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30 Number Ones & Still Rolling with Jason Aldean · Inside Country with Wayne D

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  Speaker 1: Up.
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  Speaker 2: Man, what's up, Jason?
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  Speaker 1: How you doing? Brother? Hum good? How are you.
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  Speaker 3: I've known you for a handful of years now. It
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  Speaker 3: was lucky enough to host some of your iHeart Country
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  Speaker 3: album release stuff over the past few years. But it
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  Speaker 3: feels like you're at a point in your career where
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  Speaker 3: like stuff like hanging out with friends, making memories with
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  Speaker 3: your family, like that has taken precedent over anything.
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  Speaker 2: Would you say more so over the last few years.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean I think for me, it's always kind
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  Speaker 4: of been about you know that. I mean, I enjoy
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  Speaker 4: I'm on the road, you know, half the year. So
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  Speaker 4: when I'm not on the road and get a chance
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  Speaker 4: to relax or do something I want to do, you know,
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  Speaker 4: that's that's usually in boss family, So you know, us
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  Speaker 4: taking a trip somewhere or going on vacation or kind
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  Speaker 4: of making memories with those guys. I mean, I'd much
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  Speaker 4: rather do that than you know, just go to the
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  Speaker 4: bar downtown and hang whatever, you know. So yeah, but yeah,
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  Speaker 4: I mean I think it's definitely kind of been more
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  Speaker 4: like that recently, and especially as our little kids are
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  Speaker 4: getting older and you know, they're kind of at the
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  Speaker 4: age where it's fun we can throw them on a
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  Speaker 4: plane or on a bus or whatever it is, and like, you.
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  Speaker 1: Know, it's it's easy anymore.
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  Speaker 4: So if I get a chance to have a little downtime,
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  Speaker 4: it's gonna involve them more times than not.
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  Speaker 2: How easy is it.
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  Speaker 3: I was looking on social media recently and it looks
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  Speaker 3: like h Navy got a little bit of a makeover
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  Speaker 3: in the bedroom.
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  Speaker 4: Uh yeah, So that's uh, that's a reflection of my
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  Speaker 4: wife buying stuff on Amazon all the time. So Amazon
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  Speaker 4: is at our house multiple times a day, and she,
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  Speaker 4: you know, she'll go on picterest and like look at
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  Speaker 4: something and.
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  Speaker 1: Go, oh, this is great.
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  Speaker 4: We should do this in the Navy's room and then
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  Speaker 4: she'll order all this stuff and then go all right,
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  Speaker 4: I need you to come in here and help me
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  Speaker 4: put this stuff up. And I'm like, the room looked
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  Speaker 4: fine before you ordered all this stuff.
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  Speaker 1: But okay.
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  Speaker 4: Uh so yeah, but it's uh, there's always projects like
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  Speaker 4: that around the house that that she's got me doing.
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  Speaker 1: That's why i need to get back on the road
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  Speaker 1: as soon as possible.
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  Speaker 2: I'm gonna clip that part so she doesn't know.
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  Speaker 3: That's the real reason your touring, so you don't have
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  Speaker 3: to do home maintenance and home projects. Yeah, when it
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  Speaker 3: comes to the bar situation, obviously, you just open the
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  Speaker 3: spot in Vegas, which is awesome.
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  Speaker 2: I have a puppy. I just got a puppy.
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  Speaker 1: Do you hear that?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, shut up, I'm talking to Jason Aldean.
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  Speaker 2: Be quiet.
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  Speaker 3: Oh my god, dude, I'll have to edit that out anyway,
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  Speaker 3: the bar thing, you just open the one in Vegas. Obviously,
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  Speaker 3: the Route ninety one wall is awesome. I was on
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  Speaker 3: the radio in Vegas. I worked in Vegas during that time,
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  Speaker 3: So it's cool to see you like work that in
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  Speaker 3: Where the bar goes next? Like, is this something that
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  Speaker 3: you want to continue to invest in and grow? And
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  Speaker 3: are are you kind of happy with where it is now? No?
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  Speaker 4: I think it's uh, you know, originally we did the
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  Speaker 4: one here in Nashville, and you know, we didn't know
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  Speaker 4: what that was going to look like, right, So, I mean,
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  Speaker 4: everybody's got a bar or now. And it was kind
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  Speaker 4: of early on in the process though, we were one
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  Speaker 4: of the first ones to do it, and you know,
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  Speaker 4: where that spot was in Nashville just kind of became
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  Speaker 4: like ground zero for Broadway, you know, and so had
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  Speaker 4: a chance to expand and do one in Gatlinburg, So
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  Speaker 4: that one's you know, much smaller scale than the one here,
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  Speaker 4: but it's super cool. And then we went to Pittsburgh.
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  Speaker 4: That one in Pittsburgh that's more sports bar kind of thing,
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  Speaker 4: and and uh, and then the Vegas one. Obviously, that
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  Speaker 4: one was tricky because you know, we got a special
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  Speaker 4: connection to that town and you know, I wanted to
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  Speaker 4: make sure that if we were going to go in
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  Speaker 4: and do something like that, you know, we we honored
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  Speaker 4: the Route ninety one family and did something in there
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  Speaker 4: to you know, keep that out there. So, uh, Vegas
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  Speaker 4: has been great. I mean that that one's been killing
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  Speaker 4: it so far, and you know, there's there's talks about
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  Speaker 4: possibly doing another one somewhere. I think, you know, those
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  Speaker 4: those kinds of situations. Obviously, we're building a brand on that,
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  Speaker 4: and if it makes sense to go put one somewhere,
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  Speaker 4: you know, we're gonna look at it.
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  Speaker 1: So it's uh, you know why not. I mean I
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  Speaker 1: love the bar.
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  Speaker 4: People seem to like it, enjoy going and gives us
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  Speaker 4: a chance to you know, new artists to come in
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  Speaker 4: and play and you know, live bands and stuff. Gives
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  Speaker 4: them a place to come and play. And I just
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  Speaker 4: I like it. I think it's really cool and I've
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  Speaker 4: been fortunate enough to open a few of them, and
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  Speaker 4: if it keeps going well, then I'm sure we'll open
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  Speaker 4: a few more.
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  Speaker 3: It's it's so well done, and I love because we
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  Speaker 3: have our studio in that in that building, so we're
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  Speaker 3: in and out of there.
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  Speaker 2: There's construction now, so it's kind of getting loud.
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  Speaker 3: They're like doing stuff at the building at the TC underneath,
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  Speaker 3: yeah you and then the spot next door, so there's
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  Speaker 3: like construction around there. So it was a little loud
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  Speaker 3: this afternoon and I'm home with a sick kid, but
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  Speaker 3: otherwise we'd be there and uh, it's funny the amount
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  Speaker 3: of people that are like, is Jason here. It's just
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  Speaker 3: I'm like, yeah, he's got a bedroom upstairs. Let me
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  Speaker 3: go see if he's not busy, or or like, is.
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  Speaker 2: He in the back? What do you think he's baking
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  Speaker 2: the chicken.
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  Speaker 1: Wings, serving tables? No, you know what.
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  Speaker 4: I will say this though, you know, anytime I'm somewhere,
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  Speaker 4: like if I go to Pittsburgh and you know, we
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  Speaker 4: happen to be the I mean, I do try to
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  Speaker 4: stop in.
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  Speaker 1: And we were in Gatlinburg.
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  Speaker 4: In the fall, and so you know, went in and
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  Speaker 4: we ate had lunch there and you know, kind of
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  Speaker 4: took the family in there and hung out. So, I
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  Speaker 4: mean we do pop in and out of those things
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  Speaker 4: when we're in town. We always go check them out
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  Speaker 4: and see what. We'll pop in and out of the
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  Speaker 4: one here downtown Nashville. And but yeah, I'm not I'm
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  Speaker 4: not back there baking the food or anything.
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  Speaker 1: Man.
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  Speaker 3: I gotta say congrats because a lot of artists drive
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  Speaker 3: for a number one song. You're on the verge of
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  Speaker 3: what would be your thirtieth number one song as you
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  Speaker 3: started your career and you started recording and touring, did
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  Speaker 3: you ever I mean, I'd imagine the number one. Just
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  Speaker 3: to get a number one was great, But to sit
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  Speaker 3: here like is this like Holy hell, I can't believe
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  Speaker 3: like this has taking us as far?
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean, you know, you get started as an artist, man,
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  Speaker 4: I mean having multiple number ones is not even like
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  Speaker 4: a you know, that's a pipe dream. So you're you're
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  Speaker 4: sitting there, You're just hoping to get one. You want
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  Speaker 4: to a top forty hit, just so you have something
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  Speaker 4: that people kind of know that you can go out
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  Speaker 4: and play and they can put a face with the
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  Speaker 4: name and the music and all the stuff.
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  Speaker 1: And so.
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  Speaker 4: I had one number one on my first album, didn't
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  Speaker 4: have one on my second album, and then my third
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  Speaker 4: album came out, and that's when we started kind of
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  Speaker 4: stringing them together. She's Country, Big Green Tractor, The Truth,
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  Speaker 4: you know, had three number ones off of that one.
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  Speaker 1: And I think, you know, I was never really a
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  Speaker 1: numbers guy.
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  Speaker 4: I never looked at it and went, oh, man, I
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  Speaker 4: need if I had ten number ones or fifteen or
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  Speaker 4: twenty or whatever that number is. It was just like, man,
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  Speaker 4: I just wanted to be around for a while. I
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  Speaker 4: wanted to keep getting getting to do this and play
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  Speaker 4: music and do my thing. And it's like one day
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  Speaker 4: you look up and you got five number ones, and
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  Speaker 4: then you look up and you got twelve and eighteen.
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  Speaker 4: You're closing in on twenty, and you know, all of
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  Speaker 4: a sudden, you know, start hearing chatter last year about
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  Speaker 4: thirty and it's like, man, it's it's cool. You know,
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  Speaker 4: it's a number to me and it's something I'm proud of.
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  Speaker 4: But what it means to me is longevity that I've
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  Speaker 4: been able to stick around for, you know, twenty years
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  Speaker 4: this year twenty years and you know, hopefully twenty nine
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  Speaker 4: number ones in twenty years.
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  Speaker 1: Like that's a that's a pretty good deal.
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  Speaker 4: So I don't know, man, I just want to do
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  Speaker 4: it as long as people care and as long as
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  Speaker 4: they like what I'm doing, and just you know, let
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  Speaker 4: me climb on a tour bus and go play for
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  Speaker 4: you guys, and you know, that's what I want to do.
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  Speaker 3: It's a good thing you got more than one house,
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  Speaker 3: or at least a house and a massive shed, because
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  Speaker 3: that's a lot of plaques to hang up on the wall.
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  Speaker 4: Hey, you can always add on if you need to. Man,
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  Speaker 4: you got to show those things off.
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  Speaker 1: Yes, sir.
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  Speaker 3: One of the most unique things that as not a
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  Speaker 3: lot of artists gets to celebrate number ones, but a
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  Speaker 3: lot of artists don't get to celebrate number ones. And
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  Speaker 3: almost like I'm management style role with your relationship with
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  Speaker 3: John Morgan, what was that like to sign him? And
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  Speaker 3: now like the first guy that you signed up is
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  Speaker 3: got a number one hit.
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  Speaker 4: Uh well, I mean it's obviously a you know, it's
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  Speaker 4: a different feeling for sure. You know, me having a
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  Speaker 4: number one for myself, we've experienced that a lot of times.
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  Speaker 4: It's still awesome. I mean anytime you get a number one,
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  Speaker 4: because they don't all go number one, you know, and
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  Speaker 4: you have ones that you're like, you know, Hicktown was
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  Speaker 4: never a number one, Embryles Sky was never a number one. Like,
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  Speaker 4: there's a lot of songs that I thought were great
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  Speaker 4: songs that just never, you know, we're able to get
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  Speaker 4: up there and ring the bell. But when you do
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  Speaker 4: get those, it's, you know, it's really a good feeling.
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  Speaker 4: And then when you've never had one, you know, it's
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  Speaker 4: it was cool for me to see that happen for
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  Speaker 4: John and John Morgan and you know, for him to
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  Speaker 4: get his first one and me to get my first
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  Speaker 4: one as a record exec or whatever.
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  Speaker 1: So just really proud of him.
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  Speaker 4: Man, He's a guy that I strongly believe that, you know,
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  Speaker 4: it's just brings something really special to the table. He's
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  Speaker 4: a great writer, great singer, great guitar player. He's just
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  Speaker 4: got all the tools to be a star. And so
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  Speaker 4: I thought he was amazing, still do and just wanted
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  Speaker 4: people to hear him, you know, I just wanted him
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  Speaker 4: to get out there and people to to hear what
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  Speaker 4: what we heard, what we thought was so cool and uh,
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  Speaker 4: for that to happen for him. Man, it's it's it
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  Speaker 4: was a pretty good feeling to have a number one
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  Speaker 4: that's you know, it's like, man, that's your number one,
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  Speaker 4: that's not mine, that's you.
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  Speaker 1: So it's it's really cool.
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  Speaker 3: You're getting ready to hit the road. I mean we're
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  Speaker 3: talking what less than three weeks. I mean you're about
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  Speaker 3: two weeks away.
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  Speaker 2: From hitting the road.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, a couple of weeks for sure.
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  Speaker 3: Uh, full throttle, full throttle tour is getting ready to
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  Speaker 3: take off.
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  Speaker 2: How do tour?
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  Speaker 3: How has touring changed for you since the early days
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  Speaker 3: outside of you know, three hundred dates a year to
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  Speaker 3: you know, whatever you're at now.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean I just think we've you know, we've
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  Speaker 4: dialed it in. I mean we that's we've done enough tours,
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  Speaker 4: We've headlined enough tours now to where we know what
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  Speaker 4: that looks like. We know how much time we need
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  Speaker 4: to get ready for that. We know what we wanted
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  Speaker 4: to you know, we know we want it to look
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  Speaker 4: different than it did last year. We're gonna add songs
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  Speaker 4: in that we didn't play last year and just kind
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  Speaker 4: of always keep it new and fresh and as much
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  Speaker 4: as possible, right with you playing a lot of the
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  Speaker 4: same songs that you're gonna play every year. You still
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  Speaker 4: got to kind of take some out, move some things around,
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  Speaker 4: play new music that's coming in. But at this point,
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  Speaker 4: I think we've done it enough to where we know
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  Speaker 4: when it's go time. It's like, okay, we can go
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  Speaker 4: make records and go be in the studio and do
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  Speaker 4: all that stuff on the off time. And you know,
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  Speaker 4: a month, a couple of weeks months before the show,
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  Speaker 4: it's like it's time to start dialing it in and
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  Speaker 4: getting ready. And you know, I went over the other
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  Speaker 4: day and was like mess around on piano to to
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  Speaker 4: work on the the Carrie Underwood duet that we have,
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  Speaker 4: And so I was over there mess around. I'm like,
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  Speaker 4: Drew A Blake, I'm like, what the hell? I can't
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  Speaker 4: even remember I play this song. So it's those kind
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  Speaker 4: of things and just you know, a couple of weeks
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  Speaker 4: before just kind of knocking the rust off a little bit.
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  Speaker 1: And that's kind of where we are right now.
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  Speaker 3: Is it wild to get on stage and know that
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  Speaker 3: if you do hit a point where like what the
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  Speaker 3: hell were the words again, that the crowd is just
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  Speaker 3: going to take over the.
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  Speaker 2: Show for you.
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  Speaker 4: Oh yeah, Well, and there's little tricks to that too,
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  Speaker 4: and things that I've kind of learned over the years.
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  Speaker 1: And you know, but.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, when all else fale is just look at the
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  Speaker 4: crowd and hold the mic out and hopefully it's a
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  Speaker 4: hit that they know.
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  Speaker 1: You know what I mean, It.
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  Speaker 2: Was all part of the plan.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I just want to include you guys.
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  Speaker 3: As we celebrate the success of Whiskey Drink and an
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  Speaker 3: album that is from twenty twenty three. I any fan
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  Speaker 3: would be upset if I didn't ask you what's next?
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  Speaker 4: Well, I think the next single will be from the
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  Speaker 4: new album, and we've been working on that. It's actually
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  Speaker 4: in the process of being mixed right now, So next
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  Speaker 4: thing will be from the new record. Now, as far
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  Speaker 4: as how we're going to drop the album, that's that's
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  Speaker 4: a little bit up in the air right now. I
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  Speaker 4: just feel like, man, last few albums, I just feel
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  Speaker 4: like we're as a streaming thing is taken off and you,
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  Speaker 4: you know, put an album out. You sit there and
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  Speaker 4: you know, it takes you a year and a half
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  Speaker 4: to find the songs, write the songs, go record it,
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  Speaker 4: get it all fixed, and then you put it out
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  Speaker 4: and three months later, everybody's like Okay, well, when's your
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  Speaker 4: next one coming out? And it's like, dude, it took
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  Speaker 4: me a year and a half to make that thing,
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  Speaker 4: you know, so I think, you know, people get ready
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  Speaker 4: to move on to the next thing after they've consumed
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  Speaker 4: the album, and I think, for me, we're leaving a
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  Speaker 4: lot a lot of really cool songs on the table
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  Speaker 4: and things, songs that just aren't getting their day, and
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  Speaker 4: so I want to figure out how to release the album,
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  Speaker 4: whether we release it in segments or whatever that looks
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  Speaker 4: like to try, and you know, not let the album
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  Speaker 4: burn burn out in a couple months after you release it.
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  Speaker 4: So you know, you release it, people want to listen
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  Speaker 4: to it for a couple months and then they're like, okay,
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  Speaker 4: well when I know all those.
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  Speaker 1: When's the next one coming out? And it's like, man,
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  Speaker 1: like another year.
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  Speaker 3: So it's you can almost do like four EPs built
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  Speaker 3: like put together a full album type deal.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, And that's kind of you know, we've we've talked
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  Speaker 4: about a lot of different things, and you know, there's
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  Speaker 4: just a lot of hit songs. I feel like that
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  Speaker 4: we're leaving on the table that we're just not able
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  Speaker 4: to get to because everybody's ready for the next thing,
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  Speaker 4: and uh, you know, just trying to figure out how
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  Speaker 4: to do that, man, because I just, you know, writing
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  Speaker 4: hit songs and finding those songs or it's not easy,
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  Speaker 4: and you know when you feel like you're just kind
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  Speaker 4: of like wasting them because you're trying to move to
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  Speaker 4: the next thing. I just don't feel like some of
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  Speaker 4: those songs are getting their day, and I want to
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  Speaker 4: figure out how to how to change that.
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  Speaker 1: I guess.
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  Speaker 3: Brother, Well listen, I know you got a busy day, heeady.
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  Speaker 3: I appreciate the time I got wasg and hopefully we
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  Speaker 3: can catch up again soon.
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  Speaker 1: Absolutely, man, always good to see you.
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  Speaker 2: Good to see you, Jason, take care back to the fan, brother.
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  Speaker 1: Thank you, good to see man.
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  Speaker 2: Thanks