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CMA FEST Day 2 - Kassi Ashton & John Morgan · Inside Country with Wayne D

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  Hey, it's Wayne d and we are on to day two of CMA Fest
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  in downtown Nashville. As iHeart Country took over the heart of all things downtown
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  Nashville right there on Lower Broadway inside Tequila Cowboy that's on the first floor Jason
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  Alban's kuston rooftop bar. Some amazing guests still coming up, including what you
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  get out of day two as we hang out with new artists Cassie Ashton and
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  John Morgan. Let's jump to the stage to catch up with Cassie Ashton.
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  Now CMA Fest, what's going on? My name is mckittie from the Big
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  ninety eight. Thank you guys so much for coming out to iHeart Country house
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  party. Who who went to the stadium last night? How awesome was that?
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  If you don't have tickets, by the way, we are giving away
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  tickets for the remainder of the next couple of nights, So scan this code
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  right here and you're automatically registered to win tickets to the stadium. Of course,
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  still a bunch of amazing nights ahead. Cassie Ashton is gonna be out
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  here in a second. We're gonna do a little Q and A and catch
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  up with her that you're gonna play a couple of songs. Also, by
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  the way, we're gonna be out here the next couple of days and free
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  performances too. So later on this afternoon at four we have John Moore performances
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  tomorrow and Sunday as well, so come on by enjoy the nice air conditioning
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  and free performances as well. So you guys ready for Cassie r. It's
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  give it out for Cassie Ashton. Hey, thanks for coming out hanging out
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  with for a little bit. Oh my gosh, yeah, thank you for
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  having me. Uh so you've done I mean a bunch of cmafest by now
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  you know when was like your first one and like whether it was that your
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  fan or you know, as an artist. Yeah, I think my first
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  CMA fest was twenty eighteen. I had just signed my record deal. I
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  played inside the lobby of the Bridge Stone. I was freaking out, but
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  we got it done and ever since then it gets better and better every year.
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  Well you know it's crazy too, because yeah, I know exactly what
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  stage you're talking about. Now you do this and you have kind of a
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  busy next couple of days or busy next couple of days. Yeah, but
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  at least it's always like the hottest day, it's actually not that hot.
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  I feel like these next couple of days, it's always like super super humid.
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  It actually feels pretty good, I mean not cool. You know,
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  it feels pretty good though not bad. Until you're like running around the stage
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  throwing your hair around, and you're just like, I've never been hotter in
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  my life. But we're making it hugs. I can't relate it, so
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  tweaty hugs all around. We were talking about this earlier when we were upstairs.
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  So you you make a lot of your own clothes? Or where did
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  you go recently? New York City? Oh? Yeah, so I went.
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  I just went to New York last weekend. And did anyone in here
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  watch Project runway back in the day? No, that lady great. You
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  and me are friends and they used to go to this fabric store called Mood
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  and it is like not your grandma's fabric store, Like this is not quilting
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  material. There are three floors of fabric and I just like walked around and
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  shocked. The entire bottom floor is like leather and fur, and I felt
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  like I was in game of Thrones. I had a great time. That's
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  awesome. You have a Brady song country radio I do called crazy, Call
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  Crazy. Talk about that. You're obviously gonna be doing that here in a
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  little bit, but talk about that song and kind of the inspiration for it.
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  Is it a true story? Yeah? I mean it's always a true
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  story. I think for every single girl in here. You any man who
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  has ever called you crazy has called you again. It's not really like it's
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  not really like a poetic flip or like a Nashville you know hook, It's
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  just this is hard earned life experience. You you have a pretty exciting summer.
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  You're playing Red Rocks with Parker McCollum. I am, yeah, I'm
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  super excited. Parker is a great friend of mine, So to be able
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  to play such an iconic venue with like someone that I love dearly, it's
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  gonna be a blast. And when you are on the do you have like,
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  what are like your road trip essentials, whether it's when you're on the
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  bus or just even when you're just like on a road trip, what are
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  there certain things like you have to have or else everything's all messed up,
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  So definitely road trip essential, like for working on the road are snacks I
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  have to eat all day long, Like it's just a a thing that keeps
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  me going. I have to have all my jewelry or else I feel naked
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  on stage. And I have to have when we're on the bus an aerobic
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  trampoline, you know, like from the eighties that you would watch on the
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  infomercials. I take one of those with me on the road and like sing
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  and jump as exercise and all that gets me through the Yeah, yeah,
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  like the little ones they fold up. It's great. That's awesome. So
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  US is going. Obviously you're obviously writing and stuff. Where's kind of random?
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  But where is the most like random place you've ever written a song or
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  the most random idea that's ever popped up? Oh? I get most of
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  my song ideas like either at one am when I can't sleep, or in
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  my car in Nashville traffic. You hit a pothole and just like an idea
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  pops in your head, you know, as the frame of your car gets
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  dented from how deep the potholes are. I think, I think we don't
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  ever say no to any song idea because we need so many of week that
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  we just we keep it rolling. And if you're a good songwriter, you
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  can write a song about toilet paper and it'd be good. And who are
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  like your top I would say top three or top five? Like dream collabs,
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  Well, it could be any format too, oh dream collabs. Well,
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  I don't know, because I feel like all of my dream artists,
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  I would never want to sing beside because I just would not be worthy.
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  Like if Chris Stapleton asked me to do a duet, I think I would
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  just faint on the floor instead of remembering my part, you know. Or
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  if Eric Church was like, hey, Cas, come sing with me.
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  I would have to have like three times the wheedies I normally do in the
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  morning. And then also, since Beyonce has dipped her big toe into country,
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  if she wanted me to like hold her purse while she saying I could
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  do it, you wouldn't. You wouldn't say no to Beyonce no, But
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  I would probably go mute after that. Kind of a couple of random rapid
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  fire questions. If you could compare your music to any animal, what would
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  it be? Any animal? Oh? Well, my friend asked me the
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  other day what our band was coming up with? Who my spirit animal is?
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  And we said a raven because they're dark and they hang out in cemeteries
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  and they collect shiny things. So maybe that. And by the way,
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  a raven and a crow are not the same thing. We had to google
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  that crows are small and ravens are terrifying. So I'm a raven hopefully.
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  What your first ever concert? What was it? Oh? My first concert
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  was Rascal Flats. Yeah, life is a highway, you know what I'm
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  saying. Yeah, that's awesome. Well, Cassie, thank you again for
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  coming about you guys ready to hear Cassie do a couple of songs? All
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  right, well'mna hop out of the way. Give it up one more time
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  for Cassie Ashton. A little later that day, John Morgan stopped. I
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  had to be our special guest in downtown Nashville. All right, y'all,
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  welcome to this stage. Right here next to me, John Morgan's in the
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  house. What's up, y'all. I'm gonna stand up because I'm pregnant and
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  sitting down is not comfortable right now. But John, we're so excited for
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  you to be a part of our iHeart Country House party today and we just
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  kind of like to take a moment with the artists, because I feel like
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  cmafes is such a cool way for fans to get up close and to say
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  hi and to just get to know you a little better. So here in
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  the front. If you guys have any questions, think of them. I'm
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  gonna ask you here in just a minute as well. All right. Also,
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  this QR code I almost forgot to tell you Nissan Stadium passes for tonight,
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  Kelsey Ballerini, Luke, Bryan Parker, McCollum, so many more.
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  Scan that QR code, get yourself enter to win. We'll announce the winner
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  after john'stun performing. Sound good, Sound good? Here we go. All
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  right, John, let's talk a little bit about you, because I feel
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  like the last like six months or so have just been so exciting. How
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  are you feeling on the inside just kind of I don't know. I feel
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  like that one little blip in the radar that you just shoot up. Jason
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  Alding had it taken you under his wing. What's it been like for you
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  the last couple of months. Oh, it's been super busy, you know.
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  I've been been traveling on the road, you know, playing shows,
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  and in the middle of that trying to cut new songs, and yeah,
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  it's been a lot, but I love it. I'm finally getting to,
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  you know, do what I moved here to do. So it's awesome.
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  Yeah, when you had that dream to move to Nashville and to kind of
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  do this as a career, did you ever think you get to this moment
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  right now? We're like, I'm at CMA best, I'm doing fun things.
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  I get to actually do this. Yeah, I mean I was always
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  hopeful, you know what I mean, But it's one of those things.
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  It's just it's not real until it's real, you know. And so yeah,
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  I'm super thankful to be able to do this and it's gonna be a
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  good weekend. Man. So talk to us about this song that happened with
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  Jason Aldie and I feel like a lot of people were introduced to you from
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  that song. Those who were you know, forever fans obviously were all huge
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  fans of him before that, but the ones who just have found you and
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  just have to come to know you. Working with Jason Aldean on a song
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  that, I mean, you'll hear it once and you know every word.
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  So working on a song like that with Jason's gonna be pretty cool. It's
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  really cool. I mean, you know, kind of the last two years
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  of me being in Nashville was really heavily focused on songwriting, and so I
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  was fortunate enough to get a couple of cuts with him over the last couple
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  of years, which I'll be playing soon. But yeah, it's cool to
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  you know, to have that and then now have him jump in on one
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  of my songs. It is kind of returning the favor. It's pretty cool.
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  If you could rewind back to say, like ten year old you and
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  give yourself some advice to what you're experiencing now, would you have any advice
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  to give yourself back then? A lot of advice? Yeah, I don't
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  know. Probably, Honestly, I wouldn't change my story moving here. I
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  feel like I moved here when I was I guess I was twenty four or
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  twenty five, and I don't even know how old I am, But yeah,
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  I think it was a good age for me, you know, I
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  kind of I kind of went through some stuff that made me realize what I
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  didn't want to do as a career, and so gave me a little drive
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  to move here and actually, you know, pursue it full time. So
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  I'm very thankful for that. Besides the heat, because I know that's everybody's
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  favorite part of CMA Pest. What is your favorite part of CMA Pest?
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  He said, the alcohol here. That's here all the time, buddy,
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  I promise. Uh no. I just love getting to getting to play new
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  music, getting to play songs that you know have been released already that you
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  hopefully you guys will know, and I don't know. It's just super fun
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  to have such a large but yet small community, you know here in Nashville
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  one time, it's really cool. Well, you're about to go on tour
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  later in September with Nate Smith. That's exciting. How did you get that
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  phone call? Whoa, we got some Nate Smith fans in the house.
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  Let's go, Yeah, let's go. When you got that phone call,
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  was that was that just a casual conversation? Yeah? Yeah, it was
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  funny because I actually met him for the first time, what was it two
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  weeks ago, and uh, just the nicest guy ever. Everybody told me,
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  oh, he's the nicest guy in the industry, is the nicest guy,
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  And I'm like, that guy better be nice to be I'm gonna be
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  pissed you know so he was. He's awesome guy. I'm very thankful I
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  have that tour. It's gonna be fun. All right, y all,
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  we got any fan questions here in the front. Anybody have a burning question
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  for John It's okay if you don't. You got one right here? Who
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  would you like to collaborate with? Dream collab? Like a current artist right
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  now? I don't know if we're if we're going country Cody Johnson for sure?
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  Yeah, yeah, y'all know, y'all know John and Cody collab.
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  Hello, somebody put this on TikTok. Let's get it going. Okay,
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  did you have a question over here? I thought I heard somebody raise your
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  hand? You got one? Yeah? What whiskey do your drink? Is
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  the question? It's a great question. I don't know. I usually uh
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  yeah, I'm a tequila guy. He's right, he got me paid.
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  I am a tequila but I don't know. Woodford is pretty good. I
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  like Woodford. Yeah, yeah, that's good stuff. All right, say
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  y'all. Well, I'm gonna get off the stage so he can do his
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  thing. But make sure you tag at iaheard Country House Party on Instagram,
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  Tequila, cowboy, all the things we want to repost all your videos from
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  today and of course tag John Morgan too. We all make some noise for
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  John and that wraps Day two of iHeart Country House Party taking over CMA Fest
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  in downtown Nashville. Some more guests coming up on day three. Make sure
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