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Ella Langley's Tattoo Regrets · Inside Country with Wayne D

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Speaker 1: I gotta tell y'all, we're excited to have her in
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Speaker 1: here because the show last night, she apparently shaved her
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Speaker 1: mustache already. That thing came out quick and.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, what what?
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Speaker 1: So you're you're doing the tour with Riley right now?
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Speaker 1: It looks like from people's social videos, you all are
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Speaker 1: having the time of your lives.
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Speaker 2: We're not boring people.
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Speaker 1: What made you pull do the mustache deal last night?
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Speaker 1: Or have you been doing that? Well?
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Speaker 2: I don't know if you've noticed, but Riley has a mustache.
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Speaker 1: I prefer when he took it off.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, well this has been a thing for a minute.
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Speaker 2: So I bought two hundred and fifty mustaches at the
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Speaker 2: beginning of tour.
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Speaker 1: Amazon.
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Speaker 2: Of course, it's up Amazon, plug me up. You know
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Speaker 2: what I mean, right hall the fake mustache plugs. But
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Speaker 2: I bought two hundred and fifty of them, and I
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Speaker 2: told him. I was like, I have a trick I'm
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Speaker 2: gonna do later we shook hands on prank Wars. Because
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Speaker 2: this is our second tour together. I'm like, we gotta
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Speaker 2: gotta amp it up boring around here, let's spice it
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Speaker 2: up a little. So anyways, last night, I don't know
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Speaker 2: why I had the inkling that that was the night
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Speaker 2: I was gonna do the mustache bit, And so then
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Speaker 2: I threw all the mustaches out, like I was literally
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Speaker 2: just like.
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Speaker 1: It's rain and man hallelujah.
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Speaker 2: Or like that. You know, yeah, like that too, and
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Speaker 2: anyway you want it, really, anyway.
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Speaker 1: You want it, let's just think through the interview.
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Speaker 2: Yeah that's all I do for a living. But anyway,
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Speaker 2: so yeah, I threw all the mustaches out. And then
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Speaker 2: what was so funny is so I had to go
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Speaker 2: up there for the game to a show because I
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Speaker 2: want to see how many people put the mustaches on.
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Speaker 2: Like I was really encouraging the crowd throw out my
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Speaker 2: show to like put them on, but like save it
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Speaker 2: because they get sweaty and they're gonna fall down, Like
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Speaker 2: save it for the when he walks out there, and
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Speaker 2: so before the show started, his intro tracks going, and
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Speaker 2: I'll like lean out where just the fan the pit
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Speaker 2: can see me, and I'm like put him on. Like
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Speaker 2: I'm like put him on, and all these girls start
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Speaker 2: like putting their mustache. Shazon man are putting mustaches over
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Speaker 2: their mustaches. So Ralegh gets some of it. This his
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Speaker 2: first song. He's kind of looking out in the crowd,
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Speaker 2: like I don't know if he notices yet, literally, like
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Speaker 2: the whole pit is mustaches. And he starts pointing, laughing,
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Speaker 2: and he looks back at me and he looks me
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Speaker 2: and he just catches me in the eye and I'm
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Speaker 2: look him dead, asking the eye with no.
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Speaker 1: I'll tell you this tour. Maybe the end prank is
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Speaker 1: you have a mustache tattoo. You get a mustache tattoo.
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Speaker 1: That's too far, too far, my bad. I'm a back up.
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Speaker 1: I'm a backup a minute. What's this tour bit?
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Speaker 2: What's this bit? Like?
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Speaker 1: Hang on? I was offensive? Were but you're not afraid
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Speaker 1: of tattoos? You have a few.
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Speaker 2: No, I'm definitely afraid of him. I hate them all
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Speaker 2: the much. That's why I have this giant asked tequila tattoo.
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Speaker 2: Me does that sick? It is? It's awesome?
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Speaker 1: Let me ask uh? And And I wasn't an asse this,
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Speaker 1: but you said your mom's here, and we don't get
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Speaker 1: it doesn't turn into family affair every now and again
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Speaker 1: in here. So we're glad your mother said, I want
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Speaker 1: to ask what's Mom's least favorite tattoo? And you can't
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Speaker 1: say all of them.
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Speaker 2: No, she does not hate my tattoos. My mom has tattoos.
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Speaker 2: My mom's a cool mom. Oh okay, she was like hippie,
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Speaker 2: had half her head shaved the other blue. When she
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Speaker 2: was younger, she's kind of rebellious. Mom's from Michigan, so
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Speaker 2: she's like spunky and you know, cool. I don't know.
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Speaker 2: So she was like every time I got a tattoo,
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Speaker 2: she's like, I love it. My dad's like, what's wrong
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Speaker 2: with you? Why? What if you wanted to teach Sunday school?
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Speaker 2: And I was like, well, yes, God would let me.
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Speaker 2: If I have tattoos, I would burn it down. I
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Speaker 2: was kind of making a joke one time. He did
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Speaker 2: say something it's kind of offensive. Not really, it's just
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Speaker 2: kind of crass. My dad when he's angry, like I'm
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Speaker 2: pretty sure he uses like the most extreme version of
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Speaker 2: hyperbole that he can to make me giggle, which then
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Speaker 2: pisses him off more. And he's been doing it since
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Speaker 2: I was a kid. I got a couple of spankings
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Speaker 2: because of that, no doubt, because you get you laugh
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Speaker 2: when your dad's getting mad at you and he's like
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Speaker 2: you over ring your damn it. Anyways, that's why i'm
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Speaker 2: you know, tough these days and got a good sense
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Speaker 2: of humor. Any whosel So my dad when he's like,
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Speaker 2: gave me a rule. He's like, Ella, when you leave
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Speaker 2: the house, do not get tattoos. And I did immediately,
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Speaker 2: And then I think when I got this bumblebee, which
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Speaker 2: I got for.
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Speaker 1: My mom, Actually, is that the first one ever?
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Speaker 2: Right there? No, the first one was this trouble clef.
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Speaker 2: I got it, I'm pretty sure two months after I
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Speaker 2: left the house. And then I got this one like
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Speaker 2: a year later. And then I got into my band,
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Speaker 2: started to have a bunch of guys with tattoos, and
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Speaker 2: then you know, co.
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Speaker 1: Wetzel, he's not the best influence for something.
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Speaker 2: No, no flash tats everywhere. That's the tequila shot. That's
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Speaker 2: his full. My dad was like, Ella, yeah, yeah, you
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Speaker 2: know what, why don't you just you know what, let's
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Speaker 2: just tattoo ball sack right on your flour? How about
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Speaker 2: how about that? How about that? Whyn't you just do
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Speaker 2: it all the way? Go all the way?
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Speaker 1: Your reply was.
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Speaker 2: And I said, Dan, I'm pretty sure a bumblebee in
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Speaker 2: a ballsack is much different. But if that's how you're
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Speaker 2: trying to explain to me that you don't like what
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Speaker 2: I did. I can understand, but I can assure you
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Speaker 2: I will not get a ballsack on one for it.
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Speaker 1: I tell you something I'm very proud of in this moment.
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Speaker 1: I've been on the radio for twenty two years. All right,
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Speaker 1: I've done I'm not bleeping it out. But here's the deal.
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Speaker 1: I've done a lot of interviews guys and girls. No
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Speaker 1: one's ever said ball sack like this is something I'm
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Speaker 1: gonna we're gonna have. We're gonna get a plaque put on.
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Speaker 2: Damn, I'm kind of tired.
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Speaker 1: At four oh three pm on June twentieth, Ella Langley said,
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Speaker 1: pointing at right, I'm looking at a clock. We're gonna
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Speaker 1: put a plaque on the wall.
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Speaker 2: Oh okay, I'm scared. People don't forget about that.
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Speaker 1: No, we're never gonna forget when Ella Langley said.
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Speaker 2: Balls all right, I say that real life. I actually
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Speaker 2: think I have a video of it on TikTok so
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Speaker 2: I explained that story.
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Speaker 1: Well, okay, well, I'm sure we'll clip this and tell you.
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Speaker 2: I can't wait. I'm sure it wasn't seen enough, you know,
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Speaker 2: why not bring it on back?
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Speaker 1: Uh? What is the toughest part about about having a
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Speaker 1: life when it comes to social media? Because now that
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Speaker 1: the mustache deal with the show last night, I saw
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Speaker 1: on social media, right, if a fan runs into you
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Speaker 1: at Kroger, they're recording or taking a picture, right, So,
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Speaker 1: what's the toughest part about trying to be like Ella
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Speaker 1: Langley and then like every day Ella?
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Speaker 2: M what's the toughest part about that?
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Speaker 1: Because everybody wants You're to the point now where your
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Speaker 1: your career took off so fast, everybody wants something from
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Speaker 1: you all the time.
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Speaker 2: Yeah. I think it's I've the team that I have
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Speaker 2: around me and my family and my friends that I
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Speaker 2: have kind of a close circle in that way, and
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Speaker 2: not a one of them are yes and at all.
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Speaker 2: I mean, couldn't be any less of them. And I
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Speaker 2: like get aggravated when people are too like you sounded awesome.
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Speaker 2: I'm like, no, I didn't, I sound like shit. Tell
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Speaker 2: me that, damn. And I think that keeps me grounded.
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Speaker 2: But it is weird when you're, you know, going around
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Speaker 2: and someone's like, I'm gonna throw up on your shoos
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Speaker 2: because you're you know what. I'm like, Bro, It's okay,
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Speaker 2: you know, like I'm so new to that that I'm
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Speaker 2: like learning how to like, you know, Randon' is like, oh,
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Speaker 2: you've never clean throw up off your shoes?
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Speaker 1: What?
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Speaker 2: Welcome to the club?
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Speaker 1: You know?
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Speaker 2: Like I think that's just like I'm trying to the
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Speaker 2: women I think about it, or like maybe I get
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Speaker 2: like weirded out or cause it is weird when you're
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Speaker 2: walking through and you're like somebody's talking to you and
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Speaker 2: you're like, do they know? Maybe they don't know, and
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Speaker 2: then they do something You're like, yeah, they know. Like
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Speaker 2: I was at the airport and we were flying around
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Speaker 2: in Canada and I had just taken them a fun
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Speaker 2: fruit snack, a good sized one, you know, and I
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Speaker 2: was just telling them about food by the foot for sure. Yeah,
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Speaker 2: And I just was telling my security. I was like,
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Speaker 2: do that thing just we were going through. So we
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Speaker 2: were going through security when it kicked in, which is
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Speaker 2: fine whatever, And then as I told him that this,
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Speaker 2: I was like, ma'am, can I pull you out? Can
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Speaker 2: I pull you out of the line for a second?
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Speaker 2: I guess. So I watched over there and she is
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Speaker 2: like going through my bag had this vapor in there.
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Speaker 2: She's like this sounds great. And then like throws it
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Speaker 2: down and I was like, that's terrible. I'm so scared
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Speaker 2: right now. I'm like, this is it. I was looking
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Speaker 2: at it secured, girl was sweating and I was like,
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Speaker 2: I'm gonna in the morning. I was like, this is it.
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Speaker 2: This is so I go down. This is it for me.
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Speaker 2: I knew it was gonna be an airport. I knew.
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Speaker 2: I said the whole time he was gonna be an airport.
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Speaker 2: And then she's like, and actually, my daughter was at
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Speaker 2: the show tonight and I was like, well, she did
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Speaker 2: not talk like that because we were in Canada, but
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Speaker 2: that's just my voice for people. I guess yeah, And
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Speaker 2: I was like immediately, I was like, oh god, you
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Speaker 2: want me sign something for you? You know you want
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Speaker 2: to do that? She was like, yeah, that would be awesome.
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Speaker 2: So I did. I made a video for her daughter
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Speaker 2: and signed something. And then I was like, thanks for
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Speaker 2: coming to the show.
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Speaker 1: You're like, just don't post this please. Yeah.
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Speaker 2: And then I was like and now I still have
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Speaker 2: to go through security, Like are you kidding me? Can
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Speaker 2: you just frisk me up at this point and let
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Speaker 2: me get to the lounge?
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Speaker 1: Did you you asked to be okay?
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Speaker 2: No, that was just a joke.
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Speaker 1: Oh god, that's it all right.
9:12
Speaker 2: Anyway, the tour.
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Speaker 1: We caught up with Riley literally just a couple of
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Speaker 1: days ago. He sat in here and he was talking
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Speaker 1: about the tour has been more successful than even he
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Speaker 1: hoped it would be. So from your eyes on this tour,
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Speaker 1: do you can you say the same thing.
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Speaker 2: I try not to set massive expectations for things. Yeah,
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Speaker 2: because I get my heart broken and then I get sad.
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Speaker 2: So I knew that. I think with the song, I mean,
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Speaker 2: come on, the song did insane things last year, and
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Speaker 2: then for us to go on tour again, you know
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Speaker 2: that's kind of doesn't happen all the time with a
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Speaker 2: song that we had, that doesn't happen all the time.
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Speaker 2: So I've been I mean, it was so intrigued to
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Speaker 2: see what the crowds would be like. And they're insane,
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Speaker 2: like it is so much fun. It's a great it's
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Speaker 2: a great crowd. I mean, it's definitely a different vibe
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Speaker 2: a little bit from last year. It's the the energy
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Speaker 2: and there's a little like kind of and he's the
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Speaker 2: openers that go before me, all of them have been awesome.
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Speaker 2: Jake Worthington was out with us in the beginning. Love
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Speaker 2: that guy.
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Speaker 1: He's great, every crazy underrated. His guitar skills are awesome too.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, just like listening to him talk makes me feel
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Speaker 2: like I'm at home and I'm like, I can do that.
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Speaker 2: Forevery he always goes a woman, and so it talks
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Speaker 2: to me and goes, oh a woman, Oh a woman.
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Speaker 2: You sang amazing. I love how you sang. I love you.
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Speaker 1: Jake best Buds is obviously the biggest plus is a
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Speaker 1: country music fan is to go to this tour one
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Speaker 1: of the biggest songs that came out in the past
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Speaker 1: couple of years. Uh, you guys and will end up
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Speaker 1: doing together. Does it make it harder for you as
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Speaker 1: an artist to move past that song?
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Speaker 2: No, No, because that song is its own thing, you know.
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Speaker 2: I think like each record is its own thing. And
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Speaker 2: then like there's that thing. I'm I'm all right, you know,
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Speaker 2: I've eaten enough mac and cheese for a long time,
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Speaker 2: Like it's time for like different stuff, and each record
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Speaker 2: will be a different little thing. And so that song,
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Speaker 2: like I mean, out of the gate, I think the
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Speaker 2: only thing was like you know a little bit with radio,
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Speaker 2: It's like all right, like I've had an unfair example
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Speaker 2: of what a song does it dge radio? Like, I
11:10
Speaker 2: don't know, Like so you know, trying to, I guess,
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Speaker 2: navigate that feeling of what it would be like to
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Speaker 2: send the next one and then setting weren't for the
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Speaker 2: win and then be like, Okay, people are grabbing onto
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Speaker 2: this one too. That's sick and it's just I don't know.
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Speaker 2: It's a test to think, like how much effort goes
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Speaker 2: into a record, you know, like not just here's twelve songs.
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Speaker 2: That's best, twelve songs I wrote in three months and
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Speaker 2: here it is.
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Speaker 1: You know, Uh, this format is tough to get into,
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Speaker 1: and especially unfairly for female artists. You have not only
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Speaker 1: set fire with your first single, but the second single
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Speaker 1: kicked in the door just as hard as the first
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Speaker 1: one did. Does that make you proud as a country
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Speaker 1: artists to be doing that or does it make you
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Speaker 1: proud to be like like I'm in here kicking ass
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Speaker 1: with the boys representing for the ladies.
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Speaker 2: Both?
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Speaker 1: Yeah?
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Speaker 2: Both?
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Speaker 1: You know.
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Speaker 2: When I started out, I started out in cover gig
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Speaker 2: world and not on Broadway, like I lived in Alabama.
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Speaker 2: I was going to Auburn. That's where I went run
12:19
Speaker 2: out of high school, was going to college, went there
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Speaker 2: for two years, and I was playing cover gigs like
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Speaker 2: four hours I was running it, and there wasn't very
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Speaker 2: many women in that scene at all. And I don't know,
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Speaker 2: I just kind of didn't give a shit about like
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Speaker 2: if people are like, oh, you're a girls, I mean,
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Speaker 2: you know what I mean, Like, yeah, I guess, but
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Speaker 2: and I might have to work a little bit harder.
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Speaker 2: But it's like, once I get in there, it's all
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Speaker 2: on their the effort and the talent and the what
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Speaker 2: has gone into this artistry, you know, to sell the tickets.
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Speaker 2: I mean, proof is in the pudding. And that's kind
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Speaker 2: of always what I've left it up to. You know.
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Speaker 2: It's like I don't have to go around talking about
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Speaker 2: proving myself all the time if I just prove myself,
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Speaker 2: you know, if I just put out a song and
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Speaker 2: it's like, Okay, well I or my ass off on
13:01
Speaker 2: that record and that song and my team did and
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Speaker 2: there wasn't It's not like we accidentally put those eighteen
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Speaker 2: songs together. You know, like we've been building this and
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Speaker 2: it's been building for a long time, so you know,
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Speaker 2: to get to a moment like we had with you
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Speaker 2: look like you love Me, and then now with Weren't
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Speaker 2: for the Wind and seeing what the tour is doing,
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Speaker 2: what my tour did. I mean, I've yet to play
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Speaker 2: a headline show that wasn't sold out, Like that's absolutely insane,
13:24
Speaker 2: that's nuts to say, but it's badass. And I'm to
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Speaker 2: feel a room full of people for the first time
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Speaker 2: as a headliner where it is like a roar when
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Speaker 2: you walk out on stage, and you've been like imagining
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Speaker 2: this moment every time you've done the dishes your whole life.
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Speaker 2: You know, like every time you're in the shower, every
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Speaker 2: time you're in a long car ride, you're imagining what
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Speaker 2: it would be like to sing a song and have
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Speaker 2: these people be like, I love this song. And then
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Speaker 2: that shit just starts happening and you're like, yeah, this
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Speaker 2: is awesome. I'm really sleepy, but this is awesome. And
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Speaker 2: it just keeps growing and I'm just enjoying the journey.
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Speaker 2: I'm not in a rush to get anywhere or do anything,
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Speaker 2: and you know, just kind of doing it feels right
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Speaker 2: and putting out songs that I love and just learning
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Speaker 2: more about who I am as a person and an artist.
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Speaker 1: We Tay and I got to introduce you at Riverfront
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Speaker 1: and it's funny because, uh we are we are both
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Speaker 1: fans of what you do. But she's like, like this
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Speaker 1: far away from buying to e merch a T shirt type.
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Speaker 2: I have some merch down Street.
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Speaker 1: She got you, she got you, got you.
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Speaker 2: I know where they get it, you know.
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Speaker 1: But it was so exciting too. We have we had
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Speaker 1: talked to you before early and uh, you look like
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Speaker 1: you love me. Uh the release, we got to talk
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Speaker 1: to you, catch up there and then to see you
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Speaker 1: play Riverfront, which was that capacity before you hit the stage,
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Speaker 1: which is wild. I don't think I think that happened
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Speaker 1: maybe one other time the entire weekend, which is nuts.
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Speaker 1: And hopefully that's something you got to like soak in.
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Speaker 1: Oh yeah, I do want to ask if you deleted
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Speaker 1: Dylan Marlow's contact after that attempt.
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Speaker 2: No, no, no, And I need to put set the story
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Speaker 2: straight because let me give this man some credit. I
15:10
Speaker 2: woke up Sunday morning, the day I was playing that,
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Speaker 2: and I said, and Riley was at the beach or something,
15:18
Speaker 2: you know, like I knew he wasn't in town. We
15:19
Speaker 2: had just played the show the night before and I
15:21
Speaker 2: got in that morning and I was like, who the
15:25
Speaker 2: hell's going to do? You look like you loved me
15:26
Speaker 2: with me? And I was like, I guess I could
15:28
Speaker 2: do it by myself. And then I was like who
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Speaker 2: can I get? And so I called a couple of
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Speaker 2: people and they're like, can't, can't, and I was like
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Speaker 2: all right, and then I was like, well, who's already
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Speaker 2: going to be there so I don't have to bother anyone.
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Speaker 2: And then I was like, oh, Dylan, Like that's my boy,
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Speaker 2: Like we we I mean one of my first artist
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Speaker 2: friends I made in town, and so I was like, yeah,
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Speaker 2: that'd be fun. I haven't sang on stage with him
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Speaker 2: so long, and so I called him like four hours
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Speaker 2: before we went on stage, and I was like, hey, Doug,
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Speaker 2: do you want to do you look like you love
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Speaker 2: me with me? He's like, I don't know it for real.
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Speaker 2: And I was like, that's fine. It's kind of a
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Speaker 2: funny song. If you go out and mess it up,
16:04
Speaker 2: just make it up, just make up your own words.
16:06
Speaker 2: It's like whatever you want to do, you know. He's
16:09
Speaker 2: like sick and that man, he really did it, gave
16:11
Speaker 2: it his all and like he could tell it like Natalie,
16:14
Speaker 2: his wife, was like, I hate that song. Now. I've
16:16
Speaker 2: listened to it so many times in the car over
16:18
Speaker 2: the past four hours. I'm like, I can't understand that.
16:22
Speaker 2: And then he came out there and it was just
16:24
Speaker 2: like he got so close and I was trying to
16:26
Speaker 2: act it out for him, and that was part of
16:29
Speaker 2: the bit though, you know. And then you know the
16:31
Speaker 2: long sleeve shirt can't sing and that was good and.
16:33
Speaker 1: I like that.
16:34
Speaker 2: So I don't know, I think that shit's funny, like
16:37
Speaker 2: it can't ever be. I'm not a robot. He's not
16:40
Speaker 2: a robot. Like sometimes, like getting to see live music
16:43
Speaker 2: and live show, I think people get so used to
16:45
Speaker 2: perfection because of social media that they forget that in
16:50
Speaker 2: real life, things are not perfect. Humans are not perfect.
16:54
Speaker 2: And it's kind of about like the experience, you know,
16:56
Speaker 2: it's about like that's a version of that song that
16:59
Speaker 2: only those people saw. You know, you saw it sure
17:02
Speaker 2: on social media, but you saw there is different he was,
17:05
Speaker 2: and I love dealing for that. So Dylan, thank you
17:08
Speaker 2: for coming out and doing that song.
17:09
Speaker 1: He came out with so much confidence he did, and
17:12
Speaker 1: I saw you kind of looking at him like okay,
17:14
Speaker 1: all right. But then I'll saw you go. I saw
17:16
Speaker 1: you look at him like, oh ship, no looking at We're.
17:21
Speaker 2: Trying to help. I was. I was like a country
17:26
Speaker 2: girls come in the eye, you know, like bangs saying
17:30
Speaker 2: bangs and boots, bangs and boots.
17:34
Speaker 1: It was a cool experience. And obviously that has to
17:36
Speaker 1: be a moment if you look over the last year
17:38
Speaker 1: of your life, how things went at Riverfront has to
17:42
Speaker 1: be a top moment for you. Outside of that, what
17:44
Speaker 1: are moments that you're still kind of like, Wow, this
17:46
Speaker 1: is this whole thing is working out, isn't it.
17:50
Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean, come on stadium. Me and my band
17:54
Speaker 2: were out there, like is it this is? This is
17:58
Speaker 2: like he felt comfortable up there, you know, and to
18:00
Speaker 2: feel comfortable and stadium full of people like that, to
18:03
Speaker 2: have that many people singing songs that you wrote, can't
18:06
Speaker 2: beat that. I think the whole headline tour, you know,
18:12
Speaker 2: I had just started. I did last fall, and then
18:15
Speaker 2: I did eighteen shows in the spring before we started
18:18
Speaker 2: with Riley. Yeah, they liked me on the road. I
18:22
Speaker 2: live there pretty much when I'm an addict. So when
18:25
Speaker 2: what I mean to playing shows like I literally it's
18:27
Speaker 2: it's it's becomes an addiction. It really does, like the
18:30
Speaker 2: life of it, and once you like do it for
18:32
Speaker 2: so long, you just like that's how you live your life.
18:35
Speaker 2: And then you're like you have a week Saturday off
18:36
Speaker 2: and you're.
18:36
Speaker 1: Like, what do I do you?
18:42
Speaker 2: But yeah, so to get to do that and then
18:46
Speaker 2: you know, with just like random things, people will tell me,
18:51
Speaker 2: like come up to me and tell me how a
18:53
Speaker 2: song affected them and like how they like they felt
18:57
Speaker 2: like for the first time, like somebody understood a feeling
18:59
Speaker 2: that they had, you know, And I've listened to songs
19:01
Speaker 2: and felt that way. So that's an I made a
19:04
Speaker 2: moment I think I cms that was getting up there
19:08
Speaker 2: with Miranda Lambert on Kerosene. I was like, oh, this
19:12
Speaker 2: is cool.
19:14
Speaker 1: So wild, and I got to tell you, like we
19:17
Speaker 1: Tay and I both are very lucky this seat that
19:19
Speaker 1: we sit in because we get to talk to and
19:20
Speaker 1: interact with some of the best people doing country music.
19:24
Speaker 1: Obviously you're very well placed in that in that sentence there,
19:29
Speaker 1: and it's cool to watch these moments happen for people
19:32
Speaker 1: that have worked so hard. Yeah, regardless of listen, sure
19:37
Speaker 1: things have taken off quick over the last year on
19:40
Speaker 1: the radio and evert. But it don't mean you haven't
19:41
Speaker 1: been grinding long before we ever knew your name.
19:44
Speaker 2: Yeah, well, I think there's so many. I mean, I mean,
19:47
Speaker 2: God bless look out on where we are on Broadway
19:49
Speaker 2: right now. That's what every one of these people are doing.
19:51
Speaker 2: How many people pursue this job and I mean get
19:57
Speaker 2: Some people pursued their whole life and get and reap
19:59
Speaker 2: zero benefits and still do it. And I've met those people.
20:02
Speaker 2: I played with those people. And for me, if I
20:06
Speaker 2: never if this never blew up, if I was never
20:08
Speaker 2: I would still be playing shows every weekend. I was
20:10
Speaker 2: doing it before I was making money. I was doing
20:11
Speaker 2: it when I was paying money to do this job.
20:14
Speaker 2: I was there was a point of my career I
20:15
Speaker 2: was actually paying money to do this job. And I
20:19
Speaker 2: would do it again.
20:21
Speaker 1: You know the stories those people have. Now, let me
20:23
Speaker 1: tell you the last thing I want to ask, and
20:26
Speaker 1: I usually don't go this way, but since mom is here,
20:28
Speaker 1: you told us moments that stand out for you. What
20:31
Speaker 1: do you think is the moment that is your mother
20:33
Speaker 1: is single most proud of over the last couple of years.
20:42
Speaker 2: Probably my speech, I would say, maybe may be one
20:45
Speaker 2: of my speeches up there or I don't know. It's
20:48
Speaker 2: kind of a crazy viewpoint. I haven't thought about it
20:50
Speaker 2: like that because of trickery.
20:52
Speaker 1: It's funny because, as I kind of emotional, my daughter's fourteen,
20:55
Speaker 1: and she has done she's been trying to do the
20:58
Speaker 1: choir thing and she went for couldn't land a solo
21:00
Speaker 1: to save her life till she ended the school year
21:03
Speaker 1: with two of them. So like from a parent, to
21:06
Speaker 1: watch your child chase something that they're succeeding at.
21:11
Speaker 2: I think that I take it back my answer. I
21:14
Speaker 2: think it couldn't be any further actually from the speeches.
21:16
Speaker 2: I think it's I think, like the way that I'm
21:20
Speaker 2: taking care of myself now and like, you know, becoming
21:25
Speaker 2: a better woman every day and every time I get
21:28
Speaker 2: knocked down, the way that I get back up, and
21:30
Speaker 2: the way that I hold myself as a human and
21:33
Speaker 2: a woman, and you know, standing up for myself. I
21:37
Speaker 2: think that's something that she's always taught me, and she's
21:39
Speaker 2: not afraid to send up for herself. And that's I
21:42
Speaker 2: don't know if you could guess that, but it's a
21:45
Speaker 2: strong suit of mind, you.
21:46
Speaker 1: Know, and we're proud of it. We can see, we
21:48
Speaker 1: can see it as country music fans that Ella's got
21:52
Speaker 1: it together and it's taking care of herself.
21:53
Speaker 2: Well, I don't know. Got it together is a little
21:56
Speaker 2: stretched fair.
21:58
Speaker 1: I was trying to be nice with that first part.
22:01
Speaker 1: The last part I meant more than the.
22:02
Speaker 2: I'm working on getting it together, Hella.
22:05
Speaker 1: Thank you for the time, the day there, having me