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Did Someone Try to Silence Hardy? · Inside Country with Wayne D

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  Listen. I know it's going to be quick, and he's on a tight
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  schedule. When he when before he even says hello, he taps his watch.
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  That you didn't but no, I was just doing that because we're both
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  wearing roll ex I know, dude. Yeah, but yours is probably nicer
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  than mine. No, the black sobs, that's the that's the staple,
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  dude, Right, yeah, hanging with hardy. Dude, how's life good?
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  It doesn't slow down for you ever? No, a little bit?
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  Maybe not really though, dude. There's a million things I want to catch
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  up on, But first hit me with you just played with the Houston Rodeo.
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  Yeah, literally like a few days ago, and you brought your wife
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  with to look like she had the time of her life. Right, yeah,
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  But tell me about that experience for you, because the Houston Rodeo is
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  a big deal and a regular country music fan sitting here in Nashville might not
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  realize that. How how how authentic can this conversation be? Be right?
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  Right, there's a lot of I got a lot of well, actually,
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  the every article I read was really good. But they they the day of
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  the show, they told me that I couldn't cuss or we had to cut
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  a song from the set. I couldn't wear a jersey with the number sixty
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  nine on it. Of course, if my mom's listening, she's like,
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  thank god, that's what they still said. But it's about time. But
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  so we I kind of felt like I handled it with grace, but I
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  had some I had a moment where maybe that I convinced the entire crowd to
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  say that F word just to see what would happened. But it was amazing.
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  The experience was amazing. I'm incredibly grateful to even be considered like at
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  the same level or whatever you want to call it as the other people that
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  played there. And the experience was awesome. In the stage, like move
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  moves in a circle. Yeah, and you go out on these like octopus
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  legs and they'll go up and it's dude, it was wild. It was
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  the coolest show I've ever played. What's it like for somebody who you're very
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  much out there but because of your rock and country, you know, delivery,
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  you're still introducing yourself to new fans every day. Yeah, but the
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  fans that you have are rabbit and there's a ton of them, and that's
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  obviously why you played a show like that. So what's it like when someone's
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  like, hey, you gotta park and not that like you're built on cussing
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  on stage, but like being authentic is a part of you, right yeah,
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  yeah yeah, And so what was that like for them to be like,
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  hey, not today? A little frustrating. Maybe maybe you should look
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  up some shows and stuff trackers dying right now. I just man, you
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  you know, you get what you get and you don't throw a fit,
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  and your show is your show. I mean, kid Rock came there,
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  so I wonder what they told him, but he probably won't be back.
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  I don't know. It's fine though, man, And I'm never dude.
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  I I would never be like blatantly disrespect somebody or I don't know. I
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  just I feel like handling those situations with some type of grace or at least
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  finding a way to cut corners is completely fine because just you know, I
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  feel like that's just a part of my show and that just it is what
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  it is when it comes to big moments like that. Obviously, no strangers
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  to an award show, and it feels even recently, it's like it's the
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  Hardy and Laney show. Anytime you go somewhere because either both of you or
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  at least one of you is going to clean up as you're you've been a
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  part of it. I went through the list of accolades and I was like,
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  how do you pick which one means the most? Because it's all I
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  have an answer for that ACM Songwriter of the Year. That's that'll never nothing
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  will ever beat that. I don't even think Entertainer of the Year will ever
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  beat that for me what I moved here to be a songwriter and that there's
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  like three or four goals that I've had and I like just as a Nashville
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  songwriter, and that that one was like the top of the pyramid. So
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  uh yeah, that and I just my everything. None of none of this
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  would ever exist anything if there weren't songwriters and people writing songs that you play
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  on the radio, that you get to perform live. And I just songs
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  and songwriting is so special to me. And just to know that, you
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  know, to have to win that for a year to the person and just
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  feel all that hard work, you know, eight or nine, ten years
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  of writing songs, and eight years of writing songs it never got you know,
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  played or listened to or anything like that. Just it means a lot
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  to me. I care a lot about songwriting. You talked about goals that
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  you set and and and i'd imagine working with certain artists. We last time
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  we caught up Kenny having it. What I think you said, Yeah,
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  having a Kenny cut no spoken into existence. Well, so not only did
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  you, it's been a big old hit and it's on its way to ringing
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  the bell? Who else is on that list? Is that something you mind
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  sharing? Like? Who else is on that list that you're like before I'm
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  done, I gotta I gotta try and work with I Okay, Tim McGraw,
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  I don't have a Tim mcgrawl cut at all. I surprisingly don't have
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  a Luke Bryan cut and Luke colmbs I feel like those are the last three.
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  I guess Laney too, I don't have a Laney cut. There's a
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  lot, but when you ask that question, Tim McGraw is the first one
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  that comes to mind. That's gotta happen, man, Dude. I ran
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  into him at the rhyme and he was like, we gotta work together.
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  And now I never got his numbers, so I've just been waiting to run
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  into him again. We're gonna take him on social media. There's gonna be
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  some DM Yeah, tell him to text me, dude, check the d
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  ms. At some point here hanging out with Hardy, you're getting close to
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  ringing the bell on a big song of your own. Did truck Bed feel
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  like like it could go? Or did you just feel like it was the
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  right song for you? Right? I never know, dude, I really
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  don't want you know me. I mean like, I've always kind of taken
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  a risk when it comes to single selection, and I feel like to a
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  certain extent, but I just I don't know. You just never know.
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  You always hope. So I do think that it's the hideous sounding song maybe
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  I've put out, you know, like the funnest like one Beer sounded hitdty,
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  but it was about a teenage pre pregnancy. So you just don't really
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  You never really know. You know some people that are like, what yeah,
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  yeah, yeah, I thought it was just about drinking beer. God,
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  you're right, dude. I don't even know how many people think that,
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  but you never know. But I had high expectations for it. It
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  reacted so well when the record came out, and like you know, a
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  lot of people you guys showed a lot of love like when we when it,
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  when we send it out. So but here we are. I'm excited,
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  dude, I'm excited for you. Uh tell me. I'm trying to
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  do like a cliff Notes version in case they walk in the door any second.
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  Uh take me through quit because this is a story you've told before.
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  But what made you want to put it into music form? Man? I
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  don't know. I I think part of just when I opened that book metaphorically,
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  when I told that speech that night, I guess was at ACM honors.
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  Uh, and it kind of went viral, and and I just thought,
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  maybe you should elaborate on that a little bit more. And I just,
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  dude, I was on my boat, I think, and I was
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  like just singing stuff in my head and was like, what if you just
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  and just the whole thing just sort of can't come to life in my head,
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  and and I just was like, man, let's let's just tell it
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  like and like tell it like a story kind of thing. And and it
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  just turned into like a rap song. So I guess you call that.
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  I don't know you call it, but listen, songs don't have lanes in
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  my world. But anyway, I love that. That's a great quote.
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  Uh take me through. Another thing I want to ask you is, obviously
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  you and Morgan are tight. Why is that friendship? And now obviously Ernest
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  is a part of that. It feels like jelly Roll has kind of become
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  a part of that. Why as you guys have grown career wise together,
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  has it been important to continue to work together because a lot of people don't
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  go back to the well right Oh man, I dude, I I'm just
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  dance with the one that brought you kind of thing, man, And we're
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  all just like celebrating each other all the time. Dude. The last think,
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  the last thing I texted Morgan was Dude, I just got off stage.
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  I just played the Houston Rodeo and uh, we you know, and
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  it's always something like that, And I just why would you not? Man?
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  Those are the people that you became successful with, and those are the
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  people that you you know, you write your best songs with. And I
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  just I it's just been a no brainer for us to just always and we
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  just we all knew each other when we had nothing. Dude, Me and
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  Ernest and Morgan wrote more than my hometown maybe up Down had go number one,
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  but we still like we're babies back then and that and that, like
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  we just I don't know, we stick together when you come up, when
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  you come from nothing and you all come up together, there's a bond that
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  you have. And I'm the same way with Laney. Like you just there's
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  some people that you just you went through it with them and you you know,
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  you were all at one point like is this gonna work for any of
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  us? Or are we going to be the people that move back home or
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  whatever it is, and you just there's some sort of bond that you have
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  when you go through stuff like that together. Last thing I want to ask
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  you is, uh, the bar thing has become a big deal. And
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  we talked about this with Kenny Chesney recently. He goes, it's funny because
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  at one point it was like everyone had their own merch shop downtown. It
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  was like this person had a Fancis, and now it's like everyone's got a
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  bar Yeah, is that something in your wheelhouse at any point? Yes?
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  How far? How far down? Two to three years? Yeah? Yeah,
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  all right, that's all gonna asks. It's gonna happen. It's just
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  we don't have there's I haven't signed a piece of paper or anything, but
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  that's very very very much on my to do list for the next few years.
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  God, that's gonna be sick. Yeah, we got a place in
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  mind, dude, let's do it. We can't wait, Hearty, Thanks
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  for hanging brother. Always a pleasure.