Luke Bryan on His Mom’s Instagram Fame, Katy Perry Baby Gift & Fishing Injury

Our first guest tonight is a country star with over 12 million albums sold, 26 number one hits, and teeth so white you could build a piano with them. Watch him live on American Idol on Sundays and Mondays here on ABC please, welcome to Luke Bryan, how's it going? nice, this feels like work, yeah right, work, I mean we're back to work, it's that good, it feels like work, I'm not supposed to feel like my wife is enjoying it I'm already doing something wrong, your wife he's enjoying it because you're not at home because I'm out and about oh yeah, out of his hair 26 number one hits I know when you rambled on about the stats crazy like I'm proud I shouldn't I shouldn't make you proud well the last time I saw you you were with katie and lionel, yeah, and it was like right before, right before you know what hit the fans, yeah, right, so you went home, where do you mainly live?

We were accidentally quarantined on the beach, which sounds amazing until you start. trying to homeschool on the beach oh no oh I'm trying to keep the kids disinterested on the beach and I'm not, you know my wife, you know she towed, she made all that happen, I was a terrible homeschooler, were you really one? However, homeschooling because I hear a lot of parents say they're homeschooling their kids, but really what they're doing is walking around the kitchen while the kids are on the computer with the teachers, yeah, in We are actually rambling about this, yes, of course, yes.

I think so, the word homeschooling is used very liberally. What a challenge, I want to ask you about talking about children, uh, your mom, oh well, who is quite a character from what I can see on her Instagram account, play Luke's video. mom hello evelyn brian fans here for the first year party welcome to mom brian's spa party i love you all i guess oh first i guess you know people showed up at her first year party spa, well, yes, that's what they call it, their version of art direction, aha. okay, his version of art, so no, he didn't actually hit all those budweisers, well, you know, it was daylight, so he doesn't start drinking his beer until 7 o'clock, he won't start, this is real, this is. a real life statistic, so if she says, let's say she's on the west coast, will she start?

So, yes, she will, yes, what she will like is jet lag, the correct term for drinking beer or whatever, if she moves away. If she moves it with time zones, this is something that happens every day, every day, yes, yes, and are you worried about the fact that she is on social media? I think she has a lot of followers, like a couple hundred thousand, you know, I was, I was uh. on the 'gram, you know, I looked down and my mom had 209,000 followers on Instagram and I wondered how the hell did this happen, yeah, and then I started worrying about the possible consequences, you know, because there's no telling what it's going for. . wake up and do the right thing, yeah, yeah, obviously the sad part is she's in a spa with, you know, I brought out a new beer and she's in a spa with Bud Light.

I'm like a mom, if you're going to publish, at least have your kids. Well, you know some loyalties run deeper than blood when you step into the light of sprouts. You know you make a living out of it. That's all you can do. She posted something that I wonder how you took it, but she posted your report. third grade card what was your third grade teacher's name? uh belinda clark belinda clarke I said not that boy, but I don't know any of my elementary school teacher's names but she uh Mrs. Clark wrote Luke still cries when he thinks he might have homework hey, I still have the dream of impending homework where you do it or you know where you wake up at night with a lot of anxiety thinking you have homework when you were in school if you were a student who was so worried about getting it Not really, but I still don't know why I have the dream.

Let's look at some of your other brands. Here we have Luke. He is so worried about not finishing his work that he doesn't listen when I give him direction that fits well with the dreams. right there and that all sounds like just pleasing me, you also got in the art and music category, you got a satisfactory grade, which is, uh, you know, you got some G's, you got some G's, advantages that you would think in music you would have excelled, Yeah. I mean, I think that's still true to this day. Don't know. I also saw a lot of people based on my Grammy nominations.

I guess they predicted it right. Maybe that's what the g represented for the Grammys, yes or no you. your mom posts a lot of photos of fish she catches yes, you are a fisherman yes, I was raised as a fisherman I was raised as a fisherman very seriously, you yourself posted a video that I would love for you to explain to us why you continued a

fishing

trip with a friend so, my guitar tech, who when you have a guitar tech, the relationship along the way, I mean, he's my guy, yeah, right, I mean, we're putting out guitars.

I wonder how I sound. Is the crowd interested? Yeah, boss, go on, go on and we've traded guitars and Russ. I've always promised him that I'm like, hey, man, the bass are biting, the fish are biting, let's go to the house, you've got a lake in it. house I have a lake at my house and I filled my lake with rainbow trout so the bass can eat the trout and grow wow look at the science it's science yeah well it's accidentally called trout okay which is good , you know, trout are slippery and so I have the trout and I'm taking the hook out and just the kicked trout slipped and the hooks went through my hand and you know, the trout is jumping and I think we have a problem, Russian.

Yeah, and it was uh, yeah, I took two treble hooks, one to the bone, and are you worried at this point? Oh boy, you know this might affect my first thought. My first thought was that I had ruined Russ's

fishing

trip. You are right, yes. You could lose an employee over this, but is this a barbed hook? You had two spiked takes. Oh boy, well, here's the video. Well, Russ, my guitar tech, I invited Russ on a fishing trip and leave it to me. I ruined the fishing trip, but we'll do it. I'll be back in the water in about 25 minutes something was just violated we're violating hipaa somehow we got the hook we're back you know what I like the best thing about that even though you had two hooks in your thumb you still had them I didn't let Rush driving, no, he was driving, oh, he was driving, I guess the way we filmed it where you're in England or something, what was going on, but yeah, I knew better than before anything, I thought, get seat belt and shoot. video yeah right

luke

bryan

is with american idol on sunday and monday nights here on abc we'll be right back we're back with

luke

bryan

yeah your voice you better get your voice in shape because you're going to be live on the air on American Idol.

I'm trying to let you know that the pandemic has been a little hard on the body, you know, and yesterday I biked to Los Angeles and went up a big hill, well, when you go up the hill. and you look out into the valley and you realize what you've been breathing for two hours, yeah, and now my voice was like I was just pedaling through all that smog, but anyway, it makes you stronger, it's good for Actually, yeah, you've had a tough time, yeah, between the tetanus shots and the smog, you're getting the antibiotic shots and, you know, when Katy Perry was here, I think in February she told me that you gave her like

baby

gift

for his daughter daisy you gave him a BB gun a daisy

baby

daisy BB gun, which is a great idea, it's, I mean, it just seemed like the right

gift

, do you think he'll ever give it to his daughter? or will it go away? right at the bottom um no it will go yeah that will never see the light I will never see them so um maybe under lock and key but by the way Lionel was here too you all have been here he was here like Ago Two weeks ago I asked Lionel if you'd ever made love to one of your own songs and he dodged the question a bit and said no way he hasn't, he said he doesn't remember, I know, I mean who even I've done.

I love his songs, but everyone has, I guess so, what I wanted to ask you is do you think that Lionel has made you love one of the million of him, a million percent, that may even be a low percentage . Have you made love to one of your songs? Just let me come home, okay, jimmy, what song are you going to do for us a little later? let's go drink some whiskey, bring some whiskey, this is part of your deluxe version, the deluxe version of your album, yeah. We have six songs coming out on Friday and how many of them are about alcohol?

Well, there was a margarita, so that says itself, okay, and I have that one. I want to go through the list here, what gets us through the pandemic, right, a margarita just to sip, drink a beer, cold beer drinker, beer in front of the headlights, drink beer and waste bullets, your mom should have called you whiskey , drunk on you, too drunk to drive, take my drunk ass home drinking again and hungover in a hotel room. Well, that's so satisfying, you know, I was thinking about you and these songs and what this could mean, what this could add up to and I think I know who we have today, so Jimmy, I've had a lot of work. , but a lot of music and it's not fair that you just highlight all the drinking songs off the menu.

I know it's not fair and yet if there's one person we can blame for this it's this woman. Hi, see Brian's fans here for questions. spa party love you all, is your mother coming on tour with you? uh sporadically and how that goes. You know, we should know that we catch her, we put her in a bunk, we put her on CPAP, you know about her, because she snores, she wakes up. she gets up in the morning, you know, we bought her a little lawn chair, she smokes cigarettes and tells everyone what to do all day and she just waits until seven.

This is a very glamorous life. The seven. American Idol on Sundays and Mondays. at eight o'clock no at seven here on abc and the deluxe edition of luke's album born here live here die here coming out friday luke bryan everyone will be back with us later yes we'll be right back with katie said hi yo m jimmy kimmel if you want to see all our latest videos click the subscribe button and if not click anyway and close your eyes when they appear