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Tom Segura Says He Almost Had Garth Brooks On His Podcast Amid The Iconic ‘Where Are The Bodies?’ Feud
Would have paid an incredible amount of money to see this one.
Out of all the beefs in country music history, the strangest, funniest and arguably longest-standing might just have to be between Garth Brooks and Tom Segura. In case you somehow have not heard of it or forgot some of the details, let me give you a brief rundown (full story HERE).
Back in 2018 on his podcast with fellow comedian Christina P., Your Mom’s House, the pair began discussing Brooks’ announcement of his upcoming stadium tour at the time and his admittedly weird Facebook posts. After watching a clip of Brooks discussing the aforementioned stadium tour and pondering what was going through his head, Segura dropped the line that forever changed comment sections while discussing the “Callin’ Baton Rouge” singer:
“What he’s thinking about is all the bodies he’s got stacked in graves in his yard, for sure… He’s probably killed 200-300 people in his life.”
The comment, at the time, seemed like nothing more than a funny, one-off line about Brooks and his weird persona, but it became so much more than that. Immediately after the episode aired, Brooks’ comment sections on social media began getting flooded by fans of Segura commenting the now-famous line, “Where are the bodies?”
It would be one thing if that line was a fleeting trend that faded a couple of months or even a year after the episode aired in 2018, but it simply hasn’t. Though his comments on his most recent posts throughout the two and a half years have been limited and/or disabled. If you go back to posts as recent as 2023, you can see hundreds of comments on every single post referencing Segura’s now-famous line.
Though Garth has never directly responded to Segura publicly (which is absolutely insane considering this “beef” has lasted nearly eight years at this point), according to the comedian, Garth has acknowledged it in private with multiple people. Even more absurdly, Brooks apparently has the viral video of Segura horrifically breaking his arm and tearing his patellar tendon simultaneously at the ready, and often watches it. If you’ve seen it, you know it’s pretty nasty, but according to the Segura, the “Friends in Low Places” singer then tells whoever is around that the video is proof of karma existing.
To me, the most absurd part of this entire saga very well might be the fact that Garth has never once even acknowledged all of this in a public setting, despite it almost becoming synonymous with him online over the past decade.
As it turns out, Segura was actually contacted by Garth’s team to appear on his podcast, something he explained recently on an episode of Andrew Shultz’s Flagrant podcast. At one point, they asked if he would be interested in it and requested he write an outline of what would be discussed on the episode.
“I tried to get Garth on. At one point, they reached out, and they said, ‘Garth’s gonna do some interviews. Would you like him to be on the podcast?’ I said, ‘F****** of course.’ So they were like, ‘Write something that we can show this to one of his people.'”
As Segura explained, he actually took the request semi-seriously, writing back that he would love to have him on and talk about his career. Amazingly, they weren’t even sure if Segura was the one who started the “Where are the bodies?” at first. With that being said, however, the comedian theorized that they had discussions after the fact and actually realized that he was, in fact, the one who started it, evidently having Garth’s team tell him that he wouldn’t be appearing on the podcast.
“The agent told my guy, instead of confirming, ‘Didn’t he say something crazy about Garth? I feel like that could go wrong for him. I feel like that guy had said something.’ Eventually, they were like, ‘He’s not coming on the show.'”
I think I speak for everyone when I say we were robbed of potentially one of the greatest podcast episodes of all time with this one.
Watch the full clip of Segura explaining the saga here:
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