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The Future of Mustaches with Riley Green · Inside Country with Wayne D

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  Speaker 1: Usually we get to catch up with an artist on
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  Speaker 1: their way to a big old number one.
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  Speaker 2: It already happened. So I don't even know why you're here,
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  Speaker 2: but I'm kidding Ley with Water, dude, get out of here.
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  Speaker 2: I guess it's twelve, twelve forty.
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  Speaker 1: How awesome is it to be sitting here celebrating a
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  Speaker 1: number one song?
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  Speaker 2: Man?
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  Speaker 3: It was great, man.
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  Speaker 4: I mean, and I've had a couple over the years,
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  Speaker 4: but this one was quick.
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  Speaker 3: It was a big song.
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  Speaker 1: Man.
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  Speaker 4: It's it's always awesome when you see something that fans
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  Speaker 4: kind of run to like this one. And I think
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  Speaker 4: this song went platinum and then sent at the radio
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  Speaker 4: and it's you know, it's giant song. It's become one
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  Speaker 4: of the biggest moments in my live show. So it's
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  Speaker 4: a really cool thing.
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  Speaker 1: Well, and let me ask too, because we were lucky
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  Speaker 1: enough to meet you. Tay and I were both working
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  Speaker 1: for one of the iHeart radio stations in Las Vegas.
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  Speaker 1: And your career started, and it's like a like a
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  Speaker 1: regular career. It took time. You had to hit the
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  Speaker 1: road a lot. You never gave up no matter how
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  Speaker 1: hard it got. And now you've hit this point where,
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  Speaker 1: like I mean, I don't want to use superstar such
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  Speaker 1: a weird word, because like, yeah, you're still a human
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  Speaker 1: at the end of the day, but like do you
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  Speaker 1: feel more of like a star in the format or
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  Speaker 1: like like your place is more cemented now than it
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  Speaker 1: ever has been.
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  Speaker 3: Well, I mean, we'll we won three ACM Awards. It's
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  Speaker 3: the last award show.
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  Speaker 4: I mean that kind of stuff is not necessarily something
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  Speaker 4: that I've had is a goal, but it's definitely a
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  Speaker 4: validating thing. You know, it means a lot when you're
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  Speaker 4: getting that kind of recognition, especially from your peers, and
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  Speaker 4: this industry is whole. I mean, as long as people
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  Speaker 4: are coming to my shows and and singing my songs
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  Speaker 4: back to me, I'm okay if I don't win a
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  Speaker 4: lot of awards, but it doesn't mean it doesn't mean something,
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  Speaker 4: and it's a it's a cool thing, and it's a
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  Speaker 4: really it's a great time to be on a road
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  Speaker 4: tour and have a couple of big songs to play.
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  Speaker 1: I think I think that woman pointed it said, do
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  Speaker 1: you want him to be your new dad?
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  Speaker 2: The little girl Sugarhead?
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  Speaker 1: No, she said no, So I don't is that normal
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  Speaker 1: women with children in Colorado maybe.
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  Speaker 3: I don't know, there's a there's a man with a
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  Speaker 3: child too.
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  Speaker 2: But listen, equal opportunity as long as they bought.
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  Speaker 1: It, Like, yeah, what's what's the fan support been like?
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  Speaker 1: It feels like that that side of your career has
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  Speaker 1: taken off the same as the music has.
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  Speaker 4: It's been a lot like this, people with their kids
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  Speaker 4: showing up and just giving support.
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  Speaker 3: You know, the shows are great.
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  Speaker 4: All of the damn country music shows are selling out
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  Speaker 4: on this tour. Have an ail out on the road
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  Speaker 4: while we've got two really big songs together. It is
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  Speaker 4: a really cool thing.
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  Speaker 3: It's hard. You can't script that any better, you know.
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  Speaker 4: And you know, the people are a lot of people
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  Speaker 4: found me kind of through like their buddy, you know,
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  Speaker 4: years and years ago when I was just starting out
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  Speaker 4: tour and it was really grassroots how people were finding
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  Speaker 4: on music. So I think they're probably the biggest fans
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  Speaker 4: I have because they're so proud.
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  Speaker 3: I feel like they had a big hand in it.
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  Speaker 3: Whish they did.
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  Speaker 1: Isn't it funny how fans and we've seen this with
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  Speaker 1: a lot of artists and countries country more than any
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  Speaker 1: other format. I feel is somebody who was a fan
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  Speaker 1: of you when you couldn't sell out Marathon. What's for
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  Speaker 1: anybody listen is what like I mean you getting there,
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  Speaker 1: like like when you wouldn't be able to sell at
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  Speaker 1: a venue like that and they were supporting you. Now
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  Speaker 1: you know you're knocking on the door of selling out
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  Speaker 1: an arena like Bridstone. They're like, yeah, but he's he's
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  Speaker 1: my artists. But isn't it funny? Like how defensive they
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  Speaker 1: can get, like you're almost family.
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  Speaker 4: I always say that, like this is the era of
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  Speaker 4: everybody wants to know about the guy nobody knows about.
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  Speaker 4: They want to be wanting to tell you about this person,
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  Speaker 4: you know. And it's because of all the different avenues
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  Speaker 4: for music, and there's so many new artists coming out,
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  Speaker 4: but they're those diehard fans that have been there from
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  Speaker 4: the beginning. I mean, there's a lot of truth to it,
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  Speaker 4: because I wouldn't be here if it wasn't for people
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  Speaker 4: showing up with these little Mexican restaurants and stuff. I
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  Speaker 4: was playing back in Alabama years ago.
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  Speaker 2: At the Mexican restaurant. What you ordered though.
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  Speaker 4: They had a thing called the Local Mexican. It was
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  Speaker 4: just chicken and cheese and rice and steak.
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  Speaker 3: I'm very I'm like a kid.
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  Speaker 4: I like cheese and sauce, basically a date night with
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  Speaker 4: Ryler Green chick tenders in a steak.
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  Speaker 3: It was great, no size, nothing.
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  Speaker 1: As you continue to move forward career wise, you talked
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  Speaker 1: about the awards and the number one songs. People singing
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  Speaker 1: back your songs is top for you, right?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah?
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  Speaker 1: Outside of that, what are the things that have kept
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  Speaker 1: you going even when it was early in your career
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  Speaker 1: and it was tough to get a number one and
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  Speaker 1: it was tough to get a song on the radio.
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  Speaker 1: You know, things a little more fluid for you now.
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  Speaker 1: But what are things that you appreciate more now?
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  Speaker 2: Maybe more than that.
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  Speaker 4: It always helped me a bunch that I had a
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  Speaker 4: real job in my up framed house is my whole life.
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  Speaker 4: So anytime I got tired of writing country songs, so
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  Speaker 4: I'd get up on a roof and work in a
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  Speaker 4: one hundred degree heat, and I'd want to go.
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  Speaker 3: Back and write more songs.
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  Speaker 4: But it helped me a lot that I didn't really
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  Speaker 4: have a lot of big dreams or aspirations, and country
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  Speaker 4: music I enjoyed playing, so I didn't feel like I
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  Speaker 4: was working towards this goal.
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  Speaker 3: I just got to go play songs that made up
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  Speaker 3: every week.
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  Speaker 4: And writing has always been something that I enjoyed. So
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  Speaker 4: on those years when I probably should have got a
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  Speaker 4: little burned out with it, I was still so glad
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  Speaker 4: to be able to go do it that it didn't
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  Speaker 4: really ever feel like work for me.
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  Speaker 1: As a guy who enjoys the creation process. And we
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  Speaker 1: anytime we've talked, you've brought up.
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  Speaker 2: Like you loved it.
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  Speaker 1: Write you loved it, Write you loved it? Write? Do
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  Speaker 1: you enjoy that more than the performance?
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  Speaker 3: Asked?
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  Speaker 1: Because there's some guys and girls that are like performing
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  Speaker 1: number one, everything else is fine.
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  Speaker 4: Well, I'll put it like this, there's times when I
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  Speaker 4: don't want to get on stage and saying, you know,
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  Speaker 4: whether you're feeling bad or you're worn out you had
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  Speaker 4: ten shows in a row, or your travel or whatever.
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  Speaker 4: But there's never a.
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  Speaker 3: Time when I don't want to pick up and write
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  Speaker 3: a song, you know.
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  Speaker 4: So I just feel like that's something that just has
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  Speaker 4: always been a I would do regardless, you know.
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  Speaker 1: Are you super protective of that?
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  Speaker 2: Are you?
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  Speaker 1: Like? Is it easy to When I say collaborate, I
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  Speaker 1: don't mean like on a song, like recording a song together?
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  Speaker 1: Are you protective of song ideas? Are you like easily
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  Speaker 1: open to collaborate in like.
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  Speaker 2: A room full of people?
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  Speaker 3: I never have been, but uh.
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  Speaker 2: That sounds about right.
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  Speaker 4: Uh.
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  Speaker 1: So they're building a bar downstairs. Yeah, now so, and
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  Speaker 1: so either they'll test it or listen. If this may
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  Speaker 1: be your last interview, I got to.
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  Speaker 3: Tell you this.
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  Speaker 4: I've bought a house, uh the other day, a newer house,
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  Speaker 4: and so I'm just kind of moving into it. And
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  Speaker 4: I got home the other day worn out, been on.
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  Speaker 3: The road all weekend.
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  Speaker 4: Every alarm in the house is going on, every smoke alarm,
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  Speaker 4: same time, and the house wasn't on fire, so something
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  Speaker 4: was going on. They're all wired together, and so I
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  Speaker 4: gave it about ten minutes and then I took every
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  Speaker 4: one of them down. And there's one in every crevice
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  Speaker 4: of every room. So it took me forty five minutes.
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  Speaker 4: I got a pile of them that tall, took the
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  Speaker 4: batteries out of them.
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  Speaker 2: There's a fire marshals somewhere just going.
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  Speaker 3: Anyway.
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  Speaker 2: Uh about the writing, Yeah, I've.
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  Speaker 3: Never been like stingy about song ideas.
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  Speaker 4: I've always thought, especially now that I've gotten to know
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  Speaker 4: a lot of other songwriters, I know what they're good
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  Speaker 4: at or what I think they bring to the table,
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  Speaker 4: and so I kind of might have an idea and
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  Speaker 4: I think, oh, it'd be good to say to write
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  Speaker 4: with this person. But at the same time, a lot
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  Speaker 4: of songs, I mean, I wrote completely by myself for
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  Speaker 4: the first ten years of my career. I've never co written,
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  Speaker 4: and still some of my biggest songs are solo rights.
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  Speaker 4: I mean, Worst Way is a solo right, Grandpa's Grandpa's
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  Speaker 4: never died, Jesus saved, don't mind if I do. And
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  Speaker 4: these songs are really doing well. So there's something too.
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  Speaker 4: I think, maybe how simply I say stuff. You know,
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  Speaker 4: sometimes you get with songwriters and they try to make things,
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  Speaker 4: you know, a little too poetic, and you know, a
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  Speaker 4: lot of I always like songs that are really straight
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  Speaker 4: at it.
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  Speaker 1: You know, when it comes to that, are you knowing
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  Speaker 1: that you've done a lot of it yourself, so like
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  Speaker 1: you're comfortable in that lane?
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  Speaker 2: What if somebody brings you an idea?
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  Speaker 4: To be honest, that's probably the biggest asset to me
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  Speaker 4: is in co writing, is you don't come up with
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  Speaker 4: a great idea every day. I can tell you this
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  Speaker 4: and a lot of songwriters would agree with this. Probably
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  Speaker 4: I've written a lot of the best version of mediocre ideas.
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  Speaker 3: That's what happens.
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  Speaker 4: You get in the room, and you know, you when
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  Speaker 4: you're taking somebody else's time, especially a great songwriter they
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  Speaker 4: write with the artists, you feel like, well, we got
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  Speaker 4: to come up with something, and you just don't have
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  Speaker 4: it every day, you know. So you go and you
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  Speaker 4: kind of settle on an idea and you write a
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  Speaker 4: great version of it maybe and it's it's okay. But
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  Speaker 4: when you come up with an idea that's great, especially
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  Speaker 4: something that I'm like passionate about.
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  Speaker 3: It's an easy song to write.
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  Speaker 1: Is there a song you've put out that you're like,
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  Speaker 1: that's this is good, but then it took off, You're like, oh,
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  Speaker 1: maybe it's better than I thought it was.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean I felt that way about worst way.
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  Speaker 4: I didn't know it was a really, really big song.
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  Speaker 3: I wrote it. I thought, man, I need to write
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  Speaker 3: more love songs.
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  Speaker 4: I don't write that kind of stuff, and a little
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  Speaker 4: more of a you know, Eric Church Rickenball type vibe,
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  Speaker 4: and it just blew up. I had no idea and
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  Speaker 4: I've never really lived in that space.
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  Speaker 3: Very much. You know the like You Loved Me with Ella.
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  Speaker 4: I thought the chorus was catchy, but I thought talking
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  Speaker 4: versus was probably a little too traditional.
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  Speaker 3: So this shows I have no clue.
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  Speaker 2: Uh No, I don't want to start country music beef.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, but did you see Dylan Marlowe attempt to help
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  Speaker 1: her out?
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  Speaker 2: Help ll out?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah? I saw what did I see?
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  Speaker 1: I saw some It was it was a riverfront Heay
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  Speaker 1: and I were hosting the Riverfront stage and so we
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  Speaker 1: introw Ella and all of a sudden, your part comes
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  Speaker 1: and she's like, oh.
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  Speaker 2: Here's Dylan marlow comes running out and he got like.
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  Speaker 1: Three lines in and he he's like, they'll stay.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah. I saw a video because somebody sent to me.
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  Speaker 4: It said Riley Walgreens on there and I just because
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  Speaker 4: I know Dylan is why that's funny to me. But
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  Speaker 4: because I did a song with Dylan on his last record,
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  Speaker 4: stick to My Guns.
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  Speaker 3: But really really good.
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  Speaker 4: Dude, And uh, you got to give a hats off
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  Speaker 4: to him for trying it. I mean, like, I don't
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  Speaker 4: know that I'd go on stage and sing somebody else's song.
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  Speaker 3: That's tough.
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  Speaker 2: Well, and I want to ask you.
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  Speaker 4: Got to think people were really even if they know
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  Speaker 4: I'm not there when I play you.
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  Speaker 3: Like You Love Me, people are still looking for Ella
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  Speaker 3: to walk out.
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  Speaker 4: So people are probably doing that with me, you know,
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  Speaker 4: So I wouldn't want to be the guy that's not
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  Speaker 4: me to walk out during that song.
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  Speaker 3: That's pretty tough.
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  Speaker 1: Well, and that's that's the next thing I was going
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  Speaker 1: to ask you as And that song wildly successful, I'd imagine,
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  Speaker 1: even more than you guys would have expected. Is it
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  Speaker 1: tough to because you want to bring it live? Because
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  Speaker 1: now it's a part of your story, right, regardless of
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  Speaker 1: her song, part of your story and maybe why it's
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  Speaker 1: somebody bought a ticket. Is it awkward to do that
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  Speaker 1: song knowing that half the time people are going to
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  Speaker 1: be looking over your shoulder?
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  Speaker 4: Well, you know, very fortunately, which just doesn't happen very often.
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  Speaker 4: With the time of Ella's on tour with me. Yeah,
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  Speaker 4: so the damn country music tour. She's at every show,
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  Speaker 4: so we get to do it together and don't mind
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  Speaker 4: if I do. Is this giant song as well? So
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  Speaker 4: we got two very different songs. That being said, I
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  Speaker 4: have played it without her several times, and I'm sure
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  Speaker 4: she's done the same thing sometimes I get people out
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  Speaker 4: of the crowd, and you never know what you're gonna
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  Speaker 4: get with that, you know, Sometimes it's really great. Sometimes
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  Speaker 4: they freeze up. But you know, it's a good problem
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  Speaker 4: to have such a big song. And like I said,
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  Speaker 4: it's a really fun song. It's a good break in
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  Speaker 4: my set two to go and throw it back to
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  Speaker 4: that one.
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  Speaker 1: When it comes to the tour, you're seeing radio success
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  Speaker 1: more than you ever have, which obviously helps sell tickets. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: is this tour seeing more success than you expected it too?
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  Speaker 2: Are you getting more from this tour than you expected to?
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  Speaker 4: I've been surprised in a good way for the last
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  Speaker 4: five years touring. Well, what you see when you have
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  Speaker 4: radio success and even award show success and television opportunities
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  Speaker 4: as you see it grow quicker and bigger, and that's
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  Speaker 4: you know, like you Love Me was my first like
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  Speaker 4: TikTok success. I guess you would say, you know, I've
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  Speaker 4: never had a song that really blew up on the internet,
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  Speaker 4: you know, and it's it's all been real gradual, and
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  Speaker 4: that one like the next day you couldn't open your
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  Speaker 4: phone without seeing it.
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  Speaker 3: It was everywhere.
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  Speaker 4: So it's been a really big tour for that reason.
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  Speaker 4: It's we're kind of winning in a lot of different
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  Speaker 4: areas that I've never really been in.
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  Speaker 1: Is it tough to be comfortable there knowing that, like,
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  Speaker 1: those are all things you didn't expect, right, you were
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  Speaker 1: just a guy that wanted to do country music.
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  Speaker 4: It's for me, it's just makes me want to go
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  Speaker 4: write more songs, play more shows. It's you know, I mean,
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  Speaker 4: it's always kind of validating when you get some kind
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  Speaker 4: of recognition from your peers. And like I said, it's
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  Speaker 4: just when things are going well, it's easy to get
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  Speaker 4: out of bed.
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  Speaker 3: And want to go right, want to go play.
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  Speaker 1: It's easy to sit here and talk about the best stuff.
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  Speaker 1: So I'm gonna ask a two part question that's going
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  Speaker 1: to start with the worst. Yeah, what is the worst
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  Speaker 1: song you've ever written? That it's out there, You're not
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  Speaker 1: proud of it, it might not make the live show anymore.
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  Speaker 2: And you're like, yeah, let's pretend that one don't exist.
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  Speaker 4: Well, I'm pretty picky about what I cut them. I
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  Speaker 4: don't put a ton of stuff out that I don't like.
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  Speaker 4: I don't know that I've got a ton of songs
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  Speaker 4: that I just hate. There's a lot of stuff that
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  Speaker 4: the quality production quality is rough. Like so when I
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  Speaker 4: cut all of the first handful of songs I recorded,
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  Speaker 4: I did them in like Bob's garage, and I don't
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  Speaker 4: like hearing my voice anyway.
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  Speaker 2: I don't know.
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  Speaker 4: There's a lot of people that are like that. They
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  Speaker 4: don't like to hear theirselfs sing. And those are just
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  Speaker 4: like nails on Chalkbard for me to hear. And there's
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  Speaker 4: pretty much everything I put out, you know, And there's
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  Speaker 4: still some songs people like. I'll be down at the
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  Speaker 4: beach or something pulled up at an island and there'll
• 12:43
  Speaker 4: be people on a boat listening to like north On
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  Speaker 4: twenty one of these songs, and I'm.
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  Speaker 3: Just crawl underneath the boat. But it's a you know,
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  Speaker 3: it's something about it. People like these songs are still around.
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  Speaker 1: As you continue to write and continue to record. What
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  Speaker 1: is the song opposite that? That's a song that's going
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  Speaker 1: to be hard to beat? Like what is your what's
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  Speaker 1: your top that? You're like, how do I get better
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  Speaker 1: than that? How do I do better than that?
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  Speaker 4: Well, I mean with success, you know, I wish Grandpa's
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  Speaker 4: Never Died is one that's always going to be hard
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  Speaker 4: to beat. But I really love the song Jesus Saves
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  Speaker 4: it was on my last album. As far as the
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  Speaker 4: story song, it's the best song I've ever written, you know,
• 13:23
  Speaker 4: to tell a story, and I think the message is
• 13:26
  Speaker 4: great and.
• 13:28
  Speaker 3: I don't look at it like how can I beat it?
• 13:31
  Speaker 4: But I do try to use those songs to get
• 13:33
  Speaker 4: myself in the headspace I was in, because when you're
• 13:35
  Speaker 4: in that spot and it's.
• 13:37
  Speaker 3: Just flowed and creatively, you feel like you write.
• 13:38
  Speaker 4: Ten songs that day, that's that's when it's kind of magic,
• 13:42
  Speaker 4: and you don't it doesn't happen often. You can schedule
• 13:45
  Speaker 4: a ride every day for six months and it never happened,
• 13:47
  Speaker 4: and one day you're sitting there and eating pasta on
• 13:49
  Speaker 4: the couch and you think of something. So for me,
• 13:51
  Speaker 4: it's just hammered them out, writing as many songs as
• 13:54
  Speaker 4: I can, and always looking for titles.
• 13:57
  Speaker 2: What usually comes first the write or are the name?
• 14:02
  Speaker 3: It's the music or the the name.
• 14:04
  Speaker 4: Yeah, it's I think it's different every time, but for me,
• 14:09
  Speaker 4: the idea like sometimes it's not very sessed out.
• 14:12
  Speaker 3: I don't really know what it is. It's just a thought.
• 14:14
  Speaker 4: But a lot of times that's the first thing you know,
• 14:17
  Speaker 4: I saw a guy on the side of the road
• 14:19
  Speaker 4: the signs that Jesus saved. I thought, man, you know,
• 14:22
  Speaker 4: everybody always so quick to think about their own drugs
• 14:24
  Speaker 4: or this and that whatever, and thought, but man, like,
• 14:26
  Speaker 4: what kind of stuff could he have gone through in
• 14:27
  Speaker 4: his laugh that got him there? That if it had
• 14:29
  Speaker 4: happened to me, I'd be doing the same thing. And
• 14:31
  Speaker 4: I just thought about that for probably three months, and
• 14:33
  Speaker 4: then one day it all came together, you know.
• 14:36
  Speaker 3: And so it's it's usually an idea. I've got to
• 14:38
  Speaker 3: be pretty passionate about that's.
• 14:40
  Speaker 1: I love the story of a song, and I and
• 14:42
  Speaker 1: I Tay and I have talked about like podcast ideas
• 14:45
  Speaker 1: and all that, because there's so many the songs are fantastic,
• 14:48
  Speaker 1: but sometimes this story behind the song is even better
• 14:51
  Speaker 1: than the song could ever be. Oh yeah, and it's
• 14:53
  Speaker 1: and it's and it's even like asking we caught up
• 14:56
  Speaker 1: with Kenny Chesney and asked about a song that he
• 14:59
  Speaker 1: passed on. He passed on check Yes or No, Right,
• 15:03
  Speaker 1: Jake was it Jake O? And passed on Big Green Tractor.
• 15:06
  Speaker 1: And so so there's all these stories on these songs
• 15:09
  Speaker 1: that are just wild. Who was it Blake Shelton had
• 15:14
  Speaker 1: recorded Toby Keith's Which song was it?
• 15:18
  Speaker 3: I felt? I remember hearing this the other day. I
• 15:20
  Speaker 3: can't remember what song it.
• 15:20
  Speaker 4: Was it was.
• 15:21
  Speaker 1: I mean, it's one of Toby's biggest hits. It's like
• 15:23
  Speaker 1: it's like, uh so you heard.
• 15:25
  Speaker 3: Him singing and then didn't want to do it again?
• 15:26
  Speaker 2: Yeah, And he was like, well cool, I guess I
• 15:28
  Speaker 2: forget it.
• 15:29
  Speaker 1: But when it comes to that type of stuff, have
• 15:33
  Speaker 1: you do you have a story like that.
• 15:35
  Speaker 3: I don't have any, like I didn't cut something, you know,
• 15:38
  Speaker 3: or whatever.
• 15:39
  Speaker 4: But there's several songs that got interesting stories behind him,
• 15:42
  Speaker 4: especially when I was early in songwriting, because I didn't
• 15:44
  Speaker 4: put any thought into big success. It was just like
• 15:47
  Speaker 4: I'd play a show and I think, man, this kind
• 15:49
  Speaker 4: of line goes overwhel or this does or whatever. And
• 15:52
  Speaker 4: I had a song I wrote that really kind of
• 15:54
  Speaker 4: helped start my career, is called Barryman Dixie, and I
• 15:56
  Speaker 4: wrote that about I was it was just like where
• 15:58
  Speaker 4: I grew up. But I was thinking about the movie
• 16:01
  Speaker 4: Weekend at Bernie's. I was like, if I was to
• 16:03
  Speaker 4: die at a young age, I wish my buddies would
• 16:05
  Speaker 4: just put sunglasses on me. And take me to the floor,
• 16:07
  Speaker 4: Obama and an Auburn football game and Tuscaloosa and Talladega Racetrack.
• 16:11
  Speaker 3: You know.
• 16:12
  Speaker 4: So it was a funny idea and they played that
• 16:14
  Speaker 4: song at funerals all over the place in Alabama. Now,
• 16:16
  Speaker 4: so it went completely the other direction.
• 16:20
  Speaker 1: Another aspect of the like story part of songwriting is
• 16:25
  Speaker 1: sometimes a great idea and you just mentioned you sat
• 16:27
  Speaker 1: on the one song for three months or whatever. Sometimes
• 16:31
  Speaker 1: the idea hits you and it might take a year
• 16:34
  Speaker 1: to write this song. So what is what's the And
• 16:37
  Speaker 1: you don't have to give details because I know how
• 16:39
  Speaker 1: it is with songwriting, But what's the best idea in
• 16:41
  Speaker 1: your phone right now? You've held on to the longest, uh, Like,
• 16:48
  Speaker 1: do you get past a few months or you like,
• 16:50
  Speaker 1: I'll get back so.
• 16:52
  Speaker 4: Well I wrote yesterday, I sit down and there's always
• 16:55
  Speaker 4: the last five or six that or things I'm really
• 16:57
  Speaker 4: fired up about. And then roll up and scroll up
• 17:01
  Speaker 4: and sometimes if you're not find anything, we've all thrown
• 17:03
  Speaker 4: some titles out, you know whatever. But I had a
• 17:07
  Speaker 4: song that I'm finishing now as I wrote it by myself.
• 17:11
  Speaker 4: It's called My Way, and it's it's a weird problem
• 17:14
  Speaker 4: never had with a song before. But I like the
• 17:16
  Speaker 4: verses so much that I don't want to write a chorus.
• 17:19
  Speaker 4: And I'm almost like trying to figure out how I
• 17:20
  Speaker 4: can just write like four verses and just because it's
• 17:23
  Speaker 4: and there are songs like that, you know, like stylistically,
• 17:25
  Speaker 4: people do all kind of different stuff, but it's one
• 17:28
  Speaker 4: that I've had finished, so to speak, if I just
• 17:30
  Speaker 4: write a chorus for six months, but I'm like, I
• 17:33
  Speaker 4: like it so much, I want to do it right.
• 17:34
  Speaker 4: And that was something I never did when I first
• 17:37
  Speaker 4: started writing, because I didn't put that much thought into it.
• 17:39
  Speaker 3: But now I'm like, hold on, this might be actually good,
• 17:41
  Speaker 3: so let me try to do it right.
• 17:43
  Speaker 2: Well, I'll tell you what, pull it out.
• 17:44
  Speaker 1: Let's work on it right now. We can stop this,
• 17:48
  Speaker 1: wouldn't that be hilarious?
• 17:49
  Speaker 2: Dokie.
• 17:50
  Speaker 1: I'm sure you've heard a million radio guys. I got
• 17:52
  Speaker 1: a song idea, Riley. Let me tell you when it
• 17:55
  Speaker 1: comes to the rest of.
• 17:57
  Speaker 2: The year, what are some things you're looking forward to?
• 17:58
  Speaker 1: Because with the success of this ella, the success of
• 18:01
  Speaker 1: the recent single, you're burning at both ends right now, right,
• 18:05
  Speaker 1: So what are some things you're looking forward to, like
• 18:07
  Speaker 1: stepping away musically from.
• 18:09
  Speaker 4: Uh well, I mean, obviously we're right in the middle
• 18:12
  Speaker 4: of the tour. That'll go till you know, around November,
• 18:15
  Speaker 4: and then I'll get to go hunting.
• 18:17
  Speaker 3: A little bit.
• 18:17
  Speaker 4: I'll get to get in the woods, get back home
• 18:19
  Speaker 4: and visit the family. I'm going to plan on going
• 18:21
  Speaker 4: somewhere warm, you know, around the fourth.
• 18:23
  Speaker 3: I took that week off, so it'll be nice to
• 18:26
  Speaker 3: visit with everybody, and.
• 18:29
  Speaker 4: Everything's going great. The tough thing about when it's going
• 18:31
  Speaker 4: like this is you are busy, you know. So we're
• 18:33
  Speaker 4: trying to make hay while the sun shining, and I
• 18:35
  Speaker 4: enjoyed my time off more now than ever with how.
• 18:38
  Speaker 2: Busy you are because of that success.
• 18:39
  Speaker 1: Right now, is it tough to to get in the
• 18:42
  Speaker 1: rights and figure out the next album and the next
• 18:44
  Speaker 1: singles and like your next cycle.
• 18:46
  Speaker 4: As they would say, It's not tough to get motivated
• 18:50
  Speaker 4: for it, it's just tough to find the time for it.
• 18:52
  Speaker 4: I mean, that's the crazy thing about how things are
• 18:56
  Speaker 4: going now, is like I need Worst Ways number one
• 18:59
  Speaker 4: right now, and I need two more.
• 19:01
  Speaker 3: You know what I mean.
• 19:02
  Speaker 4: I need the next album full of hits, and it's
• 19:05
  Speaker 4: you know again, I think you can write thirty songs
• 19:07
  Speaker 4: to write one decent song, and looking at it like that,
• 19:09
  Speaker 4: you just got to keep grinding.
• 19:11
  Speaker 1: I do want to ask about the success of your spot,
• 19:15
  Speaker 1: Doug Blind. Yeah, Doug Blind literally on the other side
• 19:18
  Speaker 1: of town here, yeah, which is cool, Like it's a
• 19:20
  Speaker 1: cool concept. You did it. Old Dominion is not on
• 19:24
  Speaker 1: Broadway either, so it's cool to see artists like invest
• 19:27
  Speaker 1: in Nashville.
• 19:28
  Speaker 2: But like where the vocals hang.
• 19:30
  Speaker 4: Well yeah, Old Dominion from the right next door to us.
• 19:32
  Speaker 4: And for me, I never hung out down here, you know, broadly.
• 19:36
  Speaker 3: I just I was always in midtown.
• 19:39
  Speaker 4: Winners is the building where my bar is now is
• 19:41
  Speaker 4: connected to Losers, and that was where Whiskey Jam was
• 19:43
  Speaker 4: and everybody played there, you know, And every relationship I've
• 19:47
  Speaker 4: got in town with songwriters and other artists has all
• 19:50
  Speaker 4: been in that building.
• 19:51
  Speaker 3: So it's cool now to have my name on.
• 19:53
  Speaker 4: Something and have young up and coming artists coming there
• 19:55
  Speaker 4: and you know, get up to a song and maybe
• 19:57
  Speaker 4: they get a start.
• 19:58
  Speaker 3: Over there too.
• 19:59
  Speaker 4: But it's a really full circle moment for me. And
• 20:01
  Speaker 4: also it's one bar in Nashville. I can't get thrown
• 20:04
  Speaker 4: out of your name's down there, Yes, can't everybody else out?
• 20:08
  Speaker 1: I'm done and it never closes for you, depending on
• 20:10
  Speaker 1: the kind of night you're having.
• 20:12
  Speaker 4: It should I need to put a I got a key,
• 20:15
  Speaker 4: which is crazy, you know what I mean.
• 20:17
  Speaker 3: I've got a key to a.
• 20:18
  Speaker 2: Bar that's wild and very unsafe.
• 20:21
  Speaker 3: Yeah, I go. You should come up with any breakfast
• 20:23
  Speaker 3: with me.
• 20:23
  Speaker 1: Sometimes I have breakfast there when listen, I'm a breakfast
• 20:27
  Speaker 1: What nothing having breakfast with Briley Green can tell me
• 20:30
  Speaker 1: when the Nashville bar scene has changed a ton because
• 20:35
  Speaker 1: it was like, you know, the names like Tutsis and
• 20:38
  Speaker 1: all that, and then it became artists who have you know,
• 20:41
  Speaker 1: they've sold out in all these awards, and now you
• 20:43
  Speaker 1: have artists who are still brand new, like Landy Wilson
• 20:47
  Speaker 1: is down the street, Jelly Rollers down the street literally
• 20:50
  Speaker 1: right underneath us. They just announced it's gonna be post
• 20:53
  Speaker 1: malonees bro So is that like, what is that for
• 20:56
  Speaker 1: you to see? As somebody who grew up wanting to
• 20:59
  Speaker 1: do country music, You've spent a ton of time in Nashville,
• 21:02
  Speaker 1: your name is on a bar as well. What is
• 21:03
  Speaker 1: it like to see that culture change from like these
• 21:07
  Speaker 1: these massive names to like people massive names that made
• 21:10
  Speaker 1: an impact.
• 21:11
  Speaker 2: Yea, the massive names that are making it.
• 21:13
  Speaker 4: So I think it's a cool thing, man, Like you know,
• 21:17
  Speaker 4: how I did it was a little unorthodox. There's probably
• 21:19
  Speaker 4: people that could look at my career and go, well,
• 21:21
  Speaker 4: he didn't come in Nashville and play Broadway for five
• 21:24
  Speaker 4: years to you know, hopefully impress a record label and whatever.
• 21:27
  Speaker 3: And I didn't do that.
• 21:28
  Speaker 4: I didn't play in offices and try to get a
• 21:30
  Speaker 4: record deal. I toured around the Southeast and kind of
• 21:32
  Speaker 4: built a little following.
• 21:33
  Speaker 3: And a little bit of the time.
• 21:35
  Speaker 4: And you know, I did that for about ten years,
• 21:37
  Speaker 4: and then labels started to come down to my shows.
• 21:38
  Speaker 4: So in a way that was different, you know. And
• 21:42
  Speaker 4: these artists now like it can happen quick, you know.
• 21:46
  Speaker 4: And for me, it's like the more success this town
• 21:50
  Speaker 4: has and these bars in town have and these other
• 21:52
  Speaker 4: artists have, I just love that it's making a swing
• 21:54
  Speaker 4: towards traditional country music and that sounds coming back, and
• 21:57
  Speaker 4: that means I've got a chance as long as that's
• 22:00
  Speaker 4: going on.
• 22:01
  Speaker 1: The Last thing I want to ask because it's so
• 22:04
  Speaker 1: and I'll tell you, I don't ask stupid questions.
• 22:07
  Speaker 2: Like this, stupid yes, like this.
• 22:09
  Speaker 1: No. Uh, one of the most recent things you've gotten
• 22:12
  Speaker 1: attention for is shaving your facial hair. Now, let me
• 22:15
  Speaker 1: tell you, as a guy who's like I just want
• 22:18
  Speaker 1: to make music, you probably.
• 22:18
  Speaker 2: Like, what the hell?
• 22:19
  Speaker 1: Yeah, but that means you're a big deal dude if
• 22:22
  Speaker 1: they're talking about your shaved your mustache.
• 22:24
  Speaker 2: So people are upset about it.
• 22:26
  Speaker 4: So I knew that I had a mustache, you know,
• 22:29
  Speaker 4: I've seen it, and I knew, and I knew that
• 22:31
  Speaker 4: people had like done some videos like their husbands are
• 22:35
  Speaker 4: shaving mustaches. You know, I thought I saw that. I
• 22:38
  Speaker 4: didn't know that I had to have a mustache. I
• 22:40
  Speaker 4: know that I was a mustache guy.
• 22:41
  Speaker 2: That's your streaming numbers tank.
• 22:43
  Speaker 3: The next day, people were trying to get rid of
• 22:44
  Speaker 3: their tickets.
• 22:46
  Speaker 2: Dude.
• 22:46
  Speaker 3: The good newserser came back like four days later, so they.
• 22:49
  Speaker 2: Were getting rid of tickets at half the price. Raud them.
• 22:51
  Speaker 2: By the way, they were taking a lot.
• 22:52
  Speaker 3: So I won't make that mistake again, I guess.
• 22:54
  Speaker 2: But is that, like, how do you react?
• 22:56
  Speaker 3: Ridiculous is what it is?
• 22:57
  Speaker 2: Right?
• 22:58
  Speaker 3: Yeah?
• 22:58
  Speaker 4: But I then again, a lot of the stuff I
• 23:00
  Speaker 4: read about myself is pretty ridiculous. Lightly so uh if
• 23:04
  Speaker 4: that's the worst headline this week.
• 23:07
  Speaker 1: There's a lot of people asking for any headline right now,
• 23:09
  Speaker 1: so the fact that they're just happening.
• 23:11
  Speaker 4: Man, I get online every day and figure out who
• 23:13
  Speaker 4: I'm dating. You know, the internet will tell me.
• 23:16
  Speaker 2: Listen. I won't tell you today, but congrats on Land
• 23:19
  Speaker 2: and Dolly. Nice Riley.
• 23:24
  Speaker 1: I know you're a busy guy, so carving out time
• 23:25
  Speaker 1: was not easy. Thanks for coming to hand, man, I
• 23:27
  Speaker 1: appreciate y'all.