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Backstage @ CMA Awards Rehersals DAY ONE · Inside Country with Wayne D

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  Speaker 1: It's Wayne d in the CMA's and I got to
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  Speaker 1: tell you, look, there's not many people that give me
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  Speaker 1: a little starstruck man, but Eric Church is in the building.
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  Speaker 1: How's the chief good?
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  Speaker 2: Wayne?
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  Speaker 1: How life is good? And I want to thank you
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  Speaker 1: for taking the time out. You're part of the reason
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  Speaker 1: why I do this, So thank you for the opportunity.
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  Speaker 1: You stepped up in a big way, not only with
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  Speaker 1: the song but with the concert partnering with Luke Combs.
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  Speaker 1: There are things that are asking for your help and
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  Speaker 1: your attention and your donation and time all the time.
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  Speaker 1: Why did this make the most sense for you?
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  Speaker 3: Because that's home for me, So I spent half my
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  Speaker 3: year there. I wouldn't be who I am if it
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  Speaker 3: weren't for the people in North Carolina. Weren't being raised
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  Speaker 3: by those people. So this was a special thing for
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  Speaker 3: me when Helene happened, and you know, just doing everything
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  Speaker 3: we can to help.
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  Speaker 1: We've committed to with the funds that we've raised to
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  Speaker 1: put homes.
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  Speaker 3: In western North Carolina because the biggest problem that I
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  Speaker 3: see is we're really good in this country at immediate
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  Speaker 3: nine to one to one assistants, food, water, diapers, but
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  Speaker 3: we don't do very good at the next part of
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  Speaker 3: keeping people in the community. So we've committed to a
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  Speaker 3: project there, and that's part of the reason I'm playing
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  Speaker 3: the CMAS is I'm playing Darkest Hour Country Radio step
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  Speaker 3: up in a big way to keep the attention on
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  Speaker 3: Darkest Hour and what's happening to the people in North Carolina,
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  Speaker 3: because we move on real quick, right, and it's about
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  Speaker 3: keeping the focus on There's a lot of need there,
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  Speaker 3: and there's going to be need for a long time,
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  Speaker 3: so we're just trying to keep the focus on that.
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  Speaker 1: Darkest Hour is a song that you don't only hear,
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  Speaker 1: you feel, And I'd imagine that that was the same
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  Speaker 1: way for you when you wrote it. But this is
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  Speaker 1: a song that you had already just ended up falling
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  Speaker 1: into place for this, right, yeah.
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  Speaker 3: Never never written with this in mind. Right, I'm working
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  Speaker 3: on a project for next year and still am. And
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  Speaker 3: when Helene happened and I saw what was happening there,
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  Speaker 3: I was listening back to the mixes one day and
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  Speaker 3: there's the line of the song in your Darkest Hour,
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  Speaker 3: I'll come running, and it just made sense, and I
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  Speaker 3: knew I would regret not putting the song out and
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  Speaker 3: letting that be somewhat of an anthem for those people
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  Speaker 3: that need help.
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  Speaker 1: What do you hope this song does for you to
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  Speaker 1: look back and know that the song was successful. Obviously
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  Speaker 1: the efforts and the financial lift of song, it helps
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  Speaker 1: as many people as it can. I mean, I gave
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  Speaker 1: the song to the State of North Carolina.
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  Speaker 2: I gave it away.
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  Speaker 3: They own it, so all the royalties and everything forever
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  Speaker 3: and ever is them, they'll get to help that.
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  Speaker 1: That's massive.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, gave it away, so I hope it does as
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  Speaker 3: much as it can do to help this people.
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  Speaker 1: A very special moment going to be created the CMA
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  Speaker 1: Awards with you doing this song, man, Eric, thank you again, brother,
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  Speaker 1: Thank you. CMA's are here, Wayne d and Cody Johnson
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  Speaker 1: and I literally have had more conversations with Cody Johnson
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  Speaker 1: in the last three months than I have with family
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  Speaker 1: members all year.
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  Speaker 2: That's same man.
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  Speaker 1: We recently caught up about Vegas and you're getting ready
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  Speaker 1: to do some riding there, which a lot of people
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  Speaker 1: don't know, Like, you don't just sing the rodeo, you
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  Speaker 1: live the rodeo as well. How do you you Obviously
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  Speaker 1: we know how you get ready to sing, right you
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  Speaker 1: write songs, you get ready to hit the tour. How
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  Speaker 1: do you is there getting ready for writing a bullmore writing?
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  Speaker 4: In generally, riding bulls is a lot more preparation. It's
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  Speaker 4: a lot more ground rider bush. Yeah, I used to
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  Speaker 4: ride bulls and as a kid, are you kidding me?
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  Speaker 1: For real? Yeah?
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  Speaker 4: Man?
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  Speaker 1: How long ago? How long ago were you kid?
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  Speaker 4: I rode from the time I was about fifteen to
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  Speaker 4: about twenty, and finally just said this is enough, Like
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  Speaker 4: I've broken enough bones. I'm not getting anywhere. I got
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  Speaker 4: the buckles in the stories. But team roping is a
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  Speaker 4: lot better for me now.
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  Speaker 1: Well, so so take us through through how you get
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  Speaker 1: ready for team roping, because are you training like a
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  Speaker 1: normal athlete?
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  Speaker 4: Well, yeah, well it's mostly about your horse. You want
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  Speaker 4: to make sure that your horse is loosened up, you know.
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  Speaker 4: And I have certain horses that really have to be
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  Speaker 4: rode down a lot to where their their nerves go
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  Speaker 4: away and you can feel them kind of start to
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  Speaker 4: lower their head and they're like, okay, they got their
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  Speaker 4: energy out that way. When we get in the arena,
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  Speaker 4: they're not amped up and they're not making mistakes. And
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  Speaker 4: that's mostly for your younger horses. Now, I've got a
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  Speaker 4: couple older horses running around a few times. Let them
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  Speaker 4: get a little sweat and let's go to work. But
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  Speaker 4: for me, it's it's mostly focusing on my shoulder, my elbow,
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  Speaker 4: keeping it open, making sure my loop is sharp and
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  Speaker 4: not too much slacked between my hands. You have to
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  Speaker 4: look all that up for all you people out there listening,
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  Speaker 4: But it's mostly a mental game.
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  Speaker 1: Well, we talked to a lot of country artists that
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  Speaker 1: like that pretend to be cowboys. We'll have to edit
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  Speaker 1: that out.
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  Speaker 5: No, you that up.
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  Speaker 1: But I love highlighting the fact that you are one.
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  Speaker 1: What's the holidays looking like for you?
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  Speaker 2: Man?
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  Speaker 1: Easy?
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  Speaker 4: Like after the cmare Wars, I go home, quiet, little
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  Speaker 4: Thanksgiving at the house we're gonna go for actually, you know,
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  Speaker 4: after we get back from Vegas, we'll do a week
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  Speaker 4: long there with me roping and playing two shows at
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  Speaker 4: the mgm UH and then go home for Christmas and
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  Speaker 4: we're gonna take the girls, put them on a jit
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  Speaker 4: and we're gonna drive or fly out of the snow
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  Speaker 4: and have a white Christmas for once, because there ain't
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  Speaker 4: no such thing as a white Christmas in Texas.
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  Speaker 1: When you look forward to twenty twenty five. What's something
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  Speaker 1: that you weren't able to check off a list this
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  Speaker 1: year that twenty twenty five better bring your way?
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  Speaker 4: I mean Belfest Ireland sold out, So there's that. I mean,
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  Speaker 4: we're going to the UK. We see London.
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  Speaker 1: We oh we are you and your team? Oh you
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  Speaker 1: can go. I got vag case and days I'm giving
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  Speaker 1: like two weeks of va case days back.
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  Speaker 4: We're doing England, We're doing Scotland, We're doing Ireland and
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  Speaker 4: then Australia.
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  Speaker 1: And New Zealand. So hey, I want to say congratulations.
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  Speaker 1: I know we're short on time. You just played the
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  Speaker 1: definition of a hometown show. What was that like? Take
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  Speaker 1: us through it?
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  Speaker 2: Man, nuts, I mean, pardon me.
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  Speaker 4: Everybody dreams about their first headline stadium show, but I
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  Speaker 4: always wanted to be in Texas and it was and
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  Speaker 4: it was like it brought tears in my eyes.
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  Speaker 2: Man.
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  Speaker 1: It wasn't an emotional night like yeah that on stage
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  Speaker 1: because you're not a big like no, I just you
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  Speaker 1: just got to focus through it.
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  Speaker 4: But like the entire time you're playing and you're looking
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  Speaker 4: at at almost fifty thousand people, it's kind of like
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  Speaker 4: the first time I played Houston rodeo. You're looking around
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  Speaker 4: and you're going, I remember what it was like to
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  Speaker 4: get paid a hundred bucks to come singing a bar
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  Speaker 4: for three hours, you know, and couldn't pay your bills,
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  Speaker 4: and nobody really cared, you know, nobody give a damn
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  Speaker 4: about what you were singing or the CDs you were
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  Speaker 4: trying to sell. And Uh, to have that kind of
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  Speaker 4: a reception in Arlington, it was I can't wait to
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  Speaker 4: do it again.
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  Speaker 1: I wish I could Pokemo. I'd love to see you
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  Speaker 1: a cry right now, but we ain't gonna do it
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  Speaker 1: to them like that, like that, Cody, Cody Johnson. Enjoy
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  Speaker 1: all things, ma, and you have absolutely crushed twenty four.
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  Speaker 1: I can't wait to see what's next.
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  Speaker 5: And best friend Glen.
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  Speaker 6: Was in her kitchen trying to cook something and she
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  Speaker 6: slipped on the mushroom and broke her But I was like,
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  Speaker 6: you can't tell you no, Like you just can't, you can't.
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  Speaker 1: I was like, Oh, I hoped this old lady cross
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  Speaker 1: the streets. She was getting mugged, all this bullshit, Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: just but the problems. Then someone else would ask and
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  Speaker 1: I'd forget, well, yeah go, And she's Hulk Hogan's piece.
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  Speaker 6: That's the that's the inherent problem with lying exactly.
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  Speaker 1: It gets hard forget it. Yeah, CMA season is here
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  Speaker 1: and we are hanging with Ms Ashley McBride. How is
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  Speaker 1: life as you It's good.
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  Speaker 6: It's good right now. We are still touring, of course,
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  Speaker 6: and we go all the way through the end of
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  Speaker 6: the year and start right back up in January.
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  Speaker 1: No rest for the wicked. But I'd rather be busy
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  Speaker 1: than be bored. Well, let me ask you life. I
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  Speaker 1: feel like road life from the times that we've caught up.
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  Speaker 1: Road life is happy life for you.
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  Speaker 6: Yeah, that's where I take better care of myself. I
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  Speaker 6: make at least as good of new attrition choices.
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  Speaker 5: Sometimes you can't avoid it.
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  Speaker 6: But that is who I am, and it's who I
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  Speaker 6: sing I am, and it's who I say I am,
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  Speaker 6: And that is where I feel the most connected to
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  Speaker 6: what I'm supposed to be connected to, which is my band,
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  Speaker 6: of my guys and making music.
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  Speaker 1: I want to compliment you, and I swear it sounds
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  Speaker 1: like a compliment, but it's like a random one. You
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  Speaker 1: are one of the most authentic artists that country has,
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  Speaker 1: I feel, and that's not a slight on other people,
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  Speaker 1: but it's like, I don't. It feels like you've never
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  Speaker 1: chased a hit. You're making music that listen, it vibes
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  Speaker 1: with me. I recorded it. Hope you all dig it to.
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  Speaker 1: Is that true? And if so, why have you made
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  Speaker 1: short to stay that way? I tried.
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  Speaker 6: You have to make the music that's in you, right,
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  Speaker 6: And I've tried doing the other thing, especially early on
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  Speaker 6: in my publishing, you know, writing as a.
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  Speaker 1: Songwriter for a publishing house and all that, and there.
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  Speaker 6: Would be days where they're like, you need to write this,
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  Speaker 6: but it can't say this, this or this and must
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  Speaker 6: be this, this or this, and you're like, oh, wow,
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  Speaker 6: those are terrible songs.
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  Speaker 5: They're terrible.
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  Speaker 6: They're all bad. I tried making music that wasn't in me,
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  Speaker 6: and I sucked at it. So I figure, we'll just
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  Speaker 6: make the music that's in us, and then the ears
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  Speaker 6: that need it will get it because we all It's
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  Speaker 6: like finding a cool show that your friends haven't heard
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  Speaker 6: of yet on streaming services when you're like, no, you're
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  Speaker 6: gonna love this show. And that's how our music moves
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  Speaker 6: around too. We're all starving for something. We will go
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  Speaker 6: and find what it.
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  Speaker 1: Is we need. Part of being authentic for me as
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  Speaker 1: a country music fan when I'm you know, discovering different
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  Speaker 1: music our artists. Is country is not defined like it
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  Speaker 1: used to be. Now it used to be color in
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  Speaker 1: the lines, and that's country? Why is it? Why has
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  Speaker 1: it always been important for you? And maybe not on purpose,
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  Speaker 1: but anyone listening to your music, you have a sound
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  Speaker 1: that you are not willing to jeopardize at any point,
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  Speaker 1: right and if somebody listens to you, and whether it's
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  Speaker 1: working with Carly Pearce, so working with you are still
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  Speaker 1: Ashley McBride. You don't lose yourself in whoever you're working with,
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  Speaker 1: which I imagine can be tough.
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  Speaker 6: I just can't figure out how else to do it.
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  Speaker 6: It's sort of like recently, the band and I were asked.
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  Speaker 5: To play How's op the World and Melt with.
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  Speaker 6: You, not a country song, right by a very British band,
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  Speaker 6: and I was like, I don't know if that's going
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  Speaker 6: to translate, well, it'll probably sound like a muppet, like
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  Speaker 6: I was even practicing it as a muppet.
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  Speaker 7: Like.
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  Speaker 6: I've seen the difference and it's getting better all the time.
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  Speaker 6: I didn't want I was like, I can't do it
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  Speaker 6: like that, And then we just played it the way
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  Speaker 6: we would play it. Even though we're playing it, we're
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  Speaker 6: covering it right, so we're playing it the way they
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  Speaker 6: played it.
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  Speaker 1: But then we played it.
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  Speaker 6: And it sounded different, and I was like, it actually
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  Speaker 6: works as a country song. We weren't trying to make
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  Speaker 6: it a country song. I literally can't figure out how
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  Speaker 6: to do it another way.
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  Speaker 1: Listen, you are busy, and this is just the tip
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  Speaker 1: of the iceberg. I feel like some of these grandparents, Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: enjoy it. I will take a deep breast.
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  Speaker 6: I will this is such a busy time, all the
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  Speaker 6: way until after the award show, and I don't I
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  Speaker 6: know that we always get such sound advice.
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  Speaker 1: Enjoy it.
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  Speaker 5: You get to do this.
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  Speaker 1: You could just stand here.
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  Speaker 6: You know how many people would kill to.
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  Speaker 1: Be standing here. I'll tell you. We were talking to
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  Speaker 1: Marty from Shenandoah last year and he said to me,
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  Speaker 1: he goes, and I forgot what we were talking about.
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  Speaker 1: But like, I mean, everyone's life goes one hundred miles
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  Speaker 1: an hour. So I had mentioned something about my life
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  Speaker 1: and he was saying something about his, and he goes,
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  Speaker 1: it's important to always look.
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  Speaker 2: At your feet.
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  Speaker 1: He goes, You can't you can't appreciate where you've been
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  Speaker 1: because it's over. You can't appreciate where you're going because
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  Speaker 1: you don't know where you're going. So look at your feet.
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  Speaker 1: And so I brought it up to him here and
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  Speaker 1: he remembered it today and.
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  Speaker 6: Think about like I did this John Prime thing at
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  Speaker 6: the Hall of Fame recently, and my dressing room roommate
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  Speaker 6: was Kathy Matteya, and she's lovely. We had great conversations.
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  Speaker 6: And when she left the room for a moment, I
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  Speaker 6: looked at my team and I said, do you ever go,
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  Speaker 6: oh my god, this is my life. What kind of
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  Speaker 6: life have I lived? So that I get to live
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  Speaker 6: this life? I just had a conversation with her, like
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  Speaker 6: she's my neighbor. She's part of the reason I get
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  Speaker 6: to do this for a living. Every door I walked through,
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  Speaker 6: some other woman kicked it open for me, and I
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  Speaker 6: get to thank her. Incredible, it's massive.
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  Speaker 1: Enjoy it, you guys, talk to her. I get to
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  Speaker 1: talk to you. Ashle McBride's CMAS enjoyed Deer. It's CMA's
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  Speaker 1: Matt Stella's here at Wayne d H. What's what's this
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  Speaker 1: experience like for you? Man? Because you've done this time
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  Speaker 1: and time again. Uh do you look forward to it?
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  Speaker 1: I mean, I know it's work. I don't I look
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  Speaker 1: forward to it.
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  Speaker 8: Man, Like I get to catch up with a lot
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  Speaker 8: of like friends, you know, whether it's you know y'all
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  Speaker 8: or artist friends or writer friends or like label promotions people.
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  Speaker 8: You know, Like it's just where everybody kind of congregates.
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  Speaker 8: So you end up running into people and it ends up,
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  Speaker 8: you know, being a hay You know.
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  Speaker 1: I will tell you you are a guy who has
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  Speaker 1: always worked your tail off. You obviously saw early success.
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  Speaker 1: Uh you it felt like you ran into a wall,
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  Speaker 1: like where it's like people weren't people were connecting, but
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  Speaker 1: not enough people were hearing it, Like it wasn't it
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  Speaker 1: on a platform? Right now you're back to conquering the
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  Speaker 1: way you have in the past. How does it? How
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  Speaker 1: does it feel to kind of I hate the word rebound.
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  Speaker 8: Well, but here's the thing, So that's that's very fair
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  Speaker 8: because you know, we had our second number one in
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  Speaker 8: country radio in the thick of COVID you know everything
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  Speaker 8: we were in the middle of our headline and tour.
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  Speaker 8: You know, we had twenty five dates for the most
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  Speaker 8: part sold out, right, so we're up in the Northeast
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  Speaker 8: and we're on a Wednesday, we're playing New York and
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  Speaker 8: on a Thursday, that bus just turns around at hezbat
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  Speaker 8: to Nashville for a year. And when that stuff happens,
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  Speaker 8: you know, everybody and again, like I there's a lot
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  Speaker 8: of people lost, a lot more than you know, just
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  Speaker 8: touring days. But there has been, like you know, a
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  Speaker 8: challenge to get back on the horse and to get
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  Speaker 8: the ball roll in the way that we had it.
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  Speaker 8: And that's what makes me excited about, you know, breaking
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  Speaker 8: in boots, being in the top twenty and starting to
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  Speaker 8: see that thing kind of do a thing and yeah, man,
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  Speaker 8: it's cool, it's good.
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  Speaker 1: How do you stay because country music for everybody is
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  Speaker 1: I mean, it's a grind man, and there's sometimes it
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  Speaker 1: kicks you in the teeth and the sometimes it puts
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  Speaker 1: you on the throne. Yeah, how do you stay positive
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  Speaker 1: and moving forward when you're like, Okay, well we're gonna
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  Speaker 1: try something different this time.
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  Speaker 8: Yeah, man, I mean a lot of it, you know,
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  Speaker 8: a lot of it's mine. It's all mindset, man, you know,
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  Speaker 8: because at the end of the day, like I don't
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  Speaker 8: deserve I don't deserve to have a pity party.
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  Speaker 2: Man.
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  Speaker 8: There's too many people out there that that that have
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  Speaker 8: to go through things that that I don't even understand
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  Speaker 8: how hard it is. And and you know, I've got
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  Speaker 8: people that are close to me that have to deal
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  Speaker 8: with Like I was talking to a good friend of
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  Speaker 8: mine today who's who I was checking in on them
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  Speaker 8: because his dad passed away suddenly recently, right, And that
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  Speaker 8: happens to you know, most all of us. But but
• 13:35
  Speaker 8: you know, when you're in the throes of that kind
• 13:36
  Speaker 8: of thing, man, you know that it'll put it in perspective.
• 13:39
  Speaker 8: And when I lost my dad, I remember, you know,
• 13:41
  Speaker 8: sort of getting a little bit of a of a
• 13:43
  Speaker 8: perspective shift. And and I think that's the most important,
• 13:46
  Speaker 8: wouldn't you know. I wouldn't preciate anybody or anything. But
• 13:49
  Speaker 8: keeping things in perspective is what I do because it
• 13:52
  Speaker 8: keeps the distractions away and it gets me focused on
• 13:55
  Speaker 8: the things that I can I can care that I
• 13:57
  Speaker 8: need to care about, and the things that I can do.
• 14:00
  Speaker 1: We're just talking about the success of breaking in boots. Uh.
• 14:03
  Speaker 1: The music fans are like, that's great, but what's next?
• 14:07
  Speaker 1: That's great? But what's next?
• 14:08
  Speaker 5: I love it.
• 14:09
  Speaker 1: Are you focused on what's next? Is there? Have you
• 14:12
  Speaker 1: shared fully what what plans are post this single and
• 14:16
  Speaker 1: the next one and whatever?
• 14:17
  Speaker 8: Man, you never know, Like there's uh, there's some songs
• 14:19
  Speaker 8: raising their hand on off of the new record that
• 14:21
  Speaker 8: I'm you know, I'm really proud of my record that
• 14:23
  Speaker 8: I put out this year, Born Lonely. I. I wrote
• 14:25
  Speaker 8: it from a place where I was just trying to
• 14:27
  Speaker 8: I was just trying to really make a record that
• 14:29
  Speaker 8: the kid that learned how to play guitar is in
• 14:31
  Speaker 8: his dorm room.
• 14:32
  Speaker 9: Uh.
• 14:33
  Speaker 8: Would would love, for the most part, you know, grow
• 14:35
  Speaker 8: up a little bit, you know, but but uh, but
• 14:38
  Speaker 8: be proud of and love. And I'm just gonna keep
• 14:40
  Speaker 8: on that train. And whether or not the next thing
• 14:43
  Speaker 8: is something that's out, whether or not the next thing
• 14:45
  Speaker 8: is new music that I just got done writing.
• 14:48
  Speaker 1: You know, I'm excited about.
• 14:49
  Speaker 8: All of it because I've learned in this business you
• 14:52
  Speaker 8: turn that loose and you let the you let the
• 14:54
  Speaker 8: suits worry about what they what they need to do,
• 14:56
  Speaker 8: and you just give them a just let them pick
• 14:58
  Speaker 8: from anything that you like, and you'll have something you
• 15:00
  Speaker 8: like out on the radio.
• 15:01
  Speaker 1: So that's very motivating to hear the story of continuing
• 15:04
  Speaker 1: to grind. Man. Yeah, country radio definitely has a spot
• 15:06
  Speaker 1: for you, So keep going, brother man.
• 15:09
  Speaker 8: There will be no I'm always gonna keep going, man,
• 15:11
  Speaker 8: I don't know no other way.
• 15:13
  Speaker 1: Listen, and if it comes down to it, book birthday parties.
• 15:16
  Speaker 1: Matt Stell dot Com absolutely absolutely yeah. Dot Net congratulates
• 15:24
  Speaker 1: it's CMA time Wayne d hanging out. It's one of
• 15:26
  Speaker 1: the best doing it. Honestly, I'm gonna use the word
• 15:28
  Speaker 1: probably one of the most underrated artists we're gonna see
• 15:30
  Speaker 1: today is Russell Dickerson. That's a fact. Demand's had success.
• 15:34
  Speaker 1: He's still grinding. How you feeling, I I wish I
• 15:37
  Speaker 1: could disagree with you.
• 15:39
  Speaker 2: I wish I was rated, but I'm I'm underrated.
• 15:42
  Speaker 10: Yeah, it's all right, and that's I'm kidding. Listen, Okay,
• 15:45
  Speaker 10: we're thriving, we're hanging I'm gonna keep doing my thing.
• 15:49
  Speaker 1: Let me ask you, what's the toughest part. This is
• 15:51
  Speaker 1: gonna be real, Okay, this is gonna be like therapist.
• 15:54
  Speaker 2: We're getting into.
• 15:56
  Speaker 1: Everybody wants a number one song, but as an artist,
• 16:00
  Speaker 1: we're going mental health on you. What is the hardest
• 16:03
  Speaker 1: part about putting out a song and have it not
• 16:06
  Speaker 1: connecting as fast as the last one.
• 16:11
  Speaker 2: I mean really, just like you're like, what am I
• 16:14
  Speaker 2: doing wrong? You know? If we're getting real real, be
• 16:17
  Speaker 2: real bit. Yeah.
• 16:18
  Speaker 10: But I mean, dude, if I that's like super zoomed in,
• 16:22
  Speaker 10: super focused on that specific subject. So if I zoom
• 16:26
  Speaker 10: out and look at I have five number ones, you
• 16:30
  Speaker 10: know what I mean, that's where that's where I gotta
• 16:32
  Speaker 10: That's where I gotta stay above the water, dude.
• 16:34
  Speaker 2: I can't get that deep into the water.
• 16:36
  Speaker 10: True, And you know, I you know, entertaining wise, like,
• 16:41
  Speaker 10: I feel like we we put on one of the
• 16:44
  Speaker 10: best shows in country music. So come on out to
• 16:47
  Speaker 10: russell Mania. By the way, twenty five plug there. So yeah, man,
• 16:53
  Speaker 10: I don't know here we are.
• 16:55
  Speaker 1: Let me make a Russell I'm this is gonna be
• 16:56
  Speaker 1: a selfish port on the interview russell Mania. I see
• 16:59
  Speaker 1: merch all over country radio. It's fine, No, no, we
• 17:06
  Speaker 1: have no Rustlemania.
• 17:07
  Speaker 2: Are you kidding me?
• 17:08
  Speaker 1: Big facts?
• 17:09
  Speaker 2: All right, Well it's about to change. You know what.
• 17:10
  Speaker 2: I'm going to get you the new line. That's fine,
• 17:13
  Speaker 2: get you that fresh line.
• 17:14
  Speaker 1: I will come to your house. I drive by it
• 17:15
  Speaker 1: on the way home, you do, I stop looking at
• 17:18
  Speaker 1: the stopped looking at the Windowso because your wife is like,
• 17:20
  Speaker 1: would you leave?
• 17:21
  Speaker 10: Wait, I swear to god, dude, you don't stop peeping.
• 17:27
  Speaker 2: Powder bath?
• 17:29
  Speaker 1: He was a powder bath. I'm not on that text bracket.
• 17:31
  Speaker 2: Okay, me neither.
• 17:32
  Speaker 9: Dude.
• 17:34
  Speaker 2: It's a bathroom without a shower.
• 17:36
  Speaker 1: Is that really what it's called?
• 17:37
  Speaker 10: Yeah, all right, No, I'm just I've just been married.
• 17:40
  Speaker 10: I've been married for eleven years. You know, Yeah, that's
• 17:43
  Speaker 10: what That's how I know. That's how I know it.
• 17:45
  Speaker 1: What are you? And I know you say that the
• 17:48
  Speaker 1: five number ones. I know how proud you are with that,
• 17:51
  Speaker 1: because you you're a guy who takes pride in the
• 17:53
  Speaker 1: songwriting aspect. But give me just the last three hundred
• 17:58
  Speaker 1: and sixty five days, right, nothing and before that? What
• 18:00
  Speaker 1: are you most proud of that gets you up doing
• 18:03
  Speaker 1: it again tomorrow?
• 18:05
  Speaker 2: Your kids? Okay, no respect.
• 18:07
  Speaker 1: I know you're a proud father, but career wise.
• 18:12
  Speaker 10: I mean, dude, really, I think it was earlier this
• 18:16
  Speaker 10: year we celebrated that we had a triple number one
• 18:19
  Speaker 10: party insanity. But it's honestly, like the new music that
• 18:24
  Speaker 10: I have that is about to drop that like I'm like, oh, heck, yeah.
• 18:29
  Speaker 2: Daddy's still got it. Daddy's home for the holidays. Baby.
• 18:34
  Speaker 2: You know what I mean. You know exactly what I mean.
• 18:37
  Speaker 1: You're what never mind?
• 18:38
  Speaker 10: Yeah, no, she says Daddy's home for the holidays when
• 18:42
  Speaker 10: I come in off the road anytime between.
• 18:45
  Speaker 2: No, that's what she's talking to me, you know.
• 18:50
  Speaker 1: On Instagram when we post this.
• 18:51
  Speaker 2: Get the real story.
• 18:52
  Speaker 1: Uh what are the plans for the holidays?
• 18:54
  Speaker 7: Man?
• 18:54
  Speaker 1: Are you get to wind down soon here? Or what's
• 18:56
  Speaker 1: the deal?
• 18:57
  Speaker 10: So we're we're renovating our house. Our house is to
• 19:01
  Speaker 10: the studs and.
• 19:03
  Speaker 1: There's always.
• 19:06
  Speaker 2: Where get the stud finder?
• 19:08
  Speaker 10: We found one and uh so we're living like basically,
• 19:13
  Speaker 10: I've rented my neighbor's house as my songwriting studio everything,
• 19:18
  Speaker 10: and so we're living in that right now. Yeah, it's
• 19:21
  Speaker 10: a little it's like a seventies little ranch. There's cockroaches.
• 19:24
  Speaker 10: We're figuring out life.
• 19:25
  Speaker 2: It's great.
• 19:26
  Speaker 10: Yeah, but uh so we're we're not hosting. We always
• 19:29
  Speaker 10: host we always have people over, but we're like, y'all
• 19:32
  Speaker 10: gonna have to figure something out because we we ain't
• 19:34
  Speaker 10: got it this year.
• 19:35
  Speaker 1: Dude. We'll have you down at spring Hill Party in
• 19:39
  Speaker 1: spring Hill wait, I'm getting wrapped, but I have to Thanksgiving.
• 19:42
  Speaker 4: Uh.
• 19:43
  Speaker 1: Massive debate between Tay and I. Stuffing is number one
• 19:46
  Speaker 1: on her list for sides. Mine is sweet potatoes. Mmm.
• 19:52
  Speaker 10: If if I was if I walked into a Thanksgiving
• 19:55
  Speaker 10: dinner and they didn't have one or the other, I
• 19:59
  Speaker 10: would leave if they did not have stuff in.
• 20:02
  Speaker 1: Sorry, I just can't win this whole thing. It's fine.
• 20:06
  Speaker 2: I would leave.
• 20:07
  Speaker 1: Russell Mania taken over CMA Fest or CMA Wow, it's fine.
• 20:10
  Speaker 1: Well and at the end, russell Mania taken over cm
• 20:14
  Speaker 1: as right, it's Wayne d and c m A continues
• 20:18
  Speaker 1: and we're hanging with Tucker wet Moore. Who a year
• 20:21
  Speaker 1: ago this would have been a whole different experience. But
• 20:23
  Speaker 1: you got a big old hit on country radio.
• 20:26
  Speaker 5: Oh yeah, yeah, it's awesome.
• 20:29
  Speaker 11: Man.
• 20:29
  Speaker 12: This is my first CMA fift Awards.
• 20:31
  Speaker 1: See and I said CMA Fest earlier. Listen they like
• 20:34
  Speaker 1: wrap the city around it, so you listen flip a right.
• 20:38
  Speaker 1: Uh so with the CMA Awards, who are you going with?
• 20:41
  Speaker 1: And this isn't like a who are you doing? Who's going?
• 20:44
  Speaker 1: Who's who's going with? Show?
• 20:47
  Speaker 13: Probably someone on my team, like my manager. Okay, yeah,
• 20:49
  Speaker 13: I think I'm taking my manager.
• 20:51
  Speaker 1: Listen, they're part of the reason why you're going. That's
• 20:53
  Speaker 1: maybe maybe a couple down the line, we'll take somebody else.
• 20:57
  Speaker 1: What are you expecting from Have you been to the
• 20:58
  Speaker 1: show as a fan before?
• 20:59
  Speaker 12: I have not, so this is you never that's my
• 21:02
  Speaker 12: first ever experience.
• 21:03
  Speaker 1: Oh you excited?
• 21:04
  Speaker 2: I'm so excited. What's this?
• 21:06
  Speaker 1: Are we pulling the stash back more? Is it gonna stay?
• 21:08
  Speaker 1: Have you gotten that part knocked out? Oh? Yeah, I
• 21:10
  Speaker 1: got my outfit. Okay. Oh that's gonna look.
• 21:13
  Speaker 12: It's gonna look so good.
• 21:15
  Speaker 1: Did you pick someone else? Pigot, somebody else picked it?
• 21:18
  Speaker 14: That's well, I'm in the game.
• 21:21
  Speaker 12: They picked it out, and then they gave me options.
• 21:23
  Speaker 1: Okay, and then I picked that. I can respect that. Uh.
• 21:26
  Speaker 1: There are a lot of things that happened CMA Awards.
• 21:29
  Speaker 1: Obviously the awards themselves. There's the performances. Are you excited
• 21:33
  Speaker 1: to see the performances? And is there anybody that stands out?
• 21:37
  Speaker 1: Because I mean, if we just talked to Eric Church
• 21:38
  Speaker 1: a second ago, which I'm a huge Eric Church fan,
• 21:41
  Speaker 1: that would be did you bump it in him? No, dude,
• 21:43
  Speaker 1: he's here for like two more minutes. He's literally right down.
• 21:46
  Speaker 1: I just met Cody Johnson.
• 21:49
  Speaker 2: I love Cody.
• 21:51
  Speaker 1: I love Cody Johnson. Uh, you're right. Who cares if
• 21:56
  Speaker 1: you could jump into somebody and this turns into a
• 21:58
  Speaker 1: collaboration together, because obviously that's like the hottest thing in country.
• 22:02
  Speaker 1: Who would it be if you could bump into somebody
• 22:04
  Speaker 1: outside of Eric Church and it becomes your first big
• 22:07
  Speaker 1: collab on country radio. Who would it be some of
• 22:09
  Speaker 1: that I haven't met yet or somebody you've met? Either way, ooh,
• 22:14
  Speaker 1: I don't know.
• 22:16
  Speaker 12: Cody Johnson is still fresh on my mind.
• 22:17
  Speaker 2: Probably would be.
• 22:19
  Speaker 1: That would be really nuts. Yeah, because Cody Johnson throws
• 22:22
  Speaker 1: down dude, Yeah, would you be ready for that?
• 22:26
  Speaker 9: I throw down that.
• 22:29
  Speaker 1: When it comes to the end of the year. What
• 22:30
  Speaker 1: are your plans in between now and wrapping things up
• 22:32
  Speaker 1: for twenty four.
• 22:34
  Speaker 13: A bunch of radio shows, Thanksgiving. I'll fly back home
• 22:38
  Speaker 13: for Thanksgiving, and I'm going to the Bahamas. I treat
• 22:41
  Speaker 13: I'm gonna treat myself to a trip to the Bahamas.
• 22:44
  Speaker 1: They're a couple buddies.
• 22:45
  Speaker 13: And my golf and play, you know, because play around
• 22:48
  Speaker 13: in the casino and it's gonna be awesome.
• 22:50
  Speaker 1: Well deserved man, you've had a heck of a year.
• 22:52
  Speaker 1: Thank you. Congrats man, thanks, I appreciate it. Thank you.
• 22:53
  Speaker 1: The CMA madness rolls on, and I gotta tell you
• 22:56
  Speaker 1: one of the artists who has had the most buzz
• 22:58
  Speaker 1: behind their name in the last year. It's Wayne d
• 23:00
  Speaker 1: talking to Zach Top How's life of Zach top Man?
• 23:04
  Speaker 15: I can't complain. If I was any meda, they'd be
• 23:06
  Speaker 15: two of me.
• 23:09
  Speaker 1: It's cool because I hadn't heard your song, I hadn't
• 23:13
  Speaker 1: heard your name, But all of a sudden, I'm scrolling
• 23:15
  Speaker 1: through social media and I'm seeing names like Luke Comb's,
• 23:19
  Speaker 1: Laney Wilson and others praise this dude, Zach top checked
• 23:22
  Speaker 1: out your music. I'm like, okay for anybody that hasn't
• 23:27
  Speaker 1: heard your music yet, first of all, where you've been.
• 23:31
  Speaker 1: Second of all, it's like you have this new old
• 23:35
  Speaker 1: school sound to you. Why is that important for you
• 23:38
  Speaker 1: to I mean, it's very nineties country but today, Yeah,
• 23:41
  Speaker 1: that's kind of man.
• 23:42
  Speaker 15: I feel like I cut my teeth on the same
• 23:45
  Speaker 15: guys that the nineties country guys probably cut their teeth on.
• 23:48
  Speaker 15: Marl Hygrid and George Jones and Lefty for Zeil and
• 23:51
  Speaker 15: you know, stuff like that, and so that was just
• 23:54
  Speaker 15: always my favorite stuff growing up, and so it kind
• 23:58
  Speaker 15: of just there wasn't any concerted effort to be the
• 24:00
  Speaker 15: you know, the throwback old school guy. This is just
• 24:03
  Speaker 15: what comes out of me when I sing and play and.
• 24:05
  Speaker 5: Write, I guess.
• 24:06
  Speaker 15: So it's I'm just grateful that folks are enjoying what
• 24:09
  Speaker 15: I'm doing. It's it's obviously a departure of from you know,
• 24:12
  Speaker 15: a lot of what's having success right now. So it's, uh,
• 24:15
  Speaker 15: I'm just glad people are loving it.
• 24:17
  Speaker 1: Your song on the radio right now really was your
• 24:19
  Speaker 1: first introduction to mainstream country radio. It's called sounds like
• 24:22
  Speaker 1: the Radio. Yeah, a little helpful.
• 24:24
  Speaker 15: Pandering never hurts, right, Yeah, right, well, how could you
• 24:26
  Speaker 15: not play it?
• 24:27
  Speaker 1: It's exactly what's it been like to drive around Nashville
• 24:32
  Speaker 1: or your hometown and be able to turn the radio on.
• 24:35
  Speaker 1: And that's you're tucked in there between the George Straits
• 24:38
  Speaker 1: and the Luke Combs and the Lady Wilson's.
• 24:40
  Speaker 5: It's crazy, man.
• 24:40
  Speaker 15: That was you know, I grew up probably on the
• 24:43
  Speaker 15: tail end of like the streaming services were not a
• 24:45
  Speaker 15: thing when I was a kid learning about music and
• 24:48
  Speaker 15: fall in love with country music.
• 24:49
  Speaker 1: It was the radio and so that was you.
• 24:52
  Speaker 15: Know, that's still in my mind kind of the if
• 24:55
  Speaker 15: you got a song on the radio, you're somebody sort
• 24:57
  Speaker 15: of a thing. And so it's it gives me chills
• 24:59
  Speaker 15: every time I get to hear it on there, and
• 25:02
  Speaker 15: you know, it's cool to see everybody streaming it and
• 25:04
  Speaker 15: whatnot too. But it's kind of like there's it's almost
• 25:06
  Speaker 15: like there's more gatekeepers and taste makers in radio to
• 25:09
  Speaker 15: where it's kind of a little more of like a
• 25:12
  Speaker 15: notch in your belt or a feather.
• 25:13
  Speaker 9: In your cap or whatever you want to say when
• 25:15
  Speaker 9: you get one on the radio.
• 25:16
  Speaker 5: So it's really really cool.
• 25:17
  Speaker 1: Are you looking past this on what you want to
• 25:19
  Speaker 1: give people next musically?
• 25:21
  Speaker 15: Oh yeah, always looking past, you know, dropping cryptic hints
• 25:26
  Speaker 15: stuff like that. Hopefully some more stuff next year.
• 25:29
  Speaker 1: Can't wait. Man, it sounds like the radio making a
• 25:31
  Speaker 1: big push. Congratulations on your success, brother, I appreciate you.
• 25:33
  Speaker 1: CMA coverage continues. It's winning deep with Blake Shelton. First
• 25:36
  Speaker 1: of all, it's so cool to be able. I'm gonna
• 25:38
  Speaker 1: I'm gonna give you your flowers. As the kids said,
• 25:40
  Speaker 1: it is so cool to be able to sit down
• 25:42
  Speaker 1: and chat and catch up with somebody who has done
• 25:44
  Speaker 1: this at such a high level for so long.
• 25:45
  Speaker 5: Oh my god, thank you.
• 25:47
  Speaker 16: Absolutely, it's you know, it's fun for me at this
• 25:50
  Speaker 16: time around. I haven't been to one of these, and
• 25:52
  Speaker 16: probably about ten years, I've just kind of been mia been,
• 25:55
  Speaker 16: you know, doing my other my other career that I've
• 26:00
  Speaker 16: finally got a chance to step away from. And it's
• 26:03
  Speaker 16: fun to be back here again and just being a
• 26:06
  Speaker 16: country music singer, you know, going back to what this
• 26:10
  Speaker 16: started out being, you know what I mean.
• 26:13
  Speaker 1: So obviously you're home a little more, is there is
• 26:16
  Speaker 1: Gwyn kind of like, wow, I didn't sign a free
• 26:19
  Speaker 1: to be home this much?
• 26:20
  Speaker 5: Is there anything you can go do?
• 26:23
  Speaker 17: You know?
• 26:23
  Speaker 16: It's funny as as I started slowing down, she's gotten busier,
• 26:29
  Speaker 16: so maybe I should take the hint. It's like, you know,
• 26:32
  Speaker 16: she's like, hey, you no, we booked another tour since
• 26:34
  Speaker 16: you're going to get home.
• 26:37
  Speaker 12: I don't know.
• 26:37
  Speaker 16: It's just funny how that's worked out because she's she
• 26:41
  Speaker 16: didn't step away from the voice, you know, she's still
• 26:43
  Speaker 16: a regular as far as she's in the rotation, you know,
• 26:46
  Speaker 16: and this is one of the seasons that she's on.
• 26:49
  Speaker 16: She just released an album and so she's up in
• 26:52
  Speaker 16: New York doing all her promotional stuff for a record,
• 26:55
  Speaker 16: So hadn't seen her in about two weeks, so we're
• 26:57
  Speaker 16: anxious for Thanksgiving.
• 27:00
  Speaker 1: We talked a little while ago about your single coming out,
• 27:03
  Speaker 1: which is Texas. It's awesome now that fans have been
• 27:06
  Speaker 1: able to hear it, and obviously you are seeing the
• 27:09
  Speaker 1: numbers move as far as you know radio and streaming
• 27:12
  Speaker 1: and all that. Are you excited with how it's been
• 27:14
  Speaker 1: received or is this what you expected?
• 27:18
  Speaker 12: I didn't know what to expect.
• 27:19
  Speaker 16: I mean, you always in the back of your mind,
• 27:21
  Speaker 16: no matter what you say, hope, you know it's gonna
• 27:24
  Speaker 16: be number one, and you know all this stuff. But
• 27:26
  Speaker 16: at the same time, I try to be realistic about
• 27:29
  Speaker 16: what you just said a minute ago, like how long
• 27:31
  Speaker 16: I've been doing this and and I'm not the new
• 27:35
  Speaker 16: guy anymore. And you know, it's not like people are
• 27:37
  Speaker 16: sitting on the edge of their seat waiting for my
• 27:40
  Speaker 16: next piece of music. Because even if you're a fan
• 27:43
  Speaker 16: of mine, you're probably to the point where you're like, yeah,
• 27:46
  Speaker 16: I've got three of your records.
• 27:48
  Speaker 1: We're good.
• 27:49
  Speaker 16: You know, I've seen you in concert three times. But
• 27:52
  Speaker 16: and so it's been received better than I thought, meaning
• 28:02
  Speaker 16: the interaction with the song. I had a feeling people
• 28:06
  Speaker 16: would hear the song and not hate it, you know,
• 28:09
  Speaker 16: but I don't know that I expected the amount of
• 28:13
  Speaker 16: love that it's received.
• 28:14
  Speaker 7: You know.
• 28:15
  Speaker 16: I've released songs for the last ten years. When I
• 28:18
  Speaker 16: release a song, I don't even hear from my best friends,
• 28:21
  Speaker 16: like they're like I'll see them somewhere, like, oh, I
• 28:24
  Speaker 16: like that last song you had. It's like, oh yeah,
• 28:26
  Speaker 16: why didn't you tell me when it came out when
• 28:28
  Speaker 16: I was nervous about it, you know. And but on
• 28:30
  Speaker 16: this one, it's like the old days, Like, you know,
• 28:34
  Speaker 16: my phone had just exploded with people that I don't
• 28:37
  Speaker 16: normally hear from saying, man, that's you actually have a
• 28:41
  Speaker 16: song that's my favorite song right now, you know. And
• 28:43
  Speaker 16: so that's been exciting to hear, you know, after all
• 28:46
  Speaker 16: these years, because you never know when your last one
• 28:49
  Speaker 16: is your last one, you know, you just don't. And
• 28:51
  Speaker 16: so now I feel like this one's not going to
• 28:54
  Speaker 16: be my last one.
• 28:55
  Speaker 5: So it's pretty exciting.
• 28:57
  Speaker 1: Listen, we know how busy you are, the fact that
• 28:58
  Speaker 1: you took time out to come visit country radio again.
• 29:00
  Speaker 1: We appreciate you, man, We're glad to have some new
• 29:03
  Speaker 1: country music from you.
• 29:04
  Speaker 16: Proud to be here, buddy, Thank you.
• 29:05
  Speaker 1: Wade. Cole Schwindell, CMA Madness continues with a guy that
• 29:09
  Speaker 1: I'm very excited to hang out with. Man, I'm gonna
• 29:11
  Speaker 1: start with the festivities that just happened in front of
• 29:15
  Speaker 1: our little on air booth in here. Yeah it was
• 29:17
  Speaker 1: Cole Schwindell, Luke Bryan, Luke Combs, we call them the
• 29:21
  Speaker 1: Country Luke's and then Drew Balders was in there. What's
• 29:24
  Speaker 1: it like in a time like this to be cause
• 29:26
  Speaker 1: y'all don't get time backstage to hang.
• 29:28
  Speaker 18: Or I mean hardly ever.
• 29:31
  Speaker 19: Man.
• 29:31
  Speaker 18: I'll see Luke on the golf course every now and then.
• 29:34
  Speaker 18: I don't ever really see Luke, Colmbs or Drew Baldris,
• 29:37
  Speaker 18: but buddies with them. So that is a part of
• 29:39
  Speaker 18: this week, you know, getting to see all of you.
• 29:41
  Speaker 18: Then you know, I've seeing your artist buddies that we're
• 29:44
  Speaker 18: all doing the same thing. We're always on the go,
• 29:46
  Speaker 18: always busy. So this week I know everybody says it,
• 29:48
  Speaker 18: but it's the truth. I mean, that's what we all
• 29:50
  Speaker 18: get to hang out and try to make the most
• 29:53
  Speaker 18: of our two minutes or whatever they give us.
• 29:54
  Speaker 1: You know that's right, listen, I can do it. Never mind,
• 29:58
  Speaker 1: what's well, let's before I move on to music. Who's
• 30:02
  Speaker 1: the best, because you mentioned golf, who's the best golfer
• 30:04
  Speaker 1: in country music? And who's the worst golfer in country music?
• 30:06
  Speaker 18: Oh my gosh, I'll go best, probably Jacob And still
• 30:12
  Speaker 18: there's some good ones. I mean, Darius and Charles Killer,
• 30:14
  Speaker 18: they're they're really good.
• 30:15
  Speaker 2: I feel like my game's gotten good.
• 30:17
  Speaker 18: But I'm not.
• 30:17
  Speaker 1: I'm not the worst.
• 30:18
  Speaker 18: I'm definitely not the best. The worst gollee man.
• 30:25
  Speaker 1: Somebody just called out the worst recently, and I forget, No,
• 30:27
  Speaker 1: I don't really know I have it's a young, it's
• 30:29
  Speaker 1: a young I'm.
• 30:30
  Speaker 18: Gonna get It's might not be who you're thinking. But
• 30:33
  Speaker 18: my buddy, we have a new song, Grayland James, you're
• 30:37
  Speaker 18: the worst golfer, buddy.
• 30:39
  Speaker 1: He no, Chris Young said Nate Smith is the worst.
• 30:43
  Speaker 18: I haven't played with Nate, but when we me and
• 30:45
  Speaker 18: Nate and Thomas toured together, Nate kept saying, y'all got
• 30:47
  Speaker 18: to teach me. So hey, he probably doesn't claim to
• 30:50
  Speaker 18: play it. I've I don't have an excuse. I've played
• 30:52
  Speaker 18: my whole life, and golf's just God, it's tough, but
• 30:54
  Speaker 18: I love it. I'm a great spectator. I'll drive for you.
• 30:56
  Speaker 1: There we go. Yeah. Cole Swindell is seeing some success
• 30:59
  Speaker 1: on the radio and streaming with your song Forever to Me,
• 31:02
  Speaker 1: a song that is so close to your heart, maybe
• 31:06
  Speaker 1: one of the most vulnerable times you've been career wise.
• 31:09
  Speaker 1: What does it mean that it's connected with people?
• 31:11
  Speaker 2: For you?
• 31:11
  Speaker 18: It's awesome, you know, Like I said, I mean to
• 31:14
  Speaker 18: still be able to do this and for just still
• 31:16
  Speaker 18: have the support of country radio is amazing. That's what
• 31:18
  Speaker 18: It's really all I've ever had and the reason I
• 31:20
  Speaker 18: have fans because you know, the radio is always played
• 31:24
  Speaker 18: my songs and this one was just one of those
• 31:25
  Speaker 18: songs that it's personal to me, and I think a
• 31:29
  Speaker 18: lot of people can, you know, hearing their stories there
• 31:31
  Speaker 18: Forever to Me stories has been really cool and just
• 31:34
  Speaker 18: something I haven't done before. So I'm hey, being right
• 31:37
  Speaker 18: in the point of my life, newly married and getting
• 31:40
  Speaker 18: to sing about it is every night.
• 31:41
  Speaker 2: It's pretty cool.
• 31:42
  Speaker 1: Have you had to tell her, Hey, just a heads up.
• 31:43
  Speaker 1: Not every song is going to be about you. I did.
• 31:46
  Speaker 18: I've told people I'm not making a wedding album, but
• 31:48
  Speaker 18: I do have some spaces on this one for some
• 31:50
  Speaker 18: love songs. Thank God, finally, so I feel like I've
• 31:54
  Speaker 18: had enough of the breakup songs and all that. So
• 31:56
  Speaker 18: it's about time for a love song that I could
• 31:59
  Speaker 18: write and mean it and sing it and for radio
• 32:02
  Speaker 18: to play it.
• 32:03
  Speaker 1: There is Colonelle, Thank you, brother, appreciate it. Always it's
• 32:05
  Speaker 1: Wayne Dy hanging out with the boys, Dan and Shay
• 32:07
  Speaker 1: or here. I want to ask you a question. This
• 32:09
  Speaker 1: is going to be very vulnerable, honest question.
• 32:11
  Speaker 9: He's looking at our outfits when he says that, He's like, did.
• 32:13
  Speaker 1: You think about what you're wearing?
• 32:15
  Speaker 20: Did power go out in your house when you were
• 32:17
  Speaker 20: getting dressed today?
• 32:18
  Speaker 1: I mean, listen, I appreciate like you look like you
• 32:20
  Speaker 1: might be.
• 32:21
  Speaker 9: Just in case we need to do yeah, just in
• 32:22
  Speaker 9: case we need to do any work.
• 32:23
  Speaker 1: And I'm getting like substitute teacher vibe.
• 32:25
  Speaker 12: Yeah, yeah, I am, I'm just kidding. No, I am.
• 32:28
  Speaker 11: I'm actually subbing today. I'm a kids school. I'm also
• 32:31
  Speaker 11: I'm also taking over this radio show. And we didn't
• 32:33
  Speaker 11: know how else to tell you.
• 32:35
  Speaker 9: The TV that's right. Yeah, yeah, you know, wheeling in.
• 32:38
  Speaker 1: On both my feet.
• 32:40
  Speaker 9: Raw, dude, Ladies and gentlemen, we have an injured Wendy
• 32:43
  Speaker 9: in a house.
• 32:44
  Speaker 1: Hey, I do want to ask, because we've been lucky enough. Well,
• 32:47
  Speaker 1: I've been lucky enough to catch up with y' all.
• 32:49
  Speaker 1: I was trying to say, look how lucky they are,
• 32:52
  Speaker 1: and I texted you recently. The energy y'all have, it's
• 32:56
  Speaker 1: like the album came out, the tour hit, and it's
• 33:00
  Speaker 1: like all new again, right would would that be accurate?
• 33:04
  Speaker 1: Thank you for saying that.
• 33:05
  Speaker 11: First of all, it does feel that way to us too,
• 33:08
  Speaker 11: because we are genuinely having more fun than we have ever.
• 33:12
  Speaker 11: I think even you know, since the beginning of our career,
• 33:14
  Speaker 11: there's just a new found appreciation for what we get
• 33:17
  Speaker 11: to do.
• 33:17
  Speaker 1: Man.
• 33:17
  Speaker 11: I feel like you can, you know, go along, you know,
• 33:19
  Speaker 11: through the years, and you just you know, things kind
• 33:21
  Speaker 11: of happen, and you get you need to refocus every
• 33:24
  Speaker 11: once in a while, and I feel like Dan and
• 33:26
  Speaker 11: I were really able to kind of remind ourselves, like, dude,
• 33:28
  Speaker 11: this is the greatest thing on planet Earth. We get
• 33:30
  Speaker 11: to do something in music. We don't have to have
• 33:33
  Speaker 11: two jobs, and you know, be doing music on the
• 33:35
  Speaker 11: weekends and working at McDonald's. Like, we get to do
• 33:37
  Speaker 11: this as a living. That is the craziest thing, you know,
• 33:39
  Speaker 11: in the world. And we're just grateful to get to
• 33:41
  Speaker 11: do this. Man, we have people that want to come
• 33:44
  Speaker 11: see us play. Uh, and we're just we're very thankful
• 33:46
  Speaker 11: for the fans and for people like you man, honestly,
• 33:48
  Speaker 11: who have supported us through the years, and we would not.
• 33:50
  Speaker 1: Be where we are without you to the very beginning.
• 33:54
  Speaker 1: Let's go, dude, that first picture I got, I'll dude.
• 33:57
  Speaker 20: Speaking of the facial hair, you got it dies nice.
• 34:00
  Speaker 20: He was in like a wax or an ol. She
• 34:01
  Speaker 20: zoomed in for this camera.
• 34:03
  Speaker 1: Yeah, what is it?
• 34:04
  Speaker 9: What is it?
• 34:04
  Speaker 1: Balm?
• 34:05
  Speaker 9: Nice?
• 34:06
  Speaker 1: Nice? Nice? And and I get it colored regularly.
• 34:09
  Speaker 9: And here's another detail.
• 34:10
  Speaker 20: I'm not getting too into it, but like the mustache
• 34:12
  Speaker 20: is perfectly like trimmed across the front.
• 34:14
  Speaker 9: That's a huge part of it.
• 34:15
  Speaker 1: That's what I'm And I love the the bear claw type.
• 34:19
  Speaker 11: I I aspire to the nice little plump. It goes
• 34:22
  Speaker 11: this way and then down. It's not just like straight.
• 34:25
  Speaker 11: You have created body, That's what I'm saying.
• 34:27
  Speaker 1: And I love that for you.
• 34:29
  Speaker 11: And by the way he says he colors his beard,
• 34:31
  Speaker 11: he's talking about the gray.
• 34:32
  Speaker 1: He does that to act wise. He does that. He
• 34:35
  Speaker 1: doesn't have any gray hand.
• 34:37
  Speaker 9: It's a humble guy.
• 34:38
  Speaker 5: There's a humble guy.
• 34:39
  Speaker 1: Enjoy all things CMA's boys. I appreciate you so much.
• 34:41
  Speaker 9: We love you man, thank you for everything.
• 34:42
  Speaker 1: It's Wayne d It's all things Cmas. And here's the deal.
• 34:45
  Speaker 1: Russell Diggerson was coming. We're pushing him aside because DASA
• 34:48
  Speaker 1: has one of the biggest songs of the year. So
• 34:50
  Speaker 1: Russell Digerson gonna have to wait to say that. Tell
• 34:53
  Speaker 1: me how nuts this success of this song was because
• 34:55
  Speaker 1: it had to outperform anything you could have, even yeah,
• 34:59
  Speaker 1: are you getting me?
• 35:00
  Speaker 7: Hit a billion streams overall, a billion a year in
• 35:03
  Speaker 7: less than a year.
• 35:03
  Speaker 1: It's just like, oh God, I don't even know what's
• 35:05
  Speaker 1: going on.
• 35:06
  Speaker 7: Like I feel so blessed to have this song and
• 35:08
  Speaker 7: what it did, and like how country music in general
• 35:11
  Speaker 7: just opened their arms to me and like really helped
• 35:13
  Speaker 7: pour fuel on this fire.
• 35:15
  Speaker 1: You say country music, but this song has gotten so big.
• 35:17
  Speaker 1: I think there's a kids bop version already.
• 35:19
  Speaker 7: It's in fortnite. We toured the world with this song. Yeah,
• 35:23
  Speaker 7: it's in Fortnite.
• 35:24
  Speaker 1: That's got Fortnite takes care of you, right, Yeah, they'll
• 35:28
  Speaker 1: take care of you. But let me ask at any
• 35:31
  Speaker 1: point where you like, because any song that is massively
• 35:33
  Speaker 1: successful and becomes an earworm, at some point you're like,
• 35:36
  Speaker 1: oh god, this song is everywhere? Yeah, do you feel
• 35:39
  Speaker 1: that way as the artist? Are you?
• 35:40
  Speaker 20: Just?
• 35:42
  Speaker 7: Honestly, I'm so grateful for it and like seeing people's
• 35:44
  Speaker 7: reactions and how the excited they are when they hear it.
• 35:47
  Speaker 7: I'm like, oh, it like gets me excited even more.
• 35:49
  Speaker 7: I feel like every time I listen to Austin or
• 35:51
  Speaker 7: perform it, I hear like another lyric or like a
• 35:53
  Speaker 7: little thing I did, I'm like I forgot I did that,
• 35:55
  Speaker 7: Like that's clever, or like, damn, that's.
• 35:57
  Speaker 1: Catchy, and I'm like, okay, So let me ask what
• 36:00
  Speaker 1: type of pressure do you put on yourself to follow up?
• 36:03
  Speaker 1: Because it's the most ever.
• 36:05
  Speaker 7: I mean, I'm there's so much new music that I'm
• 36:08
  Speaker 7: working right now that I'm so proud of and it's
• 36:12
  Speaker 7: hard because it's really catchy and it's my favorite stuff ever.
• 36:15
  Speaker 7: And I also have a hit song, a global hit
• 36:18
  Speaker 7: song that I have to follow up, so it's like, well,
• 36:20
  Speaker 7: it's not just on the song, it's on the whole
• 36:22
  Speaker 7: team to step it up.
• 36:23
  Speaker 1: So collaborations are red hot in country music right now
• 36:27
  Speaker 1: as you're creating new music. Are there any names that
• 36:29
  Speaker 1: you are trying to connect with that you can share?
• 36:33
  Speaker 5: I can share.
• 36:34
  Speaker 7: I'll share some that are like I would love to
• 36:37
  Speaker 7: do a song with Casey Musgraves.
• 36:39
  Speaker 5: I think she She's one of the reasons.
• 36:40
  Speaker 7: I write the way I write, honestly, so I like
• 36:43
  Speaker 7: admire her so much for that, So I think doing
• 36:45
  Speaker 7: a song with her would be amazing. Maybe even a
• 36:47
  Speaker 7: song with Thomas htt We're gonna be on tour together,
• 36:49
  Speaker 7: so we'll see.
• 36:50
  Speaker 1: We're gonna put that on the universe right there. Maybe. Hey, Dasha,
• 36:54
  Speaker 1: thank you so much appreciation.
• 36:55
  Speaker 5: Thanks for having me.
• 36:56
  Speaker 1: We're hanging out all things CMA Awards with Drew Baldridge's
• 37:00
  Speaker 1: and man, life is nuts for you. Life is crazy
• 37:03
  Speaker 1: because a couple of years ago you were like, what
• 37:05
  Speaker 1: am I gonna do?
• 37:06
  Speaker 21: Yeah, yeah, one hundred percent, And this this year has
• 37:09
  Speaker 21: been so wild for us, and you know, to think
• 37:12
  Speaker 21: a year ago, I was just trying to be a
• 37:14
  Speaker 21: part of CMA awards any any way possible, and you know,
• 37:19
  Speaker 21: begging to be on radio stations, begging to be on tours,
• 37:23
  Speaker 21: just trying to get my music hurt anyway possible, being
• 37:25
  Speaker 21: an independent artist totally, no manager, no agent, no nothing,
• 37:29
  Speaker 21: just being by ourselves. And you know, this year has
• 37:31
  Speaker 21: been so monumental to have our first number one and
• 37:34
  Speaker 21: to think, you know, we get to come into my
• 37:36
  Speaker 21: first ever CMA Awards with an actual hit. You know,
• 37:38
  Speaker 21: most of the time, I'm just like sneaking in, right.
• 37:42
  Speaker 1: Like walking in with a guards can work. Yeah, And
• 37:46
  Speaker 1: I know you so I can ask this question as
• 37:48
  Speaker 1: brutally as it sounds, but I mean it with the
• 37:51
  Speaker 1: best intention. How does it feel to go from losing label,
• 37:56
  Speaker 1: label and all that right representation on that side and
• 38:00
  Speaker 1: then to turn things around where they're calling you to
• 38:02
  Speaker 1: be like, hey want to work together? Yes, man, because
• 38:06
  Speaker 1: it because give yourself credit. I hope you do because
• 38:09
  Speaker 1: you did that.
• 38:09
  Speaker 21: Oh man, well thanks thanks for saying that, buddy. It
• 38:12
  Speaker 21: has been a it's been a whirlwind of feelings, you know,
• 38:16
  Speaker 21: of like I told you you know a little bit
• 38:18
  Speaker 21: of that. I told you so, you know, but no,
• 38:22
  Speaker 21: it's just also just been like also scary, and a
• 38:25
  Speaker 21: lot of pressure on the other side of I just
• 38:27
  Speaker 21: don't want it to go away again. So I feel
• 38:29
  Speaker 21: a lot of weight of making sure I'm doing everything
• 38:32
  Speaker 21: right where you know, I don't lose that again, I
• 38:35
  Speaker 21: don't lose the opportunities that I'm getting, and I want
• 38:37
  Speaker 21: to just make sure I'm putting out great music and
• 38:39
  Speaker 21: music that's touching people's hearts, that actually makes an impact.
• 38:42
  Speaker 21: And so yeah, there's there's a little both sides, a
• 38:45
  Speaker 21: little bit of like I knew we could do this.
• 38:47
  Speaker 21: It's it's so much rewarding, just like anybody in life
• 38:50
  Speaker 21: out there, no matter what you're doing, whatever your job is,
• 38:53
  Speaker 21: if you do it by yourself and you win, the
• 38:56
  Speaker 21: reward is bigger than having somebody else do it for you.
• 38:59
  Speaker 21: And so I feel this reward of like, man, I
• 39:03
  Speaker 21: really did that. We had our first number one, We
• 39:05
  Speaker 21: did it independently, nobody's done it before, and so there
• 39:08
  Speaker 21: is a big, a big like, wow, I knew we
• 39:11
  Speaker 21: could do this, you know, so so but a lot
• 39:14
  Speaker 21: of pressure also.
• 39:15
  Speaker 1: I'm glad it worked out too, because as much as
• 39:17
  Speaker 1: I appreciate you, you ain't pretty enough for OnlyFans. This
• 39:20
  Speaker 1: country thing worked out. I love it last thing. Do
• 39:24
  Speaker 1: you feel pressure now with the follow up single and
• 39:26
  Speaker 1: whatever music you were focusing on now after this?
• 39:29
  Speaker 21: Yeah, I definitely. Did you know when we got top
• 39:31
  Speaker 21: fifteen was She's Somebody's daughter. Everybody in radio and everybody's like,
• 39:35
  Speaker 21: what's next, What's next?
• 39:35
  Speaker 2: What's next?
• 39:36
  Speaker 21: And I had this song tough People that I really
• 39:39
  Speaker 21: love that we just put out a couple of weeks ago.
• 39:41
  Speaker 21: And that was a whirlwind song to get because I
• 39:44
  Speaker 21: recorded it in December and then Luke Combs recorded it
• 39:48
  Speaker 21: in January and I got to sit in and watch
• 39:51
  Speaker 21: him record it. There was talks of Laney being on
• 39:53
  Speaker 21: it with him. Laney was over at my house. She
• 39:55
  Speaker 21: loved the song. Luke asked to be on it, and
• 39:58
  Speaker 21: then life happens.
• 39:59
  Speaker 2: You know.
• 39:59
  Speaker 21: They had albums put out. He put out a Father's
• 40:02
  Speaker 21: Day album, He had the Twister song. And I'm sitting
• 40:05
  Speaker 21: over here like waiting on my next single, and this
• 40:07
  Speaker 21: is my favorite one. You know, I'm sitting on my
• 40:09
  Speaker 21: favorite song. So I just call him say, hey, man,
• 40:13
  Speaker 21: I don't know what you're doing. This is my follow up.
• 40:15
  Speaker 21: It has to be the best song I've ever put out,
• 40:16
  Speaker 21: and this is it. Like, if you want to do it,
• 40:18
  Speaker 21: it's great. But if you know, if you're in limbo
• 40:20
  Speaker 21: and you don't know when your next album is like,
• 40:22
  Speaker 21: let me know. And he hit me right back. He's
• 40:24
  Speaker 21: just like, man, you wrote the song, you should sing it.
• 40:27
  Speaker 21: And so that was really really cool of him. And
• 40:29
  Speaker 21: now you know, it took me five months for She's
• 40:32
  Speaker 21: Somebody's Daughter to chart, and this song charted in the
• 40:34
  Speaker 21: first week, which is crazy to think about, and it's
• 40:37
  Speaker 21: climbing faster at radio than I've ever had anything do that.
• 40:40
  Speaker 1: By the way, when you're doing an interview with somebody
• 40:42
  Speaker 1: and they use the word charted, you kind of have
• 40:43
  Speaker 1: to do a double take. Oh totally totally, Drew Bald,
• 40:48
  Speaker 1: thanks for coming back. Thanks, I appreciate you. Man. Amazing
• 40:52
  Speaker 1: it's Wayne d CMA Awards are here. This season has
• 40:55
  Speaker 1: officially kicked off, and my man, Dylan Marlowe is all
• 40:58
  Speaker 1: in it deeper than ever, man, because you got a
• 41:00
  Speaker 1: big old song on country radios.
• 41:02
  Speaker 5: Hey, such a blessed dude.
• 41:03
  Speaker 1: I gotta ask because you're somebody who has written a
• 41:06
  Speaker 1: lot of songs leading up to this moment, and you've
• 41:09
  Speaker 1: written for other people as well. Before we ever knew
• 41:12
  Speaker 1: your name, right, Yeah, what are some of those right
• 41:14
  Speaker 1: stories that kind of turned you into like, hey, I'm
• 41:16
  Speaker 1: hanging out to these ones for me?
• 41:18
  Speaker 19: Yeah, probably just having to like take a leave of
• 41:22
  Speaker 19: faith in my own career and say, you know, I
• 41:24
  Speaker 19: could keep pitching these songs to other people. And I
• 41:26
  Speaker 19: always I never intended on writing songs for anybody else.
• 41:29
  Speaker 19: It just kind of they started finding their homes and
• 41:32
  Speaker 19: uh so I kind of had to be like, all right,
• 41:33
  Speaker 19: I'm keeping this one, you know. I think we were
• 41:36
  Speaker 19: about to pitch Boys back Home even and I was like,
• 41:38
  Speaker 19: now we just need to I'm gonna keep this one,
• 41:40
  Speaker 19: and thankfully I did kind of taught me a good lesson.
• 41:43
  Speaker 1: So let me ask you this because it feels like
• 41:46
  Speaker 1: an anthem song, which we talked about before. Yeah, was
• 41:49
  Speaker 1: it like, hey, this is the single? Like there was
• 41:52
  Speaker 1: no there was no other competition.
• 41:55
  Speaker 19: I mean, we had a song out called Record High, uh,
• 41:58
  Speaker 19: and we were going to go radio with that, and
• 42:00
  Speaker 19: at the last second we didn't, and so we were
• 42:03
  Speaker 19: kind of just you know what's next, and Boys back
• 42:06
  Speaker 19: Home was ready to go because we were gonna put
• 42:09
  Speaker 19: it out a little earlier. But Dylan had a record
• 42:11
  Speaker 19: coming out, and so it just didn't make sense to
• 42:13
  Speaker 19: put one out with his record coming out, and.
• 42:15
  Speaker 5: So, you know, a few months after that sounded like shay.
• 42:19
  Speaker 1: Yeah, god forbid, we'll do interviews here and they're on
• 42:22
  Speaker 1: I think they're singing on Broadway from lunch Money right now,
• 42:25
  Speaker 1: and yeah, it just.
• 42:27
  Speaker 19: We we posted about it on TikTok and kind of
• 42:30
  Speaker 19: blew up on there, which is I try not to
• 42:33
  Speaker 19: really get on there too much, but I'm not mad
• 42:35
  Speaker 19: about it.
• 42:35
  Speaker 5: And uh, then we were like, hey, this has definitely got.
• 42:37
  Speaker 1: To be the one. So so what are the CMA
• 42:40
  Speaker 1: Awards like this time around for you? Obviously the big
• 42:42
  Speaker 1: show is Wednesday, but what's what's the scene like for
• 42:44
  Speaker 1: you that life is now, that life is literally completely different,
• 42:48
  Speaker 1: uh from a year ago?
• 42:49
  Speaker 19: Yeah, I mean, I don't know. I'm about to find out.
• 42:52
  Speaker 19: This is my first one. So I just learned that you.
• 42:55
  Speaker 19: Somebody was like, what are you? Who are you going
• 42:57
  Speaker 19: to talk to? Who are you looking forward to talking
• 42:58
  Speaker 19: to during the commercial break? And I was like, do
• 43:01
  Speaker 19: you talked during the commercial break? So like, yeah, you
• 43:03
  Speaker 19: get up and talk to somebody. And I was like, oh,
• 43:04
  Speaker 19: I don't know. I didn't know.
• 43:06
  Speaker 1: That I went last year, my daughter went with me
• 43:08
  Speaker 1: and Matthew Ramsey from Old Dominion walk by and she
• 43:11
  Speaker 1: goes and then the Golden Bachelor guy. I guess I'm
• 43:14
  Speaker 1: not huh, so there's it's like Bachelor for old guys.
• 43:18
  Speaker 1: So but she was like, oh, and so there's some
• 43:22
  Speaker 1: of that. Yeah, So who do you hope to talk
• 43:24
  Speaker 1: to during the commercial.
• 43:25
  Speaker 5: During the commercial break?
• 43:27
  Speaker 19: If Eric Church walked by, I would definitely like probably
• 43:29
  Speaker 19: talk to him.
• 43:30
  Speaker 1: He's gonna be here in a little bit, is he.
• 43:31
  Speaker 1: I'm gonna record that whole thing. God dude, he's my
• 43:34
  Speaker 1: like be do something awkward, be memorable.
• 43:38
  Speaker 19: When I see Yeah, I feel like that's the only
• 43:41
  Speaker 19: person I would kind of like be like, oh crap,
• 43:43
  Speaker 19: that's that's Eric Church. Like most people, I don't really care,
• 43:46
  Speaker 19: Like I don't really gets other.
• 43:49
  Speaker 5: Than you and probably Eric Church.
• 43:51
  Speaker 19: But that's just like, you know, when I got into
• 43:55
  Speaker 19: country music and started listening to the way he wrote songs, like,
• 43:58
  Speaker 19: I feel like I had this meter in my head
• 43:59
  Speaker 19: now for when I cut a song, I'm like, dang,
• 44:02
  Speaker 19: what would not like would Air Church cut this?
• 44:04
  Speaker 5: Because his Thingk's completely different?
• 44:05
  Speaker 19: But like I have this like par now just from
• 44:08
  Speaker 19: listening to all his stuff, like Okay, it's got to
• 44:09
  Speaker 19: at least make me feel like this for me to
• 44:11
  Speaker 19: put the song out so like, I feel like I
• 44:14
  Speaker 19: all that to him.
• 44:14
  Speaker 1: So let's get it. Well, I'm we're putting it in
• 44:17
  Speaker 1: the universe that Dyla Marl is about to run an
• 44:19
  Speaker 1: our church shortly here. Let's get I get good to
• 44:21
  Speaker 1: see it. Brother, you too, bro CMA's are here and
• 44:25
  Speaker 1: you can't celebrate dang find country music without Chris Jansen.
• 44:28
  Speaker 12: H thank you.
• 44:30
  Speaker 1: How's life? You're making some great music right now. I
• 44:32
  Speaker 1: mean you always are.
• 44:33
  Speaker 17: Thank you dude. Well, what you see is what you
• 44:35
  Speaker 17: get's doing good. We're thankful for that. It's in the
• 44:37
  Speaker 17: twenties on the chart. I also just released a new
• 44:39
  Speaker 17: single that's people are loving man. They like I can't
• 44:42
  Speaker 17: believe how much love is coming off of it. With
• 44:45
  Speaker 17: cheap time makes money look cheap. We've talked about this
• 44:47
  Speaker 17: multiple times on and off record, like you can't buy
• 44:50
  Speaker 17: back the time, man, you can't buy the memories. And
• 44:53
  Speaker 17: as you know, well, I'm that kind of guy and
• 44:55
  Speaker 17: that kind of husband and father and man, and so
• 44:59
  Speaker 17: I'm proud of that. And I didn't even tell you this,
• 45:01
  Speaker 17: I don't think but I cut Christmas in Dixie because
• 45:04
  Speaker 17: we needed a Christmas song.
• 45:05
  Speaker 12: I want to do it Christmas EP.
• 45:07
  Speaker 17: I wanted to package the last couple of years of
• 45:08
  Speaker 17: my Christmas songs together, and so I cut the song.
• 45:12
  Speaker 1: We love it.
• 45:12
  Speaker 17: We cuted the cabin in the country and then we
• 45:15
  Speaker 17: were trigger treating and I said, Kelly, I'm.
• 45:18
  Speaker 12: Gonna call Randio and she was like, yeah, I do it.
• 45:20
  Speaker 12: So I called him.
• 45:21
  Speaker 17: I said, hey, Randy, I'd love for you to join
• 45:23
  Speaker 17: me on this. He was trigger treating with his grandkid's
• 45:25
  Speaker 17: so awesome, and he called Teddy that is Alabama, and
• 45:28
  Speaker 17: I said, I want you guys to join me.
• 45:30
  Speaker 12: Not a collaboration, but like a duet.
• 45:31
  Speaker 17: I really do it, and they were so gracious and
• 45:35
  Speaker 17: so that was on Friday. Then they recorded on Monday,
• 45:38
  Speaker 17: and we recorded a video and it comes out November
• 45:41
  Speaker 17: twenty second next week, and I'm super stoked about it. Man,
• 45:43
  Speaker 17: I gotta tell you, it's one of my favorite things
• 45:46
  Speaker 17: I've ever done. And it sounds I mean, I'm not
• 45:48
  Speaker 17: to brag on myself, but they sound amazing.
• 45:51
  Speaker 1: That's awesome, man. I can't wait to hear it. Thank you.
• 45:53
  Speaker 1: You are not a guy who has and I don't
• 45:55
  Speaker 1: want to say you're rushing music out but you've never
• 45:57
  Speaker 1: rushed music out there. No, never know. But there's something
• 45:59
  Speaker 1: real that has you putting out Yeah, like.
• 46:03
  Speaker 12: I feel like it. I just feel like I don't know, man.
• 46:06
  Speaker 12: I well, I just uh.
• 46:07
  Speaker 17: I went through a little bit of a hiatus, Like
• 46:09
  Speaker 17: I wrote really hard for the record with All I
• 46:11
  Speaker 17: Need is You, What you see is what you get,
• 46:13
  Speaker 17: those kind of things, and it's like.
• 46:16
  Speaker 12: I just got back in songwriting mode.
• 46:18
  Speaker 17: I mean Mitch Oglesby, one of my the collaborator who
• 46:21
  Speaker 17: I wrote Done with, who I wrote All I Need
• 46:22
  Speaker 17: Is You with, whoever read Nick Life with, who wrote
• 46:24
  Speaker 17: Country On for Luke and so many other hits. One
• 46:27
  Speaker 17: of my best buddies in life. He was like, CJ,
• 46:30
  Speaker 17: you got it. We got to get to work, man,
• 46:31
  Speaker 17: we got to get to work. And you know me,
• 46:33
  Speaker 17: it's like like pulling tea sometimes said I'm touring all
• 46:37
  Speaker 17: the time and I want to do it, and then
• 46:39
  Speaker 17: I finally just did it and I gave in.
• 46:41
  Speaker 12: And that's how I am.
• 46:42
  Speaker 17: Whenever I get drug into songwriting. Right in one of
• 46:46
  Speaker 17: those brief moments, I don't feel like doing it, which
• 46:48
  Speaker 17: sounds so pitiful, but then I'm like full fledged in.
• 46:52
  Speaker 17: It's like cigars and me. You know, it's like I
• 46:54
  Speaker 17: quit Mountain Dew and then I go extra hard on cigars.
• 46:58
  Speaker 17: So with songwriting, man, I've just been cranking songs seit.
• 47:00
  Speaker 17: I've written like I don't know, I've written like twenty
• 47:02
  Speaker 17: new songs in the last month.
• 47:04
  Speaker 12: Yeah, and uh, and.
• 47:06
  Speaker 17: So I just wanted to start putting them out and
• 47:08
  Speaker 17: that's it, and like you can do that now.
• 47:09
  Speaker 12: So that's that's what we're doing.
• 47:11
  Speaker 1: Well, we're loving it. And she was fantastic and obviously
• 47:14
  Speaker 1: what you see is what you get. Finally took a minute,
• 47:16
  Speaker 1: but here we go. Everybody's finally catching up. Yeah to
• 47:20
  Speaker 1: the big old song again.
• 47:21
  Speaker 17: Well, I appreciate that, thank you, and uh, I appreciate
• 47:24
  Speaker 17: all the support. I mean that's personally thank you. And uh,
• 47:27
  Speaker 17: you know, hey, man, iheart's been good to me.
• 47:28
  Speaker 12: I'm an I heeart guy. From the very beginning. Let's
• 47:30
  Speaker 12: not forget that I wasn't on the verge.
• 47:32
  Speaker 20: Guy.
• 47:32
  Speaker 17: I wasn't on the verge. Guy before on the verge
• 47:34
  Speaker 17: was a thing, and uh, and then I was on
• 47:36
  Speaker 17: the verge. You know with boat and and uh so,
• 47:39
  Speaker 17: like you know, without iheartman's support, I wouldn't be where
• 47:42
  Speaker 17: I'm at. And I recognize it, and I appreciate it,
• 47:44
  Speaker 17: always will appreciate it, always have and and uh, you're right,
• 47:47
  Speaker 17: some things take a minute. But once they start hitting
• 47:50
  Speaker 17: their stride, they start hitting their stride and we're hitting
• 47:52
  Speaker 17: our stride.
• 47:53
  Speaker 12: So I'm I'm happy.
• 47:54
  Speaker 1: Christians is hanging. I appreciate you, brother, I appreciate you.
• 47:57
  Speaker 1: Man the man of the hour. He's back doing the
• 47:59
  Speaker 1: dang thing. It's Wayne d you hanging with Luke Bryant
• 48:01
  Speaker 1: all things cmas. Is it going to be weird for
• 48:03
  Speaker 1: you one day when this show is happening and you're
• 48:05
  Speaker 1: not there?
• 48:07
  Speaker 21: Well, uh, you know, yeah, I mean it's all I
• 48:10
  Speaker 21: often think about if I'm not judging idle and if
• 48:13
  Speaker 21: I'm not, I don't know.
• 48:16
  Speaker 12: It's it's uh you you.
• 48:18
  Speaker 21: Fall in love with with being a part of this,
• 48:20
  Speaker 21: and because as a kid, you know, I dreamed.
• 48:23
  Speaker 12: Of being in these situations where.
• 48:27
  Speaker 21: To have been even at the CMA's and then to
• 48:29
  Speaker 21: win a CMA and then to host it and all that.
• 48:31
  Speaker 21: So it's just pretty wild that this has become my reality.
• 48:38
  Speaker 21: And uh so, yeah, I think if I'm ever at
• 48:40
  Speaker 21: home and other people are hosting, uh, it'll you know, it'll,
• 48:44
  Speaker 21: but it won't be you know. I think I won't
• 48:46
  Speaker 21: be bitter about stuff. I don't want to be the
• 48:48
  Speaker 21: old bitter person that's mad because things are the way
• 48:52
  Speaker 21: they not, you know what I'm saying. I don't want
• 48:55
  Speaker 21: to ever get in that spot. I mean, I'll probably
• 48:56
  Speaker 21: be in a deer stand. I'd have to watch it
• 48:59
  Speaker 21: from a deer stand.
• 49:00
  Speaker 1: So, uh, last thing I want to ask is award
• 49:02
  Speaker 1: show related? You know what it's like to be nominating,
• 49:05
  Speaker 1: know what it's like to win, you know what it's
• 49:06
  Speaker 1: like to have number ones in salad arenas, but in
• 49:08
  Speaker 1: that host seat. What's something you've been able to appreciate
• 49:11
  Speaker 1: about the award show process that as an artist you
• 49:14
  Speaker 1: you would have never known about.
• 49:16
  Speaker 21: Well, what's great about it is when you when you
• 49:20
  Speaker 21: have artists that are backstage and these are the these
• 49:25
  Speaker 21: are the inner workings of their biggest moments ever. And
• 49:28
  Speaker 21: I get to be back there as they go out
• 49:31
  Speaker 21: on stage and and you know, you got your people
• 49:34
  Speaker 21: like me. Now, it's like I walk out there, I'm comfortable.
• 49:37
  Speaker 21: I do my songs. But then when you see younger accent,
• 49:40
  Speaker 21: this is their first biggest moment. I mean I remember
• 49:45
  Speaker 21: when I was asked to like present my first award,
• 49:48
  Speaker 21: just presenting, I was freaking out. So when when you
• 49:51
  Speaker 21: can watch these people really working hard to take their
• 49:56
  Speaker 21: career to another level, it's pretty special. In the CMA
• 49:58
  Speaker 21: Awards is a big moment to do that.
• 50:01
  Speaker 1: It's awesome. Luke Bryan, thank you man and c MA
• 50:03
  Speaker 1: Matt continues, Wayne d and the one and only Luke Combs.
• 50:06
  Speaker 1: So I gotta ask you we could talk music and
• 50:10
  Speaker 1: I respect the music, and yeah, nothing but bangers is
• 50:13
  Speaker 1: what I'm gonna say. Maybe maybe that's an album name.
• 50:16
  Speaker 1: Moving forward, Uh, hit me with the bar because we
• 50:20
  Speaker 1: haven't caught up since the bar opened. How are you
• 50:22
  Speaker 1: feeling now that it's wide open and fans are wrong?
• 50:24
  Speaker 11: Oh?
• 50:24
  Speaker 2: Man, it's great.
• 50:25
  Speaker 22: The reception has been really, really good.
• 50:28
  Speaker 11: You know.
• 50:28
  Speaker 22: I think people were like, oh, you're gonna take the
• 50:30
  Speaker 22: dance floor out of the you know, and it's like, no,
• 50:32
  Speaker 22: we're not doing that. It it turned out really well.
• 50:36
  Speaker 22: The food one of my favorite parts for sure. The
• 50:39
  Speaker 22: wings are insane. I love the wings, but it's just
• 50:42
  Speaker 22: goodbyes Man. It's really well done, you know, Rhyme and Group,
• 50:46
  Speaker 22: all those folks, and they just crush everything they do.
• 50:48
  Speaker 22: So I'm just proud to have an awesome partner in them.
• 50:51
  Speaker 1: Is it something that you want to turn into a
• 50:53
  Speaker 1: home musically at some point where maybe maybe I would
• 50:56
  Speaker 1: love a handful of shows.
• 50:57
  Speaker 22: I would love to do something like that in future,
• 50:59
  Speaker 22: you know, whenever that. Whenever that happens, you know, I'll
• 51:02
  Speaker 22: be excited to do it there for sure.
• 51:04
  Speaker 1: Good deal. Cmas are here? Something you look forward to
• 51:06
  Speaker 1: anytime this time of year?
• 51:07
  Speaker 2: Is man?
• 51:08
  Speaker 22: I feel like just seeing people you don't get to
• 51:09
  Speaker 22: see a lot, you know, whether that's you guys and
• 51:12
  Speaker 22: radio or artists and commercial breaks at the show. It's like,
• 51:15
  Speaker 22: you know, we don't really all get to spend any
• 51:17
  Speaker 22: considerable amount of time together, so it's nice to be
• 51:19
  Speaker 22: able to have everyone in one location and be able
• 51:22
  Speaker 22: to catch up.
• 51:22
  Speaker 1: Man, congratulations on everything that. Thank you, I appreciate it. Guys,
• 51:25
  Speaker 1: take a picture, hang it out with Mitchell tenpenny. Uh, listen,
• 51:31
  Speaker 1: have you let it sink in? I know this is
• 51:33
  Speaker 1: like the most asked question of the whole dang thing.
• 51:35
  Speaker 14: Yeah, I no, Sorry, I thought you were talking about
• 51:38
  Speaker 14: something else. Have you let it sink in that we're
• 51:41
  Speaker 14: here but getting no, it's a man, It truly is
• 51:44
  Speaker 14: an honor. I don't think it'll hit me t im
• 51:46
  Speaker 14: walking the carpets, seen all, seeing everybody. It's I've never
• 51:49
  Speaker 14: been nominated for sing of a It's it truly is
• 51:53
  Speaker 14: an honor to be acknowledged by your peers, like this
• 51:55
  Speaker 14: is the biggest night for country music, and so I'm
• 51:58
  Speaker 14: very excited to be a part of it.
• 51:59
  Speaker 1: He as somebody who loves and respects you for you
• 52:02
  Speaker 1: and your work.
• 52:03
  Speaker 2: Thank you.
• 52:03
  Speaker 1: I will say, what the hell took so long? But
• 52:06
  Speaker 1: it's fine, man, I'll take it man.
• 52:09
  Speaker 14: And again, yeah, I know I'm not the newest of
• 52:11
  Speaker 14: new artists in the world, but it just takes a
• 52:14
  Speaker 14: while sometimes. And again, I'm just honored to be acknowledged.
• 52:17
  Speaker 1: That's a take me through that process. Anything that takes
• 52:21
  Speaker 1: time is frustrating, because, especially in twenty twenty four, the
• 52:24
  Speaker 1: world is a give it to me now world, Yes
• 52:27
  Speaker 1: it is. How do you keep yourself like now, I'm
• 52:29
  Speaker 1: doing the right thing and it'll happen.
• 52:30
  Speaker 14: Man, To be honest, it's been playing shows, playing live
• 52:33
  Speaker 14: shows and hearing people doing me and greets, having people
• 52:37
  Speaker 14: come up and tell you their stories how your music's
• 52:41
  Speaker 14: affected them. Hearing people singing back songs, just talking to
• 52:44
  Speaker 14: the real world and not this thing right here.
• 52:47
  Speaker 1: It's very healthy.
• 52:48
  Speaker 14: I'm trying to get out of this thing and get
• 52:50
  Speaker 14: to people, and that's been a blessing this year to
• 52:52
  Speaker 14: get to do that and to really hear real stories
• 52:54
  Speaker 14: and see what's actually going on in seat of this
• 52:57
  Speaker 14: stuff that's not real.
• 52:58
  Speaker 1: Listen, we are coming up on Thanksgiving. Let me ask you, Uh,
• 53:02
  Speaker 1: there is a healthy debate between Tay Hamilton and myself. Okay,
• 53:07
  Speaker 1: she says stuffing is the best side, and I feel
• 53:09
  Speaker 1: like that's the Walmart answer. That's like generic, that's like
• 53:14
  Speaker 1: let me get let me get you like vanilla. I
• 53:15
  Speaker 1: scream too. No, it's sweet potato casserole. Sweet potatoes are
• 53:20
  Speaker 1: my jam.
• 53:21
  Speaker 14: I'm not a sweet potato or a stuffing. I'm sorry,
• 53:23
  Speaker 14: what's wrong with you? It's mac and cheese that's the best.
• 53:27
  Speaker 1: But let me ask, is this like a family recipe?
• 53:29
  Speaker 14: Are you just saying like, yeah, my aunt makes up
• 53:32
  Speaker 14: She'll bake rich crackers over the top of it, give
• 53:34
  Speaker 14: a little texture, but all the cheeses, like five cheeses.
• 53:37
  Speaker 1: It's nuts.
• 53:38
  Speaker 14: But I'm not. I my family and my brother everyone
• 53:41
  Speaker 14: loves stuffing. But I've never been a.
• 53:43
  Speaker 1: Sweet potato guy. I don't know why.
• 53:45
  Speaker 14: I don't know why I love I love regular potatoes
• 53:47
  Speaker 14: with salt and butter.
• 53:48
  Speaker 1: The wild thing is, I'm like mildly offended, and I
• 53:51
  Speaker 1: don't know why. I'm he never had them, or you
• 53:55
  Speaker 1: just don't like them.
• 53:56
  Speaker 14: I'm man, I I just don't like the French fries.
• 53:57
  Speaker 14: Maybe I need to just do the I don't think
• 53:59
  Speaker 14: I've ever actually eating like.
• 54:02
  Speaker 1: No, like you. You cut them up and then you
• 54:04
  Speaker 1: put marshmallows over him and then bake.
• 54:06
  Speaker 14: Well, see, now that's interesting.
• 54:07
  Speaker 2: I've never done that.
• 54:09
  Speaker 1: We're gonna hook that up. I'm coming over for thanks again.
• 54:11
  Speaker 1: That's really the whole point of this. Sounds right here,
• 54:16
  Speaker 1: and he enjoy the c m A. I was gonna
• 54:19
  Speaker 1: say weekend. We're so used to saying weekend. I don't
• 54:21
  Speaker 1: think it's ever been on a weekend. Enjoy the CMA, run, brother,
• 54:24
  Speaker 1: because you definitely deserve it. You