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Blake Shelton is a Massive Post Malone Fan? · Inside Country with Wayne D

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  Speaker 1: What's up, Blake?
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  Speaker 2: How you doing? Man?
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  Speaker 1: Life is good?
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  Speaker 2: Man?
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  Speaker 1: How are you?
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  Speaker 2: Wow? Like y'all? Studio is bad ass? Looking back there?
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  Speaker 2: That is cool?
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  Speaker 3: Hey, you know what about this studio too? Let me
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  Speaker 3: see if you recognize this place over here?
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  Speaker 2: Where Wait a minute, it's not Oh my, is that
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  Speaker 2: all right over there?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah?
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  Speaker 1: We're This studio is in Jason el Dean's bar.
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  Speaker 2: Oh you're kidding me. That's cool. I need do I
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  Speaker 2: need to put a studio on mind?
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  Speaker 1: So so I watch?
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  Speaker 3: Uh, I watched to make sure your people are working
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  Speaker 3: all day over Yeah?
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  Speaker 2: Good good.
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  Speaker 3: Hey, I gotta say we we caught up.
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  Speaker 1: Right when this new single was coming out.
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  Speaker 3: And I've only been able to I meet Gosh, I
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  Speaker 3: met you only once, uh, when you were coming through Vegas.
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  Speaker 3: This is a long time ago, probably like seven eight
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  Speaker 3: years ago. But there was something about getting to talk
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  Speaker 3: to you when this single was coming out, that you
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  Speaker 3: might be having the best time you've ever had making music.
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  Speaker 4: It feels like, yeah, well, I don't know if it's
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  Speaker 4: the best time. I would say it's equal to the
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  Speaker 4: first time. And because I feel like those early days
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  Speaker 4: before my first album came out and the excitement of
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  Speaker 4: it for me because you know, I'd worked my entire
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  Speaker 4: life to get to the point where I could put
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  Speaker 4: out my first album, and then Austin came out and
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  Speaker 4: had turned into a big hit, and I never expected
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  Speaker 4: it to.
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  Speaker 2: Be like that, you know.
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  Speaker 4: I mean I dreamed of it, but I just never expected,
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  Speaker 4: like my first song to come out and do that.
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  Speaker 4: And so because I had this hit on the radio
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  Speaker 4: and my album wasn't even out yet, I just had
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  Speaker 4: I was like a kid in a candy store, like
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  Speaker 4: I couldn't wait.
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  Speaker 2: It was like I couldn't.
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  Speaker 4: Wait for people to get my record because when they
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  Speaker 4: got it, I knew that there were songs on other
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  Speaker 4: songs on there that that I felt strongly.
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  Speaker 2: About, like old Red.
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  Speaker 4: Old Red was also on that first album. It's like, man,
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  Speaker 4: what about when they hear that?
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  Speaker 2: You know?
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  Speaker 4: So I just had so much excitement and I have
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  Speaker 4: that with this album. To your point, I have that
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  Speaker 4: with this album. I'm giddy about it again and I
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  Speaker 4: and I feel connected to those early days of just
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  Speaker 4: like I'm so fired up and I can't wait for
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  Speaker 4: people to get the record. And I got to say,
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  Speaker 4: there's part of me that I hate this new way
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  Speaker 4: that we released music where it's like those Instagram things
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  Speaker 4: like we put at It's like no, no, no, no,
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  Speaker 4: just let them get it all at once, you know
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  Speaker 4: what I mean. It's like, well, that's not how the
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  Speaker 4: business works, Blake, so shut up.
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  Speaker 2: But I am.
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  Speaker 4: I am excited for people to get the record and
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  Speaker 4: hear it because I've been working on it for long, long,
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  Speaker 4: like years I've been working on this record. I didn't
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  Speaker 4: know it because I've been recording things here and there,
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  Speaker 4: and I just didn't know what I was going to
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  Speaker 4: do with the music. But it ends up being some
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  Speaker 4: of this, Some of this music goes back, you know,
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  Speaker 4: four or five years.
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  Speaker 3: I will say the last time we caught up with
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  Speaker 3: you was also on a zoom, except you were in
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  Speaker 3: a much more gorgeous location. It was Gwen's zoom area.
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  Speaker 3: I just want to ask, and you can tell me
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  Speaker 3: to mind my business. Have you been kicked out of
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  Speaker 3: the house now?
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  Speaker 2: I did? I was today.
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  Speaker 4: Look at this is the polar opposite of of the
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  Speaker 4: of Gwenn's thing. This is the this has got all
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  Speaker 4: my deer heads and stuff ended in here.
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  Speaker 2: So it's the.
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  Speaker 4: Opposite when for what, for some reason, she doesn't want
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  Speaker 4: my taxidermy in her in her hang out room.
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  Speaker 2: I don't know what's wrong with her.
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  Speaker 3: That's well, we're gonna get a therapist involved, and we're
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  Speaker 3: gonna just fix that.
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  Speaker 1: We'll just work it all out. There's got to be
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  Speaker 1: some give and some and some back.
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  Speaker 4: Deer horns laying around on my table here. There's none
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  Speaker 4: of that at Gwen's office.
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  Speaker 3: Uh. We were talking about the excitement you're having with
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  Speaker 3: this new music man. Uh, you had put out there
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  Speaker 3: was there was a couple of singles you put out.
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  Speaker 1: Damn they were so good.
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  Speaker 3: And when we when we caught up around that time,
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  Speaker 3: you were like, this is fine, I'm okay doing this
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  Speaker 3: right now.
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  Speaker 1: What was the tipping point for you that did you like?
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  Speaker 1: Screw it man, it's album time again.
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  Speaker 3: Uh?
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  Speaker 4: Posts Malone was the tipping point for me working with
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  Speaker 4: him last year on a couple of shows we did together,
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  Speaker 4: shooting the video for for Me a Drink.
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  Speaker 2: That guy.
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  Speaker 4: Is so passionate about country music, and it really because
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  Speaker 4: I had gotten so lazy and just lollygagging about my career. Honestly,
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  Speaker 4: I mean, let's just call it what it is, you know,
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  Speaker 4: and not focusing.
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  Speaker 2: On it, not to say like I should should.
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  Speaker 4: Be, because I mean, I was doing exactly what I
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  Speaker 4: wanted to do. I wanted to have some time and
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  Speaker 4: and back off a little bit. But being around Post
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  Speaker 4: was the reminder that, man, I'm the luckiest guy in
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  Speaker 4: the world to get to do what I do. Just
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  Speaker 4: a handful of people in the world get to do
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  Speaker 4: what I do. You know, have make records and people
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  Speaker 4: get to hear it, and and that's only going to
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  Speaker 4: happen for a window of time. I mean, that's it
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  Speaker 4: is what it is, that's the nature of the music industry.
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  Speaker 4: And it made me realize, Man, I'm blowing it here,
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  Speaker 4: like I need to focus. I need to take another
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  Speaker 4: hard swing it at making the best country album I
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  Speaker 4: can make, cause why wouldn't I. I mean, I'm going
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  Speaker 4: to regret this someday if I don't. And so that's
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  Speaker 4: really what lit the fire under me, was just being
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  Speaker 4: around him and his passion, his excitement for for country
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  Speaker 4: music and the way I used to be when I
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  Speaker 4: was his age.
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  Speaker 3: You know, the album is coming May ninth, I was.
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  Speaker 3: I was looking up some info about it and getting
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  Speaker 3: ready to talk to you. Obviously, Texas Massive sunk let
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  Speaker 3: him in anyway, I got about.
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  Speaker 1: Halfway through before I was like, well, hang on, now,
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  Speaker 1: what the hell? Uh?
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  Speaker 3: What else can what else can we expect from this album?
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  Speaker 3: I know that the details are kind of under wraps
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  Speaker 3: right now, but not really.
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  Speaker 4: I mean, I have I have a song on there
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  Speaker 4: that I'm besides letting them in anyway, which I think
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  Speaker 4: is just an incredible piece of music. Think, thank God,
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  Speaker 4: that's that's hearty by the way, no shock.
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  Speaker 2: To anybody, I don't think.
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  Speaker 4: But uh, I have a duet with with Gwynn on
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  Speaker 4: the album, which I won't won't surprise anybody, but I'm
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  Speaker 4: super excited about that that piece of music. I think
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  Speaker 4: that's gonna be an important song on the album. Uh.
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  Speaker 4: And something that's on there that I'm also really proud
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  Speaker 4: of as a as a song that John Anderson wrote
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  Speaker 4: called years that that John actually I got John. I
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  Speaker 4: talked to him into coming into the studio and doing
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  Speaker 4: a speaking part on the record at the end of
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  Speaker 4: the song. And I just think John Anderson is one
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  Speaker 4: of the greats of all time. And uh, and they
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  Speaker 4: finally put him in the Hall of Fame last year,
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  Speaker 4: which I was super excited to see that. And and
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  Speaker 4: and and I know that was a big deal for him.
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  Speaker 4: But he made He made an album that came out
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  Speaker 4: during COVID that I had a duet on there with
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  Speaker 4: him called Tuesday I'll Be Gone. But the name of
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  Speaker 4: his album was a song called it Years and man,
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  Speaker 4: I thought Years was the best best thing I'd heard
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  Speaker 4: in a long time. And he wrote the song and
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  Speaker 4: and I told him, I said, man if and when
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  Speaker 4: I'm making an album, if it's cool with you, I
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  Speaker 4: want to cut Years from from my album two. And
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  Speaker 4: so I did, and it's the last song on this record.
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  Speaker 2: I'm really proud.
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  Speaker 4: Of the recording we did on it and the fact
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  Speaker 4: that he came in and was a part of it.
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  Speaker 3: Knowing how your relationship has grown with with a guy
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  Speaker 3: like post Malone and the inspiration that you've given him.
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  Speaker 3: You gave him credit last time we talked as well
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  Speaker 3: for kind of inspiring where you're at mentally.
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  Speaker 1: Musically right now. Was he Was he a part of
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  Speaker 1: the creation process? Did you? Did you invite him to
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  Speaker 1: rights or recording or anything like that.
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  Speaker 2: No, I can't. I can't roll with with posts for
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  Speaker 2: more than a day.
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  Speaker 4: I mean, he that probably I'd have to find me
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  Speaker 4: in the hospital you know, if I spent more than
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  Speaker 4: a day with posts, you.
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  Speaker 2: Know a lot.
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  Speaker 4: I only recorded probably six things or I guess, uh,
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  Speaker 4: from last summer till now, because like I said, a
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  Speaker 4: lot of this stuff I had recorded, I just didn't know.
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  Speaker 2: I didn't have a home for it, you know, I
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  Speaker 2: didn't know exactly.
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  Speaker 4: What I was going to do with it, and a
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  Speaker 4: lot of it I just needed to go in and
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  Speaker 4: sing it or or you know, put the finishing touches
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  Speaker 4: on it.
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  Speaker 2: So uh no I left. I didn't.
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  Speaker 4: I haven't played my post mylone card yet. One of
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  Speaker 4: these days, though, I'm going to call in a call
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  Speaker 4: in a favor and see if I can't, uh, you know,
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  Speaker 4: get some kind of other collab with him, or or
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  Speaker 4: some kind of project with him, because he is so
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  Speaker 4: much fun. But I do have to limit the amount
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  Speaker 4: of time because I don't know if I can take
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  Speaker 4: it at this point in my life.
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  Speaker 3: And we had we had Craig Morgan studio probably a
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  Speaker 3: good week or two ago, and uh he had some
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  Speaker 3: other some amazing They always say like I want people
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  Speaker 3: to talk like me, talk talk about.
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  Speaker 1: Me like that in a room I'm not in.
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  Speaker 3: And that was Craig talking about how amazing it is
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  Speaker 3: to be friends with you and what this this tour
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  Speaker 3: has been like. Who would you say to this day.
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  Speaker 3: Obviously Craig probably one of them, Post is one of them.
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  Speaker 3: Who are some of the guys and girls that you
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  Speaker 3: would consider like more than just people doing country with you?
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  Speaker 4: Well, Trace Atkins is literally like family family to me. Uh,
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  Speaker 4: I just never I don't know anybody else in my
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  Speaker 4: life that I have the kind of connection with another
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  Speaker 4: human being like I do him. It's just like, you know,
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  Speaker 4: you in your like this, I'm sure you have guys,
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  Speaker 4: guys that are your buddies, and then you have guys
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  Speaker 4: that are your brothers, you know. And and Trace traces
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  Speaker 4: that guy for me, I mean, he just he just is.
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  Speaker 2: I mean we we've been at.
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  Speaker 4: On rock bottom together, and we've been on top of
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  Speaker 4: the mountain together, and there's a lot of a lot
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  Speaker 4: of miles in between both of those places, as you know,
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  Speaker 4: and and he's just been a part of all of
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  Speaker 4: it for me, you know. And he's just been, uh,
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  Speaker 4: you know, the best friend a guy can have.
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  Speaker 2: He really is.
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  Speaker 3: When it comes to what you want to do now
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  Speaker 3: this summer, as uh as this tour raps.
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  Speaker 1: We're getting ready to celebrate the new album.
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  Speaker 3: What's what are your plans the rest of the year
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  Speaker 3: to get out and celebrate this new music.
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  Speaker 4: Well, man, we have, you know, all the big things
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  Speaker 4: that come up in the year.
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  Speaker 2: The ACM Awards are coming up.
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  Speaker 4: I'm gonna go out there, and they asked me to
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  Speaker 4: sing Texas, which you know, I again, it's another one
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  Speaker 4: of those things that I'm super excited about because you know,
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  Speaker 4: if you've been doing this as long as I have,
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  Speaker 4: it's like you appreciate still getting those invites this far
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  Speaker 4: into the game.
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  Speaker 2: You know, I'm going to do go.
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  Speaker 4: Do the CMA Fest this year, and man, I don't
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  Speaker 4: know what the hell else. Just at this point, I'm
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  Speaker 4: just taking it as it comes and having fun with
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  Speaker 4: it and trying not to. Honestly, I'm not going to
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  Speaker 4: let it get too crazy this time, because I never
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  Speaker 4: want to get to the point where I feel like
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  Speaker 4: it's work again, because I love this balance that I
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  Speaker 4: have right now, and I love my job and I
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  Speaker 4: want to do it as long as I can, but
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  Speaker 4: have fun with it at the same time.