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Chase Matthew Takes it Off Road · Inside Country with Wayne D

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  Speaker 1: This is where country music comes alive.
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  Speaker 2: All right, you ready?
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  Speaker 3: Here we go. From Nashville's biggest headlines to country music's
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  Speaker 3: biggest headliners. Come on. You're getting an inside look at
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  Speaker 3: the stories behind the songs and the artists behind the music.
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  Speaker 1: Let's go backstage and inside country. With Way D.
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  Speaker 2: Excited because it's been a minute since we caught up
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  Speaker 2: with this dude, and let's just say, The rocket fuel
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  Speaker 2: is in the tank and my man's taking off doing
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  Speaker 2: big things.
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  Speaker 1: I like that.
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  Speaker 2: Chase Matthew.
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  Speaker 1: What up, dude? What's up? Rocket fuel. That's cool. Hell yeah.
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  Speaker 2: Success seems like it's kind of just fallen in your
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  Speaker 2: lap lately. Not that you're not working hard for it,
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  Speaker 2: but it feels like, Holy cow. You're like everywhere right now.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah. I mean, that's cool. I'm glad you see it
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  Speaker 1: like that. I'm honest.
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  Speaker 3: I just try to keep my head down and focused
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  Speaker 3: and work. You know, I think it's, like with the
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  Speaker 3: creative side of things, I'm just always trying to make
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  Speaker 3: something new.
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  Speaker 1: And if the people like it, then cool, man. I just,
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  Speaker 1: I don't know, but it has been a lot of
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  Speaker 1: cool stuff happening lately though. I definitely, you know, we
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  Speaker 1: just had the number one with Lauren and a lot
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  Speaker 1: of cool things just happening. So yeah.
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  Speaker 2: And I want to ask about that because you are
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  Speaker 2: still very much starting your career. Yeah. You're still introducing
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  Speaker 2: yourself to new fans every day.
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  Speaker 1: Yes, sir.
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  Speaker 2: But then at the same time, you ended up on
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  Speaker 2: somebody else's song. Is that, like, is there a challenge
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  Speaker 2: there between like, Hey, I'm still getting started like, and
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  Speaker 2: trying to figure out who I am as an artist
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  Speaker 2: and make sure people discover me.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah. I mean, I think there probably is a happy
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  Speaker 3: medium of like, Hey, I'm Chase Matthew, but I'm also
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  Speaker 3: like the new guy on the block. And I don't
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  Speaker 3: expect you to know who I am. You know, like I,
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  Speaker 3: I always say, um, on tour with Jason Aldean, I
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  Speaker 3: was always just like, you know, Hey guys, I don't,
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  Speaker 3: I don't expect any of y'all to know who I am,
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  Speaker 3: but my name is Chase Matthew and, uh, I'm from Tennessee. And,
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  Speaker 3: I'm on the morning show, Big Naughty A right now,
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  Speaker 3: with Wayne D and Tay.
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  Speaker 1: You know what I mean?
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  Speaker 3: Like, I don't expect them to know that, you know?
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  Speaker 3: I think it's always an opportunity. If there's ever an
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  Speaker 3: opportunity to reintroduce myself, whether these people have met me
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  Speaker 3: or not before, that's always cool to me because it's
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  Speaker 3: like I feel like I get to show my side
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  Speaker 3: of the tape. Like, I'm not always an artist. I'm
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  Speaker 3: a person, too.
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  Speaker 1: You know what I mean? So it's cool to always show.
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  Speaker 3: With my career at least, the inside look on me
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  Speaker 3: is not only a musician, but, you know, a gearhead,
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  Speaker 3: you know, like, mechanic, all of.
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  Speaker 1: It, you know?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah. Your friendship with Lauren has been fully on display
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  Speaker 2: as you guys have promoted this song.
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  Speaker 1: I love Lauren.
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  Speaker 2: All the way up to number one. What do you
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  Speaker 2: think this song going number one has done for the
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  Speaker 2: connection you guys have, not only as artists, but as friends? I.
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  Speaker 1: Man, I'm so happy for Lauren, number one, because, you know, she.
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  Speaker 3: was explaining to me how much this song really means
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  Speaker 3: to her and seeing it go up the chart and,
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  Speaker 3: and the backstory behind the song and like all this,
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  Speaker 3: it's actually about a, a funny story on Broadway and
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  Speaker 3: I'm not going to spill the beans too much, but
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  Speaker 3: she's told me what this song's about.
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  Speaker 1: So to see it go all the way up is
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  Speaker 1: pretty cool.
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  Speaker 3: Um, but yeah, to be a part of that, um,
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  Speaker 3: and the way it all came to be, it was
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  Speaker 3: something that really grew our friendship. And, um, I've always
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  Speaker 3: been a huge fan of Lauren Lane. I mean, she
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  Speaker 3: is the powerhouse of country music.
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  Speaker 1: You know what I mean?
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  Speaker 3: I feel like her vocals are just undeniably different. So
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  Speaker 3: to have the opportunity to be on a song with
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  Speaker 3: her is awesome. And seeing it run its course is
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  Speaker 3: really cool to have, you know, half a hit under
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  Speaker 3: my belt.
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  Speaker 1: It's pretty cool.
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  Speaker 2: Listen, you take half of that thing. It's like splitting
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  Speaker 2: the house. You know what I mean? Oh, man. No, no, no, no.
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  Speaker 1: Don't say that.
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  Speaker 2: Knock on wood. What have you learned from that process? Because, again, being,
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  Speaker 2: you know, still fresh in your career and still learning,
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  Speaker 2: you know, who you want to be as an artist
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  Speaker 2: and all that. Obviously you're learning things from different experiences.
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  Speaker 2: What did this experience teach you?
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  Speaker 3: Well, I think learning from Lauren too is cool because
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  Speaker 3: she's like a big sister to me. So, um, being
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  Speaker 3: able to, you know, have her coach me on like, Hey,
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  Speaker 3: you know, this is what we, we should sing a
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  Speaker 3: part like this when we do it live, or we
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  Speaker 3: should go like this and we do, you know, and like,
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  Speaker 3: I mean, number one also, uh, well not number one,
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  Speaker 3: but just scrolling real quick. She's going to fly me
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  Speaker 3: on a private jet next week, so I'm pretty excited
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  Speaker 3: to be friends with her because if I wasn't friends
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  Speaker 3: with her, she probably wouldn't let me fly on her
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  Speaker 3: private jet with her.
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  Speaker 1: So that's going to be cool.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, Lauren's living the PJ life.
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  Speaker 3: So I'm learning the PJ life if I'm learning anything
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  Speaker 3: out of this.
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  Speaker 2: Listen, that can be an expensive life to live, my friend.
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  Speaker 1: Dude, no way. I'm going to be a commercial guy,
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  Speaker 1: I think. I've done it a few times.
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  Speaker 2: Can I tell you? Southwest is your PJ, my friend.
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  Speaker 1: Hey, you know, I like Delta, though. I like Delta, too.
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  Speaker 1: Anything but United. Anything but United.
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  Speaker 2: You're getting boozy now because I love me some Delta
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  Speaker 2: as well.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, absolutely. They got the better snacks for sure.
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  Speaker 2: So let me tell you a story about a Delta flight.
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  Speaker 1: Okay.
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  Speaker 2: So not a big deal at all, but I try
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  Speaker 2: and splurge a little bit, ride first class every now
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  Speaker 2: and again, right? And we were on our way to
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  Speaker 2: Key West.
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  Speaker 3: Oh, yeah.
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  Speaker 2: To see the Songwriters Festival.
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  Speaker 1: Love that.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, you were down there. And so I said to Tay,
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  Speaker 2: I'm like, we got to go first class. And she's like, oh,
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  Speaker 2: my God, I never. It was like Pretty Woman.
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  Speaker 1: She's like, I never.
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  Speaker 2: I'm like, let me take you out the hood for
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  Speaker 2: a minute.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah. Hey, shout out.
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  Speaker 2: We have a fancy new setup now, so Tay can
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  Speaker 2: be a part of this.
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  Speaker 4: I know what story you're going to say.
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  Speaker 2: So we're... So I was like, OK, well, here's you know,
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  Speaker 2: they got this one up front. So she goes and
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  Speaker 2: she pays for that. And then mine was like, you know,
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  Speaker 2: like row six. It was like the last first class row.
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  Speaker 2: And so I was like, hey, like you order whatever
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  Speaker 2: you want, alcohol, whatever. It's like, oh, my gosh, I'm
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  Speaker 2: getting a mimosa. I'm getting ready for this trip.
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  Speaker 4: Basic white girl in first class.
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  Speaker 2: So so she orders her mimosa.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: And she doesn't she doesn't have her table out yet.
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  Speaker 2: And you know how the table is in like the armrest.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah. If you're in the very front row, it is.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah.
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  Speaker 2: So she's holding the alcohol and the orange juice and everything.
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  Speaker 2: And she goes like this to pull her table out.
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  Speaker 2: And she pours her alcohol. all over the woman next
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  Speaker 2: to her.
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  Speaker 1: Oh, nice.
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  Speaker 2: It was the most I don't belong here moment I've
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  Speaker 2: ever seen.
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  Speaker 1: Back to the hood. Exactly, yeah.
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  Speaker 4: I was trying to pull out the table, and it
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  Speaker 4: bumped her, and my drink went flying everywhere.
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  Speaker 1: Oh, man.
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  Speaker 2: I made her take front to your back. I was like, no,
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  Speaker 2: you can't.
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  Speaker 1: I was like, put me in the back of the plane.
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  Speaker 1: Did they bring you another one?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, they did, and a bunch of napkins.
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  Speaker 1: That's good, yeah. What about the lady? What was her
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  Speaker 1: experience like?
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  Speaker 4: Oh, she was mad the whole entire flight. But I
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  Speaker 4: tried cleaning it up as best as I can. She was, yeah,
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  Speaker 4: she was pretty pissed.
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  Speaker 2: The funny thing now is, like, I'm the worst person
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  Speaker 2: to work with because any little.
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  Speaker 2: Mistake or oh my i bring.
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  Speaker 4: It up as often as i can like business casual
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  Speaker 4: like she looked like she was going somewhere important so
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  Speaker 4: i probably ruined her outfit for the.
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  Speaker 3: Day well it's fine like you said man you can
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  Speaker 3: only do some things once in.
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  Speaker 2: Life you know yeah yeah back to the exit row
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  Speaker 2: for you back to southwest right um so fast forward
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  Speaker 2: uh you're working with aldine that's a friendship that has
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  Speaker 2: that has kind of grown for you now with Jason.
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  Speaker 1: What has that meant to you?
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  Speaker 2: Because obviously you could just be on tour and, you know,
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  Speaker 2: the tour ends, he high fives you, you go your
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  Speaker 2: separate ways. It feels like he's really embraced you, you know,
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  Speaker 2: as a comrade in the country music world.
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  Speaker 3: Man, Aldean is one of them guys that when you
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  Speaker 3: meet him, you know, he's just somebody that, To me,
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  Speaker 3: I was really intimidated at first, right? Because I grew
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  Speaker 3: up listening to Aldane, which I told him that. And
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  Speaker 3: he's like, don't say that. It makes me feel old.
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  Speaker 1: You're like, bruh. Yeah, yeah. But truthfully, truthfully.
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  Speaker 3: But no, in all seriousness, man, we went on tour
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  Speaker 3: with him in 2024. And he's one of them guys,
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  Speaker 3: like I've met just about everybody. at this point in
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  Speaker 3: the industry. And he's the one that I've met that
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  Speaker 3: I'm like, man, you are like super cool, like super
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  Speaker 3: down to earth, like super just like, I mean, I'm
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  Speaker 3: not trying.
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  Speaker 1: To kiss butt here, dude. I'm serious.
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  Speaker 3: Like he's just such a people person and such a
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  Speaker 3: kind dude. He can cut up and laugh about anything.
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  Speaker 3: It doesn't feel like you're talking to a celebrity, you
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  Speaker 3: know what I mean? And, um, I think that that's
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  Speaker 3: something that I've learned from him. I strive to be
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  Speaker 3: more like that, you know, just say, man, like just
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  Speaker 3: take everything with a grain of salt and just keep
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  Speaker 3: rocking dude. And, um, Yeah, he's kind of become a
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  Speaker 3: really cool mentor in my life and definitely a good friend.
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  Speaker 1: I just built.
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  Speaker 3: Him a 1968 Pontiac LeMans. I gave it to him
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  Speaker 3: for end of tour gift. Oh, wow. And I guess
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  Speaker 3: he caught wind that I was doing something nice for
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  Speaker 3: him for end of tour. And so he bought me
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  Speaker 3: a big green tractor. And so the big green tractor, man,
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  Speaker 3: bought me a big green tractor, man.
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  Speaker 1: It's pretty crazy.
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  Speaker 2: Hey, you know what's wild about that is we love
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  Speaker 2: to ask like songs about stories and how our stories
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  Speaker 2: about songs and how they happen. Jake Owen was offered
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  Speaker 2: that song first. He almost cut that.
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  Speaker 1: Really? Yeah. I didn't know that.
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  Speaker 2: And it ended up now it's, you know, a staple
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  Speaker 2: song for Jason.
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  Speaker 1: Exactly.
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  Speaker 2: Um, we talked to Kenny Chesney and he passed on check.
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  Speaker 2: Yes or no. And that's a massive George straight.
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  Speaker 3: Really?
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  Speaker 2: And who do we just talk to? We just talked
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  Speaker 2: to somebody. Oh, Dustin Lynch passed on red solo cup.
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  Speaker 1: Wow. Isn't that wild? What a smash song. Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: So it's, I love, like, I love so big green
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  Speaker 2: tractor made me think of those stories. And I have ADD,
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  Speaker 2: so there that goes. Coming off a tour, regardless of
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  Speaker 2: how many dates it is or whatever, what's the first
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  Speaker 2: thing you do to get back to, like, I need
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  Speaker 2: to be me mode?
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  Speaker 3: I go drive my street car, my race car. I
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  Speaker 3: go take it down the road and tune it a
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  Speaker 3: little bit, plug my laptop in. I got a Turbo
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  Speaker 3: LS cheap cherokee that's freaking fun to drive but yeah
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  Speaker 3: just i don't know i go do something maybe out
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  Speaker 3: on my farm go rip some four-wheelers go fishing something you.
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  Speaker 2: Know when you do when you do dumb stuff like
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  Speaker 2: that uh is the label ever like are your management
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  Speaker 2: ever like hey Yeah. If you roll this thing and
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  Speaker 2: we can't go on tour. Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: No, I definitely, I definitely hear it a lot.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: I definitely, I definitely get him looking at the wall.
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  Speaker 2: He's like, he's like, that's the ultimate dad.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah. When they see me ripping willies and doing, you know,
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  Speaker 3: just having the best time ever. Um, yeah, I definitely
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  Speaker 3: hear about it. They're like, Hey man, don't get hurt.
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  Speaker 3: Especially snap, you know, snap my manager. He's like, don't
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  Speaker 3: get hurt, man.
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  Speaker 1: Don't get hurt. You get hurt. We can't work. We're
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  Speaker 1: in trouble, you know?
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  Speaker 3: So I do my best to, You know, keep ibuprofens
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  Speaker 3: around and ibuprofen is what I call it.
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  Speaker 1: How do you actually say it?
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  Speaker 3: Ibuprofen or something?
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  Speaker 2: I say ibuprofen.
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  Speaker 1: I don't know.
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  Speaker 3: Ibuprofen. I always say, somebody made fun of me the
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  Speaker 3: other day because I said ibuprofen. Like I had to
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  Speaker 3: slow it down because I have a lisp sometimes. Ibuprofen.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, but ibuprofen. Keep the ibuprofen around. Ibuprofen.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, definitely.
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  Speaker 2: There you go.
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  Speaker 1: You say it fast.
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  Speaker 3: Nobody will know.
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  Speaker 2: Listen, the ibuprofen means I'll be healing. You know what
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  Speaker 2: I mean?
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  Speaker 1: Ibuprofen. That should be on a t-shirt. I'll be healing.
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  Speaker 2: The single that's on country radio now is called Holding
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  Speaker 2: It Down.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: Why does that make sense for where you're at? Like,
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  Speaker 2: why was that the one that raised its hand for you?
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  Speaker 3: Well, I think it makes sense because of physically where
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  Speaker 3: we're at, too. So, you know, I mean, y'all know
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  Speaker 3: I'm a Nashville native, and somebody watching this may not
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  Speaker 3: know that, but I'm a Nashville native. I'm from this
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  Speaker 3: area and grew up all north of town, all over,
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  Speaker 3: between Clarksville and Hartsville is what I always say, all
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  Speaker 3: in between, went to a bunch of different schools. But
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  Speaker 3: the one thing that I always recognized growing up is,
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  Speaker 3: you know, there's something unique about living in Nashville and
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  Speaker 3: outside of Nashville. Everyone's musically talented. Everyone has a dream.
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  Speaker 3: But there's also, you know, a lot of cool people,
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  Speaker 3: a lot of people that don't get recognition enough that
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  Speaker 3: are holding it down, that are not holding it down
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  Speaker 3: for just the music industry, but holding it down for
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  Speaker 3: the structure of our communities. You know, that's our firefighters,
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  Speaker 3: even our volunteer firefighters, you know, even the The small
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  Speaker 3: town city police, the county police, the sheriffs, everybody that's,
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  Speaker 3: you know, it could even be the guy at the
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  Speaker 3: Waffle House at 3 a.m. sobering you up, you know,
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  Speaker 3: like that guy. He's a hero in his own right,
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  Speaker 3: you know. But, you know, this song, holding it down,
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  Speaker 3: is just kind of shedding light on that topic.
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  Speaker 1: And, man, we're all a hero in our own way.
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  Speaker 1: And that one's just for the small town heroes, man,
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  Speaker 1: for sure. Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: Uh, the world we live in now is like, what's next, right?
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  Speaker 2: Like cool, cool. That's out now, but what's next? When
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  Speaker 2: can I get more? Is that tough as a, as
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  Speaker 2: somebody who's creating music to like continue to feed that beast,
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  Speaker 2: but also work a radio single at the same time?
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  Speaker 1: That beast is a hungry beast. Yeah. You're always feeding
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  Speaker 1: it something. I'm always working on songs.
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  Speaker 3: I mean, actually, as soon as I leave here, I'm
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  Speaker 3: going to the studio to, to work on some, some music.
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  Speaker 3: Me and the guys yesterday, uh, actually recorded two new songs.
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  Speaker 3: We're doing two more today and, So I've always got
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  Speaker 3: music on hand.
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  Speaker 1: Dude, I probably have. I'm not even kidding you, bro.
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  Speaker 3: I've probably got like 1,000 songs sitting in my phone.
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  Speaker 3: No joke, 1,000 songs sitting in my phone right now.
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  Speaker 2: Hey, I'm going to corner you, though.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: How many are good? Because now that we've listened, I'm sure.
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  Speaker 3: You're— I mean, at least 300 of them could be
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  Speaker 3: released at any time. Oh, wow. Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: That's pretty good.
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  Speaker 3: So, I mean, yeah, I mean, I'm not saying that
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  Speaker 3: it's like, it's like they're just massive hits or anything,
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  Speaker 3: but like they're songs that either mean something to me
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  Speaker 3: or that I feel like I'm strong about, you know
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  Speaker 3: what I mean? So there's a lot of, a lot
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  Speaker 3: of songs that mean something to me though, in that file.
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  Speaker 3: Cause I just, music's therapy for me. So like, I'm
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  Speaker 3: just always working on something. So, but yeah, man, I
• 13:50
  Speaker 3: got a lot of music. So feeding the beast is,
• 13:53
  Speaker 3: is a full-time job, especially Outside of working a radio single,
• 13:57
  Speaker 3: you know, that's a lot of fun, too, because I
• 13:59
  Speaker 3: get to go to places like we're at right now,
• 14:00
  Speaker 3: and I get to shake hands with people like y'all,
• 14:02
  Speaker 3: and I really enjoy that.
• 14:03
  Speaker 1: And sometimes that is what inspires me to go write
• 14:06
  Speaker 1: new music. So it's not always work. Sometimes it's fun.
• 14:11
  Speaker 2: Is the music you're recording now, is that for a project?
• 14:15
  Speaker 1: Is the gold?
• 14:16
  Speaker 2: An album?
• 14:16
  Speaker 1: That's a great question. I knew you were going to
• 14:18
  Speaker 1: say that. I don't know, man.
• 14:19
  Speaker 3: I'm just kind of like right now, I just want
• 14:21
  Speaker 3: to keep dropping singles. And I figure the fastest way
• 14:23
  Speaker 3: for me to get music out to my fans is
• 14:25
  Speaker 3: to just drop them one at a time. Cause I
• 14:27
  Speaker 3: don't have to prep a big project, but I'm working
• 14:30
  Speaker 3: towards doing a project. It's just, uh, one at a time.
• 14:33
  Speaker 3: I'm taking my time with the project cause I want
• 14:35
  Speaker 3: it to matter. I want this one to count.
• 14:37
  Speaker 1: So I got you.
• 14:38
  Speaker 2: What are you most proud of as you look at
• 14:40
  Speaker 2: what you've already done? And that could be a song
• 14:44
  Speaker 2: that could be a tour. That could be a fan interaction.
• 14:46
  Speaker 2: What's something like what, when I say, what are you
• 14:48
  Speaker 2: most proud of? What's like the first thing that pops up?
• 14:52
  Speaker 2: Like in my, anything, myself, anything, yourself, your career, your music,
• 14:56
  Speaker 2: your whatever.
• 14:57
  Speaker 3: I would say like, it's in my personal life. Um,
• 14:59
  Speaker 3: it's my farm. I've always dreamed of, uh, okay. So
• 15:04
  Speaker 3: I guess it goes back to, um, when I was,
• 15:07
  Speaker 3: when I was young, my mom, um, She had a
• 15:09
  Speaker 3: good job. She actually worked for the Tennessean for years.
• 15:12
  Speaker 3: And she got laid off probably, golly, it was a
• 15:14
  Speaker 3: long time ago. But she had built her dream home.
• 15:18
  Speaker 3: And it foreclosed because, you know, she had lost her job.
• 15:22
  Speaker 3: And I went back and forth between step-parents and just
• 15:26
  Speaker 3: moving schools and moving around. And so something I always
• 15:29
  Speaker 3: wanted– I'm not joking.
• 15:31
  Speaker 1: I'm actually, like, have, like, coffee. Okay.
• 15:33
  Speaker 2: Anyways.
• 15:34
  Speaker 1: Got you.
• 15:35
  Speaker 3: But I think in my life I always– I always
• 15:38
  Speaker 3: wanted that one place that never changed that consistency. And
• 15:42
  Speaker 3: so something that I made a goal for myself when
• 15:46
  Speaker 3: I started seeing, you know, the light at the end
• 15:48
  Speaker 3: of the tunnel with this career was I wanted to
• 15:51
  Speaker 3: get a piece of property that stays in my family forever,
• 15:53
  Speaker 3: that I can raise my family on, that I can have,
• 15:56
  Speaker 3: you know, um, that consistency in my family and, and
• 16:00
  Speaker 3: for my mom and for my dad and my, my
• 16:02
  Speaker 3: grandparents and just whoever wants to come out there. And so, uh,
• 16:06
  Speaker 3: I just closed on, um, my dream property top of
• 16:09
  Speaker 3: this year and back in March. And I love it, man.
• 16:13
  Speaker 3: It's my pride and joy, man. It's, it's, it's the
• 16:16
  Speaker 3: most proud thing of myself. I feel like it's everything
• 16:18
  Speaker 3: I ever worked for was to get that land, 150
• 16:22
  Speaker 3: acres for endless opportunity to just create an oasis away
• 16:26
  Speaker 3: from the, away from the lights, away from the road,
• 16:29
  Speaker 3: away from the radio, right from everything and just be me,
• 16:33
  Speaker 3: you know?
• 16:33
  Speaker 1: So yeah, we got a lot of fields to ride
• 16:35
  Speaker 1: willies for sure. Let's go.
• 16:37
  Speaker 2: That's awesome, man. Uh, speaking of riding wheelies and I,
• 16:41
  Speaker 2: you had brought up, so at one point you were
• 16:43
  Speaker 2: an ATV mechanic. Yeah.
• 16:44
  Speaker 3: Right.
• 16:45
  Speaker 1: Yeah. Still am just not, I don't get paid for
• 16:47
  Speaker 1: it anymore. Dude.
• 16:49
  Speaker 2: So, so you have a new property. Do you need
• 16:52
  Speaker 2: a new four wheeler?
• 16:53
  Speaker 3: Yeah. I mean, I always need four wheels. So I
• 16:55
  Speaker 3: have a few, quite a few, like quite a few.
• 16:57
  Speaker 3: I have enough for my buddies to come over and
• 16:59
  Speaker 3: rip around, but I'm always looking for more.
• 17:00
  Speaker 1: Because I have a lot of buddies.
• 17:02
  Speaker 2: This is, this is probably one for snap. Like snap
• 17:04
  Speaker 2: could ride this one.
• 17:05
  Speaker 1: Okay.
• 17:06
  Speaker 2: Brute force 300. Yeah, yeah.
• 17:09
  Speaker 1: 2023. Yeah. What about it?
• 17:11
  Speaker 2: Two Gs, it's yours.
• 17:13
  Speaker 1: Oh, you have one.
• 17:14
  Speaker 2: Yeah, you want to buy one? Here, let me show you.
• 17:16
  Speaker 1: Yeah, you got a picture of it? Wait, are we
• 17:20
  Speaker 1: behind a four-wheeler right now? So that's what it looks like. Yeah,
• 17:26
  Speaker 1: I like that. Two Gs.
• 17:28
  Speaker 2: We're selling four-wheeler 2023.
• 17:30
  Speaker 1: Does it need anything?
• 17:33
  Speaker 2: Battery, that's it.
• 17:34
  Speaker 1: Runs great. It needs a battery. Yeah. Unless you want to.
• 17:38
  Speaker 1: We're really making a deal right here.
• 17:39
  Speaker 2: Live.
• 17:40
  Speaker 1: Are y'all catching this? This is 2G. I actually have
• 17:43
  Speaker 1: cash on me. Are you sure? That's yeah. Yeah.
• 17:46
  Speaker 4: Don't sell him a lemon.
• 17:48
  Speaker 1: Listen, I'll tell you, this is the deal. I might
• 17:51
  Speaker 1: have enough. Let me see. I always keep some money
• 17:53
  Speaker 1: for a marketplace deal in my pocket.
• 17:57
  Speaker 2: I'm so confident that it works, that if it doesn't,
• 18:01
  Speaker 2: it's on Tay's job. That's how confident I am. Two Gs,
• 18:06
  Speaker 2: it's yours. You can swing through Spring Hill and pick
• 18:07
  Speaker 2: it up later.
• 18:08
  Speaker 1: Dude, look. I have $ 2, 100, bro. Are we making a
• 18:13
  Speaker 1: deal right now?
• 18:13
  Speaker 2: I mean, it was $ 2, 100.
• 18:14
  Speaker 1: So if it needs more than a battery, though.
• 18:16
  Speaker 2: We'll make a deal.
• 18:17
  Speaker 1: Okay, all right. Are we buying this? Are you serious?
• 18:22
  Speaker 1: This isn't just for the show.
• 18:23
  Speaker 2: No, for real. Handshake deal.
• 18:26
  Speaker 1: You got it, brother. You got it right here on iHeartRadio.
• 18:29
  Speaker 1: We're going to talk.
• 18:31
  Speaker 2: Does anybody have one of them markers I can make
• 18:33
  Speaker 2: sure this is?
• 18:36
  Speaker 1: Oh, come on now. Come on now. Speaking of Snap,
• 18:41
  Speaker 1: he's right there. Come here.
• 18:45
  Speaker 2: Come here, man. Snap don't need a four-wheeler. Snap needs
• 18:48
  Speaker 2: a clock.
• 18:49
  Speaker 1: Yeah, he is late.
• 18:50
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 18:51
  Speaker 1: He's very late. Dude, you just ate.
• 18:56
  Speaker 2: This is wild that we just saw the four-wheeler during
• 18:58
  Speaker 2: the interview.
• 18:59
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I think this is definitely different. This is pretty cool.
• 19:03
  Speaker 1: I didn't even try to bargain. I just did. Hey, man,
• 19:05
  Speaker 1: we're live right now. I just bought you a four-wheeler.
• 19:09
  Speaker 2: Dude, he just bought my four-wheeler.
• 19:13
  Speaker 1: No, I had it. I had just enough. I got
• 19:15
  Speaker 1: $ 100 for the homeless guy watching my truck, too.
• 19:19
  Speaker 2: Has he really got a homeless guy watching your truck?
• 19:22
  Speaker 2: I told him, hold it.
• 19:23
  Speaker 1: He said, get me a beer. I said, I'll bring
• 19:24
  Speaker 1: you two. But the bar ain't open yet, so I
• 19:27
  Speaker 1: don't know what we're going to do.
• 19:29
  Speaker 2: We'll make it happen. As we wrap up, and I
• 19:34
  Speaker 2: count this money, not that I don't trust you.
• 19:38
  Speaker 1: What do you need?
• 19:39
  Speaker 2: 2026 was a great year for Chase Matthews. Yeah. The
• 19:44
  Speaker 2: two were Working with Lauren, continuing to learn and get
• 19:47
  Speaker 2: your name out there. What do you need? for 2027
• 19:50
  Speaker 2: as next year closes to continue the success that this
• 19:56
  Speaker 2: year brought you? What are some things you hope to see?
• 19:58
  Speaker 1: Man, I would love to get another number one under
• 20:00
  Speaker 1: my belt. I think that would be a beautiful thing.
• 20:02
  Speaker 1: I definitely... need to pay some taxes.
• 20:08
  Speaker 2: And that comes with success though, right?
• 20:10
  Speaker 1: It does.
• 20:10
  Speaker 3: It does. All seriousness, man, I just, I want to
• 20:13
  Speaker 3: keep going out and shaking hands, meeting the fans and,
• 20:17
  Speaker 3: you know, keep giving back to them the way they've
• 20:19
  Speaker 3: given to me. And I know that sounds like some,
• 20:21
  Speaker 3: something that media training or cliche would teach you, you know,
• 20:25
  Speaker 3: but I'm so serious, man. I'm just, I'm just such
• 20:27
  Speaker 3: a people person that I want to go out there
• 20:30
  Speaker 3: and just be the best version of myself and hear
• 20:32
  Speaker 3: the stories on how my music's impacted people.
• 20:35
  Speaker 1: And if that's all I get next year, that's more
• 20:38
  Speaker 1: than fulfilling to me.
• 20:39
  Speaker 3: So I'm grateful for my fans, grateful for country radio,
• 20:42
  Speaker 3: and those two things mean the most to me.
• 20:46
  Speaker 2: And please buy concert tickets because he's got a farm
• 20:48
  Speaker 2: to pay for.
• 20:50
  Speaker 1: Yeah, and a four-wheeler, too. And a four-wheeler's paid for.
• 20:53
  Speaker 1: It's paid, but as long as I use that. I've
• 20:55
  Speaker 1: got to buy a battery.
• 20:56
  Speaker 3: Okay.
• 20:57
  Speaker 2: Dude, Chase, thanks for coming to hang.
• 20:59
  Speaker 4: Yes, sir.
• 21:00
  Speaker 1: Thanks for having me. Oh, wait, hold on. Wait, wait, wait. Tay,
• 21:02
  Speaker 1: you got your plaque, right?
• 21:03
  Speaker 2: Oh, yeah.
• 21:03
  Speaker 1: Thank you. Yeah, we got Tay a plaque. I know.
• 21:06
  Speaker 1: That's her number one. It's got her name on it.
• 21:08
  Speaker 1: It's what? It's got her name on it.
• 21:09
  Speaker 2: Listen, can I tell you? How cute. Are you going
• 21:11
  Speaker 2: to hang that up?
• 21:11
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 21:12
  Speaker 2: Because usually if she gets plaques, you don't hang them up.
• 21:14
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 21:14
  Speaker 3: Well, yeah.
• 21:15
  Speaker 4: But I will hang this one up.
• 21:16
  Speaker 1: Yeah. She works so hard on it. Hey, she's going
• 21:20
  Speaker 1: to scoot over to pick her son. I'm waiting on
• 21:21
  Speaker 1: him to be like, where's mine? He's not going for it.
• 21:23
  Speaker 1: Can I tell you?
• 21:24
  Speaker 2: She can have her moment.
• 21:25
  Speaker 1: I'm okay with that. I already put it up there
• 21:27
  Speaker 1: for you. Oh, there it is.
• 21:30
  Speaker 2: It was a damn Easter egg on. All of a
• 21:32
  Speaker 2: sudden one day I was going to be like, oh, damn. Dude,
• 21:35
  Speaker 2: thank you for that. Thank you. We appreciate you sharing
• 21:38
  Speaker 2: your success with the rest of us. That's pretty cool.
• 21:40
  Speaker 3: Yeah, man. I'm just grateful for you guys. Thank you
• 21:42
  Speaker 3: guys for everything you've done. Hey, brother, I appreciate the four-wheeler, dude.
• 21:47
  Speaker 2: There it is. That's really what it comes down to.
• 21:50
  Speaker 1: Awesome.
• 21:50
  Speaker 3: Thanks for listening to Inside Country with Wayne D.
• 21:54
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• 21:57
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