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Edwin McCain · On with Mario Interviews

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  Speaker 1: On with Mario Lopez. So bro, Mario Lopez joining me
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  Speaker 1: right now. Musician Edwin McCain.
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  Speaker 2: How you doing, Edwin?
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  Speaker 1: I'm doing great. How are you?
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  Speaker 2: I'm well man, Thanks for taking the time. You were
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  Speaker 2: just revealed as NeSSI on the latest season of The
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  Speaker 2: Mass Singer and Robin think that was actually able to
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  Speaker 2: guess you.
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  Speaker 3: Huh he he pulled that one out.
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  Speaker 1: I shouldn't be surprised.
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  Speaker 3: For as good as singer as he is, he would
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  Speaker 3: definitely be able to figure it out.
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  Speaker 1: That was good.
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  Speaker 2: Hey, that means you got a distinct voice.
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  Speaker 1: How'd you end up on the show?
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  Speaker 2: Were you a fan before?
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  Speaker 3: My manager called and said, hey, what do you think
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  Speaker 3: about being on The Mass Singer?
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  Speaker 1: I was like, absolutely, that sounds like an adventure.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, And how hot was your suit? Cumbersome? How difficult
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  Speaker 2: was it to sing?
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  Speaker 3: It was one hundred and forty seven thousand degrees on
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  Speaker 3: that see, gosh, do you bet?
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  Speaker 1: You know?
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  Speaker 3: I normally sing with a microphone and I'm and they,
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  Speaker 3: you know, because they have a headset option and I'd
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  Speaker 3: never done that, so I was like, I you probably
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  Speaker 3: ought to just stick with the.
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  Speaker 1: Microphone, but it was it wasn't that bad. Once I
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  Speaker 1: had the ice vest on. You know, once I was wearing.
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  Speaker 3: I had a vest and I had ice packs in it,
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  Speaker 3: and you know, in between takes they would have fans
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  Speaker 3: blowing in there.
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  Speaker 1: It was fine. Good for you man, What a trooper.
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  Speaker 2: And you also just released your eleventh studio album, Lucky
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  Speaker 2: a couple of months back, and he had a couple
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  Speaker 2: of country charts produced this one.
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  Speaker 3: Huh. Yeah, So Lee Brice and Jared Neeman are good friends.
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  Speaker 3: And you know Lee's been after me for a while
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  Speaker 3: to make a record and I finally relented. And you know,
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  Speaker 3: for as great a singer as Lee as, he's equally
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  Speaker 3: good as a producer.
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  Speaker 1: He's a fantastic producer. Nice.
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  Speaker 2: And you're also heading out on a big tour later
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  Speaker 2: this summer with the Guys Train. How do you go
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  Speaker 2: about a narrow and down a setlist with catalog?
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  Speaker 1: He guy, Uh, that's a good question.
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  Speaker 3: Actually, I'll I have a pretty good idea of what
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  Speaker 3: I want to do, and then we'll see if it
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  Speaker 3: works the first couple of shows, and if it doesn't,
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  Speaker 3: we'll make some adjustments.
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  Speaker 1: But you know, I usually start with a hit and close.
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  Speaker 3: With a hit, So you know, like I've got two
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  Speaker 3: big radio songs, and so you know, it makes it
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  Speaker 3: easier because I can open with one and close with
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  Speaker 3: the other.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: No, I like that strategy. Do you ever do covers? Yes,
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  Speaker 1: what do you like to? Yeah?
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  Speaker 3: I have some obscure seal covers that I do. Really,
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  Speaker 3: I'm a big fan of seals. I play this one
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  Speaker 3: song he does called Whirlpool and Future Love Paradise and.
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  Speaker 1: We cover Teddy Pendergrass and our souf Hey which Teddy
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  Speaker 1: p song? I love? TKO Yeah, just I love that song.
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  Speaker 1: That's great. Yeah. Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: He was one of the first concerts I ever went
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  Speaker 3: to when I was a kid, and I think.
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  Speaker 1: I was like ten years old, is that right?
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  Speaker 3: And Petty walked on the stage and women started screaming
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  Speaker 3: so bad. I thought something had gone wrong, Like I
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  Speaker 3: thought like there was an emergency, and I got scared,
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  Speaker 3: and then the first bral went flying by and I
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  Speaker 3: was like, oh, no, everything's fine.
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  Speaker 1: That guy's got one of the coolest voices ever. That's funny.
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  Speaker 2: I know you're also big into TikTok. You make some
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  Speaker 2: pretty cool videos with your daughters.
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  Speaker 1: I never even so. I was one of those gen
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  Speaker 1: xers that.
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  Speaker 3: Refused to engage social media in any way, and so
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  Speaker 3: the people in our office would post tour dates on
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  Speaker 3: there and I never I just didn't. I just didn't
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  Speaker 3: mess with it at all. And then the pandemic hit
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  Speaker 3: and I was stuck in the house with my kids,
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  Speaker 3: being the worst high school teacher in the state of
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  Speaker 3: South Carolina, and we quickly migrated into TikTok Land and
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  Speaker 3: I've never looked back. I love TikTok. I love it
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  Speaker 3: for the for all the different points of view and
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  Speaker 3: all the like. So many different people like I would
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  Speaker 3: never have a chance to understand.
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  Speaker 1: Their you know, their perspective, and if.
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  Speaker 3: You you approach it from that standpoint, it's a really
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  Speaker 3: cool thing. I mean, I know social media can be
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  Speaker 3: kind of a marass sometimes, but I really enjoy it
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  Speaker 3: for all the different people.
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  Speaker 2: I agree, and I like to take advantage of spending
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  Speaker 2: the time with the kids and stuff. It's like documenting
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  Speaker 2: cool home videos. So I'm with you on that. I
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  Speaker 2: can't believe it's been almost thirty years since your big
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  Speaker 2: hit I'll Be Really Really put you on the map.
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  Speaker 2: Did you feel strongly about that song when he first
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  Speaker 2: wrote it? You know what was gonna work?
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  Speaker 1: Well it had to because I was down to the wire.
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  Speaker 3: I was about to get dropped off the label and
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  Speaker 3: the president of Jason Flahm called me and said, listen,
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  Speaker 3: whatever you turn in next needs to be great. And
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  Speaker 3: I was like, I got the one song I'm working
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  Speaker 3: on I feel pretty good about. And you know that
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  Speaker 3: was this one again. That song swooped in and saved
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  Speaker 3: my career, saved my life really, and.
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  Speaker 1: I'd love to tell you that I knew, but I
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  Speaker 1: didn't know. I mean, I felt like it was good.
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  Speaker 3: We played it at a show and people responded to it,
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  Speaker 3: but it's it's so hard to know, I mean, and
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  Speaker 3: the timing it has.
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  Speaker 1: To do so much with time.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, our business is kind of hitting hope.
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  Speaker 1: Now, you're exactly right. Well, hey man, I love it.
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  Speaker 2: Persevered. Here we are talking thirty years later. Congrats on
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  Speaker 2: everything and listen everyone, be sure to check out Edwin
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  Speaker 2: McKinnon's new album Lucky, which is streaming now of course,
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  Speaker 2: and you can see him live this summer on the
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  Speaker 2: road with Train.
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  Speaker 1: Thanks for checking in, man, Yeah, you know it's easy.
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  Speaker 3: Edwind dot com, that's all, that's where all the tour
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  Speaker 3: days are.
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  Speaker 2: Edwind dot Com will pull it up, put it up
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  Speaker 2: on our website as well
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  Speaker 1: With Mario Lopez