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Miranda Lambert Says, "Post Malone Did It The Right Way!" · Inside Country with Wayne D

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Speaker 1: It's Wayne d in studio with a lady who always
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Speaker 1: seems to be busy. Do you does Mirandam and Lambert
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Speaker 1: believe in downtime at this point in the life.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm doing pretty good.
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Speaker 1: How do you? Because how do you balance things?
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Speaker 2: I well, I don't know, but I'm learning, you know,
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Speaker 2: And I think it's like that's a big conversation lately.
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Speaker 2: I feel like with everybody and maybe we're putting too
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Speaker 2: much pressure on it. Just like live our lives. Like
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Speaker 2: stop saying we're clock balance, because then it's more stress.
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Speaker 2: It's like anxiety. You know, Am I doing it right?
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Speaker 2: Am I doing it wrong? And that adds to the stress.
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Speaker 2: So I'm like, you know, we should just stop talking
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Speaker 2: about and just do it.
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Speaker 1: That's true. That's I love myself. I'll clip this out
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Speaker 1: so you can listen to it your own motivational tapes. Yeah,
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Speaker 1: speaking of tapes, awkward transition albums? Uh yeah, really old school.
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Speaker 1: I remember when I was a kid. You put the
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Speaker 1: pencil in to fix it. Tastes like, what what are
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Speaker 1: those tapes? The week cassettes? It's all I'll show you later.
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Speaker 1: Retro very retro. How do you feel about the new album.
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Speaker 2: I'm very excited about it. It feels like it feels
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Speaker 2: like home. It sounds like home. It's kind of a
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Speaker 2: little mix of all the influences I've ever had. It's
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Speaker 2: very country, lots of steal guitar.
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Speaker 1: I will say we sat in this same position with
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Speaker 1: Keith Urban a couple of months back, and he was
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Speaker 1: talking about a new album, but he was telling us
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Speaker 1: what happened before that. He created a whole album, walked
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Speaker 1: into the label to play it, and walked out and
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Speaker 1: scrapped the whole thing. Which is crazy to me that
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Speaker 1: somebody that you guys are at that same level to
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Speaker 1: me to have this body of work that is done
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Speaker 1: and you scrap it. Are you to the point where
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Speaker 1: you're super picky about stuff like that? Are you're only
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Speaker 1: creating songs that you're like, I feel it and I'm
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Speaker 1: rolling with it.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, I just roll it. I'm like, I'm not going
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Speaker 2: to go in and waste my own time, you know, Yeah,
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Speaker 2: Like I really think about it and really spend time
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Speaker 2: rotten and really get a play in. So I go
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Speaker 2: in there with confidence and I don't you know, it's
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Speaker 2: like if you don't believe in it, who's going to,
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Speaker 2: you know, it's like, I want to go in there
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Speaker 2: and make something I'm really really proud of and not
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Speaker 2: a second guest. But I understand artists really want their
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Speaker 2: art to be authentic. So I understand there's so many,
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Speaker 2: so many times I've heard of you know, amazing artists
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Speaker 2: scrapping it because it just wasn't there. And I appreciate
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Speaker 2: that too.
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Speaker 1: The new album is called Postcards from Texas. There's fourteen
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Speaker 1: songs on there. Was it tough to find the fourteen
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Speaker 1: or did they kind of fall into place?
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Speaker 2: They kind of fell into place, and I wrote towards them,
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Speaker 2: like I knew I wanted this kind of nostalgic record
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Speaker 2: because I'm kind of starting over in a awesome way.
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Speaker 2: I got a new label with Republic and Big Loud,
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Speaker 2: and I was like, I want to start back at
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Speaker 2: the root of it all. So I kind of knew
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Speaker 2: what I wanted to do for this first record out
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Speaker 2: of the gate with the whole new team. I really
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Speaker 2: want it to be sound like old school me and
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Speaker 2: feel like that, and it does. Now I feel like
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Speaker 2: I can go anywhere from here.
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Speaker 1: At what point did the Big Loud Texas thing come together?
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Speaker 2: I'm obsessed with Big Cloud Texas already. I'm so excited
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Speaker 2: to be part of it. It's been about a couple
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Speaker 2: of years talking about it with my friend John Randall.
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Speaker 2: And you know, the music that came out of Texas
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Speaker 2: is so it's so important to music as a whole.
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Speaker 2: On it, it's Million Whalen and the boys like, we
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Speaker 2: have to make sure we nurture that and that we
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Speaker 2: grow it and that we can you know, we want
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Speaker 2: to keep the music out of that. There's so much different.
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Speaker 2: There's so many different kinds of music to come out
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Speaker 2: of Texas too. It's not just country at all, and
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Speaker 2: so our goal is to just shine a lot on
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Speaker 2: the amazing art that comes out of our state and
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Speaker 2: bring it to the world.
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Speaker 1: You know, there is something so prideful about the art
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Speaker 1: that comes out of Texas. And because Tay and I,
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Speaker 1: one of the shows we do is a morning show
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Speaker 1: in Austin, UH and you can just feel, even though
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Speaker 1: we're not there, you can feel how special that is.
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Speaker 1: As your career grew, did you feel responsible to kind
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Speaker 1: of like protect that a little bit and nurture it?
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Speaker 2: Absolutely? I mean it's like I want everybody to know
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Speaker 2: how how great our state is and what we sound
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Speaker 2: like there and how much truth we tell in our writing.
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Speaker 2: And you know, it's we have our own kind of
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Speaker 2: genre in Texas and it's the music I grew up on.
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Speaker 2: But it's also important that the world hears it and
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Speaker 2: we shine light on it. And you know, I mean,
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Speaker 2: George strait's a perfect example of doing both.
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Speaker 1: You know, yeah, absolutely, we know the list of massive
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Speaker 1: songs you've had, obviously the new album is on the way.
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Speaker 1: Do you have songs that, at some point in your
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Speaker 1: career you were sent or maybe you were a part
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Speaker 1: of a rite and they came to you and you're like,
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Speaker 1: I'm not feeling it, but then it ended up being
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Speaker 1: massive for somebody else.
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Speaker 2: You like, just ten of them?
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Speaker 1: I can, well, so you just mentioned you just mentioned
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Speaker 1: George Straight. We asked Kenny Chesney that same question. He
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Speaker 1: was offered check yes or no and passed on it.
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Speaker 1: Oh man, And now I can't imagine that not being
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Speaker 1: a George Straight song. Do you what songs would that
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Speaker 1: be for you?
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Speaker 2: I don't even want to say, because I'm like, I
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Speaker 2: don't want to insult the songs because they were great,
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Speaker 2: they just weren't good for me. And then they were
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Speaker 2: huge and I'm like sitting at a ward show watching
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Speaker 2: somebody except song of the Year. I'm like, I'm not
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Speaker 2: a missed one. That's okay.
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Speaker 1: Well, but Jake Owen told us that same story a
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Speaker 1: while back where he got big green tractor offered to
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Speaker 1: him and he goes, dude, I'm I'm a beach guy,
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Speaker 1: not a tractor guy. So like that doesn't work. And
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Speaker 1: obviously Jason elbeing still casting checks off of that.
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Speaker 2: But you know what, it's good though. It's good even
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Speaker 2: if I like knew, okay, this is gonna be huge,
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Speaker 2: but it's not for me. It's important to just not
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Speaker 2: do it. Like for me, I'm not gonna just go
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Speaker 2: cut something because it I know it's gonna be a hit,
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Speaker 2: but it doesn't feel like me at all. It has
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Speaker 2: to be right.
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Speaker 1: Was there ever a time where it was tough to
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Speaker 1: make that decision because you knew the song was going
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Speaker 1: to be big?
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Speaker 2: Yeah, there was, and it was huge, but it wasn't
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Speaker 2: for me and I you know, but I lucky, like
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Speaker 2: I found I got to have house that built me,
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Speaker 2: like so I got mine like that. That song is
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Speaker 2: so special and it's such a cornerstone of my career
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Speaker 2: and of my set every night, and just like really
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Speaker 2: needed that song at the time. And so I feel
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Speaker 2: like for everyone I might have lost, I gained a
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Speaker 2: song like that.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, And a song like that probably means more than
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Speaker 1: a handful of songs that don't connect with you absolutely.
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Speaker 1: When you look at the track listing of the fourteen songs,
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Speaker 1: do you feel pressure to recreate big songs or do
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Speaker 1: you feel like a part two of a house that
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Speaker 1: built me? Do you ever look for stuff like that
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Speaker 1: when you're putting together a new album.
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Speaker 2: I feel like you can't chase something that's already been done. Ever,
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Speaker 2: if you do that, you get lost. You sort of
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Speaker 2: start doing U turns, you know what I mean, You're like,
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Speaker 2: where am I going? What am I? You know? I
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Speaker 2: feel really strongly about reinventing myself in certain ways every
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Speaker 2: single record. And I mean, really, this is my tenth
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Speaker 2: album to make solo album if I count my very
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Speaker 2: first little independent record. Just crazy to even say, but
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Speaker 2: you know, I don't ever want to do the same
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Speaker 2: thing twice because I've already done that, you know. And
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Speaker 2: like when I was writing for wild Card, I put
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Speaker 2: tapestries up all around my music room with my trophies
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Speaker 2: and plaques and whatever, and I just covered the walls
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Speaker 2: with tapestries because I was like, well, this is all great.
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Speaker 2: I'm really proud of it, but I've already done that.
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Speaker 2: Now what am I gonna do? Because I'm sitting there
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Speaker 2: right and comparing myself to myself and I wasn't getting anywhere,
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Speaker 2: you know, and my friends were coming over and not
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Speaker 2: getting anywhere to write, and so I was like, let's
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Speaker 2: just cover all this up and start fresh, you know,
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Speaker 2: because it's such a part of my history. But it's
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Speaker 2: like I got to keep moving forward. You got to
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Speaker 2: keep reinventing. You have to keep trying something new, And
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Speaker 2: even on postcards from Texas, it's like little pieces. Each
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Speaker 2: song's a little piece of my story and where I'm from.
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Speaker 2: But it's still there's parts of it that are really
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Speaker 2: fresh to me and that feel like hopeful and like
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Speaker 2: I knew. The last song on the record is called
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Speaker 2: Living on the Run, and I did that on purpose
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Speaker 2: because I'm like, kind of sets me up for the
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Speaker 2: next journey, like where are we going? On album eleven?
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Speaker 1: You know, when you talk about a song has to
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Speaker 1: connect with you, it has to make sense for you.
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Speaker 1: Maybe you were a part of the right maybe somebody
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Speaker 1: else brought brought the idea to click for you. Not
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Speaker 1: all artists get to say that right. Some artists are
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Speaker 1: trying to find whatever song they can to connect. At
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Speaker 1: what point in your career were you like, Nope, I
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Speaker 1: have to feel it or it's not going to happen,
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Speaker 1: or have you always been that way.
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Speaker 2: From day one? I just you know, I started writing
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Speaker 2: when I was seventeen, and which you know wasn't great,
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Speaker 2: but I was it was a start. And I just
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Speaker 2: the artists that I'm drawn to and that I love
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Speaker 2: her are all really strong, like they stand really firm
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Speaker 2: and who they are, and so that's kind of where
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Speaker 2: I learned it. And also being from Texas, we're kind
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Speaker 2: of just that way. We're a little bit stubborn and
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Speaker 2: like we love y'all, come on in. But if you
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Speaker 2: don't like, cause we really don't care that much, you
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Speaker 2: know what I mean. And so I feel like I
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Speaker 2: use that kind of raising in my in my business,
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Speaker 2: like I still do it, you know, I just it
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Speaker 2: has to be. My mom's advice to me was so simple.
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Speaker 2: It was know who you are and stick with it
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Speaker 2: at seventeen when I was like, I want to do music,
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Speaker 2: She's like, well, you need to establish who you are now.
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Speaker 2: Don't waiver, because you know when you come into Nashville
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Speaker 2: like eighteen like and you're meeting with labels, it's like, well,
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Speaker 2: you could be the next this person, or you could
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Speaker 2: wear this halter top and be the next this person.
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Speaker 2: It's like, well, I just wanted to be the first
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Speaker 2: Miranda Lambert and that's what I've done.
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Speaker 1: You have a massive impact. And it's funny because you
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Speaker 1: watch these artists become legends, and I think, to this
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Speaker 1: new era of artists, you have reached that spot. We
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Speaker 1: talked to Lanny Wilson recently and she said how much
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Speaker 1: you have meant to her before she even knew you,
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Speaker 1: and now you're friends. What does that mean for you
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Speaker 1: to be able to connect with other artists and maybe
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Speaker 1: share something you already know about the business.
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Speaker 2: It's so important and I'm honored to have that. I mean,
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Speaker 2: it's a big responsibility and I don't take it lightly.
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Speaker 2: And that's a huge part of why I love Big
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Speaker 2: Loud Texas is I'm able to like use my experiences
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Speaker 2: and you know, the things I've learned, which I'm still learning.
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Speaker 2: I mean, I've done a whole lot, but I'm only
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Speaker 2: forty and I've got long way to go. So I
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Speaker 2: just want to be able to, especially with the women
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Speaker 2: in the industry, not just the artists, but women in
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Speaker 2: the industry in general, Like sometimes it's takes three times
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Speaker 2: as long, and it's have to pay, and that's just
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Speaker 2: part of it sometimes. But I want to be able
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Speaker 2: to like encourage artists and people to just really stick
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Speaker 2: it out and be strong in their authenticity because that
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Speaker 2: win's at the end of the day every time. And
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Speaker 2: so you know, if my career and where I've made
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Speaker 2: it to is a testimony to that, I'm really.
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Speaker 1: Proud country music. You would just like you were talking
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Speaker 1: about Texas and yes there's Texas country, but there's also
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Speaker 1: like different levels of it, right, and it's the storytelling
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Speaker 1: and it's the songs. Country music in general has become
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Speaker 1: more of a melting pot than it ever has been.
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Speaker 1: It's almost like top forty music and like the two
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Speaker 1: early two thousands were like everything everything, everything right now. Yeah,
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Speaker 1: but with that, we are getting experiences with artists who
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Speaker 1: normally haven't done country before. Obviously, more recently post Malone
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Speaker 1: something so special about his approach on we'll say dipping
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Speaker 1: his tone in the country, but it felt more like
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Speaker 1: a cannonball. What's your thoughts on how he's been embraced
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Speaker 1: in the format.
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Speaker 2: I just appreciate anybody that comes and immerses themselves in
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Speaker 2: our city, like I love Nashville so much. I always
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Speaker 2: say I've got half my heart in Texas and half
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Speaker 2: in Tennessee because this community and the country music industry
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Speaker 2: has been so great to me, and it's my family.
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Speaker 2: I mean, it's where all my friends live, it's where
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Speaker 2: I work, and I'm so proud of it. And you
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Speaker 2: know the fact that he came to town and wrote
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Speaker 2: with all of our writers, me included, and we're just
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Speaker 2: with at the acums, playing flip Cup and just hanging
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Speaker 2: and being part of our community. I respect that so much,
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Speaker 2: and I think that's the way to do it. If
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Speaker 2: you're gonna come on over here. We are very open
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Speaker 2: door in country music. As we all know. We take everybody,
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Speaker 2: but I expect for that person to, you know, respect
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Speaker 2: us and reciprocate that because our community is amazing and
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Speaker 2: we have some amazing songwriters, and I don't take that
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Speaker 2: for granted, and I don't want anybody else come into
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Speaker 2: town and taking it for granted.
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Speaker 1: You know, is it special for you to invest time
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Speaker 1: writing with other people? Not just the post Malone story,
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Speaker 1: but like, if you're gonna if you are going to
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Speaker 1: take your time with the experience and the success that
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Speaker 1: you've had to sit with somebody, is it a project
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Speaker 1: that like you have to know ahead of time and
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Speaker 1: believe in or you just down to write whatever. Whenever
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Speaker 1: I've been.
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Speaker 2: A lot more just down to write, like I needed
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Speaker 2: to branch out. And it's really good for me. And
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Speaker 2: it's you know, and it's writing with different kinds of
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Speaker 2: writers and writing with different kinds of artists. I mean,
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Speaker 2: I'm a creator, so I want to create in all
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Speaker 2: kinds of ways and I think I've opened myself up
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Speaker 2: to that a lot more in the last few years
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Speaker 2: and it's been really fun. And I've actually gotten some cuts,
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Speaker 2: which is super fun. So I'm like, Okay, this is
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Speaker 2: like it's you know, when I'm on my downtime, I
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Speaker 2: want to be creating something and it doesn't have to
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Speaker 2: just be for me.
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Speaker 1: How much longer do I got? Guys? Okay? Got it?
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Speaker 1: Something else? That's awesome is you have done so much
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Speaker 1: as an artist and not only that, like as a
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Speaker 1: powerful female artist in the format between a Vegas residency.
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Speaker 1: Your name's on Lower Broadway right, which, by the way, Uh,
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Speaker 1: what's my favorite taco there?
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Speaker 2: The gringo.
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Speaker 1: Taco. It's like the it's like a deep fried taco.
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Speaker 2: It's like a state something delicious and then fried, ye
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Speaker 2: make it even more.
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Speaker 1: But I will say, what did you call it?
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Speaker 2: The gringo talking the spicy beef ONTs my favorite.
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Speaker 1: I'm telling you, your.
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Speaker 2: Food is good, y'all.
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Speaker 1: It's like not bar food.
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Speaker 2: It's delicious.
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Speaker 1: That's and I say that to people because bar food
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Speaker 1: is bar food. Cool. Have some drinks and then it
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Speaker 1: helps you have more.
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Speaker 2: But ours is like good food, Like you can go
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Speaker 2: there for like lunch and not be drinking.
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Speaker 1: It's delicious and the caso is fantastic. Like if I
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Speaker 1: took that very.
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Speaker 2: Seriously because I put text mex on there and I
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Speaker 2: was like, all my Texas friends are going to give
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Speaker 2: me so much. Hell if this doesn't taste good, like
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Speaker 2: I can like claimed text mes and then it not deliver.
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Speaker 1: You know, But like so that brings me to and
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Speaker 1: I'm not putting down any other artists, but like artists
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Speaker 1: get approached to slap their name on something and then
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Speaker 1: they'll just send you some money once a month. Why
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Speaker 1: was it important? Because we've obviously worked with that crew
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Speaker 1: down there, the ownership group yea, and they even said,
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Speaker 1: as you were working on getting the building open, how
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Speaker 1: involved you were. Why was that important when you could
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Speaker 1: have just got money anyway? Right?
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Speaker 2: Well, I really wanted it to feel like me, like
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Speaker 2: you need to has my name on it. It's gonna
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Speaker 2: have my stamp on it. I touch and feel and
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Speaker 2: see every single thing that has my name or my
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Speaker 2: brand Marianda Lambert brand quote unquote on it, because it's
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Speaker 2: important to me. Like, you know, four chords. I learned
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Speaker 2: four chords and that was an extra I don't even
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Speaker 2: need for I needed three only. So I'm like at
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Speaker 2: seventeen and I can't believe what those four chords led
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Speaker 2: me to. And I have worked my ass off for it.
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Speaker 2: But I'm also like, I really want to protect it,
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Speaker 2: know because it's important, and I can't be a mentor
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Speaker 2: or be this, you know, have this long career if
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Speaker 2: I don't stay in it and stay really aware of
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Speaker 2: anything that has it needs my stamp on it. It
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Speaker 2: needs to feel like me. Fans can see through that,
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Speaker 2: especially country fans, like they want the truth, you know,
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Speaker 2: and that and that's what I signed up to give them.
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Speaker 2: And that means across the board, with my charity, with
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Speaker 2: my brand, I'll wind you know, I just with my
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Speaker 2: Nation Foundation. I'm really involved with all of it because
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Speaker 2: I have to be. And sometimes I'm tired, and sometimes
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Speaker 2: I if I slack, I feel it, and I think
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Speaker 2: the fans feel it. So try to stay in it.
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Speaker 2: Try to drinking like a lot of coffee as you should.
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Speaker 1: It's day near album. Yeah, don't sleep. You brought up
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Speaker 1: my Nation. I want to go that way next because
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Speaker 1: that's a part of the restaurant that the average person
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Speaker 1: might miss if they just you know, run in and
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Speaker 1: they want to see the the disco ball hanging in
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Speaker 1: the dining room upstairs or whatever. Sorry, the saddle that
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Speaker 1: is super unique.
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Speaker 2: We pattern that saddle after the one hanging Billy Bob's text.
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Speaker 2: There's a ron Stone sidle hanging over the dance floor
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Speaker 2: and Billy Bob's and I've just loved it since I
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Speaker 2: was like sixteen, and so we did a bigger version
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Speaker 2: for Casa Rosa.
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Speaker 1: Is it? This is totally not a question I was
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Speaker 1: gonna ask, But as you talk about the stuff hanging there,
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Speaker 1: is it I've always wondered for an artist, is it
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Speaker 1: weird to be like, yeah, sure, here's my CMA outfit
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Speaker 1: that I've actually worn and sweat in when I performed.
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Speaker 1: Go ahead and put it in a frame.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, it's a little bit weird. And I always tell
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Speaker 2: him to like fold it, make it look smaller. And
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Speaker 2: I also cut the tag out. I'm like, they don't
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Speaker 2: need to, don't I don't even need to know what
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Speaker 2: size I was that day, Like, that's just gonna get
16:31
Speaker 2: my head.
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Speaker 1: But but there's there's like a hidden gem of of
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Speaker 1: Casa Rosa and uh it's the Mutt Nation. Yeah. And
16:42
Speaker 1: so as they were as they were setting that up,
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Speaker 1: I had I have a rescue pit bull named Cash
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Speaker 1: that when I was in Vegas, like he's and he
16:49
Speaker 1: it's almost like he can tell like he was rescued
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Speaker 1: because he's so like sweet and he just wants you
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Speaker 1: to hold. Yeah, why was that important to incorporate there?
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Speaker 1: And then the second part of that is you're so
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Speaker 1: involved in that every day yeah.
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Speaker 2: I mean, I'm I have so many dogs, Well I'm
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Speaker 2: down to two. But like I'm involved to the point
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Speaker 2: where I like, overdid it nine press q dogs at once?
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Speaker 2: Like what am I doing? It's so at the mut
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Speaker 2: Nation wall at Cus Rosa, I'll speak on that first
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Speaker 2: sec you kind of sign. It's on the backstairs. You sign,
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Speaker 2: or you scan the QR code and then for five
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Speaker 2: hundred bucks, you get your dog painted on the wall
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Speaker 2: and it's hand painted by my friend Tiny. He's amazing, Tim,
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Speaker 2: He's great, he's amazing. He painted all the murals in
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Speaker 2: all of our places and he'll paint your dog and
17:34
Speaker 2: then you know, and every dollar that you know. I
17:38
Speaker 2: started a Muttinnation Foundation in two thousand and nine because
17:41
Speaker 2: I want I was asking my fans to like give
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Speaker 2: money to something, and I wanted them to believe in
17:46
Speaker 2: where it was going and like understand what was going.
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Speaker 2: So me and my mom were like, we just want
17:50
Speaker 2: to vet all of this process and make sure that
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Speaker 2: we're not asking the fans to give to something that
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Speaker 2: they can't really see, touch or feel and understand where
17:56
Speaker 2: all the money's going. So we don't have a shelter
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Speaker 2: nation is set up up to give to shelters. We
18:01
Speaker 2: do so many programs we work with. We do like
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Speaker 2: disaster relief, where we go in and help the animals
18:08
Speaker 2: of the situation, like a Harvey for instance. We're boots
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Speaker 2: on the ground there and we give grants to a
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Speaker 2: shelter in every state every single year to just lift
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Speaker 2: them up. And we you know, do campaigns to We
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Speaker 2: have one called it Takes Balls right Now, which is
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Speaker 2: like promoting span neuter because that's part of the problem
18:27
Speaker 2: why we have so many dogs. Too many dogs. People
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Speaker 2: are breeding. We don't need to. So there's I could
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Speaker 2: go on and on. I won't, but but my nation
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Speaker 2: is close to my heart and I wanted to make
18:36
Speaker 2: sure that the fans could understand where the money was going.
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Speaker 2: And my mom with a private investigator in my whole life,
18:43
Speaker 2: and so she like vets it like that, like she
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Speaker 2: knows about all the shelters that were that were affiliated
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Speaker 2: with and it's legit. And it's now been since two
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Speaker 2: thousand and nine and we've raised over ten million dollars
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Speaker 2: and saved thousands of dogs. So I'm really proud of it.
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Speaker 1: That's what I have four at my home. You do
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Speaker 1: and let me tell you it's I don't have a
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Speaker 1: back where I'm down in spring Hill. I don't have
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Speaker 1: a backyard for four dogs, but we make it work.
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Speaker 2: It's a I'm down to two because they were all
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Speaker 2: seniors at once, you know, but it's just the most
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Speaker 2: joy and like it's the most unconditional love and they
19:16
Speaker 2: do not care. I'm not Mariana Lamberton them. I'm their
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Speaker 2: mom with the Greenies, and like that's fine with me.
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Speaker 2: You know.
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Speaker 1: Uh that's my backup plan when this radio thing drives
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Speaker 1: up for me? Is I said to Tate, I'm doing
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Speaker 1: a dog rescue.
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Speaker 2: I'm all about it. Let me know when when you
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Speaker 2: get there.
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Speaker 1: We may need funding. You know how much that's ten
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Speaker 1: million got left. I'm just kidding. We will rap on
19:38
Speaker 1: the album because being a songwriter and being a storyteller
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Speaker 1: is great and it's therapeutic for your fans. It's also
19:45
Speaker 1: therapeutic for you. Out of these fourteen songs, is there
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Speaker 1: a story that maybe you struggle to tell or was
19:52
Speaker 1: emotional put to paper and then record that you hope
19:55
Speaker 1: fans give a little more time.
19:56
Speaker 2: To I would you know all my babies, I love
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Speaker 2: them all, but.
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Speaker 1: No babies are ugly, Yeah, exactly, But you have a favorite.
20:06
Speaker 2: If there's an emotional The most emotional song on the
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Speaker 2: record is Run and it's a solo rite, and those
20:10
Speaker 2: are always scarier because there's nowhere to hide, Like it's
20:14
Speaker 2: kind of like I can't be like, well, that was
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Speaker 2: my co writer story because I wrote it by myself,
20:17
Speaker 2: so you know, and it was a song I needed
20:19
Speaker 2: to write at the time because I was going through it,
20:21
Speaker 2: like in the thick of some hard stuff, and so
20:25
Speaker 2: I guess, you know. But that's that's like the most
20:27
Speaker 2: important part, because we wouldn't have some of my favorite
20:29
Speaker 2: songs of all time. We wouldn't have if people didn't
20:31
Speaker 2: just tell their truth, you know what I mean. So
20:34
Speaker 2: as scary as it can be, sometimes it's it's so
20:36
Speaker 2: important to just put it out there because it's if
20:39
Speaker 2: it's your story, it's somebody else's too. Somebody else is
20:41
Speaker 2: going through the same thing you are. It makes you
20:43
Speaker 2: not feel alone.
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Speaker 1: You know, the album's coming out. We are what just
20:47
Speaker 1: under two weeks away from the album coming out. Take
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Speaker 1: me The last thing I want to ask is take
20:52
Speaker 1: me to the first time you ever heard your song
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Speaker 1: on the radio.
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Speaker 2: Oh man, I was like nineteen maybe or eighteen, I
20:59
Speaker 2: think eighteen, and I had a little I had a
21:04
Speaker 2: little independent record and so I heard on the radio,
21:07
Speaker 2: Well i'll take the back. I was seventeen. I first
21:08
Speaker 2: heard myself on the radio, but it was in Texas
21:10
Speaker 2: music chart. You know. It was my little independent record,
21:12
Speaker 2: and I wasn't very good writer at all yet, but
21:15
Speaker 2: I was real proud of it. I was like, I
21:16
Speaker 2: write songs, you know, and that was cool. But then
21:20
Speaker 2: like signed with a major label and I had been
21:23
Speaker 2: on Nashville Star and my real like Kerosene album was made,
21:26
Speaker 2: and my first single was me and Charlie talking and
21:29
Speaker 2: it was like, well, this ain't just playing in Dallas.
21:31
Speaker 2: This is like on a radio radio like nationally, you know.
21:35
Speaker 2: And so me and my mom were driving, I think
21:37
Speaker 2: we were leaving Nashville and going towards home, and I
21:40
Speaker 2: heard it like on a station in Memphis or something,
21:42
Speaker 2: and we like pulled over and ran around the car
21:43
Speaker 2: and like with like a fire drill because we were
21:45
Speaker 2: so excited, like, oh my god, like this is big time,
21:49
Speaker 2: you know. So it was you don't ever forget that,
21:51
Speaker 2: And that was one of those stories that I'm glad
21:53
Speaker 2: that I can be part of artist's life. In fact,
21:56
Speaker 2: Laney actually called me when her when a Heart Like
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Speaker 2: a Truck, Number one, No Things a man not to
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Speaker 2: know her first number one? She called me, I think
22:04
Speaker 2: it was really late at night. I was like, hell,
22:06
Speaker 2: She's like, I just want to talk to somebody who
22:08
Speaker 2: knows exactly what this feels like. And I'm like, it
22:10
Speaker 2: just means the world to me because you don't forget that.
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Speaker 2: It's like it lives with you forever. And I still have.
22:14
Speaker 2: When I hear it on the radio, I get excited.
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Speaker 2: I'll be like, car next to me, I'm like, that's
22:18
Speaker 2: me on the radio. I gotta spin.
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Speaker 1: I've always wanted to if like an artist, and I'd
22:25
Speaker 1: like to ask that too, is if you are in
22:27
Speaker 1: the car and you're listening to whatever and your song
22:30
Speaker 1: comes on, do you turn it up? Are do you?
22:32
Speaker 2: It depends on what it is. Some of my old ones,
22:34
Speaker 2: I'm like, I've heard that, But my new ones, I'm like,
22:36
Speaker 2: crank it up. I will tell you I was leaving
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Speaker 2: vag I was leaving UH after my residency in Vegas.
22:42
Speaker 2: One of the shows one night and going home and
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Speaker 2: and my song that I wrote with Morgan thought you
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Speaker 2: should know came on and the drivers like doesn't know
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Speaker 2: country music, and I was like, turn it up. It
22:54
Speaker 2: was like eleven thirty nine. I'm like, turn it up.
22:56
Speaker 2: I wrote this song. It was the first time I
22:57
Speaker 2: heard it all there, so I'm still excited, like it's exciting,
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Speaker 2: especially Morgan Wall and cut. That's huge. I'll take it
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Speaker 2: all day.
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Speaker 1: A driver in Vegas like, yeah, sure, you can't tell.
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Speaker 2: All the ron stones lued to my eyes and I'm legit,
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Speaker 2: what are you talking about?
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Speaker 1: Miranda, Thanks so much for the time today.
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Speaker 2: Thank you