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Red White & BOOM with Harper Grace · Inside Country with Wayne D

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  Speaker 1: That's saying, been a minute since last time I saw.
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  Speaker 1: It wasn't even in like professional mode. It was like
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  Speaker 1: it was like chill out at Mitchell at a sporting
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  Speaker 1: event mode.
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  Speaker 2: We were we were enjoying the time.
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  Speaker 1: Harper Grace, how are you?
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  Speaker 2: I'm wonderful, how are you?
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  Speaker 1: Life is good? You're getting ready to go do all
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  Speaker 1: sorts of Fourth of July partying.
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  Speaker 2: You're going to d C all the way to DC.
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  Speaker 3: I've only been to DC one time, So just a
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  Speaker 3: bunch of friends are gonna all cram in one hotel
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  Speaker 3: room and have a have a time, so it should
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  Speaker 3: be fun.
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  Speaker 2: So I'm writing America.
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  Speaker 1: My favorite part about what you said is, so you're
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  Speaker 1: going to be in DC Fourth of July America two fifty,
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  Speaker 1: which like has been the biggest deal for a while now.
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  Speaker 1: The fireworks are going to.
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  Speaker 2: Be sick Guinness book A.
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  Speaker 3: I think they're saying it's like going to begin us
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  Speaker 3: book A World Records firework show.
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  Speaker 2: So I some supposedly my friend heard on the TV.
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  Speaker 3: I don't know if this is true, but apparently they're
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  Speaker 3: like they're going to set off like like last year
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  Speaker 3: was eighty thousand or something, and the guy's like.
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  Speaker 2: We're sitting off twenty times that. So I'm like, oh
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  Speaker 2: my gosh, like one hundred fifty thousand. Like I don't know.
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  Speaker 3: I was homeschool so I don't know the exact mouth
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  Speaker 3: on that, but I'm like, that's a lot of firework.
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  Speaker 3: It's gonna be there for like five hours, just staring
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  Speaker 3: at the sky for a long time.
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  Speaker 1: Meet you were homeschooled. She was public school, and she
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  Speaker 1: don't know the numbers either, So we're fine.
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  Speaker 2: She catches straight.
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  Speaker 1: We try, but but it's it's funny because fireworks are
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  Speaker 1: a big deal. We were just talking on the radio
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  Speaker 1: the other day. Drone shows have become popular as well.
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  Speaker 1: Are you into drone.
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  Speaker 2: Shows at all? Drone shows?
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  Speaker 1: Have you seen a drone show? They're so? Have you
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  Speaker 1: as anyone else?
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  Speaker 2: Drones show?
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  Speaker 1: It's so do you like? Thank you?
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  Speaker 2: Is that where they find them up and they.
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  Speaker 1: And then the lights so they move around right and
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  Speaker 1: it's like pre programmed, so they move and then the
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  Speaker 1: lights turn on and then they do whatever their motion is.
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  Speaker 1: Then the lights turn off and then they reconfigure. I
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  Speaker 1: think it is the lamest thing I've ever seen in
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  Speaker 1: my life.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm not sure I would be amused or like
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  Speaker 2: entertained by that.
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  Speaker 1: It was Tay thinks it would look cool, but she
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  Speaker 1: hasn't seen one in person. I've seen went person and
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  Speaker 1: I was like, does it make.
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  Speaker 2: Do they have music going on? Like oh, you're really
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  Speaker 2: just looking at them and.
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  Speaker 1: It's not like it's not like they go and then
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  Speaker 1: the lights come on and they go. It's just like
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  Speaker 1: you hear that and then the lights yeah, and it's
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  Speaker 1: more of like a oh oh nice.
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  Speaker 2: And so like, wow, that was crazy.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I want I wanted to light up and scare
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  Speaker 1: the hell.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I want to feel like I'm gonna get shot,
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  Speaker 3: like oh Godtually, this is.
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  Speaker 2: A crazy story.
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  Speaker 1: Sounds like my neighborhood, my mom.
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  Speaker 2: This is real, like real, real, really for real. My
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  Speaker 2: mother high school years.
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  Speaker 3: She was going to look at the Fourth of July
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  Speaker 3: fires and apparently she said she like they watched something
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  Speaker 3: and then she kept hearing like this, you like getting
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  Speaker 3: closer and closer, and she's like, what is the noise?
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  Speaker 2: And it literally smacked her back, like some fireworks smacked
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  Speaker 2: her back, and she said that the air like left
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  Speaker 2: her body and she was down on the ground and
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  Speaker 2: then she like got back.
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  Speaker 3: Up was like that, and it's an ongoing joke that
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  Speaker 3: like if anything were to happen, it would always happen
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  Speaker 3: to me and my mom And she's like, that's where
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  Speaker 3: it started.
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  Speaker 2: Was high school. I got snacked in the back by
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  Speaker 2: a firework. So poor mom.
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  Speaker 1: It's so funny how like traumatizing fireworks can be. We
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  Speaker 1: did my aunt like lived in a nice neighborhood and
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  Speaker 1: they all did fireworks in the street and she uh,
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  Speaker 1: and so we were all in the garage. So they
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  Speaker 1: do the fireworks on the street. Well, I'll never forget.
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  Speaker 1: It's like burned into my pupils and my brain and
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  Speaker 1: everything is one of the fireworks was like a like right, yeah,
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  Speaker 1: and then it goes when it gets up.
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  Speaker 2: I don't know why I had that sound effects.
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  Speaker 1: I could have explained it to but yeah, But all
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  Speaker 1: of a sudden, as they lit the wick thing, it
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  Speaker 1: started going to s over. It tipped over and shot
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  Speaker 1: right into the garage. And I'm telling you, the oldest,
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  Speaker 1: whitest people were diving in every direction like they were
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  Speaker 1: in the middle of World War Two. It was like, oh,
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  Speaker 1: lawn chairs flying. The fruit salad tipped over off the
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  Speaker 1: table like it was.
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  Speaker 2: I feel like that happens a lot.
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  Speaker 3: Like we used to light fireworks and bonfires and stuff
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  Speaker 3: all the time, and there are there have been multiple
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  Speaker 3: times that, you know, the guys would be like, let's
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  Speaker 3: like fifteen at one time by the lake, which is like,
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  Speaker 3: really not a great idea, but they do it anyways,
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  Speaker 3: and then yeah, they'll tip over and everything, and I
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  Speaker 3: think I have a video of one guy being like.
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  Speaker 2: Bay'l bail, everyone bail, everyone bail. But yeah we bailed.
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  Speaker 3: We ran fast, and Lord Willing did smack my back,
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  Speaker 3: but I felt for my mama. You know, Oh that's
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  Speaker 3: that's scary. It's not don't play.
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  Speaker 2: With the fire That's what I like.
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  Speaker 1: Watching them is fine. The other thing is, I feel
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  Speaker 1: like lightning fireworks feels like a guy's thing to do,
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  Speaker 1: but I feel like it should be a girl's thing
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  Speaker 1: to do, because we do dumb stuff with fireworks. When
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  Speaker 1: I was younger, we would like like light a bobcat
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  Speaker 1: and like shoot it at animals as they ran away.
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  Speaker 2: It was, oh, that's that's kind of me to do.
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  Speaker 1: But guys who don't like girls, I just feel'd be
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  Speaker 1: like our guys run around with Roman candles and be like,
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  Speaker 1: We're like, there, don't.
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  Speaker 2: Hold as it's going off, and then the girls are like,
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  Speaker 2: what the Sparkler the Disney Channel, Oh my god, watch me.
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  Speaker 2: Oh they're cute.
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  Speaker 1: All right, Well let's talk music now.
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  Speaker 2: That's we could talk from the great what.
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  Speaker 1: Brought you to music? Because we're just talking gymnasts. Do
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  Speaker 1: you have a gymnast background?
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  Speaker 3: Do you have a gymnast background? I was really supposed
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  Speaker 3: to follow in my mom's footsteps. She was an elite
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  Speaker 3: gymnast and was really really good, and so as a
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  Speaker 3: six years old six year old, I was training for
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  Speaker 3: Olympic hopefools at the time, and then I wanted to quit.
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  Speaker 2: And do music and mom said music stupid, stand up fitness.
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  Speaker 2: But I did not do that.
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  Speaker 3: So the thing that I've really found a lot of
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  Speaker 3: love for country music specifically was actually one listening to
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  Speaker 3: it with my dad in his truck.
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  Speaker 2: But also my nana played a big part.
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  Speaker 3: She had an accordion growing up, and she would sit
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  Speaker 3: in this wooden archback chair in the middle of the
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  Speaker 3: living room and play the heck out of that thing.
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  Speaker 3: Whether that was like Roy Orberson, Dolly Parton, Johnny Cash,
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  Speaker 3: Loretta Lynn, Patsy Klein, like just all the greats, and
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  Speaker 3: we would sing and dance and have the record player
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  Speaker 3: on and she'd just play the accordion for hours and hours.
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  Speaker 3: And every time I went to Nana's house, I wanted
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  Speaker 3: her to bring it out as soon as I got there.
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  Speaker 3: And so my nana gifted me my very first acoustic
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  Speaker 3: guitar as a seven year old. And as soon as
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  Speaker 3: that thing was in my hands, it's like I never
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  Speaker 3: ever wanted to put it down.
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  Speaker 2: I slept with it next to my bed. I woke up.
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  Speaker 3: I wrote songs about shampoo conditioner and homeschooling and you know.
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  Speaker 2: Whatever I was going through as a child.
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  Speaker 3: But yeah, I just found this super intense love for
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  Speaker 3: wanting to tell stories as vividly as the ones I
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  Speaker 3: loved so much on the record player.
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  Speaker 1: When you say listening to music and whatnot, what are
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  Speaker 1: some songs that like come.
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  Speaker 2: Up as you like?
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  Speaker 1: Because obviously I had. Elvis was an influence on me
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  Speaker 1: as a kid because my grandmother, when I spent time
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  Speaker 1: with her, it was on all the time. But I
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  Speaker 1: can pick out a couple of songs I can't pick
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  Speaker 1: out like everyone we ever listened to. But what are
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  Speaker 1: some songs that you think to those times that stand
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  Speaker 1: out versus others.
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  Speaker 3: One of the very first ones was I Can't help
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  Speaker 3: falling in Love with You, and that was not only
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  Speaker 3: Dolly's version, but Elvis's version as well. That was something
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  Speaker 3: that I thought was so simple but so.
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  Speaker 2: Eloquent and beautiful all at once.
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  Speaker 3: So that's been something that I have loved ever since
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  Speaker 3: I was a child.
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  Speaker 2: Blue Suede Shoes by.
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  Speaker 3: Elvis was something that I would make my mom and
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  Speaker 3: dad turn the TV off so I could get my
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  Speaker 3: little hips moving and dancing and grooven. And then Jolene
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  Speaker 3: by Dolly was the very first song I ever learned
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  Speaker 3: on the guitar my Nana Bottany, and so as like
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  Speaker 3: throwback songs, those were the core ones that I think
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  Speaker 3: kind of shaped what I loved the most and the
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  Speaker 3: things that remind me of why I fell in love
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  Speaker 3: with it in the first place.
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  Speaker 1: As a as a newer artist introducing yourself to like
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  Speaker 1: mainstream country music fans, you have your songs, right, but
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  Speaker 1: covers can be a big a big introduction as well,
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  Speaker 1: especially if you're playing a show like oh hey here,
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  Speaker 1: I'll play a song that I know you love and
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  Speaker 1: you'll sing along to, and then I'm gonna you know,
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  Speaker 1: once you're like I'm having the best time, I'm gonna
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  Speaker 1: hit you with the song you've never heard before. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: but it's mine and you're gonna get to know me
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  Speaker 1: a little bit. So when it comes to like the
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  Speaker 1: covers that you pick in those moments to help you
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  Speaker 1: connect with the audience, you know, before you introduce one
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  Speaker 1: of your songs or something brand new or something that's
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  Speaker 1: been out, what are some of the covers that you'll
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  Speaker 1: go to?
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  Speaker 3: Well, one of the very Joline Obviously, that has been
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  Speaker 3: one that I've kept in my set because it makes
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  Speaker 3: me feel like I get to bring home with me
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  Speaker 3: everywhere I go. But when I had a piano on
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  Speaker 3: stage growing up, I did House of the Rising Sun
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  Speaker 3: a lot. That was something that I really love to do.
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  Speaker 2: And then recently I kind of filtered back.
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  Speaker 3: Wake Me Up by a Vigi was always one that
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  Speaker 3: I loved playing on guitar, and during CMA fest and
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  Speaker 3: a couple of the festivals that I did prior to
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  Speaker 3: that as well, I kind of brought that one back
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  Speaker 3: and I forgot how much I loved that song. And
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  Speaker 3: so it's nice though to like you said, filter in
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  Speaker 3: ones that people really really know I've done since You've
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  Speaker 3: Been Gone by Kelly Clarkson. That seems to get the
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  Speaker 3: girls going for that song, you know, scream it at
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  Speaker 3: the top of your lungs.
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  Speaker 2: Even the guys, you know, yeah, they get it onto. Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: those are like the ones off the top of my head?
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  Speaker 2: Is it?
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  Speaker 1: Are there songs that are intimidating to cover because any song,
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  Speaker 1: any song has the potential to become its own, like
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  Speaker 1: life and being, and some are just so gigantic that
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  Speaker 1: it's like, if I don't sing that the way someone's expecting,
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  Speaker 1: the rest of the day is not going to go.
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  Speaker 2: Great for me. I don't know.
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  Speaker 3: That's a great question because I feel like I had
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  Speaker 3: a vocal coach growing up, and she was from our church,
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  Speaker 3: and she would keep me for a long period of
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  Speaker 3: time because I was homeschool and.
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  Speaker 2: I had nothing else.
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  Speaker 3: Would do you know all out and hear about fifteen
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  Speaker 3: gajillion times. You'll be like, Okay, we get it, you're homeschool.
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  Speaker 2: To shut up.
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  Speaker 3: No, But she used to say, like I harperized things,
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  Speaker 3: and so I would always take a song and make
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  Speaker 3: it my own. But as far as like I don't
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  Speaker 3: think I've ever thought of covers of like, oh I
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  Speaker 3: can't touch that one, or maybe that's scared.
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  Speaker 2: Really it would.
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  Speaker 3: I think the only song that I would be nervous
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  Speaker 3: about bombing would just be the cover of the national Anthem.
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  Speaker 2: And I've already done that, bombed it, So it's okay.
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  Speaker 3: Oh when I was a child eleven years old, oh no.
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  Speaker 1: But that's yeah. It's funny because I asked an artist
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  Speaker 1: one time. We were in Vegas and I was working
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  Speaker 1: for the hockey team in Vegas, and I had asked
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  Speaker 1: them like, hey, would you do the anthem? And they're
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  Speaker 1: like nope, And I go, you won't And he's like,
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  Speaker 1: I don't know. It's not like a disrespect thing. He goes,
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  Speaker 1: If I kill it, I was supposed to. It's a
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  Speaker 1: natural anthem, he goes. If I just do okay, I suck.
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  Speaker 1: If I mess up, it.
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  Speaker 2: Will live forever.
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  Speaker 1: He goes, So there's no benefit to me doing the anthem.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, it's one of those songs that you really, I mean,
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  Speaker 3: it's a hit or a mess, and whatever happens, the
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  Speaker 3: whole world is going to see it. And so in
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  Speaker 3: my case, as an eleven year old, to kind of
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  Speaker 3: like brush past a long story. I didn't couldn't hear myself,
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  Speaker 3: technical difficulties. All the things ended up actually being known.
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  Speaker 3: When you look up like the worst national anthem ever,
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  Speaker 3: I am one of the ones that pops up like worse.
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  Speaker 2: Than category of like five top five.
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  Speaker 3: Steven Tyler, Roseanbar Sina Aguilera, and Harper Grace were the
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  Speaker 3: worst national anthems, like listed.
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  Speaker 1: A Fergie during the NBA also thrown me.
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  Speaker 2: She dethrowned me, because that's.
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  Speaker 1: The worst one I've ever heard.
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  Speaker 3: No disrespect, no disrespect, love her, But that was actually
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  Speaker 3: the year that she had dethrown me from being the
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  Speaker 3: worst national anthem.
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  Speaker 2: So.
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  Speaker 3: For Harper, but I still actually sing it a lot.
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  Speaker 3: There's a piece of my uh story and journey where
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  Speaker 3: I actually really have a heart to go into different
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  Speaker 3: schools and foundations and talk about anti bullying because at
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  Speaker 3: the time that I bombed the anthem, like had death
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  Speaker 3: threats with knives and into our personal mailboxes at home,
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  Speaker 3: people saying how they were gonna like murder me and
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  Speaker 3: do really really bad things, like horrible things. If you
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  Speaker 3: think of the worst thing possible that could have been
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  Speaker 3: said or done physical bullying, cyberbullying, all of the kinds
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  Speaker 3: of bullying. I can very confidently raise my hand and
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  Speaker 3: be like it, heard it, done, it got it.
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  Speaker 2: That's why. But I go out.
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  Speaker 3: And I've got I think at this point, we've done
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  Speaker 3: like thirteen or fourteen different ballparks, arenas and stadiums in
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  Speaker 3: the last two years where I've kind of gone on
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  Speaker 3: what I like to call a redemption tour where I've
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  Speaker 3: redeemed myself and I've sang it a couple of times,
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  Speaker 3: and it's scary. I mean, I get a little bit
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  Speaker 3: anxious and stressed out prior. But if I can show
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  Speaker 3: people that if you fail, you can try again, get
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  Speaker 3: back up and use the thing that you were scared
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  Speaker 3: of as ammunition to just keep following the dream that
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  Speaker 3: was placed in your heart. So it's dare fine, and
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  Speaker 3: I want to put my pins, but I don't, and
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  Speaker 3: I'll just sing it.
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  Speaker 2: And then as they.
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  Speaker 1: Say you can do, we're about to put you on
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  Speaker 1: stage here.
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  Speaker 2: Jason wonderful. After I told you it's great, but that
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  Speaker 2: was it. Now you're not exactly I'm not wearing dress
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  Speaker 2: that would be even worse.
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  Speaker 1: Let's uh, you just gave me a funny story, but
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  Speaker 1: I'm not gonna tell it of me, of somebody else
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  Speaker 1: in a grocery store, But it's fine. Last thing I
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  Speaker 1: want to ask is, you're going to be meeting a
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  Speaker 1: lot of people for the first time as you play
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  Speaker 1: the stage here, what's the song that you're like this
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  Speaker 1: in your in your library of songs you have now, new, old,
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  Speaker 1: what's the song that you're like, Hey, if I'm really
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  Speaker 1: gonna introduce myself, I have to make sure to play
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  Speaker 1: this one.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, that's a really that's a really hard question.
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  Speaker 3: I think right now, Right now I would say, oh, gosh,
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  Speaker 3: you stumped me, because there's I've written over five hundre
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  Speaker 3: and eighty songs in the last three years, and.
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  Speaker 2: It like fluctuates each season.
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  Speaker 3: But I think I wrote a song recently called Tattoos
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  Speaker 3: and Heartache that I really like. It just reminds me
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  Speaker 3: of like the classic country that I grew up listening to.
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  Speaker 3: But right now I'm in a season of really loving
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  Speaker 3: like my friends and I have a really cool group
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  Speaker 3: of girlfriends, and so there's a song called Nowhere that
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  Speaker 3: is coming out really soon actually, and my best friends
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  Speaker 3: are all in the music video, and we all I
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  Speaker 3: we went to my birthday trip, and I have pieces
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  Speaker 3: of them, like taking the camera and doing stuff with it,
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  Speaker 3: and uh so that's I would say that because the
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  Speaker 3: biggest piece of my life is just to be as
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  Speaker 3: authentic and real as possible, and I think having close
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  Speaker 3: community and friendships are really important. And so I'm singing
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  Speaker 3: nowhere today, so let's do it. There's yeah, that's a
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  Speaker 3: good question, of course.
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  Speaker 2: Thanks having me