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Speaker 1: It fits in with her with Kate Richie podcast.

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Speaker 2: I think fits I think we have got him. We

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Speaker 2: tracked him down. Oh is that the mate? You know what?

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Speaker 2: You know what really gets me down? Morgan? And you know,

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Speaker 2: I started.

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Speaker 3: Losing my hair at the age of about twenty seven,

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Speaker 3: twenty eight, and sometimes I look at you and I go,

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Speaker 3: I wish he will go through that one day, so

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Speaker 3: he knows, you know, the pain.

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Speaker 2: Morgan.

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Speaker 4: Well, thanks, I appreciate the good advice there to kick

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Speaker 4: this off.

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Speaker 2: Really no, but it's exceptional hair, it is.

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Speaker 3: And he's so smiling because obviously it's not genetic.

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Speaker 2: He knows it's never going to happen to him.

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Speaker 5: Morgan, Where are you right now? We've got you on

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Speaker 5: zoom on the studio. Is that your place overseas or yeah?

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Speaker 4: This is most pot in Nashville?

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Speaker 5: Yeah, oh my god. Can you explain what Nashville is

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Speaker 5: like to me? It's sort of a music wonderland where

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Speaker 5: everybody gets and there's bars and bands, you know, twenty

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Speaker 5: four to seven.

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Speaker 2: Is that what it's like.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, it's kind of. It's definitely become that for everyone.

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Speaker 6: You can come in for the weekend and kind of

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Speaker 6: have like a country music Disneyland experience.

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Speaker 5: How often would you see Keith and Nicole floating around there?

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Speaker 6: Last time I saw them was at an Awards show

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Speaker 6: sometime so maybe at the end of last year, but

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Speaker 6: they were out, they lived somewhere and within a few

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Speaker 6: miles off year.

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Speaker 2: Have you jammed with Keith kind of?

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Speaker 6: We did this thing during during COVID where we went

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Speaker 6: into the Grand Old Opry and just played acoustically on stage.

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Speaker 4: And so we played along.

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Speaker 2: He's one of the best guitarists in the world, isn't

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Speaker 2: he Keith here?

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Speaker 3: But and I mean we talk about his voice, but

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Speaker 3: his guitar skills are exceptional.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, he's unreal.

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Speaker 6: I actually just kind of discovered him through his guitar playing.

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Speaker 6: I was just learning to play myself, and I thought, now,

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Speaker 6: one day I'm going to go to Nashville. I'm going

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Speaker 6: to learn how to play like that. And now I'm

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Speaker 6: in Nashville, I still look at him play and I

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Speaker 6: think I'm going to learn how to play like that.

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Speaker 2: What were some of the first songs that you learned

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Speaker 2: to play.

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Speaker 4: I was obsessed with The Living End's first record.

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Speaker 6: That might have been the first eleven songs that I

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Speaker 6: learned or that I tried to learn how to play.

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Speaker 5: What about a name, like if some of your first

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Speaker 5: earlier bands mates from all what were you guys called?

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Speaker 6: My first band was called Extortion O Get the Money.

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Speaker 4: That's pretty hardcore.

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Speaker 2: We've played.

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Speaker 7: We've played everything from like rap metal to like jazz

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Speaker 7: to country, like surf punk. I think the first song

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Speaker 7: we ever played we were so punk that we covered

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Speaker 7: a local punk band song.

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Speaker 5: That's that's how did it go for the ladies when

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Speaker 5: you met a girl and said, yeah, I'm in a

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Speaker 5: band called an extortion.

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Speaker 6: Yeah, the age of thirteen really really killing it mate.

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Speaker 3: We're so excited because you're coming back to Australia. It's

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Speaker 3: the life upside down to it. You must be pumped, mate,

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Speaker 3: And I know a few years there obviously with pandemic

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Speaker 3: and stuff like that, it was hard to come in

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Speaker 3: and out of the country. Are you excited you're playing

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Speaker 3: some huge venues as well, You're pumped?

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Speaker 4: Yeah, absolutely mate.

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Speaker 6: It's been four years since we got to come down

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Speaker 6: and do actual full shows in Australia and yeah, like

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Speaker 6: you said, a lot of these venues I've wanted to

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Speaker 6: play for a long time. At the Palais in Melbourne.

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Speaker 2: The City Opera House. Yes, I can't believe they're.

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Speaker 6: Letting us in there to play country music that night,

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Speaker 6: but we'll definitely be making the most of it.

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Speaker 4: And we're actually recording a live.

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Speaker 6: Album at that show too at the Cydney Opera House,

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Speaker 6: so that's extra excitement on top.

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Speaker 3: Can you can I ask this question because it is

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Speaker 3: I feel like the well the resurgence of country music

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Speaker 3: at the moment. Morgan Wellen speak on the show, Luke Colmbs,

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Speaker 3: we're playing as well. Frontier is bringing this tour round

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Speaker 3: for you. I've got to make the works at Frontier

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Speaker 3: and he said, mate, it's exploded in demand.

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Speaker 2: Luke Colmbs and Morgan Wellen.

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Speaker 3: The tickets for that is the most sought after ticket

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Speaker 3: in Australia. Did you know that this was coming at

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Speaker 3: some stage? Did you know that it was going to

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Speaker 3: be taking off?

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Speaker 4: Man, I don't know. I just I always loved it.

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Speaker 4: And I will say over the last sort of eight

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Speaker 4: years i've been living over here coming back. Every time

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Speaker 4: I come back to Australia, I hear it more and more.

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Speaker 6: And just the fact that I get to talk to

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Speaker 6: you guys as an indication of that too. It's like

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Speaker 6: a really cool thing, you know, having grown up with

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Speaker 6: country music and seeing explode the way that it is,

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Speaker 6: and especially those two fellows you're talking about.

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Speaker 4: I mean they're massive here as well.

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Speaker 6: Yeah, it's it's there's making some great music and people

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Speaker 6: who have fall in love with it.

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Speaker 3: Just before we go, you know this, this question was

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Speaker 3: coming if you are coming back home? I mean, is

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Speaker 3: there a chance that I don't know, maybe I could

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Speaker 3: pass you or anyone else?

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Speaker 2: Are you single at the moment?

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Speaker 6: I am the love status is completely single and quite

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Speaker 6: enjoying traveling and playing.

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Speaker 5: You know, I couldn't recommend that more because you should

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Speaker 5: not throw love away. That's my thought on it. Love

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Speaker 5: is love and you know, until I'm just advising more

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Speaker 5: advice for as long as possible, especially when on tour.

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Speaker 5: In case you meet.

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Speaker 2: The one case, the one in half your luck Morgan, Well,

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Speaker 2: that's good to know. Pencil that in mate.

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Speaker 3: We're really excited the life upside down to it the

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Speaker 3: Sydney Opera House show.

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Speaker 2: It'll be amazing to see you there, mate.

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Speaker 3: Congratulations and we can't wa to see you back in Australia.

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Speaker 2: Really so thank you.

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Speaker 4: I appreciate that and thanks for your advice too.

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