Luke Combs at the 59th Annual CMA Awards

Luke Combs joins Katie Neal backstage at the CMA Awards in Nashville.

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00:00you have had some really big things happen since the last time I saw you yeah it's been busy we've

00:06been busy yeah baby number three let's talk about that is it you guys are doing surprise right you're

00:12not finding out doing surprise okay so that should be interesting all right was this how are you

00:16feeling about that are you okay I wanted to do a surprise for all of them okay and my wife was

00:20like absolutely I need to know but on the third when she was like yeah whatever yeah we'll try

00:25it up I was like I'm excited about the surprise do the boys get it at all I assume you kind of

00:29understands okay dude they do because Texas three like he's like almost three and a half so he's like

00:35he's potty trained and he's like he understands the deal and Bo just kind of follows whatever he does

00:42him around yeah oh yeah like mama baby mama baby and he just points it you know he that's like I don't

00:49know that he really really gets it but he can kind of copy whatever that's exciting I feel like you're

00:53about to have like the most magical Christmas then if they're like understanding all this stuff

00:58they're excited for Christmas they're getting that so they're definitely getting Christmas for the

01:02first time oh my gosh you're gonna have so much fun with that also since I last saw you you have

01:06since then become the highest selling country artist surpassing Gareth Brooks what was your reaction

01:11to that news yeah uh just kind of unexpected for sure um I was like I was like man I feel like I

01:23haven't been doing stuff that long you know like like then I have kind of yeah yeah at the same time

01:28I don't know it's like I'm 35 I'm not like super old yeah you can just now run for president

01:33yeah it's just my first year for presidency okay my first year Luke Combs 23 yes or whatever the next

01:40one is all right amazing also you just put it recently put out an EP album coming next year

01:45yep are there any collabs on this record uh there's one there's one one collab on this record

01:52yeah I don't know it's like I reached out to you know what this I'll be honest with you I reached

01:58out to a couple people and they were like don't want to do it you're joking with you no but I know

02:04collabs are kind of hard sometimes right because everybody's schedules have to align and all of those

02:08sayings and I've said no to a million myself wait but still that's what you're like wait really

02:12like yeah I was like hmm I was like okay I was like I can respect it oh wow and one of the songs

02:18ended up not making the record because it was like I need it was like it needs someone else on it

02:24okay and I didn't get to know so you're looking for somebody okay well let everybody know you've

02:27also got the my kind of Saturday night tour coming up next year can I just tell you when I saw that

02:31you had the script on the lineup I was like oh yeah go that's gonna be so fun so like where did

02:37that idea come from yeah it came from uh you know we're because like Europe's a little bit different

02:41so like you don't have to like in the states I feel like you've got to bring you know a country

02:46artist like but I feel like in in Europe country adjacent stuff does really really well obviously the

02:53script is you know they're huge I mean they're Ireland yeah um so I'm excited to have them out you

02:59know and I think there's just a lot of crossover in our fan bases over there yeah um so it just

03:04made sense you know awesome and speaking of crossover you're performing on the CMA awards

03:09with Big X the plug which is gonna be so much fun yeah have you gotten to spend time together like

03:13I know you guys have collabed yeah we've done uh a lot you know a ton but we've obviously we shot

03:18a little music video for that and so yeah we spent some time he's a really nice guy yeah and uh so I'm

03:24excited this should be wild we'll see what happens it's gonna be a very fun time Luke Holmes thank

03:28you so much for coming to see us thank you guys

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