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Bobby Bones
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Matt Castle
Come on, hurry up.
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Bobby Bones
Lots to say with Bobby Bones and Matt Castle is a production of the NFL and iHeart podcasts.
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We got lots to say.
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Luke Bryan
We got lots to say. We're glad you're here and we hope you stay.
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Bobby Bones
Cause we got lots to say. Yeah, we got lots to say. Now here's Bobby and that we're waiting for Luke Bryan to come record and shoot the show from my house. And so when he gets to the gate, I will say, Luke has now called and we will go get him and bring him in. But until then, we'll just. We're good, right?
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Matt Castle
Yeah, we're good. We're here.
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Bobby Bones
We're not gonna do like some sophisticated thing where we finish a segment and then Luke's here. We're just gonna say, well, I think he's here. And then we'll go get him.
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Matt Castle
Sounds like a good thing.
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Bobby Bones
That's what we are. Hey, how ready are the players to do game week?
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Matt Castle
You know you have that buffer week, right? And so as you're building, it's all this build up to this moment. And, you know, the coaches do a really good job too, of explaining what's going to go on, particularly for the guys that maybe haven't been to a Super bowl before. But both these teams have experience going to the super bowl just two years ago. But they explained, look, Media day is an absolute. You know what show, right? It's. It's every media outlet that you could possibly get. You're going to be doing interviews, you're going to get stupid questions, or you're going to have certain guys up on the podium.
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Luke Bryan
And.
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Matt Castle
And so that is the most hectic part of your week. And then as you get to Tuesday, you start to lock in a little bit more. You might go out to a team dinner or something like that, but then your week starts. And I think it's really important for, like, the team leaders as well as the coaches that we're here for one job. It's. It's for business, right?
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Bobby Bones
We.
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Matt Castle
We've got to get ready for this game. And I know that the players also understand what's at stake, so. So it's no longer going out. You might see your family, maybe get. Go out to a dinner or something like that, but people are pretty locked in. You're isolated at the hotel for the most part, and you're just getting ready and going through and you're trying to watch as much film. You're trying to understand the game plan as well as possible and get yourself prepared for the biggest game.
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Bobby Bones
Is everybody required to go to Media Day? Even if you're not one of the guys that's going to have nine rows of reporters around you?
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Matt Castle
Oh, yeah. So I'd go there in my jersey and I just walk around, give people thumbs up, like, hey, what's up, guys? What's up? You know, you've got your important players that are up there on the podium. They've got their nameplate and they're sitting there and there's a mic and all that stuff, and, you know, open questions all over. I'm just literally standing with my buddies who aren't getting interviewed, and there might be some offshoot of some random person that wants to write an article about a USC guy. Hey, I used to cover the Trojans back in the day, so we might have, like a quick little conversation. No love whatsoever.
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Bobby Bones
Do you get to jump out early, though?
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Matt Castle
No, I have to stay there the entire time. Cause we take team buses to that. It's like a major function. Right? So we'll probably do like a little walkthrough or Something and then go to this media day. And for us, that it's really not important for us to talk at all. We just kind of stand there.
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Bobby Bones
I'll talk about trades for a second, which this has been a very trade heavy week. Basketball and Miles Garrett saying, hey, trade me. And Miles Garrett put out on Monday, the statement saying, hey, Cleveland, a lot of love, like, thank you for having me. You've been the best. But like, I want to go play for a winner, basically. So he's requesting a trade and you had Luca get traded, which was wild, which I thought was fake when it happened. I thought it was somebody been hacked. And so I want to talk about trades for a second because you've been involved in a few of them. I want to go first to what it feels like and what really happens when you get traded. Does someone call you? Do you get called to an office? And then I was the new kid at school a bunch like four or five times I had to move in my life. And you walk into a classroom and there are just all these kids you don't know. And you don't know who's your friend, who's not. What happens when you get traded.
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Matt Castle
Sometimes it's one of those situations where, like when I was in Minnesota, they drafted Teddy Bridgewater. I broke my. I was starting the year that he came in, but I broke my foot. And he played the rest that season. So I knew I was going to go into that backup role. So then your agent sometimes will be like, hey, well, we know that Buffalo or so and so is going to be looking for a quarterback, and then he'll start working his angle and he'll be talking to RGM for the. For the Minnesota Vikings. And then all of a sudden, it kind of comes to fruition. And so sometimes you anticipate, sometimes you don't. The D, the one from Buffalo to Dallas, I wasn't anticipating that. The one from Minnesota to Buffalo earlier that year, I was. But again, like you said, you're coming into a brand new environment, all new coaches, and at least they wanted you enough to bring you in. And usually have a good conversation with the coaches before it happens. But then you get there and it's all new surroundings, all new teammates, and you got to go out there and start to build those relationships slowly but surely. But it's a great example is new kid at school. You walk in and, hey, bud, how are you? And you know, you might have a reputation at that point because I played. That was year nine for me. You're Going into year ten. So they. I knew a lot of these guys just from playing against them, but no real relationships. And then from the one that I was surprised about was week two of that year when I got traded. And I'm just coming off this practice field. I actually took some reps in practice and all that stuff. And I just randomly saw that my agent had called 10 times, and I'm like, why does he keep calling me? And so I finally get a chance to call me and said, are you sitting down? I'm like, yes, I'm driving home. What's up? And he's like, dude, you just got traded to Dallas. You got to get on a plane tomorrow morning. I was like, have you called my wife? And he's like, yes, I've called your wife. She's really excited. So I was like, okay. I went home because she was pregnant, 34 weeks pregnant with our four. So those are the type of ones that kind of. They shake you to your core a little bit because you're not anticipating it. So then you've got to get your mind right to be on a plane the next day. And things are moving so fast. And then plus, it was in season. So as I get there, you got to learn a brand new offense. You've been grinding all off season, going through two weeks of game plans with one coordinator with Greg Roman. Now you got to go and learn Scott Linehan system in Dallas, which was completely different terminology. So that was. That was a grind because I just stayed at the stadium and tried to learn as much as possible and absorb as much as possible when I got there.
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Bobby Bones
I'm glad in this business that doesn't happen because I know I'd get a call going, hey, man, we traded you and two sets of headphones for caller daddy over at Spotify. And I'd be like, God dang. Like, we don't have to worry about that. That is a weird thing in sports. At any time you can get a call to go, you have now been relocated for somebody else. When that happens and you're going to Dallas, are they immediately emailing you the playbook? Are they sending you study guides? Like, how is that. How are you able to fully engulf yourself in what they're doing there with language?
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Matt Castle
Well, you know, I'd been around a long time and so a lot of. When you think about it, conceptually, a lot of route patterns conceptually are very similar, right? You got your high low reads, you got your vertical stretches, you got your horizontal stretches, but it's more Terminology, how they call even something as simple as your cadence and how they call their cadence might be a little bit different in terms of the rhythm and how it's, how it comes out and how these offensive linemen fire off the ball. But that's why they get you on the plane the next day. You go straight into a physical, straight to the facility, meet with the coaches, and they hand you a playbook. And because what makes it more complicated during season is the fact that these coaches are involved in game planning throughout the course of a week. They don't have time to really sit down and help you understand. So I'd spend hours and hours after practice watching film, going through the playbook, understanding stuff from two minute drill to the basic run scheme, and then rehearsing the calls of the plays so that you can get into a huddle confidently and say those things.
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Bobby Bones
I think part of the human element is lost in trades in some situations, especially with fans, because we see athletes as these fictional figures for these teams that we loved as children. So nothing is real. It's all fantasy land. But in reality, like Luca and not Married with Kids. So this will be a smaller version of that. He just bought a $15 million house, like last week. Like close house.
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Matt Castle
That's so good.
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Bobby Bones
Last week. And again, nobody's going to shed a tear for them. But that's real life. But mostly, like if you have lived somewhere for seven, eight years, your kids are in school, right. And the whole family either has to stay behind while you go and live somewhere else.
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Matt Castle
Right.
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Bobby Bones
Or uproot and everything moves.
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Luke Bryan
Yeah.
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Bobby Bones
Schools change, teachers, the vet. Like everything has to change.
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Matt Castle
And that was the absurd part of my life. At the tail end of or for after Kansas City, because I went four years in New England, no kids. Then we started having kids in Kansas City. Then I went to, from Kansas City, I went to Minnesota for two years. But the whole family comes and we just had our third child, my first son. So we're up there with him. Then I get traded to Buffalo. I enroll them in school. You've got to get a place to live. You got to do all that stuff before the family comes out. Then they come out. And then the girls had just started their first week of school. Now we're going to Dallas. So then my wife's got to go, she's pregnant. We got to find a new doctor, number one, because she's about to give birth. And we were like three weeks in, she gave birth into Dallas is what I'm saying. So you got to Find new school, new pediatrician, all those things, and a home to live. So we lived in a hotel for the first two weeks. I mean, it was my wife's mother, it was a family friend because I wasn't there. I was trying to grind it. And then my three kids and we're living in a hotel, like side by side right there, trying to find a house. Then we find a house. And then the next week, I'm told you're going to start on the Monday night, or we were at a Sunday night game, you're going to start this week for your first start. And I was like, whoa. Then we had a bye week. Wife gives birth. It was just chaotic. So then I become a free agent, come here to Tennessee, whole thing again. You got to find a house, gotta find school. It's just there's a lot that goes into it, particularly when you have a family and you've got responsibilities beyond yourself.
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Bobby Bones
I'm assuming there are teammates though, that think it's going to be a short run so they don't move the family. Like they play with their team, right? And like that's like work and then off week or off season or the family may come out for a little bit, but they're still going to school back home, right? Like, that's gotta be happening a lot.
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Matt Castle
It does happen. I've got quite a few buddies that near the end of their career, family was stable at one place. They'd been here for a long period of time, particularly here, and the family stayed behind. They went and played for season. The family would fly out on weekends, the home games, and do that. It's difficult, I think, on the player themselves because you're always thinking about your family. But at the same time, they know that it's for a small period of time, good money that I'm making, I've got to do this. And then once it's all said and done, it's done right, and they are able to come back and this is where they ultimately wanted to live. They didn't want to uproot the young children. So I totally understand that aspect because I went through that at the very end. I didn't know whether I was going to continue to play. And I said, if I get picked up again and if I decide to play, I think the best bet would be for you guys to stay here and do that because the kids are now getting a little bit older. School's important, just structure wise. It would just kind of throw them in a tailspin.
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Bobby Bones
Let's talk about the super bowl halftime show. The super bowl that you were in, who played? Do you know?
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Matt Castle
I think it was Tom Petty.
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Bobby Bones
Did you have any option to, like, even watch it on a tiny screen?
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Matt Castle
No chance. No chance. And that's the thing about. I was like, wait, do we get to, like, walk out and, like, watch a little bit of the halftime show? Because it's a big deal, right? Like, no. What are you talking about, Castle? You're an idiot. And I was like, I know, but Tom Petty played. They said it was a great show, but I didn't get to see it.
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Bobby Bones
No monitors anywhere.
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Matt Castle
No, no, no. You were in there. Just like, game, our stuff. We're getting ready for the second half.
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Luke Bryan
Rah, rah.
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Matt Castle
This, that, and the other. And like I said, it's a long halftime. It's 30 minutes. So you can hear the bass and the boom, but you can't hear or see anything.
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Bobby Bones
When you go into the locker room at halftime of the super bowl, do you immediately go into. For example, I'll give a terrible analogy, high school football. We go, we all sit on the same floor, and head coach comes and gives us our comeuppance. Or your good jobs, and here's what we're going to do. Or are you breaking into small. Because it is longer, Right. Are you breaking into small groups differently than you would during a normal game? Or is it everybody at once?
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Matt Castle
No, it's usually what happens is you have an offensive side and a defensive side. So then the coaches get together first and foremost. You might get a chance to go in, go to the restroom, grab a snack, do whatever you want to do, and kind of gather yourself. And then the offense sits together, defense sits together. Then the coordinators come out and talk about adjustments that we want to make in the second half. The themes that we're seeing occur throughout the first half and what they might do to counterbalance that. So the. The chess match, right? And then what we're going to do to come out and how we're going to start the second half. If we're getting the ball, if we're not getting the ball. And so we talk about all those things, then the team usually comes together, head coach addresses the entire team, and that's a hardcore breakdown. Let's go. Fire it up, boys. We're back out on the field. But on those. And at the super bowl, when you got an extra 15 minutes, it's a little bit longer, so they give you a little bit more time just to kind of sit with the guys and talk and do that before you actually get going.
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Bobby Bones
My wife is walking Luke and Carrie down here right now. Luke Bryant's here.
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Matt Castle
Awesome.
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Bobby Bones
And my wife knows them. We're waiting on Luke to call, but we'll. I guess he just. Caitlyn, can I come in? That's probably what he did. Okay, so country superstar Luke Bryan will be joining us in just a second.
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Luke Bryan
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Bobby Bones
And now I want to introduce my friend and he's got so many freaking number one songs and he's also been entertainer of the year at the CMAs. And he's also been on American Idol for, like, I don't know, 7, 8, 20 seasons. And he's just a great guy. It is Luke Bryan. Be sure to catch him on his country song. Came on tour the, the guest that he has opening for him, George Burge, Randall King, Avery, Anna, a bunch of others. It starts in May in New York, Savannah, Dallas, Toronto, St. Louis, a bunch of other big cities. Tickets are on sale now@lukebryan.com Here he is, country megastar Luke Bryan. Luke, I said before you got here, I said I didn't give Luke a lot of direction.
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Luke Bryan
Not needed.
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Bobby Bones
Yeah. And, you know, luckily my wife knows you because I think, because I just.
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Luke Bryan
Came up to the front door, you know, I saw the dogs.
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Bobby Bones
Yeah, it just. What, did they jump? Would you walk in the house?
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Luke Bryan
Oh, yeah. But I got my dogs. I mean, they're. I mean, essentially, yeah, my, I'm, I'm, I'm in your world where your dogs have kind of ruined your life. But they've at some point, they've added positive aspects, too. So dogs jumping on me is a. Is a common. When I make my coffee every morning, my little English cocker, that's mine and his time for the day because he meets me at the coffee pot and while my coffee's making, that's our little moment. And like, yeah, so I'm good with dogs jumping on me.
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Bobby Bones
Okay, then we're all good. And I just saw you guys coming through and I was like, man, anybody else, I'd be worried. But I don't have to worry about you.
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Luke Bryan
I'm easy as it gets, hopefully.
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Bobby Bones
Okay, a couple things. One, have you ever been to a Super Bowl?
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Luke Bryan
Yeah. Well, I sang the anthem at the super bowl for. So I grew up. I mean, grew up a huge Falcons fan. I mean, being a South Georgia kid and my. My dad's. I mean, my dad's just a crazy Falcons fan. We never missed. Watch. Sitting down, watching it together. And then. So I get the gig to do. We know I'm performing the anthem, and then the Falcons get in, and they played the Patriots. And so here it is. I do. I do the anthem, which was probably the most intense situation I've ever been in as far as being a performer. And then at halftime, my team's up 28 three. And, like. And I mean, like, we're drinking vodka, beer, champagne. We're like, we've just beat the Patriots. And then. So all of that positive drinking turned into mournful, sorrowful drinking in. In just two quarters of football.
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Matt Castle
At what moment in that game where you're like, oh, my God, the Patriots might actually.
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Luke Bryan
Well, it just. You could come back. It's funny because we were. We. I was. We were talking about this yesterday. My son's football coach and a new offensive line coach. We were. We were visiting yesterday, and we were talking about that game, and I just remember hearing the Patriots fans start to roar in that. In, I guess it's Reliant Stadium. You could just hear them roar, and you could just tell that. That the momentum was shifting. And then. And then we got Brady. And then my. I went to another super bowl with Brady when he won. When he won at Tampa Bay, too. So. So, yeah, Brady comes out of retirement and he wants to win another Super Bowl. I'll probably be. I need to be present. I need to be in the room. Hold on. I'm gonna move this a little closer. But. But, yeah.
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Bobby Bones
What was so intense? I. I mean, I know why it would be intense, but what was so intense about singing the anthem at the Super Bowl? Like, what elements were around you that aren't normally. When you. Like tonight you're singing it, by the way, at the Preds game, the hockey game.
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Luke Bryan
Well, one thing is I had had a hiccup doing the anthem at one point, and I think the anthem is always challenging. I've probably sang the anthem 20, 30 times at events, and two of them have been. You know, I. It's just the anthem. It's tough. But the main thing is when you know there's 130, 140 million people watching that moment. And what was interesting for me is I had to get to Houston on like Wednesday or Thursday before, before Sunday.
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Bobby Bones
That's a lot of days for.
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Luke Bryan
Well, so you're sitting there and you go run it on Thursday. And I didn't do, I didn't do any tracks. I didn't do a click tape. I didn't, I mean, a click track, like if I was going to be. And they needed to time it out. But I was doing it purely acapella. So I mean, and I wanted to do it that way and I wanted to be like, it was kind of like a little bit of a personal challenge to me to go put myself in such a, you know, I, I think vulnerable place. Well, but I think, I think as you know, throughout my career, anytime you can challenge yourself to do something that's like, that's a challenge. And it was really exciting. But the biggest hurdles were I get there Thursday, I have tons of friends there and they're like, hey, come party with us. Come, let's go. You know, And I'm like, no, I'm not, I'm not it. I'm not going to party with y'all Thursday night, Friday night, Saturday night and roll into the anthem, you know, with, with like, you know, hoarseness. So I really stayed on, I really stayed on structure. But the most nerve wracking thing is, no matter what, you know, it's 6 or 5:58pm and you know, it ain't 5, 5, 7, it is 550. Because that thing, I mean, you know, they got flying over, they got stealth bombers banking and, and I remember, you know, that morning just, it's, it's just like an imminent, it's just really, really stressful. And we get to 20 minutes out and, and I had already, like, I mean, even early in my career, my first CMA performance is like, I remember those moments where you're like on the borderline of a panic attack and anxiety and all that. But I stayed pretty cool. And I remember walking on the field, walking out and really got comfortable. Eli Manning won like the Walter Payton man of year award that year, which got to say hey to Eli. And I was in a pretty cool space when I went out there. I felt, you know, I felt. I knew I wasn't going to beat Whitney Houston. And then, you know, my main thing was just go out there and when I got done with it, it was like a, you know, a big, big pressure valve. But it was a wild day. I mean, it Was a wild day. I mean, totally crazy.
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Matt Castle
It's the anticipation of it all. I can only imagine. All right, so how long after the anthem did you have your first cocktail?
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Luke Bryan
I would say there were cocktails waiting in the suite. And my dad and my father in law and my wife, they were in the suite. And so we went right into the game. And by the time I got up there, the game had kicked off and we were. The Falcons really had the momentum and man, we were. I was. Michael Phelps was in my. I met him that night and literally he had just come off the Olympics and. And Bobby's been around me when I. When I get, you know, get to feeling good on the old vodka and. I mean, Michael Phelps. And I think Michael was like, maybe, you know, like it was like dry January for him or something. So he was. And man, I was like. I was just. I was like, dude, I don't give a. You're the baddest. I mean, I was like, you're the baddest.
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Bobby Bones
You can say whatever you want to say.
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Luke Bryan
I was like, you're the baddest. I'm like. And I'm just like hitting him. I'm like, dude, you know, and I just. I mean. And he's just like, okay, man, thank you. Thank you. And then I was like. And it went on. And I think a couple days later I got his number and I was like, hey, man, you know, he's like, oh, we're good. Like, you didn't. You didn't. You weren't bothering me. You were actually claiming me to be the next Messiah or something. And I was like, well, man, there's no telling what I was saying, but, you know, I was a little amped up. But he turned out to be a. I mean, it was a fun relationship to get to know him, but. But it was. It was a fun day. I mean, I had the opportunity to go to this. I got an invite to go to the super bowl this year. But Bobby knows, like, we're doing. We're doing Hawaii for Idle. I've got to do the waste management open on. I'm playing. I guess it's called the Crow's Nest on. On Thursday. I gotta come back, Go to Hawaii, come back. So I was like, man, I'm just gonna put the big screen on the. At the house, put some ribs on and watch the. Watch the super bowl with the boys.
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Bobby Bones
That Hawaii trip. Hawaii's lovely. Beautiful place. We did that for. You've done it way more than me, right? The first four years that you did it. I was. We did it. And we flew out there together.
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Luke Bryan
Yeah, a couple times.
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Bobby Bones
That is a long. That is a brutally long trip. That is. Once, I think I flew. I went. I was joining you guys late and Lionel was having a concert and he was like, Lionel Richie? He was like, you got to come to the concert. And I got such food poisoning on the plane on the way over there, I was not able to go to the Lionel Richie concert. That's my worst memory. Secondly was us not having Internet on the flight. Remember the whole flight, like 12 hours, no Internet.
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Luke Bryan
Yeah, because you're over the. You know, it's because the airline, remember.
- [29:05]
Bobby Bones
The airline was like, we don't have any Internet.
- [29:07]
Luke Bryan
Oh, well. And. And it gets. You better have your net. You better have all your shows downloaded. Downloaded for that. And then, you know, the time that you flew with me, you and your wife had just met and you always.
- [29:23]
Bobby Bones
Stopped over in L. A star for.
- [29:24]
Luke Bryan
Like 10 minutes in the. You stopped in the FBO and y'all. And that was the. Y'all just got about that.
- [29:32]
Bobby Bones
Luke was like, you need to marry her.
- [29:34]
Matt Castle
Did she come with you guys on the trip? No, I was like, that would have been a super big.
- [29:37]
Bobby Bones
She was living in California and we stopped in California and she came and saw us.
- [29:41]
Luke Bryan
Yeah, my plane, we had to refuel in. In la, right? And Bobby was like, how long. How long is the refuel process? You know, it's young love.
- [29:51]
Bobby Bones
I forgot about that.
- [29:53]
Luke Bryan
And I said, why do you ask? And he goes, he's like, oh, there's somebody I've been talking to out here. She may come over and you know, come over. I didn't know they were going to have sex in the Pilots lounge though.
- [30:10]
Bobby Bones
I wish that have been awesome. I wish that would have happened.
- [30:14]
Luke Bryan
No, I don't think that happened. But we went and did a little food run and then come back and they got to visit a little bit. But we refueled and took on off to Hawaii.
- [30:23]
Bobby Bones
So who was your favorite player, Falcon?
- [30:26]
Luke Bryan
Favorite player growing up, man. Deion Sanders was just. I mean, I go back to like my first memories were Steve Bartkowski as the quarterback. There was a player, Billy White Shoes Johnson. I mean, how do you not as a five year old kid cheer for Billy White Shoes Johnson? And then through. And then when we got Dion, I just. And it was like the whole MC Hammer, Dion too legit to quit days. And where the Falcons really flipped over into like the black jerseys and Jerry Glanville, he had his Harley and. And you Know, being a Falcons fan was pretty.
- [31:11]
Matt Castle
And they were the Dirty Bird, right?
- [31:12]
Luke Bryan
Well, they became the Dirty Bird. So even in the Dion, in the Dion era, the Dirty Birds hadn't even started. The Dirty Birds only started when. The first time when we. The year that we beat Minnesota to go into our first Super Bowl. But. So, yeah, the Dion. The Dion years were when. And you know, people don't remember this, but Deion was really. He agreed to be a Falcon. You know, we were just losing our minds as Falcons fans. And then like his first game, like that week, he had hit a home run for the Yankees, flew. And his. I think I'm remembering this properly. His first. He may have fielded a punt and fair catch it, but his first attempt at a punt return, he. He tries to fill the ball, drops the ball, picks it up and takes it to the house. And at that moment, Deion Sanders owned every. I mean, he owned the state of Georgia and then went on to be a Atlanta brass. It was pretty special stuff.
- [32:27]
Matt Castle
It is incredible when you think about Dion. All right. I know that you're a big Georgia Bulldog fan as well, so you've got to have a little love for the. The Eagles right now, you know, because their whole entire defense is Georgia Bulldogs.
- [32:40]
Luke Bryan
Yeah. You know, I'm. Yes. Somebody just. And listen, I really, I really. I don't have any. I don't have any ill will against the Chiefs over the summer. Josh Allen and I play a little golf together and got, you know, got to play in some golf. So I really want to see Josh Allen hopefully get. Get beyond that chief's hurdle. But I feel like just with the way the Eagles have built their team with so many Georgia Bulldogs, it's really going to be. It's going to be really hard for me not to pull for them. And when I think Nakobe Dean went down with a knee injury, it was really sad to see. But Yeah, I mean, 90, currently 90% of my football, like bandwidth in my brain is really dedicated to what George is doing and gotten to be really, really good friends with Kirby through the years. And he's just. He's just a great dude, like one of the best hangs in the world. And he's just. You when you meet these coaches that have that power to motivate and speak and it's been fun getting to know Kirby.
- [34:05]
Bobby Bones
I was talking about the time you brought the Heisman over to the house.
- [34:09]
Luke Bryan
Got. No. Well, the. Go ahead.
- [34:11]
Bobby Bones
Well, and I was trying to explain to them and I didn't have all the details that it was Tebow's Heisman and you guys had a bet and you had my bulldog lick peanut butter off the Heisman. But I, I would like for you to tell this story in its entirety because I'm sure I left out some details.
- [34:26]
Luke Bryan
Well, Tebow, so we have a charity event at my house for the Brett Boyer Foundation. And Thibaut has been as Thibaut is. He's been a just a champion and has been to several of our events at the house. Well, this particular, this particular year, Thibaut auctions. The beauty of Thibaut is that he's like, I don't want to sit there and just stare at my Heisman. So he takes his Heisman to charity events and auctions it off for the year. And he does it at multiple charities. So his Heisman is never at his house. And he grabs it and. Well, my wife bid it and my wife bid for the Heisman and won. And I'm like, and at our own charity event. And I'm just rolling my eyes, but. So the Heisman, his Heisman stayed at the house, which I tell people at the time I was a little frustrated at what she paid for it. But having the Heisman at your house, like, I kept it in my songwriting room and I'd have these songwriters come over and you know, they're like settling in, they're getting their laptops out and they're like, is that a Heisman? And I'm like, it's Tim Tebow's Heisman. And then we went to the story. Well, so in an effort to. I'm blanking on your dogs.
- [36:04]
Bobby Bones
Stanley.
- [36:05]
Luke Bryan
Stanley. So in an effort to kind of. Me and Tebow were gonna have some fun on socials. It was a big Georgia Florida week. And I said, tebow, we need to really, like, we need to hype this Georgia Florida rivalry. And I called him up and I said, hey, why don't you steal my cma? Because I had won entertainer of the year that year, so why don't you steal my CMA award and you'll have it to do, you know, kind of trash talking things and then I'll do some stuff with your Heisman. And certainly I was like, who do I know with an English bulldog? And then I called Bobby and we came over here with Stanley. But it was a fun moment for Tim and I. And I think George is probably about five and one against the dogs since Tebow and I have started our kind of our bromance together. So I'm doing pretty well. But it's going to take a lot of years for me to get over what Tebow did to us when he was at Georgia. I mean, when he was at Florida.
- [37:13]
Bobby Bones
So, yeah, my dog like lick peanut butter off the Heisman. It was like a bulldog.
- [37:17]
Matt Castle
That's a good move.
- [37:18]
Luke Bryan
Yeah, I mean, solid flex. Oh, we were like, yeah, so we, we, we were having fun with it. And like I said, we never, I never got, never got a call. Maybe Tebow got a call from, from, from the Heisman. People maybe saying, you know, that's enough's enough. But a funny joke is Adam LaRoche, who is a. He played for the Braves and was a first baseman for 10 or 12 years in the big leagues. Adam would stay in my barn and Tim's Heisman trophy case lived in the barn. And Adam had a. His signature thing was to draw penises everywhere. He drew them all over my barn. He drew them on all the rear view, all the flip down mirrors on all of our cars. But he does a great job with the penis drawings. They're like, they're not a.
- [38:14]
Matt Castle
Your typical penis.
- [38:15]
Luke Bryan
They're a little extra. Well, he drew one on Tebow's Heisman case with what, a Sharpie? Did he really? So Tebow's like, what is that?
- [38:26]
Matt Castle
And I'm like, what do you think it is? It's pretty self explanatory. You think? Right?
- [38:33]
Luke Bryan
So, yeah, I mean, man, it's, it's a zoo around my place. You never, you know, you never know what? And still to this day we have like there's, you know, there's little. We'll pull open a closet door in the barn and we find, you know, we find new penises every day. So Adam Drew.
- [39:00]
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- [42:17]
Matt Castle
So CMA's you you host that is that nerve wracking you're with Peyton. It looks like it just comes off effortless between you two.
- [42:25]
Luke Bryan
Yeah, I mean year one I hosted it by myself and that was pretty. That was another one of those situations where you get the call and you're like, wow, I Got the call on this, and I can't believe I'm in a situation where I can host the CMAs. So, yeah, we roll in. Year one. Did it by myself, and then they reached out. The big joke was, you know, you did great. You did so great. Yeah, you're gonna do it with Peyton Manning next year. I'm like, I did. Did I do it anyway? But. So Peyton and I started. And then obviously Laney Wilson hosted with us last year, but Peyton and I, we've. We've had a great time doing that together. And through that, Peyton and I. Peyton and I have kind of. We try to do a couple golf trips a year, and. And Peyton has had me, you know, on some golf trips with Eli and Cooper. And, man, you know, when you're on a golf trip with those guys, it's pretty. Pretty fun stuff. And I've gotten to, you know, meet Peyton's dad several times, and, man, what a. What a really, really special family they are. And when you look at their. Their fingerprint on NFL and sports and media, what they're doing is pretty incredible. I mean, I went to the. I went to the Georgia Ole Miss game this year, and. And Peyton found out I was there, and I had never done. I had never been to Oxford for a game. So we get the tour bus, and my. We get my boys, we load them up, and we're all amped up to go to Georgia Ole Miss. Pull up on the bus, and it was kind of like my one big week, because I think I only had, like, one chance to go watch the dogs. And, well, Archie had found out that I was there. And Peyton's like, hey, my dad knows you're there. He wants to see you. And I'm like, okay. Well, then I'm kind of like. I'm kind of like, yeah, okay, maybe. I mean, it's a lot. It's. Archie knows I'm there, but, like. Well, then about. Well, I'd never been to the Grove, so we just get a security guy, and we go into the middle of the Grove, and it's, like, so fun. It's chaos. It had rained. It was raining that day. I mean, you know, people were tromping around in mud and taking. You know, there was moonshine pass around. It was the Grove. And. Well, then I look at my phone, and Peyton's like, hey. Literally, like, my dad is. Where are you? My dad. And I was like, oh, I get it. He does want to see me. So got to go to the game and took my boys on the Sideline and then got to hang with Archie. And you know, in, in when you're, when you're at Ole Miss in Archie Manning Suite, I guess it's probably, well, there's Manning Way and then there's. It's probably Manning Field, I'm assuming. But it's pretty, pretty cool to be there with him and he's so engaging and what a, what a figure, you know, what a great, what a great dude.
- [45:48]
Bobby Bones
I remember a conversation you and I had about music. It's been four or five years ago. And you were going, you know, because at the time, top of the world.
- [45:58]
Luke Bryan
Still are.
- [45:58]
Bobby Bones
It's going to be my point. But you were like, you were like, you know, it's, it's about time for our generation to kind of give way to the younger. And you were just talking about the natural cycles of artists and.
- [46:10]
Luke Bryan
Right.
- [46:11]
Bobby Bones
And it was a bit of you going, you know, things could be slowing down pretty soon. Maybe I'm going to slow down. But I was looking at your last tour. They're just as big as they were then.
- [46:18]
Luke Bryan
Well, the situation that I will fight for currently in a long time is My boys are 16 and 14, my nephew's 23. I really missed. I've done all I can to hit all the sports stuff, but when, let's just say from 2010 to 20, 22 or 21, I'm doing 50, 60, 70 shows a year. You know, last year I dialed it back to 35 or 40 shows. I cleared all my Friday nights in the fall for, for Bo and Tate. They're both. Tate is a rising ninth grader and they're getting up every morning and doing football workouts. So anything that I've done career, career wise to do less shows is totally really my best. I'm doing my best at moving stuff around to be at more sports stuff. But you say that. I mean, last year my summer tours were. And that's like they were as good as they've ever been. Which I wake up every day and I'm so thankful, thankful that I'm not going to a 20,000 seat amphitheater and there's 7,000 people out there and thank God that hasn't happened. As long as I can feel that I'm like imported important to a certain extent and relevant. It's really fun to go do the shows. I mean, you were putting yourself out.
- [48:06]
Bobby Bones
To pasture and I was like, what are you talking about? And then again, I was looking at. Because we were talking about your tour a minute ago and where people can get tickets, and some of my friends are opening and all the stuff. And it's like, they're as big now as they were then and five years before that. And for that, sustainability is so rare, Especially when you sat in front of me, we're like, I think it's. Oh, I think I'm going to start to have less people, and less people aren't coming.
- [48:26]
Luke Bryan
Well, you know what's interesting? When you look at, like, when you look at, like, where Morgan Wallen and where Morgan and Luke Combs are, and even Jelly Roll. I mean, Jelly Roll and these. And I'm only just bringing up the male artist, but. And even Laney and all that. When. And what was interesting is my three or four years that I did stadiums, I didn't realize there were still people that couldn't get into the stadiums, that missed the show because we were selling out stadiums like that. Well, then we went and did double amphitheaters, like, for two years, which was, like, way, like, so much that was more fun than stadiums, because at double amphitheaters, we wouldn't have to, like, we wouldn't have to move our whole circus. So if we were in Tampa for two nights, then we'd have all the bus drivers and truck drivers, and we cater in food and have a DJ come in, and it was like a tour party. And now as I've. As I'm in this part of my career. Yeah. I mean, when I go to Tampa and we can sell out Tampa or Boston or whatever, or Northern California, and what's funny is, I didn't. We missed some cities this year that will probably go hit next year, but some of those cities are, like, pissed at me. So as long as. As long as, you know, people are doing that stuff, I will. I'll. I'm. I'm guilty of loving. Like, when you look at somebody like you, Matt, I mean, as a. As an NFL player or a sports guy, you guys have. Have a shelf life, right? And that's the unfortunate. Me and Chipper Jones got to be good buddies. And when I talked to Chipper, he's like, man, I want to play three more years, but these old knees. And I was like, man, it's just. I remember processing Chipper when y'all love sports as much as I love being on stage and as much as you love what you do, Bobby. And as long as I can, you know, as long as my voice holds up, which I've tried to smoke cigars and drink enough to mess that up, it's like A. It's. It's pretty sturdy. But I've always really had a soft spot for athletes that have a shelf life. And I've always laid awake at night going, thank God I can. I can do this for a long time. Because, you know, when you look at all the great athletes throughout history that, you know, they. They probably played one year longer than they should have, but just. They love it. It's a part of your. It's a part of your DNA and who you are. Like, at this point, I never did music to, like, fulfill this ego or, like, I never did it to, like, to fulfill this, to, you know, pour something into and to try to fulfill it. I just did it because, heck, I just love. Love being up there, you know, and love. Love all the. All the little. You know, the different cities and the different towns and. And so as long as I can do that at this level and really be creative with music and. And try to be a little bit better guitar player or singer every year, you know, it's. I'm gonna still try to try to do all that. So it's pretty. Pretty crazy when. When we. We keep having really, really solid years. And what really. What really kind of hurts me a little bit about last year is I did do. I did Atlanta, and I did Atlanta, and I did Wrigley. So I did Truist park and Wrigley in those two weeks. I mean, I went half the year with, like, this borderline pneumonia thing that I fought in those two shows. I struggled through them, and I'm like, my two stadiums that I sold out, thank God I sold them out. I wasn't 100% as a singer, but the fans still kind of had my back, and we had a great time.
- [52:42]
Matt Castle
But when you started out as an artist, did you ever envision this type of success in your career? Because I think even for me as a young athlete, right, you come in, you someday hope, run, then you make it. And it's just kind of like that aha moment. One, the first part of the question, did you ever envision yourself there? But two, when. What was your aha moment? Like, I've made it.
- [53:04]
Luke Bryan
I never, you know, I set goals. I. I had an apartment down in Franklin, and I had a dry race board. And I never will forget. I wrote. Write a number one song, perform a number one song, CMA Award, ACM Award, play the Grand Ole Opry, you know, win this. And I wrote 20 things, and I wrote them down, and damn it if I didn't do them all. And I did. I guess you go into it blindly, like, naively ignorant, maybe. I think with me, I always took every. I always took every little step along the way as a win. I never looked back and I never was complaining about what I didn't have going on. I just was like, well, I wrote one number one song this year, and I had a top five as an artist. I wasn't pissed that it wasn't a number one. And then my second single died at 35, which totally, like, recalibrated my trajectory of my career. It kind of stalled me for about a year and a half because we didn't need another one to be unsuccessful. And I went into my label and Mike Dungan, the president of my label, I turned six songs in. He didn't. I wasn't getting a positive response from the six songs. He kind of roughed me up a little bit. And then I went and wrote Do I and Rain is a Good Thing. And that got my momentum going. And then country girl Shake it for Me was when. Which people don't realize this, it didn't go number one. It was like a top five. But it was such a. It was such a statement song and became so much of like, what the country music fans, they were like, we know kind of that dude's vibe. We know that this guy's the fun guy that likes to throw the party at the concerts. And so at that point, I'm just. At that point I'm just kind of taking what. Taking what I'm getting and not even realizing. Not even realizing that this album did this. And, you know, we would have these parties and everybody's handing you plaques of streaming and all this, and I'm just like, all right, thank you, thank you. And then so you're kind of in the middle and I would imagine, I mean, you. Bobby has experienced that too, where it's just like. And then you too, when you're in it, you're just. You're not really processing it. But I had a. I had. I had fun at every level. I had fun when we were in a 15 passenger van with a U Haul trailer playing fraternity. I mean, playing college bars and frat, you know, backyards at frat houses. And then when I played the biggest, you know, when I went up to Indianapolis and played the biggest nightclub there and sold it out. So when you're. When you have two, three hits and you go sell out 2,000 seat honky tonks and nightclubs, you're like, this is the greatest day of my life. I Just sold out, you know, the biggest thing in Charlotte, North Carolina. And you just take each. You know, you take each little. Each little level as. As, you know, wow. And then it was. It was a ride. But now you look back, and even we were watching. We were kind of tinkering with a little spring break documentary thing from when I did my spring break shows. And my Last one was 10 years ago. And I look at. I mean, I can't. I'm just like, only 10 years ago. It didn't. It didn't. It feels like. Like 20 years ago, maybe. And my body certainly looked like I was like, God, look how damn skinny I was. But I was pro. I was skinny because, you know, you're doing 200 shows a year. You're not, you know, you're just running and gunning, working out, eating, you know, and all that. But I'm like. And I guess to Bobby's point, maybe I was trying to set myself up as if things. If things do taper off, I can kind of mentally prepare if, you know, not to. Not to. I never wanted to be the old guy that just. Is just. Just grumpy and just like, ah. You know, like, even, like the guys that just go, well, it ain't want it what it once was. You know, you should have seen how we did it. We were the best. We, you know, we used to, you know, write songs, you know, in the back of a. Whatever. I mean, my. I mean, I don't. Maybe I'll do that, but I just think every generation is different and new and fresh for their generation, and that's the generation.
- [58:30]
Bobby Bones
So, final question, and by the way, we mentioned your tours, and it'll be all in the show notes as well. How to get tickets. Luke bryant.com. at your house, you have a favorite piece of sports memorabilia that is either yours or somebody else's.
- [58:44]
Luke Bryan
Oh, man. Let me think of my favorite. Once Tim Tebow's Heisman got. Got. Got put back in the penis crate. Yeah. If you're just tuning in, you need to go. You need to go listen to the front part of the. But there's a special jersey that at the time, Todd Gurley and a guy named. In a running back named Keith Marshall, they made a three and a four because they were. Because Gurley was three and Marshall was four at Georgia. And they both signed it, but Herschel's number was 34. So I got to get Herschel to sign it so that when I. When people see that, they're like, well, is that a Herschel Jersey. And I'm like, no, it's actually Todd Gurley and Keith Marshall put them together because that year, Keith. They both went on to play, I think. Did you ever play with Keith Marshall anywhere?
- [59:48]
Matt Castle
I didn't play Keith.
- [59:49]
Luke Bryan
I thought he may have went through New England at one point, but so that. That was a pretty cool one. I need. I think I've got a Dale Earnhardt signed, like, little die cast number three Dale Earnhardt that he signed, which is pretty cool. I've got a. I've got a signed Chevy Chase Christmas vacation photo that Chevy Chase signed. He's wearing the Santa Claus hat. That's pretty. It's not sports memorabilia, but it's.
- [60:23]
Matt Castle
That's pretty iconic.
- [60:26]
Luke Bryan
But. But yeah, the. The Todd Gurley and the Keith Marshall one's pretty. Pretty special. And I got to do a. I got to do like a. A sports. A sports cast, and. And Keith Marshall was on it and told him about that. So. Sports have been really important in my life, and I was always an athletic little kid, but everybody else grew, and I didn't. I didn't grow till I was 17. And thank God, because that's why I picked up the guitar. But when I look at me and my children and how they're. They're. I mean, I think when you work hard at sports and you see the. You see the. Your hard work get, you know, validated on the field, it's pretty. Pretty special stuff. So my. My boys are in the thick of it.
- [61:17]
Bobby Bones
Well, we appreciate you coming by. Love you.
- [61:19]
Luke Bryan
Thank y'all. Love y'all. This is awesome.
- [61:21]
Bobby Bones
Good luck over at the. That stadium hole.
- [61:24]
Matt Castle
Oh, yeah.
- [61:25]
Bobby Bones
At the waste management.
- [61:27]
Luke Bryan
Yeah.
- [61:27]
Bobby Bones
I'm rooting for you.
- [61:29]
Luke Bryan
Is it number 17, I think?
- [61:31]
Bobby Bones
I believe so.
- [61:32]
Matt Castle
I think it's 17. And there's going to be a lot of.
- [61:34]
Luke Bryan
Well, I just want to be there, you know, every year, 17 or 13, I think every year there's a streaker, you know, last year, the dude, you know, and they always have the 19th hole pointed to their butt crack. So I hope I can get a glimpse of whoever decides to streak this year. Be pretty damn funny.
- [61:51]
Bobby Bones
Go watch Luke. He does his awesome live.
- [61:54]
Luke Bryan
Thank you all.
- [61:55]
Bobby Bones
All the notes. Go. Go see Luke. All the links are up. Luke, good to see you, buddy.
- [61:58]
Luke Bryan
Good to see y'all. Thank you.
- [62:08]
Bobby Bones
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Bobby Bones
Thanks again to Luke Bryan for coming by. I've known that dude forever. He's never changed. I mean, he's awesome, he's funny. The fact that he just walked through the house is hilarious because our studio's not even at the house. And then he always stays, regardless of what's going on. If it's at the studio, if it's. Because again, we worked together four years on American Idol. Like he stays and just tells stories after every time, so. And we got the benefit of that today too. So thanks to Luke Bryant for coming by. So we'll be from the super bowl next episode later on this week. Probably Friday, maybe Saturday, whatever the case is. But we'll be out there and I'm very much looking forward to it. Are you going to that fancy commissioner thing?
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Matt Castle
I am perfect. I am. It's going to be awesome.
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Bobby Bones
And I won't feel like the only person that doesn't belong. I'll at least have a friend that does belong.
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Matt Castle
That I'll know that I definitely don't belong there. Let's be honest, when they said the commission, I was like, really? This is a big time deal. The only reason I was invited, because you're invited.
- [66:26]
Bobby Bones
That's not true.
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Matt Castle
Because I've never been invited before in my life and even when I was a player. So I know that it's because of you. So thanks for that.
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Bobby Bones
Are you taking a suit?
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Matt Castle
Yes. Remember the other night I was like, is this a black tie event? Because I didn't.
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Bobby Bones
I just should have said yes. Or I should have said Hawaiian shirt.
- [66:42]
Matt Castle
Yeah, that would have been funny. Super Nashville casual.
- [66:46]
Bobby Bones
Yes.
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Matt Castle
I walk in, all the owners, everybody's in just full black tie. And I'm like, oh my God. That would have been actually great. I would have appreciated that Luke was.
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Bobby Bones
Talking about plan the waste management. Have you done one of the fancy big golf tournaments and had to play one of the par three holes?
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Matt Castle
Well, I played at the Tahoe Tahoe tournament, the American Century Tahoe tournament. And there is pressure. Like you get the warm up round. I think it was Thursday and it's Friday, Saturday, Sunday, something like that. Way too much golf for me. I'm not a good golfer. I was like 3 above Charles Barkley at one point like that, that's where my. My. I just went downhill, right? Because the nighttime, you're partying, you're having so much fun. But then they get to that par three, and I forget what it is. Is it.
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Bobby Bones
I don't know.
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Matt Castle
So it's like right on the water, all the boats are pulled up, and you've got a bunch of people that just follow these guys around. I hit somebody, but it knocked my ball back onto the green. I was like, yes. And it's like literally roped it to the left and it goes boom. Hits off somebody's leg, goes onto the green. I was like, I went and apologized. Sign something or did. Did that for him. And then I went up. I was like, dude, that was awesome.
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Bobby Bones
Did you know it hit somebody when you hit somebody?
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Matt Castle
I knew it was either going to be way out there, but then I heard people go, oh. I walked up. And they, you know, they've got staff out there to go check these people, particularly on the par three, because everybody's right there, and so they're already kind of checking. So I went over to check and sure enough, I hit somebody right in the leg. I think it was a guy and. But the ball ricocheted off him and hit him hard enough to where it went onto the green. I was like, oh, this couldn't work out better.
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Bobby Bones
I was playing the Pebble Beach Pro Am, was lucky enough to get invited to that.
- [68:19]
Matt Castle
And that's got to be hard, too.
- [68:21]
Bobby Bones
It's nerve wracking because, again, I'm not a good golf. I'm a fine golfer at times, right? But I'm not naturally a good golfer. And I'd really played a lot leading up to it, and I was probably shooting mid-80s, which is the best that consistently I've ever been. So I go. And the. The day before the tournament, you go and you play this Part three competition. And Jim Nance is calling it.
- [68:44]
Matt Castle
That's cool.
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Bobby Bones
And so you're on the tee box and Jim Nance is right beside you, and he's like, up next. And I had a show on Peacock at the time. This was an NBC thing called Snake in the Grass. And he's like the host of Snake in the Grass and nationally syndicated. And I can hear it because he's. From me to you, that wall, right? And there are people everywhere. And like, Eric Church is about to hit after me, and Nate Brigazzi, the guy, the lead singer of Train, just hit. And everybody's in groups. And the winner of each group goes to the finals and then competes for the championship. And I just didn't want to kill anybody, right? Because I know I'm not good enough to win the thing. So I get up. It's like slow motion. I can hear Jim Nance vividly. And I'm like, well, just trust the work. Just trust the work.
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Matt Castle
Trust it.
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Bobby Bones
But also second guess every part of it. I'm like begging myself because I don't get nervous that often. Occasionally I will be nervous thing, but generally I love things that make me nervous because I've done a lot of stuff and I've succeeded and also failed miserably. And at the end of the day, the sun comes up and you go on with life. And I think that's a real superpower to know that regardless of what happens, life moves on, right? And so I'm like, sun's coming up tomorrow if you hit a good or bad. But I was still trembling a little bit, and I switched balls and I decided to change balls and I put a pink ball down instead. And they're like, in the pink ball. And I hear it and it sounds so clean. And I don't see it. Because your head's down mine? No, because my nerves and my eyes were sweaty. I mean, that's why I wish it were that I was so focused. And I. And I hear the guy goes, oh, it's up there.
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Luke Bryan
Boom.
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Bobby Bones
It lands, rolls by the hole and it's like eight feet. I.
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Matt Castle
Come on.
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Bobby Bones
I stuck it. It's one of my greatest athletic achievements. Stuck it.
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Luke Bryan
I.
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Bobby Bones
And so I go to the finals and I compete in the finals, and I finished like 4th or something. I'm not sure. Doesn't matter. I made it in. I'm feeling good about myself.
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Matt Castle
You finished four, how many contestants?
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Bobby Bones
Well, it was all celebrities, so it's like 40 celebrities probably.
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Matt Castle
You finished fourth out of 40.
- [70:49]
Bobby Bones
Well, but if you won your heat. I won my heat because you get. You get two balls.
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Matt Castle
That's impressive.
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Bobby Bones
Wait. So I won my heat and then I'm. I'm down and it's cool. And we. I didn't win the whole thing, but I didn't think I should be in the finals. So the next day I'm feeling really good about myself and I'm playing and There's a par 3 and all the cameras are out, and I'm like, first two halls have been great, right? And I was like, I'm about to stick. Like, I was feeling so confident.
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Luke Bryan
Boom.
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Bobby Bones
I hit it up and I see it and it's. It's not really over the green, but the wind was blowing and I'm left handed. I got a natural little. And I see the ball hit and then roll onto the green. It kind of. It was kind of off to the side. I must hit a rock or something. And that's like a fun event where you walk and you give everybody. I'm going crazy, giving everybody high fives, running through, and I get back to get my club. I hit a girl on the face. Yeah, she was. I had too much confidence from that day before. She was, like, in the side green, gallery, hit her right in the face and like yours ricocheted right onto the middle of the green. Not my best achievement. I think I still parted the hole.
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Matt Castle
Yeah.
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Bobby Bones
Off her face.
- [71:54]
Matt Castle
Right.
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Bobby Bones
But that. That one was embarrassing.
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Matt Castle
You know, it's funny because I was at that Tahoe tournament. Marcus Allen is up on the tee box, and it was a par three. Well, his. His girlfriend at the time was walking. She's wearing all white. He hooks this ball. Ball hits her directly on the top of her head. But not only did it hit her on the top of the head, it split her head open.
- [72:12]
Bobby Bones
Oh, no.
- [72:13]
Matt Castle
So she's got this all white on. I mean, blood everywhere. And so he. Obviously, everybody comes out, checks on her medical tent, and he. He goes over, but he's in the middle of a round, so he checks on her and he's like, all right, I'm gonna go. I think he probably said, like, I'm so sorry, but I gotta finish this round. He went back, played. She had to go. I see her later that night. She's got staples in her back of her head. I was like, oh, gosh. Because that's my worst nightmare. It's just, like, truly injuring somebody and those. But how do you not, as a fan, like, sit there and go, I've got a real risk.
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Bobby Bones
Yeah, Just watch.
- [72:43]
Matt Castle
I got a real risk.
- [72:43]
Bobby Bones
Yeah. I did maintenance on a golf course for a long time. And so doing maintenance and having to take care of greens. I get so mad if I'm playing and someone hits on us, because I just get trauma from watching all of us workers get just smacked with golf balls. All right, it's almost. We're going to do another show before the super bowl, so we don't even have to be like, who's going to win? But I'm still sticking with the Chiefs. And you are.
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Matt Castle
I'm torn. I'm torn, Bobby. I'm torn.
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Bobby Bones
You know, that.
- [73:15]
Matt Castle
That I'm sticking with the Chiefs.
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Bobby Bones
That is not good media because there you go.
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Matt Castle
I'm sticking with the Chiefs because last week I said Bills and it. It took all of me to say that. But you want the Chiefs, and I agree with you. You gotta. You gotta beat the Chiefs in order to become the champion. Until you do, until you can prove it, I'm going with the Chiefs.
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Bobby Bones
We're done. Thank you for listening. Please, if you're listening to this on one of the other feeds, that's not our own feed, which there's lots to say. If you don't mind, please go subscribe to Lots to say. Thanks to Luke Bryan. He's Matt Castle. I'm Bobby Bones. Thanks to our head of photography, Reed Yarberry. Thanks to our executive producer, Mr. Kevin O'Connell. Not the coach, that's our guy. Kickoff, Kevin. Thank you guys. And we've had lots to say. See you later this week. Lots to say with Bobby Bones and Matt Castle is a production of the NFL and iHeart Podcast. For more podcasts from iHeartRadio, visit the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts.
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Bobby Bones
Yeah, check in first is smart.
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