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Jelly Roll + Morgan Wallen Coming Soon? · Inside Country with Wayne D

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Oh really, Yeah, get you get pulled out a little bit of back
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and get it wet and stick it on there and just let it see it's
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still in there. Am I that country? Wayne? That you didn't?
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Hey, listen, are you recording? This is important? Yeah? Start
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that video because this is this is important to me that we talk about this,
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the fact that you're a country radio personality and I get told every day
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that I'm not country, And you didn't know that you could put wet to
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back on a bee sting, and that was like a no brainer for me.
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You were confused. I was like, does anybody at your house smoke?
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He was like, why you want to come to smoke them? Mount?
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I was like, I'm not trying to get the bees high? What
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good morning? Ever? I mean good after, good evening everybody. Wayne
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d was stung by bees this morning and didn't know what to do about it.
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He thought I was gonna come over. What do you think I was
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gonna smoke a joint just all get rid of your bee problem? Is that
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I don't know what I was gonna do is take some wet back and throw
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it on the beast thing for you to go instantly, Well, let me
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know if you're not busy later. Yeah, I got you. This is
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a trick. If you put to back on, it would have quit hurting
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three hours. The last time you got stung by a bee, God,
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it's been a long time. That's I was like, it's wow, it's
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a different feeling. You know. What's messed up about that is it's gonna
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restrike that fear because you're at a place in life where you probably thought you
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because right now I'm like, bees don't sting people? You're fine? Yeah,
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right now, I'm like, bees don't really sting people. I bet
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you wish it was a wasp now because I ain't that the one that dies
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when it stings. It was out a myth. Anyways, one of them
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looses at stinger, It just leaves it in you. Yeah, so what
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But so these are like the little worker bees? Those do they sting and
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keep living? You know? Or is that the wasp? I don't know
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what I'm now, I'm confused. I know, Well, we don't have
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you forever. Otherwise I'd google be images and we would keep going. Okay,
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you don't like our bee talk rumor as jellyroll is also a massive celebrity
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music artists all over the place, Dode, I got to tell you and
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beekeeper, beekeeper, if would you ever keep bees? You know, I
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don't know, man, I'm scared of bees now. I forgot that it's
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stink people. I'm gonna look at them different the rest of the week.
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Now talk. I didn't know adults get stung by bees and twice it's fine,
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Well you were fighting a wop, I mean a group of them.
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It south. Listen. I'm telling you, if one day I saw on
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TikTok or Instagram that Bunny got into beekeeping, that wouldn't surprise me. Yeah,
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Bunny, listen right now. Bunny wants a crow. The bunny is
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obsessed with getting I know, y'all try I'm fighting this day. This is
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a thing, and it's like becoming obsession of hers. She has found out
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that you can be like the crow whisper and they'll bring you gifts and stuff.
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And I was like, I don't want a crow dropping dead rats on
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our porch just so you have an extra friend around the house. I was
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like, this is crazy. She's like they're great omens. I was like,
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I thought they were bad omens. But she also grew up in the
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in the West Coast where there's like, you know, it's crow city out
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there, dude, you know what I mean. It's a lot of crows.
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And down here I see a crow and I get nervous. And she's
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like, I want to we can get like we can get a murder of
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them or whatever they call, a big group of them. She's like,
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she has like a whole plan for us to get a group of crows that
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she wants to. She's like, you could teach them to talk. There's
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a whole thing like crow talk. You know, there's like dog talk,
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like on TikTok, there's crow talk. And if you want to get lost
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on something that weird, you out go watch these weird crow people. You're
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like, I love you, but watch that in the other room. This
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is happening every night. I get sent a new crow. Last night she
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text me at two two thirty in the morning and said, I'm gonna name
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our crow. I don't know, Willie or something, some you know,
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some kind of bunny name. And I was like, what crow. She's
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like, the one I'm manifesting. It's like bunny. I don't want to
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crow. Do you buy a crow like a petch. We got to catch
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a crow. I guess I don't know. I guess you Laurel men and
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you gotta get you like you gain their trust. It'd be like leaving a
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little steak out for a lie every night or a bear until it finally came
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was like, are you the person giving me the steaks? You know?
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And then they get it too. Yeah, yeah, for sure, That's
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what Bunny's on right now. Listen. I gotta tell you, it's been
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so fun to watch your rise from like all this guy's got a good song
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to like literally I saw you were just that North Dakota State Fair wasn't yes,
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and like director I was in million people were there like those we broke
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the This is the wildest thing for me to say right now. We did
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both North Dakota fairs. We did the Red River Valley Fair and we did
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the North DaCosta State fairlyre on op complete opposite sides of the state of North
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Dakota. Yeah, we broke the record of attendance at both fairs of the
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history of the fair. Just a punk kid from Antioch, dude, Yeah,
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just like absolute troublemaker kind of you know what I mean, Like still
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I mean, I'm a I'm a change man, but I'm far from redeemed,
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you know. So it's just unbelievable. Every every second of this to
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me is unreal. Every days any of it set in yet, though not
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yet, it's starting to get there. My manager finally sat down with me
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and was like, hey, man, this imposture thing you're feeling, you
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gotta let go of it. Was like, yeah, yeah, it's so
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hard. It's still and sometimes I tell him, I don't know if it's
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as much an imposture thing for me as it is just deep rudy gratitude of
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Like it's overwhelmingly emotional to stand on a stage in front of that many people.
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There's just something about that that's different, you know what I mean.
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So I don't think I'll ever get used to it, and Garth said I
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wouldn't. I talked to Garth Brooks about it because I think, you know,
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he's still we were talking about I was talking to somebody else about him.
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I was like, I feel like you watch him fight tears singing the
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dance, and he's been singing it for thirty years, you know what I
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mean? And I was like, I think that's how I feel about saving
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me the rest of my career. I'm gonna fight back tears every time I
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sing that song. It's such by the way you just put those two songs
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in the same breath. But yeah, they're not even by the way,
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they're not even comparable, but thank you, but they deserve you know what
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I mean. Like in that song, let me tell you something, as
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much as you're gonna imposter yourself and step back a little bit, that song
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is a bigger deal to some people than the dance, you know what I
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mean. Everybody has the dance to them and now that could be that.
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Yeah, I see, the dance is the dance to me. You know
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what I'm saying. I've cried to the dance as many times as Garth dads.
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You know what I'm saying. I want to talk more music and your
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rise, but part of that is Bunny has had her own rise in this
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whole thing, which your wife is, you know what I mean, like
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because she's by your side, but also she's like her own little fandom happening
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as well as much as she's along for the ride, but she's supportive,
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right, Like she's not like latching on and like, hey, I'm here
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too. Has there ever been talk of like her doing something with you?
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Oh yeah, no, you know she's doing a Meet and Gred on my
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tour. I know, yeah, entire meet Greed on my tour. She
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she got her own march. She's on the tour. She's her own thing.
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She always has been. I've been bringing Bunny on stage at my shows
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seven years when it was two hundred people in the crowd. Like, even
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then, when there was only two hundred people there, there was still a
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percentage enough of that crowd enough that cared about Bunny that it meant something to
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see her. And she's always had that connection. I think people see the
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I think what Bunny is is a little bit of this really cool factor that
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she doesn't. She's not who she looks like. Like if you judged Bunny
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on an Instagram of just pictures, you would never believe how charismatic and funny
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and arming and caring and loving she is. Right, It's like this intimidating,
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just bombshell beautiful sculpture of a blonde and then she sits down and she
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is the goofiest human I know on Earth. I have never met nobody cellier
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than that. Woman right there. She's blind, she can't see, you
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know what I'm saying. She hits walls, she's directionally challenged, you know
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what I mean? Yeah, for sure, it's goodness gracious. She curbs
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every rim she's ever had. But she is just something is so special about
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her spirit that it shines through and you don't expect it, you know,
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because she's got this. Like I'm still intimidated by Bunny. Like when she
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really does the Bunny like she comes out like them red carpets. I'm like,
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I get, I'm like, whoa, you know what I mean.
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Like she's like that captivating, but her personality is the polar opposite, you
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know what I mean. Would you guys ever record together? Yeah, we
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talked about all the time. Bunny can sing man. Bunny can really sing
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man. She used to sing way back in the day. I just think
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that she just doesn't have the I don't want to say the love for it.
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But it's not her thing, you know what I mean. Like she's
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willing to do it, and she'd do it with me, and she does
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a Christmas song every year for fun. Yeah, But I think Bunny is
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just more focused on connecting with people the way she knows how listen. And
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we always joke there's not room for two singers in this house. It's the
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reason I haven't started a podcast neither. You know what I'm saying so well,
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speaking of, I'm just saying I'm gonna I'm gonna put this idea out
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there. And if you've done already, I missed it. But imagine how
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cool it would be. Laney can't make it. Bunny fills in on stage.
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You think that song might make you cry already? Oh goodness, boy,
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Bunny came out singing it to me, I probably really cry. I
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kick her like, you better not feel that way about me. You take
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me back to when we first met you. The entourage was smaller. It
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was you, me, maybe one record label person. Your career is growing,
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your team is growing. At what point have you been able to stand
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back and be like, Holy, Kyle, hasn't been moving too quick for
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you to get to do No? I get every time I do stick.
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But I mean, even in the moment you just look around and realize it
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for what it is. You know, you just have those moments of clarity.
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That's just I don't even know how to describe it. Why And it's
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weird still. I say that word as like endearingly as I can, but
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it's extremely weird when it comes to the success you're having on the streaming and
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the ticket sales is one thing, but for that to marry itself to the
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success you're having on country radio. Obviously you're doing great things on rock radio
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as well, but we'll talk country. Is any of that Like, did
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you ever feel like, oh, we'll put the song out, but it
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ain't gonna work there. No. The rock success is cool, but it
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ain't gonna work there. No, it's I never thought, I don't.
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I just believe that it's real music for real people with real problems. And
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I knew that. To me, I made a decision early in my career
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that I chose connection over entertainment. Right. I'm just looking to connect with
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people, man, I'm looking to build people up. I'm looking to lift
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people up, and I think that comes through in the music. And I'm
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also willing to talk about the things that people aren't willing to talk about.
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One of the things I take the most pride and in this album is that
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there's a line in this album that says I didn't seen pain pills turned to
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needles. That was said on the number two Billboard Biggest Country Album Debut,
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You know what I mean, Like that was said on like I think we
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broke like a streaming record for a you know, like a debut country album
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or something like I'm talking about fitting all. I mean, this is real
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stuff that's really happening in our community. Meaning country music listeners too. They
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know how much this is running rampant through these small towns. You know.
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I just think the music connects in a real way. Well, that's something
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that that brings me back to the last time we caught up and you brought
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you brought up the the success of the song about the effect of drug use
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and whatever. I think I sent you the video or whatever and you posted
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it. But so from that to telling stories to getting out and performing them.
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You're also an artist who some people just go to a show. Oh,
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we go to a show, but like there's something different for you and
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I Bunny posted recently about it too, Like you're special, Like you're connecting,
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You're giving people a voice that that maybe didn't have one before. Do
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you feel like wake up with a different sense of responsibility now that you're on
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a bigger stage for that. No, I wake up with more of a
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responsibility of just making sure that I'm being an example to Like I'm more conscious
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now than ever of like knowing that children are watching me. I wasn't really
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conscious of that before, you know what I mean, Like it wasn't even
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though it's probably happening, It's like it was a second thought to me.
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Like my set's pretty vulgar, and I'm still tone it back a little more
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every day, you know what I mean, And it's always gonna be a
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little vulgar because this is a this is you know, country, hip hop
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and rock and roll. But to me, I'm more conscious of, like
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just want to make sure that I'm doing the right thing about these kids that
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are watching you. Go from from doing the hip hop is really what like
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gave you the confidence to perform in the first place, right, Yeah,
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going from that to where you are today. You talked about kids. I
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mean, I saw he was probably on your Instagram kids holding up. You
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know, I'm a son of a sinner, But you're getting You're getting.
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You're getting anything from a five year old kid holding a sign supporting one of
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your songs to a forty fifty year old guy buying t shirts at merch knowing
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that you literally are affecting that completely different generations right right now. It's crazy,
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man, I think I look at it like this. We didn't get
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the opportunity to do that as kids because of the way touring worked, but
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we felt the same. Like, I think people forget how much music is
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a part of a household, right, Like when I was a kid,
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we all listen to the same music, Like this was a thing. Like
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we would get around to listen to music together, Like we would sit on
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the back porch or sit around a fire, or go to bonfires, and
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you know what I mean, Like, we would listen to music as a
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family. And I think it's cool that I that that still happens. And
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I think you see that at the show. That's why the fan base rages
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so far, is that families are still sitting there hanging out and talking to
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each other and listening to music. And it's it's still a communal thing.
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Man, Does celebrating a number one blow your mind? Yet? Every time?
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Dude, I just had two weeks of rock number one, second number
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one at rock, both of them are two week number one. Here we
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come on the edge of having a number one on country radio right now while
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we're talking. But the biggest song of my career by a country Now,
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let me tell you how it works as an artist. If these other artists
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are afraid to tell you this, let me give you some game. You're
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ready. When they come in and we have our first number one, we
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secretly leave and think it's over. That's it. I will never have another
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song bigger than that one. For sure. Where are we? You know,
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like nobody leaves, Like I'm going to just start running them up the
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pipeline. Everybody leaves, and if they don't walk out of here feeling that
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way, they don't deserve what they have. You immediately leave like this is
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it. I'm not There's not gonna be a bigger moment for me. And
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then I dropped Son of a Center and I'm like, this is crazy because
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I had a moment I dropped Saving and went viral. I was like,
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this is it. This will be the song that I'll you know whatever.
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Yeah, And then after Son of a Center, I was kind of certain.
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I was like, you know, the newness was over right. I'm
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a part of the family now I've been accepted by the country music community.
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Now the records have to stand, you know, and Need a Favor is
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by every benchmark, from what I hear from my friends at radio, to
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what I hear from my streaming partners to what I see in the analytics,
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is going to end up smoking every song I've ever had by not even a
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close range. It's gonna It's crazy. What need I think. Need a
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Favor is still in the top fifteen on the Billboard Hot one hundred right now.
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It's insane how big that song is? Bigger than me and I'm huge
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as far as like as a human, Like that song is bigger than me
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as my person. You know what I'm saying. That song is like it's
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for the first time in my career, I have a song where people don't
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know me, and somebody will go, that's the dude that sings the need
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a Favorite song. I talked to God when I need a favor and guys
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are like, oh, you're that guy. Let's take a picture. You
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know, It's like, no clue. It's cool. It's funny because I'll
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say I'm that guy too, just to see if I can get a free
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drink. So it never works. Where's the face tut. The last thing
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I want to ask you is the collab with Landey is obviously doing phenomenal collabs
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have become so massive in country. You've gotten really close with with Ernest.
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I loved Ernest even told a story at one of your number one parties,
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one of the many, but Ernest told a story about like he used to
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look up to you, like he used to watch you do your thing.
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Be like man, Jelly, that's like someday that's gonna be the guy.
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Uh. Knowing what Ernest and Hardy and Morgan have done, and you guys
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are all like kind of in that same camp together. The way you've come
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up is there is there anything coming? Are you guys working on stuff together,
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whether it's whether it be Hardy, Ernest Morgan. Oh yeah, no,
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we all talk. And of course me and Ernest are gonna you know,
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that's one of my best friends in life and music. I talked to
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Hardy all the time. I think I think we're talking. I don't know
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I'm allowed to say it, but I think we're talking about doing something for
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one of the next Higgs tapes. Sure, Hardy Wooden Man, that's my
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boy. Sorry, Hardy, I love you. But yeah, we're talking
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about doing something for one of the Higgs tapes. And of course you know,
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Hardy wrote on my record with me. Yeah, I'm hoping to do
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a collab with him. I want to tour with him, of course I
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want to. I think me, me and Hardy lay in gel Roal tour
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would be just a circus. I think it'd be why I'd be pandamoni him.
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These are my boys too, man. More than anything, I just
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value our friendship. I think we'll all work together because we're so quite close.
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You know, Morgan is the biggest artist on planet Earth, arguably the
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biggest artist on not America, I mean on Earth. And this dude is
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such a sweet dude that he'll just check in on me. Man, you
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know what I mean, to show you the character of that dude. Like
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I'm doing eighteen maybe ten percent seven percent of the streams he's doing today and
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I can't find time to check on myself, you know what I mean.
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And this dude is like, that's how good of a dude. So like
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anytime that dude texts me, I feel like I'm getting a text from you
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know, Donald Trump or something like it's like big, I'm like, whoa,
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this dude's got time to text me and that's just who he is though,
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you know what I mean. So it's been really cool. But I
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say this, I'll give you this teaser. Outside of my friend group,
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other friends I have that are like in the country music space that are good,
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good friends of mine. I won't say their names because we do got
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a lot coming out. I got some real collapse coming I'm not here collabing
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like a hip hop artist. I got. I brought all my homies together.
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It's cool. It's fun, dude, it's great. It's We're in
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the coolest moment of country music, I think in a long time right now,
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not even just because of me, because of guys like Morgan and Luke
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Combs and the success of Fast Card and Last Night and guys like Tyler Childers
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who will just sell out thirty thousand seats anywhere in America at any time.
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I think country music has never been broader, never been more accepted nationally,
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and never been cooler than it is right now, except for like maybe the
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seventies and the nineties, which had like really memorably cool moments. Dude,
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Jelly can't wait to see what's the next brother Ye Love you Bubba.