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Old Dominion, New Chapter · Inside Country with Wayne D

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  Listen, is it awkward to have you ever thought of like kicking people out
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  of the band. So interviews, there weren't so many of you guys.
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  We already did that one guy. Yeah, what's gone was the answers.
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  So listen, I've been in an interview with y' all. I know that
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  is bullshit. I got to start by Obviously, we keep up with what
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  you guys are up to with the bar and with your music. But every
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  now and again I will google an artists right before I'm gonna talk to him.
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  Case like, something spicy popped up, and as I type Old Dominion,
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  obviously I get the trucking line first. But you know, one of
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  the most googled Old Dominion things is Matthew Ramsey's height. Wow, he's actually
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  it's nuts. It's funny. Actually, people don't realize he's he's actually about
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  three five. Yeah, you got you put him on your lap. You're
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  like, I want to start. We were lucky enough to hear the song
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  early, but I want to rewind a week here. How was CMA Beest
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  for you guys? It was great? Yeah, yeah, it was awesome.
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  Yeah. It's always good to be part of is it knowing that like
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  in the planning of things, because obviously you are on the road pretty NonStop,
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  especially this time of year. Is CMA best something that you plan for
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  as you're laying out the year, It usually is, so you know,
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  we sort of look at the calendar and as they're planning the whole thing,
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  and we always know it's around that time, so we try not to,
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  you know, step on that. Sometimes tours get in the way, but
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  yeah, we try to account for it well. And speaking of tours,
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  we caught up with you guys. I think it was probably close to two
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  years ago and you were on Kenny's tour and you guys were were on his
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  tour so much that I think he got to claim you as dependence on taxas
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  what when Kenny had an announced the tour and you guys weren't on it,
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  is that like did he give you a buffer? Like, hey, just
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  the heads up? Yeah, we knew, okay, I just wanted to
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  make sure that there wasn't like a post on social media. You're like,
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  uh, the hell no, I think it's funny. You know, we
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  have such a good relationship obviously with him and the whole team, and it
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  was we were luckily part of that discussion, you know, because we're working
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  on our own stuff, and you know, it's it's such a like complicated
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  equation to put together tours and there's radius, clauses and all that stuff you
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  got to look out for. So we were a part of the conversation with
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  them and as to whether or not we were going to be a part of
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  it. So yeah, they didn't just surprise, you're not invited anymore like
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  we didn't like Kenny anyway. Yeah, kept making kept going on last year.
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  When it comes to the Nashville bar scene, it's exploded, especially post
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  COVID. I mean, Lady Wilson took over the spot over here, mirandas
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  Is behind us were sitting in Jason's Bar. Why did you guys pick the
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  spot where you're at because for anybody listening, you're in Nashville, but you're
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  in more like a local focused part of Nashville. Yeah, it's right near
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  Music Row, you know, it's it's really the spot in Nashville that we
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  spent a lot of time not only playing music but also hanging out. So
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  it's a it's a really cool spot. It's not too far from Broadway,
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  but it's it's a little bit away from the madness, and it's and it's
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  near such a historic spot. You know, we started as songwriters and so
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  it's it's right at the end of music row. I think actually the first
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  conversation we had about it was after like a sound check I think at CMA
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  Fest last year. Yeah, at least two. It might have been.
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  Yeah, we were in we were in a car. We all crammed and
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  Trevor's carr and got on a conference call to to talk about it. So
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  it's been in the works for quite a while. And why I mean,
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  I get it took we saw you at the iHeart Country Festival. And don't
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  judge my intelligence after I say this, but it took me saying the name
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  of the bar you to realize ODIs Yeah, well that's perfect. That's what
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  we wanted. We didn't want it to be like Old Dominion. We didn't
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  want our name to be you know, it's not a tourist attraction necessarily,
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  it's not a museum or shrine to us. We wanted to make a cool
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  bar, but we wanted to like inject our vibe and our feelings into it
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  and nod a little to us. So that was a way to sort of
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  hide our name in the name, so and all due respect to the legend
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  that was Toby Keith with his bar, it almost became like he put his
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  name on it and they kind of ran with what they wanted to do.
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  How hands on were you with not only the design but how things were going
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  to look and feel inside. We're very hands on. The guy that we're
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  doing it with, Ty Howder, he's done a lot of bars, some
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  of which we've played in, and so he has a lot of experience making
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  them. But from day one we kind of all said, like, we
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  don't want this is to be something we license our name to. We want
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  to be you know, he wanted our input from the ground up, so
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  we've we're still in that in that process. But yeah, we're very hands
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  on. And I heard that if you drop a band member's name at the
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  bar, there's like a running tab where like your first no, don't,
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  I'm getting to the music in a second. One more thing about the bar
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  is you're probably gonna stay involved. Right, It's not like okay, it's
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  up, it's running back to the music and you know, we'll just let
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  the mailbox money pop in like this is going to be a part of you
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  guys, right, absolutely, yeah. I mean we're already talking about and
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  making moves about what's next. So we have plans beyond what this this first
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  phase is, So it's going to be an ongoing thing for us. Dang.
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  So there's a second bar coming soon to Chicago with I'm just making up
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  rumors to touch on. We got to hear this new song early coming home.
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  You guys do a phenomenal job. And I say this every time I
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  had the chance to catch up with you. You are great at putting out
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  an Old Dominion song that doesn't sound like the last Old Dominion song, if
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  that makes sense, right? Yeah, how did you know and what was
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  the creation process behind this song? How did you know that this would kind
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  of fit what what Old Dominion is known for. I don't know we thought
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  about I don't think we ever think about what I mean, you know,
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  we don't think too far ahead. We literally wrote that song in the studio,
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  uh, and we kind of actually rushed through the end of it because
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  we had to record it. So we were like, all right, we
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  got to finish the lyrics in like the next forty five minutes. So you
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  know, we worked real hard on it, and it just I think it
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  just comes out because we're we have so many different influences that you know,
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  we can kind of for like a chameleon, the old Dominion chameleon. You
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  know. So you said you wrote it in the studio. Is this the
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  fastest song that you guys have been able to put together that kind of fell
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  into place? Well, we've had a little bit of a history of that,
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  you know, make it sweet. We wrote in the studio and recorded
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  that day, and then you know, in our fourth album, every day,
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  every song was a song that we wrote in the morning and then recorded
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  that night. So we do have a history of being able to do that,
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  and it adds a freshness to it when you just it's fresh off the
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  press writing it and you walk right into the studio, it's just every aspect
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  of the song is fresh in your mind. You guys have worked together for
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  so long that you probably kind of know where each other are going mentally when
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  it comes to writing, right, But let's say you're in the studio and
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  an idea pops up and you create it like that. For a lack of
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  a better phrase, what's a song that fell together that way that you literally
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  got in the car to drive home and thought, holy shit, yeah,
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  I mean, I think make it swee. Actually we would probably be the
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  one for me that we kind of it was our first, like Trevor was
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  saying, it was our first really attempt at just writing and recording in the
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  same day. And it felt so good. You know. Even in the
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  writing of it, we were just like, yeah, go keep going,
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  let's keep going. It was like pushing each other to go. And then
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  you know, you're listening in the control room at the end of the day
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  going did we just really do this? We just really write our next single?
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  This is crazy how fast that happened. If you think about it too
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  much, it can be a little scary when a song falls together that quick.
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  How do you determine Because music is consumed faster than ever. I mean,
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  as soon as someone's in love with something, you better have two more
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  songs ready to go, right, So when a song like that comes out,
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  like obviously coming Home, we know it's a song we're getting. We
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  know it's a song country radio, it's gonna turn up all summer. But
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  what's the plan after that? Is this? Was this just a one off
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  or is the plan to put it with with grouping of songs, EP or
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  album. There is a plan. I'm not so sure how much we're allowed
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  to talk about it, but there is more coming for sure, and we're
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  continually working on even what's next after that. So it's kind of a twofold
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  thing that we got going on. Speaking of what's next, is there any
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  bar owner inspired songs coming? Oh, you know, it's been a it's
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  been such a slow process and it's the really the unromantic part of it right
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  now. So probably not because it's like unless you want to talk about,
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  you know, digging up new sewer lines in the city of Nashville, and
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  it's you know, it's really nothing aroundthroom code code violations. You know,
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  it's not a great rock You could write a song about fighting in your bar
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  and call it take it to Tin Roof. When when it comes to the
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  music and and the touring and obviously the bar the bar portion of your guys
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  career, Now, what are the most surprising aspects like that you sit back
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  and go, dude, we were just writing songs one day. I mean,
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  the bar definitely was one of those I feel like it's just it's almost
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  like the whole time, it's felt a little bit too good to be true.
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  Like Tie was such a great dude, and and it's just been so
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  easy working with him. And you know, he's really kind of as much
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  as we're in putting it, you know, into the feel of it.
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  You know, he's definitely sort of he's he's driving the carriage or horse bus,
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  driving the bush. And it's just been so great every time. And
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  yeah, and it's it's just I never would have thought that that we that
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  we'd be looking at a you know, almost built building in Midtown that's going
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  to have our name on it. Yeah, it's like kind of that and
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  everything. It's you know, playing c Mayfest in the stadium, and it's
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  like it is kind of like one of the things you look up and go
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  if a bar or headline in this and you know, and uh, it's
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  just one of you know, it makes you stop and go, Wow,
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  we've really done it. Because with the bar is across the street from a
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  bar that's no longer there that we used to play for free. We would
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  ask the guy if we could sound, we could play just so we could
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  rehearse. So it's we've come a long way. And that bar merg looks
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  awesome. I put this hat on real quick. Oh wait, they're available
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  listen and you'all got bills of pace, so let me know. Last thing
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  I want to ask is you have the opportunity to celebrate your music all the
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  time. You meet fans, you do these radio interviews, and it's all
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  like, this song is great, you guys are great, you did this.
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  I'm gonna ask you to call yourselves out at one point. There has
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  to be a line in a song that you're like, I can't believe we
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  put this in here and it worked, and it's a line that you still
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  are not a fan of, but it's it's there now. I don't know
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  if it's not a fan of. But I can't believe we put drunkens and
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  skunking lunch with a crosside bear. I can't believe that that made it into
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  a song. And like, that's an insane, stupid line that we put
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  in there and made ourselves laugh with and I absolutely love it. But it's
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  pretty crazy that that's us. That's an actual song lyric. Hey, we
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  are excited for you guys for the new song whatever is after that song,
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  and we will be in line for the grand opening of the spot in Midtown.
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  Man, I'm excited for you. Yeah, thank you, Take care,
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  We'll see all later.