Luke Bryan
Appearances
The Joe Rogan Experience
#2216 - Luke Bryan
So go ahead. I'm just saying that when I see people, that's all they care about is the money. And then they're always thinking about the richness. I just think it's a trap. And the problem is if you're always comparing yourself to other people, you're not going to enjoy what you have. You're not going to enjoy this experience, temporary experience of life. Right. Because it is temporary.
The Joe Rogan Experience
#2216 - Luke Bryan
It's so quick. I'm 57 years old. How the fuck did that happen? All of a sudden, you just keep getting older. And then, you know, one day you're dead. And I bet on your deathbed, you're like, how did it happen so quick? How did it happen so quick? What are you doing with your time? And are you enjoying it? And I think you need things outside of what you do that you love.
The Joe Rogan Experience
#2216 - Luke Bryan
And like for you and I, I think it's hunting and the outdoors. Because I think it balances you. I think there's something very spiritual about it. I think there's something just being in the woods. It's a very spiritual experience, like a real spiritual experience. Like, I think it's like a vitamin that you don't know you need until you get it. And when you get it, you feel better.
The Joe Rogan Experience
#2216 - Luke Bryan
I'm good friends with Dana White, and Dana's a – he's a real degenerate.
The Joe Rogan Experience
#2216 - Luke Bryan
When I'm out there, I feel better. I just feel better. I'm like, the air is cleaner. I feel more in touch with being alive. It just feels better. And I think I'm not thinking about anything else. If I'm elk hunting, I'm not thinking about... Jokes. I'm not thinking about podcasts, guests. I'm not thinking about jack shit. I'm just thinking about what I'm doing. That's it.
The Joe Rogan Experience
#2216 - Luke Bryan
And it's very difficult to do, and you have to really focus, and you're thinking about it, and you're always trying to improve, and that alone is good for your brain.
The Joe Rogan Experience
#2216 - Luke Bryan
Isn't that crazy about people, though? You almost need to lose something to be able to appreciate what you have.
The Joe Rogan Experience
#2216 - Luke Bryan
They just... Well, they're delusional and then a lot of people are medicated too. So they don't even know what the fuck is going on while they're living this life. They're living this life under the influence of the pharmaceutical drug companies and they're just floating through life in a haze. And they don't even know what's happening while it's happening. And then they get to the end.
The Joe Rogan Experience
#2216 - Luke Bryan
And then what'd you do? What'd you do? Did you help people? Did you make people feel better? Did you inspire people? Did you enrich people's lives? What did you do? And then you have to realize, God damn, I wasted a lot of time reading comments. Thank you. Thank you for doing that. I wasted a lot of time getting mad at assholes.
The Joe Rogan Experience
#2216 - Luke Bryan
I don't do it bad. Everybody says that. Everybody says they don't look at their phone. Let me see your screen time. Six hours. Jesus, bitch. What the fuck are you doing? Oh, Lord. Yeah, man. I mean... Well, we're all... This is a new world, too, in terms of that. I keep saying this is a new world, but there really is a new element to our lives is this social media element.
The Joe Rogan Experience
#2216 - Luke Bryan
And I think there's not a lot of... Stuff that's written on it where people understand how to manage it. Yeah, we're learning in real time.
The Joe Rogan Experience
#2216 - Luke Bryan
We really are, especially our kids. Our kids really are the lab rats. The kids really are. And not just that, also access to violence. They see so much violence. They see so much online that's horrible.
The Joe Rogan Experience
#2216 - Luke Bryan
Jamie and I went to visit. We went with Shane Gillis and a bunch of other guys. We went to visit Dana while he was gambling. When we got there, he was down $600,000. And I was like, what is happening here?
The Joe Rogan Experience
#2216 - Luke Bryan
Yeah, if you're on Instagram, you're seeing people dying. Every. Every day. Every day I have friends that send me horrible shit.
The Joe Rogan Experience
#2216 - Luke Bryan
I know, now that's nothing. And now it's like... That's nothing. I watched a dude on a diving board and his foot fell in a crack and the diving board had an opening in it and he went forward and his knee stayed in the same place and it just snapped his leg the wrong way and he's screaming, hanging from a broken leg. That's just one thing I saw today. I thought you don't do that.
The Joe Rogan Experience
#2216 - Luke Bryan
I watch things on Instagram. I just don't read comments. But me and Tom Segura, we send each other the most horrible shit every day. It's ridiculous. But some days he sends me things, I don't even look at them. I'm like, not today.
The Joe Rogan Experience
#2216 - Luke Bryan
Yeah. Memes are some of the best comedy out there. And it's just random people create these funny things. There's a lot of funny people out there.
The Joe Rogan Experience
#2216 - Luke Bryan
Within hours. Oh, yeah. They're so quick. And memes are weird because a lot of times you don't even know who made it. You're sharing it. Somebody sends it to you. You send it to other people. Like, who made that? Who's the wizard that figured this out? It's a fucking hilarious stuff. It's like a meme factory. Well, it's like jokes. Remember jokes like two guys walking to a bar? Those jokes?
The Joe Rogan Experience
#2216 - Luke Bryan
Who fucking wrote those? We don't know, but some of them were bangers. And they spread. They just spread. Spread across the whole country. But somebody had to be the guy that sat down and tells the story. Two guys walking to a bar. And then, you know, then it's everywhere.
The Joe Rogan Experience
#2216 - Luke Bryan
They're being influenced by things far beyond our control and way different than anything that any other generation has ever experienced before.
The Joe Rogan Experience
#2216 - Luke Bryan
That's so crazy. I was getting anxiety just sitting there watching. And so then Taylor LeJuan came over, and Dana and Taylor have this deal where Dana teaches Taylor what to gamble and how to do it. They're down $120,000 in what, five minutes? Five minutes. Five minutes, they're down $120,000. And I'm just sitting there going, what the fuck, man? Look, Dana's rich as shit. Obviously.
The Joe Rogan Experience
#2216 - Luke Bryan
Just be inspired. Be inspired by other's success. But don't take it too seriously. And also recognize that kid might start getting laid and throw it all away.
The Joe Rogan Experience
#2216 - Luke Bryan
Yeah, you're running some Russian chick in your English class.
The Joe Rogan Experience
#2216 - Luke Bryan
Yeah, and then all of a sudden you don't have any sperm left in your body and you're dehydrated all day long. Yeah, you're getting electrolytes on the sideline. You're not doing any off-season running or lifting. You're busy.
The Joe Rogan Experience
#2216 - Luke Bryan
also people just they lose the focus you know and sometimes they get pushed too hard by their parents there's a little bit of that too the kids rebel they don't want to do it anymore anything can happen but that's what's fascinating about life is that it's all open your daughters are uh how old now 28 16 and 14 yeah the 16 and 14 man The 16 and 14 are going through a totally different experience.
The Joe Rogan Experience
#2216 - Luke Bryan
Well, there's some alarming statistics about the growth of social media from like 2009 where you see girls with self-harm, all sorts of psychological conditions, online bullying. Yeah. Because girls are fucking vicious to each other online. Boys will run into each other and punch each other in the face.
The Joe Rogan Experience
#2216 - Luke Bryan
But girls will attack each other's character and they'll have their reputation destroyers. And they love to like make up stories about girls and be mean about girls and talk shit about the way girls look and the way girls dress and the guys girls are dating and they do it to each other. And it's just it's unfortunate. But it's that's what gossip used to be. Gossip used to just be talking, though.
The Joe Rogan Experience
#2216 - Luke Bryan
It's like a normal thing where girls get around and talk. But now they talk online. Yeah. And when they talk online, then other people read it. And you're ruining people's lives. And you're ruining little girls' lives. And suicide is off the charts. And self-harm is off the charts. And mostly young girls are getting affected.
The Joe Rogan Experience
#2216 - Luke Bryan
Right? Right. It wasn't thought when we were kids in high school.
The Joe Rogan Experience
#2216 - Luke Bryan
I know Taylor is wealthy, but there's like a level where you could lose $125,000 is $125,000. Well, yeah. I mean, I've learned kind of like if you're betting $1,000 a hand, you can get down $50,000 quick.
The Joe Rogan Experience
#2216 - Luke Bryan
Right. Now it's the thing they think about all the time. And the problem with that is Abigail Schreier wrote a book about this. You focus on your problems. Your problems oftentimes become bigger. When you think about things like anxiety, guess what? It makes you more anxious. It doesn't help it. It actually has the opposite effect. Yeah, it's a weird world, but they're going to be okay.
The Joe Rogan Experience
#2216 - Luke Bryan
We're just going to have to adjust and figure it out on the fly. It's just this adjustment is bigger than any adjustment that any generation's ever had to make before. But it's also like, look at things like Oliver Anthony. Good comes out of it, too. Yeah. You know, Jelly Roll. Jelly Roll. Jesus. Love that dude. Best thing ever. He's one of my favorite human beings ever. Best thing.
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#2216 - Luke Bryan
When that guy sang that song, Save Me, and everybody was like, what is going on? This fucking ex-con with tattoos on his face with a voice like an angel. Best thing ever. Incredible. But this is all possible today, too. So you got good and you got bad. It's just you got to navigate the waters. You got to know where the rocks are. Steer that boat, young sailor.
The Joe Rogan Experience
#2216 - Luke Bryan
Everybody's... Well, when you have daughters, there's a certain amount of time where you can't be naked in front of them anymore. Once they hit four or five years old, you're like, okay, that's a wrap.
The Joe Rogan Experience
#2216 - Luke Bryan
It really does. It really does. Luke, thank you very much, man. This was a lot of fun.
The Joe Rogan Experience
#2216 - Luke Bryan
More than three hours. Was it? Yeah. Yeah. Holy shit. Yeah, it's 4.30.
The Joe Rogan Experience
#2216 - Luke Bryan
There it is. Mind of a country boy. Listen or download now. Look at you, you handsome bastard. Well... Fucking tight jeans.
The Joe Rogan Experience
#2216 - Luke Bryan
They don't hate you, man. Just don't read the ones that do. Oh, shit.
The Joe Rogan Experience
#2216 - Luke Bryan
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#2216 - Luke Bryan
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The Joe Rogan Experience
#2216 - Luke Bryan
Well, that's the only way they get their fix, too. They can't play $20 a hand.
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#2216 - Luke Bryan
Yeah, it's hard to watch. Forget about doing it. It's hard to watch. I don't get it. I'm glad I don't do it.
The Joe Rogan Experience
#2216 - Luke Bryan
That's hilarious. Look, I know people have a problem with gambling. I think it should be legal, but it can get away from you. Yeah, well. But that's like a lot of things in this world. Alcohol, there's a lot of things that can get away from you. It doesn't mean it should be illegal. Right. Well, Lord. It's just weird that it's only legal in a few states. I think that's expanding now.
The Joe Rogan Experience
#2216 - Luke Bryan
And then I remember when online gambling was illegal. Oh, yeah. And then... It wasn't that long ago. The early days of the UFC, online gambling was illegal.
The Joe Rogan Experience
#2216 - Luke Bryan
Yeah, well, and then also people would go to Indian reservations. That was the big thing. Right. Which is also crazy. Gambling's illegal.
The Joe Rogan Experience
#2216 - Luke Bryan
Yeah, and you only have to be like a small percentage Native American to get a piece of that. So there's a lot of millionaires just hanging around that casino, just enjoying it. But if you've got a place like in Connecticut. Oh, Mohegan and all that.
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#2216 - Luke Bryan
Yeah. My buddy Johnny used to he was a pool hustler. He used to call people riverboat gamblers when guys would just go off. And, you know, a guy was a gambling addict. You just trick him into a game. He's a riverboat gambler.
The Joe Rogan Experience
#2216 - Luke Bryan
It's just always been funny to me that Native American reservations are essentially a country inside the country, and they can do whatever the fuck they want.
The Joe Rogan Experience
#2216 - Luke Bryan
I was just reading about this Colorado wolf deal, where they've relocated wolves to Colorado, and the Native American reservation let them know, the moment those wolves get onto our land, we're flying over in helicopters and gunning them down.
The Joe Rogan Experience
#2216 - Luke Bryan
Well, whenever you have biology that's getting voted on by people who don't understand it, it should be decided by wildlife biologists. That's it. That's the only people that should decide whether or not things like that happen.
The Joe Rogan Experience
#2216 - Luke Bryan
That's so crazy. My friend went moose hunting, said he saw no moose, and he saw 12 grizzlies in Wyoming.
The Joe Rogan Experience
#2216 - Luke Bryan
Yeah, they move areas. Yeah, they have abandoned areas because they're overrun with grizzlies. They sent me some trail cam pics that are terrifying, like little school buses. They look like school buses, like the size of these fucking grizzlies.
The Joe Rogan Experience
#2216 - Luke Bryan
Because they eat things and kill things every day. Gorillas just, they fight. They just like, they puff their chest out and they mostly eat grass.
The Joe Rogan Experience
#2216 - Luke Bryan
And then the Pittman Roberts. People need to understand all the gear, everything, 10% of that goes to wildlife management.
The Joe Rogan Experience
#2216 - Luke Bryan
But... The thing is, they always say that they're going to get to a certain level of the population and then they're going to open it up for management. But they don't. Wolf management? Yeah. But what happens is people sue. And the wildlife, you know, all the people that love wolves, they sue. And when they sue, they stop the hunt and it has to go to court and it has to get decided.
The Joe Rogan Experience
#2216 - Luke Bryan
And if you get a radical judge like this judge that you said that's in Wyoming... And these are all...
The Joe Rogan Experience
#2216 - Luke Bryan
things that people in the know are telling me so lord i don't i don't need a judge somewhere in wyoming like pulling my no you're probably right you're probably right everyone that i know that hunts there says there there's a lot of grizzly bears and it's concerning because you don't see all of them if you see a lot of them there's a lot more than you don't see because most of them are just not just out in the open hanging out with you most of them were deep well and and
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#2216 - Luke Bryan
I need to thank you for taking care of my family when they came to see your show.
The Joe Rogan Experience
#2216 - Luke Bryan
I had a sip of it after. I had to. But that's like, what kind of trichinosis, wild shit are you going to get from that?
The Joe Rogan Experience
#2216 - Luke Bryan
Yeah, they don't play any games. When they have their cobs with them, they don't take any chances. Like, I'm going to incapacitate this dude. Yeah. Fuck him.
The Joe Rogan Experience
#2216 - Luke Bryan
I wish... All these people that get to vote, unlike B.C., when B.C. outlawed grizzly bear hunting. I wish all those people that experience—you should have to experience what it's actually like there. You should have to see. You should have to see the population. You see what it's like experiencing them. These aren't teddy bears.
The Joe Rogan Experience
#2216 - Luke Bryan
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, especially people that live up there.
The Joe Rogan Experience
#2216 - Luke Bryan
You know what happened in New Jersey, right? The governor ran on this policy of banning the grizzly bear hunt.
The Joe Rogan Experience
#2216 - Luke Bryan
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#2216 - Luke Bryan
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The Joe Rogan Experience
#2216 - Luke Bryan
Jersey has the most black bears per capita in the country, which is crazy. I'm going to send you something because I sent this to Cam last night because it's nuts. This dude just shot the state record. So it's back in. Yes, it's back in immediately. Right. Because they had so many interactions.
The Joe Rogan Experience
#2216 - Luke Bryan
Yeah, that's it. So I have a photo of the bear. Jamie, I'm going to send it to you. Next to the dude who killed it. That's a good one. Here, I'm going to send you this, too. But look at that, the size of that bear. So this is in New Jersey. This is New Jersey. That's a 770-pound bear in New Jersey. I didn't know they were up there that.
The Joe Rogan Experience
#2216 - Luke Bryan
I have a buddy who lives up there. He says he sees them all the time. All the time.
The Joe Rogan Experience
#2216 - Luke Bryan
They're all over the place. You got that photo of that dude laying next to it? Yeah. Look at that. Look at the size of that thing. Now, that article says 800 pounds. That's from Sever Broadheads. It says 880. But the other article said 770. It looks... It's big. Whatever the actual size it is, it's big. Look at that sever hole. Good shot, dude.
The Joe Rogan Experience
#2216 - Luke Bryan
Well, there's more than healthy numbers. Okay, there goes 770. Oh, gutted. 770 gutted.
The Joe Rogan Experience
#2216 - Luke Bryan
That's what it is. So they weighed it in at 770 pounds gutted. So the thing was about 880. Holy shit. Holy shit.
The Joe Rogan Experience
#2216 - Luke Bryan
Man, there's so many of... And for people who don't know, people eat bear. And bear's good. It tastes good.
The Joe Rogan Experience
#2216 - Luke Bryan
Yeah, in some cultures, they think it's medicine. So they were killing black bears just for their gallbladder? Yeah. But I think that was overblown. I don't think it's going to affect the population. I'm just guessing, especially a place like New Jersey. How are you going to affect that population? They're everywhere there. You ever see the fights they have in Far Rockaway?
The Joe Rogan Experience
#2216 - Luke Bryan
Far Rockaway, New Jersey is like a nice suburb. It's like a nice neighborhood. Giant bears. Jamie, pull that video up. Giant bears brawling on this guy's front lawn.
The Joe Rogan Experience
#2216 - Luke Bryan
This might be... Oh, yes, I did see that. That was... That was insane. But that's where grizzlies are supposed to be. This isn't a fucking neighborhood. These are big bears, and they're duking it out on this guy's nice lawn. They go tumbling down the stairs, and they start fighting in the street, and people are watching, and they're probably fighting over trash cans. Look at them.
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#2216 - Luke Bryan
So look at the size of these fuckers. Imagine, like, you're watching TV, and you're... Oh, man. So these dudes, they duke it out. This is like, Jamie, how long is this video? It's like a 10-minute video. Six-minute video. So six minutes, for six minutes, these dudes duke it out. They pile out into the street. They're biting each other. And this guy's filming from a car.
The Joe Rogan Experience
#2216 - Luke Bryan
And you see it as it, like, trumbles down. Like, yeah, pull it down so when they're in this. So they come tumbling down the hill, you know, full UFC style, duking it out. Passing by this guy's mailbox. Look at him. It goes on forever. And they're out in the street. This is a nice neighborhood. And you have huge predators in front of a Volvo. What the fuck? And this guy was trying to ban the hunt.
The Joe Rogan Experience
#2216 - Luke Bryan
They had a fucking fantastic time. But it was also my daughter was like freaked out because she was going to the show. She didn't know she was going to get to meet you. And her friend didn't know they were going to get to meet you either.
The Joe Rogan Experience
#2216 - Luke Bryan
Hey, pal, there's plenty of these bears. You should hunt them. Because if you don't hunt them, they're going to hunt you.
The Joe Rogan Experience
#2216 - Luke Bryan
What's the problem? What we're dealing with here is ballot biology. It's all people that are very emotional. Most of them live in cities. Before I ever hunted bear, before I ever hunted at all, I was like, kill a bear? What an asshole. You don't have to be an asshole to kill a bear. And then you get it— I was kind of the same way. But you probably had more hunting experience. I grew up fishing.
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#2216 - Luke Bryan
I really appreciate it. They really enjoyed it. And like I said, they were just blown away meeting you. They're like...
The Joe Rogan Experience
#2216 - Luke Bryan
hold up right let's just don't run up to the run up to it chunk it in the machine just just do a little homage right so go ahead but that yeah but the remorse go ahead the the remorse is important it's it's a part of the experience like you you are now connected to the food that you're going to eat right and i think that's what most people don't have And I think that's bad for us.
The Joe Rogan Experience
#2216 - Luke Bryan
I think all of human existence has been wrapped around hunting animals. And we hunted them ourselves forever. And then we eventually figured out agriculture. But we hunted them ourselves most of the time that humans were human. And we had this deep connection to this animal because this animal was going to sustain our family. And they used it. They took the skin from it. And they made...
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#2216 - Luke Bryan
All kinds of things. They took the tendons, they made strings for bows. And the fur. Yeah, the fur. I mean, it's what their clothes were made out of. They ate all the organs. They ate everything. It sustained everybody, and that was how people lived. And then when people stopped living like that, we got a little confused. I know people that eat meat.
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#2216 - Luke Bryan
Like, my wife was at dinner with her friends, and they were from England. And one of the friends said, where's your husband? And she said, oh, he's elk hunting. And the guy made some sort of, while he was cutting a steak, made some sort of like, oh, that's atrocious. Why did you do that? And she goes, why are you eating meat? You paid a supermarket hitman to go kill that fucking steak.
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#2216 - Luke Bryan
This is so stupid. But when you're removed from it culturally, and England is basically removed from it culturally. There's roe deer there and there's some stags.
The Joe Rogan Experience
#2216 - Luke Bryan
But for the most part, England has a very small hunting population. And I believe bow hunting is actually outlawed there. It's outlawed in a lot of places in Europe. It's outlawed in Scotland. It's outlawed in a lot of places. So there's a deep ignorance as to what's going on and what it is. And then they have judgment based on these cultural norms. And there's media depictions.
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#2216 - Luke Bryan
Media depictions of hunters in movies. They're never the good guys. They're always pieces of shit. The hunters are always assholes. They're always drunk. They're always trying to kidnap women or kill somebody. Right. They're always like torturing an animal. There's always something where someone has to come in and fuck up the hunters because hunters are they're portrayed as bad guys in movies.
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#2216 - Luke Bryan
I think it took a little uptick during COVID. Did it? Yeah. Because during COVID, people are like, hey, man, what if there's no food? My buddy lived in Asheville, and he sent me a photo in the middle of the pandemic. He goes, dude, there's no meat. And he was going down the meat aisle. He's filming it. He's like, there's no fucking meat here.
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#2216 - Luke Bryan
Well, that's nice. That's one good thing about the residency. You know, you're going back to the same spot over and over and over again.
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#2216 - Luke Bryan
fat grease it's like caulking you know that's also why it tastes so good right which we got there's a time and place for that but it's pretty cool that elk gets that and they still have to add a little bit of pork fat to elk just to keep it but uh i give a lot of meat away and whenever i do when i get texts back i get excited people like damn this is so good and it makes me feel better it does make you feel like there's something about wild game and get energy from it
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#2216 - Luke Bryan
That's the craziest sound. It's the baddest. I thought the elk sound was crazy. Elk sound's probably the craziest. It's the best. Elk is. But I'm used to it. But the roar. But when you hear a stag. Sounds like a lion. I put one on my Instagram story, Jamie. See if you can find it. There's a dude just staring at the camera, roaring. I bet, or I hear rather, Argentina's a great place to go. Yeah.
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#2216 - Luke Bryan
Imagine if you were some dude and it's like a thousand years ago and you don't know what the fuck that is.
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#2216 - Luke Bryan
I'm lucky I don't gamble. I don't do it. You never got into sports? Nope. Nope. I used to bet on fights. Back in the early days of the UFC, I used to bet on fights. And one day they made it illegal, but I already stopped doing it because I was like, this is probably not a good thing for me to be betting on things I'm commentating on because I can't affect the outcome. Right.
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#2216 - Luke Bryan
Well, hunting is a very difficult entry. It's very difficult. It is. If you're a person who's, like, listening to this, like, I've never hunted before, but I'd like to learn how to do it. Good luck. It's very hard to do. You're right. Very, very hard. It's very hard to find someone who's going to teach you, who has the patience to show you what to do.
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#2216 - Luke Bryan
If you've never shot a rifle before, it's very hard to understand, like, what is the difference between a .300 Win Mag and a 7mm?
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#2216 - Luke Bryan
But it's still quite close. I also sometimes know some shit. Yeah. This has been a bunch of times. So one of my business partners, I would tell him what to bet on. And we were at like 84% at one time.
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#2216 - Luke Bryan
I've done some wild shit. I'm going to send you a video, Jamie, of something that happened last week. So this is the best example of that. This is the best example of that. We had this elk, and he was out at about 50 yards. We snuck in on him. He was over the ridge at 50 yards. We could see the tips of his antlers moving around.
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#2216 - Luke Bryan
I had my sight set at 50 yards, and as my friend was calling him, my friend was at a tree that was about 20 yards from me. He came right into our lap. So it was one of those things where I had him range at 50, and then I see him coming in. He's coming in. I range him again at 40. I dial him in. I'm like, oh, shit, he's coming into our lap. He just kept coming in. Watch this video.
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#2216 - Luke Bryan
Do you not have it yet? God damn. Modern technology. It didn't make it through? Oh, it's still going. Hold on.
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#2216 - Luke Bryan
Okay. It said it went through. Did it go through? Okay. Bust out those cigars. You want a little heavy or a mild? Whatever you have. Here it goes. Check this out. Listen to this when he comes over the hill and gets angry. Like when I heard that, I was like, uh-oh, here he comes. So right now he's about 50 yards. What's your heart doing right now?
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#2216 - Luke Bryan
Right now I'm pretty calm because he's at 50 yards. Right. But now I'm realizing he's not going to stop, so I range him again. Now he's at 40. He pauses for a second. He's staring right at me. I have to stop. Oh, yeah, so you're off to the right. I'm off to the right, and I'm pressed up against a tree, full camo, hiding in plain sight. So now he's moving out.
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#2216 - Luke Bryan
So now I'm like, oh, shit, I'm moving my sight to 20. So now I move my sight to 20, and I'm trying to figure out a time to draw. So right here I draw, that's when he turns. Oh. He sees some movement. This is another one of these ones. Perfect. That was it. Boom.
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#2216 - Luke Bryan
There's so much nerves and so much anxiety, and you're ranging him, and he's coming in, and it's like, and you think he's going to be a 50, but all of a sudden he's a 20, and then it's like, don't punch the shot. Relax. Execute a perfect shot.
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#2216 - Luke Bryan
For like six or seven fight cards in a row, we were at about 84%. Because every now and then, they would have these guys that were coming in from Japan. or from Russia, and the oddsmakers didn't know who these guys were. And I was like, oh, Jesus Christ, bet the house.
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#2216 - Luke Bryan
My only problem with fly fishing is a lot of it is catch and release. And I'm like, it's fun. I know it's fun. But you're basically just fucking with fish. You're just fucking with them. Like, I could have killed you, bitch. You know? Well.
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#2216 - Luke Bryan
So I knew everything about these guys. I'm like, Jesus Christ, bet the fucking house. Lay up. Yeah, there was a few. Like when Anderson Silva came into the UFC, I was like, bet the house. Bet the house on the Brazilian. Whatever you got. I go throw it all at this guy. You can't fucking lose.
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#2216 - Luke Bryan
Well, we're so lucky in this country, too, that there's so much places that are public land. That's another thing that Europe doesn't have. I mean, that's what Robin Hood was all about. People think Robin Hood was steal from the rich and give to the poor. No, it was about hunting lands and hunting rights. People were starving, and the king had all the land.
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#2216 - Luke Bryan
And there was all these deer, and Robin Hood would go out and whack deer. Like, that was the story about Robin Hood. It really wasn't about stealing money. It was really about hunting rights.
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#2216 - Luke Bryan
They don't have that over there. I didn't know that. Yeah, but that's why it's so fucked over there. That's why they don't have this attitude about it.
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#2216 - Luke Bryan
But hopefully he's a good guy. That's the problem also is that assholes ask for permission and then do something stupid. You know.
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#2216 - Luke Bryan
Yeah, see, there's people like that out there, and it's so fucked up.
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#2216 - Luke Bryan
How could you do that to a stag, too? God, that's so awful. Yeah. And the meat is so sensational. To know that that meat is going to go to waste, that's so crazy.
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#2216 - Luke Bryan
Cause when he came into the UFC, he was like in his prime and I got to see him evolve in Japan and then later on in England. And so when he, when he came in the UFC, I think he was a favorite over this guy. Chris Lieben is a really tough guy, but I'm like, whatever the, whatever the odds are, fucking throw it all at that guy.
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#2216 - Luke Bryan
So that is much more space than a deer would ever travel in its natural life anyway.
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#2216 - Luke Bryan
Yeah, it was cool. They had the best time. They came back beaming.
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#2216 - Luke Bryan
No, I wasn't betting. I had already stopped. I was like, I could get in trouble.
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#2216 - Luke Bryan
So 1,200 is – I mean – It's much larger than a deer would have in its natural realm.
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#2216 - Luke Bryan
Well, now the UFC made a law, and it was real recent, like two years ago. Up until like two years ago, all staff, anyone could bet. Now no one can bet.
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#2216 - Luke Bryan
Yeah, the new Starlink's wild. It's the size of like a notebook.
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#2216 - Luke Bryan
Yeah, because there was a scandal. One of the trainers apparently was involved, allegedly was involved, knew about an injury. And then it turned out there's probably some other bets that are a little shady that perhaps allegedly people were involved. This episode of the Joe Rogan Experience is brought to you by Call of Duty.
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#2216 - Luke Bryan
And we watched it go over, and we were like, wow, what a, what a. It's amazing. We used one in Utah for the first time this year. So easy to set up, set it up in like five minutes. We did it too. And then we're online, YouTube, whatever you want.
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#2216 - Luke Bryan
Hey, baby, how are you? It's crazy. Yeah. Yeah. My buddy was deer hunting recently in South Texas, and he said on three different occasions in the week, their deer got bumped by illegals. He said it was crazy. He said illegal aliens just moving through the ranch. He said they have a swarm of them every day.
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#2216 - Luke Bryan
My buddy who has a ranch in South Texas found a dead guy. Found a guy who ran out of water. Just died on his ranch.
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#2216 - Luke Bryan
Forget about rattlesnakes. Forget about everything else that's down there.
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#2216 - Luke Bryan
Yeah. You could zig when you should have zagged and you're not going to run into water, especially down there. And it was in the summer. So, you know, 105 degrees outside. This poor dude just died. And they found him. Well, every ranch –
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#2216 - Luke Bryan
The vast majority of them are just trying to get a better life.
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#2216 - Luke Bryan
And we would be doing it, too. Could you imagine if you're living in a third world country and you had kids and you realize you can get to America and you get a good job and you got to figure out how to do it? Yeah, I would do it.
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#2216 - Luke Bryan
We would all do it. It's just the craziness of not knowing where you're going in South Texas, which is so vast. I mean, I think it's one of those things where people talk about it. It's almost like talking about space, you know, like, oh, the galaxy is 200 million stars or 200 billion stars. It doesn't make sense because it's like it's too big for you to understand.
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#2216 - Luke Bryan
You know, when a new Call of Duty drops, everyone's trying to find a way to squeeze in those extra hours of gameplay. I get it.
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#2216 - Luke Bryan
If you had to walk through South Texas, it's South Texas. Texas itself is bigger than like multiple countries in Europe.
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#2216 - Luke Bryan
Just taking a chance. Crossing the Rio Grande. Hoping. Hoping. Or maybe you've gone with someone who went through it before and they have a vague memory of what's the best way to get to a creek.
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#2216 - Luke Bryan
Pretty fucking bad. Their case is a little different because they're running from a communist dictatorship. And they were like, that's why the most Republican motherfuckers in this country are Cubans. Cubans go hard. They're like, we've seen what all this socialist horseshit comes down to. And it comes down to government control over every aspect of your life, and they enforce it with violence.
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#2216 - Luke Bryan
They enforce it with guns. It's not as simple as everybody just gives up whatever they have, and now everybody has an equal amount. That's all nonsense. That's the hook. But the reality is the government controls everything, and you are fucked. And they always live in big-ass houses, and they eat great food, and everybody else is barely getting by. And it's everywhere.
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#2216 - Luke Bryan
So Cam and Adam Greentree, they went up to Australia. You know, Australia has like an infestation of Asian buffalo. I forget which type of buffalo it is, but invasive. So someone introduced it like all the animals in Australia. A lot of the mammals were introduced, and they have no natural predators. So they have these buffalo up there everywhere.
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#2216 - Luke Bryan
Cam said he shot one, and they went up there with no food, and they went up there to live off the land. They're drinking out of fucking—
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#2216 - Luke Bryan
crocodile lakes like literally bathing in that shit filtering water filtering water eating whatever fish they caught it's cam's new version of pushing himself now he's gonna now he's gonna i think it was adam's idea oh i got he's a psycho too so the both of them are perfect together so he said he had one piece of buffalo in his mouth for a half an hour just chewing on it he said that's how tough they are he said it took forever to eat that thing
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#2216 - Luke Bryan
Yeah. Well, there's no dry aged buffalo out there. No, that's a taste of it.
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#2216 - Luke Bryan
My favorite is still elk, but another one is axis deer. They get hunted by tigers, and they're some of the best tasting animals alive. Axis deer are delicious. I think cats are smart, just like bears are smart, too. Salmon's delicious.
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#2216 - Luke Bryan
Like someone who sucks at bugling. Like you hear me like, what the fuck was that?
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#2216 - Luke Bryan
Yeah. I love duck hunting, too. I've never done it, but I love the idea because you're sneaking. You're hiding. You got fake ducks. You got the whole deal. Some people have ducks that even have flopping wings.
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#2216 - Luke Bryan
And, man, it is – That sounds like the same excuse you use with your kids. Right, my kid, yeah.
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#2216 - Luke Bryan
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#2216 - Luke Bryan
So do you have one of them setups where you're like hiding in one of those shacks that's underground?
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#2216 - Luke Bryan
My friend Jesse Griffiths, he runs this restaurant out here called Dai Due. Is it? It's fantastic. And he serves a lot of wild game. And Jesse came on this hunt with us with Steve Rinello down in South Texas. And Jesse cooked some diver duck. Was it good? It was fantastic.
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#2216 - Luke Bryan
Yeah, I've heard of that. I've heard people do that with, like, pheasants, too. You hang them by their neck.
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#2216 - Luke Bryan
If you shoot them. Yeah. That's different than a organic one.
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#2216 - Luke Bryan
When these guys are aging them, what's the temperature in the room?
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#2216 - Luke Bryan
Wow. 15 days with the guts in them. I've heard that people hang their pheasants until their heads fall off. And that's when they cut them up. Who figured that out? Who was the bold bastard?
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#2216 - Luke Bryan
I haven't, but it's crazy to look at it. It does look like steak. It's a red meat, a deep red meat, and it's a bird.
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#2216 - Luke Bryan
You can't shoot sandhill cranes in Florida, but you can shoot alligators?
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#2216 - Luke Bryan
Look at that shit. Wow. State rule, blah, blah, blah. Intentional feeding of sandhill cranes is prohibited. So you can't hunt them.
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#2216 - Luke Bryan
Yeah. What a fucking cool animal. They sound like something from Avatar. See those beaks? Yeah.
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#2216 - Luke Bryan
That's what Jesse does. That's the difference. You've got to plan on it. That's what he does, the diver duck. I'm telling you, this diver duck was sensational.
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#2216 - Luke Bryan
Yeah, you've got to know what you're cooking, how to cook it, especially if you're cooking something that has low body fat. You've got to make sure you cook it nice and slow. That's one of the great things about things like a Traeger. You can just set it for 265. Best thing in the world. Leave it. The new one's fantastic, too. Everything comes out so smoky and delicious. Man, my dad, 4th of July.
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#2216 - Luke Bryan
The app tells you if you're low on pellets. I know. It's like, what are we doing here? It's crazy. It's so much easier. There's something that men are attracted to, like cooking over wood, though. Like an actual fine charcoal wood.
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#2216 - Luke Bryan
It is funny because people want to do it all themselves, the offset smokers. Like, have you ever gone to Terry Black's here and see the lines of the offset smokers? Terry Black's is the number one barbecue place in the country, probably in the world. They cook more volume of barbecue than anywhere else on the country.
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#2216 - Luke Bryan
And they have just line after line of these giant propane tank smokers with briskets and beef ribs and spare ribs.
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#2216 - Luke Bryan
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#2216 - Luke Bryan
I think brisket was originally a German thing. I think it's like with the sausages, like there was cuts of the meat. Well, the smoker thing came certainly from German immigrants that came to Texas. That's where the origin of the barbecue out here is. And then the brisket was like cuts that nobody else wanted. Right.
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#2216 - Luke Bryan
So they figured out a way to take these cuts that nobody else wanted and turn them into something delicious. They just had to do it over time. And now it's like a preferred cut. You know, if you go to Terry Black's, the brisket's sensational.
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#2216 - Luke Bryan
flank meat down there you know probably you can probably get the ribeye and all that it's all just how long you cook it for how do you how you do it what temperature and they they wrap it and they unwrap it and they spray it like they have it down to a science and then at the end it's like the the key is you want to be able to fold it over your finger and not have it break apart just get it to just where it folds over see our deal was just always smoke a big pig you know smoke a pig you know
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#2216 - Luke Bryan
we're getting hungry joe i know that's the the good thing about wild pigs too so they're always available to hunt like the one of the great things about texas it's it's not good if you're on a ranch or if you have a farm but if you're a person who wants to hunt you can hunt wild pigs so 65 days a year and always have sausage our place and um me and my best friend we've got a like a quail hunting place and down in the heart of south georgia tons of swamps dude we were uh
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#2216 - Luke Bryan
They do a lot of damage. I mean, in Texas alone, it's millions and millions of dollars of damage to crops every year. They shoot them out of helicopters here. You ever seen it? You ever done any of that? Have you?
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#2216 - Luke Bryan
Man, it is. It's the most unfair type of hunting that's ever existed.
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#2216 - Luke Bryan
I know a lot of guys shoot them at nighttime too. Yeah, yeah.
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#2216 - Luke Bryan
Well, once people see the sheer numbers, they're so overwhelming that you go, wait a minute, how – How are you going to stop this? How are you going to stop it from multiplying continually every year? Well, you're not. You're not. There's places that you're not going to get to them. There's too many of them.
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#2216 - Luke Bryan
So what do they do about that? They try to hunt the varmints?
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#2216 - Luke Bryan
Yeah, they'll take a giant smoker and put a gator in there.
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#2216 - Luke Bryan
Dude, we popped that thing. So people fish with them? They use it for bait? Like for catfish or something? Look, people eat that. Oh, foul.
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#2216 - Luke Bryan
All right, we got to order some, Jamie. Order some. I'm glad I didn't get you. I might eat it on Fight Companion. Well, Denver's on the verge of passing a no fur law. So if Denver passes a no fur law, what are they going to do about cowboy hats that have beaver skin lining? And then if you're going to say no fur, how are you going to say no fur, but you're allowing leather?
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#2216 - Luke Bryan
So skin is okay as long as you take the furry part off. Is the furry part what's offensive? You know what you'd fucking, the chaos that would ensue if you outlawed leather? Everybody's belt is illegal. Everybody's shoes are illegal. Air Jordans are illegal. And they're calling it illegal. Illegal. Yeah, they're trying to pass a law. They're trying to pass a law where they ban fur.
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#2216 - Luke Bryan
They've done it before. They've done it in other places. Like I said, where does it... Joe, I'm at with America. It just keeps going. That's the problem. When I'm at America... It never fucking ends.
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#2216 - Luke Bryan
It never ends. It's never going to end. They're going to keep pushing. It'll get to you can't eat meat. It'll get to it has to be lab-grown meat. It'll get to... It could get as crazy as you could ever imagine. There's animal rights people that would like to push it in that direction. And you would have never thought that this would be possible...
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#2216 - Luke Bryan
But you would have never thought that you would have biological males competing against females in high school sports. And that's everywhere. And if you complain against that, you're a bigot. You're seeing the craziest of crazy thinking. There's people that think the pedophiles are minor attracted persons. And they'll talk about this as university professors teaching classes. It's been recorded.
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#2216 - Luke Bryan
People have seen it. It's not everywhere, but it's enough where you go, I see where this goes if it keeps going. Because none of this shit existed 20 years ago. You go back to 2004, there was none of this shit. Nothing. A transgender person was a rare person with gender dysphoria. It was very rare. And there wasn't a lot of hatred towards those people. It wasn't a thing that people worried about.
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#2216 - Luke Bryan
Now there is because everybody's like, what the fuck? Why is this in schools? Why are you having them? There was a recent pool tournament where it was a woman's pool tournament in the semifinals. It's two trans trans women competing against each other. Two men, two biological men that wear lipstick competing against each other in a women's tournament. It's fucking crazy.
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#2216 - Luke Bryan
So I would have never thought that would be possible. So it can get to a point where there's no meat. It can get to the point where meat, there's this demonization of meat. You keep hearing about it all the time. Meat is the number one source of carbon. It's fucking complete total horse shit. It's not even number two. It's not number three. It's not even fucking close.
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#2216 - Luke Bryan
Yeah, it's the dumbest shit ever. And by the way, All of that is factory farming. Regenerative farming is actually carbon neutral. If they don't sequester carbon, it's actually good for carbon. There's a whole reason why there's a balanced ecosystem of cows eating grass and the grass... fermenting in their stomach and then creating manure and that regenerates. It's carbon neutral.
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#2216 - Luke Bryan
It's actually good for the environment and everything feeds off everything. There's a system that nature has evolved for millions of years. That's the normal way it's supposed to be done. And, you know, we're just living in a crazy time.
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#2216 - Luke Bryan
They're getting a lot further than granola. Granola used to be normal. See, the thing is, those people were weird and rare, and they were tolerated. But then they got online, and say if there's only 10 of them in this town and five of them in that town, well, now there's hundreds of thousands of them collectively in the country, all as a group. And then they think that they're activists.
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#2216 - Luke Bryan
So they think that they're doing something good. So then they start saying things like, no fur in Colorado, pass this bill. And you start saying, no meat, no more meat, no one should have meat. What are you going to do with these cows? What are you going to do? Are you going to go around castrating all those bulls? What are you going to do? How are you going to control the populations?
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#2216 - Luke Bryan
Are you going to let them go extinct? Are you going to castrate all the bulls? Are you going to let some of them breed? How are you going to make this distinction? Are you going to bring in wolves to handle them? What are you going to do? What the fuck are you going to do? What are you going to do with all those people that work at the butcher shop?
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#2216 - Luke Bryan
What are you going to do with all those people that work at the meat processing plant? What are you going to do with all those people that have been transporting meat back and forth? What are you going to do with all those jobs, all those families, all their income, all their businesses that they've had for 100 fucking years? What are you going to do with that?
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#2216 - Luke Bryan
These people have the most minimal understanding of the system that they're trying to influence. They don't know what the fuck they're doing by releasing wolves. They think, wolves are beautiful. Yay! You see the governor? He's releasing the wolves. He's like, yay! He's like so happy.
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#2216 - Luke Bryan
Well, not only that, they brought in wolves that had a history of killing cattle. The wolves they brought into Colorado.
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#2216 - Luke Bryan
Yeah. You know, but – Yeah, fur. Fur's got a bad name. If it's got hair on it. Leather's fine. Yeah. None of it's fine. But leather's fine with people. No one has a problem with you wearing cowboy boots. Nobody gets mad. Yeah, see?
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#2216 - Luke Bryan
Nobody gets mad at leather. All that is is fur with no fucking hair on it. It's the same thing.
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#2216 - Luke Bryan
And it also cleanses your mind, right? Totally. Just like hunting.
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#2216 - Luke Bryan
But don't they have to get pregnant to be really big and fat?
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#2216 - Luke Bryan
It's a weird thing with largemouth bass, too, because a lot of people don't eat them, and yet they're delicious. They're great. They're great. They're basically the same as bluegills.
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#2216 - Luke Bryan
But people like catching them so much, they want you to release them.
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#2216 - Luke Bryan
You know what I'd really like to do? Get a place in the north and have a lake with pike in it. Oh. I think they might be my favorite thing to catch because they're so ruthless. That's such a ruthless fish. Animal. Fucking dinosaur. A killer. They look like dinosaurs. First time I caught a pike, I'm like, why isn't this like the most exciting thing to catch? They fight hard? Or a muskie. Jesus.
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#2216 - Luke Bryan
Yeah, but then why are you catching them? You know what I'm saying? Why are you fucking with those fish?
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#2216 - Luke Bryan
I get it. It's fun. I'm not opposed to it. I get it. But if I catch fish, I like to eat them. That's the whole reason why I'm catching fish. You know what? That's why I like to catch walleye.
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#2216 - Luke Bryan
I mean, imagine if you just run around shooting deer with tranquilizer darts. Like, I got them. A little weird. A little weird. Yeah, I've seen some. Just to prove that you did it.
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#2216 - Luke Bryan
It's a little weird. Yeah. Well, it's like they make those club heads so you can shoot squirrels and birds.
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#2216 - Luke Bryan
Squirrels are delicious. Squirrel hunting is very popular in parts of the South. Squirrel dumplings. Squirrel dumplings. Yeah.
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#2216 - Luke Bryan
People think of them, they have like fluffy tail privilege. Rats with tails. Because you see a rat, rats have those slimy tails and people are like, that's disgusting. And they see that fluffy tail like, aw, so cute. Not much different.
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#2216 - Luke Bryan
That's rural life, right? Yeah. Well, that's people that understand what's going on.
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#2216 - Luke Bryan
That's the difference between if you did that in a neighborhood in Manhattan, people are like, what the fuck is this guy doing? We need these squirrels. If they caught you in Central Park with a pellet gun, you'd go to jail. First round ticket.
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#2216 - Luke Bryan
If you break into a store and rob it, nothing will happen to you. They'll let you right out. But if you get caught in Central Park shooting squirrels and eating them, you're going to get in real trouble. It's wild. We live in a wild world. It's a very strange, distorted version of what human beings have been experiencing for most of history.
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#2216 - Luke Bryan
Especially when 95% of the world eats meat. It's a stupid argument.
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#2216 - Luke Bryan
I fuck around. Like, my daughter likes to cook cookies. I had a big-ass cookie the other day.
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#2216 - Luke Bryan
I mean, I'm not ridiculous. I'll eat other things. I'm not religious about it. But most of my diet, like 90%, is just meat and occasionally fruit. Fruit before I work out. Fruit sometimes after I work out. But mostly it's just meat.
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#2216 - Luke Bryan
That's a drug. That is a fucking drug. Well, you're right.
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#2216 - Luke Bryan
That's the crazy thing about alcohol. It gets the best. We are having nicotine right now. This is a drug. And when I have these— It's a nice cigar, by the way. It's perfect. It's very good. It's very mild.
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#2216 - Luke Bryan
You remember those bricks, those squares of chewing tobacco you bite a chunk off?
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#2216 - Luke Bryan
All these people smoking cigars aren't stupid. There's got to be something to it. And they're chilled out. Yeah. It's a nice conversational thing to do.
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#2216 - Luke Bryan
Oh, let's... It's a drug. Yeah, let's don't... It's a drug. We're drinking coffee. That's a drug. The problem is there's a lot of drugs, and some of them are really fucking bad for you.
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#2216 - Luke Bryan
I like them. Like I said, I think it's one of the best things for conversations. And I don't think you need to smoke 12 of them a day. No, I don't think so either. But I know people who do. I know people who just go one to the other. They just chain smoke cigars.
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#2216 - Luke Bryan
I think it tripped everybody out there. What a great movie.
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#2216 - Luke Bryan
Every day. Is she still with us? She's with us. Damn, that's the thing that always gets people. They're like, maybe I should quit. Hold on.
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#2216 - Luke Bryan
And how many cigarettes do you think she's down to a day?
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#2216 - Luke Bryan
I think the ribeyes are fine. Leave her alone with the ribeyes.
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#2216 - Luke Bryan
Hey, boys. A lot of people had a personal crisis when there was the Bud Lite boycott. There was a lot of people like, I don't know what to do. I don't know what to do. When Kid Rock shot that Bud Light.
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#2216 - Luke Bryan
We drank some. We drank some on the podcast we did together.
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#2216 - Luke Bryan
Imagine being the CEO of Bud Light and seeing that. Like, oh, no. Kid Rock just shot our beer. With a fucking automatic. And was like, fuck Anheuser-Busch. Like, no! And, I mean, that alone probably cost them billions of dollars. Just having him do that.
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#2216 - Luke Bryan
Not just our beer, but Bud Light. Bud Light, the beer that sponsored more boxing matches, more sporting events, more people have been drinking Bud Light. I mean, think about all the people who swear by Bud Light. Post Malone's always drinking Bud Light.
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#2216 - Luke Bryan
People getting fights in bars. I have a friend who owned a bar. We stopped carrying at the mothership because nobody was buying it. We stopped carrying Bud Light because nobody was buying Bud Light. Have we checked on where it... It's come back. Fully? Nah, I don't think so. I think there's a bunch of holdouts that are always going to go, fuck those liberals, forever.
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#2216 - Luke Bryan
But the lady who came up with the idea is gone. The whole marketing team behind, they're all gone. Anheuser-Busch is an American company that has employed American people forever. It's a great company. They just fucked up. They get caught up in the mind virus.
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#2216 - Luke Bryan
Well, you remember those Bud Light guys, the Real American Genius guys? Yeah. Remember that? Real American Genius. They had great commercials.
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#2216 - Luke Bryan
Oh, shit. It's like a frigging Hallmark. You would never think that that company could get taken down. But that just, I think that was good. It was bad for Bud Light, but I think it was good. Here it is. Let's see it. We're going to get all sweet.
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#2216 - Luke Bryan
It is, and you've got to think there's people that are involved. There's been scandals where referees were involved, where referees were making calls they shouldn't have made, maybe calling fouls they shouldn't have called, and people getting paid. There's so much money being thrown around, and the average referee, what do they make?
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#2216 - Luke Bryan
The horses save the puppy from the wolves. Have a bud. Very effective commercial, you know, real quick.
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#2216 - Luke Bryan
Yeah. And that company got taken out. by having a transgender woman on their can. But it just shows you how prevalent this whole mind virus is that it even got into Bud Light, which is just bizarre. The lady who's responsible for it all basically shit on the entire customer base, saying that they have a fratty sense of humor and we need to update it and make it more inclusive.
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#2216 - Luke Bryan
I'm like, do you know what you're saying? You're alienating all the people that buy it and love it and counting on people who don't buy it and love it to start buying it and loving it. And maybe that'll work, but you just alienated everybody who buys it and loves it. It's the dumbest poker move of all time.
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#2216 - Luke Bryan
But it has to be up to the artist to just express themselves honestly. And if the artist is a country artist that has a different perspective, let that be. But leave all the rest of it the way it is, too.
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#2216 - Luke Bryan
Well, it's because you're handsome. That's part of the problem. You're a good-looking guy up there with tight jeans. Shaking ass. Shaking that ass, showing that bulge. Get out of here.
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#2216 - Luke Bryan
Yeah, there were some bad calls. It started getting weird. We actually left after the first quarter and went to see Eminem. So we had an epic day. We saw the first quarter of UT Georgia and then jetted and went to Eminem at the racetrack. The Formula One. Yeah, Eminem played in front of like 150,000 people. It was fucking wild.
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#2216 - Luke Bryan
I think it's probably a thing also they think Hollywood has invaded country music, which is always a big threat because there's so much money in country music that they think these Hollywood executives that don't understand or appreciate real country music are going to come in and make something inauthentic.
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#2216 - Luke Bryan
Yeah, well, just the energy. There's so much anticipation for a game like that. You can't replicate it in any other... I guess those big...
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#2216 - Luke Bryan
So then they hear you saying that, get misrepresented, and then they take it as a part of all of that, right?
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#2216 - Luke Bryan
What's happened is because of online advertising being the primary source of income for news, they have to do clickbait shit. They have to distort things. And then they have editors that don't give a shit about anything other than the bottom line. So you get a writer, even if the writer's a good person.
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#2216 - Luke Bryan
I've had writers that I know have written about people that I know, and they told me that their editor came in and changed things. They told me their editor came in and changed things.
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#2216 - Luke Bryan
is dude you know you know it you know when you're getting baited you can see it coming a mile away you have to film everything you do every conversation you have with someone you should film them all so that no one can take you out of context and then if anything goes wrong say that guy's full of shit this is what I said And then maybe even make a video. I did. And those people should be shamed.
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#2216 - Luke Bryan
I hate it. It's a terrible, evil, ugly thing you do. You crush people's perspective. You change how the world looks at people just for clickbait. And it could genuinely affect someone's life and career. Dude, man, listen.
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#2216 - Luke Bryan
Isn't it funny that that is a negative thing to say today? That people don't like that idea? Did I just say something negative? Yeah, there's a lot of people that don't think you should be colorblind. They think that that's a lie. You should think that way. That was what we were all working towards until about 2012. Have you ever seen the numbers?
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#2216 - Luke Bryan
I'm going to send you this, Jamie, because this is what people need to understand. A lot of what we're all experiencing is manipulation, and a lot of this manipulation might not even be from our own country. A lot of this manipulation is what happens when you have foreign entities that are manipulating people Oh yeah, that's it. Thank you. Look at that, Jamie. You're the best.
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#2216 - Luke Bryan
We had some friends from England who had never been to an American football game before.
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#2216 - Luke Bryan
Yearly mentions of prejudice in popular U.S. news media outlets. Now look at what happens. Look at this crazy spike. So you have everything from 1970 until you have like 1990. See, what's going on in 1990 between 80 and 90? You have cable, okay? So now you have people that need more eyes on their shit. So you have Fox News. You have a lot of this...
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#2216 - Luke Bryan
You have people who get a little bit more jazzed up. Look at transphobia. You never even heard what the fuck that was until 2010. Look how it just jumps up in 2020. In 1990, it didn't exist. 1980, it didn't exist. Islamophobia, same deal. Antisemitism. Scroll all the way up to the top, though, Jamie. So look at racism.
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#2216 - Luke Bryan
They were blown away. They're like, oh, my goodness. Oh, my goodness. This is madness. I'm like, this is Texas football. It's so fun, though. They get serious here. It's crazy.
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#2216 - Luke Bryan
Racism is essentially fairly steady until around 2012, and then it goes on this wild ramp straight up. The New York Times from 2010 to 2020, it goes up 712%. Los Angeles Times, 756%. It just skyrockets all the mention of racism. Why? Because no one wants racism. No one wants to be racist. Everyone's scared of being called racist. And all the race hustlers love to call people racist.
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#2216 - Luke Bryan
So it becomes a commodity. So people start trading in racism. And this idea that you shouldn't be colorblind and that you should recognize race, you should recognize color. Stop. We were on a good path to what Martin Luther King said, judging people based on the content of their character. We were on that path and social media and manipulation fucked us. And hopefully we realize what happened now.
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#2216 - Luke Bryan
And I think there'll be a downward trend and people sort of like wake up. And I think that is, that's one thing that is balancing out right now with the internet is enough people realize they've been manipulated. So it's starting to like calm down. A lot of this woke shit started to die off. And it's people are coming to their senses. Like everybody just woke up from a fever dream.
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#2216 - Luke Bryan
But as far as your situation and dealing with the media, don't. Oh, I know. Just don't.
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#2216 - Luke Bryan
You're naive. You're a little bit naive because you're a nice guy. But it's because you're a good person. That's why you're naive. You assume other people are good people.
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#2216 - Luke Bryan
Oh, gosh. Yeah. Maybe I gave them bad luck. You hurt my heart. Maybe it was bad luck because they lost. Maybe it's a fucking rude thing to do.
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#2216 - Luke Bryan
Listen to that. This dude was selling equipment. He'd never even done a concert. First concert he does is like 18,000 people at a state fair. And he's as genuine as you get. You've had him on here, correct? I had him on here, and I actually gave him advice. How did he do? He did great, because I gave him advice before I met him, because he was in the middle of all this.
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#2216 - Luke Bryan
And he goes, hey, man, can I talk to you? So we talked on the phone. I'm like, what's up? He's like, man, I'm getting all these offers from all these people. They want to buy this and buy that. They want to give me $7 million if I do this and sign that. I said, stay independent. I go, you have talent. Everyone's saying I have to act now. I go, fuck those people. I go, you don't have to act now.
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#2216 - Luke Bryan
It's when you're watching it behind the scenes, watching how much organization there is. It's incredibly complex.
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#2216 - Luke Bryan
That's famine thinking. I go, you're talented, man. I had heard a couple of his other songs as well. He's fucking talented, and he's genuine. I go, you can't fake that. Just stay independent, man, because they're not going to offer you anything. The reason why they want to give you a lot of money is because they're going to make way more than they're going to give you.
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#2216 - Luke Bryan
That's the only reason why they want to give you money. They want a piece of you before you become one of the biggest stars in the world. And then they own a chunk of you forever because they gave you $7 million and you didn't have any money. I go, just bank on yourself, man.
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#2216 - Luke Bryan
Oh. Because a comedian will have one clip where he's doing some crowd work or one clip of one bit that everybody loves. Then all of a sudden he's selling out and everybody's like, that guy.
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#2216 - Luke Bryan
Yeah, he's only been around for three years. But so what? Let him run with it. Let him run with it. You know, we're living in a new world. It's like the song.
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#2216 - Luke Bryan
I don't read anything. I tell everybody, don't read anything. Don't read anything about you. Just don't. Don't read the good stuff. Don't read the bad stuff. I do good with it. I mean, I'm sitting there, I'm a 48-year-old man. My shit's in the bank, but it still makes you mad. It still makes you mad. It doesn't matter, even if you're undeniable. It doesn't matter.
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#2216 - Luke Bryan
It's a human instinct to read negative things and get upset. Because humans always had to worry about threats. And if the threats were other tribes or predators or whatever. You had to attack that threat. So we're mentally conditioned to look for threats. What is it, fight or flight or something? Well, it's also like if you have a hundred people who love you, but one that hates you.
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#2216 - Luke Bryan
That one is the one you're going to think about. You're not going to think of all the people that say you're awesome. You're going to think about that one that hates you. And then you have to think about the kind of people that post comments. Most of the people who post comments are miserable people.
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#2216 - Luke Bryan
You basically wasted one one hundredth of your day. Yeah. On somebody that sucks. You only get 100 of those 15 minutes in a day, and you wasted one talking about a shithead. It's a mess, but it's a normal thing that people do. You just got to not do it. You got to realize that this is a new world.
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#2216 - Luke Bryan
Yeah. Man. I recognized it when I was on television before social media. There was a thing called – there was these Hollywood magazines like Variety and The Hollywood Reporter. And I would always call them the devil's rag because I would get to the set of the TV show and everybody was reading the devil's rag. They were all like, oh, I can't believe they're number two.
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#2216 - Luke Bryan
We should be number – we should be right after Friends. Oh. Everybody was upset. And I was like, you guys are – I'm on TV. I don't know what the fuck is wrong with you people. I'm on television. I can't believe I'm on TV. You guys are upset that we're number 30 instead of number two or whatever the fuck it is.
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#2216 - Luke Bryan
Can't we just appreciate the fact that this is back when there was only like five networks. Can't we appreciate the fact that we're one of the luckiest human beings that have ever lived? We're on a fucking television show. And yet you're reading these magazines. And it's like, is it Thomas Jefferson who wrote that quote? Comparison is a thief of joy. But whoever was that? Was it Jefferson?
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#2216 - Luke Bryan
I know we know who it is. We've read it before. But that quote is so accurate. Comparison. That's why billionaires. I know a dude who's worth like a billion and a half dollars and he thinks he's broke because he's friends with like Jeff Bezos.
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#2216 - Luke Bryan
You can't win. You can't win because you're in a crazy fucking numbers race. And it doesn't mean anything. You're not even enjoying what you have.
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#2216 - Luke Bryan
I didn't know what the fuck we were doing. Oh, you're in the yacht world. Okay. So you're entering into these worlds of 200-foot boats, 250-foot boats.
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#2216 - Luke Bryan
Keep it tight. What are they doing on that boat, Cap? Isn't that nuts? Imagine being on a 250-foot yacht, looking at the dude on the 300-foot yacht going, God damn it. I got to upgrade. I was talking to a dude who pilots yachts, and he was telling me that they always want to sell them. They always want to sell them and get another one. He goes, all these yachts are always almost for sale.
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#2216 - Luke Bryan
And when you think about gambling with calls, like bad calls, that has got to be – imagine all your money's on the line and you see some horrendous call.
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#2216 - Luke Bryan
I go, how come? He goes, because they always want another yacht. They always want a bigger yacht. It's a trap. It's a giant trap. Imagine having all that money. You're not even appreciating it because you're worried about making more. Remember when we were kids, if you said, what would you do if you had a million dollars? Man, I'd never work again. I'd fucking just.
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#2216 - Luke Bryan
But it's a trap. It is a trap. And the problem is it's all numbers. It's like, you know how dudes are crazy with deer? Like I want a 200-inch deer. 200-inch mule deer. You can't do that. I want a 400-inch elk. They get crazy with numbers.
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#2216 - Luke Bryan
You know, I talked to this dude who worked on a ranch, and they have big elk on this ranch, and he said sometimes the hunters are really happy with an elk, and then they'll put a tape to it and measure it, and it's 396, and they get bummed out because it's not 400. I'm like, those people are sick. You should never have them here again. You should ban them.
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#2216 - Luke Bryan
They should never be allowed to be here again. That's a sickness. But that's what happens with these people with everything, man. I never had a dream of being wealthy. It was never a dream. It was never even in my imagination did I ever think I was going to be rich. I never even thought about it. When I started doing stand-up comedy, my dream was to be a professional because I always had jobs.