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Was This Dan + Shay Viral Moment, MISSED? · Inside Country with Wayne D

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  Speaker 1: It's Wayne Dan studio with the boys.
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  Speaker 2: Dan and say, how.
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  Speaker 1: Y'all doing good to see you, brother, what's happening to
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  Speaker 1: see you? I haven't seen y'all since Award season. Things
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  Speaker 1: slowing down, How you're feeling about the rest of the year.
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  Speaker 3: Chewing out a little bit? I overdressed Nashville is like
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  Speaker 3: the weather's been nuts, Dude. One day it's ten degrees,
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  Speaker 3: the next day it's seventy degrees.
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  Speaker 1: See, I thought maybe you went like GQ.
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  Speaker 4: I'm trying. I'm just trying to keep it because.
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  Speaker 1: To be funny, when I saw y'all at CFAs about
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  Speaker 1: you're like, look, he's making fun of how we're dressing.
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  Speaker 5: Well, I wasn't gonna make fun of your shirt. I
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  Speaker 5: think your shirt it's cool no matter what Dan thinks
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  Speaker 5: about it, you know what I mean?
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  Speaker 6: I think that's I think.
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  Speaker 1: They have that like judgment, so like, oh you wore
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  Speaker 1: that today?
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  Speaker 4: Are you getting changed for the interview? Now cameras, this
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  Speaker 4: isn't on camera.
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  Speaker 6: You just say this is audio for you either, this
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  Speaker 6: is great.
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  Speaker 1: How how do you approach award season? Is how those
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  Speaker 1: things wrap up? Like, cause it's there's a lot of
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  Speaker 1: stress going into it and then once the amaze that's
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  Speaker 1: kind of like the end of the year.
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  Speaker 6: It feels like right it is, man.
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  Speaker 5: You know, I feel like at this point in our career,
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  Speaker 5: you know, we've been blessed enough to have you know,
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  Speaker 5: won every award that we can win in our in
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  Speaker 5: our genre for you know, being up for something, and you.
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  Speaker 2: Try to get to that place where it's like, all right, just.
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  Speaker 5: To be you know, nominated is an honor, and we
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  Speaker 5: really are in that place. I think for every artist
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  Speaker 5: would be lying if you said that going into it,
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  Speaker 5: it isn't just anxiety or ridden and like there's just
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  Speaker 5: so much pressure because you love all the people in
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  Speaker 5: your category. Those are your friends, and so it's really
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  Speaker 5: tough when you kind of go into that moment. And
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  Speaker 5: even if you're just like all right, you know, if
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  Speaker 5: you're you're okay with just being nominated, it stinks because
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  Speaker 5: you go in there and you're like, all right, somebody's
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  Speaker 5: gonna be a winner and someone's gonna be a loser tonight,
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  Speaker 5: and it's just it's tough. Man. I feel like every
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  Speaker 5: artist struggles with it, but we really have gotten to
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  Speaker 5: a place that's what makes it great about being in
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  Speaker 5: a duo.
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  Speaker 6: We always talk about this.
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  Speaker 5: You know, the highs are even higher and the lows
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  Speaker 5: aren't as low, and we're really able to kind of
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  Speaker 5: remind each other like, hey, this, it really is amazing
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  Speaker 5: that we get to do this, and you know, we
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  Speaker 5: can kind of remind each other. It's probably a lot
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  Speaker 5: tougher for a lot of the solo acts, who are
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  Speaker 5: just kind of there by themselves with the smiles, like I'm.
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  Speaker 2: So happy that I didn't win, But no, I feel
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  Speaker 2: like it's.
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  Speaker 6: You know, I feel like it is very uh, it's stressful, but.
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  Speaker 5: At the same time, it is one of the only
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  Speaker 5: times in the year that you get to see everybody,
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  Speaker 5: and it really is just kind of a family affair,
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  Speaker 5: and we really have gotten to that place in our
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  Speaker 5: career where it's like, man, we are we really are
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  Speaker 5: lucky to still be doing this and to be able
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  Speaker 5: to still be invited. There was a time when we
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  Speaker 5: we weren't invited, and so to kind of go back
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  Speaker 5: to that place and be like, you know what, this
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  Speaker 5: is pretty amazing that we get to be a part
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  Speaker 5: of such an incredible thing.
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  Speaker 1: Although I'm surprised it didn't go viral. I did notice
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  Speaker 1: Dan Lean over to you when Brooks and done one
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  Speaker 1: and I'm a great lip reader. Move aside, Grandpa, is
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  Speaker 1: what you said?
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  Speaker 4: Hey, you gotta get your glasses checked. Me go.
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  Speaker 3: We have some like potentially viral moments at that award show.
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  Speaker 3: There's a funny moment we're sitting there. Luke Combs is
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  Speaker 3: performing Ain't No Love in Oklahoma, which could just goes
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  Speaker 3: so hard, you know, and Bailey Zimmerman was like walking
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  Speaker 3: you know, you know, he's such like a ball of
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  Speaker 3: energy's so positive, so happy to be there. And he's
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  Speaker 3: walking past our seats and they're like, all right, and
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  Speaker 3: second's ten seconds. You know how they usher everybody and
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  Speaker 3: they get the seed fillers in there. I was like,
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  Speaker 3: you're not gonna make it, dude, You're not gonna make it.
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  Speaker 3: The camera's right there. Peyton Manning, Luke, Bryan Laney Wilson
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  Speaker 3: are like and up next with the song from the
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  Speaker 3: Twisters soundtrack, Luke Combs, and I was like, sit dout,
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  Speaker 3: sit on getting my aisle. He sat on my lap
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  Speaker 3: and we're just going absolutely bananas. When Luke comes doing
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  Speaker 3: a No Love in Oklahoma, the camera was on us
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  Speaker 3: the whole time. I didn't watch the playback, but like
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  Speaker 3: if I'm that switcher guy backstage doing the camera, I'm like,
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  Speaker 3: I'm keeping it on Dan and Billy's and the whole
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  Speaker 3: time it looked ridiculous like father and son vibes, you
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  Speaker 3: know what I'm saying, Like, yeah, I told you this
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  Speaker 3: guy's good.
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  Speaker 6: You know it was.
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  Speaker 2: It was crazy because they also like those people.
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  Speaker 5: Are obviously they have a job to do it, like
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  Speaker 5: when they're in the aisles, they're pretty aggressive with like
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  Speaker 5: shoving people out of the way. And right before that,
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  Speaker 5: like whenever Laney and them were announcing it, they had
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  Speaker 5: this like fan blowing on them to announce it, you know,
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  Speaker 5: like the whole you know play on words.
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  Speaker 4: Like a spinning fan, not like a fan.
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  Speaker 2: It was an actual like blowing fan.
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  Speaker 5: And it's like, you know, they're trying to make it
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  Speaker 5: where it looks like they're in the storm and all
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  Speaker 5: this stuff. And so they they all but shoved Bailey aside,
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  Speaker 5: and he got there was no option but to sit
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  Speaker 5: on Dan's left because the camera was taking up most
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  Speaker 5: of the aisle. And I was like, man, the lady,
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  Speaker 5: I thought she was going to shoot somebody. She was
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  Speaker 5: very angry with who she didn't realize that whoever it was,
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  Speaker 5: she was just like.
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  Speaker 1: You gotta move, you gotta move.
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  Speaker 5: We got three seconds and I was like, oh my gosh,
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  Speaker 5: it was it was. It was a wild, uh wild
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  Speaker 5: thirty seconds there.
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  Speaker 1: You guys, you look at a show like that, and
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  Speaker 1: it evolves over the years, especially with I feel like
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  Speaker 1: over the last two years it's been and obviously social
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  Speaker 1: media has been a large help. The rush of new
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  Speaker 1: artists and new songs is like stronger than ever. What's
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  Speaker 1: that like for you guys who have who have done
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  Speaker 1: what you do at such a high level for so long.
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  Speaker 1: What's it like to see where country was when you
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  Speaker 1: got here to where it is now?
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  Speaker 4: It's cool, man, Honestly, I think it's evolved a lot.
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  Speaker 3: There's like it's gone through a crazy roller coaster revolution
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  Speaker 3: of different sounds. It's been more pop leaning, it's been
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  Speaker 3: more country leaning, and now I feel like the door
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  Speaker 3: is why open for stuff that's as you know, country
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  Speaker 3: and his cowboys Cody Johnson or Parker McCollum, who are
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  Speaker 3: good friends of ours, you know. And then you've still
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  Speaker 3: got guys like Bailey Zimmer and pushing the envelope, Sam
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  Speaker 3: Hunt and I feel like when we came onto the scene,
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  Speaker 3: you know, twenty thirteen, twenty fourteen, our sound was pretty progressive,
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  Speaker 3: but I feel like being a part of that movement
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  Speaker 3: that kind of broke some doors down, you know, introduced people.
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  Speaker 3: We had some songs that were grateful for it, crossed
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  Speaker 3: over to different genres.
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  Speaker 4: How they see Top forty, you know.
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  Speaker 3: Songs that started at country, Tequila, Speechless, you know those
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  Speaker 3: tunes ten thousand hours with Bieber. I feel like we're
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  Speaker 3: the start of bringing people in from other genres. You know,
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  Speaker 3: Shania Twain's done it in the past, Garth Brooks has
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  Speaker 3: done it in the past, and you know, now Morgan's
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  Speaker 3: doing it. You know, his songs are all over Top
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  Speaker 3: forty radio. And the coolest compliment we could get from
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  Speaker 3: somebody out there on the road is like, yo, man,
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  Speaker 3: I never listened to country before, but I was listening
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  Speaker 3: to you know, whatever station, Kids FM, and I heard
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  Speaker 3: Dan and Shay on there, and I now I got
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  Speaker 3: country program in my car. And that's cool because there's
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  Speaker 3: just so much good country music to be discovered now,
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  Speaker 3: more than ever, especially with streaming, you know, more genre
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  Speaker 3: or more artists coming into the scene every single day.
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  Speaker 3: I can't even keep up with it. It's nuts, even
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  Speaker 3: on our own record label, you know. I asked my wife,
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  Speaker 3: I'm like, can you name ten percent of these artists?
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  Speaker 5: It's wild.
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  Speaker 3: But it's a good thing, man, it's a good thing.
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  Speaker 3: People are making great music out there. Touring is bigger
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  Speaker 3: than ever. I feel like there's more country headliners. I
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  Speaker 3: was talking about this with somebody last night.
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  Speaker 4: I was like, there are so.
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  Speaker 3: Many arena, amphitheater, and now stadium level country headliners.
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  Speaker 4: It's it's insane.
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  Speaker 1: You know.
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  Speaker 4: The fan base is just huge.
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  Speaker 1: As you see that the stadium thing coming to play
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  Speaker 1: because arenas, like country lived in arenas and really up
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  Speaker 1: until the last few years like that became garth. Did
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  Speaker 1: you know the big the massive venues. Does that open
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  Speaker 1: up goals that maybe you guys didn't have at some point,
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  Speaker 1: like hey, what if what if you know we put
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  Speaker 1: something together and made a swing at some of those
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  Speaker 1: type of venues at some point.
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  Speaker 6: Absolutely, I think every artist does.
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  Speaker 5: I think in the beginning, I think my goals were
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  Speaker 5: so much smaller than they are now. They start out
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  Speaker 5: like our dream was to be able to play like
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  Speaker 5: a thousand caps, Like growing up, mine was like, you know,
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  Speaker 5: George's Majestic Lounge in Fayeville, Arkansas. It was like, man,
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  Speaker 5: whoever's playing there, they're the biggest artists in the world,
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  Speaker 5: you know, And it was like, I think that was
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  Speaker 5: kind of my goal. You know, my favorite bands were
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  Speaker 5: all playing these five hundred caps two fifty caps, and
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  Speaker 5: I feel like, as you, you know, progress in your career,
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  Speaker 5: we were just blown away that we were able to
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  Speaker 5: have anyone come to our shows. And I think that
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  Speaker 5: as you go along in your career and you have,
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  Speaker 5: we've never had this like, oh we've got.
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  Speaker 2: To get to stadiums or we've been a failure.
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  Speaker 5: I think though, as you've you reached those goals, there's
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  Speaker 5: a natural I always say to be content but not complacent,
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  Speaker 5: Like I'm very happy and you know with the way
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  Speaker 5: our career has gone and the things we've gotten to do,
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  Speaker 5: but I think you always kind of have to look
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  Speaker 5: ahead and be like, you know what, what can we
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  Speaker 5: set our sights on next?
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  Speaker 6: In a healthy way.
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  Speaker 5: In the past, we've we've done that in an unhealthy
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  Speaker 5: way where it's like you set these goals and these
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  Speaker 5: expectations and then if you don't meet them, you know,
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  Speaker 5: your happiness is, you know, you feel like you're not
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  Speaker 5: happy with your I think that we have fully kind
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  Speaker 5: of changed our perspective on that, and you know, give
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  Speaker 5: you know, enjoy what life gives you and the opportunities
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  Speaker 5: that you're given. We definitely have our our sights on
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  Speaker 5: bigger things, you know. I think that you kind of
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  Speaker 5: have to to keep moving forward, and it would be
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  Speaker 5: amazing to one day make it to stadiums, and I
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  Speaker 5: think every.
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  Speaker 6: Artist would would say that.
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  Speaker 5: But if we never get to that point, I'm also like,
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  Speaker 5: it's insane that we get to do arenas in these amphitheaters,
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  Speaker 5: Like that's the craziest thing in the world. But yeah,
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  Speaker 5: there's definitely those those ambitions in the back of my mind.
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  Speaker 1: Content but not complacent is like a way of life,
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  Speaker 1: and I've never heard it said like that before. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: we talked to you guys as you were putting new
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  Speaker 1: music out, and you were in the best mental place,
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  Speaker 1: you know, individually but collectively that you've maybe ever been.
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  Speaker 1: As you look back on, you know, the last year
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  Speaker 1: now that you've been in this more clear headspace and
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  Speaker 1: been able to appreciate things a little more, what's the
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  Speaker 1: last year been like versus maybe years in the past.
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  Speaker 4: It's been a maya, man.
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  Speaker 3: I feel like we've been able to soak in this
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  Speaker 3: year a little bit more than the past. We've gotten
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  Speaker 3: to do all kinds of stuff.
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  Speaker 5: Man.
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  Speaker 3: We've gotten to have number ones on country radio thanks
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  Speaker 3: to folks like you. Weve gotten a play Arenas, sold out,
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  Speaker 3: Bridgestone just down the way, gotten to play amphitheaters for
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  Speaker 3: the first time, headlining. We've opened for everybody in those amphitheaters,
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  Speaker 3: Blake Sheldon, Darius Rucker, you know, Rascal Flats, fgl But
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  Speaker 3: to get to go into those amps and headline, see
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  Speaker 3: our name on the top of the marquee, see you know,
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  Speaker 3: ten thousand people up in that lawn going crazy singing
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  Speaker 3: the words.
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  Speaker 4: How was that kid?
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  Speaker 2: Man?
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  Speaker 3: I still feel like that kid, you know, especially this year,
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  Speaker 3: bringing it back to like the basics, the fundamentals, and
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  Speaker 3: just appreciating it all. I feel like we had those
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  Speaker 3: moments on stage where we're like, dude, this they're singing
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  Speaker 3: bigger houses. This is like we're up here with an
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  Speaker 3: acoustic guitar sitting on this little house and they're singing
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  Speaker 3: this freaking song back to us.
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  Speaker 4: I feel like in the past. You know, we're going,
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  Speaker 4: going and going.
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  Speaker 3: Tequilu's happening. Speechless has happened, and we didn't take that.
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  Speaker 3: You know, we've talked about this before. We didn't take
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  Speaker 3: that moment to sit back, to soak it in and
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  Speaker 3: be like this is really freaking cool, you know. And
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  Speaker 3: this go around, we had moments where we probably were
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  Speaker 3: a little unprofession on stage where we were just like
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  Speaker 3: we sat there for five minutes and just soaked it in,
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  Speaker 3: like dude, We looked at each other, hugged it out,
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  Speaker 3: set it to the fans like, oh man, I just
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  Speaker 3: I need a sec like this is a dream come true.
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  Speaker 3: Because there was a moment that we weren't sure if
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  Speaker 3: we were ever going to get to do that again.
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  Speaker 3: To stand on that stage and to be back up
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  Speaker 3: there have so much love from the fans from country
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  Speaker 3: radio is just unbelievable.
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  Speaker 1: How do you make sure because it felt and I
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  Speaker 1: don't want to put the words in your mouth, but
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  Speaker 1: it felt like you guys were at a breaking point
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  Speaker 1: like hey, like you do your thing, I'm gonna do
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  Speaker 1: my thing. Love you not by, but uh, how do
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  Speaker 1: you make sure to not get back there and not
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  Speaker 1: that you had problems with each other. I don't want
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  Speaker 1: to like paint that, but like, how do you make
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  Speaker 1: sure that you don't get back to a place where
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  Speaker 1: you're like, I need to do my thing, dude.
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  Speaker 5: Well, I think it's communication is the number one thing
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  Speaker 5: in any kind of relationship, whether that's a marriage or
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  Speaker 5: a friendship.
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  Speaker 6: And we've done a really.
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  Speaker 5: Good job about that of keeping everything of Like, hey,
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  Speaker 5: at the end of the day, you know, obviously we
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  Speaker 5: have an amazing team and we have things kind of
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  Speaker 5: go out from there, but it starts with us, and
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  Speaker 5: we have to make sure that you know, Dan and
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  Speaker 5: I are on the same page at all points in time.
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  Speaker 5: You know, if I if he knows that you know,
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  Speaker 5: something bothers me, or if I know that something bothers him, Like,
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  Speaker 5: I've got his back one hundred percent, he's got mine.
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  Speaker 5: And I think starting there and then moving out is
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  Speaker 5: the way that leadership kind of has to work because
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  Speaker 5: we're running also a business, you know, and we have
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  Speaker 5: a lot of people that we really care about that
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  Speaker 5: or you know, that are working with us, you know,
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  Speaker 5: to make this whole thing happen, and we want to
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  Speaker 5: make sure that it's working in the healthiest way that
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  Speaker 5: it possibly can. And the best way for that to
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  Speaker 5: happen is that Dan and I got to be on
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  Speaker 5: the same page at all points in time, and I
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  Speaker 5: know that we're at a place in our friendship in
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  Speaker 5: our career that we can be really honest with each other,
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  Speaker 5: just like, hey man, this is I'm not feeling this.
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  Speaker 6: I really don't want to do this. And when you
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  Speaker 6: can kind.
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  Speaker 5: Of get to that place, it's a very sustainable model,
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  Speaker 5: I think when you see things that have happened, because
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  Speaker 5: I've looked at this really carefully because it hit home
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  Speaker 5: a lot closer than I ever thought it would. You
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  Speaker 5: look at all these duos that broke up and you
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  Speaker 5: look at like what happened there, and think that as
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  Speaker 5: your career goes along, you're a lot easy, Like you're
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  Speaker 5: much more separated in moments than you used to be.
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  Speaker 6: You know, when we were in one bus, you know,
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  Speaker 6: and you're there and.
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  Speaker 5: You're, whether you like it or not, we're talking for
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  Speaker 5: seven hours, you know, on that bus, and I think that,
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  Speaker 5: you know, as your career goes along, you know, you
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  Speaker 5: have those the ability to kind of have a little
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  Speaker 5: bit more space, which is amazing, you know, for your
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  Speaker 5: life and your career. But if you don't have those
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  Speaker 5: moments of communication, that's when things just kind of fall apart.
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  Speaker 5: Because if you just don't talk to somebody for a
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  Speaker 5: while and the only times you see each other is
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  Speaker 5: on stage or in little points when you have to
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  Speaker 5: do something professional, it gets really you know, things, little
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  Speaker 5: things can turn into two big things really quickly. And
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  Speaker 5: we've seen that over the career of not only country duos,
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  Speaker 5: but pop duos and rock duos, and it's just, you know,
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  Speaker 5: we try to learn from that and rather than fall
• 12:48
  Speaker 5: into those same traps, we just, man, let's let's talk
• 12:51
  Speaker 5: it out, because you'd be surprised what can change over
• 12:55
  Speaker 5: a conversation of just something very very small, you know,
• 12:58
  Speaker 5: and being very human.
• 12:59
  Speaker 1: But these moments, the way you worded something and that
• 13:02
  Speaker 1: answer was awesome, and I want to give you credit
• 13:04
  Speaker 1: for it, because a lot of people would be like
• 13:06
  Speaker 1: a lot of people would word that, Oh, I have
• 13:08
  Speaker 1: a lot of people. We have a lot of people
• 13:10
  Speaker 1: depending on us. You said, we have a lot of
• 13:12
  Speaker 1: people making this work with us, right, So it's obviously
• 13:16
  Speaker 1: you vision yourself in the trenches with them versus like
• 13:19
  Speaker 1: here's Dan and Shay and they're you know, holding us up.
• 13:22
  Speaker 1: Have you always thought that way? Have you always are?
• 13:24
  Speaker 1: Did it take you a second to step back and
• 13:26
  Speaker 1: be like, hey, we're all rolling this boat.
• 13:28
  Speaker 3: I think it's hard sometimes, man, because I've those are
• 13:30
  Speaker 3: our boys, Like we came up with those guys.
• 13:32
  Speaker 4: I've known those guys for twenty years.
• 13:33
  Speaker 3: We've been playing music, touring in vans, playing in bars, clubs,
• 13:37
  Speaker 3: doing the whole thing for so long. And like it's
• 13:40
  Speaker 3: sometimes weird that our names on the T shirt. I guess,
• 13:43
  Speaker 3: like that's an imposter syndrome thing that we battle with
• 13:45
  Speaker 3: sometimes Sometimes we have to be like, all right, we're
• 13:47
  Speaker 3: taking responsibility.
• 13:48
  Speaker 4: We got to go do this, or our names on
• 13:49
  Speaker 4: the thing or whatever.
• 13:50
  Speaker 3: I'm like, no, Like, we're all in this, man, this
• 13:52
  Speaker 3: is our crew. These are our guys, and we're so
• 13:55
  Speaker 3: grateful for him. Man.
• 13:56
  Speaker 4: We would, honestly, we would have nothing without them.
• 13:58
  Speaker 3: You know. It's like they put as much time as
• 14:00
  Speaker 3: we do. Like I'm away from my wife and dogs,
• 14:02
  Speaker 3: Chase away from his wife and the kids, Like so
• 14:04
  Speaker 3: are they, you know, and like they might not get
• 14:07
  Speaker 3: the glory of getting to accept that trophy on stage
• 14:09
  Speaker 3: or you know, have their name on the thing.
• 14:11
  Speaker 4: So it's like, I don't know.
• 14:12
  Speaker 3: I think like keeping that humble attitude has allowed us
• 14:15
  Speaker 3: to do it at this level for so long.
• 14:18
  Speaker 4: I don't know, man.
• 14:18
  Speaker 3: And also, again, like Shay said earlier, being in a duo,
• 14:21
  Speaker 3: keeping each other in check. If somebody starts getting out
• 14:23
  Speaker 3: of line, it's like, dude, come on, come on, Like
• 14:25
  Speaker 3: we're still the same guys that were riding around in
• 14:27
  Speaker 3: old Blue with fourteen guys on the bus, you know
• 14:29
  Speaker 3: what I mean, Like still literally the same guys and uh, man,
• 14:33
  Speaker 3: just these things that we get to do, and also
• 14:35
  Speaker 3: having like our crew and that close knit of a
• 14:37
  Speaker 3: community out there makes us appreciate it more.
• 14:39
  Speaker 6: You know.
• 14:40
  Speaker 4: It's the same dudes who were like that.
• 14:41
  Speaker 3: We'll send like throwback pictures of the group chat like,
• 14:44
  Speaker 3: look at these dudes from back, you know, like when
• 14:46
  Speaker 3: we started touring, playing Joe's on Weed Street or Cannery
• 14:49
  Speaker 3: Ballroom here I think our first headlining show in Nashville
• 14:51
  Speaker 3: or soul Shine Pizza, Like everybody listening to soul Shine
• 14:54
  Speaker 3: that's like a long time ago. We're aging ourselves right now,
• 14:58
  Speaker 3: but doing riders rounds there, man, and it's, uh, it's
• 15:01
  Speaker 3: I don't know, We're grateful those guys are stuck with
• 15:02
  Speaker 3: us that this long over ten years.
• 15:04
  Speaker 4: That's that's crazy.
• 15:05
  Speaker 1: You were talking about the house that's on stages you
• 15:07
  Speaker 1: guys perform. I've seen the house and a ton of pictures.
• 15:09
  Speaker 1: You guys did like a little radio hang with when
• 15:11
  Speaker 1: the house was there. What that house has become like
• 15:14
  Speaker 1: a third member of the band. What's gonna happen?
• 15:16
  Speaker 3: It's the most expensive member that we got three of
• 15:20
  Speaker 3: those houses built.
• 15:20
  Speaker 4: We couldn't fit in the dang truck.
• 15:22
  Speaker 1: What's the plan after after that's run its.
• 15:24
  Speaker 4: Course and we gotta to pay for storage? So you
• 15:26
  Speaker 4: got any space in the backyard needs.
• 15:28
  Speaker 1: You know, drive spring Hill, we'll put it.
• 15:32
  Speaker 2: My kids keep asking about it. They're like, Daddy, what
• 15:35
  Speaker 2: are we When do.
• 15:35
  Speaker 6: We get in that house?
• 15:36
  Speaker 2: Because I've got to like mention them jokingly.
• 15:38
  Speaker 5: Like hey, my asher was like, if you guys are
• 15:41
  Speaker 5: finished with like you do we get to you think
• 15:43
  Speaker 5: we could get it? And I was like, Oh, I
• 15:44
  Speaker 5: don't know, buddy, you know, maybe don't ever say maybe
• 15:47
  Speaker 5: it's a yes in your kids mind. I should have
• 15:49
  Speaker 5: never said anything everywhere like do you think that they're
• 15:52
  Speaker 5: like almost done with it? I'm like, dude, we don't
• 15:53
  Speaker 5: where are we going to put that? First of all,
• 15:55
  Speaker 5: like we're gonna have to either live in it or
• 15:57
  Speaker 5: it's gonna have to go in our backyard. And I
• 15:58
  Speaker 5: was like, I mean, I'll I'll do it. I'll live
• 16:00
  Speaker 5: in that house with you guys. If you really want
• 16:01
  Speaker 5: to do that, let's do It's.
• 16:03
  Speaker 6: Yeah, we'll see.
• 16:03
  Speaker 4: It's still pretty sturdy. Honestly it is.
• 16:05
  Speaker 1: Well it's and you guys climb up on it, right,
• 16:08
  Speaker 1: I mean, you're not like huge individuals. I'm not saying that.
• 16:11
  Speaker 3: Well, there's multiple iterations of this house. The first one
• 16:14
  Speaker 3: was like a little bit flimsy. It was for the
• 16:15
  Speaker 3: music video. It wasn't meant to be like, you know,
• 16:19
  Speaker 3: knocked around at a truck. We did like a little
• 16:21
  Speaker 3: event when the record came out. We had a bunch
• 16:22
  Speaker 3: of writers and one of our co writers on the song.
• 16:24
  Speaker 3: I'm not going to say which one, but his name
• 16:25
  Speaker 3: starts with an A.
• 16:27
  Speaker 4: He got on the house.
• 16:28
  Speaker 3: And like there's like a little railing on the front,
• 16:30
  Speaker 3: like a little picket fence around the front. Knock the
• 16:32
  Speaker 3: whole thing off, like just I mean, it was like
• 16:34
  Speaker 3: toothpicks and his defense like one little flick of the
• 16:36
  Speaker 3: thing and it was down. So that was our cue.
• 16:38
  Speaker 3: It was like, this thing ain't going on the road
• 16:40
  Speaker 3: with us. We got to get a reinforced one. And
• 16:42
  Speaker 3: then it was like, okay, cool, we got this stage design,
• 16:45
  Speaker 3: big lights, big risers were coming out of the floor
• 16:47
  Speaker 3: and doing all this stuff, and it's like the guy's
• 16:49
  Speaker 3: bad news. We can't fit the house in the truck.
• 16:52
  Speaker 3: I'm like, what are you talking about. You can't fit
• 16:53
  Speaker 3: that house in a truck.
• 16:54
  Speaker 4: Come on, pay all this money for it.
• 16:56
  Speaker 3: So like the ultimate solution was to cut the house
• 16:59
  Speaker 3: in half vertically and then like then it fit in
• 17:02
  Speaker 3: two pieces, you know, you slid it in and then
• 17:04
  Speaker 3: it wheeled on stage and they were like, what can't
• 17:07
  Speaker 3: fit through the doors in these arenas. I was like,
• 17:08
  Speaker 3: how does the zamboni fit through the freaking doors in
• 17:10
  Speaker 3: the arenas? You know?
• 17:12
  Speaker 4: Well, yeah, that's I shut him down with that one.
• 17:14
  Speaker 3: As you should cut the house in half and it's
• 17:16
  Speaker 3: slid in the truck somehow, And then they had to
• 17:18
  Speaker 3: like in the fifteen seconds between the songs, the crew
• 17:22
  Speaker 3: guys assembled it on stage. So shout out to the
• 17:24
  Speaker 3: crew guys for assembling a house in fifteen seconds. That's
• 17:26
  Speaker 3: about how fast they do in Nashville these days anyways.
• 17:29
  Speaker 1: But but I will tell you, you take this beautiful song
• 17:31
  Speaker 1: bigger houses and there's a house, and then you make
• 17:33
  Speaker 1: it a song about divorce and split the house.
• 17:35
  Speaker 6: And right here, come on, are you a songwriter?
• 17:43
  Speaker 1: I do have some ideas.
• 17:45
  Speaker 6: I think it out.
• 17:49
  Speaker 1: At what point do you go, let's make Christmas music?
• 17:51
  Speaker 1: Because that's kind of a ballsy choice to make, right
• 17:54
  Speaker 1: because there's a lot of people that tried in it.
• 17:56
  Speaker 5: So yeah, it's a tough thing to do. And I
• 17:59
  Speaker 5: will say this, this has kind of been ten years
• 18:01
  Speaker 5: in the making. The very first song we did was
• 18:02
  Speaker 5: have Yourself in Mary Little Christmas, and that was always
• 18:05
  Speaker 5: explain eventually the album was was obviously the plan to
• 18:09
  Speaker 5: put together, you know, a body of work. But it's
• 18:11
  Speaker 5: really tough because you've got to do it in between.
• 18:14
  Speaker 5: You can't record it at Christmas time. You know, you've
• 18:17
  Speaker 5: got you're starting in January, you know, in a new year,
• 18:20
  Speaker 5: and for us, we've always been rolling and rolling, so
• 18:22
  Speaker 5: it's really tough to like, in between tours and between
• 18:25
  Speaker 5: writing an actual you know record that's not a Christmas record,
• 18:29
  Speaker 5: trying to find the time to do that is really difficult.
• 18:31
  Speaker 5: So it kind of started, you know, we had put
• 18:33
  Speaker 5: together some songs. We had written you know, one or
• 18:35
  Speaker 5: two songs this year, you know, I mean in previous years,
• 18:39
  Speaker 5: and we put out some original Christmas music and that
• 18:41
  Speaker 5: really it went over really well with our fans, and
• 18:44
  Speaker 5: the songs that you know there went platinum, and it
• 18:46
  Speaker 5: was like, all right, we can go into the Christmas space.
• 18:49
  Speaker 5: And the dream was to do it, you know, an album.
• 18:51
  Speaker 5: And when it came time, it was January of this year.
• 18:55
  Speaker 5: I'm trying to think of what year it is. I
• 18:56
  Speaker 5: think it was this year. We had a it was
• 18:59
  Speaker 5: a a snow fall here in Nashville and we just
• 19:02
  Speaker 5: kind of that kind of started it all. Dan had,
• 19:05
  Speaker 5: you know, texted me. I was like, hey, we let's
• 19:06
  Speaker 5: let's come work on this thing. And we just started
• 19:09
  Speaker 5: writing songs. We had a little bit of a break
• 19:11
  Speaker 5: and we started writing some songs for the Christmas record.
• 19:13
  Speaker 5: And about halfway through this kind of process, Dan was like,
• 19:17
  Speaker 5: I think I can pull it off, which already doing
• 19:19
  Speaker 5: one album is a lot trying to pull off a
• 19:22
  Speaker 5: double album in a year when we're touring all summer
• 19:24
  Speaker 5: and in the spring was like, this is gonna be
• 19:27
  Speaker 5: a big undertaking and for me, I could do it
• 19:29
  Speaker 5: really easy because my stuff takes like two days. Dan's
• 19:32
  Speaker 5: gonna spend the next nine months, you know, trying to
• 19:34
  Speaker 5: you know, make this record happen. And it was just
• 19:36
  Speaker 5: awesome that it that it came together, and I you know,
• 19:39
  Speaker 5: kudos to Dan for somehow pulling this off in between
• 19:42
  Speaker 5: all the other stuff that we had going on. But
• 19:44
  Speaker 5: it kind of started there in January and we put
• 19:46
  Speaker 5: together all these songs and put together our favorite songs
• 19:48
  Speaker 5: and people were like, how did you how.
• 19:49
  Speaker 2: Did you choose and like we kind of didn't have to.
• 19:52
  Speaker 2: We put them all on there.
• 19:53
  Speaker 4: Every single Christmas song that's ever been written and recorded.
• 19:56
  Speaker 1: We did it. We did it.
• 19:57
  Speaker 5: It was just all all of the songs, not all
• 19:59
  Speaker 5: the hits, just all this So yeah, man, I you know,
• 20:01
  Speaker 5: we somehow, I say we very uh loosely, Dan somehow
• 20:05
  Speaker 5: pulled this off, and I'm just so proud of how
• 20:07
  Speaker 5: it turned out.
• 20:08
  Speaker 1: Man.
• 20:08
  Speaker 6: He did a great job on the production.
• 20:09
  Speaker 5: And we really wanted this to be a timeless classic,
• 20:12
  Speaker 5: you know, not only the actual classics that we did, uh,
• 20:16
  Speaker 5: but the songs that we had that were originals. You know,
• 20:18
  Speaker 5: we felt like we really had some some special songs
• 20:21
  Speaker 5: that would be you know, for that next generation. You
• 20:24
  Speaker 5: know my kids now, you know, growing up listening to
• 20:26
  Speaker 5: this record. I have just about wore out Officially Christmas
• 20:29
  Speaker 5: because literally we got a CD player. My kids discovered
• 20:32
  Speaker 5: CD players and DVD players. They were just enthralled with
• 20:35
  Speaker 5: the idea that she didn't have to do on the
• 20:36
  Speaker 5: internet get out of Christmas exactly every single night.
• 20:40
  Speaker 2: I have this like fifteen dollars CD player. Every night.
• 20:43
  Speaker 5: If you were to like deliver some re eats to
• 20:46
  Speaker 5: my house, I promise you will hear Officially Christmas playing
• 20:49
  Speaker 5: on repeat, by the way, which I that's devastating. That's
• 20:51
  Speaker 5: a feature on those little players. He wants to listen
• 20:54
  Speaker 5: to Officially Christmas on repeat, and I'm talking about from
• 20:56
  Speaker 5: seven thirty to until he gets up in the morning.
• 20:59
  Speaker 2: I can just hear it's a Phishi Christmas.
• 21:02
  Speaker 3: And I'm like, oh, dear God, I said, you could
• 21:04
  Speaker 3: at least put them on the streaming service.
• 21:07
  Speaker 4: You ain't getting points for that on the CD.
• 21:09
  Speaker 6: No points.
• 21:09
  Speaker 1: My favorite part is you know that I'm paid so
• 21:11
  Speaker 1: little that I'm doing uber it's on the weekends. Thanks
• 21:13
  Speaker 1: for cooling.
• 21:14
  Speaker 2: I don't want to say specifically you.
• 21:16
  Speaker 5: I was talking to all the listeners out there, who
• 21:18
  Speaker 5: are the amazing breaths drivers.
• 21:21
  Speaker 1: May you guys put this Christmas music is just as
• 21:24
  Speaker 1: fantastic as you are outside of holiday music, is it.
• 21:28
  Speaker 1: Do you feel like there's a challenge to let that
• 21:30
  Speaker 1: music live its life because it's holiday based versus a
• 21:34
  Speaker 1: regular damage record.
• 21:36
  Speaker 4: It's tough, man.
• 21:36
  Speaker 3: I feel like we found this responsibility of Like record
• 21:39
  Speaker 3: came out October eighteenth, which is early. I apologize to
• 21:42
  Speaker 3: everybody who's a purist and say you can't celebrate for Halloween.
• 21:45
  Speaker 3: It's like, come on, guys, we got a finite window
• 21:47
  Speaker 3: to promote this record.
• 21:48
  Speaker 4: We got to make it.
• 21:48
  Speaker 1: Successful when you put the album out for the content alone, Yeah, yeah,
• 21:53
  Speaker 1: for sure.
• 21:53
  Speaker 4: Yeah, I gotta get.
• 21:54
  Speaker 3: Time, Lise, you know what I mean. October seventeenth, that
• 21:56
  Speaker 3: thing's going up. You know, we're living and breathing it.
• 21:59
  Speaker 3: You gotta find in that window. It's like, you got
• 22:01
  Speaker 3: to put that out. You got to get it in
• 22:02
  Speaker 3: the stores, you got to get it service to radio,
• 22:04
  Speaker 3: all the inside baseball here. But December twenty sixth, it
• 22:07
  Speaker 3: kind of is like cool, guys, what's next? So we
• 22:11
  Speaker 3: had to push it really really hard. We tried to
• 22:12
  Speaker 3: have content for like every day coming up. I've got
• 22:15
  Speaker 3: a lot of content stashed in my phone, some good content,
• 22:17
  Speaker 3: some absolutely terrible content. It's tough to come up with
• 22:20
  Speaker 3: like ninety pieces of consecutive content. You guys are doing
• 22:23
  Speaker 3: it over here. You do a great job of it.
• 22:24
  Speaker 3: I need to hire y'all next time because I'm not
• 22:27
  Speaker 3: good at it. But man, it's it's a different kind
• 22:29
  Speaker 3: of thing promoting it. Like literally did every TV appearance
• 22:33
  Speaker 3: we could, like, we're grateful for the opportunities, you know
• 22:35
  Speaker 3: we I think I was counting it in my head.
• 22:37
  Speaker 4: We did eleven.
• 22:38
  Speaker 3: Songs on TV in like forty eight hours or something
• 22:42
  Speaker 3: like that. Flew Nashville and New York, did the Thanksgiving Parade,
• 22:45
  Speaker 3: back to Nashville for like a day, back to New York,
• 22:49
  Speaker 3: did fallin Today's show, tree Lighting, flew to La did
• 22:53
  Speaker 3: the Voice, came back to the SEC Championship in Atlanta.
• 22:56
  Speaker 3: It's nuts nuts, And now we're doing Christmas at the Opera,
• 22:59
  Speaker 3: which is awesome. At least you get to sleep in
• 23:01
  Speaker 3: your own bed.
• 23:02
  Speaker 1: For that one last thing I want to ask because
• 23:04
  Speaker 1: I know we're wrapping it up. Christmas music is iconic.
• 23:06
  Speaker 1: There's so many songs that people, you know, their go
• 23:09
  Speaker 1: tos and andy you put them on and it brings
• 23:11
  Speaker 1: up memories from Grandma's house and parents' house. You guys
• 23:14
  Speaker 1: now have music like that. Tay and I just did
• 23:16
  Speaker 1: our top Christmas songs, and on her list was it's
• 23:19
  Speaker 1: officially Christmas tops.
• 23:21
  Speaker 6: Let's go, what does that?
• 23:23
  Speaker 1: What does that mean to you guys? To Your music
• 23:26
  Speaker 1: speaks for itself, but there's something special about a Christmas
• 23:29
  Speaker 1: music that can Christmas song that can last like that.
• 23:32
  Speaker 5: Man, you know, that's exactly what we had in mind
• 23:34
  Speaker 5: when we were creating this project. And I and I'm
• 23:36
  Speaker 5: you know, living breathing proof of that. I, you know,
• 23:38
  Speaker 5: right now in my house, Like I'm kind of passing
• 23:41
  Speaker 5: along those Christmas songs.
• 23:43
  Speaker 6: Selfishly.
• 23:43
  Speaker 5: It's mostly our music because that's kind of what we've
• 23:46
  Speaker 5: been doing for the last year. But I watch my kids, man,
• 23:49
  Speaker 5: and I'm watching this happen, you know, and now there
• 23:52
  Speaker 5: he brought some CDs to his school and like that,
• 23:54
  Speaker 5: now they have their favorite Christmas songs, and like, I'm
• 23:57
  Speaker 5: so proud of that because I, you know, a Christmas
• 23:59
  Speaker 5: record is very different than a normal, you know, album,
• 24:01
  Speaker 5: full album. You obviously you have songs that are going
• 24:03
  Speaker 5: to live on forever, and you hope that, like you know,
• 24:05
  Speaker 5: with your super fans, they know every song on the record,
• 24:08
  Speaker 5: but with this Christmas album, it's something that doesn't just
• 24:10
  Speaker 5: go away after you know, an album cycle. This is
• 24:13
  Speaker 5: something that is going to be a part of our
• 24:15
  Speaker 5: legacy for the next one hundred years, and our hope
• 24:18
  Speaker 5: would be, you know, in ten years a lot like
• 24:20
  Speaker 5: has happened with our other music. In ten years, a
• 24:23
  Speaker 5: you know, a girl that was little, that was five
• 24:25
  Speaker 5: years old, who is now fifteen tells us this lifetime
• 24:28
  Speaker 5: of stories.
• 24:29
  Speaker 6: You know, pretty good, dude, pretty good.
• 24:31
  Speaker 5: You know you're able to kind of hear all those
• 24:33
  Speaker 5: stories and the memories, and especially with Christmas music, it's
• 24:36
  Speaker 5: tied so heavily to a moment in time when you think,
• 24:39
  Speaker 5: I think back to a lot of the classics that
• 24:40
  Speaker 5: we recorded, I remember those songs when I was a kid,
• 24:43
  Speaker 5: and I remember the year that I got my Nintendo
• 24:44
  Speaker 5: sixty four. I remember the year I got my favorite
• 24:47
  Speaker 5: Power Rangers thing, you know, and I remember all these moments.
• 24:49
  Speaker 5: There's a song directly tied to that. I remember the
• 24:51
  Speaker 5: first country song that ever heard when I was a kid,
• 24:53
  Speaker 5: Like I remember those moments, and I feel like it's
• 24:56
  Speaker 5: we want to be that for this next generation of people,
• 24:59
  Speaker 5: just you know, every year having that plate in their
• 25:01
  Speaker 5: homes and just that that it would bring so much
• 25:04
  Speaker 5: joy and be as much of a blessing to other
• 25:06
  Speaker 5: people as it has been to us already this year.
• 25:08
  Speaker 2: Like I want that for the next fifty years.
• 25:11
  Speaker 5: I hope that when we're eighty five years old, you know,
• 25:13
  Speaker 5: there's an entire you know, few generations that have listened
• 25:17
  Speaker 5: to this, this Christmas album and just have gotten so
• 25:20
  Speaker 5: much joy from that.
• 25:21
  Speaker 6: And that's that's what it's all about. Man.
• 25:22
  Speaker 5: I hope that we bring a little bit more goodness
• 25:25
  Speaker 5: into the world than when we found it. And I'm
• 25:27
  Speaker 5: really really proud of what not just the actual music,
• 25:29
  Speaker 5: but what this means for the next twenty five fifty,
• 25:33
  Speaker 5: one hundred years of Dan and Shay.
• 25:34
  Speaker 1: That's awesome. I'm down for one hundred more years, by
• 25:36
  Speaker 1: the way, let's go.
• 25:37
  Speaker 4: Let's go the first year though.
• 25:40
  Speaker 5: Yeah, it's like Legos Legos or like it says ninety nine,
• 25:44
  Speaker 5: it's like it's like zero to nine.
• 25:45
  Speaker 2: When you hit one hundred, you're done.
• 25:47
  Speaker 5: Don't touch legosy Ry Christmas, guys, Harry Christmas.