Joe Rogan stopped by my house after his Vegas show to meet my kids and talk about Vegas and gambling. We talk about his early days in Vegas and how he got his start in the gambling game. He also talks about how he dealt with the pressure of being a professional gambler in the early days of his gambling career. I think you're going to love this one. Joe Rogan is one of the most genuine people I've ever met and I'm glad he stopped by to talk to me. I hope you enjoy this one as much as I enjoyed getting to know him and his family! Thank you so much for taking care of my kids. They had a great time and I hope they had a fantastic time. I know mine did too. I love you guys. XOXO - Joe Rogans Experience. Check it out! - Luke P. All day, All Day. All Day - By Night, By Day, By Night - All Day, All Night, by Night, All Weekend, by Day All Day by Night by Night - By Day All Weekend by Night by Night All Day By Day By Night By Night by Day by Day by Day On This Podcast by Night is a podcast about the life and times of a comedian, comedian, actor, singer, songwriter, and stand-up comic. by day, by night by night, by day by night. This is not your average comedian. By Night is not by day. , by night by night . By Day by day by Nights by Night By Day by the night by Night by by , all day by Day by night, by all by day, all day and Night By night by all day, all day and By day by all by every day By All Day By Everday by Day By Day, by By Any Day by Anyday by Any day by Day, , All By Night, All Night by Any Day By Anyday by Any Night , By Any Night by Every Day , All Day Everday By And & Day & Everday Have a good day by Any Given Day by Everday Day by Me - By Anyones Day by Then or Or Day - Night
00:02:06.000Well, so one of my dad's famous quotes is, so he flies me out to Vegas when I'm 21 or whatever, and man, we were in college, and I took like 300 or 400 bucks with me,
00:02:49.000I said, I lost all my damn money, and hell with this place.
00:02:53.000He goes, well, you ain't going to win it back in the goddamn room.
00:02:59.000So, I mean, once you have that mindset in gambling, certainly, I mean, when that's your dad going.
00:03:08.000And so that's been a famous saying when my buddies, you know, when they're down and out, down two or three grand, and they're pouting over at the bar, you know, you're not going to win it back at the goddamn bar.
00:04:11.000Well, it was a fun show because we got to really do a lot of bells and whistles out there that aren't available on normal shows when you're out touring and stuff because you're having to take down stuff,
00:04:55.000Back 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.
00:06:37.000One 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 with, so they're like, okay, we've got to put a stop to this,
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00:10:49.000I'm so removed from that level of sport.
00:10:54.000So-and-so's going to get four layups at the half.
00:10:58.000Man, that's opening up Pandora's box there.
00:11:02.000It is, and you've got to think there's people that are involved.
00:11:06.000There'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.
00:11:15.000There's so much money being thrown around, and the average referee, what do they make?
00:11:19.000Hey, dude, so I saw you at the—I'm a giant Georgia fan.
00:11:24.000And I saw you, obviously, on the sideline on Saturday, and just, man, some of those calls.
00:16:13.000But that's the scary part about gambling when you don't have much money and you grow into some money, but your level of what you want to press, your anxiety level and your endorphins and all that, it grows with your wealth.
00:16:30.000And man, next thing you know, you're...
00:16:32.000Well, that's the only way they get their fix, too.
00:17:07.000I mean, I've always had fun gambling, and a lot of times I'd take my band after we get off stage, and we'd have one band night, and I'd, like, set them all up with some chips, and I've gotten at a craps table where I can kind of manage everybody's bets, and I'm like,
00:17:22.000don't do that now, wait, wait, and it's kind of like the, you know, steering the mothership, and we had some great nights, you know, Just laughing and cutting up and cheering.
00:17:36.000Like I said, one guy walks up and everybody rubs his head for good.
00:17:39.000It's just camaraderie at the craps table.
00:17:46.000My last night, they let my craps team that dealt me all the craps come on stage and we celebrated together.
00:17:58.000I'm out there, like I'm playing, and I look at my, you know, because they work in teams, you know, and my team comes out on stage, and dude, I was roaring laughing.
00:19:43.000The Mohegan, I'd go play there a couple years.
00:19:45.000One night I did three nights there, and dude, I'm getting off stage, just sitting there gambling, and I'm like, am I coming out ahead on this gig or what?
00:19:53.000But I think I got out of there making a little money.
00:20:38.000It'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.
00:20:45.000I 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.
00:21:29.000That's the only people that should decide whether or not things like that happen.
00:21:33.000Well, we can really dive into this and let's do it.
00:21:37.000My thing is, We are so governed in the world of wildlife biology through the states and stuff, they're not going to let humans ruin animal populations,
00:23:01.000Sorry, this probably won't be the first time I... Jesus Christ.
00:23:27.000That is a high-up biologist in Wyoming telling me that.
00:23:31.000And I'm like, well, why won't they let y'all go in there, let some hunters, think about the, you can do the math chart, do a $30,000 grizzly bear tag, do a $20,000 one.
00:25:05.000And then when you look at the population, how beautiful the elk population is in Colorado, and how amazingly managed it is in Colorado.
00:25:14.000For public hunters, for a guy like me that can go get an over-the-counter tag, I think they're probably going to wipe out over-the-counter tags for out-of-staters.
00:25:35.000Well, 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.
00:26:29.000I went on a salmon trip up in British Columbia.
00:26:36.00099% of your interpretation of a grizzly is this big old fat chunky thing.
00:26:43.000Well, so we're flying in on these helicopters to go...
00:26:48.000The salmon runs that are running up into the mountains of British Columbia, and it's an amazing trip.
00:26:54.000You fly over in the helicopter, you look down, you see the huge schools of salmon, you take your fly rod and you go catch them and drink your beer.
00:27:02.000Well, the helicopter pilot was like, hey man, we've seen some grizzlies.
00:27:12.000Yeah, it's like, get us kind of going a little bit.
00:27:15.000Well, we land, and the night before, we didn't fish that day, so we'd flown in and drank some wine, and, dude, you know, my eyes are, like, fuzzy, and we're fishing, and I tell my guy, I'm with him, like, hey, I'm going to go to the helicopter and get a beer or something.
00:27:29.000And, dude, I get there, and I pop my beer, and I'm like...
00:27:32.000I look down the river, and I'm like...
00:27:35.000Fuck, that is a fucking grizzly coming toward my buddy.
00:30:29.000And 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 over there.
00:30:37.000The thing about it with me, now listen, I grew up deer hunting my whole life, ducks, dove, quail, and man, I always had a soft spot for bears.
00:30:46.000And probably I still, it's not like I gotta go shoot bears every year.
00:30:52.000But when you find out, when you hear you are a hunter and there are When I met John and Jenny, and they were like, Luke, there are so many that need to be managed.
00:32:54.000So down in the furthest most southern corner of Georgia, Bainbridge, Georgia and all that, and then Mexico Beach, Florida, around Lake Seminole.
00:33:02.000I mean, they're everywhere down there.
00:36:57.000Well, I had whitetail hunting, and I remember a man, you know, being a 14-year-old kid shooting a deer and having remorse, but then you need to have that remorse, too, as a hunter.
00:37:45.000I think all of human existence has been wrapped around hunting animals, and we hunted them ourselves forever, and then we eventually figured out agriculture.
00:37:56.000But when we hunted them ourselves, most of the time the humans were human, and we had this deep connection to this animal because this animal was going to sustain our family.
00:38:05.000And they used it, they took the skin from it, and they made...
00:38:53.000But 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.
00:40:30.000Things that's just naturally happened at our house.
00:40:34.000And my wife is, you know, my wife's, like, typical housewife, plays tennis, great shape, doesn't, you know, she kind of eats like a bird when she does eat, but man, she will call me and she'll go, hey, let's have elk night.
00:40:49.000And, because we keep our freezer in my garage and I've got all my tackle in there.
00:40:53.000And she has, through the years, understood Like, hey, I'm going to run out to the freezer.
00:42:29.000Well, yeah, and yeah, when you can go, like, we, at my place, at my deer place in southern Tennessee, yeah, man, we just, we make sure, man, I got a big walk-in cooler there, and if we're not going to take something in there, I put,
00:42:44.000I've got some red stag up my place in Tennessee.
00:42:47.000I did a high fence down there, and so between stag and whitetail and elk, We're moving meat around and making jerky.
00:43:45.000Imagine if you were some dude and it's like a thousand years ago and you don't know what the fuck that is.
00:43:54.000So my 14-year-old has been going to Colorado with me since he was five or six.
00:44:02.000When they're that little, obviously they can't bow hunt, but we would get an elk down and I'd let the boys hike up with me and pack the elk out.
00:44:11.000One day we had another hunter with us going to get an elk and my two little ones were And I said, well, we had an elk bugle.
00:45:01.000I mean, you know, having your boys, I mean, that's what I live for and to keep the, you know, and I just wish we could create a narrative where getting your children doing that will, I mean, I don't know.
00:45:16.000Well, hunting is a very difficult entry.
00:45:28.000It's very hard to find someone who's going to teach you, who has the patience to show you what to do.
00:45:33.000If 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?
00:45:42.000That is the tricky part, really, with all outdoors.
00:45:46.000If you could bridge the gap between...
00:45:50.000All parts of urban life and allow urban life to find a place to go.
00:45:59.000But we went through a phase in outdoors where landowners were like, if you hunt my land and you twist your ankle and break your leg, you're going to sue me, so no, you're not allowed to come hunt my land, so all the deer will get overpopulated and eat all my crops.
00:46:14.000So I think now states, I think Tennessee has put a law into where some of those getting sued...
00:46:22.000Well, what I'm saying is that feeds people's...
00:46:27.000Inability to go find somewhere to hunt, too.
00:46:30.000So many people don't have a 50-acre farm.
00:46:34.000They can't afford it, but they want to go hunt.
00:46:37.000I just hope the hunting community and even the whole outdoor community can make it more accessible and landowners.
00:46:49.000She had 60 acres that bordered like a 300-acre track of mine, and I was like, ma'am, when I'm out hunting and some of my turkeys or our turkeys may cross onto your property, do you mind if I go?
00:47:01.000And her house is a mile away from, or it's 50 acres, it's probably 400 yards.
00:47:07.000She thought my shotgun was going to shoot through her house and kill her.
00:47:13.000And she grew up in Tennessee, in the country, and she doesn't understand that a shotgun is not, you know.
00:47:22.000And so, man, the education of it all, just the bridge and the knowledge of it gradually gets worse and worse.
00:47:30.000But the need for it gets greater and greater.
00:47:34.000And I tell my children all the time, I'm like, boys, There is no drug in the world.
00:47:41.000And I'm not a, you know, I'm a pretty straight guy, never done much of that, but I said, I got a lot of crazy buddies that have, and when a big elk's walking in, or a big whitetail, or you hook a big fish, the adrenaline from that, no drug will replace it.
00:50:06.000There's so much nerves, and so much anxiety, and you're ranging him, and he's coming in, and you think he's going to be at 50, but all of a sudden he's at 20, and then it's like, don't punch the shot.
00:51:18.000So when you get tired of whitetail hunting, and whitetail hunting gets rudimentary, Then go try to dig in and take it to the next level to challenge yourself.
00:52:49.000They're slapping newborns around and getting their lungs going before you mishandle a trout.
00:52:55.000But the whole mystique of trout and all of this stuff is just...
00:53:01.000Man, it's outlets for all of us, you know?
00:53:04.000I mean, I remember when I moved to Nashville, man, my dad, he kept me fishing and hunting, and he wound up being a pretty dang successful business guy, and he told me, he goes, dude, when you move to Nashville, don't forget to take time to go do that stuff.
00:53:23.000And, you know, for about two or three years, Man, I didn't.
00:54:32.000The whole education of hunting and landowners and conservation of the animals and all the land ties into where, you know, landowners need to...
00:54:45.000Have a better understanding of, man, give this old boy a break.
00:54:49.000Give this guy that just knocked on your door and asked permission the good old-fashioned way.
00:54:53.000Man, give him a break and let him take his son or go hunt.
00:54:57.000And don't hoard your 15,000 acres to your dad.
00:55:52.000But yeah, I mean, I look at I've got Till, my nephew, he's lived with me since he was 12, and then Till's 22 now, and Bo is 16, and Tate is 14. And Till was 15 when he killed his first elk.
00:56:13.000The rule has been, if you can pull 55 pounds, you're ready to hunt.
00:56:45.000Like, the hunting and the killing is...
00:56:49.000Man, when you pack out a damn 800-pound animal...
00:56:53.000The first time I packed my elk out, dude, when I got to the Polaris, I mean, I was like...
00:57:00.000I was sobbing, like from exertion, like delusional, because we took a wrong turn, we hit a big Aspen blowdown, and I had to tote the head and the cape out, and I had to walk over blown-down Aspens with that cape.
00:57:17.000And once we got 500 yards into the blowdown, And man, we got to that buggy, and all the elk hunting guys, they're the toughest dudes.
00:57:29.000Oh yeah, they're doing that all year long.
01:00:07.000It's much larger than a deer would have in its natural realm.
01:00:10.000Yeah, and I, you know, listen, I mean, there are a million ways you can criticize me for having the high fence, but, you know, I have low fences that we bounce back and forth on the low fences.
01:00:24.000Because that's fun as hell, too, to not know what's walking in.
01:00:28.000But the main thing is, I wanted my boys to have the ability to manage deer and grow them.
01:00:37.000Big, big, I love South Texas deer hunt.
01:00:42.000But I learned I leased a South Texas place down here.
01:00:47.000And then I learned having young children and my schedule, man, to go own a South Texas ranch, commit that much to a South Texas ranch, and get five days there wasn't my thing.
01:00:58.000So my high fence in Tennessee is kind of like my little ode or my little homage to my love for South Texas whitetails.
01:01:32.000Well, what was funny is the first time we saw the satellites come over, we were at elk camp.
01:01:39.000You know, my nephew, Till, he's 21, and we're all liquored up, and my nephew, he goes, Guys, I know we've been drinking all day, but what in the hell is coming toward us right now?
01:01:51.000And we were like, and then we had one guy in the group was like, God damn, that's Elon Musk!
01:02:00.000And we watched it go over and we were like, wow, what a, what a...
01:02:29.000My buddy was deer hunting recently in South Texas, and he said on three different occasions in the week, their deer got bumped by illegals.
01:04:33.000Every ranch I've went to, the ranch owner, you know, they're encountering two deaths a year, 15 to 20. Most of the time, they come up to the main headquarters needing water, and when they get to you—or that's been my experience with talking to ranch managers down there— They're very,
01:04:53.000you know, they're not, I don't think they're there to create any problems.
01:04:57.000They're just like, hey, you know, we need some water.
01:05:00.000The vast majority of them are just trying to get a better life.
01:05:05.000Could you imagine if you live 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?
01:06:14.000I mean, you know, we've been there and, you know, the guys, they open box blinds, you know, the deer hunting towers and there's a family sleeping in the box blind.
01:06:23.000Man, you just got to feel so sorry for them.
01:06:31.00015, 16 years old, processing Cubans where it's so bad that you're going to fucking piece together a raft, and you're going to give it a go for Miami.
01:06:45.000I remember being 16 going, how bad must that be?
01:08:26.000I want to see all of the Serengetis and all of the animals and take in the animals for a month and have, like, the wives and the girls and the girlfriends, and we sit out there and do the safaris.
01:08:37.000But then I want to carve out two or three days where all the boys go...
01:08:40.000You know, go get the true planes game.
01:09:26.000It may have been his mother or his wife's mother, but I called some local guys, some local Congress guys in Tennessee, and they granted him permission.
01:09:36.000To get down there, and they got to tell either his wife's mother, well, he comes back and he's like, Luke, I now owe you a Cape Buffalo.
01:09:53.000We're overrun with Cape Buffalo, and you now have one of my Cape Buffalo.
01:09:59.000So, dude, he is going to fly me down there, and I'm like, and that's just kind of the way he's wired, but, you know, he's going to help us with some safari stuff.
01:11:19.000He said it took forever to eat that thing.
01:11:25.000The true form of, like, yeah, no, that's even a whole other level of true organics when it takes you, you know, when your jerky's jerky right out of the, you know, right in the field.
01:11:37.000Yeah, well, there's no dry-aged buffalo out there.
01:13:10.000I tell you, man, I dove hard into duck hunting, and you talk about learning to blow a duck call.
01:13:19.000And when you think you know how to blow a duck call, and you get next to somebody that blows a duck call, and you blow yours, and the room starts laughing at you, like ridicule, like, take your duck call off.
01:13:34.000And put it in your bedroom and leave it when we go hunting.
01:13:37.000And I'm like, dude, I've been working on this fucking thing for four years!
01:14:51.000He can smack Frito-Lays open and eat them.
01:14:55.000He's pushed a porcelain pound cake, a pound cake on a porcelain island off onto the floor, ate the pound cake and the porcelain dish, and Like, x-ray,
01:15:10.000100 shards of porcelain in his stomach.
01:15:13.000The vet's like, put that fucker out in the yard, and if he makes it, if he lives, call me back.
01:15:20.000He lived, and now I have duck hunting properties, and my boy, you know, we're in the house blowing duck calls.
01:15:26.000My wife's like, you know, I mean, my wife's like, four boys in the house, all of them blowing duck calls.
01:15:36.000So do you have one of them setups where you're hiding in one of those shacks that's underground?
01:15:41.000We have elevated blinds that are brushed in and some brush, and then we have pit blinds that are, you know, when you get down in a pit blind...
01:15:54.000You know, there's experiences where you wade in the woods, and they come down in the woods, and man, it's just...
01:16:02.000The thing that really makes duck hunting kind of like when you're in a blind with your...
01:16:10.000Let's just say you got your buddies from way back, and there's five of you, and you're sitting there smoking cigars, and you're in the blind together, and it's very social, too.
01:16:23.000You know, 15 degrees, coffee, cigar, you know, and everybody's like, shh, shh, shh, shut up, shut up, shut up, shut up, and you work the ducks, they light in front of you, kill them, the dog gets them, brings the duck back, you look at the duck, and you're just like...
01:16:39.000Just have a big ol' toke on your cigar, and you're like, yep, this is pretty good shit right here.
01:17:09.000Well, you get a big pot and you put a bunch of water and then you put a concrete cinder block in there and you boil the goose and you pull the goose out and eat the cinder block.
01:17:21.000But some people can make a speckled goose.
01:19:28.000Well, here's the tricky part, because...
01:19:31.000Dude, I don't even know if I enjoyed my meal because I picked the chef's brain because I wanted to figure out a way to take my mallards and all my ducks I killed and age them properly.
01:19:42.000But what you do got to worry about is when you shoot them, you know, you're shooting, the guts are going through kind of in the meat a little bit.
01:21:58.000You can't shoot sandhill cranes in Florida, but you can shoot alligators?
01:22:03.000Unless they're lying to me because they're scared I'm going to have a psychotic episode and go running out through the golf course with the guns.
01:22:13.000Maybe it's just the area where you're at.
01:25:47.000He'd have that old charbroil out there, and he'd get up with his vinegar and all this shit, and he would wake up all night, night before the 4th, and smoke them butts, man.
01:25:57.000But now you just walk out, put that thing on 220 at about 8 p.m., wake up at 8 a.m., The app tells you if you're low on pellets.
01:26:55.000It's pretty, you know, and man, you know, they get out there and, yeah, they'll look at me and you doing Traegers and we're, that's about like us, that's our version of having a tutu on.
01:27:05.000It is funny, because people want to do it all themselves.
01:27:43.000So when I moved to Nashville, and then there's some dude there with a Texas brisket restaurant in Nashville, I'm like, what are they talking about brisket?
01:27:52.000And this was 2001 I moved to Nashville.
01:27:54.000This is how insulated you could be in your own...
01:27:58.000You know, as we talk about the ways of the world changing, I mean, it's like, dude, I lived in a section, and everybody, North Carolina, Georgia, Alabama, they didn't, brisket was like...
01:28:09.000I think brisket was originally a German thing.
01:28:13.000I think it was like with the sausages, like there was cuts of the meat.
01:28:17.000Well, the smoker thing came certainly from German immigrants that came to Texas.
01:28:22.000That's where the origin of the barbecue out here is.
01:28:24.000And then the brisket was like cuts that nobody else wanted.
01:29:21.000And walk up there on the family reunion, and all the women were grossed out, because, you know, you're just pulling the big pig, you know, the big, you know, you can pull that meat off a pig, it's like that, so...
01:29:41.000One of the great things about Texas...
01:29:43.000It'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 365 days a year and always have sausage.
01:29:51.000Our place, me and my best friend, we've got a quail hunting place down in the heart of South Georgia.
01:31:21.000It's the most unfair type of hunting that's ever existed.
01:31:25.000Man, if, you know, I don't know, you know, my children, I took my boys.
01:31:32.000And somewhere there's a, you know, I hope he doesn't hear, but there's a Navy SEAL Marine recruiter, because my sons are ready for warfare after doing that.
01:31:43.000But, you know, the guy that we took, you know, he's got a big, beautiful high fence, and, you know, if you fly around him, man, you can, you know, he has to thin him out every year.
01:31:53.000But it's so fun doing it out of a helicopter, you don't want to thin them all out, because you keep wanting to, you know, you keep wanting to do it a little bit, but...
01:32:10.000Well, you know, our pig stuff in Georgia, man, it's fun because you can go on a deer hunt, shoot some deer with a bow, and then we'll take a rifle and late in the evening the hogs will come out.
01:32:26.000I know a lot of guys shoot them at nighttime, too.
01:32:37.000I mean, they're probably the number one, you know, wildlife.
01:32:43.000I never will forget, you know, right when, like, maybe iPhones come out and you get your iPhone news updates, and then I never even knew what the magazine, like, The New Yorker was, or, like, The Guardian and all those things.
01:32:55.000Well, The New Yorker, I'm scrolling through, and I see feral pigs, and it was this huge article done by a guy.
01:34:07.000So when I start my high fence, the year that I started it, our turkey population in Tennessee, which it's been going through hell, and you'll hear this, The turkey population in Tennessee was one of the most amazing things I've ever seen.
01:34:27.000I mean, eastern turkey hunting, one of the most beautiful things in the wildlife that the state of Tennessee has.
01:34:35.000And my turkey population is amazing and still is, but we hired a guy and he put 110 traps out.
01:34:43.000110. And night one had over 100 varmints.
01:34:51.000Coons, possums, armadillos in the traps night one.
01:34:54.000So they're just killing all the turkeys.
01:35:26.000They go to the water source, hold the water in their mouth, Drip the water on the eggs periodically, using the water to hatch them at the same time.
01:35:39.000Because a hen turkey, if she had to hatch, all the eggs hatch at the same time.
01:35:46.000But if she had to hatch them for 12 days, she could never keep them corralled properly.
01:36:46.000Well, first of all, trapping now is so rare.
01:36:51.000The art of trapping has gone down quite a bit.
01:36:56.000Oh, and I'm not even bringing up coyotes in Tennessee.
01:37:01.000So, yeah, if they can loosen up, Tennessee can loosen up their trapping laws and make it more available, and you just got to thin out those...
01:37:11.000You know, armadillos in Tennessee, you would have never...
01:37:15.000Man, we woke up, and we can ride around and shoot 30 a night.
01:41:17.000It'll get to it has to be lab-grown meat.
01:41:20.000It could get as crazy as you could ever imagine there's animal rights people that would like to push in that direction.
01:41:26.000And you would have never thought this would be possible, but you would have never thought that you would have biological males competing against females in high school sports.
01:41:36.000And if you complain against that, you're a bigot.
01:41:38.000You're seeing the craziest of crazy thinking.
01:41:41.000There's people that think the pedophiles are minor-attracted persons, and they'll talk about this as university professors teaching classes.
01:41:52.000It'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.
01:42:00.000You go back to 2004, there was none of this shit.
01:42:17.000There was a recent pool tournament where it was a women's pool tournament, and in the semifinals, it's two trans women competing against each other.
01:42:25.000Two men, two biological men that wear lipstick, competing against each other in a women's tournament.
01:43:18.000It's actually good for the environment and everything feeds off everything.
01:43:21.000There's a system that nature has evolved for millions of years.
01:43:25.000That's the normal way it's supposed to be done.
01:43:28.000And, you know, we're just living in a crazy time.
01:43:31.000Yeah, when you think of Denver and Colorado and the outdoors, man, you've got to appreciate everybody's opinion of, you know, I mean, it's a so old term, the granolaist, but it ain't granola no more.
01:44:37.000What are you going to do with all those people that work at the butcher shop?
01:44:39.000What are you going to do with all those people that work at the meat processing plant?
01:44:42.000What are you going to do with all those people that have been transporting meat back and forth?
01:44:45.000What are you going to do with all those jobs, all those families, all their income, all their businesses that they've had for a hundred fucking years?
01:47:33.000So if you have an overflow, a spillway on your farm, and it runs through your farm and dumps into a major river body of water, and that otter swims by that water dumping in that river...
01:50:58.000Now, I have three lakes that are naturally...
01:51:02.000Their own ecosystem, where we have to, you know, I've got an 82-acre bass lake that we have to catch 3,500 pounds of bass a year just to keep them from not choking themselves out.
01:51:22.000Dude, we have bass roundups, and we get out there, and we catch them, and we'll load up coolers and take them into the little towns and give them to people.
01:51:44.000You know, like, all the bluegills at my lake, we feed them pellet food so they'll get big, so the bass will eat them, so the bass will get big.
01:51:52.000And you don't want to go eat a bluegill that's been parked under a pellet.
01:52:00.000A little wild bluegill stream or a little natural creek where I grew up in Georgia, like shell crackers and bluegill that eat like a cricket or that are eating live stuff.
01:52:12.000You fillet one of them real small creek or river bluegills.
01:53:52.000Your three-pound bass didn't have enough fish to get to four pounds, and then he missed a year of growing, or she missed a year of growing, and then you just put a $50,000 investment in your bass lake.
01:55:07.000When my boys were four and five, you don't want to take them out there on their first three bass fishing trips and you burn them in the hot sun and they catch one fish.
01:55:19.000You want them engaged and get them going.
01:55:25.000Pike and all that, that stillheading, that northwest stillheading.
01:55:30.000Catching one, man, I don't, that's just, I hadn't done that.
01:57:10.000Camo onesie, or a coverall, and dude, I'd put my new pair of Chippewa hunting boots, I'd put my new set of coveralls on with a camo pattern, I'd hit the neighborhood walking around with a pellet gun shooting the neighbor squirrels.
01:57:28.000And, you know, we'd eat them every now and then.
01:57:32.000This little old lady, Mabel Coxwell, we'd skin them and she'd fry them with some wild rice.
01:58:21.000Well, the fact that, you know, the fact that, yeah, I could run rampant at nine years old through the neighborhood riding my Honda 50 motorcycle, you know, through people's backyards, you know, chasing squirrels,
01:58:36.000and everybody's like, thank you, that damn thing's been in my attic chewing up my Pink Panther insulation for...
02:03:29.000I've gone four days without a cigar, and I'm riding down the road, and I determine right now I need one.
02:03:37.000You know, you weave across four lanes of traffic, find a, you know, and the next thing you know, you're smoking a grocery store, I mean, a gas station cigar to just, but hey, it keeps you, keeps the head clean.
02:04:23.000Listen, my mom, man, dude, she, Joe, she's curbed the beer a little bit, but she'll drink her couple O'Doul's, but she's going to have her one or two Bud Lights.
02:05:18.000And is ready to chew my ass out at any moment.
02:05:23.000And how many cigarettes do you think she's down to a day?
02:05:25.000I hope she's probably at a pack and a half.
02:05:29.000But man, when you do the math, when I used to sit her down and do math, you know, her and my dad were married 32 years and divorced, and so when she went out kind of on her own, I'd sit her down and do the math on four Bud Lights, two and a half packs of Salem's, and four pan-fried ribeyes.
02:10:10.000Yeah, and then there's the one where it's a Dalmatian, too, that grew up and then got to the old Dalmatian, and the little, you know, they're riding, and the young Dalmatian sees the old Dalmatian, and I think the old Dalmatian kicks the bucket,
02:10:26.000and then the new Dalmatian takes its place, and then you're like, oh my God, it's the best thing ever.
02:10:37.000By having a transgender woman on their can.
02:10:41.000But it just shows you how prevalent this whole mind virus is that it even got into Bud Light, which is just bizarre.
02:10:49.000But the lady who's responsible for it all basically shit on the entire customer base, you know, saying that they have a fratty sense of humor and we need to update it, make it more inclusive.
02:11:03.000And like, do you I don't know what you're saying.
02:11:06.000You'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.
02:11:15.000And maybe that'll work, but you just alienated everybody who buys it and loves it.
02:11:20.000It's the dumbest poker move of all time.
02:13:31.000You've got to get them to stop for two seconds and go, what is that fucker doing right there?
02:13:38.000And when I came out with Country Girl Shake It For Me on the CMA shaking my ass, I mean, I had to do it that way.
02:13:51.000In my opinion, I had to go, this is my moment to show Country Goes Shake It For Me, and I'm the guy that dances and don't give a damn, and let's have some fun and come along for the ride.
02:15:27.000The first thing that would happen is, you know, three, six, nine, damn she fine, give it to me, give it to me one more time, get low, get low.
02:15:37.000I mean, and right when my set got done, hip hop, The vibe went to a nightclub.
02:15:48.000And I'm standing, I done walked off stage, went to the bar, ordered the beer, and watched everybody that just let me play Merle Haggard, Johnny Cash, all the classics, my couple of new songs.
02:16:51.000I was the opener, and Jason was the headliner, and people, and rap was, we were playing rap before the show, and everybody was in, well, then Bro Country comes along.
02:17:05.000Dude, I wake up on the bus one morning, and I got this interview.
02:17:12.000Sitting there drinking my coffee in my fucking underwear, and this dude calls me with Hits magazine.
02:17:18.000And he goes, well, Luke, you know, man, this broke country thing.
02:18:39.000And I said, if it's bro country and that's what I'm labeled as, I said, and where I fucked up, as I said, I haven't spent the night sleeping on the street.
02:18:50.000And I didn't say, like Johnny Cash's song, Sunday Morning Coming Down.
02:20:40.000Yes, and clickbait, the world of clickbait was getting rocking.
02:20:47.000So what I did is, man, I called Waylon Jennings' daughter and said, I said, ma'am, I just forgot to say, like the Kris Kristofferson song, Sunday Morning Coming Down.
02:21:32.000And since then, I can always tell that if that one little thing, I probably would have kept that whole base.
02:21:43.000And then the, oh my god, he wears tight jeans and he must, you know, he must homosexual on the side, you know, as I'm posing with my, you know, my all-American family.
02:21:56.000I 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 Are going to come in and make something inauthentic.
02:22:12.000So then they hear you saying that, get misrepresented, and then they take it as a part of all of that, right?
02:31:32.000He did great because I gave him advice before I met him because he was in the middle of all this and he goes, hey man, he goes, can I talk to you?
02:32:50.000You've got to have other bullets in your chamber.
02:32:53.000That's what we tell the kids on Idol now.
02:32:56.000I think when Idol was really, really, obviously, when Kelly Clarkson and Carrie Underwood won, and even people after that, they went their ass to work, too.
02:33:11.000These kids on Idol now, they love seeing their social media platforms go up a thousand percent, and it's worth it.
02:33:20.000There's going to be bumps in the road, and there's going to be a group of people saying American Idol may exploit these kids.
02:33:35.000Man, I'm in the back, I'm behind the scenes on everything, and man, we won't, you know, they won't, when we get a kid that we love, man, we sit around, we go to dinner, and we talk about that kid and love him.
02:33:50.000And I think, you know, these kids leave it going, man, that was a great experience for them.
02:34:21.000Because a comedian will have one clip, or he's doing some crowd work, or one clip of one bit that everybody loves, and then all of a sudden he's selling out, and everybody's like, that guy...
02:36:12.000If you have a hundred people who love you, but one that hates you...
02:36:17.000That one is the one you're going to think about.
02:36:18.000You're not going to think about all the people that they say you're awesome.
02:36:20.000You're going to think about that one that hates you.
02:36:22.000And then you have to think about the kind of people that post comments.
02:36:25.000Most of the people who post comments are miserable people.
02:36:27.000Not the positive comments, but the negative comments.
02:36:30.000I started a thing, you know, and I know you've got people in your world where...
02:36:36.000Man, you know, there's assholes and you'll huddle up and you'll spend an hour talking about how you can't believe how big an asshole that person is.
02:37:23.000I recognized it when I was on television before social media.
02:37:27.000There 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.
02:37:42.000They were all like, oh, I can't believe they're number two.
02:41:48.000And so, I remember doing that, and then when you start achieving it, man, I still, I mean, I don't think I'm living in that world of, like, the other digging.
02:42:00.000You know, I think you can for a minute.
02:42:18.000I talked to this dude who worked on a ranch, and they have a 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.
02:42:33.000You should never have them here again.
02:43:43.000Buddy, me going to the University of Georgia when I was 18 years old, I mean, I barely, my dad barely got the money for me to go to the community college 12 minutes down the road.
02:45:26.000And 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.
02:46:07.000It's like you almost need to lose something to be able to appreciate what you have.
02:46:11.000Well, and I tell people, man, you know, you meet, I tell people, man, really be careful because if you make it to 80, you're going to get popped with something.
02:46:24.000I don't think you can get through this thing Like some kind of a disease or something?
02:49:13.000I 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.
02:50:59.000Yeah, I mean, the damn children, my kids, I mean, we're yelling at them every day, get up, get off the phone, get outside.
02:51:05.000They do a good job, but man, I think it's just, it's a part of their deal.
02:51:10.000They're being influenced by things far beyond our control and way different than anything that any other generation has ever experienced before.
02:51:17.000Like my son, he's a 16-year-old quarterback.
02:51:24.000And man, he watches all these other quarterbacks.
02:51:29.000Hell, there are 14 recruiting download sites.
02:51:36.000And my son's like, that dude right there is the greatest quarterback in the country.
02:54:08.000Well, 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...
02:54:22.000Because girls are fucking vicious to each other online.
02:54:24.000Boys will run into each other and punch each other in the face.
02:54:26.000But girls will attack each other's character, and they're reputation destroyers.
02:54:32.000And they love to 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.
02:54:42.000It's unfortunate, but that's what gossip used to be.
02:54:45.000Gossip used to just be talking, though.
02:54:47.000It's like a normal thing where girls get around and talk, but now they talk online.
02:54:51.000And when they talk online, then other people read it.
02:56:54.000When you meet somebody, and it's all scaled way differently.
02:57:02.000Like when you meet, you know, I've had people, you know, when you grow up in a country music band and you're on the bus for hours with buddies and everybody goes, they got their own life, and then, man, you find out...
02:57:17.000I had one band member almost kill himself over something that if he'd have just had somebody say, man, I have that too.
03:00:45.000And so Tate and Bo, the first time, I would put him on my shoulders and walk him.
03:00:52.000Well, then, after two years, we were like, dude, let's go by and get, like, eight pairs of waders and sit them on the bank, and we'll leave the waders, and everybody's like, that's a damn good idea.
03:01:09.000So Tate, for the last three years, I've towed him across the river, and man, I looked at him the last day of the hunt, and this was Tate's year to try to get an elk, and he actually, Dad, I kind of messed up the elk hunt.
03:02:08.000So every year, I take my boots, and I tie them in a knot, and I... And I hang them and throw them over my, because we're toting gear, and I throw my boots over my shoulders so they don't get wet.
03:02:19.000And, man, I looked at him, and he's sitting there tying his little string.