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Chris Darlington Was Hit by the Holy Spirit Harder Than a 25,000-Volt Taser · Crosswalk Talk: Celebrity Christian Interviews

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  Speaker 1: Life Audio. Hey, Chris, thanks for joining me.
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  Speaker 2: Thanks for having me, brother.
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  Speaker 1: Chris Darlington, deputy sheriff in Virginia, who also is a
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  Speaker 1: faith-infused country singer, and he's amazing. Chris, you have a
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  Speaker 1: great success. You've had great success in recent weeks and months.
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  Speaker 2: What do you want?
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  Speaker 1: Climb to number 81, I believe, on the media-based country chart.
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  Speaker 1: And I believe you're based around Winchester, Virginia.
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  Speaker 2: That's Patsy Cline's hometown. So like I was telling you
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  Speaker 2: before this, maybe.
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  Speaker 1: There's something in the water there that makes these good singers.
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  Speaker 1: You spent years serving as a deputy sheriff while also
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  Speaker 1: pursuing country music. For people who are just discovering you,
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  Speaker 1: which came first and why do both?
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  Speaker 2: Good question.
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  Speaker 3: So music came first. My father played guitar. He played
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  Speaker 3: in the area. He recorded in Nashville as well. And
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  Speaker 3: when I was a teenager, he brought me a, a
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  Speaker 3: Walmart toy Casio keyboard and wanted me to help him
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  Speaker 3: back him up in his band. So I kind of
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  Speaker 3: played by ear, played with my dad for a little while.
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  Speaker 3: Then as I got older, I started to move to Nashville.
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  Speaker 3: And as I was considering a career in Nashville, just
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  Speaker 3: kind of like being a touring musician, because I got
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  Speaker 3: really good at the keyboard and I thought about going
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  Speaker 3: out on the road and supporting some of these national
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  Speaker 3: acts and Some of the guys, when I started moving
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  Speaker 3: to Nashville, some of the guys that were doing the
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  Speaker 3: Broadway thing down there, I told them I had an
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  Speaker 3: interest in law enforcement as well, and I had an
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  Speaker 3: application in at Front Row Police Department at the time.
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  Speaker 3: I mean, all those guys encouraged me to go for
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  Speaker 3: the law enforcement career because essentially they were tired of
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  Speaker 3: lugging stuff back and forth from Tootsies, the second fiddle,
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  Speaker 3: the stage. And I took their advice, and a day later,
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  Speaker 3: I think, Front Row Police Department called me and accepted
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  Speaker 3: my application and I took that. So it kind of
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  Speaker 3: got me out of, out of the music loop for
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  Speaker 3: a while. And then as I advanced in my law
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  Speaker 3: enforcement career, I ended up on daylight and I found
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  Speaker 3: a way to get back into it, kind of juggling both.
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  Speaker 2: It was kind of how it happened.
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  Speaker 1: So how many years ago was that, that you got
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  Speaker 1: your job in law enforcement? And so I guess what
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  Speaker 1: I'm asking is how many years has it been since
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  Speaker 1: you've since you tried your hand at singing before you
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  Speaker 1: started it and picked up a guitar again, I guess.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah. So this is, this is my 20th year in
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  Speaker 3: law enforcement. So it was 20 years ago when I
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  Speaker 3: started to move to Nashville, right. When I had an
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  Speaker 3: application in, in the police department at the same time,
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  Speaker 3: it wasn't this department. I started out in a smaller department,
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  Speaker 3: which is about a half hour from here. So yeah,
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  Speaker 3: it was 20 years ago and I, and I've been
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  Speaker 3: in law enforcement now for 20 years and, and I,
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  Speaker 3: I've been, grinding the music really hard. I'd say in
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  Speaker 3: the last five or six years, you know, really hard.
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  Speaker 2: That's amazing.
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  Speaker 1: And so you're, you're, you're a deputy sheriff. You are
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  Speaker 1: a school resource, resource officer for those who don't. That's,
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  Speaker 1: that's the, that's the kind of, uh, the resource officer
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  Speaker 1: at the, at the local school, I guess, local high
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  Speaker 1: school maybe.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah. So in our, uh, jurisdiction, we have, uh, 21
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  Speaker 3: schools and we, uh, We try to have an SRO
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  Speaker 3: in every school, even the elementary level schools.
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  Speaker 2: We don't have quite enough.
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  Speaker 3: So what I do right now, I split two elementary
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  Speaker 3: schools and then I'm like a primary backup.
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  Speaker 2: Guy for like one of the high schools.
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  Speaker 1: So that's kind of how we do things here in
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  Speaker 1: this county for now. How has working in law enforcement
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  Speaker 1: influenced you as a songwriter?
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  Speaker 3: You know, I would say law enforcement definitely grounds you.
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  Speaker 3: You definitely learn how to talk to people. You learn
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  Speaker 3: a lot about people and a lot about life, really.
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  Speaker 3: I would say it's really helped my songwriting. It's helped
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  Speaker 3: shape who I am today. You know, you meet a
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  Speaker 3: lot of people and you see a lot of interesting things.
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  Speaker 3: And I think, you know, it gives you something to
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  Speaker 3: write about. I have written songs inspired by law enforcement
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  Speaker 3: as well.
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  Speaker 1: What led you to law enforcement in the first place?
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  Speaker 1: What was the spark in your soul, in your heart,
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  Speaker 1: to make you want to pursue this career?
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  Speaker 3: You know, ever since, and I can tell you this
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  Speaker 3: story because it's kind of funny. Obviously, you know, COPS
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  Speaker 3: has been around a while, so we all grew up
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  Speaker 3: kind of watching COPS, and that kind of sparked my interest.
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  Speaker 3: And just the passion to want to go out here
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  Speaker 3: and do something different every day and be able to
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  Speaker 3: help people and be able to make a difference. But
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  Speaker 3: the funny story is, like, you know, when I was, like,
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  Speaker 3: still in high school. And, and my best friend, Kevin,
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  Speaker 3: his grandma had what we called a hoopty. And it
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  Speaker 3: was like, yeah, like, you know, an Oldsmobile kind of
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  Speaker 3: look like a cop car in a way. So we'd
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  Speaker 3: take old grandma's hoopty out, like on the weekend sometimes.
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  Speaker 3: And we would sit parked somewhere. And, you know, if
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  Speaker 3: we look, if we seen somebody kind of like speeding,
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  Speaker 3: we would pull out on them. And my buddy would
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  Speaker 3: flash his high beams and they would think we were
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  Speaker 3: a cop. And then that almost got us in trouble
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  Speaker 3: one night, but that that's how, How much passion I
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  Speaker 3: had to want to be a cop.
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  Speaker 2: At one time. Just a kind of funny story.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, you can get in trouble for that, as you
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  Speaker 1: know now.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean, there is a code section for impersonating
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  Speaker 3: a law enforcement officer.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, for sure. It's funny.
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  Speaker 1: So tell me about your music career, though. You're a
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  Speaker 1: country artist. You're a Christian. So how do those two
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  Speaker 1: meet right now in terms of your songs and your songwriting?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I think it has a lot to do with everything, really.
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  Speaker 3: I mean, some of my stuff's faith-based, but I mean,
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  Speaker 3: I think that it all starts at the top with
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  Speaker 3: your faith.
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  Speaker 2: If you don't have that, I don't really feel like
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  Speaker 2: you have anything. But anyway, it works out really well.
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  Speaker 3: And I can share a story with you about that, too,
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  Speaker 3: about a certain song that kind of changed my life
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  Speaker 3: as far as.
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  Speaker 2: Go ahead, yeah.
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  Speaker 1: Please do.
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  Speaker 3: So obviously, you know, we all fall short from the
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  Speaker 3: Lord at some point in life. And, you know, it
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  Speaker 3: was about four years ago. And not that I was
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  Speaker 3: too distant from the Lord, but, you know, I wasn't 100%.
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  Speaker 3: And I don't think we're never 100%, even though sometimes
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  Speaker 3: we try to be 100%. You know, I was sitting
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  Speaker 3: in my little room with a piano and I play
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  Speaker 3: a little.
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  Speaker 2: Bit of acoustic guitar.
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  Speaker 3: And I was just trying to write the next best
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  Speaker 3: country song. And a lot of times when I get
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  Speaker 3: a melody in my head, I'll sit down and just
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  Speaker 3: kind of strum the guitar to get kind of like
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  Speaker 3: a rhythm. And man, I was just sitting there and
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  Speaker 3: I was thinking, you know, this is going to be
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  Speaker 3: a country song, you know, the next, the hot hit
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  Speaker 3: on the top 100 or whatever, you know, and I'm
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  Speaker 3: strumming this powerful, like get this powerful melody in my head.
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  Speaker 3: And I said, where's Superman when you need him? You know,
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  Speaker 3: where's the parachute when you're falling? You know, where's the
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  Speaker 3: stars in the sky when you're wishing? And where's the
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  Speaker 3: love in your life that you're missing? As soon as
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  Speaker 3: I got to there, I said, wow, man, this isn't a,
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  Speaker 3: this isn't just a country song. This is, this is
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  Speaker 3: something talking to me here. And I kept going, but I,
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  Speaker 3: the minute I, I realized that I had this overwhelming
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  Speaker 3: presence that I can't really explain today, but I just,
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  Speaker 3: I'm not a man of a tears of those time.
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  Speaker 3: My wife's never seen me cry or anything like that.
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  Speaker 3: And I couldn't stop the tears coming from my eyes
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  Speaker 3: for about a half hour.
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  Speaker 2: It was so bad. I went to the.
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  Speaker 3: Bathroom and, you know, my, My eyes were all scrunched
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  Speaker 3: up and I was afraid my wife has a salon downstairs.
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  Speaker 3: And I was afraid she's going to come up and
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  Speaker 3: see me crying and say, Chris, what's wrong with you?
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  Speaker 3: And it took me about a half hour to finally
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  Speaker 3: get myself together. And I just realized I was hit
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  Speaker 3: with the Holy Spirit. And I told myself, you know,
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  Speaker 3: the song's called Let Him In. And I finished that
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  Speaker 3: song right away. And I told myself the next session
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  Speaker 3: I have in Nashville, that's going to be the next
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  Speaker 3: song I cut.
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  Speaker 2: But yeah, it was just a very powerful.
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  Speaker 3: Moment that I think changed my whole perception of what
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  Speaker 3: I wanted to do with my artistry moving forward.
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  Speaker 2: But it was a very, very powerful moment from a guy.
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  Speaker 3: That's been hit with a 25 volt tape, 25,000 volt taser.
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  Speaker 3: And the feeling that I had from that presence of
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  Speaker 3: that day, I don't think a taser has anything on it.
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  Speaker 2: Amen to that.
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  Speaker 1: Not many people can, Compare the two. So that's an
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  Speaker 1: amazing comparison.
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  Speaker 2: For those who are wondering, by the way, you're off duty.
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  Speaker 3: You're heading home.
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  Speaker 2: You're sitting, of course, in your car. Just wanted people
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  Speaker 2: to know that.
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  Speaker 1: You have another song that's been on the charts.
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  Speaker 2: What Do You Want?
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  Speaker 1: It was the story behind that song.
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  Speaker 3: So we had a show. So I have a full band,
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  Speaker 3: and then we try to do a good bit of
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  Speaker 3: shows throughout the year. And we opened up for Drew Baldrige.
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  Speaker 3: If you heard of Drew Baldrige, he's had a number
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  Speaker 3: one She's Somebody's Daughter. He's in the top 10 with
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  Speaker 3: tough people. We opened up for him last year here
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  Speaker 3: in Winchester for our Apple Blossom event.
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  Speaker 2: And I was kind of intrigued.
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  Speaker 3: I dug a little bit into Drew's story, how he
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  Speaker 3: went viral on TikTok and how he came about his
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  Speaker 3: music career. And I was kind of intrigued about, you know,
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  Speaker 3: he went viral with the song She's Somebody's Daughter and
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  Speaker 3: he thought labels were going to call and they didn't call.
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  Speaker 3: So what he did, he researched, he hired a guy
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  Speaker 3: named Louie Newman at the time. And Louie Newman got
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  Speaker 3: with some other people in the industry. And, you know,
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  Speaker 3: they promoted that song. It took about 14 months. And,
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  Speaker 3: you know, he was an independent and he got a
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  Speaker 3: number one. You know, that changed his career path. So
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  Speaker 3: I was very interested. And, you know, I kind of
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  Speaker 3: had a buddy. I found Louie's number through Google search.
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  Speaker 3: And I had a buddy reach out to Louie. Louie
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  Speaker 3: was very receptive, very responsive, very cool. He called us.
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  Speaker 3: And at that point, he wanted to help me. He
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  Speaker 3: liked my story, so I had to get him a
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  Speaker 3: good song. that he felt that was strong for radio.
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  Speaker 3: You know, let's just say, uh, after about eight to
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  Speaker 3: 10 songs, I pitched him. Everything I was pitching was
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  Speaker 3: pretty good, but he's like, yeah, not there, not there yet.
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  Speaker 3: And finally, uh, I pitched him this demo to what
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  Speaker 3: do you want? And, uh, He was in California, so
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  Speaker 3: he's three hours before us. And he called my buddy
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  Speaker 3: and me about midnight.
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  Speaker 2: And said, oh, man, this is it. Stomped his feet.
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  Speaker 2: This is it. This is a hit. This is it.
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  Speaker 3: But the funny thing about the way this song came about,
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  Speaker 3: after like the ninth attempt of trying to impress Louie
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  Speaker 3: for something that was good enough for what he thought,
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  Speaker 3: Percussion Radio, I looked at my wife one night and
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  Speaker 3: I said, you know, I don't know what he wants.
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  Speaker 3: I've sent him nine songs and I thought they were
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  Speaker 3: all good. And she looked at me, she says, what
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  Speaker 3: do you want would be a good song title? I
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  Speaker 3: got to thinking, I'm like, yeah, it probably would be.
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  Speaker 3: So I'm thinking like relationships, you know, how when you
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  Speaker 3: were younger and, you know, maybe the girl didn't like
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  Speaker 3: you anymore and she was scared to tell you. So
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  Speaker 3: she's leading you on, stringing you on, whatever, or maybe
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  Speaker 3: vice versa. Maybe I didn't like her and I didn't
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  Speaker 3: have the heart to tell her. So I just start building,
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  Speaker 3: you know, a chorus and building some lyrics around there.
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  Speaker 3: And that's how I really came up with a song
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  Speaker 3: all because of Louie. Cause I couldn't get the right
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  Speaker 3: song for him.
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  Speaker 2: And my wife kind of gave me the idea. That's
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  Speaker 2: an amazing story.
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  Speaker 1: I was going to ask you if you're going to,
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  Speaker 1: I would think it's kind of discouraging and disheartening to
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  Speaker 1: send somebody that many songs and get rejected. So it's,
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  Speaker 1: what do you want? Is it, is it kind of a,
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  Speaker 1: I guess it's got a romantic tinge to it. Is that,
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  Speaker 1: is that the heart behind it?
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  Speaker 2: It's kind of, I wouldn't say it's upbeat. It has
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  Speaker 2: a good, a good drive to it.
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  Speaker 3: It's not really romantic, but it's kind of like, Hey,
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  Speaker 3: you know, I'm tired of waiting on maybes, you know,
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  Speaker 3: I don't want to, I don't want to be a
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  Speaker 3: strong one. I don't want to wait on maybe, well,
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  Speaker 3: let's tell me yes or no. And let's move on
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  Speaker 3: from here. One or the other, I'll be happy, you know,
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  Speaker 3: one way or the other. So basically it's just like
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  Speaker 3: a song of just to, just to say, Hey, Do
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  Speaker 3: you want me or not?
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  Speaker 2: Make up your mind kind of thing.
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  Speaker 3: And I think it is a common thing that people
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  Speaker 3: can relate to in life. A lot of times we
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  Speaker 3: get strung on whether it's a job or whether it's,
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  Speaker 3: whether it's a relationship or whatever, you know, and that's
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  Speaker 3: just kind of how, how it came about.
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  Speaker 2: And, uh, I love that. I love that.
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  Speaker 1: And you recently, I believe signed with saddle up records, uh,
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  Speaker 1: and Louie, Louie Newman. What does having the label behind
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  Speaker 1: you mean for you at this stage of your career?
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  Speaker 3: Well, I think it means everything. I mean, Louie has
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  Speaker 3: been around the industry. Incredible guy.
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  Speaker 2: So knowledgeable.
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  Speaker 3: And he's been at several labels. He's worked with records
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  Speaker 3: all the way back since George Strait. I mean, he's
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  Speaker 3: promoted everybody at Country Radio. And to have somebody like
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  Speaker 3: Louie believe in me and believe in my song and
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  Speaker 3: represent me, it gives me credibility.
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  Speaker 2: It gives me hope. And it gives me faith. I
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  Speaker 2: know he's going to get the job done. I don't know.
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  Speaker 2: You know, I can't predict what he's going to do,
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  Speaker 2: but I know he's going to get it done.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah. You have an incredible, unique story. I think a
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  Speaker 1: lot of people just embrace what you're trying to do.
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  Speaker 1: And of course, you're trying to become the first active
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  Speaker 1: duty deputy sheriff, if I have this phrasing right, to
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  Speaker 1: earn a billboard country airplay hit while continuing to serve
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  Speaker 1: in uniform. How far along are you on that goal?
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  Speaker 1: And what would it mean for you to finally reach
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  Speaker 1: that goal?
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  Speaker 2: So we're really close.
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  Speaker 3: I mean, I think we just started hitting the chart
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  Speaker 3: hard the beginning of September. That's when I rolled over
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  Speaker 3: with Louie. I started out with another guy named Will Robinson.
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  Speaker 3: He kind of got me some traction, got me my
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  Speaker 3: first five ads. I'm a little cheaper at the time.
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  Speaker 3: And then I finally felt like I had enough traction
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  Speaker 3: to reach out to Louie. I said, hey, are you
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  Speaker 3: all ready to take this as far as we can
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  Speaker 3: take it? So I think that the chart starts at 140.
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  Speaker 3: We are already at, I think, 81 as of last week.
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  Speaker 3: We'll see what happens next week if we pick up
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  Speaker 3: any new ads. But it's a slow process, but I'm
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  Speaker 3: happy that we have moved from 140 in the 80s
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  Speaker 3: in a couple months.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, so what does the chart start at then? Is
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  Speaker 1: it 50?
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  Speaker 2: The chart starts at 140. Okay.
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  Speaker 3: So we're in the 80s, but to actually say that
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  Speaker 3: you've charted country radio, media-based country radio, That starts at 50.
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  Speaker 3: I mean, we're in the top 100, but when you
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  Speaker 3: say charted, it has to be 50 or below. So
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  Speaker 3: we are almost halfway there.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah. We're cheering you on. Lots of people are
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  Speaker 2: behind you here. Do you sing on week?
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  Speaker 1: How does this work for you practically? You work in
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  Speaker 1: the daytime. Do you sing on weekends? How does this
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  Speaker 1: work throughout the year?
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  Speaker 2: They say the struggle is real. The juggle is real.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah. No, yeah, most of the time I'm doing shows
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  Speaker 3: on the weekends. We do have a show, just for example,
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  Speaker 3: we have a show this Saturday down in Frederick, Maryland.
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  Speaker 3: We open up for Warren Ziders, which is a pretty
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  Speaker 3: current hot country dude that's at the peak of his
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  Speaker 3: career right now. So that's going to be a big show.
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  Speaker 3: That should be about maybe 6,000 people, you estimate. But yeah, typically,
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  Speaker 3: just like not last weekend, before we played two shows,
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  Speaker 3: we opened up for Aaron Tippin on Friday night, and
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  Speaker 3: then we played a headline show Saturday night.
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  Speaker 2: So most of them were on the weekend. Sometimes I'll
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  Speaker 2: do stuff during the week. It just depends what it is.
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  Speaker 1: Before we close here, tell me about your faith. You
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  Speaker 1: told us a little bit about your faith, but did
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  Speaker 1: you grow up in a household of faith? And if yes,
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  Speaker 1: did you get kind of more serious about your faith
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  Speaker 1: later in life?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, it's kind of been, well, I've always had strong faith.
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  Speaker 2: Let's put that.
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  Speaker 3: I grew up, you know, both my parents were heavily faith-based.
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  Speaker 3: Went to church when I was little. I remember, you know,
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  Speaker 3: being four years old, just drawing this perfect picture of Jesus,
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  Speaker 3: you know, and just being infatuated of just the way
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  Speaker 3: he looked and the side profile from all the pictures
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  Speaker 3: I seen growing up. And then, you know, as you
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  Speaker 3: get older, you kind of, you know, you navigate different
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  Speaker 3: paths and you kind of, get away from that somewhat
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  Speaker 3: until you fall back. I think I really fell back
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  Speaker 3: a lot closer. Like my relationship now, you know, I
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  Speaker 3: think your church is in here 100%. And I think my,
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  Speaker 3: my relationship now is stronger, stronger than it's ever been,
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  Speaker 3: you know, and as far as paying your tide and
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  Speaker 3: being obedient, you know, I play worship at church every
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  Speaker 3: Sunday and that's kind of how I give my tide
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  Speaker 3: and I want to incorporate my tide into my show.
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  Speaker 3: So I feel like if, If we have an hour,
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  Speaker 3: hour and 15 minute show and we're headlining something, you know,
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  Speaker 3: if I take one song that I wrote for our
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  Speaker 3: Lord and Savior and I perform that one song and
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  Speaker 3: talk about him for a little bit, I feel like
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  Speaker 3: I'm giving my tide back to him. And I feel
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  Speaker 3: like that's what he wants me to do. I made
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  Speaker 3: a deal with him. I pray every night and I
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  Speaker 3: feel like he's the only one that can move mountains
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  Speaker 3: and get me there.
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  Speaker 2: So. Amen to that. Amen to that.
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  Speaker 1: And what's next for you? Is there anything that you
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  Speaker 1: haven't told us about that we should be looking forward to?
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  Speaker 2: Yes, I'm still moving.
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  Speaker 3: You know, even though we're promoting this to major radio
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  Speaker 3: and I feel good about it, I'm releasing another song
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  Speaker 3: called Do It Anyway, which is going to be dropping
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  Speaker 3: October the 30th next month. That's another song I cut
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  Speaker 3: when I cut What Do You Want? So, yeah, I'm
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  Speaker 3: still trying to put out new music as well and
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  Speaker 3: keep up with my social media. And yeah, just rocking
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  Speaker 3: and rolling, sitting in a cruiser, getting ready to go
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  Speaker 3: home and do it all over again tomorrow.
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  Speaker 2: I didn't write the website down. What's the website, Chris?
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  Speaker 3: So my main website is chrisdarlington.com. And then all my socials,
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  Speaker 3: like for instance, TikTok, Facebook, Instagram is chrisdarlingtonmusic. And then
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  Speaker 3: the two meta platforms, Instagram and Facebook, have the little
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  Speaker 3: blue check mark just to make sure people don't go
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  Speaker 3: to the wrong one.
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  Speaker 1: He's the best singing law enforcement officer in America.
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  Speaker 2: He's Chris Darlington.
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  Speaker 1: Hey, Chris, thanks so much.
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  Speaker 2: Hey, thanks for having me, brother. Appreciate you.
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  Speaker 4: us on the podcast. If you go to lifeaudio.com, you
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  Speaker 2: See you next time.