Luke Bryan

**Theo Von** (0:00)
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He's a host on American Idol. He's an outdoorsman.
And he's funny, man. I'll say that straight up. He's funny, man. He's got a new album, Signs, that's out September 18th. I had a blast with today's guest, Mr. Luke Bryan.

**Luke Bryan** (1:29)
Shine on me And I will find a song I will sing it just for you You on the Readers?

**Theo Von** (1:50)
Dang, bro, you saw them, huh?

**Luke Bryan** (1:51)
Dude, me too.

**Theo Von** (1:52)
Are you on them?

**Luke Bryan** (1:54)
I have no other choice.

**Theo Von** (1:56)
Well, what does it look like?

**Luke Bryan** (1:57)
It don't look like nothing's happening. It don't look like, if I don't have them, I can't pick out which draft beer I want.
I'm like the Hells Bells, what is that?

**Theo Von** (2:12)
Oh, when you show an IPA, you're lost.

**Luke Bryan** (2:14)
Yeah, yeah, I'll be like, I'll be in an order to want a Pilsner and then got an IPA.

**Theo Von** (2:19)
Oh, damn dude. Well, they started, remember when they came out with all those, like the local IPA, it was always like Beaver's Ass or whatever. Like it was like, it was always like Vermont Stepdad. Like it was always so-

**Luke Bryan** (2:33)
Citra ass down.

**Theo Von** (2:34)
White men can't hops, fetal alcohol sour.

**Luke Bryan** (2:41)
Man, my first, you know, I never done high gravities.

**Theo Von** (2:44)
What do you mean like a, like a- Fake carnival rides or whatever?

**Luke Bryan** (2:48)
A high gravity beer.

**Theo Von** (2:50)
Oh, I never even heard of that. What is it, they make it in a French press or whatever?

**Luke Bryan** (2:54)
Well, it's like a, you know, it's a beer that is like a 12, it's 12% alcohol.

**Theo Von** (3:00)
Oh, that takes away the whole point of having beer.

**Luke Bryan** (3:02)
Well, yeah. Well, the first time I did it, we did a, it was a beer called Kentucky Bourbon Barrel Ale.
And it was like a 12 point beer. And it had bourbon flavors. Man, we did a, we were doing keg stands with it.

**Theo Von** (3:17)
And that was a beer you came out with?

**Luke Bryan** (3:19)
No, it was a beer that it just got popular and it got popular and I called where to get a keg of it and got one at the house.
Well, dude, I call a bunch of my buddies and I'm like, hey man, the bourbon barrel, Kentucky bourbon barrel kegs here. This is about six buddies. When my wife goes to dinner with some friends, she comes back.

**Theo Von** (3:44)
She shouldn't have come back.

**Luke Bryan** (3:45)
Man.

**Theo Von** (3:46)
What were y'all doing?

**Luke Bryan** (3:47)
We were, we were just, we were gone.

**Theo Von** (3:50)
What were y'all doing, just tickling each other and shit?

**Luke Bryan** (3:52)
Man, we were, it got, it got interesting. But just Kentucky Bourbon Barrel, do not do keg stands with a 12 point.
I could never hold natural light down in college. Do keg stands.

**Theo Von** (4:07)
Well, dude, you know, Bob, Kid Rock came out with a beer for a while called Badass Beer, right? This is a story, he told me this, and I'm paraphrasing, but it doesn't matter because it doesn't end well. But, or maybe it does matter, whatever. There it is, Badass American Lager.
But apparently, the second batch of it, and the first batch, it like sold out, right? The second batch they made of it, like it got, it was fucked up, right?