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Meet Jayson Arendt, Banana League's Slugger Turned 'American Idol' Hopeful · On Air with Ryan Seacrest

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  Speaker 1: Jason Aren't is here. He auditioned for American Idol. He
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  Speaker 1: comes in with the Tailgaters quickly. What is your professional background?
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  Speaker 2: My professional background is I played college baseball, and while
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  Speaker 2: I was in my senior year of college baseball, I
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  Speaker 2: was on the road with my band during the season,
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  Speaker 2: so we'd go play Thursday night show somewhere and then
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  Speaker 2: drive through the night back to make it to the
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  Speaker 2: game Friday, Saturday Sunday for my college baseball games at
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  Speaker 2: Unson Willington. And when that finished and I graduated, I
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  Speaker 2: just went full time on the road with my band
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  Speaker 2: on the weekends and then work construction during the week
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  Speaker 2: for about six months. And then that was when the
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  Speaker 2: owner of the Banana, Jesse Cole, called me. I was like, Hey,
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  Speaker 2: we want to start this team called the Texas Tailgaters
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  Speaker 2: that does music and baseball together. Would you be interested?
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  Speaker 1: And I was like, I'm in. What was experience like
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  Speaker 1: for you? You'll see Jason Aren't on American Idol. What
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  Speaker 1: was it like for you?
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  Speaker 2: It was so cool, you know, I've dreamed of that
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  Speaker 2: kind of a scenario for a long time. Scotty McCreery
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  Speaker 2: is from right around the corner from me and Garner,
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  Speaker 2: which is ten or fifteen minutes from my house. So
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  Speaker 2: getting to watch him go through that experience was something
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  Speaker 2: that I really like valued when I was younger, and
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  Speaker 2: so getting to actually step on foot there on American
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  Speaker 2: Idol was really cool. And meeting some of those like
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  Speaker 2: Carrie Underwood, Luke Bryan I've looked up to for years,
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  Speaker 2: So to actually get to meet him and interact with
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  Speaker 2: him was super cool, and they were way more welcoming
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  Speaker 2: than I was expecting. You know, sometimes you never know
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  Speaker 2: what you're going to walk into, but it was super cool.
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  Speaker 1: Jason Aren't look for him on American Idol. Brother, thank
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  Speaker 1: you so much for coming out. Great to see you again. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: bet you for having me all right, see you soon.
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