The guest
Luke Bryan: Country music superstar, longtime avid hunter and angler, and former Las Vegas residency performer.
What this episode covers
Luke Bryan joins Joe Rogan for a sprawling, lighthearted conversation rooted in their shared love of the outdoors. They cover Bryan's Vegas residency and gambling habits, then dive into wildlife biology debates over grizzly bears, wolves, ballot-driven conservation, and overpopulated game. Bryan shares stories from elk, deer, duck, and bass management on his Tennessee and Georgia properties, including his high-fence operation and otter problems. The back half turns to BBQ culture, wild-game cooking, the Bud Light boycott, and Bryan's frustration over being mislabeled 'bro country' and misquoted about outlaw musicians, leading to a broader critique of clickbait media manipulation.
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Uncut Gems
Josh Safdie, Benny Safdie
“what a great movie especially if you've dipped your toe into that world”
“did you see uncut gems yes dude that movie so much anxiety that movie tripped me out I think it trips everybody out”— Luke Bryan
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Starlink
SpaceX
“so easy to set up set it up in like five minutes”
“we used one in Utah for the first time this year so easy to set up set it up in like five minutes and then we're online”— Luke Bryan
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Traeger
Traeger
“best thing in the world leave it the new one's fantastic too”
“that's one of the great things about things like a Trager and you can just set it for 265 best thing in the world leave it the new one's fantastic too”— Joe Rogan
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Meat Church (rubs)
Meat Church
“he's got some awesome rubs”
“have you met the meat Church dud I met that dude yeah yeah he comes and he's got some awesome rubs he's got all that”— Luke Bryan
The guest's own work
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Mind of a Country Boy
Luke Bryan
“I worked on an album for 3 years it's called Mind of a country boy and I put it out like 1 of October”— Luke Bryan
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Sever Broadheads
Sever
“now that P that article says 800 lb that's from sever broadheads it says 880 but the other article said 770 it looks it's big”— Luke Bryan
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Polaris
Polaris
“when you pack out a damn 800 lb animal the first time I packed my lcal dude when I got got to the Polaris I mean I was like sobbing”— Luke Bryan
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Surstromming
“the s straman challenge look at this guy's face dude we pop that thing it's like a aged Swedish fish that's rotten in a can”— Luke Bryan
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Davidoff Churchill cigar
Davidoff
“one of my best buddies brought a nice David off Churchill cigar and any cigar I'd ever done now had smoked a cigar like in Vegas”— Luke Bryan
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Bud Light
Anheuser-Busch
“Bud Light the beer that sponsored more boxing matches more sporting events more people been drinking Bud Light”— Joe Rogan
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Miller Lite
Molson Coors
“through the years I've gotten Miller Light endorsements I'd be like Mama there's a Miller Light truck pulling up to your house”— Luke Bryan
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She's Country
Jason Aldean
“Jason Aline had his um She's Country biggest song when I heard I mean at the time when Jason and I are buddies he does She's Country”— Luke Bryan
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Sunday Mornin' Comin' Down
Kris Kristofferson
“I didn't say like Johnny Cash's song Sunday morning coming down that's what I meant I just didn't tie it”— Luke Bryan
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Ozark
Netflix
“it's like that show Ozark right yeah yeah well totally the same premise you know it's like put a barge on the river”— Joe Rogan
Big reveals from this episode
- Rogan describes visiting Dana White gambling and watching him down $600,000, with Taylor Lautner losing $120,000 in five minutes.
- A Wyoming biologist tells Bryan there are 1,400-1,500 grizzlies where 500-600 are needed, with management blocked by a single federal judge.
- Bryan reveals his prized buck was born inside his Tennessee high fence and grew unusually large genetics over five years.
- A biologist tells Bryan that hen turkeys drip water on eggs to make them all hatch at the same time.
- Bryan recounts being misquoted about outlaw country, which he says cost him an entire fan base and drew anger from Waylon Jennings's family.
- Willie Nelson texted Bryan after the controversy: 'it's okay to step on your dick just don't stand on it.'
Worth remembering
- Rogan says he and a partner once hit roughly 84% picking UFC fights because oddsmakers didn't know imported Japanese and Russian fighters.
- Roughly 10% of hunting-related fees (tags, guiding, taxidermy, gear via Pittman-Robertson) goes to wildlife management.
- A New Jersey black bear was weighed at 770 lbs gutted, estimated around 880 lbs live.
- Bryan describes seeing Starlink satellites pass over elk camp for the first time and mistaking them for something unexplained.
- Bryan's South African pilot owes him a Cape buffalo from his family's overrun ranch as thanks for helping during COVID.
- Eleven Madison Park ages ducks with their guts in for flavor, central to French cuisine's use of duck fat.
- Otters can eat around 20 bass a night in a 17-acre lake, killing trophy fish that cost roughly $3,000 each to grow.
- Bryan's mother has smoked multiple packs of Salem cigarettes daily and drinks Bud Lights at 76, while pan-frying ribeyes nightly.
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