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Speaker 1: From the Mercedes Benz Interview Lounge.

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Speaker 2: We're so excited Thomas Rhett coming into the studio on

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Speaker 2: a second. His new album, of Course, just came out

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Speaker 2: last night. We're going to play you a couple of

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Speaker 2: cuts because he wants to share the music with you.

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Speaker 2: This is what this guy does. He loves to share

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Speaker 2: his music with you. Of course, the album About a

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Speaker 2: Woman is out right now, and after you hear this interview,

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Speaker 2: if you haven't been a Thomas Rhet fan, you will

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Speaker 2: be a t red fan or as Froggy calls him,

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Speaker 2: my boy t Ratt boy t Rat so funny. Oh, Danielle,

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Speaker 2: you're a massive fan as well.

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Speaker 1: That his music is amazing, right, it's so good.

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Speaker 2: And Gandhi, I mean your boyfriend. One of the first

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Speaker 2: great gestures he gave to you was the gift of music.

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Speaker 2: A Thomas Rhett song.

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Speaker 3: Yes, when we first started dating, he sent me a

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Speaker 3: Thomas rhightt song Look what God gave her and he said,

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Speaker 3: this song reminds me of you, and now I love

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Speaker 3: Thomas Rhett just because of that.

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Speaker 2: Well, we have lost to discuss, of course. He was

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Speaker 2: on the Tonight Show the other night with Jimmy Fallon,

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Speaker 2: I'll just bring him in. I know you're a big fan.

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Speaker 2: Can you let him come in? Please? Hello, Nate's out

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Speaker 2: there hogging up my time with t Red. I don't

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Speaker 2: like that. It's so good to see you have a

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Speaker 2: seat here. You were sitting there and we're on. We're

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Speaker 2: going the interview began without you here. I'm so glad

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Speaker 2: you'll have a mini bottle of ten. We always have

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Speaker 2: to heen sitting around. So Froggy is in Jacksonville, He's

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Speaker 2: looking right at you. What's up, Thomas? How are you

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Speaker 2: good man? Good to see you. Likewise, how's your volume

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Speaker 2: in your headphone? It's perfect? Okay, it would be better

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Speaker 2: if I had a gold microphone. You know. Well, some

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Speaker 2: of us need an ego blast. So this is all

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Speaker 2: I get mine. Welcome to New York City. Thanks d

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Speaker 2: you look great on the Tonight show. There the night

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Speaker 2: you Thank you. It was so fun. Jimmy Fallons is

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Speaker 2: the nicest guy ever.

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Speaker 4: Right, he is the nicest and I've you know, I've

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Speaker 4: hung out with him a couple of times, just like

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Speaker 4: at the tonight show, but I got to really get

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Speaker 4: to know him last night. It was really cool. We

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Speaker 4: talked golf. I'm gonna try to come up here. We're

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Speaker 4: planning a golf trip together, which is really nice. So

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Speaker 4: he's he's the best dude. He's just such a good

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Speaker 4: energy and the whole and just watching the roots that's

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Speaker 4: the most nerve wracking part of playing Fason.

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Speaker 2: Yeah.

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Speaker 4: They are amazing because they're just kind of sitting there

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Speaker 4: looking at you, like impress us, and you're sitting on

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Speaker 4: me and the whole band.

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Speaker 2: Guys are going, we are not as good as you. Guys. Well,

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Speaker 2: here's the thing. I know those guys, and they are impressed.

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Speaker 2: They're so good. So about a woman came out last night. Yeah,

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Speaker 2: and everyone's talking about everyone's buzzing about it. We're gonna

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Speaker 2: play a couple of cuts, Yeah, a couple of seconds.

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Speaker 2: Amazing because you and I was saying this before you

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Speaker 2: came in, you just have this desire to run around

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Speaker 2: and just share your music with whoever's going to listen

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Speaker 2: to it. Yeah, And if you've always been this way,

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Speaker 2: I've always kind of been that way.

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Speaker 4: I love playing songs for people, especially, and I'm excited

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Speaker 4: about it and I have never to be honest, I've

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Speaker 4: never been.

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Speaker 2: This excited about a project. And I don't know why.

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Speaker 4: Maybe it's turning thirty and I care less about what

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Speaker 4: people think. But like, this was the most freeing album

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Speaker 4: to make. I didn't look left, didn't look right, and

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Speaker 4: it was just like if it put a smile on

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Speaker 4: my face, that that was good for me. And so

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Speaker 4: spent the last year and a half making this project

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Speaker 4: and I can't believe that it is finally out in

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Speaker 2: I'm so freaking pumped. Some great things have happened in

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Speaker 2: the music world since last we spoke, which was years ago.

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Speaker 2: There is this convention of thought now about how music

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Speaker 2: is music. Songs are songs, yeah, and to put them

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Speaker 2: in a corral and saying it, well, that's whatever top

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Speaker 2: forty song. Yeah, yeah, that stuff is. Those walls are dissolving,

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Speaker 2: they're yeah, they're dissolving fast. Yeah, because of you. It's

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Speaker 2: because of me. Okay. This album, for instance, right now,

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Speaker 2: it's right now about a woman. There is a lot

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Speaker 2: of different sounds on this music. Sonically, this this album

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Speaker 2: is covering all sorts of territory. Foundational, yeah, for sure.

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Speaker 2: That's how I grew up man. You know, I grew

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Speaker 2: up with a dad that was a country singer. And so,

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Speaker 2: you know, country music was my very first love.

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Speaker 4: I got to tour with him, I got to watch

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Speaker 4: him write songs, got to watch him perform. But dude,

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Speaker 4: I mean I remember vividly driving to school with my

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Speaker 4: dad in like fourth and fifth grade, and every morning

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Speaker 4: it was something different. One morning it'd be DMX, like, which, yeah,

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Speaker 4: I was listen to DMX and fourth.

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Speaker 2: Grade right, all right.

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Speaker 4: One morning it was DMX, one morning it was Aretha Franklin.

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Speaker 4: One more it was bluegrass. One morning it was the

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Speaker 4: Rolling Stones or the Beatles or whatever it was. And

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Speaker 4: so my dad has always just been this walking jukebox. Like, honestly,

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Speaker 4: no one knows more about eighties hair metal than my dad.

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Speaker 4: There you go, wow yeah, Like, and so I think

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Speaker 4: when I started making music, country was always the core,

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Speaker 4: but I loved so many other things, and I always thought, man,

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Speaker 4: of use a little bit of this from this and

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Speaker 4: ever since my second album, I've always kind of taken

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Speaker 4: but also still just staying authentic to my my songwriting roots, and.

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Speaker 2: I was assumed that a lot of traditionalists in the

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Speaker 2: country world are who grew up with country music or saying, well,

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Speaker 2: I don't know, this is Thomas Schrett. He really Yeah,

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Speaker 2: that didn't sound like something I grew up with. What

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Speaker 4: But I think that changes every decade, you know what

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Speaker 4: I mean saying like, I think I'm sure that there

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Speaker 4: not real country, right, you know what I mean. Every

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Speaker 4: everybody pushes every decade, but it's like when the decade passes,

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Speaker 4: you go, oh, that's that was real, you.

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Speaker 2: Know what I'm saying.

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Speaker 4: Like, I remember when I put this song out called

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Speaker 4: make Me Want. It was my third single off my

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Speaker 4: first record, and it almost felt like a disco country song.

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Speaker 4: at forty for like forty weeks, and then all of

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Speaker 4: if I can do that, that just made a way

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Speaker 4: to do had that song that worked. And so I

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Speaker 4: always love pushing boundaries. Man, it's fun to not live

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Speaker 2: Am so well in a coral if you want to

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Speaker 2: keep it on the corral. So here's a great story

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Speaker 2: about looking at it the other direction. Danielle right here.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, grew up in the Bronx yep.

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Speaker 2: All right, see so you grew up your musical influences

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Speaker 1: I listened to a lot of hip hop growing up.

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Speaker 1: I listened to a lot of Top forty growing up.

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Speaker 2: The country did you listen to?

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Speaker 1: I didn't listen to country until college.

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Speaker 1: Pam Tillis, Yeah, stuff like that, And I did a

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Speaker 1: country show on radio station, fell in love with country

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Speaker 1: music that I fell in love with. And then you

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Speaker 1: you know, listen to yourself. I mean, Center Point Road

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Speaker 1: is one of my favorite albums.

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Speaker 2: Serious.

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Speaker 1: I actually wrote down when you when you say the

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Speaker 1: lyric because he talked about his wife all the time.

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Speaker 1: I love the relationship. It's cutest thing ever. Thank you

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Speaker 1: for living this dream I know you never had.

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Speaker 2: It's one of my favorite songs.

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Speaker 1: Yes, and that's one of I'm like, that is just

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Speaker 1: I love it.

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Speaker 3: I love it.

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Speaker 2: I had no idea were to talk about deep country. Yeah, okay, ladies,

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Speaker 2: move over here to Gandhi. Gandhi grew up listening to

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Speaker 2: solely music, for instance.

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Speaker 3: Much more hip hop.

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Speaker 3: Absolutely. However, the first country I was really introduced to.

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Speaker 2: Was actually, you know this, y'all are are making all this.

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Speaker 2: You'll got together last night. Y'all did not get together

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Speaker 2: last night. This is a this is all truth.

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Speaker 3: Yeah. So my boyfriend when we first started dating, the

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Speaker 3: first song that he sent me was look what God

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Speaker 3: gave her off that album was Yes, and that was

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Speaker 3: his like, Hey, just so you know, I love you.

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Speaker 3: This song makes me think about you. And now every

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Speaker 3: time then I hear that one, I'm like, you.

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Speaker 2: Know, country music not so bad, coming on.

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Speaker 3: You were my first sort of like foot in the

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Speaker 3: water as far as country music goes.

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Speaker 2: Dude, Wow, it's amazing as far as you starting starting

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Speaker 2: playing music on your guitar. What's the first song you

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Speaker 2: ever learned? How to?

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Speaker 4: We were just talking about that two seconds ago. It

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Speaker 4: was three Am by Matchbox twenty. It was the first

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Speaker 4: sing it with Matchbox twenty.

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Speaker 2: Okay, in the middle of that performance, was there a

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Speaker 2: chance you could have just frozen up right there and

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Speaker 2: were like, what the hell is this? This is pretty amazing?

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Speaker 2: I literally, I told because me and I'd never met

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Speaker 2: Rob before. I mean, like so they were actually one

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Speaker 2: of my first concerts. I saw Matchbox twenty and their

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Speaker 2: openers were third eyeblind in American Hi Fi Wow. And

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Speaker 2: I still have the T shirt to this day. So,

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Speaker 2: like now, I've always been he Mixbox fan.

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Speaker 4: So last year on the road, we did this like

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Speaker 4: decades bit where we went from the fifties to now

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Speaker 4: and we played like an elvistoon, a James Brown tuon,

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Speaker 4: played three AM, and I remember Rob commented on my

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Speaker 4: I'm a giant fan. And so we got put on

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Speaker 4: the same bill up in Canada at this festival called

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Speaker 4: Boots and Hearts, and so it was like them opening

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Speaker 4: for me, and I was like, this is wrong, this

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Speaker 4: feels very strange. And Rob's management emailed and said, hey,

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Speaker 4: what you want to sing three AM with us? And

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Speaker 4: I was like, yes, did they know the story behind

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Speaker 2: No, he didn't know.

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Speaker 4: And I met him at catering and I straight up fangirl,

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Speaker 4: you know, like right there getting brisket, you know.

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Speaker 2: So okay, Now let's talk about Froggy for instance. Foggie,

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Speaker 2: She doesn't even have the chance to get demo itis.

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Speaker 3: So many songs or all of them are about her?

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Speaker 2: Of course the album out last night, it's it's out

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Speaker 4: Man, we've been in New York, okay, and this is

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Speaker 2: Tequila involved. There's some tequila champagne.

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Speaker 4: I think that was my problem. I mixed a few

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Speaker 4: different things. It's like a champagne and an old fashioned

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Speaker 2: Oh no, well I just turned sixteen. I'm doing just

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Speaker 1: Can I ask about the competition you have with your

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Speaker 2: What do y'all think?

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Speaker 1: I think she's winning?

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Speaker 2: She is by a long shot.

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Speaker 2: It honestly started. I wanted to do something.

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Speaker 4: I wanted to see what kind of loyalty people had

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Speaker 2: And she's beat me by like sixty percent. Oh wow, Yeah,

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Speaker 2: You know, you you write all these songs. You said

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Speaker 4: Yeah, it's it's it's different for every artist, right because

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Speaker 2: So how much do you love doing what you do?

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Speaker 4: There are parts of your job that are not your

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Speaker 1: Year's Eve this past New Year's Eve? Oh yeah, there,

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Speaker 4: And then getting to hear y'all's story, Like that's something

436
00:17:51,280 --> 00:17:53,720
Speaker 4: that's been kind of crazy lately. It's like, you will

437
00:17:53,760 --> 00:17:55,880
Speaker 4: never like as an artist, whatever you do, you will

438
00:17:55,880 --> 00:17:58,520
Speaker 4: never know the impact that your stuff has on people.

439
00:17:58,680 --> 00:17:59,399
Speaker 2: Do you know what I'm saying? Like?

440
00:17:59,400 --> 00:18:01,120
Speaker 4: I would have never own that about either of y'all

441
00:18:01,119 --> 00:18:03,080
Speaker 4: had you told me that. You know, you listen to

442
00:18:03,119 --> 00:18:04,760
Speaker 4: look what God gave her in One of your favorite

443
00:18:04,760 --> 00:18:06,920
Speaker 4: tracks was a song that no one's brought up to

444
00:18:06,960 --> 00:18:07,879
Speaker 4: me in seven years?

445
00:18:08,160 --> 00:18:08,760
Speaker 2: Do you know what I mean?

446
00:18:08,840 --> 00:18:09,320
Speaker 1: I love it?

447
00:18:09,960 --> 00:18:11,720
Speaker 4: And that that's the beauty of art, is that you

448
00:18:11,760 --> 00:18:13,000
Speaker 4: get to make it and then you get to put

449
00:18:13,040 --> 00:18:14,680
Speaker 4: it out and then people get to decide how it's

450
00:18:14,720 --> 00:18:17,119
Speaker 4: going to impact them, you know, And those stories are

451
00:18:17,520 --> 00:18:18,280
Speaker 4: what make it worth it.

452
00:18:18,280 --> 00:18:20,560
Speaker 2: So Frog get your boy t wreck. I know?

453
00:18:20,640 --> 00:18:22,159
Speaker 5: So Thomas, I want to know. So you wrote one

454
00:18:22,240 --> 00:18:24,440
Speaker 5: hundred and fifty songs, you're using fourteen of them. There's

455
00:18:24,480 --> 00:18:27,040
Speaker 5: one hundred and thirty six songs out there that are waiting. Yeah,

456
00:18:27,359 --> 00:18:27,960
Speaker 5: are they been bad?

457
00:18:28,760 --> 00:18:30,320
Speaker 2: One? They didn't make up? They're not really bad, So

458
00:18:30,680 --> 00:18:31,080
Speaker 2: I don't know.

459
00:18:31,119 --> 00:18:33,440
Speaker 4: And there's a bartender at the Ritz Carlton that has

460
00:18:33,480 --> 00:18:35,200
Speaker 4: the entirety of all those songs.

461
00:18:36,160 --> 00:18:40,359
Speaker 2: Oh my god, seriously last night, Tequila. Last night, I

462
00:18:40,400 --> 00:18:42,760
Speaker 2: wanted to hear the record over the speakers, and the

463
00:18:42,800 --> 00:18:46,560
Speaker 2: bartender was in control of the U of the Bluetooth,

464
00:18:46,880 --> 00:18:50,119
Speaker 2: so I just text them the dropbox link.

465
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Speaker 4: Go my god, did you call your attorneys this morning

466
00:18:53,119 --> 00:18:55,440
Speaker 4: to lay it might be the worst? My management's over

467
00:18:55,440 --> 00:18:56,919
Speaker 4: here to be like, it's the worst thing you've ever.

468
00:18:56,800 --> 00:19:00,680
Speaker 2: Done in the twelve years of your own What could

469
00:19:00,720 --> 00:19:03,199
Speaker 2: possibly go wrong? What could go right? You know?

470
00:19:03,760 --> 00:19:05,800
Speaker 5: Is there any chance that any of those other songs

471
00:19:05,800 --> 00:19:08,119
Speaker 5: make it on another album? Or do you write specifically

472
00:19:08,160 --> 00:19:11,000
Speaker 5: for this project and the next project will be totally different?

473
00:19:12,040 --> 00:19:14,160
Speaker 4: Still figuring that out, Like, I think it was kind

474
00:19:14,160 --> 00:19:16,720
Speaker 4: of a mission of mine, this go around to like,

475
00:19:17,119 --> 00:19:19,040
Speaker 4: because I really wanted there to be twenty four songs

476
00:19:19,040 --> 00:19:23,480
Speaker 4: on this album. But gosh, dude, there's just every every Friday,

477
00:19:23,640 --> 00:19:26,480
Speaker 4: there's a million songs that come out, and so I

478
00:19:26,520 --> 00:19:28,800
Speaker 4: really wanted this record to be digestible. I wanted you

479
00:19:28,840 --> 00:19:30,600
Speaker 4: to go to look at it, like I have time

480
00:19:30,640 --> 00:19:33,080
Speaker 4: for that. It makes sense, Like I have time to

481
00:19:33,080 --> 00:19:35,560
Speaker 4: sit down for thirty eight minutes and listen to this record.

482
00:19:36,200 --> 00:19:37,640
Speaker 4: But I think it's gonna be fun. Over the next

483
00:19:37,640 --> 00:19:41,160
Speaker 4: two years, managed to keep sort of just putting music out.

484
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Speaker 1: I think Bob the Bartender might be putting out.

485
00:19:43,880 --> 00:19:47,840
Speaker 2: Yeah, you'll go hit up the ritz. Can you get

486
00:19:47,880 --> 00:19:51,639
Speaker 2: the record early? We need you need security to protect

487
00:19:51,640 --> 00:19:53,359
Speaker 2: you the world from you.

488
00:19:53,480 --> 00:19:53,680
Speaker 5: Yeah.

489
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Speaker 3: Say so, I know you travel a lot. You said

490
00:19:56,000 --> 00:19:58,280
Speaker 3: one hundred and eighty days a year. Did you just

491
00:19:58,320 --> 00:20:00,200
Speaker 3: get back from Kenya not too long ago? I was

492
00:20:00,240 --> 00:20:01,680
Speaker 3: looking at Instagram.

493
00:20:01,280 --> 00:20:02,480
Speaker 2: Maybe about yeah, a month ago.

494
00:20:02,600 --> 00:20:04,679
Speaker 3: Okay, So when you travel to Kenya, do you have

495
00:20:04,720 --> 00:20:07,639
Speaker 3: these same moments where shockingly, out of nowhere, somebody approaches

496
00:20:07,680 --> 00:20:08,959
Speaker 3: you and it's like, oh my god, Tom's ratt I'm

497
00:20:09,000 --> 00:20:10,159
Speaker 3: listening to your music in Kenya.

498
00:20:10,800 --> 00:20:13,440
Speaker 2: Yes, and it is so wild. It is so wild.

499
00:20:13,520 --> 00:20:15,960
Speaker 4: It actually happened a lot in the airports too well.

500
00:20:16,160 --> 00:20:18,280
Speaker 4: We had a labor in Dubai and there was someone

501
00:20:18,320 --> 00:20:19,440
Speaker 4: that came up to me while I was getting a

502
00:20:19,480 --> 00:20:21,640
Speaker 4: coffee and they were like, you know, we I love

503
00:20:21,680 --> 00:20:23,160
Speaker 4: your music. And I was like, where do you live

504
00:20:23,200 --> 00:20:25,520
Speaker 4: and they're like here. I was like, are you serious?

505
00:20:25,760 --> 00:20:28,919
Speaker 4: Like that's the wildest compliment in the world. Not so

506
00:20:29,000 --> 00:20:32,280
Speaker 4: much in Kenya. We have we haven't made our to

507
00:20:32,280 --> 00:20:35,320
Speaker 4: the airwaves in Nairobi yet but maybe maybe at some point.

508
00:20:35,359 --> 00:20:38,399
Speaker 4: But yeah, but no, that was uh, that was literally

509
00:20:38,440 --> 00:20:39,400
Speaker 4: a trip of a lifetime.

510
00:20:39,520 --> 00:20:43,920
Speaker 2: It was yeah, Sofari, Sofari, I've been on five five.

511
00:20:44,119 --> 00:20:47,920
Speaker 4: Yeah, it's amazing. Everything can kill you over there.

512
00:20:48,040 --> 00:20:50,800
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, absolutely, And it's good to know that you

513
00:20:50,880 --> 00:20:54,560
Speaker 2: were so unimportant, yes, as compared it's like going to

514
00:20:54,560 --> 00:20:56,639
Speaker 2: see the Grand Canyon. So you see the Grand Canyon

515
00:20:56,800 --> 00:21:00,240
Speaker 2: like we are nothing of that big hole. Yeah, But

516
00:21:00,640 --> 00:21:03,879
Speaker 2: to be able to go and open your mind to

517
00:21:04,560 --> 00:21:08,920
Speaker 2: a whole other universe and that must help in songwriting

518
00:21:08,960 --> 00:21:11,040
Speaker 2: as well. Did you ever find yourself in the tent

519
00:21:11,080 --> 00:21:14,040
Speaker 2: while the wildebeest were trying to eat you writing something

520
00:21:14,080 --> 00:21:15,720
Speaker 2: down going? I don't know what this is. This could

521
00:21:15,760 --> 00:21:16,760
Speaker 2: be a song next year.

522
00:21:16,920 --> 00:21:19,160
Speaker 4: The very first night that we were there, this did

523
00:21:19,160 --> 00:21:20,520
Speaker 4: not lead to a song. I just think this is

524
00:21:20,560 --> 00:21:22,879
Speaker 4: a crazy story. But the very first night we were there,

525
00:21:22,880 --> 00:21:25,920
Speaker 4: we were staying in these it's not camping, it's glamping,

526
00:21:26,119 --> 00:21:27,680
Speaker 4: you know what I'm saying. And so me and my

527
00:21:27,720 --> 00:21:30,679
Speaker 4: whole family are in this tent and they encourage you

528
00:21:30,720 --> 00:21:32,400
Speaker 4: that anytime you walk out of the tent to keep

529
00:21:32,400 --> 00:21:34,520
Speaker 4: your They call it a torch, which is a flashlight,

530
00:21:34,920 --> 00:21:36,919
Speaker 4: and they're like, bring your torch with you wherever you go.

531
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Speaker 4: And I walked out. It was like ten pm and

532
00:21:40,480 --> 00:21:43,960
Speaker 4: I'm literally from me to you of two hyenas.

533
00:21:44,359 --> 00:21:46,800
Speaker 2: Oh, and they will crunch your head off. Yeah.

534
00:21:47,280 --> 00:21:49,480
Speaker 4: And so I've started flashing my light and I was like,

535
00:21:49,480 --> 00:21:52,120
Speaker 4: this is how I'm gonna die. I'm gonna get killed

536
00:21:52,119 --> 00:21:54,119
Speaker 4: by hyenas flashing a light. And I flashed a light

537
00:21:54,119 --> 00:21:57,119
Speaker 4: and they took off. They ran off. Gosh, man, when

538
00:21:57,119 --> 00:21:59,600
Speaker 4: you're up close to something like that, I've never in

539
00:21:59,640 --> 00:22:02,359
Speaker 4: my life been that close to a hyena or a lion,

540
00:22:03,080 --> 00:22:04,639
Speaker 4: or being that close even to an elephant.

541
00:22:04,760 --> 00:22:06,160
Speaker 2: Like it's just gnarly.

542
00:22:06,320 --> 00:22:08,720
Speaker 4: It's different seeing it at a zoo than it is

543
00:22:08,760 --> 00:22:09,479
Speaker 4: like when they're at there.

544
00:22:10,800 --> 00:22:13,159
Speaker 2: You're in their territory. Go back and you will do

545
00:22:13,200 --> 00:22:15,080
Speaker 2: it again, That's right. I love that. Sitting at the

546
00:22:15,119 --> 00:22:17,600
Speaker 2: mess ten at night and it is clamping and you

547
00:22:17,640 --> 00:22:21,639
Speaker 2: see the eyeballs out, oh dude. And we had we

548
00:22:21,680 --> 00:22:23,879
Speaker 2: had hyenas laughing in front of you, we had lions

549
00:22:23,960 --> 00:22:25,880
Speaker 2: roaring behind us, and we stayed on the river.

550
00:22:26,080 --> 00:22:29,520
Speaker 4: So the entire night it's just hippos going crazy and

551
00:22:29,560 --> 00:22:30,639
Speaker 4: there's crocs.

552
00:22:30,280 --> 00:22:34,440
Speaker 2: Everywhere, like like sixteen foot cross we're talking shoes. We're

553
00:22:34,480 --> 00:22:36,439
Speaker 2: talking yeah, not shoes.

554
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Speaker 1: How do they protect you from that? Like the crocs getting.

555
00:22:39,480 --> 00:22:41,800
Speaker 4: Well, there's like a there's like the place and then

556
00:22:41,840 --> 00:22:44,119
Speaker 4: there's like a huge drop off like a like almost

557
00:22:44,160 --> 00:22:47,280
Speaker 4: like a concrete wall. So they can't maybe they could,

558
00:22:47,560 --> 00:22:50,720
Speaker 4: And then I chose to tell myself that it was impossible.

559
00:22:51,480 --> 00:22:53,640
Speaker 2: During the day, that's where the wild debes rolled roll

560
00:22:53,760 --> 00:22:56,719
Speaker 2: down and some of them will not make it. But

561
00:22:56,720 --> 00:22:59,639
Speaker 2: but it's just it's there's nothing like going nothing like that,

562
00:23:00,080 --> 00:23:02,000
Speaker 2: you know, And people say, well, that's something I could

563
00:23:02,000 --> 00:23:03,400
Speaker 2: never do, and no, it's not true. We have friends

564
00:23:03,400 --> 00:23:06,160
Speaker 2: who are guides there and they make it very affordable

565
00:23:06,160 --> 00:23:08,280
Speaker 2: for you can actually do it pretty cheap actually, but

566
00:23:08,280 --> 00:23:10,680
Speaker 2: I would encourage it for sure. It's an awesome trip.

567
00:23:10,960 --> 00:23:12,919
Speaker 2: I love the fact that Thomas Rhett is here with

568
00:23:13,000 --> 00:23:14,960
Speaker 2: us today and it's a special day. The fact that

569
00:23:15,000 --> 00:23:18,080
Speaker 2: you're here with us makes us feel sort of important.

570
00:23:18,200 --> 00:23:20,320
Speaker 2: You guys are my favorite to come to us. I mean,

571
00:23:20,320 --> 00:23:21,960
Speaker 2: it's like literally one of my favorite things to do

572
00:23:22,000 --> 00:23:23,760
Speaker 2: when I'm in New York. So thank y'all for having me.

573
00:23:24,359 --> 00:23:26,719
Speaker 2: Your spirit is just on the top of the of

574
00:23:26,760 --> 00:23:29,600
Speaker 2: the flagpole. Well, it's waving. The feeling is very mutual.

575
00:23:29,640 --> 00:23:31,199
Speaker 2: I got to play another song from the album, and

576
00:23:31,200 --> 00:23:34,480
Speaker 2: of course Thomas Rhet's album came out last night about

577
00:23:34,480 --> 00:23:37,280
Speaker 2: a Woman, and I'm gonna giving you two cuts today

578
00:23:37,280 --> 00:23:39,840
Speaker 2: because you got to pay for the rest. Yeah, download

579
00:23:39,880 --> 00:23:42,359
Speaker 2: it or the rits.

580
00:23:44,400 --> 00:23:46,240
Speaker 1: You'll get bonus tracks if you go there.

581
00:23:46,960 --> 00:23:49,920
Speaker 2: This is Thomas Rhett and of course beautiful dos you

582
00:23:49,960 --> 00:23:52,960
Speaker 2: way girl? You can?

583
00:23:53,000 --> 00:23:55,640
Speaker 1: I ask a question about why artists do that thing

584
00:23:55,720 --> 00:23:58,240
Speaker 1: with the dropping ahead of time, So you dropped four

585
00:23:58,280 --> 00:24:02,080
Speaker 1: songs before the album came out. Now, Lady Wilson has

586
00:24:02,119 --> 00:24:03,960
Speaker 1: an album out today. She did the same thing. A

587
00:24:04,000 --> 00:24:06,439
Speaker 1: lot of the artists do that, now is there? What

588
00:24:06,640 --> 00:24:09,119
Speaker 1: is the reason is that? Just like to let us,

589
00:24:09,400 --> 00:24:10,879
Speaker 1: you know, taste it a little bit.

590
00:24:11,320 --> 00:24:11,520
Speaker 2: You know?

591
00:24:12,119 --> 00:24:14,840
Speaker 4: I still ask myself that question, to be honest, because

592
00:24:14,880 --> 00:24:17,720
Speaker 4: I think the goal probably is to build hype, right like,

593
00:24:17,760 --> 00:24:20,360
Speaker 4: because if you really love the first three that come out,

594
00:24:20,400 --> 00:24:22,320
Speaker 4: then you hope that someone's going to be like I

595
00:24:22,320 --> 00:24:24,399
Speaker 4: bet the rest of the record is just amazing, you know.

596
00:24:25,359 --> 00:24:27,199
Speaker 4: But there's also this part of me that wonders, like,

597
00:24:27,200 --> 00:24:29,280
Speaker 4: when are we going to get back to the mystique,

598
00:24:29,680 --> 00:24:31,960
Speaker 4: you know what I'm saying, Like, there's so much teasing,

599
00:24:32,920 --> 00:24:35,720
Speaker 4: and there's so much like check this version out, and

600
00:24:35,800 --> 00:24:37,840
Speaker 4: check this version out, and watch me sing this in

601
00:24:37,880 --> 00:24:39,520
Speaker 4: a bathroom, and you know what I mean, and like

602
00:24:39,560 --> 00:24:41,919
Speaker 4: all these things, and it's kind of sort of in

603
00:24:41,960 --> 00:24:42,800
Speaker 4: my opinion.

604
00:24:42,440 --> 00:24:44,160
Speaker 2: What culture sort of says we have to do.

605
00:24:44,720 --> 00:24:46,879
Speaker 4: But man, like in the seventies and stuff, it was

606
00:24:46,920 --> 00:24:48,720
Speaker 4: just like, wonder what Tom Petty's been doing for the

607
00:24:48,800 --> 00:24:52,000
Speaker 4: last year and a half, and all of a sudden, bam.

608
00:24:51,720 --> 00:24:54,240
Speaker 2: It was the whole album. Whole album. There was no

609
00:24:56,080 --> 00:24:57,720
Speaker 2: maybe we'll get back to that one day, who knows.

610
00:24:57,760 --> 00:24:59,640
Speaker 2: And now we have an artist that just produced song

611
00:24:59,720 --> 00:25:01,760
Speaker 2: by some they don't even think about album, right, Yeah,

612
00:25:01,760 --> 00:25:03,600
Speaker 2: for sure. There's so many different ways to get there.

613
00:25:03,720 --> 00:25:06,679
Speaker 4: So yeah, there's so many It's like music business is

614
00:25:06,680 --> 00:25:09,479
Speaker 4: the wild West today. Like when I when I first started,

615
00:25:09,560 --> 00:25:11,920
Speaker 4: it was it was so I'm not going to say

616
00:25:11,920 --> 00:25:13,520
Speaker 4: it was easier, but it was like you had kind

617
00:25:13,560 --> 00:25:15,719
Speaker 4: of one or two outlets to put your music out.

618
00:25:15,920 --> 00:25:18,280
Speaker 4: And now there's so many ways to get your music heard,

619
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Speaker 4: you know. So, I mean, you could be an artist

620
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Speaker 4: that lives in Nebraska and you're seventeen years old and

621
00:25:23,880 --> 00:25:26,280
Speaker 4: one day your mom just thinks you're great, and next

622
00:25:26,359 --> 00:25:28,080
Speaker 4: day you're opening for Zach Bryan.

623
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Speaker 2: You know what I'm saying, Like, it's like weird, it's wild. Yeah.

624
00:25:31,280 --> 00:25:33,120
Speaker 3: And now if you do disappear for a year, people

625
00:25:33,119 --> 00:25:34,680
Speaker 3: are going to say, oh, his marriage is imploding.

626
00:25:36,160 --> 00:25:40,920
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, this is the implosion period. And uh, look

627
00:25:40,960 --> 00:25:44,520
Speaker 2: at this list. The iHeartRadio Music Festival in Las Vegas.

628
00:25:45,320 --> 00:25:50,399
Speaker 2: Dua Lipa, Halsey, Big Sean, Comita, Kabeo, Doja Cat, Gwen Stefani, Hosier, Keith, Urban, New,

629
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Speaker 2: Kids on the Block, Paramore, Shaboozie, The Black Crows, Victoria Monet,

630
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Speaker 2: Thomas Rhett. What a what a lineup? He's got a

631
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Speaker 2: funny and a Friday of music on our show. In

632
00:26:01,640 --> 00:26:05,320
Speaker 2: thirty minutes, we're gonna talk to Chris Martin. Holy wonder

633
00:26:05,400 --> 00:26:08,200
Speaker 2: what that tie in about? Yeah, I wonder why he's

634
00:26:08,240 --> 00:26:12,400
Speaker 2: on with us. Anyway. I'm such a super fan of Coldplayer,

635
00:26:12,520 --> 00:26:15,360
Speaker 2: Young Me too. Gosh, can you imagine if they could

636
00:26:15,359 --> 00:26:17,080
Speaker 2: show up at the iHeart Music Festival.

637
00:26:17,400 --> 00:26:18,879
Speaker 1: That would be would be amazing.

638
00:26:20,119 --> 00:26:21,840
Speaker 2: Thank you so much for coming in, Thank you man

639
00:26:21,920 --> 00:26:24,880
Speaker 2: and sharing the music pleasure, and it's the gift. It's

640
00:26:24,880 --> 00:26:26,800
Speaker 2: the gift you gave us, and we do appreciate it.

641
00:26:26,840 --> 00:26:30,040
Speaker 2: And we've made it very clear to you that every

642
00:26:30,080 --> 00:26:34,320
Speaker 2: single person on this show loves what you do so much,

643
00:26:34,400 --> 00:26:36,119
Speaker 2: loves the fact that you do love what you do.

644
00:26:36,640 --> 00:26:38,399
Speaker 2: That's what makes it so great. Well, y'all are a

645
00:26:38,400 --> 00:26:39,920
Speaker 2: blast to talk to you. Thank you for your time

646
00:26:39,960 --> 00:26:43,440
Speaker 2: this morning. About a woman out right now, Thomas Red,

647
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Speaker 2: It's Froggies boy T Red, Lizzos in here, the Mercedes

648
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Speaker 2: sho We say good morning to the Jonas Brothers and

649
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Speaker 2: the Mercedes Benz. Dream Days are here with exceptional offers

650
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