Luke Bryan and Peyton Manning on Hosting the CMAs Again, Exciting Surprise Tributes, and Their Love of Country Music

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The hilarious duo are reprising their roles as hosts for the 57th Annual CMA Awards. We caught up with Luke Bryan and Peyton Manning at a press conference a day before the big event in Nashville to see what they have in store for us this year. The guys chat about surprise tributes, what's going through the minds of the nominees, why they love country music, and more. Catch the CMAs on November 8 Live from Bridgestone Arena in Nashville at 8/7c on ABC.

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00:00 Peyton Manning and Luke Bryan, will you guys please come out and join us?

00:05 Howdy, howdy. With us, we're just comfortable now. Like I know how he rolls.

00:11 He kind of, I guess our timing, we know a little bit better about our comedic timing and how that's going to roll.

00:18 Yeah, obviously I'm honored to be back. It was a lot of fun for me last year.

00:22 You know, I'm kind of the outsider here and probably wasn't necessarily a huge country fan growing up in New Orleans

00:29 because I just wasn't exposed to it as much. But when you spend four years in college in Knoxville,

00:35 country music is right in front of you. And I just jumped right in and embraced it.

00:41 I love it. I love the stories. I love to hear where the artists have come from.

00:47 And I love to kind of know the hard work that these artists have put in to reach their dreams.

00:52 This is a life changing moment for so many of these artists. And so I can appreciate that.

00:57 And I'm looking forward to seeing some of those other life changing moments tomorrow night.

01:01 But last year, I was certainly nervous because, like I said, I was new and just kind of wanted to do my part

01:07 and also kind of stay out of the way and give these artists, you know, their platform.

01:11 So certainly feel more comfortable this year. Like Luke said, I think we kind of have the routine.

01:16 I probably get a little more nervous about performing still. Now I got this guy to kind of bail me out.

01:22 But you're always really want to do a great performance. That's always very, very important to to put your best foot out there

01:30 and sing really well. If you go out there and sing bad, you know, it's it kind of it's kind of like a four interception day.

01:37 You know, those aren't fun. All I ever wanted was to know that I could do this for the rest of my life.

01:44 You never know that until you really feel that. But when I had that moment happen, I was like,

01:50 I think I'm going to do this the rest of my life. There's I don't have to move back to Georgia and work at my dad's peanut mill.

01:57 But these artists work hard. They get fired up when they get the nominations.

02:03 And what's cool is their teams do, too. I mean, I remember my bus drivers and my truck drivers just, you know,

02:10 they're they're out somewhere in Mount Juliet, you know, flipping burgers and cooking steaks, watching their boss win.

02:18 And it's all about them, too. So that that's something that's fun to trickles to everybody.

02:23 It really is just a really cool evening. My family's coming back.

02:28 I have friends coming back and I'm really pumped to be back. I think the Jimmy Buffett tribute tomorrow will be special.

02:36 I'm always excited about the surprise moments, the surprise performances for years.

02:42 I think maybe country music was kind of it's a little satellite island out there.

02:47 So when you have artists from all genres want to come in and be a part and do collabs, I mean,

02:53 I think it validates country's spot in all music.

02:57 music.

02:57 (upbeat music)

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