Blake Shelton Talks the Time He Stopped a Drunk Intruder, Being In Pageants as a Kid, & His New Song

so Blake uh People magazine they just came out with their 2024 sexiest man alive no please oh they did they did and so of course we decided to uh do a country version so we were like hey sexi man in country music and we came up with a whole list and so now I mean since you literally were one of People magazine sexiest men ever who who do you think is the sexiest man in country music well you have to lower the bar you know uh in general talking about these guys no I'm talking about

the all all of us country y think country has hotties no not any of the ones that I know personally like CU I'm thinking you know there's a whole new generation coming up that um I don't even know what they look like I I know their names I see their music comes on the radio all that stuff but I I don't know what they look like I do know what guys like Luke Bryan looks like and Jason Aline and they to me I'm not I don't find them attractive you know really lower the bar say

what Sam Hunt uh he he's better looking than than than Luke and and Jason apparently he must be high on your list if you just kind of Hur him out there like that you got a little bit defensive like what about Sam what about Sam Hunt Riley green he's good looking I'll give that to you no who Riley green uh is it mustache right mustache abs yeah way better than Luke yeah yeah yeah yeah I feel like you like think these guys are hot you're just scared to say it what uh yeah that's a good

did she just what like lunchbox for example he says he cannot tell if a man is attractive or not well I mean what's wrong with that well I've been thinking about uh you a lot Blake and uh I saw that old red there this um I don't know if it's a new concoction maybe it's been on there a while but it's a pamina cheese artichoke dip are you familiar no okay sounds incredible it's on your menu at old red and it got me thinking about weird food Combos and if you have any that you'll admit

to that you eat at home like or there any concoctions like this is weird but it's just so good well my brother when I was a little kid uh my brother used to mix like just regular like pancake syrup with peanut butter and mix that and put it on a piece of bread I don't even know if it had a name we used to call it mix and that was our like treat when we were kids you regular like Maple you know whatever Griffins whatever syrup and peanut butter do you ever eat mix like now

as an adult no that's but I haven't thought about it in years I remember one time we used to have dares where uh we would try to like you know as kids like mix up the grossest crap you can think of you know to eat like a combination of something and then dare you know whoever's turn it was had to eat it and I watched my sister eat uh mayonnaise and and Nestle's quick one time mixed together oh gosh yeah that's it's still still to this day is horrifying to me oh yeah no that's not

a good con you agree that's gross man that's disgusting yeah I had to eat dirt my sister's gross man it's yeah she's gross yeah I did we would I think all kids did that and one I mixed up a bunch of like really good ingredients from the fridge but with dirt and my mom thought it was wasting food so she made me eat it oh wow yeah how was it it was disgusting so I don't I don't I don't recommend that uh you know I decided to ask AI like to describe Blake Shelton in three

words God do you want to know the three sure charismatic oh okay authentic okay and hilarious man I love I love this AI right I feel was very complimentary because that that made me nervous because AI Only Knows to tell the truth right yeah well which Speaking of well I do have some fun facts about you I have no idea if they're actually true or not so you could say if they are where did you get these facts from the internet Wikipedia okay well you just like Google it you know like I love Wikipedia yeah

are you so you're not into bare feet like did bare feet freak you out um yeah so like you always always have socks on or like if you're with people they have to have socks on or you know I think this started uh I don't know when it was there was a trend and and and it may still be going you know in in country music there was a a handful of artists that they would perform in their bare feet like walk out on a festival stage and and and in in their bare feet and

and it kind of started there for me it's like man what what are you doing you know it's not it's not as much about um that someone's foot because I mean who who cares about that but it's like what if there's an emergency and then it switched into uh guys wearing flipflops that really started bothering me the older I got sounds like Jimmy Buffett started all well it's like if there's an emergency that pretty much you have shown yourself to be the guy that's not going to help anybody so you mean an in the room

like if there's a fire something's going on you can't help you got on your flip flops you got to go save yourself yeah good point and this guys in here wearing our cowboy boots will help get the children out of the building so do you not own a pair of flipflops no God no no so do you well you only wear cowboy boots and like maybe running shoes what about like Crocs I'm a big Runner but I do I have shoes and boots that's it I like running would be the running shoes would come in

handy on I not own a pair of flipflops okay yeah right what do you do for you know working out uh treadmill I'll get uh I'll get on treadmill for like 30 minutes or maybe 45 minutes and I do like a it's like a combination like walk for 28 minutes and then mix in like 30 seconds of runs here and there you know yeah okay next fun fact that we don't know if it's true or not uh you once caught an intruder at your uncle's house and detained the drunken man yourself until the police arrived

let's go well detained him was a you know it's not like I had him down on the floor you know saying don't move you know it was more like and drunk I I think he had a lot of stuff in his system you know and I really think he thought in his mind that's where he lived you know and and and uh and so my my uncle who was who was who was special needs he called and said hey you know there's this guy in my house and he's just like sitting on the couch saying

you know he lives here and so my initial thought was you know what's going on over there and and I went and knocked on my uncle's I can't even believe I'm telling this I hadn't thought about this in 15 years or more and the guy answered the door as if it was his house like yeah can I help you it's like yeah get the hell out of this house you know what are you doing you know and he's like what are you talking about I I go you know what I'm talking about like one of

those deals and meanwhile the police are coming and and I just kept him entertained you know until they got there well I'm glad you clarified it because I definitely was picturing you like sitting on top of him no detaining like citizens arrest what does that mean entertain you didn't sing a song or anything did you I may have I don't know I just try to keep everything you know you think when that guy sobered up he's like huh so Blake Shelton just came over no I don't I think even so he wouldn't have known who

I was this man had other things on his mind uh your mom put you in pageants when you were younger are you saying that just to because then you say that and then you just stare at me with like cuz that's the fun fact disappointed look on your face no not at all is true no I'm I this is fun facts are they true or not it is true it is true because and here's why the way I remember it is I was already messing around with music even when I was six seven eight years

old in my bedroom I would just be in there you know playing Ted nent cat scratch fever and Hank Jr whatever records my brother had I'd be playing them as loud as I could singing them into one of those little plug-in microphones that you won't remember but back in the day you could have a little tiny microphone that you could record over cassettes with and I would be singing into that microphone and my Mom finally decided maybe she should enter me into some of these pageants in our small town because there's a talent portion of

the pageant you know I got to sing a song on there so she did she entered me in like I don't know probably four or five pageants enough that I told her one day Mom I don't want to sing anymore if that's the what I have to do to sing because it's embarrassing to be up there doing evening wear and stuff you know with all the little girls and I'm the one boy you know in the pageant so it was I was probably like 12 or 13 before I started singing again just like regular music

events around our town back in Ada Ada Oklahoma that's true also that's where I'm from in Cas you're we got that as a fact okay we got two more uh one being you've been confused for Joe Nichols so much so that people at Festival used to get mad at you for not playing songs like you know probably Tequila Makes Her Clothes Fall Off or that's happened that's happened with a lot of artists you know o over the years that being confused for for other artists I remember one time they used to have CMA Fest over

here at the Nashville Fairgrounds back in the day and there was a parking lot uh where all the artists could park uh to to go in and sign autographs or whatever you know and I remember remember one time I was I used to have super long hair like down halfway down middle of my back and and I was leaving one time and and fans had figured out they could they could go stand next to the fence where that parking lot was and had mess with standing in stupid lines in the in the building they could

catch their favorite artist right there going to their car and get autographs you know and so I was leaving I I had like one song out maybe not even yet and and I was almost in my car and I heard some Fans Say Terry Terry Terry Clark and and I stopped and I started looking around like oh my God Terry Clark's out here and and then when I looked back at the fans they were kind of like oh you know and that's a dude and looked away you know and they were like I realized they

thought I was Terry Clark wow when I was leaving and and and I've told Terry this also how' she feel don't know which one is is more offended uh but then uh later on uh uh it was Joe Nichols because Joe and I had pretty much the same haircut at one point and he came out and I I I do remember like you you know you didn't play Broken heartsville you know at at signing autographs after the show I used to tell people in airports they would come up and and say are you Joe Nichols

and I would say yes and I hate kids oh God and you you know just just to try to get a leg up you know because back then competition I was up against him on all the award shows and stuff so yeah screw him uh and final fun fact we're gonna find out if it's true or not okay uh Gwen Stefani says having you in her life is a miracle uh that sounds like a stretch doesn't it I mean no but I really did read uh like a couple of days ago that she said uh

meeting you was like a second chance at life I'm paraphrasing but I'm pretty sure that I've seen this stuff too I've been seeing it cuz she's you know she's released an album oh yeah on Friday and so I've been seeing you know she's doing all the press and stuff and I've been seeing this stuff too it's it's the sweetest nicest things I can't believe that I can't believe it you know I I know it's it's awesome yeah I felt like reading that it gives a lot of other people hope that maybe are on their second

chapter or third or whatever life you know well I tell you it's amazing you know that to get this on this end of of life you know uh I'm I'm 48 now and to have only have met my best friend you know eight or nine years ago is pretty incredible you know you just never know what's out there what's what's around the corner and you know she's just been everything she's saying is I feel the same way it's it's been an incredible connection I don't know how to explain it yeah well I do feel like

it does offer hope for people that maybe they're turning into that second chapter whether it's age or just a divorce or you know what is my life going to look like now because this isn't going how I expected it but hearing people open up and say like yeah there there are Second Chances out there and it's not to say that the first part I mean I don't think she would change anything about any of that obviously her kids and whatnot yeah but it's it was beautiful and it gave me some hope honestly so it's well

I tell you too and we were on Rock Bottom we hit rock bottom before we found each other you know so that kind that sounds worse when you say it like that like hey you got you got to it's going to get a lot worse before it gets better I don't mean it like that but just just when we thought that's well that was going to be our run at it you know is when we found each other well don't you think uh hitting rock bottom um then you evolve into this next version of yourself

like that's the stuff that stretches you and grow you so if yall had met earlier it probably wouldn't have been the right time because it's this version of both of you that y'all needed yeah that's true but it's fun for us to think about what if we would have known each other like Way Way Back what would it have been like you know uh she's written a lot of songs about that you know I think there's even one on this new record about that cuz uh you know it's just it's just like I say it's

amazing that this chapter started so late in our lives you know well she's got new music you've got new music uh you know Austin was your first number one song way back in the day and then now you kind of got a complete you got Austin and now you got Texas which I was born and raised in Austin Texas oh no kidding shout out wow uh and so Texas I immediately gravitated towards it when it came out and huge George Strait fan as well love that he gets a shout out in the chorus why did

you decide to cut that song well I just fell in love with it the the first time I heard it and and uh you know it been it's been a minute since I've released any music it's two years yeah and it's been I don't know how long it's been before that before I've even released an album it's it's been a it's been a while and you know I was doing uh the voice for uh 12 years and 23 seasons of that show I did and so when I when I finally walked away from really I

wasn't just walking away from the voice it was just television in general I just needed a break from from that machine uh when it was just kind of numb when I finally walked away it was like gosh I I just need some some nothing for a while you know and it sounds like a spoiled brat thing to say but I just kind of didn't really feel like I knew what I wanted to do anymore because I had just kind of been on the hamster wheel of of of of that Beast that is you know television

and uh and so for a year and a half I really didn't do much I mean I I did do a little tour in there and and uh some a handful of shows but really not anything else and and I wasn't making any records I wasn't recording or writing or doing anything and and and man I'll be damned uh if uh last spring I got a um a call to do this duet with post Malone and and I was shocked honestly because it was just like what like like me he wants me to do this

like uh and and so I obviously I I heard the song and and was like this sounds like something that I would have done anyway you know and hell yeah I'll do it I had met post at the at the Super Bowl last year uh Gwen and I had done a like a pregame performance and then post sing uh America the Beautiful before the game and and so we saw each other and traded phone numbers and but that happens a million times in in this business and you never expect to hear from somebody you know

it's like oh let's get together sure uh and but he he followed up and and uh so we made that that recording and and then of course it came out and and was a hit and the whole experience for me and even being around post uh I'm sure he's probably um you guys have probably talked to him now I'm sure I I don't know but uh you know what he's like he's just so excited so happy and just so full of of uh excitement about music and and and country music especially you know and being

around him shooting the video we've done you know some performances and it was just the honestly the kick in the ass that I needed to to kind of go man what are you doing you know you you used to be this this fired up you know and being around him really lit a fire under me again and and and reminded me that uh you know I nobody gets to do what I do very few people get to be a recording artist and and and do what they dreamed of doing uh when they were a kid

and I get to do that and and I'm wasting this time you know and and so I I really do credit post for for getting me fired back up again and wanting to get back in the studio and really kind of start over again you know I got a new uh record deal starting with a with a whole new team and just kind of really just turned a page and and so to answer your question though about Texas uh it it was a song that I felt like like it kind of it's got a connection

to me and and who I've been as an artist all these years you know I had a record years ago called sangria and it's got a little bit of that kind of vibe to it but it also feels like a step in a New Direction which I always try to do when I go in and make a record U that's what my heroes like Conway Twitty and Kenny Rogers you know their catalog when you listen to them you know they're always kind of pushing the envelope and and I feel like this song does that musically

for me you know and of course uh you know the tip of the hat to to George straight in in the course I if you don't like George Straight you know you probably don't have any friends so uh I got to have you know you know even everybody loves George Straight I hope uh and so I I I love the the tip of the hat to to George in in the chorus what's your favorite George Straight song man I I I perform uh All My Exes and in in my shows a lot you know and

uh but it's probably not my favorite my favorite is probably ocean front property I don't know why uh I just always go go back to that one uh but there's there's so many and there's so many that were number one hits that are almost forgotten because he's had so many number one hits it's like I've said before I've done a lot of shows with George over the years uh I go man it's impossible to go to a George Straight song and and leave without going man he didn't play one of my favorite songs because how

can he possibly play 80 songs in a in his set you know there's just literally so many to to choose from there some of those back in the 80s that are forgotten that are just in in incredible like the chair oh the chair chill chill of an early fall there there's a I mean we could sit here and do this for another hour let's not do it but I I I love I love I love him so much I don't want to take away from my oh yeah absolutely not but your nod to George uh

in the song uh is the amarill by morning that's one of his yeah well amarill is in there and also he says that's where all my exes go so I got them both in there yeah you squeeze that one in there I saw a video of the writers of the song I saw that too I still haven't met him in person yet I'm supposed to meet them today either today or tomorrow I think I'm finally going to get a chance to meet them cuz I think for three of them it's their first uh single that

they've had maybe all four of them but I think three of them it's their first single and one one of the Riders uh has been here for like 15 years or something which I totally relate to uh you know I was here for uh seven years before I had any kind of a break you know so uh you know it just shows you that you know just same thing we were talking about with with Gwen you know you just never know what's what's around the corner yeah I just thought it was really special like they

had to probably be freaking out oh Blake Shelton's going to cut our song and then they're hearing it on the radio for the first time oh my God one of them was standing on the top of their car crashing the hood in or something it was pretty funny yeah that gave me goosebumps that's like uh you know probably cool for you too as an artist to be part of helping them you know around that corner make that dream come true well you know those guys help me I I always look at it that way when

when songwriters there's so many great talented songwriters in this town like it's it's literally unbelievable and they've built this thing for me the the riters have you know I'm just a lucky guy that's been able to get my hands on on some of these songs you know and no different than than Texas I think it's a special song and I feel like those guys took a chance on me you know I mean I'm I'm not the new up andc Comer anymore you know what I'm saying so I I really appreciate them giving me a chance

with it well Texas is catchy it'll get stuck in your head for sure it's good and you know we were talking about Austin earlier being your first number one song you have you have 29 number one songs okay that's that's all right name that's what I uh heard when when the when the post thing went cuz it uh uh I think different charts have different U criteria or whatever but I heard that I was tied with Tim McGraw uh for I think the second or third third most of however they do the charts now we

all know that George nobody's ever catching him but uh I thought that was pretty cool because I look up to Tim it's like what me and Tim I mean do you think you could name them all of mine all 29 I Pro I probably could I mean I know you could but like go ahead no oh my God we'd be here you actually do have things coming up on your calendar tell you there's there's a lot of my songs that people think were number ones maybe not a lot but there's some that people think were

number ones that weren't even close like uh uh o red which is probably our arguably one of my bigger Rec hits you know as far as impact goes it that was not even a top 10 Single when it came out I think it went somewhere in the teens uh but it went on to be the fan favorite and and now there's restaurants named after it around the country you know but it wasn't even a top 10 song at the time oh wow yeah well speaking of all you have coming out so let's just go ahead

and say 30 when I say it that way I mean you know it really should yeah 30 well then yeah Texas I mean I don't want to I don't do you believe in the Jinx or any of that stuff like if I were to say right now Texas is so good it's probably going to be your next number one you might be like well if it doesn't go number one then it's I I do believe that stuff thanks a lot you do why didn't just say it I was asking hypoth com to football I do

when it comes to my football teams I I do believe in jinxes what do you do on game day do you have like a hat or a shirt or something you have to do yes and when we're on defense I turn my hat backwards when we're on offense forward unless that's not working then I reverse those things interesting oh my gosh you should try y' should no but then why do you do it well I feel like I'm contributing something to the team if your team loses does it completely derail your day yes days no

not days but it will derail the day and part of the next day and then I start to get over then I start to find ways to find a different path to the playoffs than the one that I had in mind y'all guys are Cowboys fans you know exactly what I'm talking I'm done turning my hat around doesn't work anymore you may want to just take the hat off this year for the rest of they're used to him losing but it it's it's a psychological thing it's uh like you think you're a part of the

team so therefore it fans Not You Blake you just you but most big hardcore fans they are a part of the team and they feel like they're contributing in their own way and then when they lose it's like they've actually lost when like you are not on the team at all I feel like you're this feels like therapy right now do usually just you trying to take this away from me no but I just don't know that it should impact you for a day you know so you have to go like plow some stuff or

what do you do to let the anger out the drink oh yeah that's healthy okay yeah cool cool and when we're winning that's what I do to celebrate drink yeah what's your favorite drink uh vodka and Sprite Zero oh yeah look at you yeah watching the calories it's the uh the nectar of gods watching the calories is so you know you're talking about a little little Hiatus but I'm looking at 2025 and it's like you're back like you're like okay I'm ready to yeah I know you're doing a residency in Vegas basically all of February

my God res uh by the way Gwen gets so mad when she sees the word residency because it's two weekends she's like that is ridiculous do you call residency I did like 63 shows you're doing like six shows it's exactly what you're doing six shows you're doing the 5ifth the sth the eth the 12 said just like staying over an extra weekend that's not a residency but they're calling a residency and I'm going with them they are it's at the coliseum in Caesar's Palace y blakeshelton.com for more details on that yeah and then you have

your friends and heroes dates which you are basically February to March yes Friends and Heroes is by the way my favorite way it to tour it's G to be hard to ever get me to go back to doing it another way because it's just so much fun I mean the shows are like well describe Friends and Heroes yeah well what it is is uh it started I think five or six years ago um maybe even before that I remember a specifically a conversation with with Trace Atkins about s years ago now I think about it

and I called him I said man Trace what are you doing like early next year like February March and I don't know why why and I said U well man I'm I want you to come out and tour with me but I don't want you to like tour with me I said I want you to come out and sing with me during my show like I said remember when when uh Uncle Cracker used to do that with Kenny Chesney like Kenny Chesney would go on stage and then you know halfway through the show Uncle Cracker

would come out and they would sing uh there they had a When the Sun Goes Down um and then Uncle Cracker would sing another hit or two of his you know it was a big moment during the show I said I want you to come do that on my show cuz we had at the time uh Hillbilly Bone and and U he said well okay I'll be your Uncle Cracker and so and so from there uh it was so much fun the next year I had uh uh John Anderson the Bellamy brothers uh and then

we did that for a couple of years and then I ended up getting uh Tracy bird and Martina McBride I'm probably forgetting somebody but we've done these tours now where we bring out uh different artists and they all come out during my show you know and so this this year we're having Craig Morgan uh Trace Atkins and uh DEA Carter which I'm very excited about uh Dena Carter not so much Craig or Trace butra like a legit hero I know I know but I know him I can't I can't brag on him too much we

know each other too well yeah uh but Dena Carter I mean I I guess if you we should look this up while we're here but she has to had maybe top five biggest hits of the 90s Strawberry Wine I mean it's got to be top five I don't know how you measure those things one of the biggest hits I feel like strawberry wine was the number one no I'm saying of the entire decade of the all time decade I would say decade top five would you yeah let's figure out that fun fact a huge record

huge I can't even that the first that song comes on I hear like 3 seconds of it and I'm instantly teleported to high school my God it's unbelievable listen to it on and what's crazy about that song is it did that to you when it first came out to it teleported you to back in time and now it does it again in a different way when you hear it just thinking about it right now I'm driving in my 1986 Bronco what was your first car uh I had a uh 94 Stepside Chevy your first you

turned 16 and it was a 94 that's no no 90 that's not true 902 oh it was a 92 okay my it was a it was a Stepside GMC my dad sold Pontiacs and GMC's oh so you had a little hook up yeah I had a like wow you had a new car that's right new car that time I mean not I mean not saying that you're age would indicate anything you're saying I grew up wealthy no I I'm implying you had a a newer car for 16 it was it was it was badass all

my friends were super jealous of me all right Mike we got the fact check on Strawberry Wine it does not make the top 10 of the '90s it does not no it does not that piece of crap list you're looking at man internet lies any uh what is number 10 on that list on number 10 is Man I Feel Like a Woman okay then it's This Kiss she's a little too late chatah hoochi boots Scoot and Boogie Don't Rock the Jukebox The Dance friends and little places and achy breaky heart at number one okay okay

I can't argue with any of I mean they're all pretty good obviously Blake would have been on the list but you you're fired I'm sorry I thought it was top five you were I think you came on the map what was uh Austin 2001 yes okay yeah CU I'm I instantly go back to being at Texas A&M hearing that song yeah that's where I was then oh are you really yeah whoop wow are we going to go over every memory or you think we should let him go no we're going to let him go his

St comes up in 2025 and I think you know we don't want to keep here till then by the way I mean she just got thrown right into the fire I think she's doing great she's doing great but I mean he's got to get to The Residency he's got to get to Vegas no that is not until February throw me out of here what it is I got a lot of more stuff I want to talk about okay yeah all right well yes thank you Blake uh we always love seeing you especially in person because

I feel like a lot of times it's on Zoom when you know you're chatting with Bobby so it's fun every time it is right I know so that's why you in the flesh is I mean I finished my cross word over here Amy let's go all right thanks Blake Blake Shelton everybody thank you [Music] show