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Hit TV Show Nashville is Back, On Stage · Inside Country with Wayne D

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  Speaker 1: All right, listen, I'm excited because they are doing big things.
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  Speaker 2: It's Nashville related.
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  Speaker 1: We'll talk about that in a few But Claire Bowen
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  Speaker 1: and Charles Essen, but every time I talk to him.
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  Speaker 3: He's like, Chip, yeah, that's what everybody knows me calling me.
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  Speaker 3: But if you just read it off the credits, it's Charles.
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  Speaker 1: First of all, does it feel good to be I
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  Speaker 1: feel like you guys are never a part. But does
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  Speaker 1: it feel good to be back together making magic?
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  Speaker 4: Oh?
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  Speaker 2: Absolutely? Yeah, you're right.
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  Speaker 3: We're dear friends and we see each other all the time.
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  Speaker 3: But it's different than getting to get on to get
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  Speaker 3: up on that stage and play these Nashville songs with
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  Speaker 3: Jonathan Jackson and Sam Palladio.
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  Speaker 2: So it is a real reunion for all of us.
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  Speaker 2: Why what was so special?
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  Speaker 1: Because you guys have both If you go up and
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  Speaker 1: down the IMDb page, y'all have stayed busy in your careers.
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  Speaker 1: What's so special about that Nashville show and that Nashville
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  Speaker 1: experience that y'all have kept it alive?
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  Speaker 4: It's just wild. I mean, we're like family, and it
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  Speaker 4: this town. Being in a town called Nashville filming a
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  Speaker 4: show called Nashville. We were so lucky to be embraced
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  Speaker 4: by people because you know, you understand why people would
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  Speaker 4: be like, what are you gonna what are you gonna
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  Speaker 4: do about my town? And on the town.
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  Speaker 2: Don't make us look stupid, everybody said, and then we weren't.
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  Speaker 4: We're already us, not you, and uh, I don't know.
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  Speaker 4: There was just something about being here that it was
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  Speaker 4: a very special time and we worked very hard all
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  Speaker 4: the way through it, loved it and we don't want
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  Speaker 4: to let it.
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  Speaker 3: Go, and that's why we never left either. Claire and
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  Speaker 3: I are still here. Sam is here for the most part.
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  Speaker 3: Jonathan is here for the most part. I think he's
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  Speaker 3: back working on General Hospital now. But there's also something
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  Speaker 3: about Nashville that our characters went through a lot, and
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  Speaker 3: they and endured a lot of suffering that life can bring.
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  Speaker 3: But along the way, you know, found their way through
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  Speaker 3: it with their faith, with their family, with their friends,
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  Speaker 3: and with country music. And what we found is that
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  Speaker 3: our audience, therefore, they attached on a deeper level because
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  Speaker 3: they knew somebody going through that, and they knew somebody
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  Speaker 3: going through that, and these songs were the final ingredient
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  Speaker 3: that other shows don't get to have these these incredible
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  Speaker 3: songs written by the best songwriters in Nashville that we
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  Speaker 3: got to sing. And so there's some sort of attachment
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  Speaker 3: between Nashville and the Nashville fan base, the Nashi's as
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  Speaker 3: we call them, that just doesn't seem to fade.
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  Speaker 2: And we're grateful for that.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 4: And there's something about like the last tour that we
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  Speaker 4: just did a tour in the UK and it was
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  Speaker 4: incredible as the Nashville cast again and like so much
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  Speaker 4: of the audience were new fans, so we met so
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  Speaker 4: many new friends, and the people who've been there since
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  Speaker 4: the beginning have said, like, please keep touring and that
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  Speaker 4: feels so special, like that's an honor for us. Oh
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  Speaker 4: so why not?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, And it's funny to be a fan of something
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  Speaker 1: and then meet somebody in real life, right, And one
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  Speaker 1: of the first things that popped out was and forgive me,
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  Speaker 1: I was a fan of the show, but up until
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  Speaker 1: yesterday I didn't realize you were Australian job. But it's
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  Speaker 1: funny because I'm sure you'll do something and meet a
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  Speaker 1: fan in public or something and you're like, in You're
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  Speaker 1: I'm not going to be insulting and do your accent.
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  Speaker 2: He'd be like, hey, top of the morning or whatever.
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  Speaker 2: Oh my god.
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  Speaker 3: When you meet you said you weren't going to be insulting,
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  Speaker 3: and then suddenly you were.
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  Speaker 2: You know what you mean. People were shocked when they
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  Speaker 2: when they when they hear her right, like what's what's
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  Speaker 2: the reality is it? Like? What's wrong with your voice?
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  Speaker 4: You sound funny?
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  Speaker 3: I'm sorry, which, by the way, is a testament to
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  Speaker 3: how well she did the American accent.
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  Speaker 2: I can promise you I could never have.
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  Speaker 3: Gone to Australia and played an Australian guy named Deacon
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  Speaker 3: as well as she did. By the way, I did
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  Speaker 3: figure it out years ago. I had a small role
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  Speaker 3: on a TV show. This is before the internet, this
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  Speaker 3: is before cell phones or anything, and I had about
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  Speaker 3: a paragraph of Australian to speak. I was played this
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  Speaker 3: Australian guy, barely had a scene at all.
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  Speaker 2: You never heard this.
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  Speaker 3: So I learned how to say this paragraph. And I
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  Speaker 3: got there on the day and they said they love
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  Speaker 3: what you're doing.
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  Speaker 2: They wrote you two more scenes and.
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  Speaker 3: I didn't have an idea how to say any of
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  Speaker 3: these words in Australian.
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  Speaker 2: So you know what, I did.
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  Speaker 3: I got on the phone and I called the highest
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  Speaker 3: regency in Sydney, Australia, and I got the concierge and
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  Speaker 3: I said, I'm an actor in a.
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  Speaker 2: I'm on the lot right now.
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  Speaker 3: I'm at Warner Brothers, and I'm screwed because I don't
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  Speaker 3: know how to say these things.
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  Speaker 2: Can you please say these words for me? And I'll
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  Speaker 2: be damned.
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  Speaker 3: He stood there and I recorded him off the phone
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  Speaker 3: saying the words I needed the word.
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  Speaker 2: So that's just what true story that.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, well, so we'll get her American accent eventually. What's
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  Speaker 1: your Australian accent?
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  Speaker 2: Hold on? I gotta call Sydney bloody? How that out there?
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  Speaker 2: Which you cast him.
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  Speaker 4: Hanging out with him?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, that's the good part. Uh So.
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  Speaker 1: The funny thing about TV shows now, especially in the
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  Speaker 1: streaming universes, things that you didn't think could live forever
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  Speaker 1: now do and get these like cult followings.
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  Speaker 2: And it's funny enough.
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  Speaker 1: We just talking to a member of our staff here
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  Speaker 1: and she goes, before I moved to Nashville, I've binge
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  Speaker 1: watched that show, so like I kind of knew what
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  Speaker 1: to expect.
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  Speaker 2: Exact words. Fact, that's true. Exact words did they give
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  Speaker 2: you a quiz at the border?
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  Speaker 3: They asked you various questions just to make sure you're
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  Speaker 3: allowed to come on in.
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  Speaker 4: They do ask a lot.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, when you but when you hear something like that,
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  Speaker 1: and you know the cult following that this show has,
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  Speaker 1: and it was popular in its run and it's almost
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  Speaker 1: more popular now, do you feel.
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  Speaker 4: That, Yeah, it's been. This is why we feel so honored,
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  Speaker 4: like to have the fans be like, we want more
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  Speaker 4: and we've told our referends and we couldn't go out
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  Speaker 4: for such a lie because of the pandemic that people
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  Speaker 4: couldn't leave their homes. They were like, I've finished Netflix,
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  Speaker 4: what do I do?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, it definitely gets wider because everything keeps streaming, but
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  Speaker 3: it also seems to get deeper as well, because it
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  Speaker 3: was sort of a golden moment.
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  Speaker 2: One of the things I love about it.
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  Speaker 3: It's an absolute document of this town at that moment.
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  Speaker 3: I mean, if you look at twenty twelve to now,
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  Speaker 3: how much has this city changed, how much has Broadway changed,
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  Speaker 3: how much is every part?
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  Speaker 2: Well, if you watch that show, you're going to see.
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  Speaker 3: How it was golden in that moment right then, And
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  Speaker 3: it really meant a lot to us to be a
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  Speaker 3: part of that and that people are still listening. And
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  Speaker 3: by the way, other shows to get together, they have
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  Speaker 3: to do an actual reunion, they have to shoot a
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  Speaker 3: whole season. Might be good, might not. You're borrowing on
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  Speaker 3: something that you're not sure you're gonna make better, you're
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  Speaker 3: certainly getting something out of it. But with us, we
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  Speaker 3: have this music, so it's a lot sort of simpler.
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  Speaker 3: Let's just get up on a stage with this incredible band.
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  Speaker 3: By the way, the band that is up there is
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  Speaker 3: led by the guy named Colin Linden, and Colin was
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  Speaker 3: the voice of Deacon's guitar. When you heard Deacon playing,
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  Speaker 3: when you heard him singing, that was me singing. But
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  Speaker 3: when you heard him playing, that was Colin. So there's
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  Speaker 3: a real family aspect to all of it. We're all
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  Speaker 3: back together and we get to do this again.
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  Speaker 1: Out of everything you've done, and if you just have
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  Speaker 1: a different answer, that's that's fantastic. But out of everything
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  Speaker 1: you've done, you look up and down your career, regardless
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  Speaker 1: of what level it was, are you the level of
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  Speaker 1: your involvement. Are you surprised that this is what has
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  Speaker 1: has lasted like maybe it did something else. You're like, Oh,
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  Speaker 1: this is gonna be something that lasts forever.
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  Speaker 3: No, let me say, I'm gonna jump in and say no,
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  Speaker 3: I'm not surprised, and I'll tell you why, because I've
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  Speaker 3: been a part of a whole lot of things. I
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  Speaker 3: had a small role on the Office That's gonna last,
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  Speaker 3: that's unbelievable. But I was a guest star on that
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  Speaker 3: recurring guest star.
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  Speaker 2: I promise you.
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  Speaker 3: I saw the script and I knew there was something
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  Speaker 3: special about this script written by Calli Curry. I heard
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  Speaker 3: t Bone Burnett was doing the first season of Music
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  Speaker 3: and I knew.
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  Speaker 2: How incredible that was.
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  Speaker 3: It wasn't until I saw the pilot episode I knew
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  Speaker 3: how good some of the scenes I was able to
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  Speaker 3: be a part of, was how great Connie Britton was
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  Speaker 3: in those scenes with me.
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  Speaker 2: It wasn't until I saw the pilot.
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  Speaker 3: Just like everybody else that I saw, like Sam and
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  Speaker 3: Claire singing, was.
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  Speaker 2: Your first song? Was it fade into You?
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  Speaker 3: If I didn't know better, the second one was fade
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  Speaker 3: into You. They had these two singles, one on top
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  Speaker 3: of the other, like an episode or two a part,
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  Speaker 3: and that's the stuff I hadn't seen while we were shooting.
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  Speaker 3: When I started to see these other characters just so alive,
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  Speaker 3: so gifted, so talented, that I was surrounded by this thing.
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  Speaker 3: I promise you, I don't know much about this business,
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  Speaker 3: but I said this could be special, this could last,
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  Speaker 3: and it was right.
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  Speaker 1: And we're going to talk about the show coming up
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  Speaker 1: here at the Ryman shortly. But I want to talk
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  Speaker 1: about acting and singing because there's not making it sound easy,
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  Speaker 1: but there's plenty of people that can act right, can
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  Speaker 1: get in front of the camera, can deliver.
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  Speaker 2: Their lines, bring the lines of the life.
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  Speaker 1: But how much harder is it when you have to
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  Speaker 1: sing and act? Is there an extra level of stress?
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  Speaker 2: Is pressure? Or is it just have to sing? Then
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  Speaker 2: get to sing?
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  Speaker 3: It wasn't something we were fortunate to We were all like,
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  Speaker 3: we get to sing too, Yeah, every day.
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  Speaker 4: It's crazy. We've both done musical theater before. This is
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  Speaker 4: the last thing you did, was Buddy, and I did
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  Speaker 4: bring Awakening back, and that's part of what got me here.
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  Speaker 4: I was late to my audition because it rained in California,
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  Speaker 4: and everyone forgets how to drive when it rains in California.
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  Speaker 4: But they me in the costing room because they knew
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  Speaker 4: that I'd played Wendlines Bring Awakening. So to get to
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  Speaker 4: do like to get to tell stories, because it all
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  Speaker 4: is just storytelling. It's just a different medium. Acting and
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  Speaker 4: singing is such a dream come true. So when this
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  Speaker 4: role came up, I was like, sorry, what.
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  Speaker 2: Yes, please, I'll tell you something else too. I don't
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  Speaker 2: think there is.
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  Speaker 3: I don't see the difference really between them, so I
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  Speaker 3: see so many of the commonalities. In fact, whenever I
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  Speaker 3: see a musician or a singer songwriter that either can't
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  Speaker 3: act or think they can't act, I'm like, I don't
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  Speaker 3: understand that, because when you stand on that stage so
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  Speaker 3: often you're singing a song. I don't know if you
• 9:36
  Speaker 3: know this, but Johnny Cash was really not named Sue.
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  Speaker 3: He was playing a character who was a boy named Sue,
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  Speaker 3: and so as such, he was acting throughout that song,
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  Speaker 3: and that has how every singer songwriter does. So to me,
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  Speaker 3: there's so many commonalities. The biggest one is how.
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  Speaker 2: Truthful are you being and you're acting? How real?
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  Speaker 3: What are you bringing that's authentically human? And it's the
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  Speaker 3: same thing in songwriting and song singing. Are you being
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  Speaker 3: authent all those people we love the most when they
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  Speaker 3: sing a song, you're like, that's it, that's the real thing.
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  Speaker 3: And finally, when you do a show and you're doing
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  Speaker 3: a scene, in every scene, you go about as far
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  Speaker 3: as you can. What we found is when you now
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  Speaker 3: get to sing a song on top of that, you
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  Speaker 3: get to go deeper. There are things that Deacon never
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  Speaker 3: would have said to you, but you put them behind
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  Speaker 3: a guitar and he'll tell you anything. You know, that
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  Speaker 3: whole three chords in the truth. So I've always thought
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  Speaker 3: they go together perfectly, and Nashville was the perfect showcase
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  Speaker 3: for that.
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  Speaker 2: Those characters get to come back to life.
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  Speaker 1: Anytime a fan approaches you, or anytime you get to
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  Speaker 1: do a show like you're about to do at the
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  Speaker 1: Rhyman and then also go on tour as well.
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  Speaker 2: How hard was it to say goodbye.
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  Speaker 1: To that character as things raps, because obviously you get
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  Speaker 1: attached to that role you're playing right, and you get
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  Speaker 1: to put and it becomes really a part of you.
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  Speaker 2: So how hard was it?
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  Speaker 1: You guys are doing the last the last scene the
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  Speaker 1: last show, it's wrapped.
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  Speaker 2: R Yeah, scene of the entire series. Yeah, we did
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  Speaker 2: the last scene together of the whole show. Yea, yeah, yeah.
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  Speaker 3: Deacon was always with Scarlet and she was helping him
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  Speaker 3: and he was hopefully helping her.
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  Speaker 2: But when you left, when we left, I tell you this,
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  Speaker 2: it was.
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  Speaker 3: What people might not understand is even more important than
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  Speaker 3: I want this to go on forever. You don't ever
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  Speaker 3: feel that because you know it won't. What you think
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  Speaker 3: is I want this to end. Well, I want to
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  Speaker 3: land this airplane. I mean the most important.
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  Speaker 2: Part of any airplane journey's landing.
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  Speaker 3: And so you wanted to feel like we left these
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  Speaker 3: characters in a good, special, wonderful, real place. And because
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  Speaker 3: we both did that. There there's a moment in the
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  Speaker 3: final scene where Deacon is having a dream and in
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  Speaker 3: it Raina is giving him He finally pictures Raina. It's
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  Speaker 3: so real and it's so clear, and she gives him
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  Speaker 3: some advice that soothes his soul and calms him as
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  Speaker 3: she always did. And in that moment, he's about to
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  Speaker 3: go on stage at the Ryman where we're blocked from
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  Speaker 3: the Ryman, and in walks Scarlett and she sees him
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  Speaker 3: in some places.
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  Speaker 2: She says, are you okay? And Deacon looks at her
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  Speaker 2: and he says, yeah, I'm okay.
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  Speaker 3: And it was the smallest line. The line meant, are
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  Speaker 3: you all right to go on stage? But what it
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  Speaker 3: really meant was these two people had been together forever
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  Speaker 3: and Deacon had never been okay. The final line is
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  Speaker 3: are you okay? And he says, yeah, I'm okay, And
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  Speaker 3: I thought that was perfection. So that gives me the
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  Speaker 3: cold chill still, and that lets me it's hard to
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  Speaker 3: step away, but we have I still have his guitar
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  Speaker 3: right there. I have his boots at home. I have
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  Speaker 3: a bunch of his shirts so I can put on
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  Speaker 3: Deacon anytime I want. Until then, we get to stand
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  Speaker 3: up on stage at the Rymann Auditorium in Atlanta as
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  Speaker 3: well on the twenty second and twenty third of November
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  Speaker 3: and get to for a little bit be these characters again.
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  Speaker 1: So we get to see the show here in Nashville.
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  Speaker 1: We're lucky, like you said the night before, you're in Atlanta.
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  Speaker 1: Let's say everything is about a reunion in right now,
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  Speaker 1: right like a full like reunion or extra episodes or whatever.
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  Speaker 2: Do you see that ever?
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  Speaker 1: And I'm not asking behind the curtain question right but
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  Speaker 1: if you get approached to ever bring this show back
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  Speaker 1: short run five episodes, see where everybody is now something
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  Speaker 1: like that, or even test the waters.
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  Speaker 2: And just run with it again.
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  Speaker 3: My think on that, and I'd love to hear Claire's,
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  Speaker 3: is that what we have now is a bank account
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  Speaker 3: that we built up with our fan base, with the
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  Speaker 3: people that love that show.
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  Speaker 2: There's this massive bank account. If I ever saw.
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  Speaker 3: A script or any concept or idea that I thought
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  Speaker 3: truly would add to that bank account of goodwill, I
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  Speaker 3: would be down. I think virtually all of them would
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  Speaker 3: honestly be just making withdrawals, would just be taking from
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  Speaker 3: what was to give us a little more fun right
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  Speaker 3: now and a little more time in the spotlight.
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  Speaker 2: I would never want to do that.
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  Speaker 4: It would have to serve all of the work that
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  Speaker 4: we did is six years of our lives, maybe more,
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  Speaker 4: I don't know. And so as long as it didn't
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  Speaker 4: take away from that, both for us, but mostly for
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  Speaker 4: the fans, because they're the ones who it's about. They're
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  Speaker 4: the ones who keep coming back and filling the seats
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  Speaker 4: and asking us to come to wherever they like, whatever
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  Speaker 4: the nearest city to them is to sing the songs.
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  Speaker 4: As long as it didn't take away from any of
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  Speaker 4: that for them, then I think it would be wonderful,
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  Speaker 4: it'd be so fun.
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  Speaker 2: I'll give you one more hint too. That's interesting.
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  Speaker 3: You can find where these if you want to kind
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  Speaker 3: of know where Deacon's gone, it's not the exact answer.
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  Speaker 3: If you want to find where Scarlet's gone, it's not
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  Speaker 3: the exact answer.
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  Speaker 2: But we all have our own music, all of us.
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  Speaker 3: If you follow Sam Palladio has an album coming out,
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  Speaker 3: Claire's with Bow and Young with her incredible husband Brandon, who,
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  Speaker 3: by the way, she introduced to the Nashville audience in
• 14:39
  Speaker 3: that final episode. There was Brandon and Clara and Scarlet
• 14:43
  Speaker 3: on Brandon's arm and they were talking about getting married
• 14:46
  Speaker 3: and lo and.
• 14:47
  Speaker 2: Behold they did.
• 14:48
  Speaker 3: So you can listen to Bow and Young and some
• 14:50
  Speaker 3: of those songs, you'll go, that's Scarlet. And if you
• 14:53
  Speaker 3: listen to my I have an album out called Love
• 14:55
  Speaker 3: Ain't Pretty. I promise you listen to a couple of
• 14:57
  Speaker 3: these shows. The songs you tell me, you'll go that
• 14:59
  Speaker 3: one's Deacon, and you're not wrong. There's a piece of
• 15:02
  Speaker 3: those people and all of us that continues in our art.
• 15:05
  Speaker 1: Is that intentional to that you know of that character voice,
• 15:08
  Speaker 1: and that.
• 15:08
  Speaker 2: Means no we're never you never went. I think I'll
• 15:11
  Speaker 2: go write a scarlet or sing a scarlet song. I'm
• 15:13
  Speaker 2: just saying, we walked in these boots or she walked
• 15:15
  Speaker 2: in these heels with the now you walked in boots.
• 15:18
  Speaker 3: Yeah, And honestly, she's barefoot ninety percent of the time,
• 15:22
  Speaker 3: so she walked in those bare feet of scarlets a
• 15:25
  Speaker 3: long time.
• 15:25
  Speaker 2: So that part of us is it sticks its head
• 15:29
  Speaker 2: out again.
• 15:30
  Speaker 4: I think for me, scarlet was always a part of me.
• 15:32
  Speaker 4: I learned to do her accent from a hospital bed
• 15:34
  Speaker 4: as a child because I couldn't go anywhere. I had
• 15:36
  Speaker 4: cancer when I was kidding a fine out, but I
• 15:39
  Speaker 4: watched Fried Green Tomatoes and The Wizard of Oz until
• 15:43
  Speaker 4: I wore like I think it went through three VHS
• 15:45
  Speaker 4: tapes of the Wizard of Oz, and that's how I
• 15:47
  Speaker 4: learned the accent when I was about five, I think
• 15:49
  Speaker 4: when I learned it. And so when the casting came along,
• 15:52
  Speaker 4: I walked into the room as Southern person, having never
• 15:56
  Speaker 4: met a Southern person. So I really hope it didn't
• 15:58
  Speaker 4: upset too many people.
• 15:58
  Speaker 2: Who seemed happy.
• 16:00
  Speaker 4: So she was always in there, and I think Deacon
• 16:02
  Speaker 4: was always in there.
• 16:03
  Speaker 2: Yeah, sure, And it was just.
• 16:04
  Speaker 4: Waiting for the right project, the right inspiration for them
• 16:07
  Speaker 4: to come out. So when we do go out on stage,
• 16:10
  Speaker 4: we bring them. We bring them with us wherever we go.
• 16:12
  Speaker 4: We don't pretend to be them. They were always there,
• 16:15
  Speaker 4: and I sound completely and I think.
• 16:17
  Speaker 3: When we're all together, they're conjured even more. They start
• 16:20
  Speaker 3: coming out even more. Sam gets a little more gunner
• 16:23
  Speaker 3: around us, and Jonathan gets a little more avery. So
• 16:27
  Speaker 3: I'm really just so proud of everybody and all the
• 16:30
  Speaker 3: music they've made since then too. I knew how good
• 16:32
  Speaker 3: they were, but then you see their independent projects and
• 16:34
  Speaker 3: I'm like, yeah, God, they're so good.
• 16:36
  Speaker 2: They're so good.
• 16:38
  Speaker 1: Last thing I want to ask about the show, and
• 16:39
  Speaker 1: then we're going to talk about what people can expect
• 16:42
  Speaker 1: as y'all hit.
• 16:42
  Speaker 2: The stage here.
• 16:43
  Speaker 1: Sure, let's say they bring the show back, but let's
• 16:47
  Speaker 1: say they're interested in recasting, right, let's bring this back
• 16:51
  Speaker 1: to life. It's a prequel, right, or let's fast forward
• 16:53
  Speaker 1: to years down the line. Sure, and it's with respect
• 16:56
  Speaker 1: to the characters you brought to life, but like, let's
• 16:59
  Speaker 1: see what they are now with a different voice behind them.
• 17:04
  Speaker 2: Who would you know? You're gonna ask your goals. Oh
• 17:06
  Speaker 2: my gosh, that's tricky.
• 17:08
  Speaker 4: I don't see anybody else playing Deacon.
• 17:11
  Speaker 2: Come on, yeah, somebody younger that's really kind made.
• 17:15
  Speaker 4: Him who he was, Like you, you embody him when
• 17:19
  Speaker 4: you walk out on stage.
• 17:21
  Speaker 2: You're so kind.
• 17:22
  Speaker 3: I will say this though it's it's twenty twenty four.
• 17:25
  Speaker 3: We don't need to go find younger, more famous us.
• 17:27
  Speaker 3: We can use AI and I can be fourteen in
• 17:31
  Speaker 3: Deacon and we can make that happen. Just a few
• 17:33
  Speaker 3: more years, we will have that technology to go be.
• 17:37
  Speaker 3: It'll be a cartoon called Lil Nashville and they'll be
• 17:40
  Speaker 3: all little, big headed children of.
• 17:43
  Speaker 1: Hey, we might need to clip this out, because that's
• 17:45
  Speaker 1: a hell of an idea.
• 17:46
  Speaker 2: Saturday morning, my son gets up, we pull my cereal.
• 17:49
  Speaker 2: I'm going to watch the Little Next.
• 17:52
  Speaker 3: Whatever, always crying where's cartoony.
• 17:57
  Speaker 4: I will trauma that leads to alcoholism.
• 18:01
  Speaker 2: And I will say to piggyback off of what you
• 18:04
  Speaker 2: just said. I've heard other people say that before.
• 18:06
  Speaker 1: Obviously, we've met a few times of press games with you,
• 18:09
  Speaker 1: hanging with the with the bandering intermissions and our.
• 18:11
  Speaker 2: Buddy Jansen, Yeah and Janson.
• 18:14
  Speaker 1: I've heard more than one person say that you that
• 18:17
  Speaker 1: character is like career defining for you.
• 18:20
  Speaker 2: Do you feel that way, Oh?
• 18:21
  Speaker 3: Absolutely, there, there's definitely a ad. After Deacon was a
• 18:26
  Speaker 3: different time in my life than before Deacon, including the
• 18:29
  Speaker 3: show outer Banks. I know for a fact that they,
• 18:33
  Speaker 3: maybe not they, but their wife and their children saw
• 18:35
  Speaker 3: Outer Banks and said you need to I mean so
• 18:37
  Speaker 3: at Nashville and.
• 18:38
  Speaker 2: Said he'd be great for Ward.
• 18:39
  Speaker 3: And they knew it would be a good mislead because
• 18:40
  Speaker 3: Deacon was basically a good guy, so they brought me
• 18:43
  Speaker 3: into be this good guy in quotes that went sideways.
• 18:45
  Speaker 2: So it changed my life in all.
• 18:47
  Speaker 3: Those ways, but mostly it brought music back into all
• 18:51
  Speaker 3: of our lives. And here we are in music city
• 18:53
  Speaker 3: for a reason. This place just had all our hearts instantly.
• 18:57
  Speaker 3: There's a line in a John Denver song coming home
• 18:59
  Speaker 3: to a place he'd never been before.
• 19:01
  Speaker 2: That's exactly what.
• 19:02
  Speaker 3: I felt like immediately, and every place I go I
• 19:05
  Speaker 3: see that show. I was at the Opry the other
• 19:07
  Speaker 3: night walking down the hallway and I remembered my friend Claire,
• 19:10
  Speaker 3: who I'd barely known a day or two, just sitting
• 19:12
  Speaker 3: barefoot in one of the hallways waiting for her scene.
• 19:15
  Speaker 2: And so every place we go. I can walk right
• 19:18
  Speaker 2: down Broadway.
• 19:20
  Speaker 3: And see moments that had something to do with this show.
• 19:23
  Speaker 3: So yeah, it's the most beautiful thing to get to
• 19:25
  Speaker 3: be here and be a part of that. So maybe
• 19:28
  Speaker 3: that was definitely career defining, but more importantly was life defining.
• 19:32
  Speaker 1: Yeah, so you guys are hitting the stage, at what
• 19:34
  Speaker 1: point did you decide because this isn't your first reunion
• 19:37
  Speaker 1: show or back to two shows?
• 19:39
  Speaker 3: Right?
• 19:39
  Speaker 4: We did last year and it was fantastic.
• 19:42
  Speaker 2: Yeah, well I think we were shocked then about the
• 19:44
  Speaker 2: the response effect.
• 19:46
  Speaker 3: The response, Yeah, especially even also over in UK, like
• 19:50
  Speaker 3: we have no reason to space. It's spent a couple
• 19:52
  Speaker 3: of years by now. I don't know if you know
• 19:53
  Speaker 3: that we finished up. The last episodes were in eighteen.
• 19:55
  Speaker 3: Here we are in twenty four, so that's six years
• 19:58
  Speaker 3: ago with no real new shows, and my goodness.
• 20:01
  Speaker 2: It was crazy to happen. Yeah.
• 20:02
  Speaker 3: We played Chicago last year and that was the first
• 20:05
  Speaker 3: one we did and it was like it was like nuts.
• 20:08
  Speaker 3: It was sort of like Beatlemania kind of fun thing.
• 20:10
  Speaker 3: So that's why we're doing it. The show here last
• 20:12
  Speaker 3: year sold out like in three four minutes at the Rhyman,
• 20:17
  Speaker 3: which is lovely.
• 20:18
  Speaker 4: I mean, like I love making people happy. It means
• 20:20
  Speaker 4: people are so happy, and we met we met so
• 20:22
  Speaker 4: many of them. Goodness that we did meet.
• 20:24
  Speaker 3: Absolutely and we've never been We've never really done it
• 20:27
  Speaker 3: in Atlanta. Will be at the Roxy on the in
• 20:29
  Speaker 3: the twenty second and then here on the twenty third,
• 20:32
  Speaker 3: so that we get to jump back in these waters again.
• 20:35
  Speaker 2: Is a thrill? Yeah?
• 20:37
  Speaker 1: Is it something that you plan on? This will be
• 20:39
  Speaker 1: something you guys do yearly and just pick different cities.
• 20:42
  Speaker 2: I think we're supposed to be.
• 20:43
  Speaker 3: Cool and go well whatever, But I think, looking at
• 20:45
  Speaker 3: each other, if we could do, if we could do,
• 20:47
  Speaker 3: if we could do.
• 20:47
  Speaker 2: This every so often for the rest of our life.
• 20:50
  Speaker 3: I'd love to play the ryemand once a year for
• 20:51
  Speaker 3: the rest of my natural life until they had to
• 20:53
  Speaker 3: wheel me off that stage.
• 20:56
  Speaker 2: You'll be the one wheeling me.
• 20:58
  Speaker 1: But that's a little aware, is he now exactly?
• 21:03
  Speaker 2: Well?
• 21:03
  Speaker 1: And it's and it's funny because that stage is so
• 21:07
  Speaker 1: there's a lot of stairs, so I'll help you.
• 21:10
  Speaker 3: Uh.
• 21:11
  Speaker 1: The Rhyman is such a special spot when you decided Nashville,
• 21:15
  Speaker 1: it had to be because of the history of the
• 21:17
  Speaker 1: show and the Ryman being what it had to.
• 21:20
  Speaker 4: Be right, and we're so so lucky to be invited back.
• 21:22
  Speaker 4: Everyone wants to play the Rhyman. But they were just like, yes, well,
• 21:26
  Speaker 4: you know.
• 21:27
  Speaker 3: You know the three, the trifecta, the trinity in this
• 21:30
  Speaker 3: town is the Opry, the Ryman, and.
• 21:34
  Speaker 2: The Bluebird Cafe.
• 21:35
  Speaker 3: Originally, Steve Buchannan, the brilliant mind behind thinking that there
• 21:39
  Speaker 3: even needed to be a show about Nashville, thought it
• 21:41
  Speaker 3: might be set at the Opry, backstage at the Opry,
• 21:44
  Speaker 3: because it's an amazing, magical place. But I think you
• 21:48
  Speaker 3: can't live backstage at the Opry. It's too special, it's
• 21:50
  Speaker 3: too singular. So but you can live in and around
• 21:54
  Speaker 3: the Bluebird Cafe, so it was sort of based around there.
• 21:57
  Speaker 3: Initially we started out in the real one, and then
• 21:59
  Speaker 3: they built us one that was so immaculately exact as
• 22:02
  Speaker 3: the other one that even Erica Wallams Nichols, who runs
• 22:06
  Speaker 3: the place over there, would say she was shocked by
• 22:08
  Speaker 3: how real it was.
• 22:09
  Speaker 2: That was a place we could live.
• 22:11
  Speaker 3: Scarlett could work there, Deacon could play there all the time,
• 22:13
  Speaker 3: Gunner could work there, and we always went back there
• 22:16
  Speaker 3: all the time. Then for special times we would go
• 22:19
  Speaker 3: to the Opry and Raina would be playing the Opry
• 22:21
  Speaker 3: or at a time in his life when Deacon needed
• 22:23
  Speaker 3: music more than ever, the Opry reached out and asked
• 22:26
  Speaker 3: Deacon to come play at the Opry. So those were
• 22:28
  Speaker 3: extremely special moments. But perhaps the most special ball is
• 22:33
  Speaker 3: the Mother Church being on stage at the Rhyman, and
• 22:36
  Speaker 3: in fact that we got to close out the entire
• 22:39
  Speaker 3: show of Nashville on stage at the Ryman with the
• 22:42
  Speaker 3: entire cast, past and present.
• 22:44
  Speaker 2: Singing the song of Nashville.
• 22:46
  Speaker 3: A life that's good means that we have a connection
• 22:49
  Speaker 3: now that place is historically connected to so many that
• 22:52
  Speaker 3: we get to have that sort of flag planted on
• 22:55
  Speaker 3: that stage. Is that's where we ended at all? Because
• 22:58
  Speaker 3: there's no place else we could think of that would
• 23:01
  Speaker 3: be so perfect?
• 23:02
  Speaker 1: What does a fan get out of this show other
• 23:05
  Speaker 1: than just great songs? Is there a lot of storytelling
• 23:09
  Speaker 1: about the characters the show?
• 23:10
  Speaker 2: Like do you are? Do you just hate? The show?
• 23:12
  Speaker 2: Is on lights up? Let's rock.
• 23:14
  Speaker 4: It's more like interacting with people with like a room
• 23:18
  Speaker 4: the size of the Rhyme, and it's big, but it's
• 23:20
  Speaker 4: small enough where you really are. You get to get
• 23:22
  Speaker 4: close together. Chip and I always go flying off the
• 23:25
  Speaker 4: front of the stage and we can't help it. We
• 23:27
  Speaker 4: just really like our fans. We have the best fans
• 23:30
  Speaker 4: in the world. Like I will always say that they're
• 23:32
  Speaker 4: just they're so they just keep coming back and they
• 23:35
  Speaker 4: say the loveliest things. And for me, being a storyteller
• 23:39
  Speaker 4: and an artist, I just want to make people feel good.
• 23:42
  Speaker 4: There's so much stuff going on in the world that's
• 23:44
  Speaker 4: really scary and yucky, and there are things that happen
• 23:47
  Speaker 4: in each play everyone's lives personally that are not necessarily fun.
• 23:52
  Speaker 4: So we get to give them this like it's suspended reality.
• 23:56
  Speaker 4: Maybe we're giving them words, but maybe we sing a
• 23:58
  Speaker 4: song that they were going through.
• 24:01
  Speaker 3: We've heard again and again that so many of these
• 24:03
  Speaker 3: songs are sole medicine for people. Whether it's a life
• 24:06
  Speaker 3: that's good or a song like Sanctuary or a friend
• 24:10
  Speaker 3: of mine, there's different songs that people latch onto. So yes,
• 24:13
  Speaker 3: you're gonna get to hear those songs. But the other
• 24:16
  Speaker 3: two things that are have become so important about it
• 24:18
  Speaker 3: is number two. Steve bu Can and our producer originally
• 24:22
  Speaker 3: of the show, also produces this, and he and we
• 24:24
  Speaker 3: all agreed that we have the kind of fans that
• 24:27
  Speaker 3: also want to hear some of our songs. So you're
• 24:29
  Speaker 3: gonna get to hear some bow and You and you're
• 24:31
  Speaker 3: gonna get to hear some Charles Aston, You're gonna get
• 24:33
  Speaker 3: to hear something we mix and match the two. They
• 24:35
  Speaker 3: jumped up with me on my songs. I have a
• 24:38
  Speaker 3: song called down the Road we finished with at last tour,
• 24:40
  Speaker 3: and to have all my cast mates up there singing
• 24:43
  Speaker 3: my song. So that's the second part. The third part,
• 24:46
  Speaker 3: the third part of the Secret Sauce is we make
• 24:49
  Speaker 3: sure it's not a train that has a schedule.
• 24:52
  Speaker 2: Yes it is, but when we're out there, we have.
• 24:54
  Speaker 3: These moments where we're just interacting with each other and
• 24:56
  Speaker 3: we're just talking.
• 24:57
  Speaker 2: With each other.
• 24:58
  Speaker 3: They want to just be and step inside the show
• 25:01
  Speaker 3: a little bit and sort of hang out, and so
• 25:03
  Speaker 3: do we. We want to let them into that place.
• 25:05
  Speaker 3: So all those things. It's sort of a hangout and
• 25:07
  Speaker 3: we get to play all this different music and no,
• 25:11
  Speaker 3: because no audience is the same, so they are they
• 25:14
  Speaker 3: are a major. That's the one part that we didn't
• 25:16
  Speaker 3: have in the show Nashville is our audience was out
• 25:20
  Speaker 3: on their.
• 25:20
  Speaker 2: Sofas all across the world.
• 25:23
  Speaker 3: Not interacting. This is different that now. Now, this is
• 25:25
  Speaker 3: the beauty of live is now you're.
• 25:28
  Speaker 2: A part of it. You're a little louder for this song.
• 25:30
  Speaker 2: Oh okay, they like that one, and it's just really special.
• 25:35
  Speaker 3: By the way, I've been on stage singing a Deacon
• 25:37
  Speaker 3: song that I haven't sung in a while, and I'll
• 25:39
  Speaker 3: forget a line and I'll hear the line, and I'll
• 25:41
  Speaker 3: hear the line come back to me through the audience
• 25:44
  Speaker 3: and I'll hear them sing it, and I'm like, okay, guys, yeah,
• 25:47
  Speaker 3: all right, this is their show as much as it's ours.
• 25:50
  Speaker 4: I love that there are songs. There's one in particular
• 25:52
  Speaker 4: called he Ain't Me that you wrote it with Deacon
• 25:57
  Speaker 4: in mind, and they said it was going to be
• 25:59
  Speaker 4: on the show, and for some reason it didn't end
• 26:01
  Speaker 4: up on the show. But the fans when he plays
• 26:03
  Speaker 4: it live, they go absolutely insane, and they treat that.
• 26:08
  Speaker 4: They treat our songs just like the Nashville songs. It
• 26:10
  Speaker 4: is clearly meant to be on the show. But I
• 26:12
  Speaker 4: love that you get to do it because it's.
• 26:15
  Speaker 2: I mean, yeah, they have a it's it's just it's
• 26:18
  Speaker 2: just sweet. And if you're and by the way. It's
• 26:20
  Speaker 2: last time we asked who here is an old Nashville fan.
• 26:23
  Speaker 3: You hear this enormous roar, and we go who's streamed
• 26:25
  Speaker 3: it recently during COVID or after?
• 26:28
  Speaker 2: And there's this other roar.
• 26:29
  Speaker 3: So what you said at the beginning of this thing
• 26:31
  Speaker 3: is there's more people coming to Nashville every day, not
• 26:35
  Speaker 3: just this town, but the show. And we hope that
• 26:37
  Speaker 3: if you're out there listening now, come be a part
• 26:40
  Speaker 3: of this community. You might have the train came back
• 26:43
  Speaker 3: around the station, so hop on this time.
• 26:45
  Speaker 2: I love that Freese at the time, and oh my pleasure.