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Backstage @ CMA Awards Rehearsals DAY TWO · Inside Country with Wayne D

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  Speaker 1: It's Wayne the CMA's are here and Bailey Zimmerman swinging through.
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  Speaker 1: First of all, dude, you did, hey did real quick?
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  Speaker 2: Did?
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  Speaker 1: You are crushing everything you touched? And we saw you
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  Speaker 1: come in as a new artist two years ago. I
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  Speaker 1: don't want to say timid, but like you were kind
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  Speaker 1: of like it felt like a fish out of water, right.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, of course I just changed from my mom's trailer.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, which Mom's been upgraded now.
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  Speaker 5: I'm sure mom has a decent house now.
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  Speaker 6: Yeah, it's it's not crazy, but she's got a garage.
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  Speaker 3: She's yeah, yep, she's doing a right.
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  Speaker 7: Listen.
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  Speaker 3: We're not too boozie around here, now.
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  Speaker 4: Listen, we'll keep stacking them. Number one, we're gonna put
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  Speaker 4: Mom and Brentwood here. Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, get roud of Murphy's bro.
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  Speaker 1: I gotta ask you, what's been the best surprise out
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  Speaker 1: of all this for you? Because, as I commented, you
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  Speaker 1: felt like a fish out of water earlier. You're now
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  Speaker 1: a big dog swimming in the deep end, and you
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  Speaker 1: shoed to be proud of that because you've done it
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  Speaker 1: in a short amount of time.
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  Speaker 4: But what's been the best part of the whole journey
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  Speaker 4: for you? Man?
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  Speaker 6: Probably all the people, the people you meet and the
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  Speaker 6: relationships you build with everybody because you get to like
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  Speaker 6: not only meet your heroes and the people that you've
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  Speaker 6: looked up to your whole life, but also people like
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  Speaker 6: you man, like just awesome, ask people that love the
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  Speaker 6: same thing, and yeah, it just I guess you would
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  Speaker 6: say the community is the coolest part and being welcomed
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  Speaker 6: by it.
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  Speaker 3: And there's a.
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  Speaker 1: Lot of levels of the country music community too, which
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  Speaker 1: I don't think you realize until you get inside.
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  Speaker 4: Of it, right, Yeah, oh yeah.
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  Speaker 1: Country music did something amazing this year, and that was
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  Speaker 1: opened the door to some pretty big names that you
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  Speaker 1: wouldn't put into country. Yeah, one of those being Posts Malone.
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  Speaker 1: Obviously he's been close with Morgan while and in them
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  Speaker 1: you're close with Morgan as well. What has what has
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  Speaker 1: your vision of posts welcoming to country music been?
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  Speaker 6: Like, I just think you did it like really perfectly
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  Speaker 6: and it felt super authentic. And he knows more old
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  Speaker 6: country songs than I do, so like I was like,
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  Speaker 6: looks country smells country, seems country must be country. Like yeah,
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  Speaker 6: so it was really cool. Just the way he did
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  Speaker 6: it was so inspiring to me, Like as a young
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  Speaker 6: artist coming up, the way he put his album out,
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  Speaker 6: the way he collabed with so many people and did
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  Speaker 6: it the right way too. I saw the videos of
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  Speaker 6: him going in and just jamming with people and becoming
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  Speaker 6: real friends, and you know, the times I've met him,
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  Speaker 6: he's always the same dude. So it's just like it's
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  Speaker 6: almost like the saying we made the right guy famous.
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  Speaker 3: Definitely made the right guy famous. Awesome.
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  Speaker 1: Last thing I want, because you're about to run out
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  Speaker 1: of here. You put out a lot of great songs
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  Speaker 1: over the last year. Obviously Holy Smoke has taken over
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  Speaker 1: country radio right now. If you could pick one, what
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  Speaker 1: is the song that you're most proud of that is
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  Speaker 1: connecting whether it's on the radio or on streaming or
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  Speaker 1: at shows.
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  Speaker 6: Probably where it ends, because yeah, dude, I wrote it.
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  Speaker 6: I wrote it with Grant April and Joe London, and
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  Speaker 6: it was one of those songs where walked into the room,
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  Speaker 6: was nervous about the right because I didn't know these
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  Speaker 6: guys and almost canceled it actually because I was nervous,
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  Speaker 6: but I was like, no, I'm just gonna go in
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  Speaker 6: because you never know what you're gonna write. You never
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  Speaker 6: know what you're gonna you know the people you're gonna meet.
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  Speaker 6: So went in and immediately started writing the song and
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  Speaker 6: it just flowed right off the top of my head
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  Speaker 6: just like boom boom, and everything about the song, the production,
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  Speaker 6: everything was done that day in twenty minutes. Like it
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  Speaker 6: was so cool and it tells my story man, Like
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  Speaker 6: I've kind of been like walked on a lot because
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  Speaker 6: of just how loving I am and like caring.
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  Speaker 3: I kind of wear my heart on my sleeve.
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  Speaker 6: And where it ends was that song that was like,
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  Speaker 6: you know what, man, I am tired of that shit.
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  Speaker 3: I Am not putting up with it no more, dude.
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  Speaker 6: Like, and there's gotta be a lot of people out
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  Speaker 6: there that feel the same way, Like dude, Qus stepping
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  Speaker 6: on me, bro Like, it's so annoying, Like I'm so
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  Speaker 6: nice to you and you step on me. And I
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  Speaker 6: think that's what where it ends is for me and
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  Speaker 6: for everybody.
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  Speaker 3: So that is probably the one that means the most
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  Speaker 3: of me.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, my man, you are tight on time. I appreciate
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  Speaker 4: you hanging with me.
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  Speaker 3: Thinking, oh dude, anytime. Literally love you, dude, love You're badass.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, Dustin Lynch is here.
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  Speaker 1: CMA Season is on man, and I gotta ask you
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  Speaker 1: have been through these seas We're gonna call it meat
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  Speaker 1: grinder many times.
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  Speaker 4: What's something you do because this is work.
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  Speaker 1: Like anything else, is like being on tour because you're
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  Speaker 1: literally visiting about thirty five people.
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  Speaker 4: Uh, what do you still look forward to? Oh?
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  Speaker 8: This, well, I think this this time of year, you're
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  Speaker 8: you're wrapping up YEP tour and music and then you're going, Okay,
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  Speaker 8: what's next. For me, it's it's it's a very I
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  Speaker 8: love the Cmas because we get to celebrate a lot
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  Speaker 8: of songs, but then you're reminded about all the music
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  Speaker 8: that kind of changed the game through the past year,
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  Speaker 8: and for me is going into the off season of
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  Speaker 8: touring creatively, I'm like, oh, I kind of feel inspired, Like, yeah,
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  Speaker 8: let's go try to get you know, another song, Let's
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  Speaker 8: go see what else is out there, and yeah, I'll
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  Speaker 8: find an inspiring.
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  Speaker 1: What's the best part coming out of this because it's
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  Speaker 1: this and then it's kind of like landing the plane
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  Speaker 1: for the year for you on the music side of.
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  Speaker 8: Things, I thought you were asking me about my piloting
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  Speaker 8: and I'm like, huh, I am, he says, let me
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  Speaker 8: asking about No, yes.
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  Speaker 1: Just professionally after the CMA Awards, like what's what's something
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  Speaker 1: that you look forward to professionally as far as like
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  Speaker 1: you get this behind you. Things are starting to slow
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  Speaker 1: down a little slow down, but every now and again
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  Speaker 1: there's still some things.
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  Speaker 8: December has become the month for me of doing some
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  Speaker 8: charitable work, which I love. I'm going about my hometown
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  Speaker 8: to do our annual event there and then I've got
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  Speaker 8: some awesome friends that are in other industries that do
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  Speaker 8: some great events, so I like to pop into those
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  Speaker 8: events too, and and just support, you know, and and
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  Speaker 8: be a part of some good and giving back.
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  Speaker 9: It feels good.
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  Speaker 3: I don't.
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  Speaker 8: I don't do well being home, and so you know,
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  Speaker 8: if i'm if I'm off, I'm usually bouncing around two
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  Speaker 8: events or I'm deer hunting.
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  Speaker 9: It's deer season right now, so that's what's going on.
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  Speaker 4: I know he's like trying to get out of here.
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  Speaker 4: He's got a rifle in the car.
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  Speaker 8: He's trying to well, not today, I don't have to
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  Speaker 8: to day that a couple of days that's coming up.
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  Speaker 4: We're after it.
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  Speaker 1: Well, hit me with do you still have the land
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  Speaker 1: that we've talked about before I do.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: Uh, and that's kind of becoming a process because last
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  Speaker 1: time we talked to you were planting the stuff, even
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  Speaker 1: doing this. If you're not home a lot, how are
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  Speaker 1: you taking care of that?
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  Speaker 4: Yeah?
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  Speaker 8: The to do list is getting longer and longer. It's like, Man,
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  Speaker 8: I think I have to hire some help.
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  Speaker 1: You know.
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  Speaker 8: I know I don't have to, but I think it
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  Speaker 8: would take a lot of stress off of me, because
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  Speaker 8: even though it doesn't have to be done, it still
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  Speaker 8: stresses me out, like, oh, I've got to get out
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  Speaker 8: there and do this and I can't right now. So
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  Speaker 8: it's going great, but I wouldn't change it for the world,
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  Speaker 8: Like my farm is my happy place. We've I didn't
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  Speaker 8: realize when I got the thing how much of a
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  Speaker 8: landscape it would be.
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  Speaker 4: For the visuals of what we've created.
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  Speaker 8: We shot Chevrolet commercials out there, We've shot you know,
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  Speaker 8: happy to have beverage commercials out there. I Mean, the
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  Speaker 8: list goes on and on of stuff. We've got to
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  Speaker 8: do album covers. So it's been awesome, wonderful.
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  Speaker 1: What's the coolest thing that's been shot out there? You're like, wow,
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  Speaker 1: shout out on that land.
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  Speaker 8: It's got to be a Chevrolet commercial. Pretty I don't
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  Speaker 8: know how you taught that. It's a freaking Chevrolet commercial.
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  Speaker 8: It's my farm.
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  Speaker 4: It's pretty cool. Professionally, you have done a lot.
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  Speaker 1: Obviously, we celebrated the pool situation here in Nashville not
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  Speaker 1: long ago as well. What is your plan going into
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  Speaker 1: the new year to keep doing things in a great
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  Speaker 1: way but also like to stay Dustin.
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  Speaker 8: Lynch Man, it's it's it's kind of wild how we've
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  Speaker 8: carved this path. It's only ours and uh, and it
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  Speaker 8: continues to grow on its own.
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  Speaker 4: It's not something we've tried to do.
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  Speaker 8: And I think that's what we've recognized is you got
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  Speaker 8: to you gotta nurture those seeds that start growing on
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  Speaker 8: their own. And the pool situation is one, but it's
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  Speaker 8: it's morphed into now, just the situation and the nightclub scene.
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  Speaker 8: We've played Vegas immediately after that, Miami called, immediately after that,
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  Speaker 8: Vegas called, and those are starting to pick up, you know,
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  Speaker 8: and and it's it's like this new kind of genre
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  Speaker 8: of I don't even know what it is yet.
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  Speaker 10: You can't put your finger.
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  Speaker 8: On what it is, but I love to host and like,
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  Speaker 8: for whatever reason, it works that show works for me,
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  Speaker 8: and now we're getting to do it in other settings
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  Speaker 8: than just the pool. So next year we're bringing the
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  Speaker 8: pool situation. Obviously we kick it off with Luke Bryan
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  Speaker 8: down a Crashman Applia. The tenth year, it's gonna be epic.
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  Speaker 8: But then we're gonna bring back to the States, go
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  Speaker 8: to Canada. We're looking at different venues to continue that on.
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  Speaker 1: And they're gonna kill me because they said wrap it up,
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  Speaker 1: but she ain't paying attention. So here's one more. You
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  Speaker 1: just said something carving our own path. I see confidence
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  Speaker 1: in your eyes when you say that, carving your own
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  Speaker 1: path is you have. There has to be pride swallowing
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  Speaker 1: in that at some point, right, So what how did
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  Speaker 1: you get to like I'm covering my own path and
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  Speaker 1: I'm cool with that. It didn't start that way. So
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  Speaker 1: how did you get to the point where like, yeah, no,
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  Speaker 1: we're doing this our.
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  Speaker 3: Way, man.
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  Speaker 8: I think just try it, just trying to be yourself.
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  Speaker 8: And it really it starts with Luke Bryan, you know,
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  Speaker 8: having me down toply going this is the merry crash
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  Speaker 8: my apply. It kind of put me in charge of
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  Speaker 8: coming up with something new each year and bringing it
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  Speaker 8: a little bit better and bigger.
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  Speaker 11: He's done the same.
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  Speaker 8: That festival has grown in a you know, an incredible
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  Speaker 8: little thing, and but my portion of it has become
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  Speaker 8: a bit of a staple one. It wasn't something that
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  Speaker 8: was like schemed up.
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  Speaker 9: You know.
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  Speaker 8: It was just us being us, having fun, letting our
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  Speaker 8: hair down. If anybody's been to crash for apply, there's
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  Speaker 8: nothing serious about the week. It's just having fun of
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  Speaker 8: being yourself. And I think that's kind of allowed me
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  Speaker 8: to go, oh wait, this is a new type of
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  Speaker 8: show that no one else is doing. Maybe they you know,
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  Speaker 8: only we can do and that's why it works.
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  Speaker 4: I dig it. DestinE Land, Thank you, brother, thank you.
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  Speaker 1: It's Wayne d and Dylan Scott has taken over all things.
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  Speaker 1: iHeart country.
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  Speaker 4: Dude. Congrats on everything. You've had a pretty big year.
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  Speaker 12: It's been an awesome year, dude. I call it groundbreaking.
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  Speaker 12: We've been doing We've been doing this a long time, right,
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  Speaker 12: but this year has been It's been awesome. We've got
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  Speaker 12: two songs like top twenty right now.
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  Speaker 4: Do you really feel that about this year? Yeah? What
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  Speaker 4: was missing from years before that this.
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  Speaker 12: Year is not releasing enough music. Okay, not releasing enough music. Man,
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  Speaker 12: So we started releasing music and everything went up. Fan
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  Speaker 12: base went up, numbers went up. Uh, everything, everything's went up.
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  Speaker 7: Uh.
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  Speaker 1: When it comes to that, I want to touch on
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  Speaker 1: because part of part of you celebrating chart success is
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  Speaker 1: a song that you have with.
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  Speaker 4: Dylan Marlow right now. Yeah, what's it like.
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  Speaker 1: Because you are as much as you're still grinding, you're
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  Speaker 1: also well established to a mainstream country fan. What's it
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  Speaker 1: like for you to be able to kind of reach
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  Speaker 1: back and bring you know, the next generation of new
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  Speaker 1: guys up a little bit.
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  Speaker 4: No, it feels good, dude.
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  Speaker 12: I mean I took Dylan out on tour with me
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  Speaker 12: his first tour in twenty twenty two, and we just
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  Speaker 12: became boys since then.
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  Speaker 4: You know, it's such a great guy.
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  Speaker 12: And you know, since this song's been released, I tell
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  Speaker 12: him like, don't forget man, I'm daddy, all right, I'm
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  Speaker 12: daddy dealing. You're baby deal. Yeah, I'm dealing number one,
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  Speaker 12: you're dealing number two.
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  Speaker 4: But yeah, don't tell him to call you daddy dyling.
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  Speaker 4: That gets weird.
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  Speaker 5: No, he can call me daddy.
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  Speaker 4: I'm daddy deal.
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  Speaker 12: No, It's it's been awesome, dude, Joe like you said,
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  Speaker 12: we've had I've had number ones. I've got another song.
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  Speaker 12: This Town's been too good to us right now, top
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  Speaker 12: twenty doing awesome. But it's really special when you can
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  Speaker 12: not only share another song that's going number one, but
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  Speaker 12: with your buddies. It's really special to do that. So
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  Speaker 12: I'm uh, I'm proud of.
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  Speaker 1: It at this point in your career, outside of the
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  Speaker 1: first number one, because that's like the first kid, right,
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  Speaker 1: don't tell the second kid, But yeah, what's what's a
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  Speaker 1: moment or a song that's come out there You're like,
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  Speaker 1: I'm damn proud of that moment right there.
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  Speaker 12: Man, I mean I'm proud of them in all of
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  Speaker 12: them all. I mean, after the first one, you don't
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  Speaker 12: want to be a one hit wonder, right, so then
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  Speaker 12: you're proud of the second one, Like, all right, cool,
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  Speaker 12: we're not a one hit wonder. But you know we've
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  Speaker 12: had four number ones now. I really am very proud.
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  Speaker 4: Of this Town's been too good to us. It's a
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  Speaker 4: song about where I grew.
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  Speaker 12: Up, went back to my hometown, shot the video there,
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  Speaker 12: got the hometown involved, and so to me, it's just
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  Speaker 12: really cool to go back to the people that helped
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  Speaker 12: you grow up as a person, and then you know,
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  Speaker 12: obviously they're following the music, and so to have a
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  Speaker 12: song that's about that town, I'm proud of.
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  Speaker 1: That speaking of that town. The song is doing great
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  Speaker 1: things on country radio. What is the hardest part about
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  Speaker 1: because I get from you in the times that we've talked, obviously,
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  Speaker 1: family matters. Who you are makes you who you are,
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  Speaker 1: Who you were makes you who you are. What was
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  Speaker 1: the hardest part about leaving home to have to chase
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  Speaker 1: the dream?
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  Speaker 12: Yeah, I mean it never gets any easier. Fortunately for me,
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  Speaker 12: I've got a wife who understands it. My kids don't
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  Speaker 12: know any different, right, they just know this. This is
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  Speaker 12: every week. You're going to work this week. Yeah, I'm
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  Speaker 12: going to work this week.
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  Speaker 4: Okay.
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  Speaker 9: They call it work, you know, which is wild to me.
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  Speaker 12: He's like, man, I'm living the dream, I feel like,
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  Speaker 12: and they're calling it work, and it is work. It's
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  Speaker 12: my job. And somebody said all ago, they were like, man,
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  Speaker 12: you've played a lot of shows this year. It's like, yeah,
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  Speaker 12: you should put all the shows who played this year
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  Speaker 12: along with all the baseball games and gymnastics and all
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  Speaker 12: the family stuff. Like it's been a lot between shows
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  Speaker 12: and then just family stuff.
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  Speaker 4: Hey, a year goes by quick.
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  Speaker 1: Well, that's kind of this town's been too good to
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  Speaker 1: us kind of gives that feeling too of like like
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  Speaker 1: I am who I am, regardless of who I am.
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  Speaker 1: I am who I am.
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  Speaker 12: Yeah, and I think, you know, the music's different now
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  Speaker 12: than what it was even four years ago. I think
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  Speaker 12: a lot of that has to do with is just
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  Speaker 12: not only growing up, but being a daddy, being a husband,
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  Speaker 12: and get to social media.
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  Speaker 4: You got to put that in there, and then writing
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  Speaker 4: songs and recording music.
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  Speaker 12: I've told myself, I was like, man, I'm just gonna
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  Speaker 12: stay true to who I am as a person to
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  Speaker 12: make all this stuff a lot easier, not try to
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  Speaker 12: be something I'm not, you know. And so since I've
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  Speaker 12: done that, I feel like everything is all the headache
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  Speaker 12: and everything and the end of business we're in has
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  Speaker 12: really become a lot easier because I can just be myself.
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  Speaker 4: I can be who I am and at the end
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  Speaker 4: of the day, that's who I am. Man, isn't that
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  Speaker 4: an eminem song? Because I don't know what that's fine.
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  Speaker 4: I'm gonna go listen to it now.
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  Speaker 9: I like it.
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  Speaker 4: Dylan Scott thank you brother, thank you. Here we are.
• 13:33
  Speaker 4: You just had a killer year.
• 13:34
  Speaker 1: Your your follow up song, which usually it takes a
• 13:37
  Speaker 1: minute for artists to have a number one song and
• 13:39
  Speaker 1: then come back. You're already coming out of the gates swinging.
• 13:42
  Speaker 1: Life feels pretty good.
• 13:43
  Speaker 7: As you it's I would say this has been the
• 13:44
  Speaker 7: best year of my life, and it's not really close. Yeah,
• 13:47
  Speaker 7: I mean, barely twelve months ago you and I were
• 13:50
  Speaker 7: I think you were giving me a pity interview, just
• 13:52
  Speaker 7: you know, nice enough to let me come into the
• 13:54
  Speaker 7: studio whatever.
• 13:56
  Speaker 10: Oka, But I'll never forget that. I always love you
• 13:58
  Speaker 10: for that.
• 13:58
  Speaker 4: Man.
• 13:59
  Speaker 7: But but you know, people are learning how to say
• 14:02
  Speaker 7: my name, people are learning some of my songs, and
• 14:04
  Speaker 7: I feel like the luckiest guy in the world right now.
• 14:06
  Speaker 7: We started the year first number one ever, which is crazy,
• 14:09
  Speaker 7: mind on you, and then got to go on tour
• 14:12
  Speaker 7: with Luke Bryan and Parker McCollum and Sam Hunt and
• 14:15
  Speaker 7: do some headlining shows. And now, with a little bit
• 14:17
  Speaker 7: of luck, we might be and in the year with
• 14:19
  Speaker 7: a number one song in Cowboy Songs. So I'm just
• 14:21
  Speaker 7: trying to figure out what planet I'm on. Man, this
• 14:23
  Speaker 7: is I've dreamed about this for a long time, and
• 14:26
  Speaker 7: I'm definitely not used to it.
• 14:27
  Speaker 4: You know. We have talked to many artists, including Laney Wilson,
• 14:30
  Speaker 4: who I feel has taken a similar path to you
• 14:33
  Speaker 4: where it's a ten year town it is and has
• 14:36
  Speaker 4: is that a similar story for you, like.
• 14:38
  Speaker 7: Did you have to you know, it's it's so funny
• 14:39
  Speaker 7: because you moved to town and everybody tells you that
• 14:41
  Speaker 7: it's a ten year town.
• 14:42
  Speaker 3: Stick it out.
• 14:42
  Speaker 7: It's a ten year town and you don't want to
• 14:44
  Speaker 7: believe it because ten years is a long time.
• 14:46
  Speaker 4: So it's a lot of dirt.
• 14:47
  Speaker 2: Man.
• 14:47
  Speaker 10: Yeah, there's a lot of rocks to kick, you know
• 14:49
  Speaker 10: what I mean.
• 14:50
  Speaker 7: But it must be a fortune tailor because it was
• 14:53
  Speaker 7: ten years on the nose for me and then But
• 14:56
  Speaker 7: I will say that once the door opens and you
• 14:59
  Speaker 7: are accepted in the community, it is such a tight
• 15:01
  Speaker 7: knit family and there's so many people there to help
• 15:03
  Speaker 7: you and so many people to be resources and mentors,
• 15:06
  Speaker 7: and it is. Uh there's a special feeling in knowing
• 15:09
  Speaker 7: that like you paid your dues, like you know, you
• 15:12
  Speaker 7: played the empty bars, like you have a couple of
• 15:14
  Speaker 7: star scars that you can tell stories about what I
• 15:17
  Speaker 7: like to go do it again.
• 15:18
  Speaker 10: Probably not, but I'm glad to be here on the
• 15:19
  Speaker 10: other side.
• 15:20
  Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, one star. I would not suggest you try
• 15:24
  Speaker 4: do me a favor.
• 15:26
  Speaker 1: You are still very much a fan, which is why
• 15:28
  Speaker 1: you got into this thing. You get into and you're
• 15:31
  Speaker 1: new enough where like it's still the song on the
• 15:33
  Speaker 1: radio is awesome when you can hear yourself, absolutely, So
• 15:35
  Speaker 1: tell me what the reaction is if you're out of
• 15:36
  Speaker 1: stoplight and George Burr's comes on in iHeart country station.
• 15:40
  Speaker 7: I mean, it's just ear to ear smile half the time.
• 15:42
  Speaker 7: I'll call my wife. I'll be like, babe, it's back on.
• 15:44
  Speaker 7: She'd be like, you just called me an hour ago, Like, yeah,
• 15:49
  Speaker 7: it's pretty special. I got an ASCAP Award last night,
• 15:54
  Speaker 7: which that's a big songwriting company from Mind on You
• 15:57
  Speaker 7: being one of the most played songs of country radio
• 15:59
  Speaker 7: in the last year, which is.
• 16:01
  Speaker 10: Such a high honor.
• 16:02
  Speaker 7: And I was pulling into the awards and as I
• 16:05
  Speaker 7: was about to vallet my car, which for the first
• 16:06
  Speaker 7: time in my life, I can't afford to valet my
• 16:08
  Speaker 7: car every now and then.
• 16:09
  Speaker 10: Right, yeah, it was free valets as well, hang it.
• 16:12
  Speaker 11: But as I was pulling into the Valet.
• 16:15
  Speaker 7: My song came on the Big ninety eight here in Nashville,
• 16:17
  Speaker 7: and I felt like that was a little godwin, going
• 16:19
  Speaker 7: to accept my award for my first ever hit and
• 16:21
  Speaker 7: having that song come on as we got there.
• 16:23
  Speaker 10: Yeah, I got a lootle giddy about it. I took
• 16:25
  Speaker 10: a video. I'm gonna take a video. I might to
• 16:26
  Speaker 10: put it on my social media.
• 16:27
  Speaker 11: It's good.
• 16:28
  Speaker 4: I'm gonna have to go check that out. Yeah. Can
• 16:30
  Speaker 4: I tell you what's so hilarious about So?
• 16:31
  Speaker 1: I lived Tayan, I's lived in Vegas for five years
• 16:34
  Speaker 1: and the Valet thing, like you kind of feel like
• 16:36
  Speaker 1: I'm a baller on Valet, bro You're really paying for
• 16:39
  Speaker 1: some weird, strange individual to.
• 16:41
  Speaker 4: Drive your car, digs through your glovebox and whatever.
• 16:44
  Speaker 7: I swear, I don't have a picture to prove it,
• 16:46
  Speaker 7: but I swear the last time I'm valeted, I gave
• 16:49
  Speaker 7: my truck with a three quarter tank of gas and
• 16:52
  Speaker 7: I picked it up with a quarter tank of gas
• 16:53
  Speaker 7: labs And I was like, somebody went to Mexico with
• 16:55
  Speaker 7: this thing, Like somebody had some fun. I can't prove it,
• 17:00
  Speaker 7: but you know, I hope they had a good time.
• 17:02
  Speaker 1: Pressure on you at this time last year as a
• 17:04
  Speaker 1: new artist. Now, I don't want to say you're established,
• 17:07
  Speaker 1: because there's there's a strong, strong bone structure to the
• 17:10
  Speaker 1: house you're building, absolutely at this point in your career.
• 17:14
  Speaker 1: But the confidence from then to now has to feel
• 17:18
  Speaker 1: pretty good.
• 17:19
  Speaker 3: I think it's just.
• 17:22
  Speaker 7: I've had a hard time trying to put into words
• 17:24
  Speaker 7: what I'm feeling. But I think the biggest thing for
• 17:26
  Speaker 7: me is comfortable in my own skin, you know, not
• 17:30
  Speaker 7: second guessing the music I want to make, not second
• 17:33
  Speaker 7: guessing the artist I want to be, and walking into
• 17:35
  Speaker 7: a room and I still sometimes don't feel like I
• 17:37
  Speaker 7: quite belong, you know, seeing all the people around here
• 17:40
  Speaker 7: and all the superstars that are around me, but not
• 17:42
  Speaker 7: feeling like an impost, which is it. It's taken me
• 17:46
  Speaker 7: a long time to kind of cross that bridge. So
• 17:49
  Speaker 7: it's exciting, you know, to be able to back off
• 17:51
  Speaker 7: my first hit and hopefully have a second one on
• 17:53
  Speaker 7: the way, maybe shake the one hit Wonder title, which
• 17:56
  Speaker 7: is pretty awesome. And then I've got a song coming
• 17:58
  Speaker 7: in January that I think maybe the big song I've
• 18:00
  Speaker 7: ever written, and I cannot wait to put that under
• 18:03
  Speaker 7: the world.
• 18:03
  Speaker 4: So it ain't gonna end there is it a collab?
• 18:06
  Speaker 4: Did you write with somebody?
• 18:08
  Speaker 7: I wrote it with some some of the biggest songwriters
• 18:10
  Speaker 7: here in Nashville, who I'm lucky enough to call friends.
• 18:12
  Speaker 10: And it's just real life.
• 18:15
  Speaker 7: I have a hell of a story to tell from
• 18:16
  Speaker 7: my way up here, and I'm very blessed to get
• 18:19
  Speaker 7: to do what I get to do. And I fell
• 18:20
  Speaker 7: in love with country music for songs of substance, songs
• 18:23
  Speaker 7: that say something, songs that paint pictures that you can
• 18:25
  Speaker 7: close your eyes and plug your own memories into. And
• 18:28
  Speaker 7: if that's the reason that I fell in love with
• 18:30
  Speaker 7: country music, I wanted to make somebody else fall in
• 18:32
  Speaker 7: love with country music for the same reason. And so
• 18:34
  Speaker 7: that's the song that I tried to write, and I
• 18:36
  Speaker 7: cannot wait for it to come out in January. We're
• 18:38
  Speaker 7: ready for it, Brother, George Burg, thank you, Thank you.
• 18:41
  Speaker 1: Cmaser. Here it's Wayne D. John Morgan is hanging out
• 18:43
  Speaker 1: with us.
• 18:44
  Speaker 4: Man.
• 18:44
  Speaker 1: We were lucky enough to catch up with you for
• 18:46
  Speaker 1: the first time in our studio down at Jason nel
• 18:48
  Speaker 1: Deane's bar here in Nashville. How important has that relationship
• 18:52
  Speaker 1: with Jason been to you? And not just as like
• 18:55
  Speaker 1: a mentor but literally a guy who's done it at
• 18:58
  Speaker 1: a high level for so long as essentially endorsing you.
• 19:01
  Speaker 13: Right, it's been awesome, man, I think in so many
• 19:05
  Speaker 13: different ways, it's been insightful. He's just it's like you said, Man,
• 19:10
  Speaker 13: he's been around, He's he's been through a lot of
• 19:12
  Speaker 13: the same It's funny because we've been through a lot
• 19:14
  Speaker 13: of the same things at this stage of the career,
• 19:18
  Speaker 13: and you know, doing showcases and stuff and like trying
• 19:22
  Speaker 13: to get people interested in what you're doing. And I
• 19:25
  Speaker 13: remember him telling me, like, dude, I did a hundred
• 19:28
  Speaker 13: showcases and was about to leave town and got asked
• 19:32
  Speaker 13: to do a couple more, and the last one we
• 19:34
  Speaker 13: did was with Broken Bow and that's who ended up
• 19:37
  Speaker 13: signing him, and he, you know, took that label to
• 19:40
  Speaker 13: what they are now, and so I don't know, it's
• 19:43
  Speaker 13: just encouraging a lot of the a lot of those ways.
• 19:45
  Speaker 13: He's also very smart on the business end of things,
• 19:49
  Speaker 13: which I was unaware of a lot of things moving
• 19:52
  Speaker 13: to town and you know, all that comes with being
• 19:54
  Speaker 13: an artist and writing and all that stuff. So he's, uh,
• 19:57
  Speaker 13: he's been awesome to bounce things by even just learn
• 20:00
  Speaker 13: learning about the charts, having you know, our our my
• 20:03
  Speaker 13: first radio single with him on it.
• 20:05
  Speaker 14: You know, he's very insightful on all that.
• 20:07
  Speaker 4: He's smart, smart guy. So yeah, it's been cool.
• 20:09
  Speaker 1: So take me to the chart game, because you have
• 20:11
  Speaker 1: a song that's now on country radio.
• 20:13
  Speaker 4: Jason is on it with you.
• 20:15
  Speaker 1: You saw streaming success, you were seeing success that shows
• 20:19
  Speaker 1: radio success is almost like another notch in your belt
• 20:21
  Speaker 1: and you're starting to see that what does that mean
• 20:23
  Speaker 1: to you? To to kind of see that part continue
• 20:25
  Speaker 1: to circle that is making you the artist you are.
• 20:28
  Speaker 13: It's cool, man, I you know, friends, I don't know's
• 20:33
  Speaker 13: it's It's one of those songs that like, I don't know,
• 20:36
  Speaker 13: you don't you don't know whether it's gonna, you know,
• 20:40
  Speaker 13: connect with people or whether it's not. And then when
• 20:42
  Speaker 13: it does, you're like, oh, yeah, of course I knew
• 20:43
  Speaker 13: it was going to the whole time, you know. But
• 20:46
  Speaker 13: it's been cool to watch it kind of do its thing,
• 20:48
  Speaker 13: and it's it's been a slow calm. I'm honestly just
• 20:51
  Speaker 13: thankful to have something in the just to be in
• 20:54
  Speaker 13: the game right now. There's a lot of stiff competition.
• 20:56
  Speaker 13: There's a lot of great artists and songs that are
• 20:58
  Speaker 13: on the charts right now. So I'm just happy to
• 21:01
  Speaker 13: have my name up there.
• 21:02
  Speaker 1: You know, when it comes to the relationship you mentioned
• 21:05
  Speaker 1: with Jason, he's taught you a lot of even behind
• 21:07
  Speaker 1: the scenes stuff. What's a piece of knowledge he gave
• 21:10
  Speaker 1: you that I mean, I'm sure there's a lot, especially
• 21:13
  Speaker 1: behind the scenes that you're like, hey, I'm just trying.
• 21:14
  Speaker 4: To play music, dude. Yeah, but what's.
• 21:16
  Speaker 1: One of the most mind blowing behind the scenes things
• 21:18
  Speaker 1: that you're like, well, I'm glad I didn't have to
• 21:21
  Speaker 1: learn that the hard way.
• 21:22
  Speaker 4: Yeah.
• 21:22
  Speaker 13: Well, I think one of the most recent things that
• 21:26
  Speaker 13: he I had talked to him about was, you know,
• 21:30
  Speaker 13: thankfully I started my career as a songwriter, and it's
• 21:35
  Speaker 13: fortunately it's allowed me to kind of fund being on
• 21:38
  Speaker 13: the road a lot, because I think that's one thing
• 21:41
  Speaker 13: people don't realize is how expensive it is to be
• 21:43
  Speaker 13: on the road and play shows, and especially early on
• 21:46
  Speaker 13: at this stage when you don't have a ton of
• 21:48
  Speaker 13: help and you're kind of on your own to make
• 21:51
  Speaker 13: shows happen. And so one of the things he told
• 21:54
  Speaker 13: me was like, look, man.
• 21:56
  Speaker 14: He's like, you've got to go You've got to be all.
• 21:58
  Speaker 13: In on this not betting on yourself. Why do you
• 22:01
  Speaker 13: expect anybody else to? He's like, you know you can.
• 22:04
  Speaker 13: He's like, it's he he told me those two is
• 22:08
  Speaker 13: just funny. And he's like, now is a time where nobody,
• 22:11
  Speaker 13: nobody's gonna help you financially, no one's gonna throw you money.
• 22:14
  Speaker 13: He's like, but as soon as it hits, he said,
• 22:17
  Speaker 13: people will be throwing stuff at you, So hang on
• 22:20
  Speaker 13: and you know, get through this this time of like,
• 22:23
  Speaker 13: am I doing the right thing? And I should I
• 22:25
  Speaker 13: be hanging on my wasted money going with it. He's like,
• 22:28
  Speaker 13: you gotta believe in yourself. So it was I needed
• 22:31
  Speaker 13: that at the moment. So it was it was big,
• 22:33
  Speaker 13: big words to me.
• 22:34
  Speaker 4: You know, I hear you, man. John Morgan CMA is
• 22:37
  Speaker 4: here man, enjoy the madness. Thank you, bro, you too,
• 22:39
  Speaker 4: Josh Ross is with us. It's all things CMA, Wayne
• 22:42
  Speaker 4: D and iHeart country man. Is this your first CMA.
• 22:45
  Speaker 15: Awards, first uh the style interviews and first red carpet?
• 22:48
  Speaker 11: Yeah, We've doing some other ones.
• 22:49
  Speaker 15: We're not.
• 22:49
  Speaker 3: Oh my man's on the red coat time getting dressed up.
• 22:53
  Speaker 11: It's gonna be good.
• 22:54
  Speaker 1: Let me ask you though, because for for a woman
• 22:58
  Speaker 1: or a female performer, that red carpet is not only
• 23:02
  Speaker 1: a place that you want to earn your way to,
• 23:03
  Speaker 1: but it's a statement for them. Are you just as
• 23:06
  Speaker 1: excited to be there as what you're wearing.
• 23:09
  Speaker 15: I'm excited to be there, probably more than what I'm wearing.
• 23:11
  Speaker 15: I mean, I'm really excited with what I'm wearing. I
• 23:13
  Speaker 15: think it looks great. I'm really really excited. I don't
• 23:15
  Speaker 15: get dressed up that often, but I'm definitely the shorts
• 23:18
  Speaker 15: and birkenstocks with socks that goat to my you know,
• 23:22
  Speaker 15: I just like being comfy.
• 23:23
  Speaker 1: So but so let me ask you this, because I'm
• 23:25
  Speaker 1: a I'm a for comfort first guy, So like, I
• 23:28
  Speaker 1: will like a shirt like this all that hang in
• 23:30
  Speaker 1: the back seat while I'm driving to where I'm going.
• 23:34
  Speaker 15: Jacket is hat in the back until I got here
• 23:35
  Speaker 15: and then I was like, all right, I'll put the
• 23:36
  Speaker 15: jacket on.
• 23:37
  Speaker 9: Now.
• 23:38
  Speaker 1: When you see a time like this, and obviously you
• 23:40
  Speaker 1: are on your way to the nominations and the performances
• 23:43
  Speaker 1: during the show and whatnot, what's something you hope to
• 23:46
  Speaker 1: absorb now before you get to a point where which
• 23:49
  Speaker 1: is coming right, Yeah, but before you get to a
• 23:51
  Speaker 1: point where it's tough to enjoy the evening because it's
• 23:53
  Speaker 1: going too quick.
• 23:54
  Speaker 5: I think, yeah, like that, you've.
• 23:55
  Speaker 1: Played a ton of shows this year from from last year.
• 23:59
  Speaker 1: I first discovered you last year, so I followed you
• 24:01
  Speaker 1: on social media watching your thing this year, Like, dude.
• 24:04
  Speaker 4: You a lot. You went all in. We've been twenty
• 24:07
  Speaker 4: twenty four.
• 24:07
  Speaker 15: Yeah, we've been home in Nashville a little over forty nights,
• 24:10
  Speaker 15: which is what crazy?
• 24:12
  Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, you're it's paying rent on a spot that
• 24:15
  Speaker 4: you I just finally got a house. Yeah. Also you're
• 24:17
  Speaker 4: a rent home.
• 24:18
  Speaker 11: I got a home a month ago.
• 24:20
  Speaker 4: I got a home, So congratulations. That's a big deal man.
• 24:23
  Speaker 15: But yeah, I know, just uh it is. It is
• 24:26
  Speaker 15: a crazy when you look at it that way. And
• 24:28
  Speaker 15: then just I'm excited to be back. I feel like
• 24:31
  Speaker 15: November December for me is now like let's right, let's record,
• 24:33
  Speaker 15: because we've just been gone, you know, playing so many shows.
• 24:35
  Speaker 4: We've been to the UK, we did Australia, Canada this year.
• 24:38
  Speaker 15: It's been it's been a big, big, busy year.
• 24:39
  Speaker 4: But I love it. Well, enjoy the CMA.
• 24:42
  Speaker 1: Thank you unplug a little bit, and thanks for taking
• 24:44
  Speaker 1: time to sasashiate.
• 24:44
  Speaker 4: You guys think what thanks, thanksmas are here. It's d
• 24:47
  Speaker 4: and Nate smith when you just missing what's up smelling
• 24:49
  Speaker 4: each other?
• 24:49
  Speaker 5: We were sniffing. We were it was very like like nature,
• 24:52
  Speaker 5: like nature was taking over it.
• 24:53
  Speaker 4: You know, they feel like we were in the woods
• 24:55
  Speaker 4: or he was.
• 24:55
  Speaker 5: He was one sniff away from licking my face. It
• 24:57
  Speaker 5: was like, wow, that's you.
• 24:58
  Speaker 4: Obviously have been exfoliating.
• 25:00
  Speaker 5: Yes, sir, I have I have great skin, great skin.
• 25:02
  Speaker 1: I want to ask you, you came onto the scene
• 25:05
  Speaker 1: country music wise, and now there's a grind that got
• 25:07
  Speaker 1: you to where you're at.
• 25:08
  Speaker 4: But as soon as you got here, it is.
• 25:10
  Speaker 1: Like banger after banger for you, does it feel like
• 25:14
  Speaker 1: all of a sudden things are just on fire?
• 25:15
  Speaker 4: For Nate smith Man, it's it.
• 25:17
  Speaker 10: Ah.
• 25:18
  Speaker 5: The fact that I was like, I didn't get the
• 25:20
  Speaker 5: joke at first, like it's so dumb.
• 25:21
  Speaker 4: I didn't either.
• 25:22
  Speaker 16: It just happened, right, It just happened. But you decided
• 25:24
  Speaker 16: after you said it, this is the joke is get.
• 25:26
  Speaker 4: Picked up punch line?
• 25:27
  Speaker 5: Yeah, yeah, yeah, get it dude. It's It's crazy, man.
• 25:30
  Speaker 16: I'm just glad that people are connecting with the songs
• 25:31
  Speaker 16: and you guys are playing them and and it just
• 25:33
  Speaker 16: it means a lot to me.
• 25:34
  Speaker 4: I love them. Does it still blow you away to
• 25:36
  Speaker 4: hear yourself on the radio.
• 25:37
  Speaker 16: Oh yeah, oh yeah, it's it's it's a litterally incredible.
• 25:39
  Speaker 16: And I love getting videos like my dad and my
• 25:41
  Speaker 16: mom and family members and stuff like, oh my gosh,
• 25:43
  Speaker 16: it's on there. You know, it's really cool. And the
• 25:45
  Speaker 16: other thing being in the like quote unquote spotlight and
• 25:48
  Speaker 16: getting to do interviews. I get to roast my family
• 25:49
  Speaker 16: all the time. Like my dad pooped his pants. He
• 25:51
  Speaker 16: pooped his pants just a month ago. Why couldn't hold it?
• 25:55
  Speaker 16: Couldn't hold it. He pulled over and he pooped his
• 25:57
  Speaker 16: pants on the side of the insta him. It's I'll
• 26:00
  Speaker 16: tell you later. Yeah, well yeah, yeah, he's a pants pooper,
• 26:03
  Speaker 16: So I can do that.
• 26:04
  Speaker 4: You know.
• 26:04
  Speaker 16: When it comes to the my brother smells like beef
• 26:06
  Speaker 16: and cheese. He has a very very bad breath. Continue one.
• 26:10
  Speaker 16: I'm just saying, thanks, he's too much protein.
• 26:12
  Speaker 4: Let me ask you. Let me ask you this.
• 26:14
  Speaker 1: Your family takes videos which like on the surface like
• 26:17
  Speaker 1: oh they're proud, right, but you've also been like putting
• 26:20
  Speaker 1: out some pretty good songs So you've been on the
• 26:21
  Speaker 1: radio a lot lately. So at any point are you like,
• 26:24
  Speaker 1: are you guys surprised I'm successful at this point or
• 26:27
  Speaker 1: proud of me?
• 26:28
  Speaker 7: Oh?
• 26:29
  Speaker 3: Look at you did do it?
• 26:31
  Speaker 4: Look at you go a little fella. Oh, he's Dave,
• 26:35
  Speaker 4: he's doing it.
• 26:36
  Speaker 16: He's doing it, honey. I told you my dad literally,
• 26:40
  Speaker 16: and I have told a bunch of people this. You'll
• 26:42
  Speaker 16: see it somewhere out there. But he did tell me
• 26:43
  Speaker 16: when I got my record. He was like, I'm just
• 26:45
  Speaker 16: glad you got a job, dude, Like, just glad you
• 26:46
  Speaker 16: got a job. Like, Wow, thanks Dad, hell of a job.
• 26:49
  Speaker 4: Huh what do you think?
• 26:50
  Speaker 5: Huh got a great job, dad?
• 26:52
  Speaker 9: What do you think?
• 26:53
  Speaker 4: Like? I think it's called a career, dad. But this, yeah, yeah,
• 26:55
  Speaker 4: it's my career dad.
• 26:56
  Speaker 5: It's not a phase.
• 26:57
  Speaker 1: Listen, dude, I know you were going one hundred miles
• 26:59
  Speaker 1: an hour. Thanks for stopping by the hangout always well,
• 27:02
  Speaker 1: enjoy all things CMA, and let's let's hear some new
• 27:05
  Speaker 1: music at twenty twenty.
• 27:05
  Speaker 4: For Got you, bro.
• 27:06
  Speaker 9: I can't wait, I can't wait. You're gonna love it.
• 27:08
  Speaker 4: I love it.
• 27:09
  Speaker 1: It's the smell coming off you. I can smell that
• 27:11
  Speaker 1: new music. Is that what that sense is? It might be,
• 27:13
  Speaker 1: it might be I need to get the Cmas are here.
• 27:16
  Speaker 1: It's Wayne d and the Ochredge Boys have gracious with
• 27:19
  Speaker 1: their presence. First of all, an absolute honor to have
• 27:21
  Speaker 1: you guys here. Thank you for making time.
• 27:25
  Speaker 4: How has it a lot of artists have put out.
• 27:29
  Speaker 1: Their songs and done their thing and they're kind of like,
• 27:31
  Speaker 1: I'm good you guys stay on the forefront and continue
• 27:34
  Speaker 1: to be to be a big figurehead of country music.
• 27:37
  Speaker 4: Why is it important for you guys to do that?
• 27:39
  Speaker 17: Well, We've always really made our living on the road
• 27:42
  Speaker 17: in our concerts and recording albums and doing television.
• 27:47
  Speaker 9: That's just a part of it.
• 27:49
  Speaker 17: And we've we've just always been a concert act. So
• 27:53
  Speaker 17: we like tomorrow night when we do the After we
• 27:56
  Speaker 17: do the CMA Award show, we get on our bushes
• 27:59
  Speaker 17: we had out on the road, and we start doing
• 28:03
  Speaker 17: Christmas music in our regular show this week and after Thanksgiving,
• 28:09
  Speaker 17: it's all Christmas right up until Christmas Day.
• 28:12
  Speaker 9: I mean, we work really hard.
• 28:14
  Speaker 17: And we work several several events every year, but this
• 28:21
  Speaker 17: is one of those big events where a lot of
• 28:24
  Speaker 17: the major acts come and it's really a prestigious place
• 28:28
  Speaker 17: to be this time of the year at the CMA
• 28:31
  Speaker 17: Award show, and we're honored to be here and be
• 28:34
  Speaker 17: presenters and be presenting the Group of the Year award.
• 28:38
  Speaker 17: We've been there, we know how that feels. We got
• 28:42
  Speaker 17: a bunch of new groups right now in country music
• 28:45
  Speaker 17: that are just burning.
• 28:46
  Speaker 9: Up the charts.
• 28:47
  Speaker 17: We're so proud for them, and to present the winner
• 28:50
  Speaker 17: in that category. It's just just an extreme honor to
• 28:53
  Speaker 17: be asked to do that well.
• 28:55
  Speaker 1: And as guys who have i mean literally defined what
• 28:59
  Speaker 1: a group and or duo would be as you know
• 29:02
  Speaker 1: those as they kind of went like group or duo
• 29:04
  Speaker 1: in the award shows and then they kind of bring
• 29:05
  Speaker 1: it back to the group end or duo. You guys
• 29:08
  Speaker 1: have done that for at a high level for so long.
• 29:11
  Speaker 1: What are some names, whether there are groups or solo acts,
• 29:14
  Speaker 1: some names that you're proud of, like they're doing country
• 29:16
  Speaker 1: music the right way, Like we're proud that they're following
• 29:19
  Speaker 1: our footsteps.
• 29:20
  Speaker 2: Well, there's a lot of them, actually, I think you know,
• 29:22
  Speaker 2: you've got some of the country music as the hottest
• 29:26
  Speaker 2: music in the world right now. There's nothing as HoTT
• 29:28
  Speaker 2: as country music when you've got Beyonce wanting to do
• 29:31
  Speaker 2: a country album. You've got post Alone coming here record
• 29:34
  Speaker 2: with all the hot young acts. But people like Morgan
• 29:38
  Speaker 2: Walland that's actually writing their future, and and Jaelly Roll,
• 29:44
  Speaker 2: Lanny Wilson. You know these people are really they're firing
• 29:49
  Speaker 2: up country music. It's exciting to see the own and
• 29:52
  Speaker 2: I don't know of another girl singer that's come on
• 29:55
  Speaker 2: to the scene. It's got the energy that Lanny Wilson
• 29:59
  Speaker 2: has and the performing ability that she has to sell
• 30:03
  Speaker 2: a song. And she's been around Nashville here for like
• 30:07
  Speaker 2: ten years now, but she just in the past couple
• 30:10
  Speaker 2: of years really hit her stride and becoming a household
• 30:14
  Speaker 2: I am now. But it's people like that that exciting.
• 30:17
  Speaker 2: I'm a fan of their over the young country people.
• 30:20
  Speaker 2: Now you Luke Colmbs and the guy had seven number
• 30:24
  Speaker 2: ones off of.
• 30:25
  Speaker 4: His first album, so that's just not fair, unheard of actually.
• 30:31
  Speaker 2: But then by the time his first album is uh,
• 30:33
  Speaker 2: he finished releasing singles. He's selling uh, He's selling out
• 30:38
  Speaker 2: big arenas and stadiums before his album quit, you know,
• 30:42
  Speaker 2: before they quit releasing singles.
• 30:44
  Speaker 1: Actually we got to rap here, but I want to
• 30:46
  Speaker 1: ask one more thing, because you, guys, if anybody scrolls
• 30:49
  Speaker 1: up and down your list of big songs, you take
• 30:51
  Speaker 1: pride in the writing aspects right, whether it was a
• 30:54
  Speaker 1: group effort or one y'all had an idea, what would
• 30:56
  Speaker 1: you say to a young artist who is excited just
• 30:59
  Speaker 1: to sing good songs. What's the importance of feeling the
• 31:03
  Speaker 1: song and being a part of the writing and kind
• 31:05
  Speaker 1: of living that song versus singing it.
• 31:07
  Speaker 17: Whether you write it or not. Find great songs, record
• 31:12
  Speaker 17: great songs. Don't insist on writing it if you're not
• 31:16
  Speaker 17: at the top of your game as a writer. Cause
• 31:19
  Speaker 17: you can be a great artist, but if you're not
• 31:22
  Speaker 17: quite there yet in the writing part, make sure you
• 31:26
  Speaker 17: cut great songs, because great songs live longer than you do.
• 31:31
  Speaker 17: Like Elvirah, for example, it is still helping us pay
• 31:36
  Speaker 17: our bills.
• 31:37
  Speaker 9: And the writer of that passed away to.
• 31:39
  Speaker 17: It three years ago, but it still helps pay our bills.
• 31:43
  Speaker 17: Songs live forever. But you need to cut great songs.
• 31:47
  Speaker 17: Every song in that album needs to be great. Don't
• 31:51
  Speaker 17: cut favors, cut great songs.
• 31:55
  Speaker 4: I feel like that's a model that should be a
• 31:56
  Speaker 4: Nasville billboard.
• 31:58
  Speaker 1: Gentlemen. It's an honor to up with you. Thank you
• 32:00
  Speaker 1: for taking the time today. Thanks season, and you cannot
• 32:05
  Speaker 1: have an award show with the old minion if you
• 32:06
  Speaker 1: did just cancel the dang thing.
• 32:08
  Speaker 4: Boys, how are you excellent?
• 32:10
  Speaker 3: Excellent?
• 32:10
  Speaker 4: How are you?
• 32:12
  Speaker 1: We're getting there, We're getting there. Funny thing is this
• 32:14
  Speaker 1: is the most expensive shoe I own?
• 32:19
  Speaker 4: Is it watched rinse and.
• 32:20
  Speaker 1: Repeat for you guys with this stuff yet? Because because
• 32:23
  Speaker 1: I'd imagine that I could see that. Yeah, I didn't
• 32:27
  Speaker 1: want to say anything but okay, but but it has
• 32:31
  Speaker 1: to feel a little groundhog day is sometimes right or
• 32:34
  Speaker 1: were you able to stand back and enjoy?
• 32:36
  Speaker 18: No, it's more U I would say it's more of
• 32:38
  Speaker 18: like tradition, like you know, like we we go through
• 32:42
  Speaker 18: the the paces that we do on this week and
• 32:45
  Speaker 18: all the awards and seeing all our friends and so
• 32:47
  Speaker 18: it's a good thing. It's not like like groundhoul Days
• 32:50
  Speaker 18: has a negative connotation and this is this is a
• 32:52
  Speaker 18: really beautiful.
• 32:53
  Speaker 4: Thing that we get to celebrate.
• 32:55
  Speaker 1: When they announced winners for awards, obviously there's a part
• 32:59
  Speaker 1: of like we've won before, why wouldn't when when this time?
• 33:03
  Speaker 1: Do you go through that at all at this point?
• 33:05
  Speaker 1: Or is it like we won one and everything else
• 33:07
  Speaker 1: after that kick.
• 33:08
  Speaker 19: Like all of that stuff goes away the minute they
• 33:10
  Speaker 19: say and the winner is like, you're just starting from scratch,
• 33:13
  Speaker 19: Like maybe this is not our year because.
• 33:15
  Speaker 3: It's always somebody isier to do it for the Yeah, maybe.
• 33:19
  Speaker 4: That's yeah, which means it's someone's last.
• 33:24
  Speaker 1: Let me ask you all this because we it's been
• 33:26
  Speaker 1: a minute since we've caught up.
• 33:27
  Speaker 4: How are things going with the bar good?
• 33:30
  Speaker 18: We were just in there not long ago. We finally
• 33:33
  Speaker 18: have I think got past all the like hiccups that
• 33:36
  Speaker 18: we hit and so like updating half of Nashville's now
• 33:40
  Speaker 18: it's now it's all the fun stuff, which is really
• 33:42
  Speaker 18: it's really coming along nicely and it's gonna be worth
• 33:45
  Speaker 18: the way, man, because every time I go in there,
• 33:47
  Speaker 18: I get really excited.
• 33:48
  Speaker 4: It's a cool spot.
• 33:49
  Speaker 19: Uh.
• 33:50
  Speaker 1: The project that just came out is like a hybrid
• 33:53
  Speaker 1: version of the greatest hits, right, because you had mentioned
• 33:56
  Speaker 1: how it's not just the big hits, it's you know,
• 33:58
  Speaker 1: the the live hits as well. What's your plan moving forward?
• 34:02
  Speaker 1: Because obviously we love those hits, but we want more
• 34:04
  Speaker 1: of them.
• 34:04
  Speaker 4: Yeah, we do too, We do too.
• 34:05
  Speaker 18: We've been writing a whole bunch, and we've recorded a
• 34:08
  Speaker 18: good little batch of songs that's been putting the finishing
• 34:12
  Speaker 18: touches on the background vocals this week.
• 34:13
  Speaker 1: So sooner or later, let me ask because obviously a
• 34:17
  Speaker 1: solo project has come out recently and that hasn't gone
• 34:20
  Speaker 1: so good.
• 34:22
  Speaker 4: Which one?
• 34:27
  Speaker 1: Uh, how important is it to let you guys be
• 34:31
  Speaker 1: individuals and support individual projects but still know that old
• 34:35
  Speaker 1: Dominion is home.
• 34:37
  Speaker 18: Yeah, I think it's It's kind of an absurd idea
• 34:40
  Speaker 18: that any artist or writer is beholding to one thing. So,
• 34:46
  Speaker 18: you know, we all have different outlets that we want
• 34:48
  Speaker 18: to explore, and you know, we, like Trevor was saying earlier,
• 34:51
  Speaker 18: we all have tons of songs that we write, uh,
• 34:54
  Speaker 18: and a lot of them don't land with Old Dominion.
• 34:56
  Speaker 18: So it's we are at this fortunate position where we
• 35:00
  Speaker 18: we have an outlet to put more out if we
• 35:02
  Speaker 18: want to.
• 35:02
  Speaker 4: So I think it's it's pretty important.
• 35:04
  Speaker 1: How did that conversation go and where you're nervous at all?
• 35:07
  Speaker 1: Or was it like, hey, I'm gonna do this and like,
• 35:08
  Speaker 1: of course you should, you.
• 35:10
  Speaker 7: Know, Yeah, you know, maybe I was a little nervous,
• 35:12
  Speaker 7: but you know, I think we're all adults here.
• 35:14
  Speaker 6: And you know, we've all grown a lot together, and
• 35:17
  Speaker 6: you know we're I think we're just all support of
• 35:19
  Speaker 6: each other.
• 35:20
  Speaker 1: They're like, do your thing, man, then the locks are
• 35:22
  Speaker 1: changed when you get home. I just painted a pan
• 35:25
  Speaker 1: that picture that country music bands all live together.
• 35:28
  Speaker 4: That's weird, old dominion. Thank you, boys, I appreciate it.
• 35:31
  Speaker 4: Of course. Cmas are here. It's Wayne Dy and my
• 35:34
  Speaker 4: man Parker mc callum. Dude, it's so good to see you.
• 35:36
  Speaker 4: How's life.
• 35:37
  Speaker 9: I'm blessed.
• 35:38
  Speaker 4: Let me ask you this. You look well rested. Thank you.
• 35:41
  Speaker 4: So that tells me you ain't getting up with the baby.
• 35:44
  Speaker 20: You know, I don't get up with the baby because
• 35:46
  Speaker 20: I don't have I don't have the milk.
• 35:49
  Speaker 4: Oh, they just.
• 35:51
  Speaker 20: Hadn't come in yet. I hadn't come in yet. I tried,
• 35:54
  Speaker 20: it was on there. I put him on there, but
• 35:56
  Speaker 20: he just got even matter. Now, last night he's at
• 35:59
  Speaker 20: the hotel and luckily her parents are here helping us
• 36:01
  Speaker 20: during the day. But you know, he was so good,
• 36:05
  Speaker 20: so good, and everybody were everybody was going to bed.
• 36:07
  Speaker 20: I was watching Monday night football and then he just
• 36:10
  Speaker 20: started howling. And because he was in his crib and
• 36:12
  Speaker 20: I'd pick him up and I'd rock and he'd fall
• 36:14
  Speaker 20: asleep instantly when I picked him up, and the second
• 36:16
  Speaker 20: I put him down, he would just start howling, crying,
• 36:19
  Speaker 20: I mean screaming. I'm like, dude, we're gonna get kicked
• 36:21
  Speaker 20: out of this hotel, dude. But he's It's good, dude,
• 36:25
  Speaker 20: It's such a blessing.
• 36:26
  Speaker 1: Let me ask you, Uh, out of the million times
• 36:29
  Speaker 1: I've been able to catch up with you, if you
• 36:31
  Speaker 1: weren't a country artist, I don't know what to do.
• 36:33
  Speaker 4: You feel like cut for this? So part of that is.
• 36:36
  Speaker 1: Being somebody who's running the road right. Well, now you
• 36:40
  Speaker 1: have to transition to dad life. Now then we're now
• 36:43
  Speaker 1: the world ways in. Has that changed how you feel
• 36:46
  Speaker 1: about everything on the career side.
• 36:49
  Speaker 20: Not on the career side. No, you know, I'm not
• 36:51
  Speaker 20: gonna start writing the Dad songs and stuff like that.
• 36:54
  Speaker 20: That's not really my jam. But and it just is
• 36:58
  Speaker 20: so much more of an adjustment than I paid it
• 37:00
  Speaker 20: at home. Like I didn't read a book, I don't
• 37:02
  Speaker 20: watch a YouTube video, I didn't take no class, I
• 37:04
  Speaker 20: don't nothing, you know. But luckily I am married to
• 37:09
  Speaker 20: the greatest mother of all time. I mean, she God
• 37:12
  Speaker 20: literally her life began the day Major was born. She
• 37:15
  Speaker 20: is that's been the craziest, most impressive, most exciting.
• 37:19
  Speaker 4: Part of all of it is watching.
• 37:21
  Speaker 20: How insanely good Hallie Ray is at being a mom instantly.
• 37:27
  Speaker 20: I mean, day one, she it's like, I pick him up,
• 37:32
  Speaker 20: He's like, put me down, give me back to her,
• 37:33
  Speaker 20: you know. I mean, it's it's uh that she's been
• 37:36
  Speaker 20: the biggest blessing.
• 37:37
  Speaker 4: She's like, you don't even know what you're doing. Give
• 37:38
  Speaker 4: me back now.
• 37:39
  Speaker 20: I don't know what I'm like, I don't know. It's crazy,
• 37:42
  Speaker 20: but it's it's good.
• 37:43
  Speaker 4: Poor girl's got to raise two kids now now.
• 37:45
  Speaker 20: She's definitely him and I are learning at the same
• 37:46
  Speaker 20: pace and the same things.
• 37:48
  Speaker 1: I have a cool story to tell you once we
• 37:50
  Speaker 1: wrap here, so I'll make it quick. But last time
• 37:53
  Speaker 1: we talked, you had said that it kind of has
• 37:56
  Speaker 1: been a slow burn overtime.
• 37:57
  Speaker 4: But mental health is something that you've been able to prioritize.
• 37:59
  Speaker 4: You talk of your buddies about it.
• 38:01
  Speaker 1: Where you with that journey and how are you prioritizing
• 38:03
  Speaker 1: things now?
• 38:04
  Speaker 20: Man, I've been having this conversation actually a lot this week, and.
• 38:09
  Speaker 1: Because this week could burn right, because it doesn't you're
• 38:12
  Speaker 1: not slowing down any You had to fit this in right.
• 38:14
  Speaker 20: Yeah, it's just I mean, it's work, man, It's it
• 38:16
  Speaker 20: doesn't matter what you're poor and concrete or singing country songs. Man,
• 38:18
  Speaker 20: it's it's work and you better get to it. And
• 38:21
  Speaker 20: I love to work. I like to do a lot.
• 38:23
  Speaker 20: I like to work hard and earn it. I like
• 38:24
  Speaker 20: to earn every single thing that we get in this business.
• 38:27
  Speaker 20: But effort is the answer. Effort is the answer. If
• 38:32
  Speaker 20: you're struggling in any way mentally, whatsoever, home, work, whatever,
• 38:37
  Speaker 20: step back, figure out what you need to do, and
• 38:39
  Speaker 20: put the effort in and do the things you say
• 38:41
  Speaker 20: you're going to do. And that fixes all my problems
• 38:44
  Speaker 20: when I'm when I when I start cutting corners and
• 38:47
  Speaker 20: getting a little lazy and I'm not doing the small
• 38:49
  Speaker 20: things and focusing on the details and putting the work
• 38:52
  Speaker 20: and the effort in, whether it's in the gym or
• 38:54
  Speaker 20: on stage, or in the studio or at home as
• 38:55
  Speaker 20: a dad and husband, whatever, that's when it starts to
• 38:58
  Speaker 20: slip from me.
• 38:59
  Speaker 4: So put the effort in. Listen, enjoy the CMA festivities.
• 39:02
  Speaker 4: Brother appreciates you, Thank you man. Thanks glad to be here.
• 39:05
  Speaker 1: CMA season and the Boys and Parmily are here in
• 39:07
  Speaker 1: fantastic spirits.
• 39:08
  Speaker 4: It is an amazing time to celebrate country music. How
• 39:11
  Speaker 4: we feeling overall? Great man, wonderful.
• 39:12
  Speaker 21: We're just coming off our biggest year we've ever had
• 39:15
  Speaker 21: as a band, which is unbelievable, biggest four or five
• 39:19
  Speaker 21: years have been amazing for us.
• 39:20
  Speaker 4: And got a new.
• 39:21
  Speaker 14: Song coming out.
• 39:22
  Speaker 21: We got a new album coming out, just announced a
• 39:24
  Speaker 21: tour today a society man.
• 39:26
  Speaker 4: It's a good time to be partially ready, no matter what,
• 39:29
  Speaker 4: it's a good time to be parmally. What what made
• 39:32
  Speaker 4: this year so successful for y'all?
• 39:34
  Speaker 1: As you look back and you're like, you just said,
• 39:35
  Speaker 1: this is, you know, a massive year for y'all as
• 39:37
  Speaker 1: a band.
• 39:38
  Speaker 4: What makes it that we well.
• 39:40
  Speaker 21: You know, we started the tour of the year off
• 39:42
  Speaker 21: with the Cane Brown Tyler Hubber Tour, which was absolutely amazing.
• 39:47
  Speaker 21: Kind of went on to do our own thing, been
• 39:49
  Speaker 21: recording you know, songs, kind of getting this album lined up,
• 39:52
  Speaker 21: and then we do the concert for Carolina's with Eric Church.
• 39:55
  Speaker 4: And Luke Colmbs.
• 39:56
  Speaker 21: They help our people back home to get you know
• 39:58
  Speaker 21: that went through the flood and I'm gonna love you
• 40:01
  Speaker 21: sitting at like number four right now.
• 40:03
  Speaker 4: It's great.
• 40:04
  Speaker 21: And then we just got to go to Turks and
• 40:05
  Speaker 21: Caicos for about a week and do it, you know,
• 40:08
  Speaker 21: a little little thing there.
• 40:10
  Speaker 14: It might be a new thing, it might be a
• 40:12
  Speaker 14: new thing, as it should be.
• 40:13
  Speaker 21: And then we went from there, and then we did
• 40:15
  Speaker 21: a couple of shows in Florida, and then hited the
• 40:17
  Speaker 21: Disney World to.
• 40:18
  Speaker 4: Do a couple of shows. And then now we're here.
• 40:20
  Speaker 4: It's good stuff, living your best life.
• 40:22
  Speaker 1: But I do want to say with that, with pounding
• 40:24
  Speaker 1: the pavement comes a little man, I could really use
• 40:28
  Speaker 1: a break. So at what point are we taking a
• 40:30
  Speaker 1: break here? Because you have to work that in you'll
• 40:31
  Speaker 1: go nuts.
• 40:32
  Speaker 4: Well, we have one show this week, this week that
• 40:34
  Speaker 4: we're done. We are you done for the year. Now
• 40:37
  Speaker 4: we have a couple of little you have your radio shows.
• 40:39
  Speaker 4: You know everybody's doing the christmastuff. You don't have to
• 40:42
  Speaker 4: try that hard at those. No, that's easy. That's the
• 40:44
  Speaker 4: bus is getting parked this this weekend. When it gets back.
• 40:47
  Speaker 4: When the bus is parked, we're done. We're done. Okay,
• 40:49
  Speaker 4: good deal, good deal. So one of the things fire
• 40:51
  Speaker 4: up then uh for you guys, once once the year
• 40:54
  Speaker 4: turns the end.
• 40:54
  Speaker 21: Of February, the stars beginning of February, it'll start, Jane, you're.
• 41:00
  Speaker 4: Not joining the until later.
• 41:02
  Speaker 21: Yeah, I've got things I gotta do starting in the
• 41:04
  Speaker 21: top of December, just kind of some just you know,
• 41:09
  Speaker 21: tour things.
• 41:09
  Speaker 1: I feel you well, So let me ask you that, because,
• 41:12
  Speaker 1: like an athlete takes time away, they're in off season, right,
• 41:15
  Speaker 1: not that you get an off season, but there is
• 41:16
  Speaker 1: a healthy pocket where you take a break. How do
• 41:18
  Speaker 1: you make sure the next time you pick up an
• 41:20
  Speaker 1: instrument or you know, slide up to a microphone, that
• 41:24
  Speaker 1: you're staying sharp.
• 41:25
  Speaker 13: Well during our break, we're gonna be doing a lot
• 41:26
  Speaker 13: of rehearsals, so it's not really it's a break from
• 41:30
  Speaker 13: the road, but we're gonna keep all working.
• 41:32
  Speaker 21: I think you gotta like stay away long enough to
• 41:35
  Speaker 21: get the bug back.
• 41:36
  Speaker 4: That's that's the key to it.
• 41:38
  Speaker 21: Like, man, you know, every time we go back home,
• 41:39
  Speaker 21: we love it. We have so much fun when you
• 41:41
  Speaker 21: fall in on that being home, you hunt fish and
• 41:43
  Speaker 21: you see family. But but but we always said that
• 41:47
  Speaker 21: when we're coming back in you just have a whole
• 41:49
  Speaker 21: new like energy when you're coming back into Nashville and
• 41:50
  Speaker 21: you're driving and you see you see the downtown and
• 41:53
  Speaker 21: you head back and you know you got something, something
• 41:55
  Speaker 21: to do, something on the agenda. You're ready to get back,
• 41:57
  Speaker 21: You're ready to get back on the bus, You're ready
• 41:58
  Speaker 21: to row.
• 41:59
  Speaker 4: I mean, we we just we just love it. Man, Listen.
• 42:01
  Speaker 1: The last thing I want to say to you guys
• 42:02
  Speaker 1: is we see on Instagram when you're listening locally here
• 42:05
  Speaker 1: in Nashville to the Big ninety eight, you still share
• 42:07
  Speaker 1: the excitement of hearing yourselves on the radio. Why is
• 42:11
  Speaker 1: that something that doesn't lose it shine for y'all?
• 42:14
  Speaker 4: I noticed that this morning.
• 42:15
  Speaker 21: I didn't hear a song, but I was going through
• 42:17
  Speaker 21: listening to the radio, listening to the playlist, to seeing
• 42:21
  Speaker 21: who was coming up, listening.
• 42:22
  Speaker 4: To new songs. I'm always trying to see who's in town,
• 42:25
  Speaker 4: what's going on.
• 42:25
  Speaker 21: And I said, don't ever forget you were up and
• 42:29
  Speaker 21: coming and you didn't have anybody in Nashville. You knew
• 42:32
  Speaker 21: you just had a dream to be on the radio,
• 42:34
  Speaker 21: to get to town and maybe get a record deal.
• 42:36
  Speaker 21: And I was like, don't ever forget that, because the
• 42:38
  Speaker 21: moment you forget that, what are you doing here? Because
• 42:41
  Speaker 21: I don't ever forget that excitement. And I always tell
• 42:44
  Speaker 21: the guys like, if you ever hear on the radio,
• 42:45
  Speaker 21: you got to turn it up. You can't turn it
• 42:47
  Speaker 21: out because I mean, you have spent That's a dream
• 42:50
  Speaker 21: of an artist to write a.
• 42:52
  Speaker 4: Song or be a band and to hear it on
• 42:54
  Speaker 4: the radio. It's always been addressing. Keep tagging us on Instagram.
• 42:57
  Speaker 4: I appreciate it. Thank y'all.
• 43:00
  Speaker 1: It's Wayne d Riley Green is here with us, the
• 43:02
  Speaker 1: latest name up in lights in Nashville. Man, how are
• 43:04
  Speaker 1: things going with the duck?
• 43:05
  Speaker 4: Now?
• 43:05
  Speaker 11: Wow?
• 43:06
  Speaker 4: Cool?
• 43:06
  Speaker 17: Is that?
• 43:06
  Speaker 4: Man? That's wild to me?
• 43:08
  Speaker 11: You gotta go over there and check it out.
• 43:09
  Speaker 1: What I so, here's the thing I did, and I
• 43:11
  Speaker 1: tried the whole mention me to get free drinks.
• 43:14
  Speaker 4: Thing didn't worth You don't do that?
• 43:16
  Speaker 11: Oh no, you went to the wrong ball serving at.
• 43:17
  Speaker 4: The other bar. What's that experience like? And why'd you
• 43:22
  Speaker 4: sign off on it so quick?
• 43:23
  Speaker 1: Well?
• 43:23
  Speaker 22: I never thought I would be in the bar business
• 43:25
  Speaker 22: by any means. I certainly didn't need another project, but
• 43:28
  Speaker 22: I just love that area. Steve Ford, it's my partner
• 43:30
  Speaker 22: on that bar. Is owned Losers and Winners for years
• 43:32
  Speaker 22: and Whiskey Jam was one of the first places I
• 43:35
  Speaker 22: played in Nashville, and it was in that building in
• 43:37
  Speaker 22: Winners which is now Riley Green's duck Line. So it's
• 43:40
  Speaker 22: cool to kind of have a full circle moment with
• 43:42
  Speaker 22: that building. Every relationship I've made in town as far
• 43:44
  Speaker 22: as songwriters and artists was right there, you know, And
• 43:47
  Speaker 22: that's where I.
• 43:48
  Speaker 11: Really like to hang out at.
• 43:49
  Speaker 22: And it's cool to watch now a building that's got
• 43:51
  Speaker 22: my name on it have these up and coming artists
• 43:53
  Speaker 22: and songwriters come in, tell their story and play and
• 43:55
  Speaker 22: maybe get a break like I did.
• 43:57
  Speaker 4: Is any part of you?
• 43:58
  Speaker 1: And I know the answer is not right now, because
• 44:00
  Speaker 1: if anyone falls you on social media or pays attention
• 44:02
  Speaker 1: to your music, not many days off for you. But
• 44:07
  Speaker 1: when things may be slow down a little bit, do
• 44:09
  Speaker 1: you hope to be more hands on with the artists
• 44:10
  Speaker 1: that are there at some point?
• 44:12
  Speaker 4: Yeah?
• 44:12
  Speaker 11: I think so. I think every artist is.
• 44:14
  Speaker 22: You know, when you have the opportunities that I've got,
• 44:15
  Speaker 22: there are certain ways you can help out other artists.
• 44:17
  Speaker 22: We're taking a lot of people on tour next year
• 44:19
  Speaker 22: Damn Country Music Tour and just taking out artists that
• 44:23
  Speaker 22: I'm a fan of songwriters that I believe in. I
• 44:26
  Speaker 22: think that's one thing that's kind of cool about this
• 44:27
  Speaker 22: genre is everybody's kind of been where I'm at, and
• 44:29
  Speaker 22: I've been where they are, and everybody wants to help
• 44:31
  Speaker 22: each other out. I think that's something pretty special to
• 44:33
  Speaker 22: country music.
• 44:34
  Speaker 1: Obviously, one of your biggest songs is talking about the
• 44:36
  Speaker 1: loss of a grandfather, which is a fantastic song. Your
• 44:41
  Speaker 1: latest song is more upbeaten, kind of a different version
• 44:45
  Speaker 1: of losing somebody.
• 44:46
  Speaker 11: Yeah, you can't just write songs.
• 44:48
  Speaker 22: Maybe we want to cry all day, you know. I
• 44:50
  Speaker 22: mean that's kind of where I live at as a songwriter.
• 44:51
  Speaker 22: I love those emotional type songs. But damn good day
• 44:54
  Speaker 22: to Leave is a fun breakup song, if there is
• 44:57
  Speaker 22: such a thing.
• 44:57
  Speaker 1: Well, it's funny because anytime I talk about him, like
• 44:59
  Speaker 1: finally a breakup song for guys, because we've heard Taylor
• 45:02
  Speaker 1: Swift breakup songs for a long time.
• 45:03
  Speaker 22: Yeah, man, I love I love the thought of she left,
• 45:06
  Speaker 22: but the Fisher binding. So I guess it's okay. Maybe
• 45:09
  Speaker 22: girls don't like that song as much.
• 45:10
  Speaker 4: What's what's her in perspective?
• 45:12
  Speaker 11: Yeah, you said it.
• 45:14
  Speaker 1: Well, let me ask you this about that. Then, do
• 45:16
  Speaker 1: you think tempo when you're releasing songs like, oh, hey,
• 45:19
  Speaker 1: you know, maybe I went slow here here, let's give
• 45:22
  Speaker 1: country radios.
• 45:22
  Speaker 22: I think when you start building an album, you know,
• 45:24
  Speaker 22: don't mind if I do. I think one of my
• 45:26
  Speaker 22: favorite things about that album has got a lot of
• 45:27
  Speaker 22: different types of songs on it, and that's one of
• 45:29
  Speaker 22: those that makes you want to roll the window down
• 45:31
  Speaker 22: and turn the radio up and uh, you know, you
• 45:33
  Speaker 22: got to have those on there. So I think when
• 45:35
  Speaker 22: you go in the right you just try to write
• 45:37
  Speaker 22: the best song you can, whatever idea you come up with.
• 45:39
  Speaker 22: But when you start building an album, you certainly think
• 45:41
  Speaker 22: about tempo's and trying to build a complete project.
• 45:44
  Speaker 1: So I want to ask you, as a as a
• 45:46
  Speaker 1: songwriter two part question, what's the song you can't believe
• 45:49
  Speaker 1: you wrote? Or We're a part of the Right. And
• 45:51
  Speaker 1: what's the song you wish you wrote or We're a
• 45:53
  Speaker 1: part of the Right? Could be could be all time
• 45:56
  Speaker 1: as far as wish, or it could be something current.
• 45:58
  Speaker 22: Yeah, Well, I mean I wish Grandpa's Never Died is
• 46:00
  Speaker 22: one of those that really just came together for me.
• 46:02
  Speaker 22: I wrote it strictly as a tribute to my grendaddies
• 46:04
  Speaker 22: didn't have any plans, but being on an album or anything.
• 46:08
  Speaker 22: You know, Jesus Saves is one that saw my album
• 46:10
  Speaker 22: this time.
• 46:10
  Speaker 11: That's kind of that way.
• 46:11
  Speaker 22: It just kind of came together and the story seems
• 46:13
  Speaker 22: to be something that means a lot to people. So
• 46:14
  Speaker 22: that's that's always really cool and kind of surprises me
• 46:17
  Speaker 22: when something really gets, you know, resonates with people like that.
• 46:20
  Speaker 22: As far as the song I wish I had written,
• 46:22
  Speaker 22: there's millions of those in color by Jamie Johnson's always
• 46:25
  Speaker 22: been one of my favorites. I still played at every show,
• 46:27
  Speaker 22: so that'd be one I wish.
• 46:28
  Speaker 4: I would be together at Whiskey Fest.
• 46:31
  Speaker 11: Yeah, and that was Yeah, that's awesome.
• 46:34
  Speaker 14: Man.
• 46:34
  Speaker 1: When it comes to country music, what's a relationship that
• 46:36
  Speaker 1: you value the most, not necessarily professionally, but kind of
• 46:41
  Speaker 1: has helped you nurture into the man and artists you
• 46:43
  Speaker 1: are in country today.
• 46:44
  Speaker 22: There's been a lot of people helped me out along
• 46:46
  Speaker 22: the way. Jamie's one of them for sure. Randy Owen's
• 46:49
  Speaker 22: another guy that's always been a really good mentor to me.
• 46:51
  Speaker 22: He's from Fort Payne, Alabama, obviously the lead singer of Alabama,
• 46:55
  Speaker 22: and went to college at jacksonvill State where I played
• 46:57
  Speaker 22: football at and we met through the college, and he's
• 46:59
  Speaker 22: all has been one to give me advice even when
• 47:01
  Speaker 22: I didn't ask for it, which is very helpful because
• 47:03
  Speaker 22: he's I think up forty something number ones, you know,
• 47:05
  Speaker 22: and he's had quite a career.
• 47:07
  Speaker 1: You're on your way with my friend. Hey, enjoy all
• 47:09
  Speaker 1: things CMA. And I'm an when are you serving at
• 47:12
  Speaker 1: the bar?
• 47:12
  Speaker 11: I'm coming out all at me, man, I'll take care
• 47:14
  Speaker 11: of it.
• 47:14
  Speaker 4: I got your brother Riley Green. Thank you, brother.
• 47:18
  Speaker 1: Sorry, that's what we're talking to me talking.
• 47:21
  Speaker 4: Yeah, all ever go, I try and make it good. Sam,
• 47:24
  Speaker 4: You're a man, you always have man.
• 47:26
  Speaker 1: Sam hauntanging. It's CMA time, Wayne d and iHeart country man.
• 47:29
  Speaker 1: First of all, you look fantastic.
• 47:31
  Speaker 4: Thank you. We're moving past that. And the beard is
• 47:34
  Speaker 4: on point too. Thank you. Man. You're coming in the
• 47:36
  Speaker 4: woods for a month.
• 47:37
  Speaker 19: So I was looking pretty scraffy about four days ago,
• 47:38
  Speaker 19: but I got cleaned up.
• 47:40
  Speaker 1: Let me ask you, because the way you're putting out
• 47:41
  Speaker 1: music right now, it's like kind of the way everybody
• 47:44
  Speaker 1: is doing it. Is it hard for you as a
• 47:46
  Speaker 1: guy who really is I feel like your songwriter first,
• 47:49
  Speaker 1: your heart feels songwriter.
• 47:50
  Speaker 4: First, Am I right there?
• 47:51
  Speaker 9: Yeah?
• 47:51
  Speaker 4: Absolutely yeah. I mean unless you finish the question, well no, so.
• 47:56
  Speaker 1: So, but with that, like you're putting out music different
• 47:59
  Speaker 1: than you have a because it's it used to be
• 48:01
  Speaker 1: here's this album, and then it was like here's a
• 48:03
  Speaker 1: couple songs, here's this album, and now it's kind of
• 48:05
  Speaker 1: like here's a song, here's a song, here's a song.
• 48:08
  Speaker 4: Is that on purpose? Are you just kind of like
• 48:09
  Speaker 4: I'm just gonna enjoy the journey?
• 48:11
  Speaker 19: I think it's on purpose. I think more than anything,
• 48:14
  Speaker 19: it's I'm worried. I don't know exactly how long an
• 48:17
  Speaker 19: album will take to put out, so to go dark
• 48:21
  Speaker 19: without putting out any music for say, two three years
• 48:25
  Speaker 19: has been a little intimidating. I think if I want
• 48:28
  Speaker 19: to put out an album, which I'd like to, I'm
• 48:30
  Speaker 19: just gonna have to bite the bullet and just hope
• 48:32
  Speaker 19: that people are still interested in two three years get
• 48:35
  Speaker 19: out of here, of course, But so yeah, we'll see
• 48:41
  Speaker 19: how it plays out. But it's hard to sit on
• 48:43
  Speaker 19: songs too, So like this recent song, I'll put out Liberty.
• 48:47
  Speaker 19: I might have otherwise waited for the album to be ready,
• 48:50
  Speaker 19: or an album to be ready to put it out.
• 48:52
  Speaker 19: But I started to get the itch to put a
• 48:54
  Speaker 19: song out. You start to feel like, Okay, this sentiment
• 48:57
  Speaker 19: really matches the time that we're in right now. So
• 49:00
  Speaker 19: will this song be as relevant in two years the
• 49:03
  Speaker 19: sentiment of this song? And so those are things I
• 49:06
  Speaker 19: think about. But the biggest thing is just being worried
• 49:10
  Speaker 19: about going too long without putting anything out.
• 49:13
  Speaker 4: Take me through the process.
• 49:14
  Speaker 1: Now, when you still hear your songs on the radio,
• 49:16
  Speaker 1: is it is it still a moment that you're able
• 49:17
  Speaker 1: to stand back and appreciate if you're driving in the car.
• 49:20
  Speaker 19: Yeah, absolutely, I mean the radio is the pinnacle to
• 49:24
  Speaker 19: make it on to the radio, you know, even still like,
• 49:30
  Speaker 19: you know, the idea that there are young folks back
• 49:34
  Speaker 19: home riding around in their trucks listening to the same
• 49:37
  Speaker 19: station as I grew up listening to, and and my
• 49:40
  Speaker 19: song might come on.
• 49:41
  Speaker 4: It's just mind blowing to me. So absolutely, what's the
• 49:45
  Speaker 4: what's the downtime the rest of the year for you?
• 49:46
  Speaker 4: You're gonna go back into the woods for a month?
• 49:49
  Speaker 4: Well I did.
• 49:51
  Speaker 19: In the heat of the touring season, I started booking
• 49:53
  Speaker 19: a bunch of a bunch of these hunting trips this fall,
• 49:56
  Speaker 19: bird hunting trips. And I found out about two months
• 49:59
  Speaker 19: ago that we've got a baby on the way. So, uh,
• 50:02
  Speaker 19: Hannah started feeling really sick, and so I was gone
• 50:05
  Speaker 19: for three or four days at a time. She's at
• 50:06
  Speaker 19: home with two kids sick. So I'm having to rearrange
• 50:09
  Speaker 19: some of my plans. But she's still gonna let me. Uh,
• 50:13
  Speaker 19: I'm not letting me. She I'm still gonna get out
• 50:15
  Speaker 19: and do a couple uh abbreviated versions of them.
• 50:19
  Speaker 4: So it's a it's let you. Is this news? Is
• 50:25
  Speaker 4: this breaking news?
• 50:26
  Speaker 19: I've talked about maybe not on like on air or
• 50:30
  Speaker 19: anything like that, just at my show. I'm as soon
• 50:32
  Speaker 19: as I got the green light to tell people I've
• 50:34
  Speaker 19: been telling just working into every conversation, dude, thank.
• 50:37
  Speaker 4: You, yeah, absolutely and everything else.
• 50:41
  Speaker 19: I'm obsessed with it and very just I just feel
• 50:43
  Speaker 19: very blessed to have another one on the way.
• 50:45
  Speaker 4: Amen, man, Thank you, dude, Yeah man, thank you, brother.
• 50:48
  Speaker 4: Take pictures and get out of here.
• 50:50
  Speaker 1: C M A Award season is taking over Nashville. It's
• 50:52
  Speaker 1: Wayne d and Scotty mcquery.
• 50:54
  Speaker 4: Man.
• 50:54
  Speaker 1: It's it's awesome because sure, you're here for country music,
• 50:57
  Speaker 1: but usually we start talking hockey.
• 50:59
  Speaker 14: Yeah, that's pretty I know. I look forward to seeing
• 51:02
  Speaker 14: you so we can talk.
• 51:03
  Speaker 1: Well let's start there. Because everyone wants to talk music,
• 51:06
  Speaker 1: I want to talk hockey. You're a big Canes fan,
• 51:09
  Speaker 1: hometown squad. Have you been able to enjoy any hockey
• 51:11
  Speaker 1: at this season?
• 51:12
  Speaker 23: We've been busy on the road, but I've made I've
• 51:13
  Speaker 23: made a game we do watch on the road too.
• 51:16
  Speaker 23: And man, we all thought we lost a few key
• 51:19
  Speaker 23: players over the off season. We thought we might take
• 51:21
  Speaker 23: a step back. But they look better than they had
• 51:23
  Speaker 23: the last few years. So we just got to keep
• 51:25
  Speaker 23: that going to the playoffs. You know, it's a long season.
• 51:27
  Speaker 4: And have we have you strapped on skates recently at all?
• 51:30
  Speaker 23: It's been a minute for me every now and then
• 51:32
  Speaker 23: on the road, like playing arena that has a rink
• 51:35
  Speaker 23: attached to it for like practice and stuff, and we
• 51:37
  Speaker 23: get to do that. So I'm like a baby deer
• 51:40
  Speaker 23: at first, and then I get going, you know. So
• 51:42
  Speaker 23: See the thing is I can go, I can't stop.
• 51:44
  Speaker 4: Usually I'm like a just I slowly turned my whole
• 51:48
  Speaker 4: or just go full speed and just go into the wall.
• 51:50
  Speaker 1: That's why that's usually there's a small child there, So
• 51:53
  Speaker 1: I'm like, makes sense. Listen, CMA Award season is special.
• 51:58
  Speaker 1: Speaking of hockey and hockey building right across the street
• 52:00
  Speaker 1: Bridgetone Arena.
• 52:02
  Speaker 4: You have done this. I'm not gonna make you sound
• 52:05
  Speaker 4: like the old guy, but this ain't your first real
• 52:07
  Speaker 4: young guy.
• 52:07
  Speaker 1: Yeah right, it's a strange thing, but yeah, you still
• 52:10
  Speaker 1: could continue to create music at a high level.
• 52:12
  Speaker 4: What is a weekend? I would say weekend? What what
• 52:15
  Speaker 4: is this experience? Like? It always feels like it's a weekend,
• 52:17
  Speaker 4: doesn't it.
• 52:18
  Speaker 23: I mean, yeah, there's a lot going on, for sure,
• 52:19
  Speaker 23: and you see a lot of people and a lot
• 52:21
  Speaker 23: of parties and stuff. It feels good, you know, it's
• 52:23
  Speaker 23: always good to get everybody together in one room.
• 52:25
  Speaker 14: You see a lot of old faces. You get to
• 52:27
  Speaker 14: celebrate country music.
• 52:29
  Speaker 4: You know.
• 52:29
  Speaker 23: I don't know how other people feel. I don't look
• 52:31
  Speaker 23: at it as a competition at all. You know, there's
• 52:32
  Speaker 23: different nominations, but I'm rooting for country music. I'm rooting
• 52:36
  Speaker 23: for these folks out there grinding their tails off, you know,
• 52:38
  Speaker 23: and are very deservedly nominated.
• 52:41
  Speaker 4: So it's it's fun to celebrate country music.
• 52:43
  Speaker 1: Speaking to that, I asked a question yesterday that I
• 52:45
  Speaker 1: wanted to hang on to for certain people, and you
• 52:47
  Speaker 1: were one of them, because you have your own way.
• 52:51
  Speaker 1: You have you have this like throwback delivery, but also
• 52:55
  Speaker 1: like you do it your own way in like this
• 52:57
  Speaker 1: modern style.
• 52:58
  Speaker 4: And I'm sure you've heard something similar before.
• 53:01
  Speaker 1: But with that, from the day you started to today,
• 53:04
  Speaker 1: country music is definitely in a better place. It's more
• 53:08
  Speaker 1: mainstream than it maybe ever has been. Why do you
• 53:10
  Speaker 1: feel like country music's success is at an all time
• 53:14
  Speaker 1: high right now?
• 53:15
  Speaker 4: There's a lot of different factors in that.
• 53:16
  Speaker 23: You know, I think number one, country music has always
• 53:19
  Speaker 23: been about the song, and I think more people are
• 53:20
  Speaker 23: getting to hear the songs. You know, I think there's
• 53:22
  Speaker 23: a lot of eyes on country music. I think country
• 53:24
  Speaker 23: music has been very accepting into other people that are
• 53:26
  Speaker 23: loving country, that want to come into country. You know,
• 53:28
  Speaker 23: we got Post Malone's doing his thing, and Beyonce was
• 53:32
  Speaker 23: kind of doing her thing, and I think Machine Gun
• 53:34
  Speaker 23: Kelly's wanting to do a little bit. So it's like
• 53:36
  Speaker 23: people love country, they want to be a part of it.
• 53:37
  Speaker 23: And you know, I think for the most part, everybody
• 53:40
  Speaker 23: was like, we're all about it more than mayor or
• 53:41
  Speaker 23: bring one bring them all and.
• 53:43
  Speaker 14: It's fun to just hear the different takes on country.
• 53:47
  Speaker 1: If one of those artists comes to you, and I
• 53:51
  Speaker 1: don't want to say there's a right and wrong way
• 53:53
  Speaker 1: to approach the format, but I also feel there's a
• 53:55
  Speaker 1: respectful way that maybe multiplies your chance of success. But
• 54:00
  Speaker 1: for you, if if one of those artists face don't matter,
• 54:03
  Speaker 1: name don't matter comes to you and says, hey, what
• 54:05
  Speaker 1: can you tell me that I want to do country music?
• 54:08
  Speaker 4: What's the most important thing you can tell me?
• 54:10
  Speaker 23: Well, you know, I think post Malone has done a
• 54:12
  Speaker 23: fantastic guy of doing what you're just talking about, being respectful,
• 54:15
  Speaker 23: admiring country music, learning about the history of country. He
• 54:18
  Speaker 23: sounds like he grew up on this stuff, you know,
• 54:19
  Speaker 23: so he didn't have to try. But yeah, he's been
• 54:23
  Speaker 23: so cool about it all and made a dang good
• 54:25
  Speaker 23: country record. So I'd say follow what followed the blueprint
• 54:30
  Speaker 23: that post he laid out.
• 54:32
  Speaker 4: So let me ask you this. This is going to
• 54:33
  Speaker 4: be the last question. H You mentioned post malone.
• 54:37
  Speaker 1: Success, and it really does feel like everybody in country
• 54:39
  Speaker 1: respects how he's done this. He did a ton of
• 54:43
  Speaker 1: collabse on his first album. The second album is Scotty McCreary,
• 54:47
  Speaker 1: maybe like.
• 54:47
  Speaker 23: Hey, come on, my phone's always on, So I'm all
• 54:51
  Speaker 23: about it. Brother, Scotty McCreary, post Malone, you're opening to that.
• 54:54
  Speaker 23: I'm definitely open, especially after hearing what he did on
• 54:57
  Speaker 23: his first record. It's it's a dang good country record.
• 55:00
  Speaker 23: Love to be a part of something like that.
• 55:01
  Speaker 4: Let's do it, Scotty McCray, Thank you brother for yes, sir.
• 55:05
  Speaker 4: Sweet Let's take CMA.
• 55:06
  Speaker 1: Season continues swinging deep, Warrensiders hanging out.
• 55:09
  Speaker 4: How his life is you?
• 55:10
  Speaker 9: Life's man live?
• 55:11
  Speaker 4: Man is great? Dude, do me this favor.
• 55:14
  Speaker 1: Yeah, the last year was awesome for Warren Ziders because.
• 55:20
  Speaker 24: Because let's see here, God is good, man, God is
• 55:25
  Speaker 24: good all the time. Life is good because I get
• 55:29
  Speaker 24: to do this for a living. And I was on
• 55:32
  Speaker 24: the tour with Jelly Roll for the last two months.
• 55:34
  Speaker 24: We took home first number one the country radio.
• 55:38
  Speaker 4: Man, there's the list can go on and on. Now.
• 55:42
  Speaker 1: It sucks the last year. Why because there has to
• 55:46
  Speaker 1: be there has to be something that was like, dang,
• 55:48
  Speaker 1: that wasn't the dopest moment in my life?
• 55:51
  Speaker 24: Man, You know, I can't really There's I have too
• 55:55
  Speaker 24: much to be grateful for. I don't know if there
• 55:56
  Speaker 24: was really anything that I can look back on other
• 55:59
  Speaker 24: than getting sick of a couple of times.
• 56:00
  Speaker 4: I'll say this much.
• 56:01
  Speaker 11: Getting stripped throat as a vocalist not fun. Because I'm
• 56:05
  Speaker 11: not canceling the show.
• 56:06
  Speaker 24: I got to go out there and do you're already
• 56:07
  Speaker 24: out there, especially the Jailerical.
• 56:09
  Speaker 4: Tour when I was trus support, I was like, I
• 56:11
  Speaker 4: gotta go barrel through this and get her done. So
• 56:14
  Speaker 4: there you go. That's the worst thing I can think of. Listen,
• 56:17
  Speaker 4: you have been busy, You've been NonStop.
• 56:19
  Speaker 1: You did have a partnership this past year with Wild Turkey, Yes, sir,
• 56:23
  Speaker 1: How was that to see support from such a big
• 56:26
  Speaker 1: I mean, Wild Turkey is a big deal, especially yeah
• 56:28
  Speaker 1: Whiskey slash Bourbon. What was that like to see them
• 56:32
  Speaker 1: throw support towards you so early in your career.
• 56:35
  Speaker 4: I think it was amazing.
• 56:35
  Speaker 24: I think it was kind of like that little pad
• 56:37
  Speaker 24: on the back of just like recognition of like okay,
• 56:39
  Speaker 24: like you're really doing the thing, and like real recognize
• 56:42
  Speaker 24: is real, and here we are. And I got one
• 56:44
  Speaker 24: more show with them coming up in LA. I want
• 56:48
  Speaker 24: to say the beginning of December, and you know, I
• 56:50
  Speaker 24: just feel honored to be recognized and to partner up
• 56:53
  Speaker 24: with such an awesome company. And you know, they're family
• 56:56
  Speaker 24: owned and operated and they're still like tight knit. And
• 56:59
  Speaker 24: I love that because my parents worked for me, so
• 57:01
  Speaker 24: that was a big that was a big selling point
• 57:02
  Speaker 24: for me personally.
• 57:03
  Speaker 1: And I love that you said that because I was
• 57:05
  Speaker 1: just gonna bring up we hung out a little bit
• 57:06
  Speaker 1: with Wild Turkey at CMA Fest and your dad was there, yep,
• 57:09
  Speaker 1: but like, man, he wasn't just hanging He's like, let
• 57:12
  Speaker 1: me hold this.
• 57:12
  Speaker 4: I'm a hold this. I got this. Yeah, we're going
• 57:14
  Speaker 4: this way. Follow me. How important has this been.
• 57:17
  Speaker 1: For you to make sure that because you could have
• 57:20
  Speaker 1: been like, hey, I'm I'm it's still taking care of them,
• 57:22
  Speaker 1: but like.
• 57:22
  Speaker 4: Hey, I'm doing a thing, y'all, I'll be back.
• 57:23
  Speaker 1: Yeah, But like how important has it been for you
• 57:25
  Speaker 1: to make sure that they're part of the right as well?
• 57:27
  Speaker 24: I think that, you know, I owe honestly man, Like,
• 57:29
  Speaker 24: so I don't get mushy gushy or you know, tiry eye,
• 57:32
  Speaker 24: but like I owe everything to my parents. You know,
• 57:34
  Speaker 24: my parents had me, you know, right out the gate
• 57:37
  Speaker 24: where they I wasn't planned, but thank God, thank God
• 57:40
  Speaker 24: that I'm here, you know, beautiful accidents. But you know,
• 57:46
  Speaker 24: my parents, you know, they got they got married, and
• 57:49
  Speaker 24: you know, I came along, and you know, they didn't
• 57:51
  Speaker 24: have that phase of like, hey we're married and we're
• 57:54
  Speaker 24: gonna you know, enjoy each other's company without kids. So
• 57:57
  Speaker 24: you know, my sister and I we were you know,
• 58:00
  Speaker 24: their world. They didn't travel a lot, they didn't go explore,
• 58:03
  Speaker 24: they were never gone. They always wanted to be around
• 58:05
  Speaker 24: my sister and I and be at our sporting events
• 58:07
  Speaker 24: and always supported us and loved us through it all.
• 58:10
  Speaker 24: And you know, to be able to now be in
• 58:13
  Speaker 24: the position I'm in, I love them.
• 58:15
  Speaker 4: I trust them.
• 58:16
  Speaker 24: They're the ones that I want in my corner to
• 58:18
  Speaker 24: protect me and just have my best interest at heart.
• 58:21
  Speaker 24: So to have them now down here in Nashville, to
• 58:23
  Speaker 24: have them both work for me full time, it's it's awesome.
• 58:26
  Speaker 4: That's awesome. Plus taking care of your parents has to
• 58:28
  Speaker 4: be a tax, right off, right, we don't have to
• 58:30
  Speaker 4: talk about that.
• 58:31
  Speaker 24: Well, my mom's my business manager, so she knows all
• 58:33
  Speaker 24: about the tax, right off.
• 58:34
  Speaker 4: Man.
• 58:35
  Speaker 1: Oh yeah, listen, listen, family business work for Elvis, why not, Warren, Zeiders,
• 58:38
  Speaker 1: Amen Man, enjoy all things CMA, brother, I appreciate you.