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Celebrating Christmas with Carly Pearce & Michael Bublé · Inside Country with Wayne D

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  Speaker 1: I gotta say, first of all, I can't believe you
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  Speaker 1: offered to sing for us this morning.
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  Speaker 2: Michael.
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  Speaker 1: He's like, yeah, Carli looked like I was like, I'm kidding,
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  Speaker 1: Carly Pearce, Michael Blay, Welcome to downtown Nashville, Holly, y'all
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  Speaker 1: doing thank you.
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  Speaker 3: For having us.
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  Speaker 4: You're so excited to sing for you this morning.
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  Speaker 3: Run Oh my life.
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  Speaker 2: Come on, Carl, I'm putting this on iTunes. I'll share
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  Speaker 2: with y'all. Listen.
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  Speaker 1: I got asked because the opera was last night. Carly
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  Speaker 1: has made that place a second home. That's a first
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  Speaker 1: for you, Michael Blay, and taking over the opera.
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  Speaker 3: Was Queen car for letting me get on the door.
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  Speaker 3: I'm not joking.
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  Speaker 4: That's the best, one of the best moments of my
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  Speaker 4: career ever. I mean, I understand the gravity, and I
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  Speaker 4: understand that there are a few people that live outside
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  Speaker 4: the world of country who have ever been invited in
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  Speaker 4: that circle. And I was, I mean, and you know what,
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  Speaker 4: it's amazing because being in there, I wanted to take
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  Speaker 4: I needed to be in the moment, and I loved
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  Speaker 4: everything in the musicianship and everything. The sound of that
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  Speaker 4: church is just something but it's backstage, man, it's backstage
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  Speaker 4: where like I just listen. They may never invite me back,
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  Speaker 4: but I will just go and find my way back
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  Speaker 4: there because it's funny. I called my wife last night
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  Speaker 4: and she said, so, how was it? And I said, Babe,
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  Speaker 4: those are our.
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  Speaker 3: Kind of people.
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  Speaker 4: That's our people, babe, you know, like really beautiful, warm, empathetic.
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  Speaker 4: You could you know, you just not to push it,
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  Speaker 4: but you feel God is everywhere, you know, and that's
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  Speaker 4: that's what I want from my life. I want to
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  Speaker 4: be surrounded in that and that kind of positivity.
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  Speaker 3: So it was beautiful.
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  Speaker 1: So that circle is special obviously know the you know
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  Speaker 1: the history behind it, but the actual history of like
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  Speaker 1: that's everybody stood there man.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 4: Man, And it's why it's funny because you know, Carly
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  Speaker 4: and I did our single that maybe this Christmas song,
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  Speaker 4: but I hit like bag, I was like, can I
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  Speaker 4: please do? I want to do a Hank song because
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  Speaker 4: I'm a huge Hank fan and I really wanted to
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  Speaker 4: pay tribute because I'm a I'm a massive I have
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  Speaker 4: such reverence for the genre, for the music, for the history, and.
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  Speaker 3: So I said it on stageass night.
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  Speaker 4: I was like, you know, I've never sung this song,
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  Speaker 4: you know on the only place I ever sung was
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  Speaker 4: in the shower.
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  Speaker 3: I thank god that audience didn't have to see that.
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  Speaker 2: The singing part of the shower part.
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  Speaker 4: So it was just something where I felt like, man,
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  Speaker 4: I just felt like I was very I felt very
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  Speaker 4: loved and very welcomed as part of that family, and
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  Speaker 4: it meant a lot.
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  Speaker 1: We our radio station has hosted two shows there and
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  Speaker 1: we've been on Tay and I have been on stage
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  Speaker 1: and introducing whoever's performing next. And I want to step
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  Speaker 1: in that circle because I love the history of it,
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  Speaker 1: and especially I'm a big Elvis guy.
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  Speaker 2: So that's one of the names. And I'm like, but
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  Speaker 2: I couldn't step in it. Tay ran in there, she
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  Speaker 2: was like she liked. She stomped up and down.
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  Speaker 5: You've never stepped in the circle.
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  Speaker 2: I'm nervous.
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  Speaker 3: Do you remember your first first time?
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  Speaker 2: Yes?
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  Speaker 5: I do, May twenty fifth, twenty fifteen.
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  Speaker 6: I'm sorry, May fifteen, like that, Yeah, And I remember
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  Speaker 6: I walked in and I put I like walked and
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  Speaker 6: I put my hands down on it. And I remember
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  Speaker 6: telling my two players that were playing with me, Mike
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  Speaker 6: being one of them. I was like, I actually think
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  Speaker 6: I'm going to throw up, Like I don't know if
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  Speaker 6: I can do this. It was literally my dream to step.
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  Speaker 5: In that circle. But oh yeah, I smacked my hands down.
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  Speaker 3: There's a video.
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  Speaker 4: I actually, you know, it's funny and I felt little.
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  Speaker 4: I didn't want to cringe people out. I did it
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  Speaker 4: in a very quiet way. I don't know if you
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  Speaker 4: know that, but I actually got down and.
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  Speaker 3: Kissed at the stage. Literally I walked out and I like,
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  Speaker 3: I didn't know. I didn't. I didn't. I didn't want
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  Speaker 3: to be weird about it.
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  Speaker 2: And yeah, no that's not weird.
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  Speaker 3: No, no, it's no, I don't know. I went down
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  Speaker 3: and I was like, I need to do this.
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  Speaker 4: This is I need to give her a kiss and
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  Speaker 4: to make sure that I'm here and I'm you know,
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  Speaker 4: it was I mean, I'm pumped.
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  Speaker 3: I was on my family chat.
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  Speaker 4: We have like a group chat where yeah, you know, sheriff,
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  Speaker 4: what was the kid? I was like, there, this is
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  Speaker 4: the coolest night ever. And then when I saw it back,
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  Speaker 4: a friend of mine sent me a video of Carly
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  Speaker 4: and I and the ending of the song, and it
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  Speaker 4: didn't I want.
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  Speaker 3: To cry, like the curtain comes out, what's the beautiful
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  Speaker 3: man who was what's that man's name?
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  Speaker 7: Bill, Bill Cody, Oh my god, And the curtain's coming down,
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  Speaker 7: and it's and it says thank you everybody, thank you
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  Speaker 7: for coming to the opery for one hundredth anniversary and
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  Speaker 7: Michael Bluebla's day.
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  Speaker 3: Like I got goosebumps telling you. And the curtain came down.
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  Speaker 4: And I cut the piece and I sent it to
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  Speaker 4: my manager Bruce, and I was like, man, this is
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  Speaker 4: something like this is one of those career defining moments.
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  Speaker 1: The music that you have made your whole career doesn't
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  Speaker 1: necessarily fall into it's this, it's that, it's this, whatever.
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  Speaker 1: But does the opry experience make you want to dip
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  Speaker 1: your toe into all things country a little more?
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  Speaker 4: I have you know, it's weird, man, And it's not
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  Speaker 4: your fault for not listening to my records more.
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  Speaker 1: I have absolutely but listen I until today. I just
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  Speaker 1: haven't met you yet, So.
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  Speaker 2: Don't do me like that.
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  Speaker 3: Well, here's the weird part.
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  Speaker 4: I paid tribute on almost every single record I make
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  Speaker 4: by doing a country song. I love country music. I
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  Speaker 4: have covered so many country songs. My favorite duet of
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  Speaker 4: all time I begged Willie Nelson to send crazy with me.
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  Speaker 4: You know, for me, there's always a Patsy Klein song,
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  Speaker 4: there's always a Hank song. I've just it's just been
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  Speaker 4: such a big part of the love I have.
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  Speaker 3: I mean, even the favorite artists.
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  Speaker 4: You know, my favorite records, actually standard records was Willie
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  Speaker 4: Nelson Duin Starred Us and a lot of my favorite
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  Speaker 4: music was Ray Charles covering great country songs. And so
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  Speaker 4: what's weird is I always felt organically that the music
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  Speaker 4: the Great American song Book and jazz mixed in the
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  Speaker 4: most beautiful way.
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  Speaker 3: You know. It doesn't even.
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  Speaker 4: Rhythmically, It's not like you're taking a circle and trying
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  Speaker 4: to jam it into a square.
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  Speaker 3: They work together, you know.
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  Speaker 6: And it was also doing a lot of blue grass
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  Speaker 6: backstage with the Isaacs last night, and it was it
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  Speaker 6: was pretty great.
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  Speaker 4: I've been writing with her all morning, which I love
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  Speaker 4: is sending me videos.
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  Speaker 3: We were doing gospel stuff and Patsy Klan song. We
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  Speaker 3: did what did we do last night?
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  Speaker 4: We did ah see the Pyramids.
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  Speaker 3: It's a long boom.
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  Speaker 2: Anyway, how often did Carly Piers rolling her eyes over here?
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  Speaker 6: Well he'll just sing something and I'm just like, how
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  Speaker 6: is it perfect every single time, and then he's like
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  Speaker 6: so funny.
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  Speaker 5: But then he'll like sing and it's.
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  Speaker 1: Like, oh my god, you guys, you're here to talk
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  Speaker 1: about a song you did together. Before I get to that,
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  Speaker 1: I want I want to ask does the opry experience
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  Speaker 1: like that? Because you've you've executed at a high level
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  Speaker 1: for such a long time, does an experience like that
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  Speaker 1: motive vat you creatively in a way that maybe you haven't.
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  Speaker 4: Been Oh completely, I mean I've been, Like I said
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  Speaker 4: the Isaacs, I want to go and make We need
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  Speaker 4: to make music, and I mean we need to go
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  Speaker 4: and record without a doubt. And it doesn't have to
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  Speaker 4: be fancy. We need to sit in a room without machines.
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  Speaker 4: We need to just you know, sit there and sing
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  Speaker 4: and play. Because that was that that's what moves people.
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  Speaker 4: I think more and more we're realizing in music that
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  Speaker 4: people are looking to feel something and and authenticity is
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  Speaker 4: just so huge and people might not even be able
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  Speaker 4: to articulate why they feel it, but they do. And
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  Speaker 4: last night sing singing with them, it was like, oh yeah,
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  Speaker 4: this is a no brainer.
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  Speaker 3: This has to happen.
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  Speaker 6: And mind you, Sonia, who to me is one of
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  Speaker 6: the greatest female vocalists of all time texted me in
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  Speaker 6: the morning and said, do you think I can meet Michael?
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  Speaker 6: He's literally my dream due at partner And then now
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  Speaker 6: she's texting with like her music here.
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  Speaker 3: You know, it's weird. I was thinking about country too.
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  Speaker 4: I write, I don't know why, but I write in
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  Speaker 4: a way that's very country. When I write, it's just
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  Speaker 4: even this song, the Christmas song was like me on
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  Speaker 4: the guitar and me kind of you know, embodying Willie
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  Speaker 4: and Uh. One of the first big hits I had.
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  Speaker 4: I'd written Home and right away Blake Shelton took it
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  Speaker 4: and he had I think it was his first number
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  Speaker 4: one hit, And for me that was like I realized.
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  Speaker 4: I was like, oh, that's kind of what. Even the song,
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  Speaker 4: everything that I wrote. I don't know if you know
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  Speaker 4: that song you're.
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  Speaker 3: But it's very country. It's kind of I have that
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  Speaker 3: kind of that love and passion for I think it
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  Speaker 3: just seeps through what I do.
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  Speaker 1: I was reading a little bit of the backstory. Obviously,
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  Speaker 1: you guys came together. Carly was an advisor for your team.
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  Speaker 1: Two musical talents like y'all are bound to connect on something.
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  Speaker 1: Why why a Christmas song? What made a Christmas song work?
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  Speaker 3: You want to kind of tell him quickly.
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  Speaker 6: So I was called to be Michael's advisor, which of
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  Speaker 6: course I'm such a fan of him as an artist.
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  Speaker 3: Could you please it's live please?
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  Speaker 2: And she was like, hm, He's like, you know how
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  Speaker 2: many people I've called?
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, He's like, you're my fifteenth.
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  Speaker 6: And then he like literally called me for the first
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  Speaker 6: time as we're chatting about like you know, hey, can't
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  Speaker 6: wait to meet you whatever, and he was like, Hey,
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  Speaker 6: I'm working on this.
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  Speaker 5: Song. I really want you to be a part of it.
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  Speaker 6: I'm doing something really special with Apple and the new
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  Speaker 6: iPhone and this new feature where we're going to be
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  Speaker 6: able to record on our iPhones in a new and
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  Speaker 6: innovative way. And I was like, okay, awesome, I'm in.
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  Speaker 6: And then over the next couple of months, he would
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  Speaker 6: just send me these little as he was like working
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  Speaker 6: on the song, and then before I knew it, here
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  Speaker 6: i am flying to Vancouver. We're singing and I'm going
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  Speaker 6: to let him speak just because this is so amazing
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  Speaker 6: as an artist to advocate for other artists and other
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  Speaker 6: creatives in the way that he has I mean he's
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  Speaker 6: changing history. Just get to go along on the ride
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  Speaker 6: and laugh all day, but I mean what he's done
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  Speaker 6: for young creatives who may not be able to afford
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  Speaker 6: being in a studio or may not have the just
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  Speaker 6: abilities they're going to be able to record. I mean,
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  Speaker 6: we recorded this song our vocals on an iPhone. There
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  Speaker 6: is people all day have been like, but really did you?
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  Speaker 6: And it's like, no, seriously, literally on an iPhone.
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  Speaker 3: I didn't do anything.
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  Speaker 4: By the way, There's a guy named John Dancy who
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  Speaker 4: works with mister Tim Cook and Apple.
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  Speaker 3: And is a genius and as a team of geniuses.
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  Speaker 4: And I was hanging with him and I didn't even
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  Speaker 4: know really what he did, and he was like, how'd
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  Speaker 4: you write your music? And I said, oh, I use
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  Speaker 4: my voice memo on my phone. And I was like,
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  Speaker 4: how come it sucks when I don't use a headphone
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  Speaker 4: and it.
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  Speaker 3: Sounds like I come out of the shower. And I said, like,
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  Speaker 3: you guys are geniuses. Can't you fix that? And that's
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  Speaker 3: what I literally said.
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  Speaker 4: And then he called me like a year later and
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  Speaker 4: he went, hey, remember when you were saying that stuff.
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  Speaker 4: He said, I went back and my team did it
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  Speaker 4: and he goes, we now we have studio call you
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  Speaker 4: and the new the sixteen. And he goes and we
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  Speaker 4: have two tracks. And I was like, oh my god.
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  Speaker 4: For me as a writer, that's like really, you mean
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  Speaker 4: I can like plunk something down and sing to a
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  Speaker 4: demo and not have to go to a studio. And
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  Speaker 4: and I was cynical, but then I was. So this
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  Speaker 4: song was written quickly. It was all done quickly, flew Carly.
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  Speaker 4: The producer's name was Greg Wallas. He had just finished
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  Speaker 4: doing producing the Wicked movie, the music for Wicked. They
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  Speaker 4: flew to Vancouver. She was amazing. Literally literally in a
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  Speaker 4: day's notice. Was it literally less than a day's notice.
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  Speaker 4: It was like the red Eye of Vancouver. Greg came,
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  Speaker 4: she put that stuck the iPhone in the in the stand.
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  Speaker 3: I got one in my stand.
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  Speaker 4: Greg took the iPhone and stuck it into the piano,
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  Speaker 4: got to the piano.
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  Speaker 3: And it was like it worked, like it works, and
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  Speaker 3: I just.
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  Speaker 4: You know again going back to that authenticity, going back
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  Speaker 4: to organic stuff.
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  Speaker 3: You just it just works, man. And there's it's like
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  Speaker 3: you can work in this business.
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  Speaker 4: And you know, because you see every day people come
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  Speaker 4: in here selling you their wares and they could work
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  Speaker 4: the hardest on it with the greatest technology people in
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  Speaker 4: the world, the best writers, and dude, sometimes it doesn't
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  Speaker 4: hit and you can't expect how come it didn't hit?
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  Speaker 3: I just that was the biggest songwriter and the biggest movie.
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  Speaker 4: In the And then sometimes something like this happens, where
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  Speaker 4: it just kind of happens and our friendship is organic
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  Speaker 4: and it works and there's no reason.
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  Speaker 3: It just you can't even explain. It just happens.
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  Speaker 1: Just moves people when it comes to being organic, whether
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  Speaker 1: you write a song, and this is a question I
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  Speaker 1: repeat often because the answers are wild. When you are
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  Speaker 1: approached with a song or maybe you're a part of
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  Speaker 1: a write. Has there been a song that you just
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  Speaker 1: didn't feel because it wasn't authentic to you that ended
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  Speaker 1: up going to somebody else and like now has been massive?
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  Speaker 3: No, because I write, and I've written all the how
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  Speaker 3: about you?
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  Speaker 6: I have a flip of that, yeap, So I didn't
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  Speaker 6: write the Wine and Little Big Town cut it first,
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  Speaker 6: but then didn't feel like it was right for them.
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  Speaker 5: But then it became a hit for me.
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  Speaker 2: Massive.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, it's like one of my defining You still get
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  Speaker 1: bottles of wine as a gift because I'm thank you
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  Speaker 1: so much.
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  Speaker 3: I had and I have.
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  Speaker 4: The opposite is because going back to home, Like, I
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  Speaker 4: was very proud of myself because I was like, this
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  Speaker 4: is a good song, and I knew it was a
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  Speaker 4: good song.
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  Speaker 3: I was in shower writing it. You didn't ower a
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  Speaker 3: lot I do. I do all my best No, I
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  Speaker 3: do all my best work in the shower.
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  Speaker 2: I really do way different, dude.
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  Speaker 4: And but then Blake, Blake had it and it was
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  Speaker 4: like this massive hit. And then like for years after,
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  Speaker 4: I would be doing it somewhere and people come up
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  Speaker 4: to me. They'd say, I just really loved your version
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  Speaker 4: of Blake Shelton's Home, and I'd don't.
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  Speaker 3: Damn it, that's my song.
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  Speaker 4: Never I've never missed a song. I mean I've had
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  Speaker 4: songs by the way that I thought would be huge.
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  Speaker 4: Like I wrote a song called I Got It Easy,
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  Speaker 4: and it's still one of my favorite songs that I've
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  Speaker 4: ever written. I was like, oh, this is gonna kill
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  Speaker 4: this for sure. It is so deep and rich and authentic.
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  Speaker 4: No one has ever heard of it.
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  Speaker 2: It's one of my tops. Honest.
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  Speaker 1: This song is called Maybe This Christmas is it tough.
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  Speaker 1: Christmas music is some of the most iconic music. Like
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  Speaker 1: it's people have their favorites, their classics, and they kind
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  Speaker 1: of just stick with that. Knowing y'all have created fantastic
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  Speaker 1: music outside of a holiday.
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  Speaker 2: Is it intimidating to do a Christmas song? You're like,
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  Speaker 2: we're just gonna have fun and if people dig it,
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  Speaker 2: they dig it.
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  Speaker 6: I mean, I felt like I was in really good
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  Speaker 6: company as far as getting to mix like something that
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  Speaker 6: I feel like when you hear him sing, there's something
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  Speaker 6: so classic about it and timeless. Yet like I feel
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  Speaker 6: like I've heard this song for years and I don't
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  Speaker 6: know how to explain that to you, Like I feel
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  Speaker 6: like sweet Spot to me is like if you're going
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  Speaker 6: to create something that's going to be played for years
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  Speaker 6: to come, it's very rare that it feels. But because
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  Speaker 6: I do feel like this song is speaking to a
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  Speaker 6: group of people that maybe feel like Christmas music is
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  Speaker 6: only for people who feel joyful, and this song is
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  Speaker 6: about people who maybe feel sadness. But it just sounds
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  Speaker 6: perfectly new, yet I feel like I've heard it for years.
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  Speaker 4: I get asked a couple of times a month by
• 15:22
  Speaker 4: the biggest artists on our planet Earth, no joke, and
• 15:26
  Speaker 4: they'll call and go like, we should do Christmas thing,
• 15:29
  Speaker 4: and and I think they want to. I'm not a
• 15:32
  Speaker 4: kidding man like this, and I think the thought is that, man,
• 15:40
  Speaker 4: it's easy, like you just do it and it'll sell
• 15:42
  Speaker 4: and you'll make a ton of dough and everybody wants in,
• 15:44
  Speaker 4: like every like who wouldn't want to have an iconic
• 15:47
  Speaker 4: Christmas moment and every year in perpetuity, it's evergreen, and
• 15:53
  Speaker 4: and it doesn't work for them.
• 15:54
  Speaker 3: It doesn't work ever like ever.
• 15:56
  Speaker 4: And the reason it works for me is because I
• 16:00
  Speaker 4: am the hugest nerd in the universe.
• 16:03
  Speaker 3: And I genuinely love Christmas.
• 16:07
  Speaker 4: I love it. I love the feeling of it. I
• 16:09
  Speaker 4: loved it before I got four kids now and I
• 16:12
  Speaker 4: see the wonderment in their eyes, and I want to
• 16:15
  Speaker 4: recreate what my mom and dad recreated for me, made
• 16:18
  Speaker 4: for me from their parents.
• 16:19
  Speaker 3: And so it is so earnest and.
• 16:22
  Speaker 4: It goes right back to what we've been talking about
• 16:24
  Speaker 4: this whole time, which is is authenticity. It's like people,
• 16:29
  Speaker 4: they may not know how to say it, it's hard
• 16:33
  Speaker 4: to articulate.
• 16:34
  Speaker 3: But they feel it.
• 16:35
  Speaker 4: Man, you can't trick them, and so you know, like
• 16:38
  Speaker 4: people that dig it, it's you can feel it, and
• 16:40
  Speaker 4: it's something that's like Kelly Clarkson is somebody who's had
• 16:43
  Speaker 4: a lot of success with pristance.
• 16:44
  Speaker 2: You know what.
• 16:45
  Speaker 4: That woman, you know that she loves it, like you
• 16:48
  Speaker 4: know what I mean, that's a joyful, beautiful.
• 16:51
  Speaker 3: Soul and when she does.
• 16:53
  Speaker 4: It, you not just that she has the voice of
• 16:55
  Speaker 4: an angel, you know, but she's.
• 16:56
  Speaker 5: It's real even in our format.
• 16:58
  Speaker 6: Brett Aldridge, it's like he's had some much success it's
• 17:01
  Speaker 6: because he loves it.
• 17:02
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean at this point he's almost like, forget
• 17:05
  Speaker 1: the other music on the Christmas truly what So let
• 17:09
  Speaker 1: me ask what are Christmas is all about? Positivity and happiness?
• 17:14
  Speaker 1: What are Christmas songs that you're like that you may
• 17:16
  Speaker 1: skip on your playlist.
• 17:17
  Speaker 6: I'm not like a Rootolph the Red Nose Reindeer, Frosty
• 17:21
  Speaker 6: the Snowman. I know, but I don't have kids and
• 17:24
  Speaker 6: my dogs can't talk.
• 17:25
  Speaker 1: Obviously you don't know your dancers comedy listen, but she did.
• 17:31
  Speaker 3: Recall her least favorite reindeer of all Michael.
• 17:37
  Speaker 2: Michael, what about the same question for you?
• 17:39
  Speaker 1: Are there are there songs that you're like, Okay, I've
• 17:42
  Speaker 1: heard enough of this one. Not in a negative way, but.
• 17:45
  Speaker 4: Like songs like there's songs like that I feel are underplayed,
• 17:48
  Speaker 4: Like why how can we never hear?
• 17:51
  Speaker 3: All I want for Christmas is you?
• 17:54
  Speaker 2: That's what?
• 17:55
  Speaker 3: How does that one go? That's you know what?
• 18:06
  Speaker 2: It wasn't on my bingo car for this morning. But
• 18:08
  Speaker 2: it's fine, man.
• 18:11
  Speaker 3: You know what's funny.
• 18:12
  Speaker 4: I'm I don't hear enough, no joke, I don't hear
• 18:16
  Speaker 4: the hymns enough, you know, like and people are so
• 18:19
  Speaker 4: afraid that you're not allowed to say Merry Christmas, and
• 18:22
  Speaker 4: because it doesn't politically correct to love you know what's weird.
• 18:25
  Speaker 3: People have no.
• 18:25
  Speaker 4: Problem ever using the Lord's name in vain and nobody
• 18:29
  Speaker 4: even blinks, but you say I love my Jesus and
• 18:32
  Speaker 4: people go like huh. And it's like, I'm miss hearing
• 18:35
  Speaker 4: beautiful hymns man, that are spreading the good word absolute
• 18:39
  Speaker 4: and I don't hear it enough. And there's there's room
• 18:42
  Speaker 4: for everything, and I'm loving the you know, the fun
• 18:45
  Speaker 4: you know, commercial Christmas songs. But give me a little
• 18:48
  Speaker 4: bit of Oh Holy night, you know, give me a
• 18:50
  Speaker 4: little bit of Silent night or or you know the
• 18:54
  Speaker 4: drummer boy, Like, those are the ones I like, that's
• 18:56
  Speaker 4: what That's what inspired me to love Christmas music is
• 19:00
  Speaker 4: growing up with my faith and like loving that we
• 19:02
  Speaker 4: got to share our love of our faith.
• 19:04
  Speaker 3: Like that cool.
• 19:05
  Speaker 1: Funny enough as you bring up those song titles, those
• 19:07
  Speaker 1: were mixed in with the Santa Babies of the World
• 19:11
  Speaker 1: when I was younger, Like you would hear those songs
• 19:14
  Speaker 1: just as much as Burl Lives and all those.
• 19:16
  Speaker 2: Yeah, not the case anymore though.
• 19:18
  Speaker 3: Not the case so much.
• 19:20
  Speaker 4: And I'm you know, I love and when they were
• 19:22
  Speaker 4: like listens for me, Bing Crosby was a big part
• 19:24
  Speaker 4: of our life growing up and that was playing all
• 19:25
  Speaker 4: the time.
• 19:26
  Speaker 3: I love that. I just think it's really beautiful.
• 19:28
  Speaker 4: And by the way, it was a big part of
• 19:31
  Speaker 4: the inspire you know, inspiring me. When I wrote this song,
• 19:34
  Speaker 4: it was like I wanted to write a hymn, you know,
• 19:36
  Speaker 4: a really beautiful hymn that brought some hope, brought some.
• 19:39
  Speaker 2: Light when it comes to what happens past this.
• 19:43
  Speaker 1: Have you guys had enough fun where you're like, hey,
• 19:45
  Speaker 1: let's do a non Christmas song together?
• 19:47
  Speaker 3: Oh yeah, absolutely, yeah.
• 19:49
  Speaker 6: I'm like sad that Christmas is almost here because I
• 19:52
  Speaker 6: won't see him all the time.
• 19:53
  Speaker 5: I've been seeing him so much. So yeah, we have
• 19:54
  Speaker 5: to we have to sing something that's her.
• 19:58
  Speaker 4: No joke it listen, You're gonna see you mean, because
• 20:01
  Speaker 4: well again, they're probably whether I'm invited.
• 20:03
  Speaker 3: Back or not.
• 20:04
  Speaker 4: I will be disguising my way in and finding my
• 20:06
  Speaker 4: way into the opry.
• 20:08
  Speaker 3: I'll be coming a handsome hey are you That's all.
• 20:11
  Speaker 3: I'm George and I'm here too. I'm coming back.
• 20:17
  Speaker 1: My go to is if I want to be somewhere,
• 20:19
  Speaker 1: I just go as lejanitor because nobody.
• 20:21
  Speaker 2: Questions a guy with the mop, you know what I mean.
• 20:23
  Speaker 2: It's like somebody Carly throw up backstage again She's it's true,
• 20:31
  Speaker 2: so that.
• 20:31
  Speaker 3: You know we need to work together for sure. This
• 20:33
  Speaker 3: girl's voice is it's just stupid. It's so beautiful.
• 20:37
  Speaker 4: I have written her so many messages or called her
• 20:39
  Speaker 4: after me and my wife sitting in bed listening to
• 20:41
  Speaker 4: this song and going like like god, this.
• 20:45
  Speaker 3: Is so she's so good. She's so good. By the way,
• 20:48
  Speaker 3: last night we were good.
• 20:51
  Speaker 4: I don't know if we're allowed to say that, but like,
• 20:53
  Speaker 4: I saw so much stuff like sent to me on
• 20:56
  Speaker 4: socials and stuff of our performance?
• 20:59
  Speaker 3: What why are we so good? I really, why are
• 21:03
  Speaker 3: we so good? And so beauty and humble?
• 21:07
  Speaker 1: That's what I love about you is that we didn't
• 21:08
  Speaker 1: have to turn your head sideways a gainst you on
• 21:10
  Speaker 1: the door.
• 21:10
  Speaker 2: It was great.
• 21:11
  Speaker 1: Yeah, uh, you said, go back to the Opery experience.
• 21:17
  Speaker 1: You said you had called your wife as soon as
• 21:19
  Speaker 1: it was over, and you saw the clips or whatever.
• 21:22
  Speaker 1: It's party like, they have to be here next time
• 21:25
  Speaker 1: because you can't explain, you can't.
• 21:26
  Speaker 4: I was crushed, I said, I said, Actually, weirdly, I
• 21:31
  Speaker 4: literally before I sat down with you, I'm texting with
• 21:34
  Speaker 4: a friend of mine named Eric stone Street and Eric.
• 21:36
  Speaker 3: Is is do you know Eric?
• 21:38
  Speaker 4: He's uh, he Eric's he's an actor. He was in
• 21:41
  Speaker 4: a Modern Family member Modern. Oh yeah, yeah, Eric Stones
• 21:44
  Speaker 4: She's a wonderful comedian. Really, And he's so angry with
• 21:48
  Speaker 4: me because he said, if I had known that you
• 21:51
  Speaker 4: were at the Opry, I would have flown. And he's
• 21:55
  Speaker 4: giving me so much hell right now on the phone.
• 21:58
  Speaker 4: And and yeah, he just wrote me to say that
• 22:04
  Speaker 4: he's upset about many things.
• 22:06
  Speaker 3: That's just that.
• 22:08
  Speaker 2: You've opened the door.
• 22:09
  Speaker 3: Yeah, it's a tough Kansas City Chiefs game for him.
• 22:13
  Speaker 1: Listen, that's fine with me. They can it's been They've
• 22:16
  Speaker 1: had plenty of fun. They can go to the back
• 22:18
  Speaker 1: of the line.
• 22:18
  Speaker 3: So there's a lot of people. I would have loved
• 22:20
  Speaker 3: to to be there last night.
• 22:21
  Speaker 4: But honestly, I spent most of my night last night
• 22:23
  Speaker 4: sharing videos with my family with my manager. You know,
• 22:28
  Speaker 4: this was my manager managed Martina McBride for a long
• 22:31
  Speaker 4: time and he managed Anne.
• 22:33
  Speaker 3: Marie for a long time. Oh wow, yeah, so this
• 22:36
  Speaker 3: would have been a big moment for him.
• 22:37
  Speaker 2: That's anytime Anne Marie's name comes up.
• 22:40
  Speaker 1: My grandma went to high school with her, and so
• 22:43
  Speaker 1: she always is like, you know I I'm like, yeah, grandma,
• 22:45
  Speaker 1: and you messed.
• 22:46
  Speaker 3: Up somewhere partly Canadian or something.
• 22:50
  Speaker 2: I am from Minnesota close enough.
• 22:51
  Speaker 3: Oh yeah, I can tell because you're very handsome.
• 22:55
  Speaker 2: You're lying.
• 22:59
  Speaker 4: The Canadians have and I'm not saying that. It's like
• 23:01
  Speaker 4: we're all as sexy as you and I, but.
• 23:03
  Speaker 1: That's what hey, But you can tell. Everyone's trying to
• 23:05
  Speaker 1: catch up though, Keep trying, but keep trying.
• 23:10
  Speaker 3: Carly's like, what Minnesota accent?
• 23:13
  Speaker 2: I had to did that thing? You get out get
• 23:15
  Speaker 2: you know what?
• 23:16
  Speaker 1: I mean, yeah, I've been here for four years now,
• 23:17
  Speaker 1: so I was like, I try not to stay boat.
• 23:20
  Speaker 2: You want to go on the boat?
• 23:20
  Speaker 3: Oh yeah.
• 23:22
  Speaker 6: My assistant is from North Dakota and sometimes she'll be
• 23:24
  Speaker 6: like bag and I'm like what She's like bags.
• 23:29
  Speaker 2: Pop because we say pop in the Midwest.
• 23:31
  Speaker 5: Hop I say pop.
• 23:32
  Speaker 1: But I changed the soda because people are like, why'd
• 23:35
  Speaker 1: you want? Almost did a New York accent for NASCAR.
• 23:38
  Speaker 1: It's fine, They're the same place. Fine, what what are
• 23:42
  Speaker 1: you guys doing the rest of the year, Like, what
• 23:45
  Speaker 1: are your plans as far as are you guys performing
• 23:47
  Speaker 1: again together?
• 23:49
  Speaker 5: This is the end.
• 23:49
  Speaker 3: This is time to drink.
• 23:51
  Speaker 2: This is the end. Well, less traumatic, It's time to
• 23:53
  Speaker 2: have a drink.
• 23:54
  Speaker 3: Honestly, this is really I am going to start.
• 23:57
  Speaker 4: I have been so disciplined and so good and uh,
• 24:01
  Speaker 4: you know, doing music and so she's got a wine,
• 24:05
  Speaker 4: I've got a whiskey and and uh and I've been
• 24:08
  Speaker 4: doing all that and selling that.
• 24:10
  Speaker 3: But it's time to start drinking it. Ye, selling and
• 24:14
  Speaker 3: more drinking.
• 24:14
  Speaker 6: Yeah, I mean I it's kind of become a running
• 24:17
  Speaker 6: joke everywhere that we've been together over the last few months.
• 24:20
  Speaker 6: I either uber eats a bottle of wine too wherever
• 24:23
  Speaker 6: we are, or I bring them. So last night I
• 24:26
  Speaker 6: had my stash and he was just like, look at you.
• 24:28
  Speaker 6: I'm like, I drink with you when we're together.
• 24:32
  Speaker 5: It's not good. I was glad she had to do
• 24:35
  Speaker 5: something this morning, and so did I.
• 24:37
  Speaker 4: I am so excited, like I go, we leave it
• 24:40
  Speaker 4: one and my kids are so happy to have me come.
• 24:42
  Speaker 4: You know now it's just poppy time and and it's
• 24:46
  Speaker 4: just time to get you know, put my phone down.
• 24:48
  Speaker 3: I lost in almost all of.
• 24:50
  Speaker 4: My fantasy football leagues, so there's no reason to thank
• 24:53
  Speaker 4: you for loving on me.
• 24:54
  Speaker 2: Man, and my team on paper was stacked by the
• 24:57
  Speaker 2: way I.
• 24:58
  Speaker 3: Was destroying all your My heart is aching.
• 25:02
  Speaker 2: I started six and one, then I lost every game
• 25:04
  Speaker 2: after that.
• 25:06
  Speaker 3: You know what my wife would say to you. He
• 25:07
  Speaker 3: would say, it's no real. It's called fantasy because there's
• 25:12
  Speaker 3: no real. Mike is no real. But she doesn't know
• 25:15
  Speaker 3: how real.
• 25:16
  Speaker 2: That's what I'm saying. I had a bond with these guys.
• 25:20
  Speaker 2: We went into war.
• 25:21
  Speaker 3: You think I'm kidding. This is the truth. Oh, I
• 25:24
  Speaker 3: don't want to say it out.
• 25:25
  Speaker 2: Loud, do it?
• 25:25
  Speaker 3: I got no filter?
• 25:26
  Speaker 2: Do it?
• 25:27
  Speaker 3: Okay?
• 25:27
  Speaker 4: If you said if you said Grammy or the Pop
• 25:32
  Speaker 4: jazz Is Fantasy Football Championship Trophy, Oh, it would be
• 25:37
  Speaker 4: the Pop Jazzers Championship Trophy. It's I've been in the
• 25:40
  Speaker 4: league for fifteen years with all my musicians who are
• 25:43
  Speaker 4: my family, and I hate them so much.
• 25:46
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 25:46
  Speaker 2: Oh yeah, God threw you.
• 25:50
  Speaker 3: Nick. I just want to say that Nick Vainos.
• 25:52
  Speaker 2: We're gonna jump neck next time we see him.
• 25:54
  Speaker 3: Stupid.
• 25:59
  Speaker 2: Uh, what are Christmas plans?
• 26:02
  Speaker 6: I'm hanging out with my two children, my Shitsuos, Johnny
• 26:06
  Speaker 6: and June, drinking a lot of wine. I think my
• 26:09
  Speaker 6: mom's worried about my wine intake these days. But just
• 26:11
  Speaker 6: hanging out with my parents and just taking a little break,
• 26:14
  Speaker 6: like you know, not clipping the hair in, not putting
• 26:17
  Speaker 6: all the clothes on, just like chilling.
• 26:20
  Speaker 2: That's I try to avoid the you know what.
• 26:21
  Speaker 5: I mean, clip it in the hair is tough.
• 26:23
  Speaker 1: It's not authentic when I do it, exactly, it's not.
• 26:27
  Speaker 8: When I do I'll take it off right now, I
• 26:30
  Speaker 8: think the same day, you know what, I'm going to
• 26:32
  Speaker 8: be basically walking around Vancouver, Canada telling people that I
• 26:37
  Speaker 8: won the voice.
• 26:40
  Speaker 3: And if they don't know.
• 26:41
  Speaker 4: I will say, do you know that I wont I'm
• 26:43
  Speaker 4: the winner of season twenty six.
• 26:44
  Speaker 1: The boy just have a shirt, then you don't have
• 26:46
  Speaker 1: to voices and your voices check you know what I mean,
• 26:50
  Speaker 1: like just put it on a shirt.
• 26:51
  Speaker 4: And uh and just collecting Christmas money and stuff like that.
• 26:55
  Speaker 1: That's Christmas music. I heard pays the can we hey,
• 26:59
  Speaker 1: can we hey? Check your DMS on Instagram. I just
• 27:02
  Speaker 1: have a song idea for Christmas. If you get a
• 27:04
  Speaker 1: secon yes, I was like, no, I wouldn't listen. I
• 27:10
  Speaker 1: will never pitch a song idea unless do we still.
• 27:13
  Speaker 3: Have but encounter about snowman and reindeer.
• 27:17
  Speaker 1: That's yeah, whatever, and maybe happiness. I don't like flakes
• 27:22
  Speaker 1: and like children playing.
• 27:25
  Speaker 5: No SHOs playing yes yes, yes.
• 27:28
  Speaker 2: Whatever you want to call the kids. We don't care.
• 27:30
  Speaker 1: H I appreciate you guys so much, sanction making the
• 27:32
  Speaker 1: times fun today.
• 27:33
  Speaker 3: Thank you.
• 27:33
  Speaker 6: You know you should have played the game with him
• 27:35
  Speaker 6: where you give the clearly to play this game where
• 27:39
  Speaker 6: he had it was idea where one of us got
• 27:43
  Speaker 6: the shot of tequila or vodka or whatever you get.
• 27:45
  Speaker 5: It was tequila.
• 27:48
  Speaker 1: It was a TikTok thing where one of us had
• 27:50
  Speaker 1: water or one had tequila and the other two had
• 27:52
  Speaker 1: water and then people watched the video and had to guess.
• 27:54
  Speaker 2: So if you drank it, you couldn't react.
• 27:56
  Speaker 3: Can we do a TikTok before, like before we finished this?
• 27:59
  Speaker 3: Can we do one together?
• 28:00
  Speaker 2: What kind looks?
• 28:02
  Speaker 3: Just don't make me do a dance? I won't do
• 28:04
  Speaker 3: I can't.
• 28:04
  Speaker 2: I won't dance.
• 28:05
  Speaker 1: And plus TikTok's going away in like a few weeks,
• 28:07
  Speaker 1: isn't it. Yeah, it just got banned.
• 28:11
  Speaker 3: Do you know what? Don't I'm no joke.
• 28:12
  Speaker 4: Guys, don't even worry about that because with the aliens
• 28:15
  Speaker 4: coming to attack, that's true.
• 28:17
  Speaker 3: Nothing.
• 28:18
  Speaker 2: Do you have an alien song? Yet?
• 28:20
  Speaker 3: I'm having a hard time rhyming with orb orb or
• 28:27
  Speaker 3: that's not a rhyme with or. That's what's going on
• 28:38
  Speaker 3: with the orbs by the way.
• 28:39
  Speaker 2: That's listen. We could get into that. It's funny because
• 28:42
  Speaker 2: his dad on Instagram just posted what did he just
• 28:46
  Speaker 2: posts yesterday? Did you see it? But it was something
• 28:49
  Speaker 2: very like if you come and get us already, we've
• 28:51
  Speaker 2: had enough or something like that. Just get it over with, please,
• 28:56
  Speaker 2: I'm my good lord.
• 28:57
  Speaker 4: I mentioned that I won the Voice this season. This
• 29:01
  Speaker 4: was this season Yeah, I just did it.
• 29:03
  Speaker 3: I just wanted. I don't know if I had said that.
• 29:05
  Speaker 3: I don't want to be a braggart. I wait those
• 29:07
  Speaker 3: kind of people.
• 29:07
  Speaker 2: But so the voice, Christmas music. I know I'm dominating.
• 29:13
  Speaker 2: I'm dominating, you know what.
• 29:15
  Speaker 4: Just wait, do we get to Mother's Day in Valentine's
• 29:17
  Speaker 4: because I'm back then too, Michael coming.
• 29:24
  Speaker 2: Carly Fierce. I appreciate you guys so much.
• 29:28
  Speaker 3: Fabby, don't leave me hanging