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Makin' Hits in Smashville with Erin Alvey · Inside Country with Wayne D

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Speaker 1: Uh, listen, I'm excited because this, uh, this chat here
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Speaker 1: is happening. I don't want to say by accident, but
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Speaker 1: I saw she's putting music out. She's a part of
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Speaker 1: my I was gonna say she's part of my side
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Speaker 1: gig that was we're gonna we're add that out. I
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Speaker 1: met her through my side. No, I don't like that.
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Speaker 1: Aaron Alvi better known to probably the majority of fans
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Speaker 1: as Aaron Forsburg, How are you doing great? How are
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Speaker 1: you not bad? I got to ask, because first of all,
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Speaker 1: you have gone from from somebody I would see at
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Speaker 1: the rink on game day to all you're a TV
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Speaker 1: star now I don't know all that, but and you've
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Speaker 1: got the music. How are things to How are things
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Speaker 1: being you right now?
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Speaker 2: Yeah?
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Speaker 1: I don't know.
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Speaker 2: I was not expecting that question. How much time do
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Speaker 2: you have?
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Speaker 1: No?
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Speaker 2: Things are these are going well? Because I'm a new mom,
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Speaker 2: I'm a wife, you know, I've been doing music for years.
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Speaker 2: The TV show was definitely an add on. It's just
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Speaker 2: kind of chaotic, But I like chaos. I kind of
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Speaker 2: thriving chaos. I think. So it's good.
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Speaker 1: We're s cruising when and I'm obviously we're here because
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Speaker 1: you're putting out a song tomorrow and EP is coming. Uh.
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Speaker 1: But I got a touch on the show happened? Uh.
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Speaker 1: And it's cool because there's there's an NFL version and
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Speaker 1: I'm gonna forget what it's called, but it's like quarterback
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Speaker 1: or they didn't receiver one. Yeah, because Kiddo was on. Yeah,
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Speaker 1: And it's funny because I'm a Vikings guy. But I
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Speaker 1: messed with you. No, I love I love him. But
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Speaker 1: but the NHL version of that came around at not
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Speaker 1: the best time for you, between coming into the playoffs
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Speaker 1: and you're trying to.
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Speaker 2: You mean, when I was forty heavier than it is
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Speaker 2: that what you're trying to say in a nice way. Okay, yes,
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Speaker 2: we'll just go ahead and tell you that was not opportune.
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Speaker 2: But I don't know. It's one of those things that
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Speaker 2: it kinda Yeah. I mean, nobody's gonna feel bad for
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Speaker 2: me if you watch the show. I'm literally driving through
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Speaker 2: Chick fil A daily, so I don't think anyone's gonna
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Speaker 2: be like, oh, poor her. But it really was like
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Speaker 2: it was a vulnerable time in my life. But it
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Speaker 2: was a time that I really hope my son and
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Speaker 2: can look back and see how excited we were to
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Speaker 2: have him, and there was a lot of chaos, you know,
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Speaker 2: surrounding his birth. We didn't know if he was going
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Speaker 2: to come during playoffs, if they were going to lose out,
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Speaker 2: what the scenario was going to be. So in hindsight,
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Speaker 2: yeah it was.
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Speaker 1: It was.
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Speaker 2: I'm happy we did it, but yeah, we did not
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Speaker 2: agree to do it when I was pregnant. We agreed
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Speaker 2: to do it before I got pregnant.
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Speaker 1: And funny enough, I remember bumping into you towards I
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Speaker 1: don't know if it was towards the end of the
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Speaker 1: season or we were in the playoffs.
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Speaker 2: But everyone was bumping into me at that I had
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Speaker 2: a lot of landscape.
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Speaker 1: Into But I feel like you even made a comment
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Speaker 1: like phil was like, well, just hang on if you
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Speaker 1: go into labor, just hang on till the game. He
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Speaker 1: was tight.
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Speaker 2: Just keep your legs crossed.
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Speaker 1: We don't understand. Just don't stand up. The baby wants to.
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Speaker 2: I didn't either, so I was like, oh, yeah, I
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Speaker 2: could just cross my legs.
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Speaker 1: How did y'all meet?
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Speaker 2: So Philip and I met? We always a credit it
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Speaker 2: to Ellie Yosi and Roman Yo. See, so I knew
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Speaker 2: them before, and I modeled actually across the street at
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Speaker 2: boot Barn. I did with Ellie. Ellie's a model, modeled
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Speaker 2: with her on a gig with boot Barn and I
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Speaker 2: think saw me there and then messaged me on Instagram
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Speaker 2: and took me to Dave and Busters. Two days later.
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Speaker 1: He hits you with the damn girl, Yeah, your first
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Speaker 1: name was David Busters And there was a second date.
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Speaker 2: Oh wait, I am like a Carney at heart. Please
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Speaker 2: that was my dream first date.
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Speaker 1: Do you have.
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Speaker 2: The Yeah I am, but yeah, so we uh yeah,
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Speaker 2: so I like the hockey players. It's a good run time.
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Speaker 2: No so Philip has all his teeth shocking me.
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Speaker 1: Yeah.
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Speaker 2: They He took me to Dave and Busters and it
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Speaker 2: was awesome. We have the best time. We're both competitive.
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Speaker 2: I didn't realize how competitive. It's like one of those
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Speaker 2: things where we had an agreement, like whoever loses has to
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Speaker 2: buy the candy for the like the movie we're gonna watch,
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Speaker 2: and he won no shock to anybody. And I was thought,
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Speaker 2: you know, like, okay, I'm on a first date. He's
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Speaker 2: gonna pay end up paying and he's like, no, you
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Speaker 2: lost your paying for this candy. And I was like, Okay,
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Speaker 2: this is weird, but I love that, Like Philip is
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Speaker 2: who he is, and he made we made an agreement
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Speaker 2: in competition and he won.
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Speaker 1: So yeah, at what point in your li life did
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Speaker 1: the music come about? And was that was that always
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Speaker 1: part of the.
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Speaker 2: Plan or I yeah, so it. I don't want to
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Speaker 2: say it was an accident by any mean, a happy
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Speaker 2: little accident. But I have a cousin that was in
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Speaker 2: the band O Town MTV's making the band and it
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Speaker 2: was big, yeah, we're going deep, like all or nothing,
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Speaker 2: liquid dreams. They were just there. Ask Jacob Underwood. I
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Speaker 2: always say it was the redhead with dreadlocks. Okay, yeah,
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Speaker 2: that was Jacob and he I showed interest in music
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Speaker 2: when I was around nineteen ish and I was in
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Speaker 2: college and actually in sports broadcasting I was my major.
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Speaker 2: And he said, you know, if you want to do this,
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Speaker 2: I could probably like help you. I'll take you to Nashville,
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Speaker 2: will do this whole thing. And I was like, I
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Speaker 2: don't know about country. I was born in Race, South Georgia,
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Speaker 2: but I didn't have like this lifelong dream of being
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Speaker 2: a country artist.
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Speaker 1: Right.
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Speaker 2: He's like, let's let's go to Nashville. Let's try this thing,
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Speaker 2: go to Nashville record some songs. And then I asked.
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Speaker 2: I was like, if you want to be an artist,
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Speaker 2: what do you do? Really like, how do you become
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Speaker 2: an artist? He's like, well, you need a fan base.
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Speaker 2: And I was like, oh, that feels like a lot
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Speaker 2: to think about me. I've never really like had this aspiration.
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Speaker 2: All of a sudden, he's like, you gotta get fans.
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Speaker 2: I'm like, fans, I just wrote my first song, what
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Speaker 2: do you mean? So we were talking and I was
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Speaker 2: really active on Braves Twitter. I was a huge Atlanta
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Speaker 2: Braves fan, like randomly got into it, like during college,
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Speaker 2: and we were friends with all these things. We called
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Speaker 2: ourselves the Brave Spam, and I was like, what would
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Speaker 2: be kind of cool to write a song for my
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Speaker 2: little brave Spam. So I wrote the song called Tomahawk
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Speaker 2: Chop at the time, and it incorporated you know, the
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Speaker 2: chant that they do at the Braves games, and Chipper
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Speaker 2: Jones actually was in the music video. So Chipper Jones,
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Speaker 2: I think, is why I even have a career at all,
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Speaker 2: because he tweeted out that he was in this new
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Speaker 2: country artist music video and everyone was into it, and
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Speaker 2: so I kind of just started touring after that. He
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Speaker 2: really didn't have a big favor there, and it's where
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Speaker 2: I'm at.
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Speaker 1: That's so funny that it started with sports. Sports, Yeah,
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Speaker 1: and now it's you're.
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Speaker 2: Living in door sports. My family doesn't though I'm the
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Speaker 2: only person in my entire family. My dad said I
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Speaker 2: was adopted because they're like medieval type people. Oh, i'd
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Speaker 2: had like a scholar and books and E thinks sports
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Speaker 2: are kind of voice. But I loved him. I thought
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Speaker 2: there's such an energy around all sports that were so
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Speaker 2: fun and I loved playing sports growing up.
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Speaker 1: So it's funny because speaking of books, I'm originally from Minneapolis,
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Speaker 1: so I'm it's talking to my mom who still lives
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Speaker 1: and lives up in Minnesota, and I was like, oh,
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Speaker 1: I've been so busy. She's like, you just need downtime
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Speaker 1: to read a book. I'm like book book on tape,
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Speaker 1: mab Yeah, lots of sport with a book on time.
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Speaker 2: I know I had. But my problem with books is
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Speaker 2: I'm not a responsible reader, where if I start, all
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Speaker 2: responsibilities are out for the next Like until I finished
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Speaker 2: that book, I get obsessed over the book. Philip got
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Speaker 2: me onto it was lot on Ibrahimovic of course, and
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Speaker 2: I was like, I don't know who that is. And
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Speaker 2: he's like, well, we can't get married until you know
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Speaker 2: all about Sloughton. Buys me the autobiography. I proceed to
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Speaker 2: read the biography. I didn't do anything for two days.
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Speaker 2: I just read everything about Sloton and then I got
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Speaker 2: like obsessive. I was like, this guy's awesome. He's incredible,
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Speaker 2: Like his story was really cool. So yeah, after that,
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Speaker 2: he didn't suggest I read anything again because I kind
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Speaker 2: of was gone for the count for two days.
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Speaker 1: Hey, the baby's crying. Wow, You're like, probably. Well when
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Speaker 1: it comes to there's something special about being in a
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Speaker 1: hockey family. And I grew up a big baseball fan.
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Speaker 1: I transition to a massive football fan. Hockey came to
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Speaker 1: me later in life, which like, I don't know what
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Speaker 1: took it so long, but I'm glad it's here. But
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Speaker 1: there's something special about being a part of a hockey family.
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Speaker 1: And it really isn't just the players, and it's not
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Speaker 1: just you know, their family or extended family, Like the
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Speaker 1: whole community feels like part of that family. So what
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Speaker 1: has that been like for you? Not only as the
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Speaker 1: better half of All Star NHL player. But now to
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Speaker 1: have your own music career, that's fully I mean, not
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Speaker 1: that you didn't have it, but it's definitely out.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, I take step back, definitely. You know, it actually
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Speaker 2: COVID hit. So that's why I took my step back,
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Speaker 2: and then I really did get fully engulfed. I was
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Speaker 2: still working, I was in the studio every week here
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Speaker 2: in Ashville, but I wasn't touring because, like you said too,
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Speaker 2: there's a whole community there and there is a lot
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Speaker 2: of responsibility that comes with being, you know, the significant
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Speaker 2: other of any professional athlete I imagine. But I love
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Speaker 2: the hockey community. I feel like everyone's so kind. I
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Speaker 2: feel like it's a particularly humble, classy sport, you know,
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Speaker 2: comparatively to a lot of others. Not talking poorly about others,
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Speaker 2: but I think in comparison, most people would agree that hockey.
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Speaker 1: Is special, you know, funny enough. It's you hear if
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Speaker 1: you watch a game on TV, and especially the national
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Speaker 1: TV games, they call it the gentleman's sport.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, but like shocking. Yeah, I don't know about all that,
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Speaker 2: but yeah, it is it is. I mean, I'm not
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Speaker 2: going to outfill up stories, but he has some stories
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Speaker 2: and I'm like, please tell, like write a book at
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Speaker 2: the end of this that Wayne will not read, but
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Speaker 2: please there he has such cool stories and it is
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Speaker 2: It just reiterates that it is a gentleman's sport, maybe
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Speaker 2: behind the facade of like this big strong, you know,
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Speaker 2: like fight each other game. Those guys are pretty classy
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Speaker 2: and they're pretty like even if they're on other teams.
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Speaker 2: I hope he does.
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Speaker 1: Say minus and interaction. When I was by the locker
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Speaker 1: room between Corey Perry, I'm Mattias that co home. But
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Speaker 1: we're gonna leave that alone. We'll leave that alone. That
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Speaker 1: But the support, especially from Smashville, It's funny because I
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Speaker 1: see you on social media and anybody that's a fan
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Speaker 1: of Phil is like automatically a cheerleader of yours. And
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Speaker 1: what does that support like from Nashville itself?
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Speaker 2: Well, as you know better than anybody, the Prince fans
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Speaker 2: are the best, Like they really are. I always say
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Speaker 2: it's so, I you know, hockey is a thing here
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Speaker 2: in this town. It's big. It's become such a big thing,
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Speaker 2: especially after twenty seventeen run, which I wasn't a part of.
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Speaker 2: So I came in and people already adored hockey, and
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Speaker 2: I think they're just like true. I don't know how
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Speaker 2: it is in other markets, but here in Nashville, I
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Speaker 2: can attest that the people really just want the best
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Speaker 2: for the players, the families of the players, you know,
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Speaker 2: everybody in the organization. And they're just happy for wins.
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Speaker 2: You know, maybe they're not thrilled when we're losing, but
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Speaker 2: they're really not that hard on the players. They kind
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Speaker 2: of just they're just champions. They're positive. So I love
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Speaker 2: that about the press.
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Speaker 1: I am we lose? How yo? You suck outside the
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Speaker 1: locker room?
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Speaker 2: Oh okay, well that yeah?
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Speaker 1: Yeah? So with the music and where you're at now?
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Speaker 1: And you said you took a step back during COVID,
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Speaker 1: where do you you like? You said the TV show
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Speaker 1: was happening before. Yeah, you know, any real buddy really
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Speaker 1: knew y'all were going to have a baby, right, Yeah.
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Speaker 2: Well we agreed to it before. Are we even got pregnant?
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Speaker 1: Yeah? When? So when were you working on this music?
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Speaker 1: Was it around that same time or before it?
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Speaker 2: I really never stopped. So the EP that's coming out
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Speaker 2: are like six songs of like lessons I've learned from
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Speaker 2: the past ten years and a lot of it's just
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Speaker 2: been maybe I wrote it eight years ago, maybe I
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Speaker 2: wrote it two months ago. So there's there's a variation
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Speaker 2: of the songs. But I always was working on the songs.
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Speaker 2: Some of these are just like my favorites from the
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Speaker 2: past ten years essentially, or songs I think I need
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Speaker 2: to release.
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Speaker 1: Now, Okay, where is your Where's the motivation coming from?
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Speaker 1: Now that where you were ten years ago? Right? Much
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Speaker 1: different versus wife rather, you know, entrepreneur artist. So where's
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Speaker 1: the motivation coming from? Obviously the EP is coming, but
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Speaker 1: we're talking about the song Q and A as well,
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Speaker 1: which comes out tomorrow. But as far as the EP
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Speaker 1: as a whole, where's the main motivation for the whole thing? I,
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Speaker 1: as cliche as it sounds, I think becoming a mother.
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Speaker 2: There's something like when I had him, I think I
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Speaker 2: had this idea, especially at the time when I was touring.
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Speaker 2: You know, I was like young and single and it
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Speaker 2: was fun. I was in bars and festivals and clubs.
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Speaker 2: I was like, this was where I wanted to do.
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Speaker 2: I had the best time. Then I you know, got
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Speaker 2: into a serious relationship with Philip and then we got
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Speaker 2: married and then having a child. I was like man,
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Speaker 2: every part of young Aaron would have thought it's over.
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Speaker 2: You know, it's done, You had your run, you did it.
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Speaker 2: And sure, I don't really want to be at bars
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Speaker 2: and festivals every night now because my heart is with
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Speaker 2: my son and my husband and that's where I want
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Speaker 2: to be. But with that being said, I was like,
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Speaker 2: you know what, if anything, I have more more to
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Speaker 2: write on, Like this is time. This is a time
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Speaker 2: for my son to look and like I don't want
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Speaker 2: him to think that I stopped pursuing my dreams because
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Speaker 2: he came along, because, if anything, he's just motivated that more.
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Speaker 2: Same with my husband, you know, like being a wife
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Speaker 2: to Philip has given me so much confidence and so
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Speaker 2: much I don't know, so he gives me so much
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Speaker 2: support and encouragement that I was like, you know what,
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Speaker 2: I don't have to just stop because you know, society's
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Speaker 2: ideals of what the artist looks like, maybe I don't
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Speaker 2: necessarily fit, but yeah, I think that's the main motivation.
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Speaker 1: Stories come out in songs and so everybody has a
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Speaker 1: favorite story, and I love catching up with whoever sitting
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Speaker 1: on the other side of the table for me because
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Speaker 1: everybody has a favorite story, which turns into a favorite song,
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Speaker 1: although I've heard a million times from different artists of
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Speaker 1: every level. Yeah, they're all my babies and I love
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Speaker 1: them all, Okay, but I don't feel that way as
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Speaker 1: a father of two. There's times one is your favorite
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Speaker 1: over the other. So, out of these six, and obviously
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Speaker 1: there's other music out there, but let's talk about the
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Speaker 1: six on the EP. What story is the closest to
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Speaker 1: your heart or maybe was the toughest to share?
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Speaker 2: Ooh yeah, So I think, like we were just saying,
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Speaker 2: on the other side of being married and loving my
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Speaker 2: husband and my baby, there are songs that come out
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Speaker 2: that were not motivated by current events. You know, if
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Speaker 2: my husband has not you know, broken my heart. So yeah,
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Speaker 2: there are songs that were from twenty two year old Aaron,
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Speaker 2: you know that maybe he was experiencing life. And that's
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Speaker 2: where the title the EP Questions and Answers comes out,
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Speaker 2: where it's you know, there are years that ask questions
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Speaker 2: and the are years that answer, and that's what the
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Speaker 2: whole EP is. There are some of my question years there,
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Speaker 2: and there's some of my answer years there. So tomorrow
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Speaker 2: the song and Badly is kind of a question. It's
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Speaker 2: kind of one of those question years. So that one's
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Speaker 2: not a necessarily a heartbreak song, but it's basically begging
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Speaker 2: the person that I'm in a relationship with if you're
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Speaker 2: gonna end this, which you know ended up being Philip,
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Speaker 2: I wrote after I met him, if you end this,
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Speaker 2: you better break my heart. You better do it bad,
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Speaker 2: because if I don't get to hate you, especially Phillips,
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Speaker 2: he's such a nice person. I was like, I can't
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Speaker 2: just walk away from you. And then it just it
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Speaker 2: didn't work out, Like you gotta like really mess me
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Speaker 2: up or else we're I'm never gonna get over you.
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Speaker 2: So thank god it worked out, and badly was the
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Speaker 2: turmoil you felt when you're first in a relationship of like, God,
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Speaker 2: I think I really like this person. He better really
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Speaker 2: mess me up if we end up breaking up, because
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Speaker 2: otherwise it's gonna be the one that got away forever.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, because you don't want to like, you can't.
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Speaker 2: Just walk away from that person.
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Speaker 1: Yeah. When it comes to you know, phil doing his
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Speaker 1: thing very well, you doing your thing? Is he does
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Speaker 1: he like to sit in? Does he like to give feedback?
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Speaker 1: Has he been in the studio? Can he rap?
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Speaker 2: Can my sweetish husband wrap, No, he cannot.
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Speaker 1: But what's his impact and input as far as musically, Like.
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Speaker 2: I said, well, musically, I don't know. We do keep
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Speaker 2: it fairly separate. Philip is very involved. When I ask
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Speaker 2: him to be he'll listen to whatever. He'll listen to
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Speaker 2: the songs. But to be honest, I feel like that's
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Speaker 2: where it becomes that's this is my baby, you know,
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Speaker 2: Like I toured. I pride myself in knowing that, like
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Speaker 2: he had already heard my music before I knew his name,
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Speaker 2: you know, one of those things. So it's like this
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Speaker 2: was my baby. And although his opinion means more to
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Speaker 2: me than anybody else is in the world, in fact
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Speaker 2: only really his opinion now my son's matter. But we
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Speaker 2: keep it fairly separate, just the same as I'm not
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Speaker 2: telling him how to play hockeys.
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Speaker 1: I don't know about you. You don't comment on Wide
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Speaker 1: Open that he might.
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Speaker 2: I don't know anything about it, you know, I'm just
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Speaker 2: out here. I'm just supporting it. Like when he does
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Speaker 2: something great, that's great, and he's the same, Like he
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Speaker 2: doesn't criticize me, or he doesn't even give me critiques,
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Speaker 2: and I don't give him critiques. We're just there to
15:11
Speaker 2: support each other in our respective careers, and I think
15:14
Speaker 2: it works best that way.
15:15
Speaker 1: So we will hear Q and A tomorrow available to stream.
15:18
Speaker 1: The rest of the EP is coming out. Of the
15:20
Speaker 1: six songs, which one has he shared? Which one is
15:24
Speaker 1: his favorite or which one he goes back to or
15:26
Speaker 1: is he just like, hey love you, you love the music.
15:28
Speaker 2: Well, there's one on the EP that I wrote almost
15:31
Speaker 2: entirely alone. I had a couple of writers come in
15:33
Speaker 2: and help me with a part of one verse. But
15:35
Speaker 2: that song it's called Oasis, and I've played it live before.
15:39
Speaker 2: But that's his song. That's a song that there's no question.
15:42
Speaker 2: Like I said, maybe some have trickles over of like
15:45
Speaker 2: other life experiences, but Oasis is for Philip, and that
15:48
Speaker 2: one I think. I think he feels special. Who wouldn't
15:51
Speaker 2: want a songwrite about them?
15:52
Speaker 1: You know it's nice there might be a song about.
15:55
Speaker 2: Written about them. Yeah, So I think Oasis would probably
15:59
Speaker 2: be the song that I mean, he knows. I've been
16:02
Speaker 2: very open about that one. That one's for Philip.
16:05
Speaker 1: As you get back into it after stepping back from
16:09
Speaker 1: the music, what has been something you're nervous about to
16:13
Speaker 1: get back into or to do for the first time,
16:15
Speaker 1: or and then what's one thing that you're like, Damn,
16:18
Speaker 1: I forgot how awesome this was.
16:20
Speaker 2: Yeah, I think, like I was saying, I have more.
16:23
Speaker 2: I feel more secure in myself more than ever. But
16:26
Speaker 2: at the same time, I almost feel more nervous about
16:28
Speaker 2: releasing because I did take such a step back and
16:30
Speaker 2: before it only affected me, you know, like my music,
16:33
Speaker 2: it was just me, like, you know, my family might
16:35
Speaker 2: my team, but I didn't have a husband and a
16:38
Speaker 2: child that I'm also like protecting in this. So there's
16:41
Speaker 2: something either. There's a give and to take in everything
16:43
Speaker 2: in life. So even right now I'm here and I'm
16:45
Speaker 2: so happy to be here and like, I'm so thankful
16:47
Speaker 2: you had me here to promote the EP and the
16:49
Speaker 2: single coming out tomorrow to start it, but I'm also
16:51
Speaker 2: taking time away from my son. So it's like there
16:53
Speaker 2: is going to always be a balance in life, a
16:55
Speaker 2: give and a take. And I hope this EP does
16:59
Speaker 2: as well as it's supposed to do and goes as
17:01
Speaker 2: big as it can go, But at the same time,
17:04
Speaker 2: I have to make sure that I'm balancing being a
17:06
Speaker 2: wife and a mother.
17:08
Speaker 1: Is the EP going to because it's so different because
17:13
Speaker 1: EPs used to be like, Okay, here's a sample of
17:16
Speaker 1: what my album is going to be. Like it's almost
17:18
Speaker 1: like it was super strategic. Now, especially in Nashville, it's like, hey,
17:22
Speaker 1: I got six songs, they're dope, put them on an
17:24
Speaker 1: EP and put the Well, where is that for you?
17:26
Speaker 1: Is it just here's six songs, take them whatever? Or
17:29
Speaker 1: is this kind of like the tee up to an
17:32
Speaker 1: album that you want to maybe get to at some point.
17:34
Speaker 2: Well, because I haven't been touring, I do have hundreds
17:37
Speaker 2: of songs right now that I've just been writing for
17:39
Speaker 2: years with the writers here in town. So I have
17:42
Speaker 2: a lot that I could release. And I think, as
17:45
Speaker 2: we know, like this day and age, I think everyone
17:47
Speaker 2: kind of has a little bit of add with music
17:49
Speaker 2: where they don't, not unless you're one of the big bigs.
17:52
Speaker 2: Not everyone's releasing a full album, you know, because it's
17:54
Speaker 2: hard to get people to commit to what listening to
17:56
Speaker 2: you for this long, which is why questions and answers.
17:58
Speaker 2: The EP is just sick songs that are releasing in
18:00
Speaker 2: a waterfall release. So I think it'll be three drops essentially. Okay,
18:05
Speaker 2: with that being said, you know, depending on how it does,
18:07
Speaker 2: maybe maybe I do end up releasing more from the
18:11
Speaker 2: vault of songs that I have. I have a lot
18:13
Speaker 2: that I'd love to share, the songs I think are important.
18:15
Speaker 2: But like you're saying, like some of them are old
18:17
Speaker 2: to me, but that doesn't mean they're old to people
18:19
Speaker 2: who haven't heard of them.
18:20
Speaker 1: For people that might be hearing this before they hear
18:23
Speaker 1: a song, what can they expect from you? And when
18:27
Speaker 1: I say how, what do you? Who do you sound like?
18:33
Speaker 1: And when I say that, I don't mean like, oh
18:35
Speaker 1: I sound like artists a right, But it feels like
18:37
Speaker 1: even in what I do, it's like you take, you
18:40
Speaker 1: take some of this, some of this, some of this
18:42
Speaker 1: to form who you want to be, and it's not
18:45
Speaker 1: necessarily a copy, more inspired by what would that melting
18:49
Speaker 1: pot be? That makes you who you are as an artist?
18:52
Speaker 2: So you like the musical inspirations growing up or like
18:55
Speaker 2: what that to that to even now?
18:58
Speaker 1: Who make you like, oh I saw them do it
19:00
Speaker 1: that way? I won sy it with my flair and
19:02
Speaker 1: vice versa.
19:02
Speaker 2: Totally. Yeah, So I grew up with like Bruce Springsteen,
19:06
Speaker 2: you know, the Beatles, Paul McCartney's my favorite. Not the
19:08
Speaker 2: Beatles necessarily but Paul McCartney has an artist and like
19:11
Speaker 2: his writing. His single writing is something that I really like.
19:14
Speaker 2: And then I think that's the growing up aspect. And
19:17
Speaker 2: then I had my mom always had country playing. She
19:20
Speaker 2: had like Toby Keith rest in Peace playing all the time,
19:23
Speaker 2: and I loved his vibe and the energy he brought.
19:26
Speaker 2: And then a newer artist that I think I the
19:29
Speaker 2: first time in a very long time that I felt
19:31
Speaker 2: super moved by an artist was Lewis Capaldi. A mix
19:35
Speaker 2: of those you know, like you have kind of this
19:37
Speaker 2: melting pot of that's the style of writing. I think,
19:41
Speaker 2: the vocals, it's all. It's definitely country pop. I had
19:44
Speaker 2: a pop era where I didn't really release a lot
19:47
Speaker 2: of country. So it's kind of fun going back to
19:49
Speaker 2: my roots. I was born in raised South Georgia. Although
19:52
Speaker 2: I've lost a lot of my accent being married to European,
19:56
Speaker 2: it's still there. That's in my roots. That's where the
19:58
Speaker 2: country comes in. But the right is very styled of
20:01
Speaker 2: you know, it's it's pretty vulnerable.
20:03
Speaker 1: I was texting with our in arena. DJ's name is Battle. Yeah,
20:09
Speaker 1: and we do these pregame we do these production meetings. Yeah,
20:13
Speaker 1: and and it's like, okay, here's you know, they point
20:15
Speaker 1: to me, They're like, okay, here's you're doing this, this, this, whatever,
20:17
Speaker 1: You're good, Okay, you're doing this. And then Battle was like, oh, hey,
20:22
Speaker 1: you know, I know that Aaron has music coming. Does
20:26
Speaker 1: she have anything with like a pop and so and so?
20:32
Speaker 1: He I think somebody did they reach out to you already?
20:34
Speaker 2: Yeah?
20:34
Speaker 1: Okay, So so that I want to ask, let's say
20:37
Speaker 1: we go into a timeout or something like that and
20:39
Speaker 1: you hear your song go over whatever we're doing. Is
20:42
Speaker 1: that going to be weird?
20:44
Speaker 2: I almost wish y'all hadn't asked because then because now
20:46
Speaker 2: it's like seems like I'm like, yeah, guys, do it.
20:49
Speaker 2: But it's one of those things like I wouldn't have
20:52
Speaker 2: thought anything. I would have been like, awesome.
20:54
Speaker 1: You know.
20:54
Speaker 2: Of course I want my music promoted because I think
20:56
Speaker 2: that every everybody who listens to it, like, why else
20:58
Speaker 2: would I be doing it if I didn't want it
21:00
Speaker 2: to be out there?
21:00
Speaker 1: Right?
21:01
Speaker 2: But at the same time, like I've always been very
21:03
Speaker 2: vocal that I will not sing the anthem with Philip
21:05
Speaker 2: in the room, and not because of an insecurity, but
21:08
Speaker 2: because it just feels like I don't know. I think
21:10
Speaker 2: that would make me really nervous to do it right
21:12
Speaker 2: in front of Philip. But like, my music is something
21:14
Speaker 2: I'm proud of, right, so, like I would love to
21:16
Speaker 2: hear it anywhere. I hope to hear it wherever I go.
21:18
Speaker 2: But with that being said, I'm not going to be
21:20
Speaker 2: the one like knocking on Barry's door. You think you
21:24
Speaker 2: guys can promote me a little bit out there, So
21:26
Speaker 2: I don't know. It's definitely a little bit of a mix.
21:28
Speaker 1: Philip said his next contractor'll give you a deal if
21:30
Speaker 1: I can see me yeah every game.
21:33
Speaker 2: Yeah, and I want a power slide after every anthem?
21:36
Speaker 2: Can you guys work that out?
21:37
Speaker 1: The funny thing about the anthem is some artists feel
21:39
Speaker 1: so different about it, Like Luke Bryan stepped out last
21:42
Speaker 1: year absolutely killed it. But there's some artists because I
21:45
Speaker 1: tried to help book in a previous employer, I tried
21:49
Speaker 1: to help book a couple of country artists as they
21:51
Speaker 1: were coming to town, and so I talked to their
21:53
Speaker 1: manager and they go, I won't let my artists do
21:55
Speaker 1: the anthem.
21:56
Speaker 2: It's a tough one.
21:57
Speaker 1: Well, and at first I was like, don't love America?
21:59
Speaker 2: Yeah, come on.
22:01
Speaker 1: But he's like, because if they kill it, nobody cares.
22:04
Speaker 1: They're expected to kill it. It's not going to go viral.
22:06
Speaker 1: It's not there's you do the anthem. You're supposed to
22:08
Speaker 1: kill it.
22:09
Speaker 2: So true.
22:09
Speaker 1: It lives forever if you screw it up.
22:11
Speaker 2: It's so true.
22:11
Speaker 1: So he's like, it doesn't help him as song.
22:14
Speaker 2: I don't know if I'm sorry hard butt song, but
22:17
Speaker 2: there's something about it that it is. It's also like
22:20
Speaker 2: a humbling experience. I actually became like an anthem artist
22:22
Speaker 2: for a second there because the management that I was with,
22:25
Speaker 2: anytime we would tour, they'd make me sing, not make me.
22:27
Speaker 2: They would sign me up to sing the anthem at
22:29
Speaker 2: almost every sporting event leading up to the concert or
22:33
Speaker 2: the show as a way of promoting and marketing. And
22:35
Speaker 2: it worked.
22:35
Speaker 1: You know.
22:35
Speaker 2: There Wo'd be people be like, oh, I saw you
22:37
Speaker 2: sing the anthem, and I saw you at a show
22:38
Speaker 2: in town, so I came whatever. And then it was
22:42
Speaker 2: like I kind of became, like I said, the anthem artist.
22:44
Speaker 2: I was always singing the anthem. I was like, this
22:46
Speaker 2: is kind of getting a lot singing the anthem quite often,
22:49
Speaker 2: but it is every single time. It's intimidating because just
22:52
Speaker 2: like you said, it can really.
22:54
Speaker 1: Takes one one way, yeah, or one like oh I
22:57
Speaker 1: took a breath there and all of a sudden, you're
22:58
Speaker 1: breathing time. And I always tell people because you see
23:02
Speaker 1: gets love at the beginning of the anthem, So if
23:04
Speaker 1: someone hasn't done it before, I tried to bump into it. Hey,
23:07
Speaker 1: just so you know, if you have good you do,
23:08
Speaker 1: you're gonna yell back to you. Because my fear would
23:11
Speaker 1: be like oh say, I'd be.
23:12
Speaker 2: Like what exactly and then you stop. They did it
23:15
Speaker 2: to me the Orioles. The first MLB game that I
23:18
Speaker 2: sang out was for the Baltimore Orioles yep. And it
23:21
Speaker 2: was during the Bobby Bobbies, like David Ortiz. It was
23:26
Speaker 2: his like goodbye tour and so it was insane in
23:30
Speaker 2: this it was the last time he's gonna play against
23:32
Speaker 2: the Orioles. You know. It was like this huge night
23:34
Speaker 2: and they said just you know, they're gonna yell oh
23:37
Speaker 2: for the Orioles. Like at in the middle of the song,
23:40
Speaker 2: I was like, yeay, okay. It was jarring, like you're
23:43
Speaker 2: already prepared for the delay, right, so you have to
23:45
Speaker 2: sing you're hearing yourself sing verses that you've already sung
23:48
Speaker 2: you feel like eight minutes ago, and they're just now
23:50
Speaker 2: coming back to you in your inner ear. But you
23:51
Speaker 2: just have to power through and just trust your gut.
23:54
Speaker 2: And then you have this whole crowd yelling in the
23:56
Speaker 2: middle of while you're singing, and you don't want to
23:57
Speaker 2: get like jarred and off track. It is absolutely I
24:00
Speaker 2: have all respect for any artist that gets out there
24:03
Speaker 2: and sings the anthem because it is I'm no.
24:04
Speaker 1: Joke, and that that like clapback that happens in the arena,
24:07
Speaker 1: whether it's empty or there's one hundred thousand people in it. Like, obviously,
24:12
Speaker 1: singing is way more difficult than just talking. But I
24:14
Speaker 1: got to the prom I just had to ignore them, Yea.
24:16
Speaker 1: I had to like a five ways on because there's
24:19
Speaker 1: times I'd be like, yeah, why why did I Later?
24:25
Speaker 1: So when we get that, we get the single tomorrow,
24:28
Speaker 1: the Q and A. There's five more songs after that.
24:31
Speaker 1: What what is your timeline as far as release?
24:35
Speaker 2: So Tomorrow's end Badly, Q and A is the EP,
24:38
Speaker 2: Tomorrow is the single and Badly, but the release timeline
24:41
Speaker 2: is just over the next couple of months.
24:43
Speaker 1: I was.
24:44
Speaker 2: I was hesitant to release during the holidays, as all
24:46
Speaker 2: artists are told to be. They're like, oh, you know,
24:48
Speaker 2: your management will be like, well, it's holidays and I'm
24:50
Speaker 2: always gonna listen. But in reality, people get their fix
24:52
Speaker 2: at Christmas music here and there, but they are still
24:54
Speaker 2: listening to music. Nobody's just stopped listening to music and
24:58
Speaker 2: strictly listening to Christmas. So we decided, you know what,
25:01
Speaker 2: this could be a good time. It was a good
25:03
Speaker 2: time to release, and figured now to roll with it.
25:06
Speaker 2: So here between now and then beginning of the year
25:09
Speaker 2: next year, I think all of the six on the
25:11
Speaker 2: EP are going to be released.
25:13
Speaker 1: Is it does it tell a story because you said
25:16
Speaker 1: Q and A is obviously less ten years so end badly?
25:18
Speaker 1: And then is it almost like chapters.
25:21
Speaker 2: With the titles essentially? Yes? Yeah, okay, yeah.
25:25
Speaker 1: I'm not trying to take too much.
25:26
Speaker 2: No, No, I don't have this big secret. No, there's
25:28
Speaker 2: no big surprise there are. They do make sense to
25:32
Speaker 2: an extent, but I will say there might be like
25:34
Speaker 2: a song released. They're not all love songs right, Like
25:37
Speaker 2: one the title is motoral Eraser and it's just talking
25:41
Speaker 2: about the time of my life when I had a
25:42
Speaker 2: motoral eraser, not to age myself entirely, but like, listen,
25:45
Speaker 2: there are people my age listen to music. So maybe
25:49
Speaker 2: I'm not singing about the I don't know TikTok trends,
25:52
Speaker 2: but you know, motoroial eraser was a time of my
25:54
Speaker 2: life of like it was just so care free. It
25:56
Speaker 2: was so much easier. Everyone just cared about keeping that
25:58
Speaker 2: motoral eraser clipped in the front of your sophie shorts
26:01
Speaker 2: and that was what it was. So it's just it's
26:03
Speaker 2: not all love songs, so it doesn't necessarily follow a
26:05
Speaker 2: timeline because I would have released that one first, right,
26:07
Speaker 2: but they all do. It will end with I'm happy
26:13
Speaker 2: is a mother and a wife?
26:14
Speaker 1: So well, so now I got to ask, because you
26:16
Speaker 1: brought up TikTok dances, are is there going to be
26:19
Speaker 1: TikTok dances to these songs?
26:20
Speaker 2: Somebody can say, are you agreeing to start that TikTok bread?
26:28
Speaker 2: That was so nice of you to see you do
26:31
Speaker 2: it to my slow sad songs. You know, that was
26:34
Speaker 2: actually a talk during the meetings when we're talking about
26:36
Speaker 2: what songs to release. It was brought back and forth
26:38
Speaker 2: of like, look, it doesn't make sense for you to
26:40
Speaker 2: release a heartbreak song. You know, you're publicly you're married
26:44
Speaker 2: with a child, you seem to be very happy, so
26:46
Speaker 2: who are you to release a sad song? And I
26:47
Speaker 2: was like, hey, that's not fair because I was sad
26:50
Speaker 2: at one point. I was very sad girl at one time.
26:52
Speaker 2: So and that still was a part of my life
26:55
Speaker 2: that lived just the same as I would have stopped
26:56
Speaker 2: music and just been a happy, you know, wife to
26:59
Speaker 2: my husband if if that weren't such a big part
27:01
Speaker 2: of my life prior, you know. So it's kind of
27:03
Speaker 2: honoring parts of my life and remembering that just because
27:05
Speaker 2: I might be happy in my relationship now doesn't mean
27:07
Speaker 2: that it didn't take so many years of figuring out
27:11
Speaker 2: life experiences, not just love but like life to get
27:14
Speaker 2: to appreciate the life that I have with my husband
27:17
Speaker 2: and my son, you know, and be content in this
27:19
Speaker 2: lifestyle so well not this lifestyle content, you know, being
27:23
Speaker 2: a wife and a mother now and not touring as much.
27:25
Speaker 2: So there's a lot of life lessons in it. It's
27:28
Speaker 2: not necessarily all just representative of who I am right
27:30
Speaker 2: now in twenty twenty four, but it tells a story
27:34
Speaker 2: for sure.
27:34
Speaker 1: That's awesome. Can't wait to hear it.
27:36
Speaker 2: Thank you, thank you for having me