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Hardy On Awards, Morgan Wallen Greatness & So much New Music · Inside Country with Wayne D

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  Speaker 1: A bit a minute since you caught up with this guy,
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  Speaker 1: and if you follow him on.
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  Speaker 2: Social media, he's busy, uh, writing massive hit songs, doing
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  Speaker 2: massive shows, Uh, being a dad, Uh, creating content, getting
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  Speaker 2: on the TikTok a little bit.
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  Speaker 1: I don't even know.
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  Speaker 3: I haven't paid attention. I don't know about that last one.
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  Speaker 1: I tried.
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  Speaker 3: I tried myself, dude. I'm good.
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  Speaker 2: Thank you for making time, dude. I know you're busy,
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  Speaker 2: and of course, man, and when you're home you get
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  Speaker 2: to be a dad. So yeah, I'm a bit of
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  Speaker 2: time from that.
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  Speaker 1: Of course, dude.
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  Speaker 2: We were just talking about AI a second ago and
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  Speaker 2: as AI started popping off, uh and you know, becoming
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  Speaker 2: like almost its own language.
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  Speaker 1: I remember specifically.
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  Speaker 2: Your manager Tracker was like, you got hey, I said
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  Speaker 2: something AI goes. Oh you should bring up AI because
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  Speaker 2: obviously as a song.
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  Speaker 3: Right, we talked about that last time, right, Yeah, as.
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  Speaker 1: A songwriter, that's something you're going to be super passionate about.
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  Speaker 2: AI has grown even more since you and I talked
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  Speaker 2: last to the point where like there's people I got
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  Speaker 2: a friend who is sending me his AI songs to
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  Speaker 2: tell you that I tell you about that, Dan and
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  Speaker 2: he's making AI songs, and so I'm like, I'm like,
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  Speaker 2: don't don't send that to me because I don't like, Bro,
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  Speaker 2: you're killing if you can't sing, don't let the computer sing.
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  Speaker 2: F So, knowing how much AI has even changed just
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  Speaker 2: from the songwriting aspect and now it's it's recording music,
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  Speaker 2: how do you stand on the whole like it's a
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  Speaker 2: tool versus like it's use I think.
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  Speaker 3: It's a It's a great tool that's.
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  Speaker 4: Being used the wrong way. It's just like drugs or
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  Speaker 4: anything else, not actual drugs. Sorry, we came in here
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  Speaker 4: talking about drugs medicine.
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  Speaker 3: You know, I don't know I feel about that anyway.
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  Speaker 1: But Kelly.
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  Speaker 3: Kelly's mystery drug that she's trying to describe.
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  Speaker 4: Okay, So I Charlie Pooth, I'm borrowing this from Charlie Pooth.
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  Speaker 4: But he said I saw him say that he thinks
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  Speaker 4: that AI is a great tool, but we need to
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  Speaker 4: use AI to make music that has never been made before,
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  Speaker 4: as opposed to basically making like convenient music or to
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  Speaker 4: like replicate music that's already been done and stuff like that. Yeah,
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  Speaker 4: as a songwriter, I'm very aware that it is killing
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  Speaker 4: musicians jobs. People that like tracking studios, jobs and stuff
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  Speaker 4: like that. I completely and totally am aware of that,
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  Speaker 4: and that's sad and that sucks.
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  Speaker 3: But I truly believe and I will.
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  Speaker 4: Stand on this that like there is when you like
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  Speaker 4: a songwriter, somebody that sits down and writes the lyrics
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  Speaker 4: and the melody and all that stuff, a lyric and
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  Speaker 4: melody songwriter, there's something that comes from like the soul
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  Speaker 4: or God or whatever you want to believe in.
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  Speaker 3: There is something otherworldly about these people.
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  Speaker 4: That can write a lyric and a melody that makes
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  Speaker 4: people cry, that makes people do this that the other
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  Speaker 4: that feel a certain way that I truly do not
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  Speaker 4: believe for a very long time will be able to
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  Speaker 4: be replicated by Aire's. That's my saving grace is that, Yeah,
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  Speaker 4: just that the ones that really the people that really
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  Speaker 4: get the song writer and they just have that that
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  Speaker 4: gift and that talent that's a god given thing and
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  Speaker 4: it's just something that a robot or you know, AI
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  Speaker 4: in general just can't replicate.
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  Speaker 3: It's I've heard I've heard every AI.
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  Speaker 4: Song and there's not been one that has moved me
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  Speaker 4: or that has made me scared for my job as
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  Speaker 4: a songwriter.
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  Speaker 3: You know what I mean.
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  Speaker 4: They can rhyme words and they can write melodies, but
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  Speaker 4: there's songwriting is way, way, way more.
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  Speaker 2: Than that as as somebody who is and I mean
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  Speaker 2: I'm throwing a compliment in here because you're not just
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  Speaker 2: a songwriter. I mean you've written some of the biggest
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  Speaker 2: songs that country radio has played in the last ten years. Right,
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  Speaker 2: Have you played with it at all to see what
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  Speaker 2: it would do with something you've written versus what AI.
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  Speaker 1: Would would do?
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  Speaker 3: What do you like?
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  Speaker 1: How give me a so like up down right?
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  Speaker 2: Sure? As a big old hit, it was already done,
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  Speaker 2: It was done your way, with some outside influence whatever.
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  Speaker 2: Have you put something like that into AI to see
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  Speaker 2: what AI, how AI would have would have affected the
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  Speaker 2: outcome of the song?
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  Speaker 3: Like have I like, have I like a song that's
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  Speaker 3: already a hit?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, one that you've already had, like a.
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  Speaker 3: Hit that's already happened. No, I never have. I've definitely
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  Speaker 3: like recorded acoustic demos and random through AI just to
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  Speaker 3: see what it sounds like with a.
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  Speaker 4: Band, But I've never will it do that?
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  Speaker 3: Can it do that?
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  Speaker 4: So you can't, Okay, So as far as I know,
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  Speaker 4: you can't say make and make this song sound like Hardy,
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  Speaker 4: make this song sound.
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  Speaker 3: Like Morgan Wiland.
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  Speaker 4: But I could I could play up down acoustic and
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  Speaker 4: say make it a reggae song, and it could do that.
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  Speaker 3: All right, I'll go home tonight and I'll try that.
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  Speaker 3: I'll let you know.
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  Speaker 2: That's funny, okay man, and it's and it's I would
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  Speaker 2: be foolish to not bring this up because one of
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  Speaker 2: the biggest stories so far of twenty twenty six happened
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  Speaker 2: at CMA Fest just a couple of days ago, and
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  Speaker 2: you were a big part of you know, some of
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  Speaker 2: these guys songs Florida Georgia line, what was that? What
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  Speaker 2: was the reunion like for you? And and if they
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  Speaker 2: got back together? Like country music has advanced a lot
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  Speaker 2: since FGL in those few years, where is their spot now?
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  Speaker 4: First of all, I'm I'm excited. I think the whole
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  Speaker 4: world is excited. I selfishly, I want them to go
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  Speaker 4: back to day one and just not start over, because
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  Speaker 4: because they they've done such a good job evolving, you know,
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  Speaker 4: which is great. And I think every great band in
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  Speaker 4: the world changes slowly, changes their sound, and that opens
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  Speaker 4: up another door for them to do what they want
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  Speaker 4: in the future. But I think that what the people
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  Speaker 4: want is here's to the good times and anything goes FGL.
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  Speaker 3: That's like that's the that's what that's the stuff that.
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  Speaker 4: People fell in love with, and that's the songwriting style.
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  Speaker 4: This this video went viral and like has been stitched
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  Speaker 4: or whatever you call it, like a bunch. But I
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  Speaker 4: saw Lauren Watkins like a few months ago be like
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  Speaker 4: I want to be called hot and I want to
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  Speaker 4: be on a tailgate sitting next to a dude playing guitar,
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  Speaker 4: and I like that's that was like a lot of
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  Speaker 4: gave perspective to me because it's like, man, there's a
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  Speaker 4: reason that they were so.
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  Speaker 3: Big, and it's because not only girls, but it's like
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  Speaker 3: some of these girls, like.
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  Speaker 4: They enjoyed being called hot and being described like a
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  Speaker 4: country beauty queen and all that kind of stuff. And
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  Speaker 4: FGL was so good at doing that and and and
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  Speaker 4: also they aside from like the girl thing, they were
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  Speaker 4: very very good at just creating a party scene or
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  Speaker 4: like creating a moment in the country nightlife lifestyle that
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  Speaker 4: that made people want to play that music at the thing.
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  Speaker 4: It's like it's like inception, where like the people wanted
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  Speaker 4: to be doing the thing and playing the song about
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  Speaker 4: the thing that they're doing, you know what I mean.
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  Speaker 3: And FGL was just good at that, and that.
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  Speaker 4: The writing, the color that those guys were writing in
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  Speaker 4: the way that they they wrote it, like with those
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  Speaker 4: Rodney Claus so a lot of those songwriters that they
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  Speaker 4: were writing all that early stuff with.
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  Speaker 3: Is just it's awesome and.
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  Speaker 4: We're far enough away from it now for it to
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  Speaker 4: feel nostalgic again, you know.
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  Speaker 2: So I'm here for And it's funny because obviously we're
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  Speaker 2: into June now, which is wild because I feel like
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  Speaker 2: it was just like, oh, every New Year, everybody, But
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  Speaker 2: it's uh, there we're waiting for like a summer jam,
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  Speaker 2: a summer anthem, a big summer party song.
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  Speaker 1: You don't have to confirm or deny, but has there
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  Speaker 1: been a text thread.
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  Speaker 2: That Hardy, Brian and Tyler getting together for a summer anthem?
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  Speaker 1: Yet?
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  Speaker 3: No? Such a that almost sounds like you know something
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  Speaker 3: I don't know, Bro, that was so specific. Well, I
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  Speaker 3: want kidding, no, no, no.
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  Speaker 4: And look, when it comes to like my involvement with them,
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  Speaker 4: like if they come, like I said this earlier, I'm
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  Speaker 4: sure that everybody and their mom is sending them every
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  Speaker 4: bro country song they've ever written right now.
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  Speaker 3: I'm sure it's driving them crazy.
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  Speaker 4: If I get the call to maybe help them come
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  Speaker 4: write some stuff, I'll be more than happy to.
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  Speaker 3: But I would be just as happy to.
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  Speaker 4: Just watch the resurgence happen, you know. I mean, I
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  Speaker 4: that that's that will give me just as much fulfillment
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  Speaker 4: as being a part of it.
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  Speaker 2: So are you to that point where like, and I
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  Speaker 2: don't want to say like you're well established and like
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  Speaker 2: something like that, which you are, right, But are you
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  Speaker 2: to the point where like, hey, people know what I
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  Speaker 2: offer if they can come to me if they have something.
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  Speaker 4: I mean, like I just don't want to bug them
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  Speaker 4: and be like, yo, let me get in on this
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  Speaker 4: new project, but like I don't you know, no way,
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  Speaker 4: Like I mean, they're like I text people all the
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  Speaker 4: time and be like, you know, hey, what you got
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  Speaker 4: going on next week? Like I'm never like if you
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  Speaker 4: want something to come to me, And I think people
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  Speaker 4: do that and that's awesome, and I'm very thankful to
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  Speaker 4: be at a spot where maybe somebody will say, hey,
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  Speaker 4: send me some songs, or like hey, I really need
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  Speaker 4: this for my next record. Do you want to write,
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  Speaker 4: help try to write it, but no, I'm still beating
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  Speaker 4: people's doors.
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  Speaker 3: Down all the time. It's just this songwriter grinding me
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  Speaker 3: that will just never go away.
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  Speaker 4: I just don't want to bug those guys because I
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  Speaker 4: know everybody in the world that's ever had their phone
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  Speaker 4: number is like, yo, bro, we wrote this one a
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  Speaker 4: few years ago.
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  Speaker 3: You know whatever?
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  Speaker 1: He remember when I to your truck on the side
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  Speaker 1: of the road, I've been working on something. Yeah, Literally,
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  Speaker 1: the last thing I'll ask.
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  Speaker 2: About those boys getting back together and and any potential
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  Speaker 2: reunion with you as a writer as well. If you
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  Speaker 2: got a call from one of them today, do you
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  Speaker 2: already know what song that you'd give them now you're
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  Speaker 2: sitting on right now. I won't ask details because I
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  Speaker 2: know that's tough, but do you if you got a
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  Speaker 2: call right now and they're like, hey, we need something,
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  Speaker 2: you know you got anything in the in the tank?
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  Speaker 4: I mean, if they gave me a specific thing, I
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  Speaker 4: would go dig and see what I had, But like,
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  Speaker 4: not even I think more than anything, I would just
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  Speaker 4: like to get in a room and be like, what
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  Speaker 4: do y'all what are y'all trying to do?
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  Speaker 3: Like, what's the vibe? And then just kind of start there.
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  Speaker 1: Be's so wild.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, but look that that stuff, like all that broke
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  Speaker 4: country stuff that was like five years, six years before
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  Speaker 4: I had any success, So like that was not my
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  Speaker 4: I came along like later in the FGL career and
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  Speaker 4: I helped like with the Can't Say Ain't Country record
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  Speaker 4: more than anything, and so like I you know, and
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  Speaker 4: people argue like up down and like some of these
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  Speaker 4: songs were, and they were, like they're definitely bro country
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  Speaker 4: songs that I've written and been a part of.
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  Speaker 3: But like that was an old school crew of guys.
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  Speaker 4: Like that's why I'm like, man, you don't have to
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  Speaker 4: don't feel like you got to call me. I was
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  Speaker 4: a part of the the newer stuff. Like if y'all
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  Speaker 4: are trying to do the old thing, like I would
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  Speaker 4: love to do it. But like I said, I just
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  Speaker 4: I just want to see them get back to the
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  Speaker 4: og thing and see what they come up with.
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  Speaker 3: That's just that's what gets me the most excited.
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  Speaker 2: I will tell you that speaking to come up with
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  Speaker 2: I have been a fan of yours as a human,
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  Speaker 2: a fan of yours as a musician, as a writer.
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  Speaker 2: What you have done with MacArthur is wild. Thank you
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  Speaker 2: because not only is it such a good song. And
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  Speaker 2: we talked to Tim McGraw just a couple of weeks ago.
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  Speaker 2: Stories like that aren't told.
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  Speaker 1: In country music anymore.
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  Speaker 2: Not that the music isn't great, and there's some there's
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  Speaker 2: good there's good story songs, but this literally gives you.
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  Speaker 2: This is this is almost a story before it's a song,
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  Speaker 2: right and where? And Tim McGraw, I couldn't. I mean,
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  Speaker 2: I'll have to pull it up at some point, but
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  Speaker 2: he gushed about your ability to put this song together
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  Speaker 2: and and how humble he felt that that he fit
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  Speaker 2: into into your idea.
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  Speaker 4: That's such a ridiculous Yeah, like he's he's texted me
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  Speaker 4: that before.
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  Speaker 3: I'm like, what are you talking about? You know who
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  Speaker 3: you are?
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  Speaker 1: I don't think he does. And that's okay, No.
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  Speaker 3: That was It's super cool. First of all, thank you
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  Speaker 3: for that, man.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, I just it's still kind of a little surreal, uh.
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  Speaker 4: I mean, Tim, obviously Morgan is like one of the
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  Speaker 4: biggest artists on the planet, and Eric is Eric, and
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  Speaker 4: but Tim is just one of those like he's like
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  Speaker 4: a he's a legend already. And it's still very like
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  Speaker 4: capable of having more hits and you know, the whole thing.
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  Speaker 3: So like it's just mind blowing to me that that
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  Speaker 3: he is like, I'm.
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  Speaker 4: Just happy to be here, and I'm like, bro, I'm
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  Speaker 4: just happy, But I don't know what you're talking about.
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  Speaker 1: You know. You're like, that's what the janitor says, you're
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  Speaker 1: Tim mcgrawl.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, that's that's a crazy text.
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  Speaker 4: That's some that's like that those moment moments like those
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  Speaker 4: are like it doesn't matter how long I've been in
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  Speaker 4: town and who I know, Like.
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  Speaker 3: Those are just hard to process texts, you know, in
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  Speaker 3: a good way.
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  Speaker 2: And even I was kind of like when he was like,
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  Speaker 2: I'm like, dude, you're like you're Tim mcgrawl.
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  Speaker 3: What are you talking about?
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  Speaker 2: But it's such a great it's such a great song,
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  Speaker 2: and it literally gives you, beginning to the end on
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  Speaker 2: a on a family and their lineage and and and
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  Speaker 2: their land and it's you. And it's funny because if
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  Speaker 2: you asked me to write a story about the MacArthur's,
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  Speaker 2: I could off of your song. Right. It's and it's
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  Speaker 2: it's it's just so unique, but it's also a lot
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  Speaker 2: different than anything you've done. So for you to not
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  Speaker 2: only do that, but then it becomes a radio single.
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  Speaker 3: Mh.
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  Speaker 1: That takes a little bit of balls right to step
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  Speaker 1: out or were you like, hey here it is like
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  Speaker 1: it or not? I dig it?
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  Speaker 2: No?
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  Speaker 4: I mean I definitely I loved I loved the song,
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  Speaker 4: and uh there was like this is inside Bay. There
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  Speaker 4: was like bottom Land was was at the time the
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  Speaker 4: confirmed single, and we had to have a conversation and
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  Speaker 4: be like, hey, this is a.
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  Speaker 3: Really big moment. I think we should move with MacArthur.
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  Speaker 4: And uh, I might have I might have butted heads
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  Speaker 4: for like half a day and then I is that
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  Speaker 4: not how it happened? Yeah, okay, all right?
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  Speaker 1: Being so great? So I do I do believe there's
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  Speaker 1: probably some bad budd.
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  Speaker 4: But when you know, like Tracker called me and and
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  Speaker 4: uh Seth England called me and and they were you
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  Speaker 4: know when when people will call me and they're like, hey,
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  Speaker 4: this is a really good idea, let's let's make a pivot.
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  Speaker 3: I'm never very rarely let me just say am I
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  Speaker 3: like hell no? You know? Uh? Because I I would.
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  Speaker 4: I have always said I will single any song off
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  Speaker 4: of any record of anybody of music. That's how confident
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  Speaker 4: I am in every song that I put on my record,
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  Speaker 4: so like the second that they were like, hey, let's
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  Speaker 4: let's swap to MacArthur, I was all all for it.
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  Speaker 3: For sure.
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  Speaker 2: It did, you know, as it comes together because collabs
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  Speaker 2: aren't forced, and especially by by somebody who puts music
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  Speaker 2: the way together the way you do.
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  Speaker 1: It's not like you're like, hey, here's a collab in here,
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  Speaker 1: who needs to be on it? Uh?
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  Speaker 2: Was it always Tim Morgan and Eric are were there
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  Speaker 2: and that's those are the names that fit immediately.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, other names got thrown around, but the asks were
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  Speaker 4: in order, Eric Morgan, Tim, and it was a yes,
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  Speaker 4: and it was it was done.
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  Speaker 2: At Did you have standing relationships with Tim and Eric?
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  Speaker 1: Already?
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  Speaker 3: Eric more than Tim? I barely.
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  Speaker 4: I barely knew Tim, so I was like and I
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  Speaker 4: knew Eric fairly well, but had not like after around
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  Speaker 4: the MacArthur times. The most I've ever like spoken on
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  Speaker 4: the phone with him and like texted and stuff like
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  Speaker 4: that with him. But uh, he and I had like
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  Speaker 4: been in rooms and circles and stuff a little bit
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  Speaker 4: more than Tim, and I had only met Tim maybe
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  Speaker 4: like one time, but I had sent Tim a batch
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  Speaker 4: of songs. I met him, and I was like and
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  Speaker 4: actually earned connected Tim and I like. Tim and I
• 15:05
  Speaker 4: met at an award show. It was kind of busy,
• 15:07
  Speaker 4: didn't get to it. He was like, we need to
• 15:08
  Speaker 4: get together and I was like, yes, sir, and then
• 15:10
  Speaker 4: didn't exchange numbers.
• 15:11
  Speaker 3: So Earn connected us the next day.
• 15:13
  Speaker 4: After that, I texted Tim, this was like a year ago,
• 15:16
  Speaker 4: and I was like, can I sing you some songs?
• 15:17
  Speaker 4: Sending five songs. He didn't respond for like two weeks,
• 15:19
  Speaker 4: and then I said do they suck that bad? And
• 15:21
  Speaker 4: so he wrote back and he was like, sorry, man,
• 15:22
  Speaker 4: I'm little slow getting back to people sometimes.
• 15:24
  Speaker 3: I was like, totally get it anyway.
• 15:25
  Speaker 4: All that being said, that is like the only report
• 15:28
  Speaker 4: that he and I had ever had until I sent
• 15:30
  Speaker 4: him MacArthur So, but I just I had a stiff
• 15:34
  Speaker 4: whiskey drink one night at the deer camp and I
• 15:36
  Speaker 4: was just like a screw it, and just I sent
• 15:38
  Speaker 4: it to him and I just got lucky and he he.
• 15:41
  Speaker 3: Immediately responded back and just said love it. You know,
• 15:44
  Speaker 3: rest is history kind.
• 15:45
  Speaker 1: And it's so good? Is it?
• 15:47
  Speaker 2: Does it play off of anything in your life or
• 15:50
  Speaker 2: anything you experienced?
• 15:52
  Speaker 1: Like how were you able to put this?
• 15:53
  Speaker 2: Because the song idea is one thing, right, but to
• 15:55
  Speaker 2: physically like tell a full family story is another thing
• 16:00
  Speaker 2: I feel.
• 16:01
  Speaker 3: I mean, I've told this, I've talked about this.
• 16:03
  Speaker 4: So my dad was a chicken farmer, not the same
• 16:05
  Speaker 4: thing as like a family farm. It's very like I'm
• 16:08
  Speaker 4: not going to go into detail, but it's for football
• 16:11
  Speaker 4: field length houses and it's you know, that's not like
• 16:14
  Speaker 4: when you think of a family farm.
• 16:16
  Speaker 3: It's not that.
• 16:17
  Speaker 4: So I don't I technically like came from a farm family.
• 16:22
  Speaker 4: But where my like, where my heart is attached to
• 16:27
  Speaker 4: the song is that my great grandfather bought a track
• 16:30
  Speaker 4: of land that I like had deer hunting my whole life,
• 16:32
  Speaker 4: and that my grandfather deer hunted, and that my dad
• 16:33
  Speaker 4: is deer hunted.
• 16:34
  Speaker 3: His whole life.
• 16:35
  Speaker 4: And I've actually been able to expand on that and
• 16:38
  Speaker 4: buy like land around it, which I think is super cool,
• 16:40
  Speaker 4: and like keep adding to that because because deer hunting
• 16:42
  Speaker 4: is such a big part of our family and uh yeah,
• 16:46
  Speaker 4: and just to think like I'm I'm adding on this
• 16:49
  Speaker 4: like in four or five generations, Like I hope there's
• 16:51
  Speaker 4: not some shithead that's like, damn, this is worth a
• 16:56
  Speaker 4: lot of money, you know what I mean, like in
• 16:57
  Speaker 4: the importance of keeping that in our family and why
• 16:59
  Speaker 4: it's and all of that. And so that's my resonation
• 17:02
  Speaker 4: with the song, is that more than anything else.
• 17:04
  Speaker 2: It's I don't know what side of town you're on,
• 17:07
  Speaker 2: but like we're down in spring Hill and I've been
• 17:09
  Speaker 2: here for six years now, and that's it's like a
• 17:12
  Speaker 2: song about spring Hill. Same damn near because when.
• 17:15
  Speaker 1: I first got there, it was like, oh, you get
• 17:16
  Speaker 1: off the highway.
• 17:17
  Speaker 2: And it's farms and farms and farms, and they get
• 17:19
  Speaker 2: to a little, you know, tiny piece of the city
• 17:21
  Speaker 2: and there's my house. Now it's like neighborhoods, here's a
• 17:24
  Speaker 2: little bit of farm, and then it's like ten neighborhoods,
• 17:27
  Speaker 2: five new stoplights. So literally, like I mean, I've never
• 17:30
  Speaker 2: owned a farmer land, but like I felt that song
• 17:32
  Speaker 2: just by seeing it happen, which is normal like across
• 17:36
  Speaker 2: the country.
• 17:37
  Speaker 4: Now, well, you know, I mean there's a lot I
• 17:39
  Speaker 4: was talking about somebody about this other day, but like
• 17:41
  Speaker 4: there's a lot of reasons that a farm would get sold,
• 17:45
  Speaker 4: and like one is like the sad one is that
• 17:49
  Speaker 4: like that's not necessarily sad, Like money talks, you know,
• 17:51
  Speaker 4: and like, you got a big developer that can come
• 17:54
  Speaker 4: up to a farmer that's never seen six seven million
• 17:58
  Speaker 4: dollars in their life and they get that all for
• 18:00
  Speaker 4: and they're like, Okay, this is probably best for our family.
• 18:03
  Speaker 4: That's one way, or or you know, the farmers whoever,
• 18:07
  Speaker 4: you know, whoever it's passed down to whatever.
• 18:10
  Speaker 3: But then there's also people that that are.
• 18:15
  Speaker 4: Like, can't afford to keep their their farm going, whatever
• 18:17
  Speaker 4: the farm may be. I mean, there's a lot of
• 18:19
  Speaker 4: reasons that a farm can go under. And we definitely
• 18:21
  Speaker 4: left that well we we technically did do the neighborhood thing,
• 18:24
  Speaker 4: but we left like the reason why, you know, kind
• 18:27
  Speaker 4: of out there as a why would it would hunter
• 18:30
  Speaker 4: you know, technically be selling it or whatever. I guess
• 18:32
  Speaker 4: we kind of gave it away that he just wants
• 18:34
  Speaker 4: the money, But I don't know. There's a lot of
• 18:36
  Speaker 4: reasons how and why a farm can go under. So
• 18:38
  Speaker 4: I hope that anybody that's in any of those situations
• 18:41
  Speaker 4: can take this song and like, you know, relate it
• 18:43
  Speaker 4: to whatever situation they're going through.
• 18:44
  Speaker 1: It needs to be like a part two from the
• 18:46
  Speaker 1: from the brother in law. I'm married in the family,
• 18:49
  Speaker 1: I'm gonna kick. Yeah, well that's.
• 18:52
  Speaker 4: Part of We talked about doing like a family tree,
• 18:55
  Speaker 4: like actually drawing out a family tree and like why
• 18:58
  Speaker 4: was it passed down through these sons.
• 19:00
  Speaker 3: And like not a daughter or like maybe there was
• 19:02
  Speaker 3: a you know what I mean, like that kind of thing.
• 19:04
  Speaker 3: But it's just it's hard to get everybody in the
• 19:08
  Speaker 3: same room the same time again.
• 19:09
  Speaker 4: But you know, I mean it's like I would not
• 19:12
  Speaker 4: even be a poet like Eric and I through around
• 19:14
  Speaker 4: some MacArthur like song ideas and stuff a decent bit,
• 19:20
  Speaker 4: like like outside of the song, like you know, a
• 19:22
  Speaker 4: different character and like creating a family tree, but that's
• 19:25
  Speaker 4: never I don't think it's ever out of the question,
• 19:27
  Speaker 4: you know, to expand on that idea.
• 19:29
  Speaker 3: I wouldn't table that just yet.
• 19:30
  Speaker 4: It's just getting everybody in this in the same room
• 19:33
  Speaker 4: again to sing parts and want to be involved with
• 19:36
  Speaker 4: it and all that is a little difficult.
• 19:37
  Speaker 1: Did you guys get it all at the same time?
• 19:39
  Speaker 3: Yeah?
• 19:39
  Speaker 1: Oh wow.
• 19:40
  Speaker 3: Yeah, it was a cool day.
• 19:41
  Speaker 1: That's wild.
• 19:41
  Speaker 2: And it's funny because when we first started playing, I'm like,
• 19:44
  Speaker 2: I'm like, if country music had an all star team,
• 19:47
  Speaker 2: like a like a baseball team, I'm like, that's what
• 19:49
  Speaker 2: this record feels like. Does it change knowing how great
• 19:52
  Speaker 2: this song came together and it and it being such
• 19:54
  Speaker 2: an awesome story, does it change what you're thinking next,
• 19:58
  Speaker 2: Like as far as like what's the song after this
• 20:00
  Speaker 2: to radio?
• 20:01
  Speaker 1: What's the next project? And sound?
• 20:04
  Speaker 3: How does already know that? I just can't talk about it.
• 20:06
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I love I love getting to topics like that
• 20:11
  Speaker 2: because that's when the label sits up, like yeah, yeah,
• 20:14
  Speaker 2: we're done. That's when they put the red bull down
• 20:16
  Speaker 2: or the Alani or whatever the hell they got over.
• 20:18
  Speaker 1: There's a sponsored.
• 20:21
  Speaker 4: But I'm always a step ahead, dude, Like I I
• 20:26
  Speaker 4: when I finish a project or like release something for me,
• 20:31
  Speaker 4: that's like that's the end of that thing, and like
• 20:34
  Speaker 4: whatever these guys can do with it from there is great,
• 20:37
  Speaker 4: And whatever.
• 20:37
  Speaker 3: I could do to help help move it along is
• 20:39
  Speaker 3: is great.
• 20:40
  Speaker 4: But from a creative standpoint, like the song going to
• 20:45
  Speaker 4: radio or the song coming out is the end of
• 20:47
  Speaker 4: that song's like.
• 20:50
  Speaker 3: Thing for me? And then so I'm immediately like, Okay,
• 20:52
  Speaker 3: it's out into the world. What can I do next?
• 20:55
  Speaker 4: And I've I've you know, well, there's usually a month
• 20:58
  Speaker 4: of like panic and I'm like what the hell am
• 20:59
  Speaker 4: I gotta do now? And then I just kind of,
• 21:01
  Speaker 4: you know, me and my buddies get together and we
• 21:03
  Speaker 4: sort of figure it out and then the next thing starts.
• 21:06
  Speaker 4: But so, yeah, I've got I've got stuff, I got
• 21:11
  Speaker 4: ideas and things.
• 21:13
  Speaker 3: Can't talk about it.
• 21:13
  Speaker 1: But is it tough to enjoy what MacArthur's doing then.
• 21:16
  Speaker 4: If you're already like no, no, no, no very much enjoy Yeah, yeah,
• 21:19
  Speaker 4: I mean it's two different. You know, it's fun to
• 21:21
  Speaker 4: watch and playing it live and seeing it react and
• 21:24
  Speaker 4: all that stuff.
• 21:24
  Speaker 3: That's all still like all fun.
• 21:26
  Speaker 4: But I guess like from a creative standpoint, it's just
• 21:28
  Speaker 4: like I've done what I can do. It is now
• 21:30
  Speaker 4: belongs to the world, so that I can wash my
• 21:33
  Speaker 4: hands of of anything that had to do with the
• 21:36
  Speaker 4: creation of that song or the creativity of the song,
• 21:39
  Speaker 4: because it now just exists in the world. So now
• 21:41
  Speaker 4: I need to move on to to try to create
• 21:43
  Speaker 4: something else. That's how my brain works.
• 21:45
  Speaker 2: So knowing how it came together, which feels seamlessly right,
• 21:48
  Speaker 2: like it felt like this this song made itself right
• 21:51
  Speaker 2: with everybody being available and recording whatever, does that make
• 21:57
  Speaker 2: it more special?
• 21:58
  Speaker 1: If it was officially a number one single for you.
• 22:02
  Speaker 3: Hell yeah, it'll be cool as hell, dude. I mean
• 22:05
  Speaker 3: it'd be cool.
• 22:06
  Speaker 4: It's I hear that it would it would be if
• 22:08
  Speaker 4: it goes it would be Tim McGraw's fiftieth number one.
• 22:12
  Speaker 1: Look Tim taking all the shine off of your penny.
• 22:15
  Speaker 3: That's right, he can take it all. I don't care.
• 22:17
  Speaker 3: Let's get it to number one.
• 22:19
  Speaker 1: Please, fiftieth, Morgan's forty eight.
• 22:21
  Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, yeah, for real, Tim's over a thirty year span,
• 22:25
  Speaker 4: Morgan's ever a three pretty much.
• 22:26
  Speaker 1: Morgan's like I've been here three weeks? Am I doing okay? Yeah?
• 22:29
  Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, yeah, no, yeah, it would mean a lot.
• 22:33
  Speaker 4: It would mean the world to me. Uh for it
• 22:35
  Speaker 4: to be a hit, truly, Like it's just a moment
• 22:40
  Speaker 4: in country music. I think that again.
• 22:41
  Speaker 3: I just I am like.
• 22:44
  Speaker 4: How did high an eye on this song? And and
• 22:46
  Speaker 4: uh just it's a song I would can definitely like
• 22:49
  Speaker 4: hang my hat on. I feel like it's a moment
• 22:50
  Speaker 4: that will live for a very long time in country music,
• 22:52
  Speaker 4: and I'm just really happy to be a part of that.
• 22:55
  Speaker 1: Okay, that was the last question. Here's the real last one.
• 22:58
  Speaker 1: And Tate rolls her eyes because I always go here's
• 23:00
  Speaker 1: the last question, and then I have five more minutes.
• 23:02
  Speaker 2: But this is the last one because you said moment,
• 23:05
  Speaker 2: and that's such a great title because it does feel
• 23:07
  Speaker 2: like a moment versus versus any other song you've had.
• 23:10
  Speaker 2: There's something special about this one and how it stands,
• 23:12
  Speaker 2: and I'm sure you feel the same way. So knowing that,
• 23:16
  Speaker 2: what would on top of it being a number one,
• 23:18
  Speaker 2: what would a nomination for musical moment at an award
• 23:22
  Speaker 2: show mean for you on this one, knowing who's on
• 23:24
  Speaker 2: it with you?
• 23:28
  Speaker 3: Not as much as the number one? I don't think.
• 23:30
  Speaker 4: I mean, it would be cool. Uh, it depends on
• 23:33
  Speaker 4: it depends on which award show, Okay, and who and
• 23:36
  Speaker 4: who the people are that are voting and agree that it.
• 23:39
  Speaker 1: Should be a moment that will vote for it.
• 23:41
  Speaker 3: I appreciate that we do, and I'll tell you.
• 23:42
  Speaker 2: And I'll say this on recording anytime Hardy shows up,
• 23:46
  Speaker 2: our Morgan Wallance shows up on the ballot, tay, and
• 23:48
  Speaker 2: I checked the box.
• 23:49
  Speaker 3: It would be. It would be cool. It would be cool.
• 23:51
  Speaker 3: For sure.
• 23:52
  Speaker 2: Someone's gonna talk shit on me for that, but I
• 23:54
  Speaker 2: don't care. You check the boxes that deserve to be
• 23:56
  Speaker 2: I appreciate it absolutely.
• 23:58
  Speaker 4: You and my big out team might be the only one,
• 24:00
  Speaker 4: but I still appreciate it.
• 24:01
  Speaker 1: We'll tell them to hire more people.
• 24:05
  Speaker 3: It's your fault, Hardy.
• 24:07
  Speaker 2: I gotta tell you, man, and I say it every
• 24:09
  Speaker 2: time we catch up. I'd love you as a human being.
• 24:11
  Speaker 2: I think you're widely talented, and I appreciate any time
• 24:13
  Speaker 2: that you can come hang out with us.
• 24:15
  Speaker 1: Brother.
• 24:15
  Speaker 3: I love you, brother. I appreciate that