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Tyler Herwig on Music, Family, and Performing Unreleased Songs · The Scene Projects

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  Welcome into the songwriter showcase with Bubba Starts.
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  We feature independent artists every week in our live studio setting and broadcast their
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  music to the world.
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  Enjoy the show.
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  This program is part of the Scene Projects Podcast Network.
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  Welcome back to the songwriter showcase from the Scene Projects.
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  We are here at the Midway Saloon in Saint Paul, Minnesota.
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  And now I have Tyler Herwig with me.
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  Welcome to the show, Tyler.
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  Thanks for having me, Bubba.
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  It's always a pleasure to speak with you.
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  It's good to see you again.
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  Yeah.
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  It's been too long.
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  It has, like, almost a year.
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  Yeah.
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  Crazy.
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  Crazy how time flies.
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  Well, Tyler, before we get into the music, why don't you tell everybody who you are and what
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  you do?
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  Yeah.
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  I'm Tyler.
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  I sing songs.
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  This is this is it.
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  This is all that I do.
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  So I'm a singer songwriter based out of here based out of the Twin Cities here.
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  I perform 280 shows a year all throughout the Midwest, I'm kind just living the dream one
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  song at a time.
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  It's pretty cool.
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  One song at a time.
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  I think there's a song there.
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  There probably is.
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  Yeah.
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  That's beautiful, man.
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  Two eighty shows a year.
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  How do you do it?
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  Practice, patience, and a lot of water.
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  Yeah.
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  Honestly.
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  Yeah, and podcasts help too.
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  I wish I knew a good podcast to listen to.
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  Oh, well, I could recommend one.
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  Could you?
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  Yeah.
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  We've actually been featured on it a couple of times now.
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  A few times.
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  Yes, you have.
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  And and we actually got into that.
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  I mean, 280 shows to to someone like me who maybe doesn't even play 50 or 60 shows a year,
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  it's just, bonkers.
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  Like, holy cow.
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  That's four times what I'm doing and trying to output that.
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  It's a little bit different now that I am doing the podcasting and we're doing a lot more
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  writing on thesceneprojects.com, shameless plug.
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  But we you know, it takes a lot.
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  It takes a toll physically.
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  Like, I've only played two shows this weekend.
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  I can feel my voice and everything going.
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  So is there any tips or tricks for people who are, you know, pursuing this this dream to
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  kinda take care of their voice and and to help them, you know, have some longevity in their
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  career.
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  Yeah.
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  Absolutely.
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  I would definitely recommend as you're adding more shows to your schedule year over year, add
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  them slowly.
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  Like, don't go from doing 50 shows to 280 shows, like, overnight.
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  That is a good way to destroy your voice.
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  I've been very blessed to have started off my career when I was only 16 and I'm 31 now.
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  So I've added a few more shows year over year over year and that's allowed my voice to
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  strengthen over time as opposed to just trying to take on a brunt load right all up front.
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  Right.
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  I also do a lot of stuff like drinking a lot of tea, which is always helpful.
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  I sleep with a humidifier on, which seems maybe like not the biggest deal to some people, but
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  that just helps to lubricate your voice and helps with that recovery day after day.
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  You can also do like nebulizer treatments if you want to get real fancy with it.
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  Now, I'll do that if I'm feeling pretty weak on a particular day if I'm fighting a cold.
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  But and then not talking outside of shows is something that I've really taken to heart.
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  Like, I typically take one day off a week where I'm not performing or singing.
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  That's for me, that's normally Mondays, where I do a full day of vocal rest.
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  So I don't on Mondays, actually I don't talk at all, which is weird for some people.
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  And it's a hard practice to get into, but it's the only way to give my voice time to
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  truly For someone like me, Tyler, that is insane to even consider.
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  I'm sure my wife would love it.
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  Danielle's smiling ear to ear right now just thinking about a vocal rest a day.
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  No.
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  It's a it's a cool practice too because, like, you you you learn a lot about yourself and,
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  like, how uncomfortable silence can be.
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  I was actually just this morning was listening to another speaker that I listen to frequently.
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  His name is Trent Palmer.
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  And he was talking about how uncomfortable people get quickly with silence.
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  And in The US, on average, people get uncomfortable with silence in about four
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  seconds.
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  That's wild.
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  The best in the entire world is Japan, where they get uncomfortable after eight seconds.
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  Wow.
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  So learning to just sit and be still with yourself with no distractions, nothing going
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  on, is a huge challenge for people in general.
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  And so it's been a really cool practice that I started.
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  It's just like a vocal recovery thing, and it's turning it into this whole meditative day that
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  I get for myself once a week.
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  Well, that's great.
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  And do you find that, you know, especially because it is such a grueling schedule that you
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  have, especially now traveling to Nashville and doing all these things that that day is almost
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  the most important day of the week to kinda come back to that center, to have that rest, to
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  to find the energy, to go back out there and do it all over again.
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  Oh, absolutely.
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  Absolutely.
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  And it's my wife's favorite day of the week.
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  So
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  Sure it is.
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  We're gonna talk more about the wife and the family, I'm sure, after you play us a song.
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  But why don't we get into the music?
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  Why don't you play us a song?
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  Yeah.
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  So the first thing I wanna do for you guys is one I wrote several years ago and released back
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  in January of this year.
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  It's a song that I play pretty much any time I get the opportunity, and it it's called Enough.
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  And the story behind this song is is really the whole reason that I'm I'm singing and take
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  music as seriously as I do.
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  I'm coming up here on it'll be five years clean and sober from addiction in just a few weeks.
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  We can get some taps for that for sure.
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  Thank you.
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  I don't I don't wanna front my time, but, you know, I'm pretty excited.
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  I I think I'm gonna make it.
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  So and this song is one that I wrote.
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  It's really just an apology to all the people that were willing to try their best for me even
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  during the times when I wasn't willing to try my best for myself.
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  So this is enough.
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  Let's hear it.
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  I've been keeping all these secrets and hiding all of my feelings.
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  Drinking every day just to cover them up.
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  Wasting pieces of vapor on changing in vapor.
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  When would I figure out it was never enough?
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  If I could change your mind, and know that I would.
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  No need to say goodbye, the boy is understood.
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  You told me that it wasn't enough, but you gave for you and for me before we win darts every
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  way.
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  I can't blame you.
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  I messed it up.
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  Tell me you made my best, You've been telling me that you're heaven sent.
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  The words you said didn't come from above.
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  You should be able to weather the weather.
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  It rained and I changed.
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  You had enough.
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  If I could turn back time, you know, we'd all would.
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  Then days went by so fast.
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  You did all you could.
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  I don't mean to meet my best, but my worst was just too much for you.
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  I'll take all the blame.
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  I was just thunky to take you home.
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  I'm serving for the things I said I never know that I needed.
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  I need a change, and you couldn't save me.
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  You told me that you wanted to know, but you gave all you had for me.
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  Before we went our sideways, I can't blame you, a messy dog.
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  I Jumping to me at my best, but my worst was just too much for you.
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  I'll take all the blame.
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  I was just thunky to take you home.
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  It's a beautiful song, Tyler.
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  It's nice to be sitting next to you and hear that vulnerability right here in my ears, man.
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  It really, really touches my soul.
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  Your music heals, man.
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  And I think the the fan base and the career that you're building speaks to that.
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  I think, you know, the things you write about, obviously, you know, recovery, addiction, those
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  aren't easy things to address.
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  Those aren't easy things to just lay it out there and go, hey.
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  I'm a I'm a mess.
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  You know what I mean?
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  Yeah.
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  My life was completely broken, but I think the success story that you're writing right now is
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  so inspiring to so many millions of people.
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  We just gotta get the word out about you.
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  That's why the scene projects and everything that I'm doing is so important because not
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  everybody is as lucky as I am to be surrounded in their whole lives with these beautifully
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  talented people who are sharing themselves.
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  Right?
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  So I get the best job in the world to get to share you with the world.
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  You know?
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  So awesome, Tyler.
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  You mentioned your wife.
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  I know she's very, very pregnant right now.
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  Yes.
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  You guys actually just spent the whole night in the hospital.
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  Thankfully, everyone is okay.
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  Yes.
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  But, you know, I I appreciate your commitment to to coming in here, and and you could've
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  called me and told me the story, and I would've been perfectly fine with it.
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  Somebody's gotta pay the hospital bills, so
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  might as
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  well be me, you know?
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  Well, the check's in the mail, bud.
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  I wouldn't I wouldn't check too soon.
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  Okay.
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  But, yeah, Megan is a huge part of your career as well.
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  You shared with me that she's kinda your social media and content creator side of what you're
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  doing, and we all know that in this world now that it is so important to be putting that
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  stuff out there consistently and doing all of that.
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  Can you kinda talk about the power duo that you guys are and how that's helped you to really
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  amplify your career and to get the you know, to that next step?
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  Yeah.
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  Absolutely.
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  I mean, not only is she one of my biggest inspirations, she and and my my daughter and
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  soon to be son are some of my biggest inspirations for writing, but she's really the
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  reason that I I took music from what was a a well paid hobby into a full time career,
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  actually.
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  So when I was a year sober, I moved out of the sober house.
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  We got married.
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  And the day after we got married, she told me that as my wedding gift, she believed in my
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  dream so much that she wanted me to quit my my day job and pursue music full time.
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  And and her logic behind that was basically that, you know, she had a a good paying job at
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  the time and that if I failed, it would be okay because we didn't have any any kids.
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  So she could support us by herself.
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  Well, three weeks later, we found out we were pregnant with our daughter.
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  So we had a very successful wedding night and it's all been kind of a roller coaster from
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  there.
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  But she's continued to encourage me even when we found that out.
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  She had no hesitation.
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  She was she was all in and has believed in me even that, you know, on the days where I I play
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  in front of just it's me and the bartender for for three or four hours singing songs.
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  She still comes and says, you know what?
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  You're doing the thing that you need to do and maybe the bartender needed to hear the songs
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  you were singing that night.
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  And she's continued to push me to find more shows, to play on bigger stages.
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  And actually, as of just this year, she quit her full time job and her dream job to come and
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  support me even even more.
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  And like you said, take over a lot of the responsibilities that I had with creating my
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  own content every single day.
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  She's now an official partner with Tyler Herwig Music.
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  So it's That's amazing.
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  Been really cool to see this evolution of, you know, it started off with, like, my dream for
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  over a decade to then she pushed me into it, and now she's come in and and fully embraced
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  that this is Yeah.
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  Pushed you in first,
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  and then she cannonballed in right behind you.
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  Yeah.
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  Right on top of me, you could say.
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  Yeah.
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  And that's how you ended up with baby number two?
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  That's how we ended up with baby number two.
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  My daughter's eczema was out of control.
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  She couldn't sleep because she was scratching her whole back, her bottom, her elbows, her
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  knees, everything was just covered.
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  I'm pretty sure it's genetic for her, but I know that there are things in our environment
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  that are exacerbating it or making it worse.
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  Right?
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  It could even be things like laundry detergent, the wash she was using in the bath, lotions I
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  was using on her.
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  I saw my friend posting that her little one was also struggling with eczema and that she used
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  this special lotion right here, the best stuff that we have tried so far.
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  We did try other lotions and creams that worked, but they broke the bank.
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  We literally could not afford to buy them on a regular basis to keep up with how much she was
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  having eczema breakouts.
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  But this stuff was great, super affordable, safe for her super sensitive skin.
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  She's only two, and I have no hesitations of putting this on her, and it's been the best
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  thing that has worked so far.
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  Play us another song.
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  We are poor
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  joke, Bubba.
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  Yeah.
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  Yeah.
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  Alright.
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  Well, that's alright.
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  You're a dad.
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  I'm a dad.
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  It happens.
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  But do you actually know when a when a dad joke becomes a dad joke?
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  No.
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  It becomes apparent.
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  Oh.
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  Alright.
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  The next song I wanna sing for you guys is actually a song I wrote called All Yours, and I
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  released it just earlier this year.
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  It it's really the the way that I I found to say thank you to my wife for supporting my
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  dream and for coming in and and taking over some of the responsibilities that I was I was
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  holding on to.
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  And so this just walks you through my way of saying thank you to her.
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  So this is all yours.
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  Told myself this was my best life.
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  And now I'm flying high.
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  I'm
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  never coming down when I'm with you.
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  I'll never touch the ground.
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  I got everything I need to be happy.
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  I got everything I want and more.
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  Now I'm somebody who's got someone next to me.
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  I thank God that I'm all yours.
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  Oh, I thank the Lord.
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  If you would've asked me with my foot and I'm black, why big advancing us and burping life
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  domesticated, but we're always playing, making memories to last a long time
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  with you.
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  Now I'm flying high.
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  I'm never coming down when I'm with you.
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  I'll never touch the ground.
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  I got everything I need to be happy.
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  I got everything I want anymore.
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  Now I'm somebody who's got someone next to me.
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  I thank God that I'm all yours.
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  Oh, I thank the Lord.
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  I got everything I need to be happy.
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  I got everything I want and more.
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  Now I'm somebody who's got someone next to me.
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  I thank God that I'm all yours.
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  Beautiful.
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  Thank you.
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  So I think when I when I listen to your songs, I don't I don't hear country music.
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  Right?
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  But you're we're both members of Midwest Country Music Organization, but you're also a
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  member of the CMAs.
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  I am.
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  The CMA.
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  The CMA.
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  Do you feel that your style holds you back in the country music world or do you feel like
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  being kind of different from what is the mainstream and what people would typically
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  think of as country music, Do you feel like that's setting you apart is kinda helping your
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  career advance a little bit more?
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  Sure.
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  I definitely think there's some challenges with it because I I definitely walk kind of fine
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  line between country and pop music.
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  One of the things that I've I've found, at least in my opinion, is that I think country
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  music is more about telling a story.
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  Yes.
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  And that's kind
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  of my would a % agree with you.
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  And that's my goal.
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  And so when I when I write a song and I take it all the way through production, like, sometimes
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  it it doesn't have a country sound necessarily, but the storytelling aspect is there.
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  And that to me is what defines country music, especially as we've seen so many pop and hip
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  hop influences.
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  Like, you can hear country songs right now that have just these big eight zero eights playing
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  in the background.
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  And I'm like, you know what?
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  Well, why can't my song be considered country too?
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  Like, maybe it's not everyone's version of country, but that's okay.
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  My goal is to tell the story and to serve the song as best I can.
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  Right.
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  Well, and especially considering that, you know, obviously, I don't I I think I speak for
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  everyone that when when you sing and when you play, there's the Jason Mraz, there's the Ed
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  Sheeran kind of thing.
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  But there's not necessarily a home right now in popular music, you know, pop music for that.
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  Right?
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  For sure.
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  All of it is mostly electronically done.
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  You know, it's the kind of EDM sound, and it's very homogenized, I feel like, in that, you
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  know, in the sound of it.
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  And there's not a lot of room for this.
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  So I think you made the right choice to to just be true to yourself, but to to lean into the
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  country communities because that's where the storytellers are.
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  Absolutely.
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  And there's such a I mean, in every, like, genre of music, there really is just kind of
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  this unique community.
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  And I found that I connect with the people, at least at the moment, the best in the country
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  community.
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  We just have we have a lot of the same values.
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  We have a lot of the same kinds of stories, and and we like to sing in the same way.
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  Like, I don't typically perform with a large band, so I can find a lot of my shows more
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  easily if I'm just doing a solo thing and that kinda locks me into a little bit more of a
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  country route, you know, just me and an acoustic guitar.
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  But I just I don't know.
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  I love I love the country community.
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  Right.
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  Well, I think it's because of the people, obviously.
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  Mean, look at all of us here hanging out.
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  Absolutely.
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  You don't
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  find pop musicians doing this.
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  No.
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  We don't.
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  No.
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  Well, it's just not part of their world.
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  Community is not part of that world.
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  The pop music world is I want to be the star.
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  Right.
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  I don't wanna be one of many stars in the sky.
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  I want to be the one that shines the brightest, and that's kind of the attitude of the genre.
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  So I think you found a home.
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  I'm so glad that you're my brother, and we're we're attached in so many of these communities,
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  and we get to share our stories with one another.
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  It's so fun.
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  Tell us a little bit about what a a typical week for you working now kinda looks like.
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  I know you're commuting to Nashville from Minneapolis weekly.
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  I assume with the baby coming, that'll probably take a little bit of a break, at least maybe
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  for a few weeks.
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  But Yeah.
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  Kinda share with us because that's not a typical Midwest, you know, job or or job
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  description rather.
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  Yeah.
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  There's a lot of back and forth between Nashville.
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  I work with a lot of different producers and songwriters out there as well as a couple
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  different studios to kind of, you know, not only hone my own craft, but to make some good
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  music.
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  And so that's that's been an exciting thing.
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  And only so much I can talk about with that at the moment.
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  But it it it definitely adds a different layer of of complexity to what I was used to doing,
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  which is, you know, staying really within about a hundred miles of of the twin cities here,
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  which is like my home base.
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  And so now I have this opportunity to perform all over the world and and sing songs for
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  people.
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  My typical week, though, really looks like trying to spend as much time with my my family
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  as I can, so that way I can be a present father and husband.
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  And then, honestly, recently, it's a lot of TikTok.
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  There's a lot of TikTok.
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  I go live on TikTok a lot now, which is a great thing.
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  Like, it's a cool resource, but definitely is
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  Are you seeing are you seeing a lot of new fans from there?
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  Oh my gosh.
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  Yes.
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  Right.
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  Okay.
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  I know we talk a lot of smack on TikTok and we talk a lot, but I think it's the number one new
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  fan Like generator.
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  Place.
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  Yeah.
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  Generator.
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  There we go.
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  And and I mean, I think that each social media platform kinda has a unique purpose in
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  understanding what that purpose is and then just kinda tailoring the same content but maybe
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  a little different wording for each platform is really helpful.
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  Like, I find that Instagram and Facebook, for me at least, are more about fostering long term
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  relationships with people.
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  TikTok and YouTube tend to be more about discoverability.
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  And so as far as getting, just my face in front of people, TikTok and YouTube have served me
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  the best with with the quickest return on investment as well.
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  And you can
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  do it from home.
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  Mhmm.
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  Absolutely.
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  And you can make really good money doing it.
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  Like, I I started live streaming just all of my normal performances.
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  Like, I set up a little tripod in my phone and, don't even interact with my TikTok audience at
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  all.
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  And I probably I I've been doing it since January of of this year, so almost a year now.
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  And I went from, like, a thousand followers.
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  Now I'm I'm almost it'll I'll hit 16,000 this afternoon for sure.
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  And I make on average about a hundred dollars extra a night just on TikTok.
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  We would all take that.
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  Would we not to write an extra hundred bucks in the tip jar at the end of the night?
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  So let that be a lesson to everyone.
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  If you don't have a TikTok, go make yourself a TikTok for your band.
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  Be going live on there and getting it out there and using it as a tool.
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  Right?
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  You don't have to spend all your time there.
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  But all of these social media things, I mean, none of this happens without Facebook.
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  I'm gonna let you all know that right now.
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  Facebook is the reason that I'm connected with any of these artists and any of these venues
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  and everything.
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  It was all built off of social media.
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  It's just a matter of how you use the tool.
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  Absolutely.
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  And there's there's really cool communities.
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  Like, I've been able to connect with some artists on TikTok that are, like, those viral
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  artists that you see singing in, like, kitchens and stuff that have tens of millions of
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  followers and stuff.
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  They're all really friendly, and I've been able to actually communicate with them.
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  And
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  Have you met Alexandra Kay down there yet?
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  No.
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  Okay.
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  AK's a we're big fans of hers.
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  We were at a show of hers in Sioux Falls more than a year ago now.
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  It was summer of twenty twenty three.
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  This year, she was on tour with jelly roll playing arenas.
• 22:44
  Right?
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  So she went from playing for a few hundred people in Sioux Falls, South Dakota, and she
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  what she did was she did meet and greets, and she hugged every single person that wanted to
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  see her.
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  She didn't charge a dime for it.
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  There was no VIP.
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  She put in the time with all of her fans, preshow, postshow.
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  During the show, she pulled Danielle's sign up that we made.
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  Danielle walked down the aisle to her song.
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  So we made a sign that said that.
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  She pulled the sign up there, met a big deal about us.
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  She changed my life because I was like, that's what it's about.
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  We wanna be when we come to the show, we want to be seen.
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  We want to be heard and and to feel that specialness and to share how, you know, that
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  person's music affected us.
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  Right?
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  And not everybody has the opportunity like I do to sit on stage with these wonderful performers
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  and to do this.
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  So
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  And that's one of the things that I've I've actually started doing something similar is I I
• 23:32
  allow my fans to book Zoom calls with me.
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  And I host fifteen minute meet and greets with all my fans.
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  That's awesome.
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  So I
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  can meet them from all over the world.
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  I was just on the on the Zoom call two days ago with a a woman from The UK.
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  Right.
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  It was wild.
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  You guys, if you're listening, you're watching, artists take lessons from this man.
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  This is how this thing is done.
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  You gotta be out there playing.
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  You gotta be out there writing and connecting with people.
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  And it's not about where you're at, and it's not about who you, you know, who you know.
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  It's about who you are and being true to that.
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  And then going out and finding the people that connect with that.
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  Yeah.
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  Absolutely.
• 24:06
  Me one more song, Tyler, then I gotta let you go.
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  Alright.
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  This this last one is is unreleased.
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  It's brand new.
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  I wrote it when my wife told me that she was pregnant with baby number two just a few months
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  ago.
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  And this song is is really long story short, I took when she told me she was pregnant, I took
• 24:22
  her and my daughter to Disney World as like one little family vacation where it would just be
• 24:27
  the three of us one last time before my son is born and ruins all my plans.
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  And so we go to Disney World.
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  I made the mistake of taking them to Disney World in the June, which is the worst time to
• 24:38
  go to Disney World.
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  We were there for four days.
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  It was 98 degrees out, super humid, and for three of the four days, it just thunderstormed
• 24:44
  the entire time.
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  And so to paint the picture, I'm standing in line to ride this stupid teacup thing for two
• 24:50
  and a half hours with a screaming two and a half year old and in the pouring rain.
• 24:55
  And we eventually get through some of these dumb rides, and go to the park where we get to
• 25:00
  meet all the characters, and my my wife is standing next to me, and my daughter sees
• 25:03
  Mickey Mouse for the first time.
• 25:05
  Right?
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  And she is over the moon, because in her mind, Mickey Mouse is real and the most famous person
• 25:10
  in the world.
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  So she runs up to him, and I look over at my wife, and she's just got this giant smile on
• 25:16
  her face and is bawling these happy tears.
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  And it kinda clicked for me in that moment that no matter what I was going to say or how I was
• 25:23
  gonna act, nothing was gonna take away her joy because she was going to actively choose
• 25:27
  happiness.
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  And it it dawned on me when we got back to where we were staying that when I'm 80 years
• 25:32
  old, retired, sitting on my porch, yelling at kids to get off my front lawn, right next to me
• 25:37
  is gonna be this beautiful woman who's encouraging me to choose joy throughout it all.
• 25:40
  And that's what inspired this next song, Honey That's You.
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  Cigarette on my lips, undress on your hips and they're doing what you do.
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  Oh, honey, that's you.
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  Laughing when there's no joke, you're always ready to go, and you don't need no make of
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  wanted shoe.
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  Oh, honey, that's you.
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  The one I've been praying for my whole life.
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  Someone to send my days and nights.
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  The one that'll love me wrong alright and wear my ring if you ask me.
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  Oh, honey, that's you.
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  You found a mess in me.
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  Look past what I
• 26:44
  couldn't see inside myself.
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  Somehow you'll know it.
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  Oh, honey, that's you.
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  The one I've been praying for my whole life.
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  Someone to send my days and nights.
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  The one that'll love me wrong or right.
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  It went by a ring if you ask me.
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  Oh, that's you.
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  When I'm 80 years old, our kids are married and grown, I know who I'll be holding on to.
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  Oh, honey, that's you.
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  The one I've been praying for my whole life.
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  Someone to send my days and nights.
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  The one that'll love me wrong, alright, and wear my ring if you ask me.
• 27:51
  Oh, honey, that's you.
• 28:04
  Amazing stuff, Tyler.
• 28:06
  Well, thank you so much for being on the show.
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  Why don't you tell everybody where we can find you and
• 28:10
  You can find me on all social media platforms, Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, TikTok, YouTube,
• 28:15
  all at Tyler Herwig Music.
• 28:16
  And if you guys wanna join that exclusive community that I was talking about where, you
• 28:20
  can book, like, meet and greet calls with me and stuff, you can check out
• 28:23
  tylerherwig.streetteam.fm.
• 28:26
  Awesome.
• 28:26
  Have a great one.
• 28:27
  Once again, Tyler Herwig.
• 28:29
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