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Speaker 1: forty seven. Hello, everybody, welcome to the OTP. And my

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Speaker 1: name is Amy Wells, and I am so excited that

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Speaker 1: you are joining us today because we had the chance

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Speaker 1: to talk to a very special guest, Chase Rice. Now

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Speaker 1: you might know Chase from his career as a country

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Speaker 1: music singer, but did you know that he was also

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Speaker 1: a very successful football player. He had dreams of going

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Speaker 1: to the National Football League, but due to injury, that

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Speaker 1: didn't really happen. We'll get into that during the interview,

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Speaker 1: but we talked about how he made that shift from

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Speaker 1: football to music. It's a very interesting story. And twenty twenty,

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Speaker 1: when he had some time on his hands, he really

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Speaker 1: did some remarkable things, putting out multi part albums, which

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Speaker 1: is so cool. And so we had a chance to

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Speaker 1: talk to him about all of these things and I

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Speaker 1: want to share this with you guys. So here it

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Speaker 1: is my conversation with Chase Rice, and he's coming to

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Speaker 1: us from his Bison Fat Chase Rice I'm so excited

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Speaker 1: to have you on the OTP. We have so much

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Speaker 1: to talk about, and I guess the place that we

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Speaker 1: should start is with your current single, Drinking Beer, Talking God. Amen.

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Speaker 1: What was the genesis of this song and are you

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Speaker 1: surprised by how much it's resonating with people right now?

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Speaker 1: Answer the Sago one first, No, I'm not surprised, because

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Speaker 1: I even liked the song. Like sometimes you do songs,

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Speaker 1: of a lot of stuff I did last year, you know,

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Speaker 1: And if I can relate to it, I think that's

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Speaker 1: it can really connect. So you drop a single, and

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Speaker 1: twenty twenty was like, that's enough, that's plenty to do

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Speaker 1: for all of that music given that the world was

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Speaker 1: nothing like anyone has ever experienced before. Well, it already

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Speaker 1: started to be honest. I did part one of the

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Speaker 1: So I decided to continue to put you know, part

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Speaker 1: But now I'm gonna go back to a full album

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Speaker 1: you have a lot of life experiences to draw on.

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Speaker 1: I did just a very basic, scratching the surface list

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