Name: Luke Combs | This Past Weekend w/ Theo Von #509
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Watch the stand-up comedy video 'Luke Combs | This Past Weekend w/ Theo Von #509' from Theo Von on Comedy Buff. Published 2024-06-11. Transcript available.

Luke Combs | This Past Weekend w/ Theo Von #509

Today's guest is an award-winning country musician and songwriter.
He's out of North Carolina and has gone on to become one of the biggest names
in entertainment.
He has a new album, Fathers and Sons, which is coming out just before Father's
Day.
And I'm thankful to sit with him today, my new friend, Mr. Luke Cone.
Shine that light on me, I'll sit and tell you my stories.
Shine on me, and I will find a song I've been singing.
Almost.
And that's galvanized, isn't it?
Mm-hmm, it is.
Yeah, you can just, you can really hear the nails go across it.
That's how you know it's, it's got rivets inside of it, you know, make it sound
so good.
That's like redneck ASMR.
It's like, you know, there's just some dude who woke up in his trailer and he
just, he's
trying to quietly eat the leftovers without his wife here.
Hold on, there is a guy, dude, and don't ask me how this comes across my feed.
But it's like day 600 of me spraying dog medicine on my hands till I can strike
a match off my knuckles.
And I'm like, why do I care so much about this guy striking a match off his knuckles?
But dude, and at the end of every video, dude, it's him.
And at the beginning, he'll go, now there's a sensory nightmare at the end of
this video.
And it's him going, and it's like his sandpaper ass hands, like going in the
mic, dude.
And it's, it's, dude, it's, it's worth it.
Here it is, dude.
We've got it up.
Here it is, dude.
We got one, dog medicine on my hands in order to make this.
Here it is.
Don't forget to like, share it.
Wow, he's good at it.
The dog medicine, blowing like champagne.
I went to the doctor today and asked him about tough food.
Dude, he's sand in the wood with his hands, dude.
Oh, wow.
My guy is for real.
He's real.
He's an instrument of the Lord, brother.
Here's my question is, what's the end thing?
Like what happens at the end?
Like halfway, is there a two, here it is, dude.
Dog medicine.
Oh, wow.
Now, what is the dog medicine?
What do you think the real function of that medicine is?
Here it is.
Get some, can we get some audio on this guy's hands, dude?
Yeah, jack us in, brother.
Jack us into some of this guy's hands.
Oh, wow.
So this is a gentleman, you can't see him at home, guys.
This is sort of a Rubenesque gentleman who is making his hands rougher.
And then the sound is heinous.
It really is, dude.
And then he just rubs them together.
He just rubs them together, dude.
Yeah.
Dude, he will probably be the president in two times.
Here he is.
He's trying to strike a match, dude.
And here he is, striking a match on his knuckle.
Now, he can strike a match on his feet, which is a feat in and of itself.
Yeah.
That's a start, man.
It's wild, dude.
Oh, God.
Yeah.
I mean, yeah, we had a guy one night that came to a show and he's like, hey,
man, me and
my cousin, we love you.
And look at him.
And he goes, he's missing 70% of his skull, right?
And the dude had a cool thing, though, where if he, like, put his finger in his
mouth and
went, then the other part of his head would kind of show up.
Dude, that happened.
Yeah, dude.
Dude, oh my.
Pikeville, Kentucky, brother.
Dude, that is wild, dude.
You don't need all your skull to party over there.
Dude, that is wild, dude.
Dude, people are fascinating, dude.
Oh, we had a guy, we used to have a really great, I don't want to say homeless
guy, but
a guy who had, who was just kind of hadn't been home probably in a decent
amount of time.
Unhoused.
Yeah, I would say unhoused.
I think that's the, right, yeah.
Yeah, and he could, yeah.
And he, but when he smiled, he had a couple of his teeth in his hand, I guess
they'd fallen
out or something, and when he'd smile, he would still make the shape, and he
would show
you the teeth.
You know what I'm saying?
Like, it was like.
So he just had them.
He just keeps, that was kind of his party trick.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
His help me out.
Like, does he, do you think he's, like, need money for veneers?
Ooh, I don't know.
Now, that's the thing.
And then he's like, here's the teeth that I need.
Yeah, look, just for proof.
Just for proof, I'm actually missing these teeth.
Just check my work here.
Yeah, people are just interested.
I mean, dude, even, like, the places you'll stay.
Like, I stayed at a place, yeah, they're not, like, sometimes we'll stay at
some pretty nice
spots, and sometimes, you know, it's just a.
Like an outdoor, when the doors are on the outside.
Yeah.
You know, that you've arrived at a certain level of establishment.
Yeah, that's true.
And there's nowhere to go but down from that.
That's the top level of that.
Yes.
When there's doors inside.
And then as the doors get more and more open.
Yeah.
I went to, we checked in one.
It's, God, this had to be six years ago.
And we, it's like, you know, we played a show somewhere, Columbia, Sacramento.
And then we had a show in the Outer Banks the next day.
And this is, like, van and trailer, no manager.
It's just me and the band.
Like, I'm trying to check into the rooms and stuff.
So, we drove from Columbia.
We were supposed to play a tailgate at Clemson the next morning.
So, we're trying to, like, get that in, make an extra, like, $800, me and my
guitar
player, and then get in the van and go play our show.
So, we drive from Columbia to Clemson.
It's a couple hours.
You know, the show is over at, like, 11 or 12.
Yeah.
So, then we get to the damn hotel.
It's, you know, 2 in the morning.
Checking all the rooms.
I get all the bangers in the rooms.
And it's one of these doors on the outside.
And I go to my door.
Door's open, dude.
It's already open.
It's already cracked a little bit.
This door's already talking shit.
And the lights are on in the room.
And I'm like, man, this is probably good.
So, pop in that room, dude.
And there must have, it looked like the cicadas came out of the room.
Really?
It wasn't cicadas.
It was every bug known to me.
Oh, yeah.
Because the doors are on the outside.
It's been open for, at, since checkout.
Which is at least 12 hours, dude.
With all the lights and the room on.
Go to the desk.
And I'm like, hey.
I, like, I'm an easy guy.
Yeah, I hate to complain.
But I can't sleep in a room full of bugs.
And they were like, ooh.
We don't have any other rooms.
That was the last.
That's the last room.
But there's nobody in the parking lot.
No, there's nobody there.
Well, it's more of a extended type.
Oh, I see what you're saying.
Stay, I would imagine.
Yeah, if they have a blender in there, that's extended stay.
When there's anything to cook with, you've reached another level.
Yeah, another level of a hotel.
Yeah, some hotels, there's.
Well, one time I remember I called down to the front desk.
I was like, hey, do you guys have internet?
And the guy's like, let me check.
And I'm like.
Let me check.
Let me see.
Hold on.
I haven't heard of that.
I'll get back to you.
But then I hear him.
He's actually looking it up on the computer.
He goes to Google.
Do we have internet?
Google search.
It just.
Dude, one time we stopped in Lexington.
And I went in to check in.
And it was kind of during the pandemic.
So people were kind of on their wits end here and there.
Sure, sure.
And you'd see people wearing neck braces for no reason.
All type of stuff.
People didn't know what was going on.
Yeah, assorted medical devices.
Yeah, it was very assorted medical.
And this dude, I go in there and it took him forever, bro.
To just find out there's a room.
And I was like, is there anything I can do to expedite this?
And he's like, I'm sorry, sir.
And then he goes, you know, I used to be in a wheelchair.
And I was like.
He used to be.
Well, that's the thing.
So he's not currently in it.
No, and it wasn't like I was just out of a wheelchair.
Like work with me here.
You know, it was just like throwing something from the past.
I had once.
Yeah.
I had a broken arm at one time.
Yeah.
It's not currently broken, but it was.
Yeah.
Excuse me.
Did he give you any kind of.
So he's making an excuse for just you trying to hurry him up.
There's no reason to hurry things here.
He's like, hey, man, give me a fucking break.
Yeah.
I used to.
I used to be in a wheelchair.
I used to be in a wheelchair.
I was like, I used to be in the fifth grade.
We can't just.
It doesn't really matter that you used to be.
Yeah.
And keep the chair.
If you, if you still are in a wheelchair, like if I notice to see somebody in a
wheelchair,
I'm going to be like, what can I, you know, I'm going to work with you here.
I'll even.
Sure.
You know, I'll even take a ride with you or whatever.
But like, if there's somebody who's like, yeah, I used to be or.
Yeah.
You know, but anyway, nice to see you, man.
Yeah.
Yeah.
We fired right into the dog medicine hands guy fast, dude.
Dude.
Yeah.
That's some of that though.
Stay in different places.
I mean, it's.
It's.
It gets.
It gets easier to.
It's easier to rough it when you're younger.
Dude, for sure.
Well, once you haven't not roughed it.
Right.
Like when that's when roughing it is the only experience, which was that's what
it was forever, dude.
I mean, in the van, you know, the 15 passenger van, it's like.
Oh, yeah.
That long boy, huh?
The long.
Yeah.
Because that's.
But when we had back rows out and it's all the gear.
Oh, yeah.
So it's less than 15 seats.
Yeah.
But there's like six guys in there.
All these amps, guitars.
Like it was a mess, dude.
It was truly a mess.
Yeah.
I feel bad for some people now, though.
Like I think of like, let's say you're a new artist and you let's say you have
a song that blows up on the Internet or whatever.
And then you're just thrust into like this really like official version of
yourself, even if you're maybe not like ready for that.
Oh, I see what you're saying.
Even if you just have one or two songs, like you can have something blow up so
hard online.
And that you have to get a label and all this stuff.
And you it's not that that's sick, dude.
I'm glad that people have the capability to like to achieve that for themselves
now, because that was something that wasn't really achievable up until like
maybe seven or eight years ago, I think.
Yeah.
But you miss so much of like all those good memories from like the road and
like when it sucked and like playing bars and nobody's there.
And all my like favorite stories, man, from like my music career, a lot of them
are from that time.
Yeah.
Like from the like unofficial days, you know what I mean?
Like there's no like the like an unofficial biography, dude.
You know what I mean?
It's like it's those are the days.
But I feel like people are missing that a little bit.
Yeah.
Like if you just go right on the tour bus, dude, like there's no there's no strife.
Like that's all, you know, it's a good point.
It's kind of like catch one hit or one like melody that really like catches
fire on social media and then you can be opening up for someone.
For sure.
And then you go, that's your first experience being on the road is I'm in a bus
and I play in arenas, which, dude, that would be super sick.
It's amazing.
But still, it could set you up for some reality.
It's what happens when when you start way up here and not that that's all the
way at the top.
But if you kick past people that have been doing it for 10 years and then all
of a sudden you're because like in country, there's a lot of these like guitar
pools and stuff where you like like let's say there's three or four of us up
here.
We're all new artists.
We're all playing for this radio station thing, whatever.
It's like, let's say one of those guys makes it to the thing.
Right.
Well, let me so let me just paint an example of what could happen.
You're a new guy or gal and you have a song that blows up and that's sick, dude.
I'm pumped for anybody that that happens to, but all of a sudden you're at the
same level of, let's say, in the vacuum of this story, the new artist that you're
up there with is Chris Stapleton.
Right.
And then you're sitting up there, you've maybe have never met anybody you're
playing with and they're like, all right, man, this Ch