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Luke Bryan Telling Nasty Country Truths · Inside Country with Wayne D

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  Hey, we're hanging out with Luke bryan Man. First of all, how
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  do you find time to make a radio visit with everything you're doing right now?
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  Well, I mean I think listen, it's uh. When you're putting
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  new music out, and certainly music that you're really really excited about, you
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  know you need to come. This is part of the part of the process.
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  I mean, that's what it's interesting. When you move to Nashville and
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  do all this. You just think you write a song and it goes.
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  You don't realize you gotta you gotta run around and promote and talk about how
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  awesome you are. And I love hearing myself brag about myself. So this
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  is just a full This is my moment for fans that don't see that back
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  end, right, Like, they know that you do the idle stuff,
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  right, they know that, we get it, you do idle. But
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  then you know what the fans don't realize is then you have to go film
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  five days of commercials and you've got to go promote idle. So when you
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  launch a big situation, you've got to run and and and feed feed the
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  feed the system. Because that's just the way it ought to be. And
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  that's what you do. It looks to a country music fan or an American
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  idol fan, that looks glamorous, right, like, oh, he does
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  these shows and sells out, and he's got these number one songs and he
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  does idle. What are some of the like not so glamor and you obviously
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  appreciate where you're at in life, And well, I would always non glamorous
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  moments, I would say the most. No matter who the country music star,
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  throughout the history of country music, at some point that star has had
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  to get off their tour bus, walk across a muddy festival field and use
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  a portal, lid or portagehn, no matter which one, all the all
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  the female stars. And also that that's pretty non glamorous when you here,
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  because well, tour buses are getting better, but ten years ago that was,
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  you know, number two on a tour bus. You couldn't. It's
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  a it's a no no. So just just understand that. However, glamorous
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  one might be yeah, toting your own roll of toilet paper through a festival
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  field. Two, Yeah, that's sharing a shower or not sharing a shower,
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  but you know mobile showers, Yeah, so it it uh yeah,
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  there's some but you know it's uh, it's a little more glamorous for me
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  now. I mean, you know when I'm when I'm when i'm home,
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  I'm having fun. Really every day. I mean when I'm home, I'm
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  having fun. And when I got some shows booked, I'm having fun.
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  And like coming in today, and I mean I'm really like I said I
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  said earlier, I'm really excited about this song. So coming in and talking
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  about new music is U is fun stuff and and this is it's a fun
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  thing I get to do when it comes to the challenge of new music.
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  Because you've had so many amazing songs and so many great albums and tours.
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  What keeps you excited about a new song? Well, I think it's you
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  know, when new songs come in, and when you write a new and
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  that you really loved, that that's fun. I mean playing it for people,
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  watching watching them react to the song, testing it out on people even
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  like so I've got tea on my nephew who's twenty two, and I've got
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  bow my bow's sixteen and takes thirteen. I mean, if I get a
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  cool song that's a country song and I play it for them and they're like,
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  Dad, we love that song. That's fun, and so playing something
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  that you worked on and you yeah, that's what it's all about to me.
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  So as long as I can go write songs now, I don't want
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  to hold like I'm not holding myself up and writing one hundred songs a year
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  like I did from you know, two thousand and five to twenty fifteen.
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  I mean it was one hundred songs a year and and and you know,
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  writing constantly. But now I'll get a great idea, a fun idea that
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  I'm really confident in, and call up a call up some songwriter buddies,
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  and we'll sit down and write it and we love how it turned out.
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  So that that's that's fun. I when when you get an exciting song or
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  someone pitches you an exciting song, it's good stuff. I can tell the
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  excitement in your eyes and then your voice, the way you're talking about new
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  music. Obviously, that's part of the reason you're here today with love you
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  miss you mean It? Why Why did this feel right to not only record,
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  but be like, hey, let's this is because picking a radio single
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  there's more of a science behind it now, right versus I like it go
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  right, I mean, yeah, the the yeah, you're right. I
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  mean when you when you go to radio and you you pick your single,
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  it's it's a it's a there's a lot of things in play and a lot
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  of places to go and do and see and all that. But I mean,
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  this song is just one of those songs where you hear it and you're
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  like, man, that title, why has that title not been written?
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  And the story around it and it you know, from people that I've talked
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  to, it kind of feels like people are like, it's kind of vintage.
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  It's kind of throwback stuff that you used to do. And I think
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  it's challenging where I'm at in my career to try to moodle. I've talked
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  about so many sub but I kind of get just being kind of the party
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  guy. I get my all of my dad. I mean, it hadn't
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  been all raging party songs either. It's been so as I as I go
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  to try to pick the next single, how do I pick one that's kind
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  of different than you know, fifteen years of all this other music, So
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  it gets a little more challenging. And even sitting down to write a song,
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  if I'm like, gosh, I've already already kind of did that with
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  this song. Or you know, I've already had a song about farming,
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  or I had a song about the honky Tonk and all this. So so
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  you just have to get a little more creative and and and push yourself and
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  and hopefully when you get the right one, it's uh, it starts the
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  right process. I mean, I asked for the small donation after you leave,
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  because we just had a label in the middle of the interview. Yeah,
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  it's fine, it's fine, it's the electricity. My truck didn't start
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  yesterday, so oh no, what is okay? What does Luke Brian do
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  when this truck doesn't start? Thankfully? Well, thankfully. We were at
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  my bass lake down in uh down in Murray County, and I got a
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  buddy that kind of helps us on the farm and he was checking his cows
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  and I called Trevor and I said, hey, my truck didn't start,
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  and he was right there. So we it was an electrical deal, but
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  we got it jumped off and and uh wasn't the battery or anything. It
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  was just a little something were going on. So I got to send it
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  to the send it to the shop. So the new song is an iHeart
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  country new music spotlight. It's going to be played all over the country.
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  How do you I'm sure early in your career it's like, hey, I'm
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  on the radio, turn this up. You've had so many number ones,
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  You've done this for so long. Now, how do you react when you're
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  driving in your song? Well, historically, if a lot of times,
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  I don't you know, you're you're on the phone a lot driving down the
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  road. If I look on the screen and see one of my songs,
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  I always I talked me back. Well, you know, I always turn
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  it and listen. I never I never take that for granted. I always
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  listen and it never gets old, and it always feels great. And you
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  know, I mean, there was a time in my life where you know,
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  my current single was getting played, and then the last two singles were
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  and it was just like, you know, when you turn on the radio,
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  now you're hearing Morgan and Luke Comb's. And there was a time where
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  literally every time I turn on the radio, it was me and Jason Aldan
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  and it was just like I So I appreciate and like really relish that time
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  in my life. But now any songs that get played are kind of back
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  catalog stuff, and so when I when I have stuff getting played out there,
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  it's very I mean, it's it's fun and humbling and and I'm always
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  gonna like when I hear love you miss you mean it, like, I'll
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  really study it because I want to hear how it sounds on the radio and
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  nothing. When you hear stuff on the radio, it just always it always
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  brings a smile and makes you feel good, and it always has a little
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  more uh, a little more pop to it. You get to enjoy this
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  moment, this brand new song comes Friday. Do you have to think past
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  that? Are you at a point where you're like, no, we're just
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  gonna enjoy that. And then well, I mean I'm always thinking about I'm
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  almost thinking about like where to go with what I want to do, and
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  and how to navigate the changes in how music is done and navigate the changes
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  of kind of you know, morphing into Like I mean, I'm kind of
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  the older guy on the block now when I see younger acts coming out,
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  But that doesn't mean I think that has a real uh kind of charming role
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  too. The fact that I can walk into a room and I'm like,
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  been there, done there, seeing it all, you're you're you know,
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  I've kind of been around the block and I get it and I can just
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  be comfortable in that space. If so. Yeah, it's pretty it's pretty
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  fun. Like nothing, nothing overwhelms me like it used to. And uh,
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  I think that planning my life where I can do concerts and shows and
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  then uh like this year we put some baseball stadiums on the on the tour
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  just because I did stadiums for three or four years and loved it. And
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  when I quit doing when I quit kind of just doing amphitheaters and stuff.
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  Well, what's interesting is the year that I had the most stadiums book,
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  I had Morgan opening up for me, and then COVID came and so I
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  was like, oh my god, this thing was about to be You're like,
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  hey, you on me? Well we you know, we he and
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  I get together and we play golf and joke about it. But but so
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  yeah, I mean I look at twenty twenty, I was like, god,
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  I mean I could have I mean, it was going to be a
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  crazy year of stadiums and probably missed out on a little bit of money along
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  the way. But but the but that really doesn't matter. I mean,
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  the main thing for me is is just do plan things that really are worth
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  my mental time. I mean when I when I when I plan a little
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  business endeavor, when I do music or whatever it it, it takes up
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  a lot of room in my brain to think it out. And you always
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  say you can hire some people to do stuff for you and make stuff,
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  make stuff happen, but you really, at the end of the day have
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  to be engaged in it too and concentrating on it or it's not gonna work.
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  The last thing I want to ask before we have you run here is
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  and I just thought of it because you're like, I've been around the block,
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  you know, I'm comfortable. So let's say, when when you years
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  from now, decide like, you know what, I'm just gonna stand back
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  and enjoy and let the music, you know, continue to live for itself.
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  What are moments that you're gonna be like, I'm proud of that.
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  I'm proud of that. I'm proud of that, I would say, I'm
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  I'm really proud of like when Country Girls Check It from Me came out and
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  I did it on the CMT Awards, and then I do on the CMA
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  Awards, and that really felt like the kind of transitioning into like a superstar
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  kind of country music artist. That's when that happened. I'm really proud of
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  how I'm proud of how I fought through the early years and had some successes
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  and failures. But then I'm proud of that moment. And then like when
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  you look at I did the anthem at the Super Bowl, that was a
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  huge challenge for me. I had messed up an anthem before kind of so
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  you know those years of when I'm at home on Sundays watching football with the
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  boys and you know, the Steelers are playing and the boys go, Dad,
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  did you ever play that one? I'm like, yeah, I sold
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  that one out in ten minutes, and they look at me like they almost
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  look at me like I'm jacking with them, you know, messing with them.
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  And so the fact that I did all that, and then when I
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  look at like the body of work on American Idol, I think everybody looks
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  at that show and they really really feel like, at the end of the
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  day, we're pretty good people on there. We're trying to really help people.
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  I mean, I think just proud of that and proud that I'm proud
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  that I've really navigated all this and at the core of me, I'm really
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  happy. You know, I'm not like, I'm not some I'm not a
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  dark It's not a dark energy that I go retreat and you know, go
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  sit in a cabin somewhere and drink whiskey all day and you know a bit
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  about being sad. I mean, if I'm out, I'm having fun fishing
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  and playing in the next hunting trip and playing the golf trip and trying to
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  take my boys with me or my buddies or playing playing some fun stuff.
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  So I kind of get after it every day and the fully I'll drink a
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  little less and eat a little bit. There's plenty of time for that.
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  There's plenty of time for that. Lukes, thanks for hanging out to the
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  man. Yeah, good to be here. Thank you.