I've

Speaker 1 hit subjects. It's fucking beer.

Speaker 1 I never understand that.

Speaker 1 The amount of songs that

Speaker 1 beer

Speaker 1 is really ingrained in the culture. I mean, we, it's

Speaker 1 from the football aspects of growing up in the South to sharing your first beer with your dad to sneaking your first beer, trying to buy your first beer, you know, with a fake ID.

Speaker 1 Wait, so you drank it with your dad before you snook it?

Speaker 1 Well, you know, when we were kids, I think if we were on a hunting trip or a fishing trip, as a kid, you'd have a

Speaker 1 beer. Well, you'd be, you'd go, dad, what does beer taste like? And your dad hands you a Budweiser and you taste it and spit it out of the boat.

Speaker 1 So I just think it's a part of our, it's ingrained in our culture as, um, and

Speaker 1 it just, it's involved in, in when we play shows and honk and tonks and the fabric of, I mean, heck, when you look at, there's a tear in my beer, Hank, Hank Williams. And that was 60 years ago.

Speaker 1 So it's beers, beer's a pretty. Yeah, no, it's almost liturgical.
It's It's almost like an anointment, like a sacrament. There's something almost.
But did beer not mean that? Was it not? I hate beer.

Speaker 1 I think beer is gross.

Speaker 1 I mean, I've drunk way too much liquor in my life. It wasn't beer.
I feel like beer is a poor man's liquor. It's gassy.
You need to drink a shitload of it to get high.

Speaker 1 You know, I don't like wine either. I think wine's another, because they're both like six and eight or ten percent alcohol or something.
This shit's like 90.

Speaker 1 Get to the point yes it's so funny you guys you like beer and moonshine either three percent alcohol or or yeah or 200 you're ingesting 3 000 calories or you're blackout what in two minutes you know larry flint used to give me moonshine larry flint remember him yeah the huskweight

Speaker 1 yeah club random i'm getting the random now

Speaker 1 The random is.

Speaker 1 Right. Right.
We try to live up to our name. Well, but no, I never liked beer.
I remember, I think it was the first thing I ever drank because I have a memory of being, I don't know, 14 or something.

Speaker 1 And

Speaker 1 at night with a bunch of other ne'er-do-well,

Speaker 1 oh, we were a rough gang there in New Jersey. Oh, we grew up on the mean streets.
Well, the mean circular driveways of Bergen County, New Jersey.

Speaker 1 No, we weren't rich at all, but it was, you know, like lower middle class. We had a little house.
And so we went on the golf course and drank Rolling Rock beers. Rolling Rock.

Speaker 1 Did you have that in the sound? We had Rolling Rock in the city.

Speaker 1 They were called green grenades. They were like little bottles.
And I remember. How old were y'all? Old enough that I threw up.
Threw it up. I threw it, yeah.

Speaker 1 Of course, your body rejects every drug you do at first because you shouldn't be doing it. Yeah, my first beers were

Speaker 1 probably

Speaker 1 15, 16. And then we would, every now and then we'd go get Old English,

Speaker 1 which was like a malt liquor beer. I remember one called Southern Comfort.
Southern Comfort. That sounds like it may have come from your neck of the woods.
We used to do Southern Comfort.

Speaker 1 Southern Comfort and Comfort and Lemonade.

Speaker 1 Wow.

Speaker 1 That's as.

Speaker 1 That's like. Did you ever do Bartles and James fuzzy navels? No.
You remember those things? I remember Bartles and James, but I'm not even sure. Was that liquor?

Speaker 1 I thought it was some sort of wine corporation. It was like

Speaker 1 the first Smearing Off Ice.

Speaker 1 It was 10 years before

Speaker 1 Smirnoff Ice or Zima's. You remember Zimas?

Speaker 1 Vaguely, yeah.

Speaker 1 No, there was that terrible period when you're first drinking and you don't have a drink. You know, you see it.
So you got to sample them. You just drink anything.

Speaker 1 And they're down to what you don't throw in. Well, I mean, it's just not good not to have a drink.
You know, James Bond had a drink. Right.

Speaker 1 Vodka.

Speaker 1 Shaken, not stirred. You know, there was no, that's a man.
You don't want to be like, um, planter's punch.

Speaker 1 Whatever fucking thing you do. And the football players are endorsed.
I mean, it's, it's hard not to start. You know, I know, but it's like, that's what you expect from a young girl.

Speaker 1 You know, what are you drinking? I don't know.

Speaker 1 Okay. You know, just they, you don't want to be there with liquor.
You want to know.

Speaker 1 Listen, be glad

Speaker 1 you probably.

Speaker 1 didn't do the

Speaker 1 Jaeger, the Yager bombs. Oh, I did.
I used to do. Did you do Jaeger bombs? I remember doing, oh, my God, I can't even believe I did this to myself.

Speaker 1 I remember drinking, when I did finally get a drink, it was Jack Daniels for like 25 years. They sent me a plot of land,

Speaker 1 like just a one-foot plot. Right, right.
That's how much fucking Jack Daniels I was apparently consuming.

Speaker 1 And I remember drinking all night at like a Playboy Mansion party and then like at three in the morning, starting with the Jaeger meister.

Speaker 1 I mean, how could my body have taken that bill i didn't realize you

Speaker 1 i didn't realize all this drinking was going on and well that was certainly wasn't every night but yeah yeah but i get it but jaeger bombs were oh oh oh i mean

Speaker 1 and then you and then this is just so terrible the work you know what and then so my college drink very interesting crown and water

Speaker 1 As a, as a 20, I didn't get to college till I was 21. Well, I'd gotten a two-year degree from a small junior college and then transferred.
So I was 21. What did you think you were going to be?

Speaker 1 Man, I didn't think I'd be this.

Speaker 1 No. See, I did.
Did you? I thought you would be exactly this. No,

Speaker 1 I knew I was going to be a comedian when I was like eight years old. Well, I knew I loved being on stage and I knew I loved performing and singing.

Speaker 1 But I think I just, I knew that I had to to do college too. That was really ingrained in me.
Yeah, me too. So I wasn't, you know, I was at 20.
But what was your backup plan?

Speaker 1 My backup plan would have been,

Speaker 1 you know, after I left college, I was playing in bars and at different colleges all through the South East. And man, it was fun as shit.
We'd load up on the weekends and

Speaker 1 we'd go build one market.

Speaker 1 We'd go try to do Valdosta, Georgia, and then Statesboro and then kind of my hometown. And then we try to start doing Athens and we play all these shows in Athens, Georgia.

Speaker 1 And if you could get in the damn Athens music scene,

Speaker 1 the Athens music scene where we sold out the Georgia Theater for the first time. Athens, maybe I'm wrong, but I think of Athens as alternative.
I mean, Athens is REM.

Speaker 1 No doubt. No doubt.
And B-52s. Yeah.
And, but listen, I mean. I think of Athens as sort of the alternative to Nashville's more mainstream.
It totally is.

Speaker 1 And there's such amazing music coming out of, you know, coming out of Athens. But, Bill, you got to.
Macon, Georgia. How about Macon? Macon, shit.

Speaker 1 Well, that's more my era. Like, they turned out a lot of, like, what came out of Macon.
Allman Brothers. Pullman Brothers.
Jesus. What about Lauren? Leonard Skynyrd? Where's that from?

Speaker 1 Leonard Skinnyard was, they're from Jacksonville. Oh, yeah, that's right.
Same thing.

Speaker 1 So, man, you know, making, you got James Brown. Oh, right.
You got

Speaker 1 Stacks Records? Is that from? Is that Capricorn Records? A guy named Phil Warren.

Speaker 1 Okay, where was Stacks? Maybe? Stacks was Memphis. Memphis.
Memphis. Yeah.
So,

Speaker 1 yeah. Shit, Bill.
And then Elvis. Sun Records.
That's, you know, that's Memphis. Well, you know, and God, there's so many complexities in all that Southern music.

Speaker 1 But

Speaker 1 when I started headlining the Georgia theater in Athens

Speaker 1 in

Speaker 1 what you said,

Speaker 1 Athens was a real diverse town,

Speaker 1 certainly.

Speaker 1 And for me to go in there and probably way more politically liberal

Speaker 1 than your standard southern university or was leaning that way at the time.

Speaker 1 For example, I bet in the last election, Nashville voted, you know, it's a city, it's blue, so it's not going to be like, but I bet you, considering how well Trump did in places he hadn't done that well in the first time around, I bet you Nashville was maybe 50-50 Trump for her, whereas Athens, I bet you was 70% for Kamala Harris.

Speaker 1 Just politically, I think that's where they are. Right now, I think Athens may have tilted back a little a few years ago, but but I couldn't argue with you on that.

Speaker 1 I don't know. I mean, the South is diverse.
I mean, I played Huntsville, Alabama,

Speaker 1 you know, which is where NASA is. Right.
Yeah. I mean,

Speaker 1 that crowd was almost too liberal for me. Yeah, and Huntsville's one of the fastest growing.

Speaker 1 Yeah.

Speaker 1 If they're probably the number one fastest-growing city in

Speaker 1 North America or even

Speaker 1 suddenly in the South, but Huntsville's on fire.

Speaker 1 Huntsville is on fire?

Speaker 1 Well, on fire. Yeah, I know.

Speaker 1 Yeah, we're not that sensitive about it. Lord,

Speaker 1 no, we are not on fire today.

Speaker 1 But the

Speaker 1 Huntsville's a great town, National.

Speaker 1 Why? Because they're pouring a lot of money into NASA or maybe the space program. I think the space program.

Speaker 1 I think... But there's just a lot of smart tech people there.
Because the space program pulled a melting pot of smart people from

Speaker 1 all walks of life right i mean i guess 30 40 years ago when the space program

Speaker 1 maybe was really rocking in huntsville that pulled all the smartest people right from india

Speaker 1 right

Speaker 1 i mean it pulled everybody to huntsville well they're getting pulled there for their brains and all that but then 40 years later those

Speaker 1 Those ethnic, you know, different cultures.

Speaker 1 Badass little spots. I think that mixture is great.
Me too.

Speaker 1 It's amazing. I mean, eggheads, they should be in fucking Alabama.
You know, just because the people are generally nicer.

Speaker 1 I mean, look, if we get onto political issues, are we going to have arguments about some things? Yeah, we are. But, you know, I keep preaching.

Speaker 1 You can't hate people who disagree with you, except about the most absolute.

Speaker 1 outrageous things, but you can't hate them if they like Trump. You can hate Trump.
I get that. I'm not a big fan.
But you can't hate them for who they like.

Speaker 1 So like, I think it's very good when those type of people who normally would be at Stanford or some other stifling place with a equally obnoxious sort of wokeness that's uber, uber, uber on the left, get down to a real place and talk to real people and you'll see that they're not monsters.

Speaker 1 And actually, in a lot of ways, they're just more fun to hang out with. They're looser.
They're not uptight. You can make jokes.

Speaker 1 They're not looking around the room to see who's the bigger name. You know, there's a lot to recommend it.
South's amazing. Oh, man.
Yeah, I wouldn't live there.

Speaker 1 No, I'm not.

Speaker 1 But I really do like it. And I could.

Speaker 1 There are places I could live. But I, you know, I look with all the, even with the fire, I've been here 42 years, bro.
I'm dug in. Yeah.
And, you know, I came from Georgia and then,

Speaker 1 you know, Georgia brought me,

Speaker 1 obviously, out here with American Idol. Yeah.

Speaker 1 It's not horrible out here, is it? Man, it's amazing. I mean, it really is.
Is it really that horrible to go to the tower bar for dinner? No.

Speaker 1 It's not bad at all. And what I really,

Speaker 1 I go back home to Georgia and even friends in Tennessee and they're like, man.

Speaker 1 How crazy is it out there in L.A.? And I'm like, man, it's not that crazy. There's just good restaurants.

Speaker 1 Yeah. I mean, a lot of the people are crazy, but they're show people.
And show people, they're just not. You know,

Speaker 1 what I can't handle, man, is just,

Speaker 1 I just hate seeing homeless people struggling, man.

Speaker 1 When I didn't grow up seeing homeless people, and because it was like in the South,

Speaker 1 churches would help. Churches would come together and help.
Sure.

Speaker 1 Somebody's struggling. That's the kind of thing churches do.
I never denied it. I'm an atheist.

Speaker 1 I don't deny it. Well, but churches would

Speaker 1 keep people going. And then as a Southern boy, you come out to LA and I'm like,

Speaker 1 how can we fix this? It is my dream that every homeless person in LA has their own holler. No.
But I think we can...

Speaker 1 You could fill a holler up

Speaker 1 with the homeless people out here. And I hate that because...
Do you feel like there's no homeless in Nashville? Yeah, there are. There are, and it's a problem.

Speaker 1 And what is, what is Nashville's solution?

Speaker 1 Man, I think they're trying to figure it out. So that's what we're.
They're trying to figure it out. And,

Speaker 1 man, every, you know, every

Speaker 1 crosswalk, I mean, every red light and stuff, there's a homeless person sitting there. Now, how many acres do you have on your farm? 150.
And you can't fit any homeless there? Bill.

Speaker 1 No, I'm fucking with you. That was amazing.

Speaker 1 That was amazing. It's so wrong to do that to me.

Speaker 1 Hey, I've got a lot of land here, too. This partner's got five acres up here.
No, I don't have five acres up here, but I got a nice little holler. And you know what?

Speaker 1 I'd love to invite all the homeless, but I'm not going to do it either. And neither would anybody.
I understand.

Speaker 1 No one is. Don't ever shame me for not being as good a person as you.
And don't pretend that you wouldn't be inviting a potential nightmare in your life that

Speaker 1 also probably wouldn't even benefit them. That's not the answer that we have with the homeless into our private residences.
The answer is that government, as you said, should figure this out.

Speaker 1 And the fact that they can is ridiculous.

Speaker 1 I know why we can't here because everything is a bureaucratic nightmare with too much red tape and regulations.

Speaker 1 If I was king, I would just make a giant, or many, if I guess you needed that many, you know, shelters, barracks. I'm sorry if you have to live in barracks, but it's better than living on the street.

Speaker 1 And they do that and they said, they don't want to live there. There's no security.
Get some.

Speaker 1 How much did it cost to put a fucking guard on every aisle of the barracks and make sure nobody is robbing each other? Have doctors

Speaker 1 compared to like they pay for putting them up in hotel rooms. That's what they do.
They come. Mental health people

Speaker 1 there.

Speaker 1 I mean, they do it on an ad hoc basis. They've had, they usually do this in third world countries, as as big as America is now often a third world country in some ways.
They have these

Speaker 1 big

Speaker 1 events for like three days where they'll put up a big tent in some place where there's extreme poverty. And you can do this in Ethiopia, but I've also seen it done in Appalachia.

Speaker 1 And they have a big tent, and people from the area know who cannot get

Speaker 1 their teeth looked at or eyeglasses. They come in and it's like it's like a renaissance fair, except you're getting your fucking tooth pulled that is killing you uh

Speaker 1 i don't know why that can't be a semi-permanent version of that

Speaker 1 i i agree with you i think you're the one who should have to answer that well no man i agree with you like yeah just get them somewhere just get them somewhere where they're not in you know out there hurting in the street I mean, I'm not.

Speaker 1 I mean, that's got to be just like of all the answers that we could come up with for this, I feel like bottom of the barrel is stay on the street, which seems to be, you know, like that's the ultra-woke position is like, don't, don't disturb them.

Speaker 1 It's like messing with a

Speaker 1 endangered species that's in its natural habitat. And we can't.

Speaker 1 So don't, that's the mental approach to it. seems to be wrong.
And by the way, it wasn't what liberals believed 20 years ago. I used to do that show called

Speaker 1 Comic Relief. Do you remember that on 18? Certainly.
That That Whoopi Goldberg and Billy Carstol and Robert Williams. And the whole point of it was, let's get these people.
Y'all were my damn base.

Speaker 1 I mean, y'all were

Speaker 1 weaved into what I learned comedy as a kid. Really? Hell yeah.

Speaker 1 What did you watch as a kid? What was on? Like,

Speaker 1 you were a kid in the 90s? Yeah, man. I was a kid when Thriller came out.
80s. Yeah, when Thriller came out.
Okay. Yeah, that was early 80s.
Yeah. I mean, I was born in 76.
Thriller? Thriller?

Speaker 1 Oh, my God.

Speaker 1 What a moment. Yeah.
Thriller was. Bill, we would, you know, Thriller came out and we would rush home from school and we knew at certain increments MTV was going to play the thriller video.

Speaker 1 Is that right? And we watched it every time.

Speaker 1 And then we watched Foot Loose. So you thought, so Michael Jackson was.

Speaker 1 Oh, my God.

Speaker 1 When my family members would have, you know, a bunch of of people come in the house, my dad and my mother and my brother and my sister, they would make me dance like Michael Jackson in front of strangers.

Speaker 1 Yeah. See, I'm always trying to prosecute this argument that America is just much more complicated than the two sides who are always screaming at each other would allow.

Speaker 1 It's just like these things that you might not suspect.

Speaker 1 had this special that's running now, and then I talk about J.D. Vance's grandmother, who told him when he was eight years old and thought he might be gay because he only had boyfriends.

Speaker 1 And she says to him, you know, do you like to suck dicks? Do you want to suck dicks?

Speaker 1 And he said, J.D. Vance's grandmother said that.
Said that to him. Yeah, because he was saying, am I gay, grandma? And she said, do you want to suck dicks? And he said, no.

Speaker 1 And she said, then you're not gay. But even if you did, God would still love you.
J.D. Vance told you that.
No, no, it's in his book. Wow.

Speaker 1 Hillbilly Elegy. Right.
Well, I've heard the...

Speaker 1 And the point is, like... I've heard, you know, the movie getting around that he wrote it, but I hadn't had a chance to sit down and watch it.

Speaker 1 Oh, yeah, Ron Howard made it into a movie. Right.

Speaker 1 Was Amy Adams? I haven't seen either. I just read the part about the dicks.
Well, I got you. But I just think, you know, coming from his grandmother who was

Speaker 1 born in Kentucky in 1933, America is just not as easily pigeonholed as they would want to make it. And see, I know this because I've traveled this country

Speaker 1 for over 40 years. Right.
Everybody's got their differences.

Speaker 1 But they're basically the same. You damn right they are.

Speaker 1 Because you know what they don't want to do?

Speaker 1 I mean, they want to come to great music. They want to see all kinds of great music from rap to country to damn.

Speaker 1 They just want to come out and spend their hard-earned money, and they want their tax dollars to look like it's helping the country. And also, I got to say, don't you agree? I totally agree.

Speaker 1 I mean, man, I've looked at the from when I moved to Nashville and made zero to what I make now, and I paid a ton of taxes. And, man, I just want to see it.

Speaker 1 I just want to be able to go, that's my damn

Speaker 1 tax dollars working right there. That's helping people and making the making the country a better place.
But I've never, I've yet to see.

Speaker 1 Buddy, I live in a state with 13% tax on every year and i just had to endure a fire

Speaker 1 that would have happened anyway but could have been handled a lot better but my 13

Speaker 1 was not used wisely i know

Speaker 1 you see it do well yes i do gosh that's what i'm saying is i do but you know

Speaker 1 we just are in this place where people are locked into these um they're brainwashed on both sides like a certain percentage of them i can't get through to them i can't get through to the ones who are supposedly on my team i mean i've said to people right in that chair you know like we voted for the same person

Speaker 1 uh it's just that you are why she lost because

Speaker 1 well and and

Speaker 1 you know

Speaker 1 shoot i don't i don't know it was uh it's been a crazy you know you look from the it's just been a crazy political time in in my life it's it's only getting crazier and yet you know I just will not sit there and stand for America Sucks.

Speaker 1 And, you know, like

Speaker 1 a lot of what you see,

Speaker 1 and it just comes from rank ignorance. I mean, they're just so ignorant.
They have no idea what anywhere else in the world is actually like. They just know this is the worst place.

Speaker 1 And that we're irredeemable and racist from the beginning and that will never change, even though it's changed immeasurably.

Speaker 1 All that kind of stuff. That's what they know.
But,

Speaker 1 you know, I'm just always amazed at with what all we're dragging behind us, not just the over-bureaucracy and the taxes that don't go to the right things, but, you know, like really kind of losing democracy now and how somehow, somehow, the economy is all based on two things: cryptocurrency and rich men paying women on the internet to do something while they masturbate.

Speaker 1 That's the entire. And yet, we

Speaker 1 keep going, America.

Speaker 1 It's like my dog Chico. He should be 17.
He should be dead. He's out there barking at nothing right now.
He would just keep going.

Speaker 1 I do. And I love America.

Speaker 1 We just keep going.

Speaker 1 It's hard to make a place like this go, though. We're irrepressible, though.

Speaker 1 Like we can't. And I was thinking about that a couple of days ago, and you're like.

Speaker 1 Man, it's hard to keep

Speaker 1 the different people in this country. It's hard to keep them in check with all their little

Speaker 1 with all their little spots from the south and the northeast and in the midwest and what the midwest claims they're great at, like basketball or something.

Speaker 1 And then you get the south say, I mean, just from sports and culture and all that. And then you think.
And music. And music.

Speaker 1 Look at all the crossover between

Speaker 1 rap, R ⁇ B now with music. I mean, Beyonce having the big country.

Speaker 1 Right. I mean, who's the Shabuzzi? Is he the

Speaker 1 but that comes from you liking Michael Jackson when you were six?

Speaker 1 Exactly. Yeah.
And that's what, but that's what this country, this country made that, hey, where's Mike Butler?

Speaker 1 But no, this country made,

Speaker 1 made all that happen. We fought our, we fought, we're fighting all the time as a country, but damn, we made our way through it.
And here we are.

Speaker 1 And there really aren't people who just want to gin up the bad side. And look, I've been a living making fun of this country for 31 years on television.
I get it, and I haven't stopped doing it.

Speaker 1 But I like to keep it in perspective. So, you know, when I hear about what a racist, misogynist patriarchy we live in, how do you even leave the house?

Speaker 1 You know, I'm like, I'm traveling all over the country. I'm just waiting for for one dirty look from one black person.
Just a dirty look. It ain't going to happen.
Well, it might happen.

Speaker 1 But like, I just never see, like, in real life, I don't see like some, maybe they're the greatest actors in the world. I don't think that's what it is.

Speaker 1 I think just like we're people, I'm here doing a job. You're doing your job.
We're respecting each other. We're, hey, bro, how you doing? I just don't see this

Speaker 1 hatred that they want. Some people just seem to want to always be stoking it.
I hate that. I do too.
And it happens on both sides.

Speaker 1 I wish you wouldn't. Well, that's because, you know, everyone's on social media and you know what algorithms thrive on, hatred, controversy.
That's what gets more people clicking.

Speaker 1 Love does not get you clicking. You bring up, you know, when you think about,

Speaker 1 I mean, Shibuzzi and

Speaker 1 then you think about, I mean, Hill Beyoncé's,

Speaker 1 and she's probably the greatest singer in her lifetime, actress. I mean, she's one of the best singer and performer

Speaker 1 of all time, in my opinion. She's certainly a little successful.
Gosh, she's so successful. And then you look at,

Speaker 1 I mean,

Speaker 1 gosh, I mean, I remember

Speaker 1 seeing Destiny's Child and just wondering and seeing Beyonce. And I was like, that's one of the most beautiful human beings I've ever seen in my life.

Speaker 1 And then she sings like that and goes on to have this career. And then

Speaker 1 it's just, that's me. But so, I mean, Taylor Swift.
Oh, I was about to say that. Taylor Swift's year.
No.

Speaker 1 She, what she did is incredible, Bill. Yeah, I don't really get either one of their musics, but that's me.
You know, I'm 69 years old. I don't have to.
Ain't for you.

Speaker 1 Well,

Speaker 1 some stuff that's younger is definitely for me. Right.
I do, because it sounds to me more like the kind kind of stuff, you know, the weekend is for me, a lot with his hits anyway. Great.

Speaker 1 Like, it sounds like something that could have been a hit in the 70s or even the late 60s when I first started to listen to music. You know, it's just got that feel.

Speaker 1 And then, like,

Speaker 1 you know, Nikki Glazer was here. She's like,

Speaker 1 you know, she's the biggest Jellus Whip fan. She's been to the show 18 times.

Speaker 1 Unbelievable. And then, but her personality would, you would think,

Speaker 1 because she's such a great dominating female personality, her personality, you would think she would not like Taylor Swift. And then you find out she's like gone to her show 18 times, right?

Speaker 1 Did you have Nikki Pegg to be like a Taylor Swift person? Yeah, because I know Nikki for a long time. I did.
Oh, yeah. And, well, Taylor Swift

Speaker 1 must be doing some Vulcan mind meld to the whim. There must be some estrogen-laden sort of vibe that's some

Speaker 1 evil ray. Not evil.
It's not evil. It's not evil, but it is a ray.
Okay, it is a ray that's going out to all women.

Speaker 1 And

Speaker 1 so it makes them think that this music is, it's not terrible music.

Speaker 1 I just don't get it, that it's like

Speaker 1 why it has been elevated to this level when it seems to me fairly

Speaker 1 run of the mill. I mean, again, not bad.

Speaker 1 Listen.

Speaker 1 But I watched, Nikki said, you got to watch, you'll catch up on her whole oeuvre, watch the concert film. And I did,

Speaker 1 all 19 hours of it. And,

Speaker 1 you know, I was really struggling because I always want to like everything. Like, I'm just a customer.
I have no musical ability. I'm just the young man in the 22nd.
All right, listen.

Speaker 1 Do you know why Taylor Swift is that big? Tell me. Man.

Speaker 1 When she first started, it was right when social media

Speaker 1 where you could talk to your fans well 2009 was the smartphone and that was her first year maybe so i think well taylor swift

Speaker 1 so

Speaker 1 i was going to

Speaker 1 i was going on a radio tour for my first single

Speaker 1 and heartbreak hotel oh shit

Speaker 1 no oh that's elvis you remind me hey i will You remind me of that. I will take the compliment.
It is a compliment.

Speaker 1 So I got, I get to, I have to fly out and meet a radio station up in the north, up in the northwest.

Speaker 1 And first time I'd ever been to the northwest, and it was just beautiful, just gorgeous. The two, you know, the two volcanic mountains in the background.

Speaker 1 My ass was fired up to be up there in the northwest. Well, I go to this little nightclub.
It's, it's Halloween night. Oh.

Speaker 1 Wow. And my song, my first single, All My Friends Say, had not come out of the radio, but I just went to go see a concert and Taylor Swift was on this,

Speaker 1 on this

Speaker 1 Halloween night. She was on this radio show.

Speaker 1 And I had just heard the song Tim McGraw

Speaker 1 for the first time. And it was interesting to me when I heard that song.
And I remember thinking. She wrote a song called Tim McGraw? She wrote a song called Tim McGraw.
How confusing.

Speaker 1 To someone like me who's just learning about country music, there's a song by a country star called another country star but go ahead okay tim mcraw so she um it's like moves like jagger

Speaker 1 totally it was age 10 and man she crushed it with that song right and so i'm standing there at that uh bar and the radio station brings her out and i see her play for the first time and she's got an angel costume on with little butterfly wings and her little sparkly guitar and like a little halo and i'm sitting there watching this girl sing and man i was like

Speaker 1 that may be the biggest star I've ever seen. You knew right then.
Right then. Because

Speaker 1 she just had it. Right.
I mean, she had the outfit. Oh, she does put on a great show.
She had.

Speaker 1 You know, I feel bad every time Tele Shift comes up. I have to be honest about it.
I don't quite get the music, although I like Sparks Fly.

Speaker 1 Hell yeah, you do. That one I do.
Well, she got you from that one. Yeah, she did.
So that's all it takes.

Speaker 1 Well, it's not all it takes because obviously I've i've heard the other ones and didn't get god well listen there was one i liked in the concert what um

Speaker 1 other than sparks fly because you already liked

Speaker 1 it something all um

Speaker 1 all those years ago or all i don't know i forget i only it was it was pretty good but really i mean there's a lot of singing on a roof with moss that i'm listening so she when she right after i saw her in that halloween show

Speaker 1 you know the world on street was she was out there talking to all her fans on socials.

Speaker 1 Nobody ever did it more than her. No, I mean, she earned every

Speaker 1 she worked her butt off to earn those fans. Right.

Speaker 1 Well,

Speaker 1 and here's to her butt, but but I, but I just want to say, like, and this is a backhand. I'm not rambling the money.
No, you are not.

Speaker 1 Well, first of all, the show is about rambling, so it couldn't be bad. But

Speaker 1 like,

Speaker 1 this sounds like a backhanded compliment, but I I admire her.

Speaker 1 Yeah, the music either works or it doesn't. But as a human,

Speaker 1 I have great admiration because to be that far up in the stratosphere and not be doing anything stupid, being still a good role model, basically, you know,

Speaker 1 she's had a bunch of boyfriends and boyfriends. I mean,

Speaker 1 yeah, when you're, what is she, 30? And people are like, 35. Boyfriends are the worst you can say.

Speaker 1 Excuse me, girlfriend, she's 35.

Speaker 1 Yeah, but the only thing people can say about her is she's had boyfriends. No, excuse me.
And then she goes to Lance Travis Kelsey. Well, first of all, and then it's like, oh my gosh.

Speaker 1 I want to go back to this, but I did this once, I think, on my show. What? And it's pretty funny.
I'm only being facetious, but like all these boyfriends.

Speaker 1 And like to be that famous where we actually could name, I could name, I don't even, I'm not even a fan. And I can name all her boyfriends.

Speaker 1 Okay, there was John Mayer and the English actor and the other English actor. and then there was you know i could go down the list how do you

Speaker 1 jylon hall because because she's that ubiquitous you're you just named that but my

Speaker 1 you're you just named you couldn't name two of her songs but you know exactly

Speaker 1 that says a lot

Speaker 1 you know you just

Speaker 1 I don't know all the boyfriends you just rambled off. None of them are black.

Speaker 1 I'm just going to say,

Speaker 1 couldn't we, shouldn't we really, in this day and age, have one in there? I mean, and then she goes to the NFL, which is 80% black, and finds a white guy. I mean, you don't even look that hard.

Speaker 1 I mean, for God's sakes, especially on defense.

Speaker 1 All right. That's, again, facetious, but no.
I mean, I am thinking.

Speaker 1 Think about it.

Speaker 1 This is with Travis Kelsey. She's so.
Which is crazy. First of all, that's going to end.
But then there are tabloids like... That's going to end.
Oh, I don't know. I don't know.

Speaker 1 Do you want to make a bet? I don't want to make a bet, but what's funny is there's tabloids like Taylor and Travis Kelsey's mom. I agree.
And I'm like, what are we doing?

Speaker 1 I want to go on record as saying, and this is a knock on either one of them. I think they're both fine people.
But that relationship is going to end like Rihanna's husband, ASAP and Rocky.

Speaker 1 No.

Speaker 1 But

Speaker 1 look, Travis is not the keeper. He's just not.
I mean,

Speaker 1 he's not yet ready to be house-trained. He's not.
And he's going to be coming off another Super Bowl.

Speaker 1 I'm not getting into any of that.

Speaker 1 Of course, you shouldn't. But I'm just telling you, he's you 20 years ago with more liquor in him.
I mean, it's just, you know, think about what you were 20 years ago, right?

Speaker 1 Well, is that, are you married? Yes, I am. How long? 18 years.

Speaker 1 Wow. Yeah, 18 years of marriage.
That's just, it's amazing. We celebrated,

Speaker 1 well, hell, we just celebrated it in December.

Speaker 1 So how did you know she was the one? Man, I just walked into,

Speaker 1 you know, she walked into a bar and there she was. And it was just like

Speaker 1 that one right there. That's so interesting.
And then it was a college bar, a college bar that,

Speaker 1 you know, that if my brother doesn't pass away, I never go to that college.

Speaker 1 And then

Speaker 1 if you lost your brother. Right, I lost my brother.
And then that sent me down this this path. And then

Speaker 1 I meet Caroline and we kind of date on and off through college, but it wasn't time. And we kind of broke up at the end of college.
And then

Speaker 1 it was five and a half years till we got back together. And man, that five and a half years, I

Speaker 1 went to Nashville and got my career going. I did all kind of crazy shit, you know, drinking.
Like I said, I told you I started college drinking crown and water.

Speaker 1 Who the hell is 21 and just, well, that's all they drink? Crown and water? Are you kidding me?

Speaker 1 I had Daryl Hall of Hall of Oats here.

Speaker 1 What did the hell they drink? Well, they don't drink anything together because they're suing each other. Oh, God, they need to get over that shit, too.

Speaker 1 Yeah, they put out some great records. Dude, every time I party, I listen to you make my dreams come true.
Wow.

Speaker 1 It's the greatest. No, they were.

Speaker 1 We ought to rock. We ought to play that damn song.
But I asked you at the end.

Speaker 1 of our careers, which is shortly after

Speaker 1 9.30.

Speaker 1 No, we're fine.

Speaker 1 You make my

Speaker 1 but I said to him, like, how did, because like back in the day, I mean, he was a real matinee idol-looking guy. And, you know, plus that falsetto and the voice.

Speaker 1 And the, I said, how does a rock star, you know, with all the women throwing themselves at you, I mean, how do you resist? And he said, it's impossible.

Speaker 1 I just thought. Poor guy.
Yeah, poor guy. Right.
Well, man, you know, haul of notes. And heck.
So anyway, just me and my wife, we've got, you know, three kids at home with us.

Speaker 1 And so circling back to that, it's.

Speaker 1 It's just been an amazing ride with my family and my life. My dad's family.

Speaker 1 My nephew came to live with us when he was 13, and he's now 23. Nephew.
Nephew, Till.

Speaker 1 He was my sister's son. Oh, that's beautiful.
And beautiful. And then

Speaker 1 we got our 16-year-old, Beau, and got a 14-year-old named Tate. So three boys.
And then. Those are rough ages, 16 and 14.
I'm guessing. I don't have kids.

Speaker 1 It's pretty amazing, though. You know, they're.
But aren't they too into the viral, I mean, the virtual world?

Speaker 1 Yeah, they are. You you know what's crazy and fortnite man fortnight yeah

Speaker 1 jesus i wouldn't know it if i tripped over it but i certainly have heard a lot about it and i vaguely know i certainly know it's not real it's something they're playing man right dude but these kids love it i know i'm my son for christmas you know gets the whole new like processor to process the speed of this damn thing for Christmas.

Speaker 1 It's got all these light up fans on the back and he gets a set of headphones, a new keyboard and a mouse and he looks like a, he's on a turntable and they're, they're talking to their friends on headsets

Speaker 1 and talking shit and cussing.

Speaker 1 And then I have to go in there and, I mean, they're, they're into that Fortnite.

Speaker 1 Getting them out of their virtual world is becoming more and more of an impossible task. I mean, this is the same thing that's going on on in their sex lives because look at the success of OnlyFans.

Speaker 1 I mean, OnlyFans is a bunch of guys who must know in some part of their brain that this girl that they're paying is not really their girlfriend.

Speaker 1 Not even the person who's actually texting back to them. That's some fat guy in the Philippines.

Speaker 1 And they don't seem to care. They would rather do that than have a real girlfriend or do whatever it takes to get a real girlfriend.
I feel this is not going to come out well.

Speaker 1 Well,

Speaker 1 you know, we just,

Speaker 1 I don't know what those guys are up to, but,

Speaker 1 you know, you just got to teach your dang kids to go

Speaker 1 try to be funny in class and work hard and study and keep your, I don't know. But do you do things with them in the outdoors? I mean, things.
Do I? Yeah. That's all we do.
Oh. What about the Fortnite?

Speaker 1 Well, that's how I get them away from that. Oh, I see.
I mean, man, I've taken my kids on. We go on every hunting and fishing trip together.
So that's good. You still murder innocent creatures

Speaker 1 with family members. Thank God that tradition lives.

Speaker 1 It lives

Speaker 1 with our family. And, man, we have a lot of.
So what do you hunt? Man, we hunt. Do you eat what you hunt? Yeah, you know, we certainly do.
And like I said,

Speaker 1 I approve. Oh man, but it's not like, well, what's you know, Bill, we go on an annual elk hunt with my me and my three boys,

Speaker 1 and uh, we kill a couple of elk a year,

Speaker 1 and um,

Speaker 1 we get it processed at some elk dude out in uh you got an elk man, you got an elk processor, yeah, I got an elk man.

Speaker 1 Well, listen, processes my elk. So, listen, then

Speaker 1 I'm at my farm one day

Speaker 1 and I see this huge refrigerator truck pull up to my farm.

Speaker 1 And

Speaker 1 I'm like, what in the hell is this? It's a giant truck.

Speaker 1 And I run up there to the side of it and I said, man, why are you here? He goes, you, Mr. Brian? And I said, yeah.
He goes, I'm delivering your elk meat.

Speaker 1 And I'm like, shit, I never knew that's how it got to my farm. It just always showed up in our refrigerator in the garage.

Speaker 1 But I met the guy that delivers it. Well, it turns out this dude has a business where he picks up everybody's wild game

Speaker 1 that

Speaker 1 they go do in, oh, totally.

Speaker 1 So am I blowing your mind with this? I'm listening. He picks up his, it blew my mind.
This guy's job is to take his refrigerator truck, pick everybody's game up and deliver it to their house.

Speaker 1 And man, we eat, you know, know, we eat, we eat all of our elk every year.

Speaker 1 I had a

Speaker 1 girlfriend in the late 80s, early 90s, and her father was military. And,

Speaker 1 you know, he was a hunter, and I remember spending time there and eating a lot of elk.

Speaker 1 What did you think about it? I thought, you know, if you're going to the fucking supermarket and buying a package of meat, you're no, you know, let's not get each other.

Speaker 1 Either you're eating meat or you're not. And yeah,

Speaker 1 if you're going to eat it, it's probably even better if you kill it yourself. They don't process it.
You know, it's not like animals don't kill each other. That's always been my moral justification.

Speaker 1 I just don't believe in torturing animals until we kill them. Man, I don't think we need to torture them.
But they do.

Speaker 1 That's what factory farming is, torturing pigs and

Speaker 1 chickens and cows until it's just like

Speaker 1 well you know there's a lot of gray area and all that i i mean i would agriculture in america is disgusting well they got it they got to work on it i think so they got to work harder well they do and they don't they don't care it's profit why you have friends in the pig industry man i got friends everywhere okay well you should tell them i got friends in the pig industry well tell them to put a crowbar in their wallet and pry out 10 million dollars and they won't live any worse if they don't torture the pigs before because pigs are very smart they know what's happening

Speaker 1 well

Speaker 1 i do know i i know people in the pig industry and i'll take that info in listen you didn't think you were gonna get confronted on that on this episode of 60 minutes did you

Speaker 1 man i i i think that's what it's all about

Speaker 1 um

Speaker 1 here hearing your side my thoughts on like i said with the elk stuff,

Speaker 1 it just elk is lean, right? Very lean, and

Speaker 1 all of the stuff of wild game and

Speaker 1 you know, cattle and all that. And like I said, I'm not even this guy that's eating.
How do you eat your elk? Do you man,

Speaker 1 we get most of it in hamburger.

Speaker 1 So you make it like a burger out of it? We'll do burgers and then taco night and spaghetti night or bolognese night. Oh, man, we don't ever buy ground beef anymore.
Right.

Speaker 1 And it's pretty.

Speaker 1 But like I said, I mean, when you go out there to murder the elk,

Speaker 1 I love it. So you're there with your boys.
Man,

Speaker 1 you all got a gun. And we got a boat.
You see? Bow hunting. Oh, really? Is that true? 100%.

Speaker 1 Why? Because it makes it more of a sport? Because the animal is like, I respect you.

Speaker 1 Before he got goes. Here's the deal, man.
When you have these, you know, elk are a herd animal. Yeah.

Speaker 1 Well, if you go up to an elk herd and you have a gun,

Speaker 1 it's not hard at all to shoot an elk. It's unfair.
I wouldn't say it's unfair. Oh, please.
Well, listen, I mean, we as humans, we have the knowledge to make hunting unfair. You know.

Speaker 1 Well, it's unfair to begin with. First of all,

Speaker 1 to call it a sport. It's a sport if a sport was

Speaker 1 the case where one team didn't even know the game was going on and the other team.

Speaker 1 The other team knows the game's going on. They don't know a guy's in there with a rifle.
But look, they see you and they run off and man. Yeah, that's true.
Yeah, yeah, that's true.

Speaker 1 And the kids do that. The kids have failure.

Speaker 1 failures in hunting.

Speaker 1 That's the big thing about hunting. I mean, they can figure out,

Speaker 1 they can figure out a,

Speaker 1 you know, the codes, Heller's cheat codes and they can go figure what if you just if you shoot at the with your arrow you you shoot at the elk but you just nick his ear like trump man

Speaker 1 you know and just and so so it's like if you nick an elk in the ear

Speaker 1 it don't even know it that might as well have been a mosquito bite to them yeah

Speaker 1 because

Speaker 1 I mean, they're a tough animal. But it's tough if you just wing it and it's got the arrow in it and it runs off because then it's got to live with the arrow.
It gets home, the wife is

Speaker 1 what happened. Dude,

Speaker 1 you can hit an elk not properly and that elk's fine.

Speaker 1 Yeah, look. No, he'll, they're so tough.
I mean, and then the beauty of bow hunting and all that is when it comes together perfectly and the elk doesn't suffer. The elk runs 20 yards.

Speaker 1 And then at that point, you've got to pack the elk off the mountain. Okay.
So you. So Bill, check this out.
Okay. You You go through all that.

Speaker 1 Well, then the work, you know, you have hiked eight miles a day for four days. You shoot an elk.
He elk dies right there, clean. You're like perfect shot.

Speaker 1 Then you got to pack that damn thing five miles off the mountain. What do you mean, pack it? You've got to quarter it up in the field.
Quarter it up. Quarter it up.
Cut it. Cut it up.

Speaker 1 Cut it into quarters. Cut it into quarters.
What do you use for that?

Speaker 1 Knives and Ben Solomon's bone saw? No,

Speaker 1 you know, you just get real sharp blades and you carve the animal up. It's right through the ribs and every other.
Man, you don't, you go along the ribs for the back strap. You quarter out.

Speaker 1 You do leave the ribs and the carcass, the neck, but your shoulders from here, your back straps, your tenderloins, and then all the... What do you do with the head?

Speaker 1 Whoever killed it totes the head out.

Speaker 1 That's the heaviest part. What do you put it in, like a hat box no you tote it on your shoulders the head the head what do you mean tote it on you what do you put it in no you um

Speaker 1 you get blood all over you if you all over you and you want that that's just the way it is jesus what a bunch of redness

Speaker 1 and i mean that in a good way but wow really you want the blood all over you damn i wouldn't say you want it but it's just about i gotta i got an important hunting question you see the elk okay you're there with your boys right you all got your bows ready.

Speaker 1 Does one guy, do you decide one guy takes the shot or do you all empty your clip like the LA Police Department?

Speaker 1 No, really. Does one guy take the shot or do you all take the shot at the same time?

Speaker 1 Man.

Speaker 1 What?

Speaker 1 I kept asking.

Speaker 1 Well, with us, we, you know,

Speaker 1 like I said, my nephew the first year, he,

Speaker 1 it was his turn, and not everybody gets an elk every year. Oh, I see.
It's his turn. What's that? It's his turn.

Speaker 1 You said it. You go by turns.

Speaker 1 He said it was his turn to shoot the elk. My nephew's, yes.
Yeah, yeah.

Speaker 1 So, like, now he got that one. Next year, it's your turn or one of the other boys? Yes, sir.

Speaker 1 Well, again, I can't judge it because I eat meat.

Speaker 1 What? I'm telling you,

Speaker 1 I don't judge judge it. I only judge torturing animals,

Speaker 1 not killing them. They kill each other.

Speaker 1 To me, that's a moral position.

Speaker 1 I know my friends at PETA,

Speaker 1 and I'm a board member.

Speaker 1 Yeah, great. Yeah.
I know they don't agree. They're vegetarians.
But look, the science, frankly, is just not out on that.

Speaker 1 There's no real evidence that we shouldn't be eating meat as human creatures. You know, our ancestors did it.
And well, I mean,

Speaker 1 you know, I think

Speaker 1 there's so much, there's so much stuff out there. I think people just do what they got to do to survive in their different environments.
And yeah,

Speaker 1 it's also an economic issue. Poor people eat at McDonald's for a reason.

Speaker 1 Because it fills you up, it tastes great, kills you eventually, but you know,

Speaker 1 people are thinking about the end of the month, not the end of their life, you know. And

Speaker 1 but no, I don't, I'm look, I always loved playing the Red States because I would get a crowd that was hip, smart, but didn't have that fucking woke stick up their ass,

Speaker 1 you know? And you felt that though? In some cities.

Speaker 1 You know, it got better in recent years, even in like woke places like San Francisco, because the crowd understood that I was going to give them what we agree on, which is we're not conservatives, but we don't just pretend that woke nonsense isn't nonsense.

Speaker 1 And they want to hear that. I mean, Trump is changing America in the last two days, like overnight.
And look, I didn't agree with a lot of the stuff, but the leftists,

Speaker 1 they invited this by overreaching on the other side. He's getting rid of all DEI.
Well, they went too far the other way. They put DEI everywhere.
They left the border open.

Speaker 1 Like you look at the chart for like this president, like Clinton and Obama and Bush.

Speaker 1 Trump, it changed very little. And then Biden.

Speaker 1 Of course they're going to like overreact to that. You know, they invited it on themselves.
So yeah, I mean, in recent years, it's been great because I get that crowd.

Speaker 1 But, yeah, there were times when I was in San Francisco. I hate to pick on them, but there are places that are very wokey thinking, God, I wish I was in Alabama.

Speaker 1 Because that crowd laughs, but they don't have, they're not pretentious, you know. They're basically liberal, but they don't, they're not too politically correct.
And comedy.

Speaker 1 is not politically correct. Yeah, I mean, for us, it's not comedy.
You know what I mean? My grandfather was a Southern Democrat. I mean,

Speaker 1 that was just what he was. All Democrats used to be, I mean, all Southerners used to be Democrats.

Speaker 1 Kennedy changed that. And,

Speaker 1 you know, I remember

Speaker 1 it was just, you know, that was a thing. And then growing up in a Republican household, I mean, it was, but man, you know, it just,

Speaker 1 I don't know, in the South, we just.

Speaker 1 I don't think we really care that much. I mean, we don't want to damn wake up.
Right. We just want to wake up.

Speaker 1 First of all, people have to understand politics mostly comes out of like your personality and where you were born and raised. You know, it's just, it's just deeper than just,

Speaker 1 we're the good people and anyone who thinks differently isn't. It's just not that simple.
It's just so annoying, that attitude.

Speaker 1 And I live amongst it because this is the epicenter of Hollywood, that terrible attitude. But yeah, most people just,

Speaker 1 first of all, they don't want to think about it at all.

Speaker 1 When Biden got elected, that was really his big pledge was, if you elect me, you don't have to start, you don't have to keep thinking about Donald Trump and all this stuff.

Speaker 1 Of course, that was a pipe dream because Trump never went away and then he won the election again. So we never stopped thinking about it.

Speaker 1 But most people, they would like to stop thinking about politics because it doesn't really, in their view, affect their lives. Government can help their lives.

Speaker 1 They usually don't recognize when it does. They very well note when it doesn't.
But basically, would they even know who was president a lot of the times? Many times, in many households, not.

Speaker 1 And they want to just get back to that, you know? And I can't blame them. I can't blame them.
It's too on people's minds. They put it in their social media.
They put it in what they write on Facebook.

Speaker 1 And so we're always like cockfighting each other. Yeah, you know, like making.

Speaker 1 And we, you know, like, we don't have to. We can just talk about murdering animals

Speaker 1 which i'm not against if you eat them

Speaker 1 well

Speaker 1 and like i said back to what we were saying man it's hard to get everybody together on the same stuff in this country and then

Speaker 1 and it just takes time and it takes work and

Speaker 1 so what's it like playing la

Speaker 1 man where do you where do you play here well i played uh Hollywood Bowl. Oh, that's a bigger range.
Several times.

Speaker 1 That's great.

Speaker 1 I played the Dodger Stadium. Well, that's which, which was

Speaker 1 Dodger Stadium. Wow.
Dodger Stadium. I mean, so that goes back to what I tell you with,

Speaker 1 you know, New Jersey.

Speaker 1 And I mean, thinking New Jersey and then coming out here and playing Dodger Stadium, I was like, it was just

Speaker 1 so trippy.

Speaker 1 I got into cycling and I cycled up a big hill that morning and stood out over the stadium looking down and

Speaker 1 um

Speaker 1 shoot i was like damn that's dodger stadium and i mean anytime

Speaker 1 anytime you're playing a place whose last name is stadium

Speaker 1 you did well man it's it all came out in the wash for you gosh do you do you ever like worry like because i always feel like music is you know the muse is sitting on your shoulder

Speaker 1 and sometimes he sits there for one hit.

Speaker 1 You've heard that term, one hit, one time. Yeah.

Speaker 1 And sometimes, like you, and, you know, not just you, but, you know, he's there for a while.

Speaker 1 But you just have to worry,

Speaker 1 like,

Speaker 1 is the next one going to come? Because it's not something you can control completely. No, I mean, you just...
do your best to try to write a write a great song.

Speaker 1 But you actually try. You don't wait for it to come.
Well, I do that also. I take songs.

Speaker 1 I love the songwriting community in Nashville and the fact that

Speaker 1 they can send songs to me.

Speaker 1 And so I love trying to record a little bit of Nashville's,

Speaker 1 what their songwriting community has.

Speaker 1 So, yeah, it's, you know, you wake up every day trying to make great music.

Speaker 1 Sometimes you.

Speaker 1 Just because it's a fickle industry. Well, it's tough.
And you can't. Right.
And, you know, with kids on idle, man, they're up there singing in front of us.

Speaker 1 And we try to get them to this level and that level. But, man, they got to go to work after that.
Or it just doesn't work. Yeah.
I mean, look at what you worked as a comedian.

Speaker 1 And then look at, I mean, you do

Speaker 1 a funny, one funny joke.

Speaker 1 For the what? On TikTok, and then you're a funny comedian, but

Speaker 1 you did a million bad ones. I did.
I had my version of playing those rock and roll bars that you played. Right.
I played a million small clubs.

Speaker 1 I played bars, which is not even a place a comedian should be. I played with no stage, standing on a floor with sawdust on it.
You know, I mean, oh, yeah. But, you know, you had it.
I had it.

Speaker 1 It's the best thing in the world that could have happened. It's so good.
And I had fun the whole way. I've never not had fun.
I mean, I think

Speaker 1 it was more fun for you than me. It's less fun for a comedian in that stage.
Really? Yeah.

Speaker 1 I think music, even if you're in a little shitty place, first of all, girls still come for you. It's a comedian, you're just a loser.
And very often

Speaker 1 they're just not listening or, you know. In that stage.
Yes. You're just, it's a sacrificial lamb kind of a thing.
And you spent how many years having to.

Speaker 1 I mean, not that many in that really learned. You learn.
It just

Speaker 1 toughens you. It's the only way you can learn.

Speaker 1 I mean, man, I had,

Speaker 1 I mean, you had bad shows.

Speaker 1 Oh, yeah. And no one was videoing them.

Speaker 1 Jesus, could you imagine if they'd have videoed them, those bad ones?

Speaker 1 Yeah. Well, that's one reason I got off the road just now, because,

Speaker 1 I mean, among other reasons, like, I don't trust the crowd anymore. Everyone is just out there to get a scalp.
You know, they tell them to turn the phones off. Now, you could collect the phone.

Speaker 1 Some people do that, but I really don't want to do that to the audience. Most of them, I feel like it would be an insult.
I feel like my audience are my friends. They could be my friends.

Speaker 1 They think like me. It's just not something you would get from just a random sampling of the people out there.
So I don't want to insult them like that.

Speaker 1 But, you know, every once in a while, or somebody who's directly hostile to you, can film your show,

Speaker 1 take things out of context. And also, you're pushing boundaries.

Speaker 1 You know, he crossed the line. Yeah, that's my job to cross the line.
And how do I know where the line is sometimes until I cross it?

Speaker 1 You should thank me for crossing the line and every comedian who does it. Right.
But I don't know. You have to cross the line.
You do.

Speaker 1 Look at Johnny Cash.

Speaker 1 He was, that's what he had to do. I crossed, no, I walked the line.
I walked the line, but man,

Speaker 1 God, you look at it.

Speaker 1 Have you ever seen Walk Hard?

Speaker 1 You know, I know.

Speaker 1 It is the funniest.

Speaker 1 If you haven't seen it or saw it once, watch it. Was it John C.
Riley?

Speaker 1 Yes.

Speaker 1 You know, that's probably his only movie I haven't watched from top to bottom. Oh, you have to.
It's about your industry. It's about the music.
It's hysterical. I've seen clips of it.

Speaker 1 It's Judd Appetow. It's fantastic.
Oh, you got to watch it. It's a scream.

Speaker 1 You know, he's Johnny Cash at the beginning. Right.
And then, but then they take it into the 60s, so he meets the the Beatles.

Speaker 1 He goes through his Dylan phase, his Bob Dylan phase, which is very apropos now with, have you seen the Dylan movie? I hadn't seen it yet. I haven't either.
I want to see it. Me too.
I love the

Speaker 1 previews. It really looked good.
It's out now, though, right? Yeah. Are you a Dylan fan? You know, in my household, we didn't,

Speaker 1 you know, I just heard Dylan kind of on the peripheral. I didn't really,

Speaker 1 I just never really got a chance to listen to him. And through the years, I wouldn't say I was a,

Speaker 1 you know, I wouldn't say that I was a big Dylan fan. But, but, God, when you look at,

Speaker 1 you know, when

Speaker 1 like the band, didn't he write Tagalod, Fanny? I think he wrote that. Well, that is a band song.
That's called The Wait. The Wait, yeah.
I mean, did Dylan write that?

Speaker 1 He wrote so many songs sometimes where you'd think, oh, wow, Dylan wrote that because it wasn't a hit for him. You know,

Speaker 1 I mean,

Speaker 1 sometimes he was well served, I think, by somebody else singing his song because, like, you know, he had a,

Speaker 1 I don't, you know, they make fun of his singing voice. It was certainly unique.
It's obviously like beyond charismatic because he's Bob Dylan.

Speaker 1 So if he didn't hit every note perfectly, but he's actually,

Speaker 1 you know, he does hit, it's not like he sings clams. He sings in his own very distinctive way.
Yeah, but I never, I thought, I liked his voice. I thought

Speaker 1 being. It's certainly not Robert Goulet.

Speaker 1 Not everybody can be, and not everybody can be. Not everybody should be.
Well, when you look at,

Speaker 1 you know, Paul Simon through the years, I mean. Love him.
Gosh.

Speaker 1 So that's somebody who like

Speaker 1 a crazy Paul Simon fan, but. I am.
I'm a crazy Paul Simon fan. But I know enough that, man, what a career he built.

Speaker 1 And both lyrically and music. Totally.
Like very few people write lyrics, I think,

Speaker 1 that stand up as poetry without the music. He is one of them.

Speaker 1 Totally. I mean, when you think about

Speaker 1 Paul Simon and,

Speaker 1 I mean,

Speaker 1 what? Well, I was going to say that. Sound like LeBron James now.
Well, I was going back to Dylan and Simon and then, you know, those guys at James Taylor, who

Speaker 1 James Taylor,

Speaker 1 these guys are not like,

Speaker 1 they're just not like a Robert Plant. They're not like a Robert Plant type singer.

Speaker 1 Robert Plant was, you know, no one. I mean, he was just the greatest.
Well, then you look,

Speaker 1 you know, but Paul Simon and singers like that could make it. And then Robert Plant could do that.

Speaker 1 It's just funny how everybody can find their little niche as long as you've got something that's your niche and you've set yourself. I mean, I've heard a lot of collabs.

Speaker 1 I've never heard like heavy metal in country. That seems one that's sort of elusive.
Like I can't imagine like Robert Plant, you know, doing something with you.

Speaker 1 Well, he and Allison Krauss did some stuff together.

Speaker 1 Well, that's jazz. She's

Speaker 1 jazz. She's bluegrass.
She is?

Speaker 1 In her core, yeah. Well, maybe, but Robert Plant in later years was less Led Zeppelin-y.

Speaker 1 When they were like,

Speaker 1 you know, that they hit an E chord and the world was shaken. You know, I mean, Led Zeppelin, that's when I was in college.
I mean,

Speaker 1 you know, the country rap thing works.

Speaker 1 Hell yeah, it does. But I'm not sure about country heavy metal.
It might. I'm trying to think.
I mean, Jay-Z did rap with, like, he did 99 problems with, I think,

Speaker 1 was it Rage Against the Machine? Somebody like that that was kind of heavy metal.

Speaker 1 But I could see why rap and heavy metal can go together. Country, I don't know.

Speaker 1 You know, I'm going to go through my mind, but I bet, gosh, there's been some

Speaker 1 there's been some CMT crossover stuff. So much more collabbing than when I was a kid.
When I was a kid, no, you know, Tommy James and the Shondells, like, they all tried to kill each other. What?

Speaker 1 Well, I mean, back in those days of music, man, those artists didn't like,

Speaker 1 I mean, they were out hunting. I mean, they were out working to be better than the other.
I mean, it was

Speaker 1 cutthroat. It was.
Yeah, yeah. I mean, it was, I don't know, by cutthroat, but it was competitive.
Very competitive.

Speaker 1 And there was no like, you know, hey, the Fifth Dimension, why don't you come on my record? Like, fuck off. I'm doing my own record.
We can get on your record.

Speaker 1 But now, like, nobody puts out a record all day. Man, there's a lot of them.
And

Speaker 1 there's a lot of collabs out there, but people love it. People just love it.
You do it. Yeah, I mean, I, I mean.

Speaker 1 What about Dolly Parton? I hadn't done anything with Dolly yet. Why? It's an insult to you.
Well, I wouldn't say that. Oh, I would.
Why, why when you collab with Dolly Parton?

Speaker 1 It just hadn't happened. I mean, I've met

Speaker 1 I've seen Dolly in concert. Man, she's,

Speaker 1 you know, I just hit, it hadn't happened yet, but it might happen after the, after, you know, Bill, you're so adamant about it. Absolutely, I am adamant.
So I'm a one-issue candidate.

Speaker 1 Luke has to do a fucking collab with Dolly Park.

Speaker 1 Well, who is your favorite collab that you ever worked with when you did a collab?

Speaker 1 Gosh.

Speaker 1 I don't know. You know, early on, I did a collab with FGL, Florida, Georgia line, and it was a fun called This Is How We Roll.
It was really fun.

Speaker 1 I've got a

Speaker 1 suggest a few people. What's that? May I suggest a few people? Who's that? Steely Dan.

Speaker 1 Whoa.

Speaker 1 Are you reeling in?

Speaker 1 Reeling in the ears. Is it? Yeah, you're reeling in the ears.
So good.

Speaker 1 Great. Right.

Speaker 1 Okay.

Speaker 1 Well, the guitar solo and that. I I mean, that was a two-man group.
One of them's gone. So, you know,

Speaker 1 I think I can get in there with him.

Speaker 1 Steve Miller band. Come on.

Speaker 1 Classic. Oh, what's their song?

Speaker 1 The Joker. Yes.
Come on. There's a little country in that song.

Speaker 1 I mean, totally. You really draw your inspiration from a really wide range.
And yeah, never asked to, didn't even mean to. It was just

Speaker 1 whatever my sisters and her friends and man, whatever they listened to.

Speaker 1 But I mean, you seem to be the product of all that.

Speaker 1 The whole range of

Speaker 1 the American songbook. Hell, I remember, you know, Prince.
Yeah. When Prince had that damn album where he had the jeans cut out of his

Speaker 1 ass cheeks. I was like, I was like.
I don't remember that one.

Speaker 1 I think that was a picture. I don't remember it, Mike.

Speaker 1 Maybe you imagined that or

Speaker 1 somebody sent it to you. I'll reference it right now, but I was like, oh, is this crazy?

Speaker 1 I used to have a poster of him around. Prince was damn crazy.
Yes. What an animal.
Prince, I mean, very few people have wettened pussies like Prince at 5'2,

Speaker 1 bitch.

Speaker 1 5'2.

Speaker 1 And very, I mean, gangster. I know, very gangster.
I mean, 5'2. Trust me, I knew women who knew him.
I knew women who talked about him. And that 5'2,

Speaker 1 you know, for all the women who are on,

Speaker 1 you know, whatever the dating site is where they're like, well, you know, Tinder, I wouldn't go out with a guy who wasn't six foot tall.

Speaker 1 Yeah, you would.

Speaker 1 I know one you would.

Speaker 1 He was the pussy whisperer.

Speaker 1 He really was. And then he got into, you know, he was a big fan of my first show, Politically Incorrect, The Sign is Behind You.
And he used to talk about it like publicly.

Speaker 1 It was a show with four guests and he would, I was told, he would,

Speaker 1 this is after he became a very serious Jehovah Witness, I think it was, but something he was very, very religious.

Speaker 1 And he would bring like four strippers back from the club, and they thought there was going to be an orgy. And he'd just do an episode of Politically Incorrect with them, and they'd talk about Jesus.

Speaker 1 Yeah.

Speaker 1 Yeah.

Speaker 1 So a little tidbit for you. I don't know if that's true, but that's somebody who knew him told him.
But I know he was. Really? Yeah, he became, well, he definitely became super religious.

Speaker 1 I didn't know that. Right.
And the God was fentanyl, unfortunately. No, that's, that's, that's too soon.

Speaker 1 No, he was very, you know, he became, you know,

Speaker 1 had some very interesting theories.

Speaker 1 about history.

Speaker 1 Yeah, but all too soon.

Speaker 1 Yeah, I mean,

Speaker 1 I mean, Whitney, geez. But so many.
I mean, how many rock stars

Speaker 1 have fallen to drugs? And I always want to just get one of them to say, to ask,

Speaker 1 rock star, you're given so much

Speaker 1 just by being a rock star. You know this.
You have so much. Why then need like this level of drugs that's going to kill you? Man, I hate that.
It's just, and it happens so many times.

Speaker 1 Like, I just want to say to them, you don't have to be doing that well to do the amount of drugs you're doing that's enough to kill you. Like, you could probably do it on like maybe 400 grand a year.

Speaker 1 You could probably buy enough Coke and liquor and fentanyl or whatever with that salary to kill yourself. And you're making way more than that.
And

Speaker 1 you're still, you know, I don't know what they're, what is this sorrow that they're dampening dampening down? Sorrow. And I'm sure there is.

Speaker 1 I mean, I don't doubt that people have their own pain, no matter how much it looks from the outside, like everything's great. But you just have to explain to me, okay, everything actually is great.

Speaker 1 Yeah, I mean, you have so much.

Speaker 1 What the problem? What is the problem? Why are we doing the drugs? Why do we need to forget? Forget. I want to remember this life and I even have had it.
Man, I want to remember it.

Speaker 1 Yeah.

Speaker 1 I mean. Well, you seem like you have your head on very straight.
I hope so. You know.
Yeah. It's a.

Speaker 1 Who's your like kitchen cabinet friends who you could just like lay it all out with? Oh, they must have. I got a great friend group.
I've got.

Speaker 1 You must have, some of them must be your peers because like the only people who really understand.

Speaker 1 you on a certain level are not your high school friends. Yeah.
They're the people who also play stadiums. Yeah.
Well, my thing, my high school, I got some high school friends that are like,

Speaker 1 they're just so tight. And one of them, he and I are in some businesses together that are doing really well and just

Speaker 1 so thankful of that. And then I've got, man, I got high school friends and a little group of college friends that, you know, we try to get together.
Who are your peers? Oh, my peers

Speaker 1 that you,

Speaker 1 you know, can like.

Speaker 1 I would say my peers in country are probably very early on. Dirks Bentley was

Speaker 1 a very dear, you know, a peer of mine. But he's not as big as you.
Well, so you have to like have people who understand what your life is.

Speaker 1 Nobody like that? Well, yeah, yeah. I've got that.
Like Shelton or somebody like that. Somebody who understands what your life is.
Oh, man, me and Blake, we have a good time together.

Speaker 1 I told you. I knew it.
You and Blake. We have a good time together.
What do you do? But me and Dirks. Spear and murder animals.

Speaker 1 Let me guess.

Speaker 1 I'm not again. I feel like I've walked into the Bill Maher

Speaker 1 trap of doom.

Speaker 1 I love it.

Speaker 1 I love that we're different.

Speaker 1 Me too. You know, I mean, and fuck it.
We're not even that different.

Speaker 1 Man, I tell you. We're not that different.
We do slightly different versions of the scene. Well, we're, you know, man, I think

Speaker 1 we're all Americans and we're all. Well, the main difference is

Speaker 1 more generational. We're living still in the real world.
We're all younger generation is living in the virtual world. That's going to be the main difference.
Yeah.

Speaker 1 Whether your girlfriend is an AI fucking app on your phone or whether you're actually,

Speaker 1 you know, the other way.

Speaker 1 The old, let's call it it women classic.

Speaker 1 Well, anyway.

Speaker 1 God, you know,

Speaker 1 but it's a lot to handle and control. And

Speaker 1 the beauty of it is

Speaker 1 you get to fight your fight and not your fight, you get to tell you through comedy and you get to tell yourself through

Speaker 1 satirical.

Speaker 1 I mean, you go after it and you take your losses. We're both so lucky, right? Hell yeah.
I mean, we could have been,

Speaker 1 you know, not that other jobs are bad or horrible or boring, but a lot of jobs are bad, horrible, and boring. And we don't have, we don't even have jobs.
We have careers.

Speaker 1 Some people have careers and some people have jobs. I've had plenty of jobs when I was young and I didn't like them.
Because they were fucking jobs.

Speaker 1 If you have a career as opposed to a job, you are lucky very

Speaker 1 and

Speaker 1 that's what we got

Speaker 1 well

Speaker 1 there's a lot of hard-working people out there that yeah and we work what do they want they just want to work hard too

Speaker 1 yep don't take that away from me just because i enjoy it doesn't

Speaker 1 and i still work hard at it and i bet you you do too

Speaker 1 How often are you like in the studio?

Speaker 1 You know,

Speaker 1 I bet a lot. We're in the studio quite a while.
We ride a lot. You know, we have um you have the thing at your house where you thing at the house, guys drive out,

Speaker 1 piano, guitar, amps. And man, we,

Speaker 1 you know, we ride out there and it's fun. You know, we ride

Speaker 1 so you have an in-home studio. I've got a room in my house that I've got, you know, my pianos and stuff like that.
Are they sitting on actual bales of hay?

Speaker 1 Or do you, or do you have a, you know, the donkeys come up. Do you have furniture?

Speaker 1 The donkeys come up. You know, the dam.

Speaker 1 You know, we serve our freshly slaughtered eggs and chicken.

Speaker 1 And I understand the Uber driver is a tractor.

Speaker 1 All right. I'm going to release you back into the wild to murder more animals.
Oh, listen. I'm going to go back to work on my show.
Thank you.

Speaker 1 Such a pleasure. I hope it's not the last time.

Speaker 1 I'm a pack rack, you know, I oh, listen to stableto.