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Koe Wetzel: You Will Never Guess what he Hates & The Song Lyric He Can’t Escape · Ladies Love Country

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  SPEAKER_02: Hey ladies! Welcome back to another episode of Ladies Love Country.
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  SPEAKER_03: Ladies, please welcome Ko Wetzel.
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  SPEAKER_03: He's a Texas native, fresh off his sold-out show in Melbourne and currently on his first headline tour in Australia.
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  SPEAKER_03: His new album is landing on June 12th, and we cannot wait to hear it.
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  SPEAKER_03: Thank you, Co.
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  SPEAKER_03: for coming on Ladies Love Country.
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  SPEAKER_01: Oh, thank you all for having me.
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  SPEAKER_01: Glad to be here.
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  SPEAKER_03: Welcome to Australia.
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  SPEAKER_02: You were just telling us how much you hate sand.
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  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, I don't like sand.
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  SPEAKER_01: Uh I'm gonna get a lot of it tomorrow though.
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  SPEAKER_01: I think we're gonna go to Bonda and Bronze and sit up all the bars and get sandy.
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  SPEAKER_03: Okay, let us know if you need any recommendations.
• 0:36
  SPEAKER_03: Are you gonna actually swim as well or just hit the floor?
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  SPEAKER_03: I don't know.
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  SPEAKER_01: Is it cold as shit right now?
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  SPEAKER_03: Can you surf?
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  SPEAKER_01: No.
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  SPEAKER_01: Behind a boat, I can.
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  SPEAKER_01: And y'all got like sharks and shit.
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  SPEAKER_01: Y'all got like the big sharks.
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  SPEAKER_02: You'll be fine.
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  SPEAKER_02: You'll be fine.
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  SPEAKER_01: You'll be fine.
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  SPEAKER_02: Okay, we're just gonna do a little rapid fire.
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  SPEAKER_02: Time goes on.
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  SPEAKER_02: Okay, you're gonna have five seconds and I need you to answer these questions real quick.
• 0:56
  SPEAKER_01: I'm I'm I'm literally bad at these.
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  SPEAKER_02: Okay, it was five five seconds enough time.
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  SPEAKER_02: Well, just seven.
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  SPEAKER_01: Give me seven at least.
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  SPEAKER_01: Give me seven.
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  SPEAKER_02: Okay, okay, okay, okay, okay.
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  SPEAKER_02: What's the biggest thing that scares you?
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  SPEAKER_01: Um I don't know.
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  SPEAKER_01: Quicksand.
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  SPEAKER_02: Okay, that was good.
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  SPEAKER_02: That was under seven sounds.
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  SPEAKER_02: Okay, what's the first concert you ever went to?
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  SPEAKER_01: Um my mom's.
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  SPEAKER_02: Oh.
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  SPEAKER_02: That's cute.
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  SPEAKER_02: Okay, uh, golf or music.
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  SPEAKER_00: Golf.
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  SPEAKER_00: That was hard.
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  SPEAKER_03: Did I say golf?
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  SPEAKER_03: You say golf.
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  SPEAKER_01: Oh, yeah.
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  SPEAKER_03: If you were gonna adopt a dog, what would you name it?
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  SPEAKER_01: Um this is hard.
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  SPEAKER_03: Great dog name.
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  SPEAKER_01: This is hard.
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  SPEAKER_01: Damn, I told you I'm betting.
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  SPEAKER_02: Okay, if you had to adopt a horse, what are you gonna name it?
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  SPEAKER_01: Trigger.
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  SPEAKER_02: Why?
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  SPEAKER_01: I don't know.
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  SPEAKER_01: That's very Texan.
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  SPEAKER_02: Okay, I feel like that name.
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  SPEAKER_02: That's cute.
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  SPEAKER_02: That's cute.
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  SPEAKER_01: I think that was a Lone Ranger's horse.
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  SPEAKER_02: Yeah, okay.
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  SPEAKER_02: You'll go too fast food then.
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  SPEAKER_01: Uh I'm not a big thing.
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  SPEAKER_01: Is this because of the Taco Bell song or what?
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  SPEAKER_01: Is that wild?
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  SPEAKER_01: Jeez, I'll slim down, okay?
• 2:17
  SPEAKER_01: Uh no.
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  SPEAKER_01: That's not what we were trying for.
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  SPEAKER_01: Um, I don't know, uh, five guys, I guess.
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  SPEAKER_01: Okay.
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  SPEAKER_03: Oh, okay.
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  SPEAKER_01: Just like a bacon cheeseburger.
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  SPEAKER_01: Bacon cheeseburger.
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  SPEAKER_03: Okay, okay, vibes.
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  SPEAKER_03: Okay.
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  SPEAKER_03: If you were gonna have a football team, who would be your quarterback, but it has to be a country artist?
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  SPEAKER_01: Ooh.
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  SPEAKER_01: Parker McCollum.
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  SPEAKER_03: Okay.
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  SPEAKER_01: My dog.
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  SPEAKER_01: He can sling the football too, so we'd be nice.
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  SPEAKER_02: My dog.
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  SPEAKER_02: Okay, what's the last thing you googled?
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  SPEAKER_01: Um uh damn it.
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  SPEAKER_01: It's I just had it.
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  SPEAKER_01: I think it was Bondi Beach.
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  SPEAKER_01: Oh, yeah.
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  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, yeah.
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  SPEAKER_03: It was gonna be like, is there sand at Bondi Beach?
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  SPEAKER_03: Yeah.
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  SPEAKER_01: I was gonna say closest brothel in Australia, but I didn't want my girl to hear that, so we cut that.
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  SPEAKER_03: Since you're a dad, what's your go-to dad joke?
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  SPEAKER_01: Um honestly, I've I've I don't have one.
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  SPEAKER_03: Um you've got to have one now, you're done.
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  SPEAKER_01: I know, but I'm a cool dad.
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  SPEAKER_01: I'm not like I'm not like as lame as dad.
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  SPEAKER_01: I don't know.
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  SPEAKER_02: Wait, wait, wait, wait.
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  SPEAKER_02: So you're saying that that dads that don't tell jokes aren't are not cool?
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  SPEAKER_01: No, it's just I just I've heard a lot of dad jokes and they they piss me off.
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  SPEAKER_01: So I was like, I'm not gonna be that guy.
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  SPEAKER_03: I'm a dad joke kill.
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  SPEAKER_03: Back in the day, what was your go-to pickup line?
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  SPEAKER_01: Oh man.
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  SPEAKER_01: I my guitar, I didn't have any pickup lines.
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  SPEAKER_01: I just started playing guitar and singing, and I never really had to use them.
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  SPEAKER_01: So and and up until you know recently, that was been it.
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  SPEAKER_01: It's been it forever.
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  SPEAKER_01: So it's it's uh it's it's like 10 out of 10 rate.
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  SPEAKER_03: Guys, need your side if you can't play the guitar.
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  SPEAKER_03: Start learning.
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  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, I'm not a very interesting guy outside of that.
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  SPEAKER_02: I feel like you are.
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  SPEAKER_02: Um, who's your cowgirl crush right now?
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  SPEAKER_01: My cowgirl crush?
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  SPEAKER_02: It's a lot of trick question.
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  SPEAKER_01: Uh my fiance.
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  SPEAKER_01: Nice!
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  SPEAKER_02: Let's go.
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  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, I'm not ignorant.
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  SPEAKER_01: I might be I might be stupid, but I'm not ignorant.
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  SPEAKER_03: Okay, if you have a day off, what's your number one thing you want to do on a day off?
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  SPEAKER_01: Um, probably go play golf, or uh if it's like hunting season, I'll go hunting or fishing.
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  SPEAKER_01: Um yeah, being outdoors.
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  SPEAKER_01: I like being outdoors, so anything out in the wilderness.
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  SPEAKER_02: What's your favorite outdoor activity?
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  SPEAKER_01: Actor.
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  SPEAKER_02: Outdoor activity.
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  SPEAKER_02: Sorry, I did mumble now.
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  SPEAKER_01: Oh, outdoor activity.
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  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, probably bow hunting.
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  SPEAKER_01: I love to bow hunt and boat hunting?
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  SPEAKER_01: Bow hunting.
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  SPEAKER_02: Oh, oh, with the bow.
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  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, with the bow.
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  SPEAKER_02: Like a bow and arrow.
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  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, bow and arrow.
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  SPEAKER_01: Oh, okay.
• 4:44
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, yeah.
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  SPEAKER_01: And so I like like I said, I like being outdoors.
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  SPEAKER_01: I love to hunt uh and love to fish.
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  SPEAKER_01: So anything in that realm, I'm good with.
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  SPEAKER_02: So wait, what do you what what do you catch with the bow?
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  SPEAKER_01: What do I catch with a bow?
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  SPEAKER_01: Uh I mean, just animals, like anything that that I can eat.
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  SPEAKER_01: Uh I like to eat my own what I kill.
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  SPEAKER_01: Okay.
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  SPEAKER_01: Yeah.
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  SPEAKER_02: Nice.
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  SPEAKER_01: Outdoorsmen.
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  SPEAKER_02: That's very sustainable.
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  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, for sure.
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  SPEAKER_02: How good is that?
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  SPEAKER_01: I could survive if if the world went to shit, I'd I'd be uh I'd be alright.
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  SPEAKER_02: Oh yeah.
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  SPEAKER_02: Okay, what's your give us your best Aussie accent?
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  SPEAKER_01: Oh fuck.
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  SPEAKER_02: You got seven seconds.
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  SPEAKER_01: Erner! We practiced that all.
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  SPEAKER_01: You did?
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  SPEAKER_01: Was it was it what the where the fuck or no?
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  SPEAKER_02: Wait, what?
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  SPEAKER_01: Erner!
• 5:27
  SPEAKER_03: Oh wait, does it come on?
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  SPEAKER_03: Oh no.
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  SPEAKER_01: Oh no.
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  SPEAKER_01: Oh no.
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  SPEAKER_01: Oh no.
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  SPEAKER_01: Oh no.
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  SPEAKER_03: You gotta really use the nasal.
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  SPEAKER_01: Yeah.
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  SPEAKER_02: Well, you actually answered all of those in pretty much like two seconds.
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  SPEAKER_02: Yeah, I gave up to the couple of times.
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  SPEAKER_00: I told you I was really bad at it.
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  SPEAKER_00: I was really bad at it.
• 5:43
  SPEAKER_02: So we're actually gonna chat about your new album.
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  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, sweet.
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  SPEAKER_02: So talk us through it.
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  SPEAKER_01: Um, yeah, so it's called The Night Champion.
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  SPEAKER_01: Um, it's kind of like an accumulation of the past six records, five or six records that we put out.
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  SPEAKER_01: Um, so there's there's a lot for everybody.
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  SPEAKER_01: I feel like if you're a new fan or if you're an old fan, um there's some you know, older stuff, kind of the rock era of of me putting together records and then some of the newer stuff with kind of slowing it down and getting more uh vulnerable.
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  SPEAKER_01: And uh yeah, we it's really exciting.
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  SPEAKER_01: We're excited to get it out.
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  SPEAKER_02: So what brought on the more vulnerable side of the record?
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  SPEAKER_01: I guess we kind of uh figuring life out a little bit and growing up a little bit.
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  SPEAKER_01: Uh just uh, you know, not not partying as hard as I used to, um, but just kind of uh maturing and uh you know uh becoming a dad, obviously, and uh just kind of everything that my life is kind of the changes in my life that's been going on for the last couple years.
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  SPEAKER_03: Has it made the songwriting process different?
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  SPEAKER_03: Like doing this more like alternative?
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  SPEAKER_01: You won't hear it in this record because most of it was written two years ago, two to a year and a half ago, and the record was done.
• 6:51
  SPEAKER_01: You know, the record's been on for a year and a half, so um, you won't hear it as much in this record, but and some of the newer stuff following this record, uh I feel like you will.
• 7:00
  SPEAKER_01: Um, so yeah, it's it's uh it's something that people are gonna be familiar with if you're familiar with my music.
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  SPEAKER_01: So um, I don't know, we don't want to get too crazy and throw people off, but yeah, we like I said we're pumped about it.
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  SPEAKER_01: It's uh kind of a continuation of a nine lives, our last record.
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  SPEAKER_01: So we got a lot of fun songs on it.
• 7:17
  SPEAKER_02: Very cool.
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  SPEAKER_02: I know you're planning to tour this record as well.
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  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, so this is this will actually be this is here in Australia is the kickoff to the night champion tour, which we'll uh you know, we'll go to Canada whenever we get back from here, and then uh the the US states will start in July.
• 7:32
  SPEAKER_01: And so yeah, that'll kind of be the the kickoff for for the night champion.
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  SPEAKER_01: And um I was talking earlier with some folks that help us set up this tour.
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  SPEAKER_01: Maybe that's something we come back at the start of next year and kind of finish off the night champion tour.
• 7:46
  SPEAKER_01: We uh and anytime we can get over here, we're looking forward to it ever since we came to CMC last year.
• 7:50
  SPEAKER_01: Um, we just love it over here so much, and and the people and the vibes and the fans that you know really fuck with the music out here, man.
• 7:57
  SPEAKER_01: We're really excited about that.
• 7:58
  SPEAKER_01: And we we can't thank y'all enough for having us and and loving us the way y'all do.
• 8:02
  SPEAKER_01: So um, yeah, we're we love to get back out here as quick as possible.
• 8:06
  SPEAKER_02: Have you noticed a lot of similarities between Texans and Australians?
• 8:09
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, I'll tell everybody that.
• 8:10
  SPEAKER_01: I'm like, I'm like, yo, Australia is just a big ass Texas.
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  SPEAKER_01: Like uh it's we we love coming out here, and and there's so many similarities to to y'all and us, and uh I think the party is one of them, and y'all are just so y'all are so carefree, and just uh we love it.
• 8:24
  SPEAKER_01: So uh yeah.
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  SPEAKER_03: Because I was gonna say your shows in America can get quite like rowdy and crazy and things like that.
• 8:29
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, y'all are just y'all are just a damn crazy.
• 8:31
  SPEAKER_01: Like y'all, y'all put up.
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  SPEAKER_01: Y'all like to have like I mean it's a Tuesday night.
• 8:34
  SPEAKER_01: Look at them out there, they're already having a good time and throwing shit.
• 8:38
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, yeah.
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  SPEAKER_01: So um, yeah, this is uh this is gonna be a lot of fun.
• 8:42
  SPEAKER_01: We love being over here.
• 8:43
  SPEAKER_01: So y'all always bring the good times.
• 8:45
  SPEAKER_03: Yeah.
• 8:45
  SPEAKER_03: What's the craziest thing someone's ever done at your show?
• 8:48
  SPEAKER_01: Oh fuck.
• 8:49
  SPEAKER_01: I don't know.
• 8:51
  SPEAKER_01: Well, there's always a fight for some reason.
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  SPEAKER_01: I don't know why.
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  SPEAKER_01: And it's usually chicks.
• 8:54
  SPEAKER_01: Really?
• 8:54
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, it's usually girls that are they're throwing down.
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  SPEAKER_02: Because you did that um that that video with Ella Langley for that's why we fought.
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  SPEAKER_01: No, shout out my girl Ella.
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  SPEAKER_01: Oh, yeah.
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  SPEAKER_01: No, I don't know.
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  SPEAKER_01: Like there's that, and then uh usually some breasts being shown, um shit being thrown.
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  SPEAKER_01: I don't know.
• 9:18
  SPEAKER_01: It's kind of you never know what you're gonna get at a co-show, so it's it's all over the place.
• 9:21
  SPEAKER_03: Have you ever crowdsurfed?
• 9:23
  SPEAKER_01: No, I'm not into it.
• 9:24
  SPEAKER_01: No, you're not into that.
• 9:26
  SPEAKER_01: Not a big crowdfund.
• 9:26
  SPEAKER_02: We can rally some big guys at the front if you want.
• 9:28
  SPEAKER_02: Yeah, it's just what I'm saying.
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  SPEAKER_01: I don't want to jump out there and nobody catch my big ass, you know?
• 9:32
  SPEAKER_01: And so I'm just kind of sitting there like, oh, this sucks.
• 9:35
  SPEAKER_02: You know, like someone's gonna sing it.
• 9:38
  SPEAKER_01: I know, you know, and the internet don't forgive, you know, that's up there forever.
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  SPEAKER_02: So people could throw things on stage to you?
• 9:44
  SPEAKER_01: They used to a lot.
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  SPEAKER_01: Like I said, like these last couple years, we've kind of slowed it down a lot, and and the fans have thankfully grown with us.
• 9:51
  SPEAKER_01: And so we don't have to worry about that as much anymore.
• 9:55
  SPEAKER_02: What's the craziest thing that you've received on stage?
• 9:58
  SPEAKER_01: There was a dildo that was thrown on stage one time.
• 10:01
  SPEAKER_01: And it was it wasn't a small one either.
• 10:03
  SPEAKER_01: It was a very light honestly, if it would have hit one of us, we probably would have had canceled the show.
• 10:07
  SPEAKER_01: But there's all kinds of shit that's been thrown, but um, yeah, panties, bras, okay, zinc cans.
• 10:15
  SPEAKER_02: Uh-huh.
• 10:17
  SPEAKER_01: You name it, it's probably been all been thrown on.
• 10:19
  SPEAKER_02: Did the dildo hit you?
• 10:20
  SPEAKER_01: No.
• 10:21
  SPEAKER_01: I almost tripped over it though.
• 10:23
  SPEAKER_01: Like it was like a log.
• 10:24
  SPEAKER_01: It was massive.
• 10:25
  SPEAKER_03: So do you have a big female audience?
• 10:27
  SPEAKER_03: All these i seem very female.
• 10:30
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, there there is.
• 10:31
  SPEAKER_01: Um it's honestly it's kind of 50-50, I'd say, you know, and um coming up earlier, it was I don't know.
• 10:40
  SPEAKER_01: I I think it was just kind of a lot of a lot of country motherfuckers that just brought their girlfriends with them, and their girlfriends came to the show, and then they brought their girlfriends, so I don't know.
• 10:49
  SPEAKER_01: I'd say it's about 50-50, probably, though.
• 10:52
  SPEAKER_01: I'm not Riley Green, so I don't uh I don't have that sex appeal going on.
• 10:56
  SPEAKER_01: Shout out, Riley.
• 10:58
  SPEAKER_02: Is he a boy as well?
• 10:59
  SPEAKER_01: Um we've we've met a few times, yeah.
• 11:01
  SPEAKER_01: We played a couple shows together, and he's always been cool as shit.
• 11:04
  SPEAKER_01: But yeah, him and the ladies, he just got done over here.
• 11:07
  SPEAKER_00: Talk about shit got thrown, he got his earbusted here.
• 11:09
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, no, yeah, that's wild.
• 11:11
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, that was pretty cool.
• 11:12
  SPEAKER_01: No phones, please.
• 11:13
  SPEAKER_01: Sorry.
• 11:13
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, no phones.
• 11:17
  unknown: No.
• 11:17
  SPEAKER_02: Well, Gary, thank you so much for coming on Ladies Love Country.
• 11:20
  SPEAKER_02: It was great to chat with you.
• 11:21
  SPEAKER_02: We're super excited to hear the full record, and it sounds like we're gonna be seeing you in Australia again next year.
• 11:26
  SPEAKER_02: Absolutely.
• 11:28
  SPEAKER_01: We can't wait to get back, but thank you all so much for having me.
• 11:30
  SPEAKER_01: This has been awesome.
• 11:31
  SPEAKER_03: Yeah, thank you so much.
• 11:33
  SPEAKER_03: Thank y'all.
• 11:34
  SPEAKER_03: That's a wrap on this week's episode of Ladies Love Country.
• 11:37
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• 11:42
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• 11:49
  SPEAKER_03: Until next time, keep your boots on and your playlist loud.
• 11:53
  SPEAKER_03: Yeah!