Joe Rogan Experience #2216 — Luke Bryan Transcript

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0:00 The Joe Rogan Experience. But it was also my daughter was like freaked out because she was going to the show. Well Vegas, you know, that was wrapping up Vegas. Well, the thing about it is, like, all of that get to Vegas and, like, you know, you He was like a, I mean, I used to joke if my dad didn't play poker, we'd have never had me you know just broke as shit.

3:08 And so that's been a famous saying when my buddies, when they're down and out, down two to just sit there, have a drink, have a cigar, and watch Dice Cards because you're just sitting there and your mind's down stuff be real mobile out there we put a lot of stuff in the room and You never got into sports? I would just I would tell him to what to bet on and we were like 84% at one time

5:41 Oh yeah, I knew those guys. Whatever you got, I go throw it all at this guy. Yeah. I was like I could get in trouble. Don't get in any trouble now either, don't lose the gig. one sportsbook. Please play responsibly. 19 plus and physically located in Ontario. And this was like six years ago, five years ago. And I just, then I went rogue for like two years.

8:57 That movie tripped me out. so and so is doing four late gonna get four layups at the half and So we had an epic day. And I'm like, man, I've had to be me all year. You can't replicate it in any other, I'm like, this is Texas football. we It is. That has got to be... Oh, he'll describe it that way. And I was like what is happening? I heard him say he learned how to play back wrap because you can bet more

14:02 Five minutes are down 120 grand. much money and you grow into some money, but your level of what you want to press your Right. Yeah, it's hard to watch. gotten at a craps table where I can kind of manage everybody's bets and I'm like I'm out there like I'm playing and I look at my you know, cuz they work in teams illegal. Oh, yeah. And then... Wasn't that long ago? The early days of the UFC, online gambling was

17:39 Well, and then also people would go to Indian reservations. But if you got a place like in Connecticut, like... the Mississippi River and you can gamble. It's like well what is that all about? Right that's So it's just always been funny to me that like Native American reservations just love that guy. We are so governed in the world of wildlife biology through the states and stuff they're not gonna let

21:07 are only hunting humans. Five. Five. of them, five of them have like, oh, we don't care about salmon anymore. We want to sit I went on a bear hunt in Alberta and there's so many grizzlies now you can't even go. Did you was it you that was talking about we were trying they were trying to determine a male Grizzly versus a male gorilla nobody's going to let the grizzlies get... Exterminated. Right. It's not... They're

24:04 Right. But I don't get it... a radical judge like this judge that you said that's in Wyoming... And what you, 99% of your interpretation of a grizzly is this big old fat chunky thing. experience. Yeah. It's like, get a, get us kind of going a little bit. And dude, it was slim and like a damn, it was lean and like a greyhound. Some berry infection or whatever, salmon infection.

27:39 a grizzly bear galloping on the other side of the river. And I'm like, well, I've already seen the That's when you get scared when you're on the mothers. So that was my grizzly encounter. And for you saying you shouldn't be able to manage the population as wildlife biologists say it should be managed, you're putting people in danger, Tennessee in Gatlinburg, Joe, I mean, dude, they are darting black bears off second story

30:15 You know what happened in New Jersey, right? because they had so many interactions. I have a buddy who lives up there, he sees them all the time. Look at the size of that thing. Good fucking shot. 770, oh, gutted, 770 gutted. Well and you know the sad part about I think California you know the the whole population? They're everywhere there. You ever see the fights they have in Far Rockaway?

33:52 these fuckers imagine like you're watching TV duke it out passing by this guy's track of this guy's mailbox look at them it goes on forever them live in cities before I ever hunted bear before ever hunted at all I was grown up in it seriously. I'm like, Hey man, hold up. Right. Let's just don't run up to the But when we hunted them ourselves, organs, they ate everything. It sustained everybody and that was how people lived. And then when people

37:29 there's roe deer there and there's some stags. in movies. They're never the good guys. They're always pieces of shit. The hunters are always Because during COVID, people are like, hey, man, this fucking, what if there's no food? she kind of eats like a bird when she does eat, but man, she will call me and she'll house tenderloins because by the time me and my I got three children that go out there

40:39 place for that. But it's pretty cool that elk gets that. And they still have to add And yeah, when you can go like we, at my place, my deer place in southern Tennessee, yeah, and yeah, when you can go like we, at my place, my deer place in southern I put one on my instagram story Jamie they're that little, obviously they can't bow hunt, but we would get an elk down and

43:12 And I said, no, son. boys, I mean, that's, that's what I live for and to, to keep the, you know, and I just Good luck. What is this? So many people don't have a 50-acre farm, they can't afford And I had to spend 45 minutes, and she grew up in Tennessee, in the country, and she doesn't understand that a shotgun Nothing's like it. He was over the ridge at 50 yards.

47:20 Damn Okay let me. Here it goes. a tree full camo hiding in plain sight so now he's moving out so now I'm like execute a perfect shot. Now, like, I can watch that elk react to everything and know what that elk's, how that elk's You tie your own flies? fly and trick a big ass fish. A big fish with it. Yeah. My only problem with fly fishing is a lot room comes in to hold the brand new baby or what. Heck, they treat newborns, they're slapping

51:53 do that stuff. to hunt this evening. that's why it's so fucked over there. That's why they don't have this attitude about it. That's the problem also is that assholes ask for permission and then do something stupid. Right off the road. God, that's so awful. And Till was 15 when he killed his first elk. The rule has been if you can pull And like I said, I've been hiking them up those hills.

55:44 and the cape out, and I had to tote the head and the cape out ability to go hunt elk but once you start doing it and and You know, but man this deer was born in the fence in Tennessee and we watched him for, we grew him for, we feel like he's five and a half. And dude, we are, Yeah, he might have crossed cross a hybrid yeah for having the high fence, but, you know,

59:14 But I learned I leased a South Texas place down here. Oh, that's nice. Yeah, the new Starlink's wild. for the first time this year. He said they have a swarm of them every day. The ranch I was at, they have to have a full-time team of people just going around picking up Yeah. Yeah, you you miss that They're they're very you know they're, I don't think they're there to create any problems.

1:03:53 I mean, I think it's one of those things where people talk about it. just take a chance grand hoping hoping or maybe you'd gone with someone who I remember being 16 going how bad must that be? How bad must that be? It's not as simple as everybody just gives up whatever they have and now everybody has It's from Africa to Cuba to... that's like thinking about an elephant or lines and all that

1:07:01 and take in the animals for a month and have like the wives and Well he got with me and he goes, Luke, man, it's still, I cannot get into South Africa. I'm like, and that's just kind of the way he's, he's, he's wired, but you know, he's of the mammals were introduced and they have no natural predators so they have it. Did you say how it was a taste of it?

1:10:50 Yeah, it's delicious. I would like to. I'd like to go over to Africa just to see it. It's so fun though. and put it in your bedroom and leave it when we go hunting. And I'm like, dude, I've been working on this fucking thing for four you got fake ducks, you get the whole deal. I have to go for the dog. The dog needs some duck hunting in its life. She's like man one day. Yeah, so do you have one of them setups where you're like hiding in one of those?

1:15:00 up, shut up, shut up. feed on your rice and your corn. block in there and you boil the goose and you pull the goose out and eat the cinder And Jesse came on this hunt with us with Steve Rinello down in South Texas. the world. Yeah, I've heard of that. shooting it's good the guts are going right through kind of in the meat a Who figured that out? That's what you like the most?

1:19:37 It's a red meat, a deep red meat, and it's a bird. place. And I fly down to the tour of the property and I'm like, dude, what are You can't shoot Sandhill Cranes in Florida, but you can shoot alligators? They're protected under the Federal Migratory Bird Treaty Act. They make a they make a very distinct Yeah. Sandhill Crane goggles for labs. I don't think that's the same.

1:22:53 There you go. Crane hut. I'm telling you this diver duck was sensational If you know what you're doing. like an actual fire charcoal wood. Well, we're in the heart of it in Texas, you know, right here. I mean, these guys take a damn, you know, they, they, they glue four propane tanks together and at me and you doing tragers and we're, that's about like us.

1:26:08 Ribs and spare ribs see when I when I moved to Nashville being a South Georgia boy, I'd never even heard of brisket. Really? like there was cuts of the meat. Well, the smoker thing came certainly from German immigrants that It's all just how long you cook it for. How do you, how you do it, what temperature and they And walk up there on the family reunion and all the women were grossed out because, you

1:28:17 But if you're a person wants to hunt you can hunt wild pigs For anybody out there listening, if you have this going on, we mounted lights in all the try anything. of damage of crops every year. a Navy SEAL Marine recruiter because my sons are ready for warfare after doing that. No, no, I'm still, I just mostly bow hunt them. Well, The New Yorker, I'm scrolling through and I see Feral Pigs, and it was this huge

1:32:03 Pretty badass take on it. you get these old boys with their dogs and they run off in the... 110 traps out. 110. And night one had over 100 varmints. Coons, possums, armadillos in Really? blew my mind. So in the nest, and I've walked up on them, they got 12 or 13 of them sitting That's a wrap. the, the, the, um, oh, and I'm not even bringing up coyotes in Tennessee, but, uh, so yeah,

1:36:08 They definitely eat raccoons. I never. Yeah. You know what's crazy in Georgia? They put them in a, put them in a, um, a limb, a limb shredder. Maybe the Sir Stroman challenge can replicate, you know, the whole Sir Stroman joke thing. Oh, we did it at our deer camp. And if you can stay in the room with it beaver skin lining? the problem fucking and when I'm at a minute no it never ever it's never I'm an American Idol. No, it never ends.

1:40:10 You're seeing the craziest of crazy thinking. It was very rare and there wasn't a lot of hatred towards those people. It wasn't the thing that people worried about. Now You keep hearing about it all the time. It's the dumbest shit ever. It's carbon neutral. They're getting a lot further than granola. Granola used to be normal until they... See, the thing is, those people were weird and rare, and they were tolerated.

1:42:52 We're gonna do these cows. We do you gonna go around castrating all those bulls. What are you gonna do? that work at the meat processing plant? These people have like the most minimal understanding of the system Man, we I live just south of Nashville. We got 180 acres. I've got neighborhoods all I mean Joe, I'm so like, I mean, week like I said my brain is bass fishing and all this stuff

1:45:23 Just throw them up on the bank. And think about it, I've been loving on these damn fish. the prettiest thing you've ever seen. So do you turn them into coats or anything? Yeah, fur. Nobody gets mad at leather. I love it, man. You can't, my enjoyment is to watch the kid, my buddies, my children's friends come enjoy Did you show them how to shoot correctly?

1:48:52 Why all-female so that way they can't breed your females are your trophy bass, right? A male, a bass will forage on themselves. coolers and take them into the little towns and give them to people and I mean it becomes Well, bluegills, bluegills, you know, like all the bluegills at my lake are, we feed And then- We spent our whole life, my dad would catch bass, we would fillet them, he'd put them

1:51:38 your big reservoirs, like Texas is the best big bass lake reservoir state in the country. Well, then in five years, you've lost it. You know what I'd really like to do? Get a place in the north and have a lake with pike in it. First time I caught a pike, I'm like, size queens. Size, yeah. Or score.... They get into numbers. They're size queens. Let's keep a lot of action.

1:53:59 that Northwest steelhead, and catching one, man, I don't, that's just, I hadn't done You know what I'm saying? Why are you fucking with those fish? Because that's, Just to prove that you did it? Well, it's like they make those club heads so you can shoot squirrels and birds. squirrels and you know we we'd eat them you know we'd eat them every now and then

1:56:17 Squirrel hunting is like very popular in parts of the South. People think of them, they have like fluffy tail privilege. Eight-year nine years old through the neighborhood riding my Honda 50 Yeah. It's wild. now the education of you know I mean you look at you know you look at the how their platform to talk about their way. I mean you drink you drink a half jar of mason, you know, oh, yeah

2:00:19 my high school. This old boy threw me a dip in, and dude, big old Kodiak and I threw up outside the high And any cigar I'd ever done, therapy right here all these people smoking cigars aren't stupid it's got We're drinking coffee. of traffic, find a, you know, and the next thing you know you're smoking a grocery Whoa. to have her one or two Bud Lights.

2:03:26 know, litter the parking lot. But she'll pan fry a ribeye in butter. Pan fries a ribeye. four pan-fried ribeyes. Right. No. Bud Light. We drank some. We drank some on the podcast we did together. Kid Rock just shot our beer Post Malone's always drinking Bud Light. Fully? Well, you remember those Bud Light guys, the real American genius guys? He's riding on the Clydesdales.

2:07:52 Oh a little puppy got out. Oh Wolves. Yeah. it more inclusive and like, do you know what you're saying? there's sensible ways to grow it. But it has to be up to the artist to just express themselves people. got to stop people's eyeballs on you. Georgia boy at the time and I was talking to Texas people I was talking to everybody well on this long, but you'll be amazed, dude.

2:14:08 get low. So when I did Country Girl Shake It for me, We did it for two years. playing in, well, I had Texas, I had the, I had the, I had the, I had a, I'd go to, I'd go to Bozeman, Montana Nelson. I don't do Willie Nelson. They're outlaws. And I said, if it's bro country, manipulated that story, I lost that whole crowd right there. What your interviews are the beauty. Well, and you, no one's gotten popped more than you

2:18:41 And man, I had motorcycle gangs that. posing with my all-American family. to put the damn album out because the reality is I'm not at the height. Fuck, I'm not going to even say probably. 40 hours of their editor came in and changed things out. Because their editor's ass is about to get canned. Yeah, exactly. Because his company just got bought by And those people should be shamed.

2:23:29 Isn't it funny that that is a negative thing to say today? Have you ever seen like the numbers? that are manipulating people. Oh yeah, that's it. Thank you. Look at that. Jamie, you're You have a lot of this. The New York Times from 2010 to 2020, it goes up 712%. And this idea that you shouldn't be colorblind, and then you should recognize race, you should

2:26:14 It's people are coming to their senses like everybody's woke up from a fever dream That's why you're naive. wanting to go try this fucking music thing. and it's a life that comes in and you don't know what the hell. You know, we have a note or two Because I came up through, you got to play a thousand nightclubs, you got to go through, I was like, holy shit

2:29:41 It's a damn shame what the world's gotten to. I had him on here and I actually gave him advice. sign that. going to offer you anything. Those people are just going to, the reason why they want And God, you know, the beauty of idol is, and guys like this, there's so many avenues now. and even people after that, they went their ass to work too. they won't, when we get a kid that we love, man, we sit around, we go to dinner, and we

2:32:49 There's a lot of that shit with comedians today too. You know, it's it's we're living in a new world. It's like the song Like dude, I want to kill them I do good with it. And if the threats were other tribes or predators or whatever. And then you have to think about the kind of people that post comments. You basically wasted one 100th of your day. whoa, whoa.

2:36:16 We should be number one. And it's like, is it Thomas Jefferson who wrote that quote? That's why billionaires. heard of this scene? No. Is it crazy? Joe. So first of all, I mean, this boat that we got is a 120 foot Westport. Dude. He goes, looking at the other boats wondering. Can't in that nuts imagine being a 250 foot yacht looking at the dude on the 300 foot yacht going. God damn it

2:39:48 Did you lay in bed and just be like, Cause I would have to call other people and get permission. And then when you start achieving it, man, I still, I mean, I don't think it's, No, it's like, you know, dudes are crazy with deer. That's a sickness. When I started doing standup comedy comedy my dream was to be a professional because I always had jobs

2:41:58 Nice. So going to Georgia didn't... And the problem is, if you're always comparing yourself to other people, you're not going to like, how did it happen so quick? How did it happen so quick? What are you doing with And when you get it, you feel better. It's it you have to really focus and you're thinking about it It's like they almost need to lose something to be able to appreciate what you have. Well, and I tell people

2:45:11 Hard loss. No, that's and it's a part of life and but some people man. They're just And then what'd you do? Thank you for doing that a lot of time get mad the we're the lab rats we really are especially our kids our kids really are Wouldn't watch him. I'd be like man. My parents told me not to watch that I mean, I remember Joe Theismann, Hanging from a broken leg

2:48:18 But I do love the funny comical aspect of it that gets me and a cup of coffee dying laughing There's a lot of funny people out there. You're sharing it. Those jokes? And then it's everywhere. I said, well, how old is he, Bo? Now, my son's not starting. He's backup quarterback to a great quarterback. And we played him Just be inspired. Yeah, you're running some Russian chicken English class

2:52:24 14. The 16 and 14 are Yeah, the 16 and 14. the growth of social media from like 2009, and be mean about girls and talk shit about the way and you're ruining people's lives. old. Right? Yeah. It actually has the opposite effect. He's one of my favorite human beings ever. Best thing. He's such a fucking sweetheart. best thing ever. He's one of my favorite human beings ever best thing

2:55:22 Thing that's hanging up their life. See my household my household was a man. We sat at the dinner table and dude it it came out It was like we were a bunch of damn naked idiots running around trying to get to the guest house right now because we're doing some you little shit. First of all, I'm like, what in the hell? 16-year-old manscaping? What know?

2:59:45 And man, I looked at him the last day of the hunt. So I towed him across the river. my... because we're toting gear and I throw my boots over my shoulders so they don't get Mind of a country boy, listen or download now. Oh shit.