-I know that you're close to Blake Shelton.
-Oh, yes. -Obviously, he's on "The Voice."
Did you reach out to him for advice?
Did you say, "should I go do -- "
-Sadly, I did. -Yeah.
-I don't know why. -Yeah, that's weird.
-I would recommend to never reach out to him.
[ Laughter ] -Yeah.
-No, he was -- when he heard -- it's funny, I think Blake knew
about me, you know, 'cause Blake's, you know, he's in TV.
He hears all the whispers, but --
-Oh, yeah. He's showbiz. -I think he knew about me --
-He -- yeah, Mr. Showbiz. Mr. Sexiest Man Alive
and all that. [ Laughter ]
-How did that go over in the country community
when Blake was Sexiest Man Alive?
-We were quite perplexed. -Yeah.
-But we got over it. [ Laughter ]
-Sure, yeah. -No, we --
-[ Laughs ] [ Applause ]
-No, he is a beautiful man. -Yes, thank you.
[ Laughter ] -Yeah. From a distance.
-Yeah. -And --
[ Laughter ] -When he's here, we make him
sit all the way at the end. Yeah.
-Yeah, you, like, move the couch. Oh, that's anchored!
Yeah, you're not moving that thing.
[ Laughter ] But, yeah, Blake did call me
and, man, he was really excited for me because,
you know, in the country world, man, we -- like, I love touring.
I love getting on the bus, rolling down the road,
hanging with my buds, going and playing shows.
And Blake was excited because he -- he wanted to see
my reaction to this whole other segment.
-Right. -I mean, TV has its own --
you know, TV has its own little lane and even --
even when, you know, we were rolling into the city
yesterday and there's a big billboard, "American Idol."
And here's this -- this yahoo right here,
and I'm like, "Whoo, all right, it's about to get interesting."
But Blake was really excited for me
because he knew it was something that I would enjoy, and I have.
It's been -- when I'm on set, you know, it's been
10, 12-hour days, but it's fun in this role.
I'm enjoying. -You have something else
really exciting coming up.
I know you're still going on tour
which is really exciting and you're playing some stadiums.
-Yeah, yeah. -Some baseball stadiums.
Dodger Stadium. -Dodger Stadium.
[ Cheers and applause ] -First, is this true?
The first country music show ever at Dodger Stadium.
-First country show ever at Dodger Stadium,
and we're doing -- we're putting dates up for Fenway.
-Oh, that's exciting. [ Cheers ]
-And Wrigley. I was almost scared that I hadn't announced
all my venues, so I wanted to keep it secret, but just...
-[ Laughs ] -You know,
but it's been amazing. We got Sam Hunt out with us.
-That's great. -And Jon Pardi and, uh...
[ Cheers ] So it's going to be --
it's going to be a fun summer. A lot of fun tailgating
and country music at Dodger Stadium!
It's going to be a first. -Country music
at Dodger Stadium. Your album is about how country you are.
-Yes. -Is there something --
is there anything you left out? -On the song --
-Yeah. -"What makes you country?"
-Yeah, 'cause, I mean, it tells a lot of what makes you country?
-Let me see, um, you know, we have multiple pigs on the farm.
-Yeah. That's good. That makes you country.
-That's quite important. -Yeah.
-I have a farm truck that's used just for the farm.
-Okay. -It doesn't even have
a license plate. -Oh, wow.
-So you're not allowed to even drive it on --
-You can't take it out on the road.
-On pavement. -Yeah.
-And lastly, yeah. I have hired a full-time bass fishing --
[ Laughter ] I mean, have a guy that --
I have this bass lake and his job is to grow the bass to --
The biggest bass in the world. -Wow! And he's full time?
-Full time. -What does...So what does he do?
Does he kind of just go around with a plate on a boat
and just -- -He hand feeds them.
-He hand feeds the bass.
-You know, he gives them massages so they can...swim.
[ Laughter ] -He has a bass spa.
-So they can swim -- yeah, the bass spa.
-Gotcha. Now are these -- do these bass get so fat
that they're easier to catch? -Yeah, then they're so --
they're so portly, they don't really swim well.
-Yeah. Do you have to even throw a hook or do you just reach in?
-So, they're just, like, you hook them and they're just like,
"Ahh, I'm tired!" -[ Laughs ] -"Just end this."
-"It's stressful being in your pond!"
-That's pretty country. Yeah. To have a full time bass guy
is pretty country. -See, they're all --
we release them, though, so it's not like we're growing them for,
like, some weird high-grade sushi, bass sushi.
-Gotcha. So you just catch them --
-So I people come -- yeah, we just catch them and --
-And you throw 'em back. -Yeah, so they're -- yeah,
they're like our -- they're like our little pets, you know.
-That's really nice. Yeah. -But, you know, the boys
get out there and, you know, we've spent a lot of time
growing these fish. We're trying to catch, like --
Anyway, it requires a lot of time, I've learned.
[ Laughter ] -Well, that's why you need
a bass guy. -And my boys -- my boys will run
up to the back porch and they're like,
"Dad, I caught this." And I'm like,
"Son, get back to the pond..." [ Laughter ]
"And get the fish back in the lake.
His eyes are drying out. Get him back in there." So --
-All right. All right. Well, every part of that is more
country than any interaction I've had with my son.
-I would hope so. -Yeah. [ Laughs ]
Thank you so much -- -But we catch you up
with your son. -All right, thank you very much.
Thanks for sticking around and doing a song.
-Yeah. -I can't wait.