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Beyond the Bachelor: Eli Young Band · The Ben and Ashley I Almost Famous Podcast

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Speaker 1: This is all most famous Beyond the Bachelor with Susie Evans.
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Speaker 2: Thank you guys so much for joining us today on
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Speaker 2: Beyond the Bachelor. This is your host, Susie Evans. Today
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Speaker 2: we are joined by Mike Eli and John Jones from
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Speaker 2: the Eli Young Band, who performed on Sean Love's season
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Speaker 2: of The Bachelor. It's been a few years since you
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Speaker 2: guys were on The Bachelor, is that right?
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Speaker 3: Yeah, it feels like a long time ago.
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Speaker 2: It was Sean Lowe's season. I'm curious, reflecting back on
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Speaker 2: your performance during Sewan Loo's season, what was maybe the
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Speaker 2: most memorable or unexpected thing you saw, whether it was
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Speaker 2: like behind the scenes or after the show came out.
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Speaker 2: I'm curious.
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Speaker 3: Oh. I mean, at the time, we had just come
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Speaker 3: off of a big number one for us. It was
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Speaker 3: kind of one of the biggest songs that we had
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Speaker 3: ever had, and even If It Breaks Your Heart was
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Speaker 3: kind of the follow up to that. But we had
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Speaker 3: done all the big shows. We had done all the
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Speaker 3: late nights, all the tonight shows, the things, and then
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Speaker 3: morning shows and all that, and so doing The Bachelor
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Speaker 3: was kind of a new thing for us. But I
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Speaker 3: don't think that we realized the cultural impact that it
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Speaker 3: had already made and how much of an impact it
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Speaker 3: was going to make on us and our songs. And
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Speaker 3: I know that James, our guitar player, has mentioned it
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Speaker 3: quite a few times. But after you do all these
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Speaker 3: really cool things, you play all this cool stuff, you
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Speaker 3: play the Bachelor, and everyone is calling you because they
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Speaker 3: saw you on the Bachelor, and so you know, it
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Speaker 3: was probably one of the most impactful things that we
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Speaker 3: have done at the time.
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Speaker 2: Wow, that's really cool. Actually, that was kind of one
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Speaker 2: of my questions later on as well, was like, did
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Speaker 2: this impact your careers in any way? But it sounds
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Speaker 2: like it did kind of take things to another level,
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Speaker 2: or just I think the fandom of Bachelor Nation, like
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Speaker 2: people really underestimate it. And I mean people can either
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Speaker 2: get the wrath of Bachelor Nation or it can be
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Speaker 2: a really positive thing for you. But I'm glad it
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Speaker 2: was a positive thing for you guys. So it sounds
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Speaker 2: like it was a It was a really good thing.
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Speaker 3: I think it moved the needle, even if it breaks
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Speaker 3: your heart, more than anything that we had done at
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Speaker 3: around that time.
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Speaker 1: So yeah, just exposure to a wider audience than than
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Speaker 1: just you know, like the country world it was.
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Speaker 3: It was awesome.
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Speaker 2: That's really cool. And I know, obviously I'm a country
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Speaker 2: fan as well, but I know a lot of country
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Speaker 2: is love or romantic, but I feel like you guys
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Speaker 2: have some really iconic like love songs. So it really
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Speaker 2: was the perfect mashup between Bachelor and Eli Young bands.
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Speaker 2: So that's pretty cool. When you guys were there, So
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Speaker 2: you were on Ashley Fraser Fraser's date, did you guys
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Speaker 2: was it a live audience or was it a private
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Speaker 2: one on one performance for the two people? For the couple, it.
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Speaker 3: Was a very small audience.
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Speaker 1: So they were at six Flags Magic Mountain and the
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Speaker 1: whole park was closed down for him that day, which
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Speaker 1: was kind of a real experience to be a theme
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Speaker 1: park shut down. But they were there with a couple
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Speaker 1: of girls that had like chronic illnesses, and so they
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Speaker 1: were there to like give them a really neat experience
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Speaker 1: for the day, which made for you know, interesting, kind
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Speaker 1: of a different kind of a date. So the performance
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Speaker 1: was really just for not just for the two of them,
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Speaker 1: but you know, for for them and the girls they
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Speaker 1: were there with, which we did a song called even
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Speaker 1: It Breaks Your Heart, which isn't. It's not so much
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Speaker 1: a love song, but it's more of like pursue your
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Speaker 1: dreams at all at all costs type of a thing,
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Speaker 1: which I think made more sense and a love song
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Speaker 1: given you know what their their date was all about.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, that's actually really amazing. So Catherine, Catherine and Sean
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Speaker 2: ended up together on the show. Did you guys watch
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Speaker 2: the season back by chance?
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Speaker 3: Like?
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Speaker 1: Have we watched it since then?
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Speaker 2: Yeah? Like when the show aired, did you guys watch
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Speaker 2: the full season?
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Speaker 3: We we we casually followed it.
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Speaker 1: I'm not I'm not going to say that we the
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Speaker 1: four of us are down on the bus and watched it,
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Speaker 1: you know, front to back. But we've stayed in touch
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Speaker 1: with with Sean and you know everything, everything turned out
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Speaker 1: great for him.
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Speaker 2: That's so cool. Yeah, I'm so curious. Did you guys
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Speaker 2: think after your date did you think that reality dating
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Speaker 2: was more legit or did you or were you like, oh,
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Speaker 2: this was a little bit like script Did it feel scripted?
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Speaker 2: I feel like that's one of the biggest questions people
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Speaker 2: ask me, is is The Bachelor scripted? And it's not scripted?
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Speaker 2: But did it feel more real or less real? After
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Speaker 2: performing on a date.
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Speaker 3: I think it became more real later once we hung
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Speaker 3: out with Sean and Catherine after the fact, after they
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Speaker 3: were still together for a while, and we realized that
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Speaker 3: that that there were actual, real connections that that are
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Speaker 3: made on the show.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, and honestly, I think that the filming that day,
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Speaker 1: I mean a lot of our job, which in TV
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Speaker 1: it's a lot of hurry up and wait, and so
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Speaker 1: there was a lot of just Joe kind of waiting
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Speaker 1: for a date to progress to where we did the song.
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Speaker 1: But it was haphazard enough that it definitely felt like
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Speaker 1: it was all unscripted and just kind of, you know, flowing,
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Speaker 1: and so we kind of had to be prepared for that.
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Speaker 1: I think we left with a sense of reality. Dating
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Speaker 1: is not for us, but it.
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Speaker 3: Did feel real. I think that that when when we
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Speaker 3: visited with them and that night after after playing for them,
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Speaker 3: it did it felt very real to us, you know,
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Speaker 3: but you know, that's cool.
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Speaker 2: That's good insight. I do think that's one of the
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Speaker 2: biggest questions people ask when you've whether you're a producer
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Speaker 2: on the show, or you've been on the show, or
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Speaker 2: if you've entertained on the show, people are always like,
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Speaker 2: is it scripted is it real? And obviously it's produced,
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Speaker 2: but it's not scripted, So that's that's cool insight. And
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Speaker 2: were you both married at the time when you perform
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Speaker 2: on the show? Great? Yeah, so you both were married,
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Speaker 2: were you what? This is like a general question for
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Speaker 2: other people, but what is some general advice for people
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Speaker 2: that are looking for love, whether it's on reality TV
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Speaker 2: or in the real world. As two people that have
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Speaker 2: been in love and are married.
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Speaker 1: Find someone that gets you and can put up with you.
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Speaker 1: And for us being in a band, I think a
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Speaker 1: big thing for us and our careers is trying to
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Speaker 1: find that balance, but always working to find that balance
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Speaker 1: and not like assuming that everything's gonna be fine at
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Speaker 1: home and you can just go on the road and
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Speaker 1: and and you know that'd be your life like it's
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Speaker 1: all it's it's it takes dedication from both people and
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Speaker 1: just really wanted to share your life together and constantly
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Speaker 1: figuring out what that means and trying to be on
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Speaker 1: the same page.
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Speaker 3: And for me, I would think, without sounding too cliche,
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Speaker 3: but do I think listen and then you listen again,
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Speaker 3: and then before you talk, you listen and one more
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Speaker 3: time and then think and then and then talk. I
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Speaker 3: think that there's a lot of thought and care that
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Speaker 3: needs to go into any relationship in the beginning and
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Speaker 3: also when you're twenty years in, you know, I think
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Speaker 3: that a lot of care and thought and a lot
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Speaker 3: of listening.
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Speaker 1: Mm hmm.
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Speaker 2: That's really those are really good. That's really good insight.
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Speaker 2: I feel like with The Bachelor as well, it's so
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Speaker 2: kind of over the top with their dates and I
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Speaker 2: mean they're literally getting a one on one performance from
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Speaker 2: you guys. I feel like people can't emulate that in
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Speaker 2: the real world. But as silly as it isn't kind
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Speaker 2: of cliche. I also think it's like find ways to
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Speaker 2: make life special even when it's mundane or uh, you know,
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Speaker 2: you're in a routine. I think that The Bachelor's a
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Speaker 2: good reminder of like you can you can find little
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Speaker 2: ways to do something special for your person. I'm curious
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Speaker 2: when you guys are approached to do the show, you
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Speaker 2: did the show, did it did it influence any element
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Speaker 2: of your songwriting? Did that romance like spark anything or
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Speaker 2: inspire anything in the in the future of songwriting for
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Speaker 2: you guys?
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Speaker 3: I don't know. I mean, I think everything we do
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Speaker 3: has some type of influence, but I can't necessarily say
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Speaker 3: that it that it necessarily produced any any song in particular.
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Speaker 3: But but we we we do tend to be sponges,
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Speaker 3: and and our outlook on on reality dating shows changed
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Speaker 3: after we did The Best or so I think that sure,
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Speaker 3: I mean it did. I just don't know if I
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Speaker 3: can recover exactly what I think.
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Speaker 1: It is really cool that that Sean kind of introduced
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Speaker 1: us to Ashley's like this is my favorite band, which
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Speaker 1: is like, oh, that's cool that. I hope that wasn't scripted.
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Speaker 1: But you know, we we live in the Alice Fort
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Speaker 1: Worth area. That's where we started the band, that's where
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Speaker 1: we still are, and that's where they live in Dallas now,
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Speaker 1: so it's kind of you know, it's really cool to
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Speaker 1: think about the fans that you make in the beginning
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Speaker 1: and like how you can take them on that journey
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Speaker 1: with your through your through your career.
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Speaker 2: That's really cool. Were either of your wives Bachelor fans
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Speaker 2: or was anybody in your life a Bachelor fan?
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Speaker 3: Oh? Yeah, I mean especially I mean especially around that time.
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Speaker 3: We were surrounded by it. So yeah, so I mean,
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Speaker 3: and we were kept into but at the time we
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Speaker 3: were so busy because we were in the middle of
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Speaker 3: really really hitting the road and promoting a very big
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Speaker 3: record for us. So but but they made sure that
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Speaker 3: we knew exactly what was going on.
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Speaker 1: So and like our guitar player has mentioned many times,
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Speaker 1: like the amount of people to come out of the
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Speaker 1: woodworks after you do something like The Bachelor. Maybe they
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Speaker 1: knew we were in this band or whatever like second cousins, aunts, uncles, whatever,
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Speaker 1: And then you're on The Bachelor and you have now
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Speaker 1: made it.
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Speaker 3: You were now famous.
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Speaker 1: That that was the thing. So that let us know
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Speaker 1: how many people are really really into the Bachelor.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, it's interesting, but like I said, Bachelor Nation, they
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Speaker 2: are wild and it's a good thing. And it's a
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Speaker 2: good thing that Yeah, that they go so hard for
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Speaker 2: the show and stuff like that. And it sounds like
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Speaker 2: you guys have a really great support system. How has
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Speaker 2: your family contributed to the journey of just being in
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Speaker 2: the music industry. It sounds like you guys have been
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Speaker 2: on a wild ride and I can't imagine how hectic
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Speaker 2: and stressful and just jam packed your schedules can be.
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Speaker 2: So how is your family and wives and loved ones
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Speaker 2: supported you guys?
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Speaker 3: I think it takes a lot of understanding. You know.
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Speaker 3: I know that there's a certain point where they know
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Speaker 3: what they signed up for a little bit, but as
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Speaker 3: time goes on, it really takes a lot of commitment
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Speaker 3: and understanding to to what comes along with this life
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Speaker 3: we chose of being artists. You know, it is it's
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Speaker 3: a passion thing, you know. I mean, you know, you
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Speaker 3: have this love for the road and this love for
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Speaker 3: playing shows. But sometimes it takes a takes you away
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Speaker 3: from this other thing that you love, and that's you know,
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Speaker 3: your home and family and your kiddo's and so it's
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Speaker 3: a balance. It takes a balance. And so there's our
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Speaker 3: support system has to understand us and and why we
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Speaker 3: do it, but also understand that that that that we're
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Speaker 3: doing our best to find the balance that keeps makes
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Speaker 3: make sure we're good fathers, we're present fathers, we're here,
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Speaker 3: we take overnight flights to to make sure that we're
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Speaker 3: at ballgame and those things, and we're going to do
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Speaker 3: that to make sure that we have a healthy, you know,
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Speaker 3: lifestyle at home and on the road.
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Speaker 1: So yeah, when we started twenty three years ago, we
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Speaker 1: were all in college and we were doing it for
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Speaker 1: pretty selfish reasons, honestly, I mean, it was so much
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Speaker 1: fun and we just wanted to get our music out
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Speaker 1: there and be on the road and you know, be
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Speaker 1: willing to play for free beer.
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Speaker 3: Whatever it was.
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Speaker 1: And I feel like as those years have gone on,
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Speaker 1: we've all settled down and between the four of us,
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Speaker 1: we've got nine kids eleven and under. That's kind of
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Speaker 1: shifted our reason for being, you know, like we it
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Speaker 1: means we have to be gone to support them and
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Speaker 1: still follow our dreams, but they have become the reason
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Speaker 1: that we do it, I mean, and that means that
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Speaker 1: we play you know, a few less shows than we
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Speaker 1: used to, or that we could we say no to
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Speaker 1: more things now because it is it's finding that balance.
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Speaker 1: And I think we grew up in the era of
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Speaker 1: like you know, VH one behind the music, with all
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Speaker 1: of the the stories of marriages and bands that just
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Speaker 1: ended in ruin and wreck and families you know, left
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Speaker 1: and in the dust there. And we don't want to
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Speaker 1: be those guys. We never did. We want to find
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Speaker 1: a way to make it all all work, to be
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Speaker 1: the you know, the success story, and that's it's it's
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Speaker 1: always a work in progress, but it's it feels like
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Speaker 1: being on the road is more fulfilling when you're coming
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Speaker 1: home to a family that's settled and and and feels
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Speaker 1: loved and all those things.
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Speaker 2: So that's so cool. I can't imagine what it must
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Speaker 2: feel like for you guys when your family or your
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Speaker 2: kids come to a show. But I also can't imagine
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Speaker 2: what it must feel like to be your kid. To
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Speaker 2: look up and see your dad performing like that has
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Speaker 2: to be such an incredible cool experience. I don't I
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Speaker 2: don't know how how old are you your kids?
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Speaker 3: My oldest is about to turn twelve, so she's kind
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Speaker 3: of the one that, like, yeah, she grapples a little
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Speaker 3: bit with that as some of her friends kind of realize,
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Speaker 3: you know, who we are and who her dad is,
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Speaker 3: and so sometimes you know something that she grew up with.
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Speaker 3: She I mean, she learned to walk on a tour bus,
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Speaker 3: you know, and so it's very normal for her. And
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Speaker 3: then when her friends tell her how not normal that is,
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Speaker 3: you know, And now that she's twelve, it's it's a
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Speaker 3: different thing. But I think she's she more so than
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Speaker 3: than my other kiddo, he's about to turn six. But
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Speaker 3: she's been a bit by the bug you know. So
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Speaker 3: she's like, she loves music and performing and she's been
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Speaker 3: getting up on stage with us since she was little,
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Speaker 3: and she loves being in front of thousands of people.
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Speaker 3: It makes her happy.
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Speaker 1: So my eleven year old son could care less. He
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Speaker 1: acts that way, and I get it. But but yeah,
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Speaker 1: my son and his daughter are the same age, and
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Speaker 1: they were the they were the original two band kids.
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Speaker 1: So they really they're like best of friends because they
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Speaker 1: really grew up at a time when we only had
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Speaker 1: a couple of kids. We could bring them out on
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Speaker 1: the road a lot. Now that there's a whole bus
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Speaker 1: full of kids, it's a little bit harder, so we
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Speaker 1: kind of pick and choose what shows they come to.
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Speaker 1: My seven year old daughter actually introduces me to most
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Speaker 1: people as this is John Jones from the Eli Young band.
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Speaker 1: Now this is dad. So we'll see how that all
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Speaker 1: turns out. But she, yeah, she thinks it's awesome.
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Speaker 2: Oh that's really cool. Yeah, it's got to be. It
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Speaker 2: probably is really normal in some sense because they if
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Speaker 2: they grew up around it. But I'm sure someday, even
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Speaker 2: if right now they're like, yeah, this is my life,
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Speaker 2: this is normal, I'm sure some day they're going to
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Speaker 2: look back and like that was so iconic, Like my
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Speaker 2: dad is the coolest dad in the world. That is
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Speaker 2: like that is so cool. Even if it doesn't, it's
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Speaker 2: just normal to them now. You just know someday they're
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Speaker 2: going to have that realization.
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Speaker 1: What age do you think that's going to happen when
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Speaker 1: our kids said, you guys are so cool.
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Speaker 3: I think maybe it'll go this way and then that way.
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Speaker 2: Yes, I think it'll I think when you're young, like
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Speaker 2: your parents can't do anything that's really cool. So I
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Speaker 2: think it'll be like eighteen to twenty three, there'll be
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Speaker 2: adults and they'll look back and they'll be like, oh
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Speaker 2: my gosh, Like I can see it already. I feel
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Speaker 2: like that's how it's going to go. It'll be a
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Speaker 2: really cool thing to look back on. But when you're
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Speaker 2: in the moment, it's just normal, like it's just their life.
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Speaker 2: But but that is really cool. And I wanted to ask,
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Speaker 2: so you said the two is the two oldest. Did
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Speaker 2: they both play instruments and dabble in music or is
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Speaker 2: it or do does everyone in the family kind of
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Speaker 2: do something in music?
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Speaker 3: I know both both of our kids the oldest ones
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Speaker 3: they both love music, but I think that they were
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Speaker 3: so just entrenched on the road with us, it was
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Speaker 3: just surrounding them. So Klein like, she's a little she's
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Speaker 3: a little musician, so she's just ready to move on
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Speaker 3: to get She's playing piano great, and they both of
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Speaker 3: our kids, actually all of our kids have the same
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Speaker 3: piano teacher who's really great at at instilling, you know,
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Speaker 3: the passion and then that they already kind of had,
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Speaker 3: but nurturing it even more. But she's definitely she wants it.
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Speaker 3: So she's she had the lead and the musical here
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Speaker 3: recently where we saw our perform and she she loved
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Speaker 3: the accolades. I mean, she was a little bit of
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Speaker 3: a little diva, which which I love but in a
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Speaker 3: good way.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, it's a thrill being on stage and even being
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Speaker 2: on The Bachelor and the live shows and stuff like that,
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Speaker 2: Like it's such a thrill. So I mean, if it's
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Speaker 2: it's pretty cool that they're interested and good at it too,
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Speaker 2: you know, that's awesome.
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Speaker 3: Yeah.
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Speaker 1: I think I think that's something that obviously we're you know,
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Speaker 1: make make music for a living, but we all definitely
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Speaker 1: agree that having some kind of bass and foundation of
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Speaker 1: music can be very helpful just in life, even if
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Speaker 1: it's not something you pursue or play your whole life.
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Speaker 1: The way that it kind of wires your brain. Learning piano,
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Speaker 1: it's like learning a foreign language at a young age,
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Speaker 1: and if you start young, you just take it all
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Speaker 1: in without really realizing it. So I think we all
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Speaker 1: have our kids playing music at a young age and
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Speaker 1: they may never do anything with it, but I think
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Speaker 1: it's you know, it's important and we'll serve them well.
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Speaker 1: You never hear of someone saying I am so glad
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Speaker 1: that I stopped playing piano after a couple of years,
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Speaker 1: as I hated it. It's usually I really wish I
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Speaker 1: would have stuff stuck with it, or I really wish
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Speaker 1: I would have really learned to play the guitar. So
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Speaker 1: if it takes a little poking and prodding again, I
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Speaker 1: think when they're a bit older, they will appreciate having
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Speaker 1: some of that music knowledge.
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Speaker 2: Yeah. Absolutely, And like you said, it's probably good for
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Speaker 2: the brain, you know, Like I feel like to be
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Speaker 2: able to to be able to play an instrument has
18:53
Speaker 2: got to be so good for your mental health and
18:56
Speaker 2: everything like that. And you guys all live in this
19:00
Speaker 2: area into in is it North Texas?
19:03
Speaker 3: Yeah, dw are okay.
19:06
Speaker 2: And you all came together in college. But are some
19:09
Speaker 2: of you relate to you some of you are related?
19:12
Speaker 1: No, No, we're all fraternity brothers in college, and so
19:17
Speaker 1: like Mike is technically my little brother, uh okay back
19:21
Speaker 1: in those days, so sometimes he still introduces me as
19:23
Speaker 1: his big brother.
19:24
Speaker 2: Gotcha. Yeah, I think I saw something about the brothers
19:37
Speaker 2: and I was like kind of confused. I'm like, everyone's
19:39
Speaker 2: got last names, are different last names, so I wasn't
19:42
Speaker 2: sure if you guys were real brothers or what. But
19:44
Speaker 2: it sounds like you guys, I mean, you've been together
19:46
Speaker 2: as a group for twenty years. Sounds like you're kind
19:49
Speaker 2: of more family than just friends and coworkers at this point.
19:53
Speaker 2: Is that how it feels when you're all together back
19:55
Speaker 2: in Texas as well? Do you guys get together and
19:57
Speaker 2: do the kids all hang out and stuff like that.
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Speaker 3: We try to do it as much as we can.
20:02
Speaker 3: I think that's one of the things that with us, like,
20:04
Speaker 3: because we we spend so much of our time out
20:07
Speaker 3: on the road together, we have to we try to
20:10
Speaker 3: make sure that when we come home that we find
20:12
Speaker 3: the times to get the kids together so that they
20:16
Speaker 3: you know, spend spend some time together. So but it
20:20
Speaker 3: is really neat, Like especially Hudson and Kline too oldest,
20:24
Speaker 3: because they spend so much time together early, they have
20:27
Speaker 3: this kind of really special connection. So they get really
20:31
Speaker 3: excited about seeing each other and so and I think
20:35
Speaker 3: for the most part, all the kids really have this
20:38
Speaker 3: admiration for each other and get excited. And so they'll
20:42
Speaker 3: have their piano oversital when we're doing like a piano
20:45
Speaker 3: recital all together, and and so that that that is
20:49
Speaker 3: kind of a neat moment where they get to do it,
20:52
Speaker 3: you know, and perform for each other. You know.
20:56
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's really cool. I know. So we're coming, we're
21:01
Speaker 2: coming to the end here. But I know that the
21:03
Speaker 2: entertainment industry in general has a lot of highs and
21:06
Speaker 2: lows really no matter what you're doing in entertainment. You know,
21:10
Speaker 2: sometimes careers are booming, sometimes they have lules and things
21:14
Speaker 2: like that. I'm curious, how is it that you guys
21:19
Speaker 2: have overcome some of those tougher times or the challenges
21:24
Speaker 2: that you face in your careers, Like what are some
21:26
Speaker 2: what are some of the things that you guys have
21:27
Speaker 2: done to either cope with that, or how do you
21:29
Speaker 2: move past that and reinvent yourself and keep moving forward.
21:34
Speaker 1: Sometimes there's no other choice. I feel like our highs
21:38
Speaker 1: have been high, but compared to some other artists not
21:41
Speaker 1: that high. And our lows have been low, but compared
21:45
Speaker 1: to other artists, you know, not not like debilitating. I'd say,
21:50
Speaker 1: when it comes to song choice and singles and that
21:53
Speaker 1: kind of cycle, we realize that we only have so
21:56
Speaker 1: much control over that, and you just got to keep
22:00
Speaker 1: moving on to the next thing, and it's always gonna
22:03
Speaker 1: be our live show that kind of sustains us. And
22:06
Speaker 1: when you have a single that kind of hits it radio,
22:08
Speaker 1: all that goes up quite a bit. But when it's not,
22:11
Speaker 1: I think we have enough of fan base where it
22:13
Speaker 1: never dips down too low. It's just kind of the
22:15
Speaker 1: exposure you get changes. The biggest thing I think for
22:18
Speaker 1: us to cope with was honestly COVID and everybody has
22:21
Speaker 1: their own stories and how they did that, but you know,
22:23
Speaker 1: our world just shut down for quite a while. But
22:27
Speaker 1: luckily we had been a band for enough years before
22:30
Speaker 1: that that we were able to kind of, you know,
22:32
Speaker 1: weather that storm and you know, come out swinging but
22:38
Speaker 1: the four of us doing it together I think has
22:41
Speaker 1: always been helpful. I it's a really tough industry to navigate,
22:46
Speaker 1: and people that do it on their own have a
22:48
Speaker 1: lot of respect for because not having other brothers. You know, yes,
22:55
Speaker 1: sports is and build to bounce off of people to
22:56
Speaker 1: lift you up when you're down, you know. I think
22:59
Speaker 1: that would be one piece of advice if you're out
23:01
Speaker 1: trying to do something like this is don't surround yourself
23:03
Speaker 1: with the y s people, but surround yourself with honest
23:07
Speaker 1: people that will help bring you up when you need
23:09
Speaker 1: it and because they.
23:10
Speaker 3: Care about you, you know. So I think we were
23:12
Speaker 3: always realistic. I think that we always try to when
23:17
Speaker 3: the highs are high, you know, don't don't spend all
23:20
Speaker 3: your money, and when the lows are low, you have
23:23
Speaker 3: money to spend, you know. I think that that one
23:26
Speaker 3: of the biggest things that is a stress to artists
23:30
Speaker 3: is because they run out of money. And that's you know,
23:33
Speaker 3: in the financial side of things. Is like you know,
23:39
Speaker 3: can tear a band apart.
23:40
Speaker 1: Or yeah, I mean it's kind of like I mean,
23:42
Speaker 1: in a way, it's like The Bachelor talking about these
23:44
Speaker 1: you know, extreme dates and the environment and these really
23:47
Speaker 1: great things they get to go do. It's really TV,
23:50
Speaker 1: but it's not real life. Like you look at people
23:54
Speaker 1: you think, you know, celebrities, musicians and the Instagram posts
23:57
Speaker 1: and that's that's a version of life, but it's not
24:01
Speaker 1: real life and people that I think it's it's nice
24:04
Speaker 1: to escape into that and find those little moments like
24:06
Speaker 1: you were talking about, but don't buy into all of
24:09
Speaker 1: it and think that that's what you have to make
24:12
Speaker 1: your life look like all the time, because that that
24:15
Speaker 1: can that's not gonna last very long. And it also
24:17
Speaker 1: doesn't you know, it's great to have these really cool moments,
24:21
Speaker 1: but trying to do all the time doesn't really bring
24:22
Speaker 1: you happiness, you.
24:23
Speaker 3: Know, mm hmm.
24:25
Speaker 2: Absolutely. And it sounds like you guys have a really
24:29
Speaker 2: solid fan base. Do you guys have a favorite memory
24:32
Speaker 2: with a fan, like a fan encounter or or maybe
24:38
Speaker 2: a Bachelor fan encounter where somebody's knew you from The
24:40
Speaker 2: Bachelor and met you in person. Do you guys have
24:42
Speaker 2: a funny moment or a favorite moment like that?
24:46
Speaker 1: So many, but yeah, well I think it was when
24:50
Speaker 1: Sean came out to the first show after the season.
24:56
Speaker 1: It was It's interesting the kind of the different kind
24:58
Speaker 1: of celebrity that you become after being honestre like The Bachelor,
25:02
Speaker 1: and so it's like, does the energy in the room
25:05
Speaker 1: gravitate towards the band that you're there to see? So
25:08
Speaker 1: much of it gravitates over towards Sean, the guy who's
25:12
Speaker 1: famous in The Bachelor, which is really kind of funny,
25:14
Speaker 1: and realize that there's different different types of celebrity and
25:19
Speaker 1: we're the kind of guys that we love being on stage,
25:22
Speaker 1: but we don't necessarily always like the spotlight on us.
25:25
Speaker 1: So it's really great and we're sharing that kind of
25:27
Speaker 1: space with someone that oh, oh yeah, no, go over
25:29
Speaker 1: there and talk to him.
25:30
Speaker 3: We're good, We're good. Yeah, he's over there.
25:33
Speaker 2: Yeah, that's awesome. Well that's really cool. And do you
25:38
Speaker 2: guys have any projects coming up that you want to
25:40
Speaker 2: share with people, either like personal or professional things that
25:46
Speaker 2: you have on the horizon.
25:47
Speaker 3: Well, we just released a deluxe edition of our ten
25:50
Speaker 3: Thousand Towns record, which has a few songs that hadn't
25:54
Speaker 3: been released before and then you know that song had
25:58
Speaker 3: a drunk last Night and dusk big songs for us,
26:02
Speaker 3: But we released some unreleased songs for the deluxe edition,
26:06
Speaker 3: and it was the first time we've done vinyl on
26:08
Speaker 3: that album. And we released a record not too long
26:12
Speaker 3: ago called Love Talking, which was a really fun record
26:16
Speaker 3: to make because we wrote all those songs during COVID
26:21
Speaker 3: and so it was a very interesting time to try
26:23
Speaker 3: to stay positive. But there's also some really vulnerable moments
26:26
Speaker 3: on the record as well. And we we just started
26:29
Speaker 3: a new record that hopefully we're gonna start releasing songs
26:33
Speaker 3: from here in the next few months. So, oh, and
26:36
Speaker 3: then Tom Petty, we were part of the Tom Petty
26:38
Speaker 3: Tribute record. We did a song called Learning to Fly,
26:43
Speaker 3: which is a song that we've been playing for years
26:46
Speaker 3: in our live show, and so we were able to
26:48
Speaker 3: be a part of the Tom Petty Tribute record, which
26:50
Speaker 3: is really really fun for us. So that's it.
26:54
Speaker 1: I didn't have an answer for any of that. It
26:55
Speaker 1: turns out we've got a few things going on.
26:58
Speaker 3: Started coming out.
27:00
Speaker 1: The new music that we're gonna start rolling out. We
27:02
Speaker 1: just started recording back at the studio that we started
27:04
Speaker 1: at in Denton, Texas, where we went to college, and
27:06
Speaker 1: it's a really awesome studio that it feels like home
27:11
Speaker 1: going back there, and we're getting some really neat, really
27:15
Speaker 1: neat stuff out of all that, and we can't wait
27:18
Speaker 1: to share that with the world.
27:19
Speaker 3: Wow.
27:20
Speaker 2: Very cool. Well, thank you guys so much for joining
27:22
Speaker 2: us on Beyond the Bachelor. It's really cool to hear
27:25
Speaker 2: the behind the scenes and just to get to know
27:27
Speaker 2: you guys a little bit better. You know your personal
27:29
Speaker 2: lives and what you've got going on in your careers.
27:33
Speaker 2: So thank you guys for coming on to chat for
27:35
Speaker 2: a little bit.
27:36
Speaker 3: Thank you, See you next time.
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Speaker 2: See you next time.