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You Will Never Believe What Song Dustin Lynch Passed on! · Inside Country with Wayne D

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  Speaker 1: This is where country music comes alive.
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  Speaker 3: Here we go.
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  Speaker 1: From Nashville's biggest headlines to country music's biggest headliners. Come on.
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  Speaker 1: You're getting an inside look at the stories behind the
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  Speaker 1: songs and the artists behind the music.
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  Speaker 2: Let's go backstage and inside country. Stand by.
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  Speaker 1: Two, one. Let's go.
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  Speaker 2: With Wayne Dee.
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  Speaker 4: Hey!
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  Speaker 2: Uh, Dustin freaking Lynch, my boy. What's going down?
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  Speaker 5: Man, not much. Sitting here loving life, getting to talk
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  Speaker 5: about new music, hanging with y'all.
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  Speaker 3: Dude, how have things been? Because it's been... I feel
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  Speaker 3: like I haven't talked to you in years.
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  Speaker 2: It has been a while.
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  Speaker 4: Man, it's wonderful.
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  Speaker 5: I'm packing a lot of adventure and life into the
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  Speaker 5: short calendar year we are given.
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  Speaker 3: Dude, I gotta ask, before I even dive into the music, uh,
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  Speaker 3: a time we talked a couple of years ago, you
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  Speaker 3: had brought up this big old property that you bought
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  Speaker 3: and you were so proud of it. And it's like
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  Speaker 3: your little piece of heaven. And it's kind of where
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  Speaker 3: you would go to escape. Uh, what has you working
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  Speaker 3: so hard when you could, you know, enjoy the hits
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  Speaker 3: you got, put out a song here or there and
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  Speaker 3: just enjoy the land.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, man, that's such a great question.
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  Speaker 5: And something I've continued to wrestle with and balance, um,
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  Speaker 5: I've just realized that as I go through life, saying
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  Speaker 5: yes to opportunities is what makes me happy and good
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  Speaker 5: things happen. And it brings me to new people and
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  Speaker 5: new relationships, which equal new memories. And, you know, that's
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  Speaker 5: all we can take with us is the fun and journey.
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  Speaker 5: I'm still addicted to.
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  Speaker 4: Great songs. I'm addicted to finding them. I'm addicted to
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  Speaker 4: writing them.
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  Speaker 5: And, you know, a great idea and trying to figure
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  Speaker 5: out how to make it come to life in a
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  Speaker 5: new way. And I think that's what really powers my
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  Speaker 5: engine is just being a bit of an addict to
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  Speaker 5: writing songs and writing country music and singing it.
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  Speaker 3: The other thing I'll tell you, which might have never
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  Speaker 3: been brought up in an interview with you before, from
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  Speaker 3: the day I met you back when I worked in Vegas,
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  Speaker 3: I feel like you haven't aged a day. And the
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  Speaker 3: gray is so fierce on my beard. You're going to
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  Speaker 3: have to give me some, some tips or something at
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  Speaker 3: some point.
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  Speaker 5: No, I feel like I have, dude, I'm starting to like, man,
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  Speaker 5: bouncing back from workouts or surfing or anything like that is,
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  Speaker 5: is definitely not as easy as it once was. You know,
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  Speaker 5: there's more, there's more stiff necks in the morning than
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  Speaker 5: there ever has been.
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  Speaker 3: It's that old man thing. It creeps in whether you
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  Speaker 3: want it to or not, man. Uh, you just said
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  Speaker 3: an interesting word relationships. You were a guy who has
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  Speaker 3: been very successful in Nashville for a lot of years.
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  Speaker 2: And then you picked up the DJ work.
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  Speaker 3: Um, and then we were doing the, we were doing the, uh,
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  Speaker 3: the pool situation that was added to the, the wheel
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  Speaker 3: that is Dustin Lynch. But you said relationships, what are
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  Speaker 3: some ones two part questions, some ones that you hold
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  Speaker 3: very close to you and which ones are surprised you'd like,
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  Speaker 3: Oh wow. I'm really close with, and I don't even
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  Speaker 3: need like a big old name, right? But what are
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  Speaker 3: relationships that mean the most and which ones surprise you that, like, wow,
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  Speaker 3: I can't believe I have a relationship with this person
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  Speaker 3: because I wouldn't have?
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah. The ones I keep close to me are
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  Speaker 4: those that.
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  Speaker 5: Can be honest with me and aren't yes men, you know,
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  Speaker 5: can kind of check me when I need checking, which
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  Speaker 5: is great. You know, I feel like the team I
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  Speaker 5: have around me here in Nashville, we've.
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  Speaker 4: Kind of gravitated towards those people. you know, it's good.
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  Speaker 5: It's a team effort of like, can't always see every
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  Speaker 5: angle of what we're doing and, and how we're, um,
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  Speaker 5: you know, just how we're going about things.
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  Speaker 4: So that's great.
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  Speaker 5: Um, but, but more of like the close friend circle too, um,
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  Speaker 5: which I have and I'm, and I keep, you know,
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  Speaker 5: strategically tight and small. Um, and then like the, the unexpected,
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  Speaker 5: it's just, you know, getting to do life, um, in
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  Speaker 5: so many places because of country music and going on tour, Um,
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  Speaker 5: it's put myself in different cities and I have friends
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  Speaker 5: all over the country and, um, yeah, some are really famous. Um,
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  Speaker 5: some aren't, but, uh, you know, it's, it's, that's the
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  Speaker 5: blessing of getting to tour, um, at this level is,
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  Speaker 5: is we've got to, we've got to go to towns
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  Speaker 5: and cities that are not really on the menu of, Hey,
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  Speaker 5: I would save up to go to vacation here for
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  Speaker 5: a week. Um, and I've made some great lifelong friends
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  Speaker 5: in those towns and places. And, um, And then, you know,
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  Speaker 5: outside of music, my hunting adventures and fishing have taken
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  Speaker 5: me to a lot of cool places.
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  Speaker 4: And I've met a lot of cool people through that, too.
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  Speaker 3: You talked about having people that aren't yes men in
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  Speaker 3: your corner. With what you're doing, with what you do
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  Speaker 3: being just as much art as anything else, you are
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  Speaker 3: putting more feeling and emotion into what you create than
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  Speaker 3: a lot of people just showing up to work every day.
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  Speaker 3: who who's in that small circle and again doesn't need
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  Speaker 3: to be names or anybody famous or it could be
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  Speaker 3: you know family yeah who are the people in that
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  Speaker 3: circle that can truly.
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  Speaker 2: Tell you hey this isn't this isn't as awesome as you.
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  Speaker 4: Think it is yeah yeah absolutely.
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  Speaker 3: Uh and and you take that without it you know
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  Speaker 3: maybe i don't want to say hurting your feelings but
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  Speaker 3: for a lack of a better phrase you know rubbing
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  Speaker 3: you wrong yeah i.
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  Speaker 5: Think through the years of of creating in nashville um
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  Speaker 5: that's who i end up and all of us artists,
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  Speaker 5: I think end up working with because it is a
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  Speaker 5: collaborative effort, you know, and, and for me, it's my producers,
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  Speaker 5: my songwriters, you know, it's important in a songwriting room
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  Speaker 5: to have a co-writer that's not like, Oh, that's great, dude.
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  Speaker 5: Cause you know, they could, and obviously their goal is
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  Speaker 5: to get a song recorded by you. Um, but the
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  Speaker 5: greats aren't just agreeing to get a song that you like.
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  Speaker 5: The greats are looking for a great song. Um, and
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  Speaker 5: then my producers, like there's, You know, saying yes in
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  Speaker 5: songs that end up on the album, just as important
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  Speaker 5: as that is saying no for the right reasons. You know,
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  Speaker 5: there's certain, you know, and I've watched very closely the
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  Speaker 5: guys ahead of me in career that start with, you know,
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  Speaker 5: the 90s guys all the way up now through guys
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  Speaker 5: I've opened for and are touring and still touring. I watch,
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  Speaker 5: you know, there's certain subject matter as we go through
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  Speaker 5: life that, maybe it doesn't make sense, you know, whenever
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  Speaker 5: you're approaching 50 years old, like some, you know, some
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  Speaker 5: buddies I've toured with, they can't sing about what they
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  Speaker 5: were singing about 10, 15 years ago.
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  Speaker 4: And it feel organic, you know, and feel natural.
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  Speaker 5: So, um, yeah, just having those, having those people on
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  Speaker 5: your sideline, that's like, Hey, subject matter wise, you know,
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  Speaker 5: we've kind of beat this subject matter up a lot
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  Speaker 5: over the past 10 years.
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  Speaker 4: Let's lean away from that. You know what I mean?
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  Speaker 5: Without going into the weeds too deep, that's who I'm
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  Speaker 5: talking about, you know? And, um, cause there's, there can
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  Speaker 5: be a great song for somebody else that I've already sang,
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  Speaker 5: you know?
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  Speaker 4: And it's like, well, we could do that, but you know,
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  Speaker 4: you have this one over here.
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  Speaker 5: Um, so yeah, it's, uh, from that all the way
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  Speaker 5: to like how we do music videos and present the
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  Speaker 5: visuals on tour. Um, just as important as the songs too.
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  Speaker 3: You bring up an interesting thing and, uh, about songs
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  Speaker 3: that don't fit you and maybe you like, but it's like, no, that's,
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  Speaker 3: that definitely doesn't feel like where I'm at now. And
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  Speaker 3: I think that's such a hard thing. I'm listening at
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  Speaker 3: the end of the day, I have no music ability.
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  Speaker 3: I'm just a fan and I'm lucky enough to do
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  Speaker 3: what I do, but to hear stories about songs and
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  Speaker 3: to like almost be taken in the writer's room with,
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  Speaker 3: with some of the stories we've heard, um, You mentioned
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  Speaker 3: songs that you've ended up passing on or didn't fit,
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  Speaker 3: so they went to somebody else. Some amazing stories have
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  Speaker 3: come out of stuff like that. Like Jake Owen was
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  Speaker 3: offered Big Green Tractor. It ended up being something he
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  Speaker 3: passed on. That's like a Jason Eldeen staple now. Kenny
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  Speaker 3: Chesney passed on Check Yes or No. And now that's,
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  Speaker 3: you know, could you imagine somebody recording that other than
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  Speaker 3: George Strait?
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  Speaker 4: Exactly.
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  Speaker 5: You know, songs, I think they're meant to be, their
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  Speaker 5: timing is, you know, it's very divine, I think.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 5: When it comes to country music and songs finding not
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  Speaker 5: only the artist, but finding an airwave when they do,
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  Speaker 5: you know. And you think about how many, I think
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  Speaker 5: about how many songs... have impacted my life as a
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  Speaker 5: country music fan. I feel a little selfish just saying this,
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  Speaker 5: but after Cowboys and Angels came out, I.
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  Speaker 4: Was like, whoa, a song I wrote can do this.
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  Speaker 5: You know, I like hearing the stories that meet and
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  Speaker 5: greet and stuff still today of what that song has
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  Speaker 5: meant to somebody.
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  Speaker 4: It blows me away. And, and I don't take that.
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  Speaker 5: I don't take that lightly with the timing of anything
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  Speaker 5: that's happened in my career.
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  Speaker 3: With that, before I jump into the album real quick,
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  Speaker 3: what is a song that you have been like, this
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  Speaker 3: ain't for me. This has got to be for somebody else.
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  Speaker 3: But later you heard, and it took off for them.
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  Speaker 5: Well, the first one that ever came to be that
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  Speaker 5: I was like, oh, this is going to be my
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  Speaker 5: first album.
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  Speaker 4: It's crazy.
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  Speaker 5: But I've always tried to push.
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  Speaker 4: The envelope a little bit.
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  Speaker 5: Um and not always made fans through that uh but
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  Speaker 5: is uh but the one the first one that that
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  Speaker 5: happened was red solo cup.
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  Speaker 4: Toby keith oh wow.
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  Speaker 5: And uh that went on to be double platinum just
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  Speaker 5: boom i don't think it got much radio.
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  Speaker 3: Airplay but dude whatever happened to that song.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah so uh that was that was the first one
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  Speaker 5: that's kind of like timeless in my opinion.
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  Speaker 2: Dude but what, but again, right.
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  Speaker 3: It didn't fit you at the time, but what a
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  Speaker 3: bad-ass story that like is a part of who you
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  Speaker 3: are forever now, even though you didn't record it. Right.
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  Speaker 2: Oh yeah.
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  Speaker 5: And I would not have even got it close. You know,
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  Speaker 5: Toby's Toby's delivery and the verses on that only Toby
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  Speaker 5: Keith could do, you know, it was meant for him,
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  Speaker 5: not me.
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  Speaker 2: Clean Slate is the name of the album. It's going
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  Speaker 2: to be here before you know it.
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  Speaker 3: Clean Slate feels like there are titles, and there's something
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  Speaker 3: about this that feels more of a statement.
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  Speaker 2: Was that intentional?
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  Speaker 4: It was, yeah.
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  Speaker 5: I don't know if a statement was intentional, but there
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  Speaker 5: is some weight behind this album title. Past album titles,
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  Speaker 5: just trying to put a ribbon on what it is
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  Speaker 5: of that chapter of music. But Clean Slate is It's
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  Speaker 5: a very powerful song on this album, and it's what
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  Speaker 5: I needed to hear, what I needed to get behind
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  Speaker 5: and sing, and a message that I love. And that's
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  Speaker 5: why I wanted to go with this title. And it's
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  Speaker 5: forever going to remind me of this chapter of life
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  Speaker 5: that was.
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  Speaker 2: Exciting.
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  Speaker 5: It was a little scary, but with a clean page
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  Speaker 5: in front of me, I'm the author, and that's also
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  Speaker 5: just awesome to have that. And I think we all
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  Speaker 5: can take a moment each year or each month, however
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  Speaker 5: you want to break your year down or your life
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  Speaker 5: down and go, okay, that's behind me.
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  Speaker 4: What's in front? Let's ride it. And that keeps me going.
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  Speaker 4: It's fun.
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  Speaker 3: I love the way you worded that, and that's something
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  Speaker 3: that I fall short on. you know, 360 days.
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  Speaker 2: Of the year. There's a couple of days where it
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  Speaker 2: might work out, but at the end of the day,
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  Speaker 2: you are your own author.
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  Speaker 4: That's it.
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  Speaker 3: Clean slate, blank page. Have you felt that way? Or
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  Speaker 3: did you have to learn to think like that?
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  Speaker 5: I've had to learn to think like that, man. I,
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  Speaker 5: you know, as, as many decisions that, um, come along
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  Speaker 5: with being an artist and a songwriter and, um, you know, and,
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  Speaker 5: and there's a lot of, there's a lot of people
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  Speaker 5: involved in my career and through the years, um, You
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  Speaker 5: go through the ups and downs. I think everybody does,
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  Speaker 5: but in the music industry, there's a lot of ups
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  Speaker 5: and downs. It's just a rollercoaster ride.
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  Speaker 4: All of us have it in this industry. It's why
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  Speaker 4: we love it.
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  Speaker 5: But I found myself getting stuck a little bit in
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  Speaker 5: a rut of blaming other people and harping on the
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  Speaker 5: past and a few different things.
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  Speaker 4: It's like, nah, man. What's next, right?
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  Speaker 5: You can't worry about the game that you lost last season.
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  Speaker 5: I'm just speaking metaphorically, but.
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  Speaker 4: What's exciting is what's coming. That's so cool. I'll tell
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  Speaker 4: you right now, I'm really excited for what's to come.
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  Speaker 5: I've not been this psyched up and full of creativity
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  Speaker 5: and energy in a long time. I'm still writing and
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  Speaker 5: recording right now, this week, so Uh, it's, it's just, it's, it's,
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  Speaker 5: I'm loving life. I'm loving making music. I hope that
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  Speaker 5: comes off on this album. Um, we had so much
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  Speaker 5: fun making it and I hope, uh, hope everybody can
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  Speaker 5: feel that.
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  Speaker 3: I can tell, uh, in interacting with you and the
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  Speaker 3: millions of times that we've probably caught up, there's something,
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  Speaker 3: there's something different in the smile about this.
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  Speaker 2: Music that you're giving us right now.
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  Speaker 3: I can tell that this one's going to hit real
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  Speaker 3: special for you once people get ahold of it, man.
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  Speaker 2: Congrats to you for that.
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  Speaker 4: Thank you so much.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, man. I, uh, you know, we've already released a
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  Speaker 5: couple songs and, I've already seen them kind of pop
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  Speaker 5: off on their own, so I'm stoked to get the
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  Speaker 5: rest of it out there.
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  Speaker 2: Listen, the success is well-deserved, man.
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  Speaker 3: I hope you never deal with imposter syndrome because, man,
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  Speaker 3: you've always been genuine.
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  Speaker 2: You've always worked your ass off.
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  Speaker 3: And from my side of the country music world, it's...
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  Speaker 3: we could never have enough Dustin Lynch, man.
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  Speaker 2: So keep, keep going.
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  Speaker 4: Thank you, brother. I'll see, see you.
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