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Speaker 1: We'll go to episode three fifty six. Tyler Hubbard the

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Speaker 1: readdress and I think he says five to ten years.

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Speaker 1: So it's a good talk. We talked for over an hour.

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Speaker 1: He's very honest about stuff, which I completely respect. And

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Speaker 1: we got to it and at some point I go, hey,

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Speaker 1: I hear it was political. He addresses all of it.

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Speaker 1: Got to give him credit. He came in. We talked

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Speaker 1: and then we talked about Florida Georgia Line. So we

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Speaker 1: also talked about his new music, which is very important

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Speaker 1: to him. This is his new song called five ft

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Speaker 1: what he was here to do. He wrote motorcycles, He

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Speaker 1: talks about it. So Tyler Hubbard, the lead singer of

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Speaker 1: Florida Georgia Line, I encourage you to check out his

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Speaker 1: new music as well. You know that's what brought him in.

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Speaker 1: But again, very open and honest about the whole situation

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Speaker 1: with f GL. So enjoy this. Thank you for listening

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Speaker 1: we We are all right. Thank you guys. Here's Tyler Hubbard.

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Speaker 1: Hey something I was gonna ask us talking to Al

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Speaker 1: But it's nice. I love I get so inspired by

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Speaker 1: doing the normal thing. Occasionally I would start writing in

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Speaker 1: my dorm room by myself and just because it was

428
00:19:14,200 --> 00:19:17,199
Speaker 1: kind of therapeutic for me. Um. And I lost my

429
00:19:17,280 --> 00:19:19,640
Speaker 1: dad my sophomore year, so there was probably a lot

430
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Speaker 1: of uh shifts going on and needing to express emotions

431
00:19:23,040 --> 00:19:27,600
Speaker 1: and feelings, and so I started probably doing some songwriting

432
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Speaker 1: on my own. But it really wasn't until junior or

433
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Speaker 1: senior year, you know, when I when I really started

434
00:19:33,440 --> 00:19:35,919
Speaker 1: writing and thinking, all right, I really want to pursue

435
00:19:35,920 --> 00:19:37,920
Speaker 1: getting a publishing deal because I knew I had four

436
00:19:38,000 --> 00:19:39,359
Speaker 1: years to figure it out. I knew I wanted to

437
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Speaker 1: graduate college. UM. Not that I thought my career was

438
00:19:42,600 --> 00:19:44,439
Speaker 1: gonna take off so drastically that I was gonna have

439
00:19:44,440 --> 00:19:46,600
Speaker 1: to drop out, but I did know like Thomas Read

440
00:19:46,680 --> 00:19:48,480
Speaker 1: and these guys that did that, and I was like,

441
00:19:48,520 --> 00:19:51,720
Speaker 1: you know, I'm just gonna I at least want to graduate. UM,

442
00:19:51,760 --> 00:19:53,480
Speaker 1: So I buy myself some time and just have a

443
00:19:53,520 --> 00:19:55,160
Speaker 1: good time in the meantime. It sort of not put

444
00:19:55,160 --> 00:19:57,800
Speaker 1: too much pressure on myself. UM. But my senior year,

445
00:19:57,840 --> 00:20:00,320
Speaker 1: for sure, I knew all right. I don't want washed

446
00:20:00,320 --> 00:20:02,320
Speaker 1: cars too many years. If I can help it, and

447
00:20:02,320 --> 00:20:04,320
Speaker 1: if I could pay the bills and write songs, that's

448
00:20:04,320 --> 00:20:06,119
Speaker 1: the ultimate for me. So when did you start to

449
00:20:06,119 --> 00:20:08,200
Speaker 1: feel like you were good enough, not to be great,

450
00:20:08,240 --> 00:20:10,960
Speaker 1: but good enough to be good enough to pay the bills. Well,

451
00:20:11,000 --> 00:20:14,600
Speaker 1: we started, I would say senior year. Um, I ran

452
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Speaker 1: into b K. And at that time I was starting

453
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Speaker 1: to play like writers rounds and stuff. I was starting

454
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Speaker 1: to get enough courage to like get out, and I

455
00:20:20,640 --> 00:20:22,800
Speaker 1: had written a handful of songs that I was proud

456
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Speaker 1: enough to play at writers rounds. So I started kind

457
00:20:27,119 --> 00:20:29,640
Speaker 1: of doing that and starting to Uh, I wouldn't say

458
00:20:29,640 --> 00:20:31,280
Speaker 1: getting a bus, trying to you know, trying to get

459
00:20:31,280 --> 00:20:33,520
Speaker 1: a buzz going, but starting to have some people that

460
00:20:33,560 --> 00:20:35,960
Speaker 1: would believe in me. And um that I met b

461
00:20:36,119 --> 00:20:38,240
Speaker 1: K and we started doing our thing together and writing

462
00:20:38,280 --> 00:20:42,399
Speaker 1: songs and playing writers rounds together. Scott Belmont, Yeah, he

463
00:20:42,400 --> 00:20:45,400
Speaker 1: played baseball, and uh, so we kind of connected dots

464
00:20:45,400 --> 00:20:47,520
Speaker 1: and realized that we both liked writing songs. On the side,

465
00:20:47,560 --> 00:20:49,960
Speaker 1: we both let's get together and hang and see where

466
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Speaker 1: it goes. And so we started playing like Hotel and

467
00:20:52,119 --> 00:20:55,000
Speaker 1: to go together quite a bit um as a unit

468
00:20:55,320 --> 00:20:57,440
Speaker 1: or just Tyler. And at first it was just me

469
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Speaker 1: and b K. And then like we would get another

470
00:21:00,000 --> 00:21:01,880
Speaker 1: eight or two, we just do like around. And then

471
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Speaker 1: eventually as we wrote more songs together, we had enough

472
00:21:04,200 --> 00:21:05,439
Speaker 1: to be like, hey, let's just me and you do

473
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Speaker 1: the round. I'll sing some of yours, you sing some

474
00:21:08,000 --> 00:21:09,600
Speaker 1: of mine. Will sing the ones we did together, and

475
00:21:09,600 --> 00:21:13,879
Speaker 1: then and then uh, and then eventually we ended up like,

476
00:21:13,880 --> 00:21:15,879
Speaker 1: why don't we pull the stools away and stand up

477
00:21:16,200 --> 00:21:19,040
Speaker 1: and turn into like a you know, but it never was?

478
00:21:19,280 --> 00:21:21,919
Speaker 1: It what never was? We're now we're gonna go and

479
00:21:21,960 --> 00:21:25,359
Speaker 1: pursue this from ground zero. Um, because it sounds like

480
00:21:25,400 --> 00:21:28,359
Speaker 1: you're writing, I would say. After college we graduated, we

481
00:21:28,440 --> 00:21:30,640
Speaker 1: had a handful of songs we had written. We knew

482
00:21:30,640 --> 00:21:32,720
Speaker 1: we loved writing songs. We knew we and started to

483
00:21:32,800 --> 00:21:35,200
Speaker 1: really enjoy playing them and these writers rounds, and we thought,

484
00:21:35,200 --> 00:21:38,800
Speaker 1: why don't we, um, why don't we spend the next

485
00:21:38,840 --> 00:21:41,439
Speaker 1: couple of years and just I have a trailer, you

486
00:21:41,480 --> 00:21:44,399
Speaker 1: have a you have a tahoe, and let's just travel

487
00:21:44,440 --> 00:21:46,399
Speaker 1: the southeast and see if we can book some shows.

488
00:21:47,080 --> 00:21:49,359
Speaker 1: And so that's what we did. We started calling clubs

489
00:21:49,359 --> 00:21:51,040
Speaker 1: and acting like we were booking agents and we had

490
00:21:51,080 --> 00:21:53,119
Speaker 1: this band that we come and they did you have

491
00:21:53,119 --> 00:21:55,679
Speaker 1: a different name? Did you name it different things? No?

492
00:21:55,920 --> 00:21:59,119
Speaker 1: We we we landed on Florida Georgia line pretty quick. Um.

493
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Speaker 1: But that was when it was one night after an

494
00:22:01,520 --> 00:22:03,840
Speaker 1: hotel end Togo riders around where we were hanging out

495
00:22:03,840 --> 00:22:06,080
Speaker 1: and drinking with some friends at the house and somebody said, hey,

496
00:22:06,119 --> 00:22:07,800
Speaker 1: you guys should start a You guys should make a

497
00:22:07,880 --> 00:22:10,680
Speaker 1: name and and start a thing, you know, and that's

498
00:22:10,760 --> 00:22:13,399
Speaker 1: what well, what would it be? Well, let's, you know,

499
00:22:13,480 --> 00:22:15,280
Speaker 1: let's have something that represents who we are and where

500
00:22:15,320 --> 00:22:17,159
Speaker 1: we're from. And that was about That was about as

501
00:22:17,160 --> 00:22:20,240
Speaker 1: simple as it was, and it stuck. So does it

502
00:22:20,280 --> 00:22:24,280
Speaker 1: feel like as you look back and you know you

503
00:22:24,280 --> 00:22:27,320
Speaker 1: can sit and remembering it, you really can't sit when

504
00:22:27,320 --> 00:22:28,760
Speaker 1: it's coming at you so fast? You know, like you

505
00:22:28,880 --> 00:22:31,919
Speaker 1: mentioned earlier, because even when you're grinding and you're not

506
00:22:31,960 --> 00:22:35,240
Speaker 1: making anyone, you're going extra hard. Um, does it feel

507
00:22:35,240 --> 00:22:39,320
Speaker 1: like it hits you fast? Definitely in times it did.

508
00:22:39,359 --> 00:22:41,760
Speaker 1: Once two thou twelve hit it definitely, did you know

509
00:22:41,800 --> 00:22:44,639
Speaker 1: cruise was out? It started taking off and then uh,

510
00:22:44,720 --> 00:22:47,360
Speaker 1: but taking off like I mean it I can outside

511
00:22:47,359 --> 00:22:50,440
Speaker 1: in I'm talking just from my perspective, and I was back.

512
00:22:50,480 --> 00:22:53,040
Speaker 1: I was in the pop world at the time, and

513
00:22:53,800 --> 00:22:56,280
Speaker 1: I the Nelly version. We were playing it on our

514
00:22:56,320 --> 00:22:58,040
Speaker 1: station and I was like, God, dang, this is I mean,

515
00:22:58,640 --> 00:23:01,280
Speaker 1: out of nowhere. It was just as sive al right,

516
00:23:02,240 --> 00:23:04,679
Speaker 1: you're living it. So probably didn't feel out of nowhere

517
00:23:04,720 --> 00:23:07,400
Speaker 1: to you. But did it feel like a rocket ship?

518
00:23:07,560 --> 00:23:09,919
Speaker 1: Did feel fast? You know? We didn't have anything to

519
00:23:09,960 --> 00:23:12,080
Speaker 1: compare it to. Yeah, I guess that's my question. It's like,

520
00:23:12,800 --> 00:23:14,880
Speaker 1: but you know, there was times where it didn't feel

521
00:23:14,880 --> 00:23:17,159
Speaker 1: fast either, because we were in we were determined not

522
00:23:17,200 --> 00:23:19,080
Speaker 1: to get on the tour bus until we could afford one,

523
00:23:19,160 --> 00:23:21,280
Speaker 1: and so we were in a you know, there was

524
00:23:21,320 --> 00:23:23,040
Speaker 1: a time we were on the Country throw Down tour

525
00:23:23,560 --> 00:23:25,680
Speaker 1: in the on the in the summer at two thousand twelve.

526
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Speaker 1: We were the only band in a van driving ourselves

527
00:23:28,320 --> 00:23:30,879
Speaker 1: around the country following this tour, and we were the

528
00:23:30,920 --> 00:23:33,080
Speaker 1: barbecue band and we were roughing it and it was

529
00:23:33,119 --> 00:23:35,879
Speaker 1: a long summer. So yeah, I would say at times

530
00:23:35,880 --> 00:23:38,800
Speaker 1: it felt like forever and we had, you know, we

531
00:23:38,800 --> 00:23:40,840
Speaker 1: we couldn't get there fast enough. But looking back now,

532
00:23:40,880 --> 00:23:42,960
Speaker 1: I was like holy cow, that was super fast. Were

533
00:23:43,000 --> 00:23:46,600
Speaker 1: you guys, and forgive me for not being completely educated

534
00:23:46,600 --> 00:23:49,200
Speaker 1: on this part of it. Were you guys signed? Whenever

535
00:23:49,400 --> 00:23:55,120
Speaker 1: you wrote and recorded cruise or did you was that song?

536
00:23:55,200 --> 00:23:58,080
Speaker 1: Did it hit? And like go and get played on streaming?

537
00:23:58,119 --> 00:24:00,560
Speaker 1: Wasn't a thing get played on satellite? And then everybody,

538
00:24:00,560 --> 00:24:03,080
Speaker 1: it's a bidding war. Then what happened? It took off

539
00:24:03,119 --> 00:24:05,199
Speaker 1: on its own before we got signed, and then it

540
00:24:05,320 --> 00:24:08,040
Speaker 1: was and then it was a bidding war. That's pretty cool.

541
00:24:08,119 --> 00:24:10,439
Speaker 1: It was fun. And we were also, I mean nothing

542
00:24:10,480 --> 00:24:13,000
Speaker 1: against being in town and doing the coming here and

543
00:24:13,000 --> 00:24:15,439
Speaker 1: trying to get a deal first thing. But we we

544
00:24:15,560 --> 00:24:18,360
Speaker 1: literally had a like a motto that was like, hey,

545
00:24:18,400 --> 00:24:20,080
Speaker 1: we don't need a record deal. We're gonna do this

546
00:24:20,160 --> 00:24:22,399
Speaker 1: on our own. And when when we do need a

547
00:24:22,400 --> 00:24:25,359
Speaker 1: record deal, the record labels will be here and they'll

548
00:24:25,359 --> 00:24:27,320
Speaker 1: be asking us to sign. So when we when they

549
00:24:27,320 --> 00:24:29,800
Speaker 1: start coming to us and we'll know. And then they

550
00:24:29,840 --> 00:24:31,879
Speaker 1: started and then yeah, it all took off and they

551
00:24:31,880 --> 00:24:33,919
Speaker 1: all started coming and and we were just looking at

552
00:24:33,920 --> 00:24:35,479
Speaker 1: each other the whole time. We still have this kind

553
00:24:35,480 --> 00:24:37,960
Speaker 1: of attitude like man, like, we're doing it on our own.

554
00:24:38,000 --> 00:24:39,600
Speaker 1: If you'll want to join us and do it our way,

555
00:24:39,600 --> 00:24:42,320
Speaker 1: then let's go. But we're I mean, at that point

556
00:24:42,320 --> 00:24:43,920
Speaker 1: we were rocking, you know what I mean, and they

557
00:24:43,920 --> 00:24:46,280
Speaker 1: were and they could see dollar signs so they came

558
00:24:46,359 --> 00:24:48,720
Speaker 1: running and we were just kind of like, ah, but

559
00:24:48,840 --> 00:24:50,640
Speaker 1: you know, it's part of the part of the process.

560
00:24:50,800 --> 00:24:52,480
Speaker 1: But it was nice to build the fan base and

561
00:24:52,520 --> 00:24:54,760
Speaker 1: build our thing and have that confidence with going in

562
00:24:54,760 --> 00:24:56,640
Speaker 1: to signing a record deal and be able to say

563
00:24:56,640 --> 00:24:58,080
Speaker 1: this is who we argue, aren't really going to change

564
00:24:58,080 --> 00:24:59,880
Speaker 1: it because we have left. I was scared of that too,

565
00:25:00,000 --> 00:25:01,679
Speaker 1: that's very much. You know. You hear all the horror

566
00:25:01,680 --> 00:25:03,600
Speaker 1: stories and we were we were so scared of that.

567
00:25:03,640 --> 00:25:05,840
Speaker 1: So we were just like, nah, we're not we don't

568
00:25:05,840 --> 00:25:07,560
Speaker 1: want to play the game. Well, I mean, the truth

569
00:25:07,640 --> 00:25:09,000
Speaker 1: is I'm British and I had to change the coming

570
00:25:09,000 --> 00:25:11,520
Speaker 1: to country so now I got it from Arkansas. But

571
00:25:11,560 --> 00:25:13,159
Speaker 1: they made me they signed me before and They're like,

572
00:25:13,160 --> 00:25:14,560
Speaker 1: you're not going to be a hill building and I

573
00:25:14,600 --> 00:25:16,960
Speaker 1: was like, okay, you guys didn't have to go through that,

574
00:25:17,000 --> 00:25:24,879
Speaker 1: so that's good it. Let us be us. Have you

575
00:25:25,119 --> 00:25:30,240
Speaker 1: um played any shows by as you by yourself? Yet?

576
00:25:30,359 --> 00:25:34,040
Speaker 1: I played one show weird? Uh? No, it was a

577
00:25:34,080 --> 00:25:36,800
Speaker 1: little I was definitely nervous, but once I got out there,

578
00:25:36,800 --> 00:25:39,240
Speaker 1: it felt it wasn't too weird. It felt really good.

579
00:25:39,320 --> 00:25:42,280
Speaker 1: It was a Spotify house show and during the c

580
00:25:42,400 --> 00:25:44,840
Speaker 1: m A Fest. It was a small show. Um at

581
00:25:45,040 --> 00:25:48,880
Speaker 1: oh Red did part of I guess what's part of you?

582
00:25:49,280 --> 00:25:50,960
Speaker 1: I mean, it just feels natural. You've done it so

583
00:25:51,000 --> 00:25:54,480
Speaker 1: many times, like you didn't have anybody right there, I

584
00:25:54,480 --> 00:25:58,800
Speaker 1: mean that safety net or not always a net that

585
00:25:58,800 --> 00:26:01,760
Speaker 1: that's not there. You know, I would say it felt

586
00:26:01,800 --> 00:26:05,399
Speaker 1: different for sure. Um it was a small stage, so

587
00:26:05,440 --> 00:26:07,200
Speaker 1: it probably didn't feel as odd as it may feel

588
00:26:07,200 --> 00:26:09,280
Speaker 1: on a big stage. But I still had my band

589
00:26:10,160 --> 00:26:12,600
Speaker 1: and uh the crowd was basically right on top of

590
00:26:12,640 --> 00:26:14,359
Speaker 1: me too, so it was you know, it just felt

591
00:26:14,359 --> 00:26:16,560
Speaker 1: like a big party and it felt natural. And how

592
00:26:16,600 --> 00:26:19,720
Speaker 1: long was it that fun? It was like, Uh, it

593
00:26:19,800 --> 00:26:21,520
Speaker 1: was only a thirty minute set too, so it was

594
00:26:21,560 --> 00:26:23,920
Speaker 1: easy quickly. It was also a little nerve wracking because

595
00:26:23,920 --> 00:26:25,640
Speaker 1: all these songs are brand new. You know, I never

596
00:26:25,680 --> 00:26:28,800
Speaker 1: probably when I'm just like all right, uh, here we go.

597
00:26:29,359 --> 00:26:31,639
Speaker 1: But it was it was a good It was a

598
00:26:31,680 --> 00:26:35,119
Speaker 1: good uh good first show. The analogy that I feel is,

599
00:26:35,359 --> 00:26:38,240
Speaker 1: you know, I do my my morning show, and I

600
00:26:38,280 --> 00:26:40,880
Speaker 1: got these are all my friends had you know, never

601
00:26:40,920 --> 00:26:42,920
Speaker 1: done radio. We've all we come up all together. I

602
00:26:42,920 --> 00:26:46,639
Speaker 1: brought him with me, um similar you know to you guys,

603
00:26:46,680 --> 00:26:49,359
Speaker 1: you did this together from college. And then I go

604
00:26:49,440 --> 00:26:51,119
Speaker 1: on stage and I'll do an hour of stand up

605
00:26:51,320 --> 00:26:57,040
Speaker 1: at a theater and you're just you're just alone. And

606
00:26:57,800 --> 00:27:00,320
Speaker 1: when it when it's going right, it's it's freaking easy

607
00:27:00,440 --> 00:27:02,479
Speaker 1: because you're just killing. It's going right, you don't need

608
00:27:02,520 --> 00:27:06,320
Speaker 1: any But whenever things there's no there's nobody there and

609
00:27:06,320 --> 00:27:09,320
Speaker 1: I'm in for a while. When I first started really

610
00:27:09,359 --> 00:27:13,720
Speaker 1: pursuing doing comedy or doing you know, motivational talks, things

611
00:27:13,720 --> 00:27:15,879
Speaker 1: would crack or it would be an audio problem, or

612
00:27:15,920 --> 00:27:19,560
Speaker 1: I would bomb a joke. I was used to go

613
00:27:19,640 --> 00:27:21,560
Speaker 1: in and being like, well how about that and getting something,

614
00:27:21,840 --> 00:27:24,880
Speaker 1: but it wasn't there. So I wonder, you know, since

615
00:27:24,880 --> 00:27:27,240
Speaker 1: you've been doing it so long, because that will happen

616
00:27:27,240 --> 00:27:29,760
Speaker 1: at some point, right, And of course it's a it's

617
00:27:29,760 --> 00:27:33,080
Speaker 1: a really interesting, scary but awesome feeling. Once it happens

618
00:27:33,080 --> 00:27:34,679
Speaker 1: a couple of times and you're like oh yeah, no, no,

619
00:27:35,240 --> 00:27:37,240
Speaker 1: like yeah, I'm good. You're like you're like yeah, I'm good,

620
00:27:37,560 --> 00:27:39,800
Speaker 1: So that would be that'll be fun because you're going

621
00:27:39,800 --> 00:27:43,000
Speaker 1: out on the Keith tour, which I saw, and that's

622
00:27:43,000 --> 00:27:44,719
Speaker 1: a that's a lot of people have. It's a much

623
00:27:44,720 --> 00:27:46,440
Speaker 1: bigger stage, a whole lot of people. And I guess

624
00:27:46,440 --> 00:27:48,600
Speaker 1: you still have your band, right do you have all

625
00:27:48,640 --> 00:27:51,800
Speaker 1: the guys? It's the guys. Um Tom our bass player

626
00:27:51,960 --> 00:27:54,280
Speaker 1: moved on and ended up taking a gig with Luke Bryan,

627
00:27:54,400 --> 00:27:57,119
Speaker 1: so he's he's rocking. But yeah, all the same guys.

628
00:27:57,160 --> 00:28:00,360
Speaker 1: I na him, and uh, it just feels right when

629
00:28:00,359 --> 00:28:03,160
Speaker 1: after this fall will be will be in a group,

630
00:28:03,240 --> 00:28:05,959
Speaker 1: but this fall will be the you know, it'll be

631
00:28:06,000 --> 00:28:08,840
Speaker 1: fun because it's it's like it's all brand new and

632
00:28:09,000 --> 00:28:11,200
Speaker 1: all exciting and yeah, like you said, there's that added

633
00:28:11,280 --> 00:28:14,600
Speaker 1: fear or nervousness or excitement or whatever the feeling is

634
00:28:14,640 --> 00:28:17,119
Speaker 1: there all the above that you're like, Okay, yeah, it's

635
00:28:17,119 --> 00:28:18,800
Speaker 1: gonna be different. I don't have a bi k there.

636
00:28:18,960 --> 00:28:22,520
Speaker 1: You know, we're not playing off each other and um,

637
00:28:22,560 --> 00:28:24,919
Speaker 1: but but the crowds they're still and be honest, if

638
00:28:24,920 --> 00:28:28,360
Speaker 1: they're there, it's like, man, that's it's easier to play

639
00:28:28,400 --> 00:28:31,200
Speaker 1: off them than anybody else. So I'll probably be leaning

640
00:28:31,200 --> 00:28:34,760
Speaker 1: on them quite a bit, you know. And the Keith Keith.

641
00:28:34,800 --> 00:28:37,399
Speaker 1: I know, I think Ingrid's on the tour to so

642
00:28:37,440 --> 00:28:40,720
Speaker 1: where are you playing? Is it Ingrid? You Keith? And

643
00:28:40,760 --> 00:28:42,840
Speaker 1: then how long as the main support? How long do

644
00:28:42,840 --> 00:28:46,280
Speaker 1: you get a set? There? Sixty minutes you get an hour? Wow,

645
00:28:46,920 --> 00:28:51,000
Speaker 1: that's jumping right in the deep end. So when you geez,

646
00:28:51,240 --> 00:28:53,400
Speaker 1: that's awesome because you have to you have to get

647
00:28:53,400 --> 00:28:56,080
Speaker 1: it quick. We'll be yeah, exactly. That's why I say,

648
00:28:56,120 --> 00:28:59,840
Speaker 1: after this fallt tour, like I'll be ready. So when

649
00:28:59,840 --> 00:29:03,360
Speaker 1: you play your sixty minutes set and they're like, here's

650
00:29:03,360 --> 00:29:05,840
Speaker 1: Tyler Hubbard. Obviously, I was talking to Ronnie down this

651
00:29:05,880 --> 00:29:07,320
Speaker 1: morning about it, because you know, he's like, he's like,

652
00:29:07,360 --> 00:29:09,120
Speaker 1: I gotta I'm gonna go and play some shows from

653
00:29:09,120 --> 00:29:12,920
Speaker 1: my solo now. And he's like, but I'll always play

654
00:29:13,160 --> 00:29:14,680
Speaker 1: some of the Brooks and Dunes always. He's like, it

655
00:29:14,680 --> 00:29:16,800
Speaker 1: doesn't matter, like people know me from that. I gotta

656
00:29:16,840 --> 00:29:18,280
Speaker 1: stay true to that, even though I'm gonna do this

657
00:29:18,320 --> 00:29:21,000
Speaker 1: new projects. I think it comes out next Friday. And

658
00:29:21,080 --> 00:29:22,760
Speaker 1: you know, he said kicks the same thing, like there's

659
00:29:22,800 --> 00:29:25,320
Speaker 1: a there's a respect and appreciation we go out. So

660
00:29:25,400 --> 00:29:28,960
Speaker 1: what is your goal there, because regardless of let's have

661
00:29:28,960 --> 00:29:32,640
Speaker 1: twenty number one in a row, you're still part of

662
00:29:32,960 --> 00:29:36,480
Speaker 1: Florida Georgia line how you were introduced to folks. So

663
00:29:36,640 --> 00:29:40,280
Speaker 1: is your dream to not play those songs solo? No, No,

664
00:29:41,240 --> 00:29:43,080
Speaker 1: It'll all be kind of depending on the amount of

665
00:29:43,120 --> 00:29:45,400
Speaker 1: time that I have. But I definitely want to have

666
00:29:45,440 --> 00:29:51,000
Speaker 1: a moment in this show that will probably be uh

667
00:29:51,400 --> 00:29:53,960
Speaker 1: rooted in my songwriting, you know, and I'll get to

668
00:29:54,000 --> 00:29:55,960
Speaker 1: play some we can call him covers now, but songs

669
00:29:55,960 --> 00:29:59,120
Speaker 1: that I've written, whether it's an out Dane song or um,

670
00:30:00,000 --> 00:30:01,840
Speaker 1: you know, any of the songs I've written, or f

671
00:30:01,920 --> 00:30:04,200
Speaker 1: g L songs, you know, So like cruising meant to

672
00:30:04,240 --> 00:30:06,400
Speaker 1: be in a little bit for example, Like we can

673
00:30:06,440 --> 00:30:08,040
Speaker 1: just take those three and say, all right, I'm just

674
00:30:08,040 --> 00:30:10,520
Speaker 1: gonna And I'd also just like to pay Yeah, I want,

675
00:30:10,560 --> 00:30:12,520
Speaker 1: I want in my show. I wanted to tell my

676
00:30:12,560 --> 00:30:14,360
Speaker 1: story and that's a big part of my story, so,

677
00:30:15,280 --> 00:30:17,600
Speaker 1: you know, and being a part of writing those songs,

678
00:30:17,600 --> 00:30:20,200
Speaker 1: and so I think it'll be fun to, you know,

679
00:30:20,320 --> 00:30:22,520
Speaker 1: within the context of telling my story, going to play

680
00:30:22,560 --> 00:30:25,160
Speaker 1: a few FGL songs. But ultimately, I don't know if

681
00:30:25,200 --> 00:30:27,080
Speaker 1: the key set is gonna allow it, because we were

682
00:30:27,080 --> 00:30:29,200
Speaker 1: having rehearsal last week and we were kind of working

683
00:30:29,240 --> 00:30:31,960
Speaker 1: through it and we're like, man, you know, we've we've

684
00:30:31,960 --> 00:30:34,040
Speaker 1: worked up like thirteen of the new songs and it's

685
00:30:34,040 --> 00:30:35,920
Speaker 1: just like really hard to not want to play those

686
00:30:35,960 --> 00:30:38,400
Speaker 1: new ones. And so I'm not exactly sure what we're

687
00:30:38,440 --> 00:30:40,560
Speaker 1: gonna do yet, whether whether or not we're gonna play

688
00:30:41,360 --> 00:30:43,400
Speaker 1: you know, some covers in the sixty minutes said or

689
00:30:43,400 --> 00:30:45,480
Speaker 1: wait and do that, you know next year. But I

690
00:30:45,480 --> 00:30:48,560
Speaker 1: mean there's medley, that's the word. I know, a little medley,

691
00:30:48,720 --> 00:30:52,800
Speaker 1: a little verse course for four minute, fifteen second medley

692
00:30:52,880 --> 00:30:55,920
Speaker 1: of four or five songs. And so people are like, oh, yeah,

693
00:30:55,920 --> 00:30:57,880
Speaker 1: you did. I remember I just went to r M

694
00:30:58,000 --> 00:31:01,440
Speaker 1: once um, and I was super because I didn't get

695
00:31:01,440 --> 00:31:03,520
Speaker 1: to see the r M was you know, when I

696
00:31:03,560 --> 00:31:06,080
Speaker 1: was young, young. R a M was massive and you know,

697
00:31:06,520 --> 00:31:09,600
Speaker 1: early nineties, and so then they kind of went off

698
00:31:09,600 --> 00:31:11,160
Speaker 1: and they came back and I was like, heck, yeah,

699
00:31:11,160 --> 00:31:12,920
Speaker 1: I want to go watch r M and had great

700
00:31:12,920 --> 00:31:16,000
Speaker 1: season and they never played one of their older and

701
00:31:16,040 --> 00:31:18,440
Speaker 1: I was like, I was like, what just happened here?

702
00:31:18,480 --> 00:31:21,840
Speaker 1: I didn't get one one hit. They just played a

703
00:31:21,880 --> 00:31:24,440
Speaker 1: medley for like four minutes of what's frequency again it

704
00:31:24,800 --> 00:31:28,080
Speaker 1: everybody would have been okay, But it's good feedback to

705
00:31:28,080 --> 00:31:29,959
Speaker 1: have as I'm trying to figure it out, you know,

706
00:31:30,240 --> 00:31:33,240
Speaker 1: I just I just left going. I spent all these

707
00:31:33,320 --> 00:31:37,160
Speaker 1: years listening to so much of their music. I just

708
00:31:37,200 --> 00:31:39,560
Speaker 1: needed a nibble. I just wanted to feel a little

709
00:31:39,600 --> 00:31:43,360
Speaker 1: bit of that. Yeah, So I'm gonna play some of

710
00:31:43,400 --> 00:31:45,200
Speaker 1: these songs here because you're putting them out pretty good.

711
00:31:45,280 --> 00:31:46,680
Speaker 1: Every time I look at I knew someone coming out.

712
00:31:46,760 --> 00:31:48,479
Speaker 1: It's like Tyler always got a new song. I think

713
00:31:48,560 --> 00:31:52,120
Speaker 1: at three out. Now let's play five ft nine and

714
00:31:52,120 --> 00:31:54,600
Speaker 1: then this is the single, right, all right, here we

715
00:31:54,640 --> 00:32:12,440
Speaker 1: go God Me five and Small True Dead make Whiskey

716
00:32:12,840 --> 00:32:18,520
Speaker 1: makes good stuff. So as this is a single, who

717
00:32:18,600 --> 00:32:21,800
Speaker 1: are you with? Label wise Universal? Okay, that's not the

718
00:32:21,800 --> 00:32:27,320
Speaker 1: same label, new label. So what's that? The whole swim everything,

719
00:32:28,240 --> 00:32:31,520
Speaker 1: that's a big deal. The management SWI I mean, the

720
00:32:31,560 --> 00:32:34,000
Speaker 1: label swich is significant, but even the management, which because

721
00:32:34,000 --> 00:32:36,320
Speaker 1: that's who's with that's every day. Yeah, and that was

722
00:32:36,360 --> 00:32:39,640
Speaker 1: a big um. That was a big need for me.

723
00:32:39,680 --> 00:32:41,560
Speaker 1: I mean to be honest, you know, the last couple

724
00:32:41,560 --> 00:32:43,160
Speaker 1: of years of the f gl thing. You know, it

725
00:32:43,280 --> 00:32:46,760
Speaker 1: was pretty um undermanaged, and I knew, I think my

726
00:32:46,800 --> 00:32:50,040
Speaker 1: biggest fear and my biggest hesitation in doing any of

727
00:32:50,040 --> 00:32:54,040
Speaker 1: this solo stuff. Um, before I met my new management

728
00:32:54,120 --> 00:32:57,040
Speaker 1: team was was just that like that I'd be feeling

729
00:32:57,040 --> 00:32:58,560
Speaker 1: the loan, you know that I'd be trying to do

730
00:32:58,600 --> 00:33:01,880
Speaker 1: it micromanager every little aspect of it, and you know

731
00:33:01,920 --> 00:33:04,360
Speaker 1: how many aspects there are and how many moving parts,

732
00:33:04,360 --> 00:33:06,520
Speaker 1: and it's it's impossible for one person to do. So

733
00:33:06,960 --> 00:33:10,040
Speaker 1: I met them and I felt so much more equipped

734
00:33:10,040 --> 00:33:12,160
Speaker 1: and supported and actually like that was when I actually

735
00:33:12,160 --> 00:33:14,440
Speaker 1: decided like, all right, I'm gonna do this. I can

736
00:33:14,440 --> 00:33:17,080
Speaker 1: do this, so if to the folks listening, I didn't

737
00:33:17,080 --> 00:33:18,440
Speaker 1: know what a manager was either until I had to

738
00:33:18,440 --> 00:33:20,720
Speaker 1: have one. And so even today I did. Uh. I

739
00:33:20,760 --> 00:33:22,720
Speaker 1: did a radio show and then we did my kid's

740
00:33:22,760 --> 00:33:24,800
Speaker 1: books out and so we did a whole online signing

741
00:33:24,800 --> 00:33:28,560
Speaker 1: and then I'm here. So but my manager overseas all

742
00:33:28,560 --> 00:33:30,640
Speaker 1: that everything that I possibly do. It doesn't matter in

743
00:33:30,680 --> 00:33:33,720
Speaker 1: what world it's in, what space it's in, Like they

744
00:33:33,720 --> 00:33:36,840
Speaker 1: are part of everywhere, your labels, your music, But my

745
00:33:36,880 --> 00:33:40,080
Speaker 1: managers dealing with the tour, the little so that is

746
00:33:40,120 --> 00:33:43,239
Speaker 1: such an intimate that's a that's a person you have

747
00:33:43,280 --> 00:33:45,440
Speaker 1: to really trust or people you have to really trust.

748
00:33:45,680 --> 00:33:48,600
Speaker 1: But it's a very intimate part of your career and

749
00:33:48,640 --> 00:33:51,200
Speaker 1: even your personal life honestly because it is someone who's

750
00:33:51,280 --> 00:33:53,080
Speaker 1: very close to you. So you I mean, that's a

751
00:33:53,120 --> 00:33:56,640
Speaker 1: lot of change, man. How do you pick a new label? Well,

752
00:33:56,720 --> 00:33:59,920
Speaker 1: the uh, my manager helped me navigate that, you know.

753
00:34:00,000 --> 00:34:03,200
Speaker 1: Oh and we um, we only we knew that it

754
00:34:03,280 --> 00:34:05,560
Speaker 1: was between a couple, you know, and then we we

755
00:34:05,720 --> 00:34:08,920
Speaker 1: just uh took a couple of meetings and I honestly

756
00:34:08,920 --> 00:34:12,560
Speaker 1: just felt really at home, you know. Um. I met

757
00:34:12,600 --> 00:34:16,200
Speaker 1: with Mike Dungan over there and uh played the music

758
00:34:16,239 --> 00:34:19,200
Speaker 1: and their level of excitement, you know, I just uh,

759
00:34:19,239 --> 00:34:21,680
Speaker 1: you know, and then after meeting their whole team, I

760
00:34:21,719 --> 00:34:23,520
Speaker 1: was like, yeah, this feels this feels like the right

761
00:34:23,560 --> 00:34:27,600
Speaker 1: team and the right um, the right move for me. Um.

762
00:34:27,719 --> 00:34:29,480
Speaker 1: So yeah, it was. It was pretty simple. It was

763
00:34:29,520 --> 00:34:32,640
Speaker 1: actually a lot more a lot less complicated than it

764
00:34:32,719 --> 00:34:35,560
Speaker 1: had been in the past. I'd be so neurotic. I

765
00:34:35,600 --> 00:34:38,680
Speaker 1: was so neurotic about everything, Like I Yeah, I just

766
00:34:39,239 --> 00:34:42,719
Speaker 1: like I I hold up with people, even professionally to

767
00:34:42,760 --> 00:34:46,120
Speaker 1: my detriment sometimes and like, that's it, that's it. You

768
00:34:46,120 --> 00:34:48,120
Speaker 1: haven't stolen from me, you haven't stabbed me. We're good

769
00:34:48,160 --> 00:34:50,960
Speaker 1: forever and that that again I And at times that's

770
00:34:51,000 --> 00:34:52,520
Speaker 1: not good for me. So I commend you for just

771
00:34:52,560 --> 00:34:55,480
Speaker 1: going all right, this feels good, it feels natural, let's go,

772
00:34:55,600 --> 00:34:58,040
Speaker 1: because I I don't have that growth yet. And they were,

773
00:34:58,080 --> 00:35:00,279
Speaker 1: you know, there was there were people that I mean

774
00:35:00,280 --> 00:35:03,160
Speaker 1: everybody in my previous career, if you want to call

775
00:35:03,160 --> 00:35:06,359
Speaker 1: it that, my last ten years f Gail chapter. They

776
00:35:06,360 --> 00:35:08,759
Speaker 1: were great. But but a lot of people I think

777
00:35:08,960 --> 00:35:13,000
Speaker 1: UM had a difficult time, uh fully wrapping their head

778
00:35:13,000 --> 00:35:15,080
Speaker 1: around the fact that we were moving on and doing

779
00:35:15,120 --> 00:35:18,120
Speaker 1: different things and had a hard time with the transition

780
00:35:18,160 --> 00:35:20,960
Speaker 1: and or or accepting the transition in general. So I

781
00:35:20,960 --> 00:35:25,120
Speaker 1: think it was necessary and beneficial just to have UM

782
00:35:25,200 --> 00:35:26,960
Speaker 1: kind of a clean table to be able to rebuild

783
00:35:26,960 --> 00:35:29,400
Speaker 1: a little bit. New eyes, new years, new perspective, because

784
00:35:29,520 --> 00:35:31,640
Speaker 1: you have new eyes, new year as a new perspective,

785
00:35:32,200 --> 00:35:34,840
Speaker 1: so you need teams got to match it. Yeah, thirty

786
00:35:34,880 --> 00:35:53,040
Speaker 1: five little more. When you're writing, I'm assuming you wrote

787
00:35:53,080 --> 00:35:56,640
Speaker 1: all these songs. Did your first project did? Yeah? So

788
00:35:57,640 --> 00:36:02,719
Speaker 1: you've written as a writer for and sometimes probably specifically

789
00:36:02,719 --> 00:36:05,359
Speaker 1: for people. Right, You've written as a writer just trying

790
00:36:05,360 --> 00:36:06,839
Speaker 1: to write a great song, you don't know where it's

791
00:36:06,840 --> 00:36:09,000
Speaker 1: gonna land. You've also written for you, but you wrote

792
00:36:09,000 --> 00:36:11,480
Speaker 1: for you as part of a unit, so when it

793
00:36:11,520 --> 00:36:14,200
Speaker 1: comes to you're not creating in a different way. But

794
00:36:14,239 --> 00:36:16,440
Speaker 1: my question is did you write these songs for just

795
00:36:16,640 --> 00:36:18,839
Speaker 1: you or they just really good songs you thought are

796
00:36:18,920 --> 00:36:21,879
Speaker 1: for me? So like half the album, um, we ended

797
00:36:21,920 --> 00:36:24,719
Speaker 1: up recording eighteen songs total so far. So I'd say

798
00:36:24,719 --> 00:36:28,560
Speaker 1: about half of those were songs that I had written previously,

799
00:36:28,680 --> 00:36:31,040
Speaker 1: either for somebody or like you said, just to write

800
00:36:31,080 --> 00:36:34,160
Speaker 1: a write a song and see where it lands. And uh,

801
00:36:34,280 --> 00:36:36,600
Speaker 1: several of them are songs that I pitched other artists

802
00:36:36,680 --> 00:36:38,719
Speaker 1: or that, um, you know, they got passed on, and

803
00:36:38,800 --> 00:36:41,480
Speaker 1: it just stuck around in my phone and and and

804
00:36:41,520 --> 00:36:43,600
Speaker 1: even started to resonate even more with me and become

805
00:36:43,640 --> 00:36:45,200
Speaker 1: more true to who I was. And I was just like,

806
00:36:45,239 --> 00:36:48,160
Speaker 1: once I accepted and kind of decided that I was

807
00:36:48,160 --> 00:36:50,720
Speaker 1: going to put an album together, there was a handful

808
00:36:50,719 --> 00:36:52,239
Speaker 1: of them and I was like, yeah, this these belong

809
00:36:52,280 --> 00:36:54,719
Speaker 1: on my project, you know. So uh so there was

810
00:36:54,760 --> 00:36:58,400
Speaker 1: that and then once I made that mental shift into

811
00:36:58,880 --> 00:37:01,799
Speaker 1: knowing that this is what I was doing. My writing

812
00:37:02,000 --> 00:37:03,839
Speaker 1: change where it was like I go to a room

813
00:37:03,880 --> 00:37:05,200
Speaker 1: and they would say who were writing for and I

814
00:37:05,200 --> 00:37:08,399
Speaker 1: would say me as opposed to you know whoever, and

815
00:37:08,560 --> 00:37:10,919
Speaker 1: uh and then it was cool because then I got

816
00:37:10,920 --> 00:37:14,040
Speaker 1: to really dive into uh a little bit more that,

817
00:37:14,080 --> 00:37:17,400
Speaker 1: like I mentioned, like self exploration and really what do

818
00:37:17,480 --> 00:37:18,960
Speaker 1: I want to say? How do I want to tell

819
00:37:19,000 --> 00:37:21,279
Speaker 1: my story? And you know, how do I want to?

820
00:37:21,480 --> 00:37:24,560
Speaker 1: Now I can connect with fans on a deeper level

821
00:37:24,600 --> 00:37:27,320
Speaker 1: and they can get to know me more, like you said,

822
00:37:27,400 --> 00:37:30,240
Speaker 1: more of who I am personally and individually as opposed

823
00:37:30,239 --> 00:37:32,919
Speaker 1: to a band or a brand. Did you feel more

824
00:37:33,000 --> 00:37:38,359
Speaker 1: vulnerable when writing for just you? Yeah, I think so,

825
00:37:38,800 --> 00:37:42,279
Speaker 1: but I try not to also overthinking and ultimately we

826
00:37:42,280 --> 00:37:45,359
Speaker 1: were still just trying to write great songs, but I

827
00:37:45,400 --> 00:37:50,080
Speaker 1: was trying to integrate my own personal, uh you know,

828
00:37:50,239 --> 00:37:54,040
Speaker 1: stories or inspiration into them, and so uh, yeah, there

829
00:37:54,040 --> 00:37:57,480
Speaker 1: were times where I definitely felt more vulnerable. Um, but

830
00:37:58,280 --> 00:38:01,720
Speaker 1: it was I think that's necessary there when you're writing

831
00:38:01,719 --> 00:38:05,680
Speaker 1: a lot of these kind of songs, I think I

832
00:38:05,680 --> 00:38:07,800
Speaker 1: can just outside in perspective. I think if you're writing

833
00:38:09,480 --> 00:38:11,920
Speaker 1: because I've written books that are specifically about me. I

834
00:38:11,960 --> 00:38:14,440
Speaker 1: know that's about me, and everybody's gonna know that's about me.

835
00:38:14,520 --> 00:38:17,279
Speaker 1: If I'm writing with other people and it's really about me,

836
00:38:17,320 --> 00:38:19,120
Speaker 1: I can always just act like it's not. I mean,

837
00:38:19,440 --> 00:38:21,200
Speaker 1: as long as no one's just gonna we're like, hey,

838
00:38:21,200 --> 00:38:23,600
Speaker 1: it's a very personal song for us, and who knows

839
00:38:23,600 --> 00:38:25,879
Speaker 1: which parts about who. I think there's a little bit

840
00:38:25,920 --> 00:38:29,880
Speaker 1: of shelter there. And even if you are vulnerable, people

841
00:38:29,920 --> 00:38:31,600
Speaker 1: not knowing where to attach the vulnerability, so it's a

842
00:38:31,600 --> 00:38:33,080
Speaker 1: lot easier and you don't feel as like your rib

843
00:38:33,120 --> 00:38:35,120
Speaker 1: cage is wide open. I think when you're writing and

844
00:38:35,160 --> 00:38:39,080
Speaker 1: it's your own stuff, it's only you. Like what you're saying,

845
00:38:39,840 --> 00:38:41,839
Speaker 1: the feelings that people are feeling from you, that's all

846
00:38:41,880 --> 00:38:45,799
Speaker 1: attached to you now. And I just you know, when

847
00:38:45,840 --> 00:38:48,520
Speaker 1: I say vulnerability, like it's like if you put it

848
00:38:48,520 --> 00:38:52,040
Speaker 1: out there and it it's you, it's now you. And

849
00:38:52,520 --> 00:38:55,239
Speaker 1: there was that I was gonna say, there was a

850
00:38:55,320 --> 00:38:57,640
Speaker 1: pretty uh. I mean, there was a big shift and

851
00:38:57,719 --> 00:39:00,520
Speaker 1: a lot of I think just me you trying to

852
00:39:00,719 --> 00:39:03,480
Speaker 1: fully process, like, oh, when I put a song out,

853
00:39:03,480 --> 00:39:05,719
Speaker 1: when I quote record a song, now, this doesn't say

854
00:39:05,800 --> 00:39:08,880
Speaker 1: Florida Georgia line which is actually a brand that people

855
00:39:09,239 --> 00:39:11,640
Speaker 1: that I was probably guilty at times of just kind

856
00:39:11,640 --> 00:39:13,719
Speaker 1: of saying, oh no, that's an FGL song, or that

857
00:39:13,719 --> 00:39:16,880
Speaker 1: can be I would justify maybe making certain decisions, or

858
00:39:16,920 --> 00:39:19,200
Speaker 1: maybe the quality wouldn't be up to par, or something

859
00:39:19,200 --> 00:39:22,279
Speaker 1: that maybe I wouldn't have potentially signed off on if

860
00:39:22,320 --> 00:39:24,640
Speaker 1: it has said Tyler Hubbard, Does that make sense that

861
00:39:24,680 --> 00:39:27,120
Speaker 1: there's this extra pressure I'm saying, and now you have

862
00:39:27,160 --> 00:39:29,319
Speaker 1: to have your personal name is attached to stuff. I

863
00:39:29,360 --> 00:39:32,000
Speaker 1: even considered, like do I come up with a stage name?

864
00:39:32,040 --> 00:39:34,440
Speaker 1: Do I do something that I was like, you know what, No,

865
00:39:34,600 --> 00:39:36,480
Speaker 1: I'm gonna put my name on it. It's gonna be

866
00:39:36,520 --> 00:39:38,600
Speaker 1: my story and it's yeah, and there is gonna be

867
00:39:38,600 --> 00:39:40,880
Speaker 1: the added pressure, but I'm gonna try to let that,

868
00:39:41,040 --> 00:39:42,799
Speaker 1: you know, I'm gonna try to channel that pressure into

869
00:39:42,840 --> 00:39:45,919
Speaker 1: great music and uh hopefully a deeper connection. I'm gonna

870
00:39:45,960 --> 00:39:48,040
Speaker 1: place them away home. But before I hit this one,

871
00:39:48,280 --> 00:39:51,719
Speaker 1: this is one I'd like for you to kind of, um,

872
00:39:51,760 --> 00:39:56,640
Speaker 1: just elaborate a bit on when you were in the

873
00:39:56,680 --> 00:39:58,319
Speaker 1: room right in the song, what you'r what your what

874
00:39:58,440 --> 00:40:03,240
Speaker 1: your point was in that room in creating the narrative

875
00:40:03,560 --> 00:40:06,640
Speaker 1: and recording the song way Home Cool. Yeah, I mean

876
00:40:06,640 --> 00:40:10,240
Speaker 1: this was this was actually we talked about that moment

877
00:40:10,320 --> 00:40:13,160
Speaker 1: where I decided that I I was going to make a

878
00:40:13,200 --> 00:40:15,680
Speaker 1: project and then I wanted to start intentionally writing for

879
00:40:15,840 --> 00:40:18,000
Speaker 1: me and telling my story. This was one of the

880
00:40:18,080 --> 00:40:19,840
Speaker 1: first songs that I wrote. I wrote it with Corey

881
00:40:19,840 --> 00:40:22,319
Speaker 1: Crowd and Kanan Smith and we went to the lake

882
00:40:22,400 --> 00:40:24,520
Speaker 1: for the weekend and we just sort of made a

883
00:40:25,239 --> 00:40:27,600
Speaker 1: goal to write a few songs that were, um, that

884
00:40:27,640 --> 00:40:30,160
Speaker 1: would be for me, you know. So this was one

885
00:40:30,200 --> 00:40:34,640
Speaker 1: of those. And it really is very an autobiographical. I

886
00:40:34,680 --> 00:40:37,920
Speaker 1: mean very you know, you don't have to to to

887
00:40:38,000 --> 00:40:40,080
Speaker 1: look too deep and to understanding what the song is

888
00:40:40,120 --> 00:40:42,560
Speaker 1: about and who I am and part of my childhood

889
00:40:42,560 --> 00:40:44,400
Speaker 1: and how I was when I was younger and hopefully

890
00:40:44,440 --> 00:40:47,080
Speaker 1: how I am now and you know where my headspace

891
00:40:47,200 --> 00:40:48,839
Speaker 1: is at and where you know, it feels a little

892
00:40:48,840 --> 00:40:52,480
Speaker 1: bit more mature, but um again, it's it's really a

893
00:40:52,520 --> 00:40:55,239
Speaker 1: first taste, in my opinion of the fans getting to

894
00:40:55,520 --> 00:40:58,920
Speaker 1: uh no, more of my personal story, you know, and

895
00:40:58,920 --> 00:41:00,920
Speaker 1: and where my head's at. Uh So, Yeah, it was

896
00:41:00,960 --> 00:41:03,120
Speaker 1: a lot of fun and liberating writing and it was

897
00:41:03,160 --> 00:41:07,520
Speaker 1: cool too to start to to shift my perspective, my goal.

898
00:41:07,719 --> 00:41:09,960
Speaker 1: Maybe attaching too much to this, But when you say,

899
00:41:10,400 --> 00:41:14,080
Speaker 1: you know, one of the first songs that you wrote

900
00:41:14,080 --> 00:41:17,240
Speaker 1: when you're chasing just you and you're writing with Canaan,

901
00:41:18,160 --> 00:41:21,759
Speaker 1: is that because again, Canan feels safe and is a

902
00:41:21,760 --> 00:41:25,920
Speaker 1: good writer, and that's why you wrote with him, because

903
00:41:25,960 --> 00:41:27,799
Speaker 1: you're like, it's a big change and probably a little

904
00:41:27,840 --> 00:41:30,640
Speaker 1: nervous and probably and let's talk. Let's spend three days

905
00:41:30,640 --> 00:41:32,960
Speaker 1: out of the lake. Let's talk about what this looks like.

906
00:41:33,080 --> 00:41:35,840
Speaker 1: Let's let's not put too much pressure on ourselves, but

907
00:41:35,920 --> 00:41:37,960
Speaker 1: let's be intentional in Crowder is the same way. I

908
00:41:37,960 --> 00:41:40,960
Speaker 1: mean Canon and Crowder and two of my closest buddies

909
00:41:41,480 --> 00:41:45,279
Speaker 1: and my most highly respected songwriters in this town, um

910
00:41:45,360 --> 00:41:48,440
Speaker 1: and producers. So I knew we would leave this lake

911
00:41:48,520 --> 00:41:51,120
Speaker 1: with a great demo, a great song or two, and

912
00:41:51,160 --> 00:41:53,120
Speaker 1: we did. We wrote three songs and two of them

913
00:41:53,160 --> 00:41:56,600
Speaker 1: made the album. So so yeah, it was very beneficial.

914
00:41:56,719 --> 00:41:59,400
Speaker 1: But it was helpful to have those guys that that

915
00:41:59,440 --> 00:42:01,520
Speaker 1: I could trust us and that I could just you know,

916
00:42:02,000 --> 00:42:04,680
Speaker 1: just be real with the card, the the easy, the

917
00:42:04,680 --> 00:42:07,480
Speaker 1: fun and the tough. So it was it was great.

918
00:42:13,120 --> 00:42:17,320
Speaker 1: Here is way home. Dating life is a how way.

919
00:42:18,800 --> 00:42:23,760
Speaker 1: Now I puts myus on my more than one time

920
00:42:23,800 --> 00:42:28,680
Speaker 1: out to the wrongs of Lane, just letting my horse

921
00:42:28,760 --> 00:42:33,040
Speaker 1: and all a while. Yeah, I got along until I

922
00:42:33,120 --> 00:42:38,160
Speaker 1: got found who Now that it's well in my soul,

923
00:42:39,360 --> 00:42:45,719
Speaker 1: I just right in seeing this, Jesus suddenly know the

924
00:42:45,840 --> 00:42:50,600
Speaker 1: way home? Will there be again? It's you. I know,

925
00:42:50,640 --> 00:42:53,080
Speaker 1: faith is very important to you. Do you feel like

926
00:42:53,560 --> 00:42:56,680
Speaker 1: there'll be a little more of that since it's your

927
00:42:56,800 --> 00:42:59,760
Speaker 1: story and your story actually is a lot of faith,

928
00:42:59,800 --> 00:43:03,319
Speaker 1: And yeah, I mean there's always been little nuggets of

929
00:43:03,400 --> 00:43:05,359
Speaker 1: that within the f GIL stuff because it's a big

930
00:43:05,400 --> 00:43:08,719
Speaker 1: part of b Cana's story right together. Even I mean

931
00:43:08,719 --> 00:43:10,480
Speaker 1: I met v K to worship service where he was

932
00:43:10,520 --> 00:43:12,640
Speaker 1: leading worship, you know, so that we've actually led a

933
00:43:12,640 --> 00:43:16,560
Speaker 1: worship together before. So um, so that was a big part.

934
00:43:16,600 --> 00:43:18,359
Speaker 1: So I don't think it will really change a whole lot,

935
00:43:18,400 --> 00:43:21,919
Speaker 1: and there won't be a whole lot more, but yeah, um,

936
00:43:21,960 --> 00:43:24,000
Speaker 1: it's still a big part of my life and a

937
00:43:24,000 --> 00:43:25,840
Speaker 1: big part of of who I am and where my

938
00:43:25,920 --> 00:43:28,200
Speaker 1: joy comes from. And so I love to sing about

939
00:43:28,200 --> 00:43:30,640
Speaker 1: it and you know, talk to the world about it.

940
00:43:30,680 --> 00:43:33,239
Speaker 1: But it'll still be dynamic. You know, I wanted this

941
00:43:33,320 --> 00:43:37,279
Speaker 1: album to uh to showcase all the sides of who

942
00:43:37,320 --> 00:43:39,000
Speaker 1: I am, you know, and that is a big, a

943
00:43:39,000 --> 00:43:41,640
Speaker 1: big part of who I am. But the more I've

944
00:43:41,719 --> 00:43:44,600
Speaker 1: learned about myself, the more I've learned there's a a

945
00:43:44,680 --> 00:43:46,719
Speaker 1: lot of sites to who I am, you know, which

946
00:43:46,760 --> 00:43:48,759
Speaker 1: is was great as a creative and an artist to

947
00:43:48,840 --> 00:43:52,560
Speaker 1: get to slowly showcase all those you know, different size

948
00:43:52,560 --> 00:43:55,040
Speaker 1: and let people more into who I am. What's happened

949
00:43:55,040 --> 00:43:56,560
Speaker 1: with you today? So far? You wake up? What? How

950
00:43:56,600 --> 00:43:59,400
Speaker 1: do wake up? Man? Today was well, the kids and

951
00:43:59,440 --> 00:44:02,520
Speaker 1: my wife out of town, so it's different than typically

952
00:44:02,520 --> 00:44:04,600
Speaker 1: I wake up like six, but I slept into like

953
00:44:04,680 --> 00:44:07,600
Speaker 1: seven thirty, which is pretty epic, and I was still

954
00:44:07,640 --> 00:44:09,520
Speaker 1: able to have some me time, you know, in the morning.

955
00:44:09,600 --> 00:44:15,200
Speaker 1: So so yeah, I had my coffee. I uh probably

956
00:44:15,200 --> 00:44:17,200
Speaker 1: just I caught up on some emails. I probably got

957
00:44:17,200 --> 00:44:18,839
Speaker 1: into my work a little quicker than I should have,

958
00:44:18,920 --> 00:44:21,279
Speaker 1: but I was super sore, so I did a little

959
00:44:21,280 --> 00:44:23,040
Speaker 1: stretch in the day and ran a little bit. I'm

960
00:44:23,040 --> 00:44:24,759
Speaker 1: trying to get my cardio back up, so I did

961
00:44:24,800 --> 00:44:28,239
Speaker 1: a little exercise and then uh man, I just kind

962
00:44:28,239 --> 00:44:31,120
Speaker 1: of chilled this this knocked out a few emails, had lunch,

963
00:44:31,120 --> 00:44:34,000
Speaker 1: and came over here. Has it been they'll, uh, let's

964
00:44:34,040 --> 00:44:36,080
Speaker 1: let's remove the pandemic, because I think for everybody that's

965
00:44:36,400 --> 00:44:43,640
Speaker 1: odd situation. Has it been a bit more? I will

966
00:44:44,040 --> 00:44:47,719
Speaker 1: use my um uh, it's a lot more thinking than

967
00:44:47,760 --> 00:44:50,879
Speaker 1: doing right now because you're strategizing what's coming up. Has

968
00:44:50,920 --> 00:44:52,759
Speaker 1: it been a lot more of that since you're not

969
00:44:52,840 --> 00:44:56,720
Speaker 1: really traveling and touring yet, then it would have been

970
00:44:56,880 --> 00:45:02,240
Speaker 1: otherwise if you're still in fl Yeah, because you're rebuilding something,

971
00:45:02,320 --> 00:45:04,120
Speaker 1: you know, it's not something that we're just trying to

972
00:45:04,160 --> 00:45:07,920
Speaker 1: maintain at this point. We're rebuilding, we're re establishing, We're

973
00:45:07,920 --> 00:45:12,000
Speaker 1: re relationships, were re reputation where everything, you know, we're

974
00:45:12,040 --> 00:45:15,520
Speaker 1: re defining who I am as now a thirty five

975
00:45:15,600 --> 00:45:18,160
Speaker 1: year old married man with kids who was install writer

976
00:45:18,200 --> 00:45:21,080
Speaker 1: and an artist, you know, um as opposed to who

977
00:45:21,160 --> 00:45:23,640
Speaker 1: I was with F g L, which was quite frankly

978
00:45:24,280 --> 00:45:26,279
Speaker 1: a twenty five years and it's ten years ago. You know,

979
00:45:26,360 --> 00:45:28,719
Speaker 1: it was we're all as we've you can imagine how

980
00:45:28,800 --> 00:45:33,400
Speaker 1: much growth happens in ten years between thirty five. But

981
00:45:33,400 --> 00:45:36,719
Speaker 1: but yeah, it's been. Uh, it's been amazing because it

982
00:45:36,800 --> 00:45:39,880
Speaker 1: really caters to my personality to have someone or a

983
00:45:39,920 --> 00:45:42,840
Speaker 1: team that I can really strategize the nuts and bolts

984
00:45:42,840 --> 00:45:46,640
Speaker 1: in the details of every movement. You know, every intention

985
00:45:46,680 --> 00:45:50,160
Speaker 1: between behind every release and every video and every you know,

986
00:45:50,239 --> 00:45:52,440
Speaker 1: what's the purpose, what's the narrative, what do we want

987
00:45:52,440 --> 00:45:55,080
Speaker 1: to say? And all those kind of conversations were not

988
00:45:55,200 --> 00:45:58,960
Speaker 1: conversations we ever had before. So from so for me

989
00:45:59,000 --> 00:46:02,960
Speaker 1: it's like, oh man, this is highly uh, this is

990
00:46:03,080 --> 00:46:06,640
Speaker 1: highly efficient and effective way to do business. And and

991
00:46:06,719 --> 00:46:10,600
Speaker 1: it really speaks to my personality, my my o c

992
00:46:10,719 --> 00:46:13,480
Speaker 1: D attention to detail and just uh, maybe that's a

993
00:46:13,520 --> 00:46:15,279
Speaker 1: control thing. I don't know, but it's nice to have

994
00:46:15,320 --> 00:46:17,359
Speaker 1: a team that thinks and is align with me on that.

995
00:46:17,440 --> 00:46:20,319
Speaker 1: And I was wondering where and not that I thought

996
00:46:20,360 --> 00:46:22,520
Speaker 1: Haley was coming with you, But I guess Haley and

997
00:46:22,600 --> 00:46:24,880
Speaker 1: my wife had message messaged something and she was she

998
00:46:24,960 --> 00:46:27,080
Speaker 1: was like Tyler's coming over to do it, and so

999
00:46:27,120 --> 00:46:28,759
Speaker 1: I guess I thought she would may come with you.

1000
00:46:28,800 --> 00:46:31,160
Speaker 1: I told Helen and said, hey, they may come over too.

1001
00:46:31,239 --> 00:46:32,680
Speaker 1: So but if they're out of town, it makes sense

1002
00:46:32,800 --> 00:46:34,239
Speaker 1: she's not sitting in the car. I thought maybe locked

1003
00:46:34,239 --> 00:46:36,600
Speaker 1: her in until it was you cannot go to Bobby

1004
00:46:36,640 --> 00:46:38,279
Speaker 1: said it was, or she's just out there waiting for

1005
00:46:38,280 --> 00:46:41,840
Speaker 1: the call. And then so three you got three kids.

1006
00:46:41,880 --> 00:46:46,480
Speaker 1: Now you're obviously a dad. I guess my point is

1007
00:46:46,520 --> 00:46:50,719
Speaker 1: in Florida Georgia Line, you were and even in your

1008
00:46:50,719 --> 00:46:53,640
Speaker 1: mind like that's a twenty five year old person project,

1009
00:46:53,719 --> 00:46:55,600
Speaker 1: this is a thirty five year old person project in

1010
00:46:55,640 --> 00:46:58,360
Speaker 1: Florida Georgia Line on stage. I guess I didn't picture

1011
00:46:58,800 --> 00:47:02,600
Speaker 1: part of that unit as a dad. Did you have

1012
00:47:02,680 --> 00:47:06,520
Speaker 1: songs that listen? Did you have any father songs without you? Okay,

1013
00:47:06,520 --> 00:47:08,560
Speaker 1: So my question is you're more mature as an artist.

1014
00:47:09,560 --> 00:47:11,480
Speaker 1: Is that going to be part of it a bit,

1015
00:47:11,600 --> 00:47:15,280
Speaker 1: just referencing the growth as an adult and having kids.

1016
00:47:15,360 --> 00:47:18,120
Speaker 1: I think underlying for sure, whether it'll be really directly

1017
00:47:18,520 --> 00:47:21,680
Speaker 1: um uh you know out there, I'm not sure, but

1018
00:47:21,719 --> 00:47:24,920
Speaker 1: I do think the fans will feel an evolution or

1019
00:47:25,040 --> 00:47:27,759
Speaker 1: growth or maturity. I've even had a fan. One of

1020
00:47:27,800 --> 00:47:30,000
Speaker 1: the coolest things that someone said recently to me was

1021
00:47:30,400 --> 00:47:32,319
Speaker 1: thank you for your knee music. I'm so glad you're

1022
00:47:32,320 --> 00:47:35,239
Speaker 1: doing this because it allows us to continue to grow

1023
00:47:35,280 --> 00:47:37,520
Speaker 1: with you. Because yeah, when you when we were all

1024
00:47:37,560 --> 00:47:39,400
Speaker 1: coming up with your music and f g L and

1025
00:47:39,400 --> 00:47:42,040
Speaker 1: which'll were doing, we were also kids and we were

1026
00:47:42,080 --> 00:47:44,040
Speaker 1: young and we were out wanting to go party and

1027
00:47:44,040 --> 00:47:46,200
Speaker 1: go to the bars and listen to f G music. Well, now,

1028
00:47:46,719 --> 00:47:48,600
Speaker 1: you know, we're all a lot of us are in

1029
00:47:48,600 --> 00:47:50,640
Speaker 1: the season that you're in where we you know, we

1030
00:47:50,719 --> 00:47:53,520
Speaker 1: have young kids, were exhausted. Life got a little bit

1031
00:47:53,520 --> 00:47:55,440
Speaker 1: different perspective. We still want to go out and have

1032
00:47:55,480 --> 00:47:57,400
Speaker 1: a good time occasionally, so there's still gonna be that,

1033
00:47:57,520 --> 00:48:02,400
Speaker 1: but there's more depth. There's more you know, just inspiration

1034
00:48:02,480 --> 00:48:04,600
Speaker 1: from even or from even my kids, you know, like

1035
00:48:05,080 --> 00:48:07,759
Speaker 1: Inside and Out for example, as a song that's not

1036
00:48:07,920 --> 00:48:10,680
Speaker 1: directly talking about my daughter, but I was definitely had

1037
00:48:10,680 --> 00:48:12,080
Speaker 1: her in the back of my mind when we were

1038
00:48:12,120 --> 00:48:15,360
Speaker 1: writing that song, and just the beauty of um, you know,

1039
00:48:15,440 --> 00:48:18,360
Speaker 1: the beauty that she has inside now and that's the

1040
00:48:18,400 --> 00:48:21,080
Speaker 1: message that we constantly want to tell her and the

1041
00:48:21,120 --> 00:48:24,279
Speaker 1: boys for that matter. But um a message that maybe

1042
00:48:24,320 --> 00:48:26,919
Speaker 1: not everybody gets to hear. And yeah, there'll be there'll

1043
00:48:26,960 --> 00:48:28,920
Speaker 1: be some more depth to it that hopefully makes an

1044
00:48:28,920 --> 00:48:31,040
Speaker 1: impact in the world for more than just you know,

1045
00:48:31,120 --> 00:48:33,959
Speaker 1: selling beers and uh having a good time, but there'll

1046
00:48:33,960 --> 00:48:40,600
Speaker 1: still be having a very public personal life. Again, it

1047
00:48:40,680 --> 00:48:43,920
Speaker 1: just goes back to as a unit. It's different than it.

1048
00:48:43,960 --> 00:48:45,960
Speaker 1: Neverboy knew Tyler and b K, but they knew f

1049
00:48:46,040 --> 00:48:48,040
Speaker 1: gl more than they do Tyler and b K. People

1050
00:48:48,040 --> 00:48:50,000
Speaker 1: know Dan and Shay more than they know Dan. I'm

1051
00:48:50,080 --> 00:48:52,680
Speaker 1: very close to Dan, but Dan himself can kind of

1052
00:48:52,719 --> 00:48:55,879
Speaker 1: live a life Dan and say camp they're they're mat so.

1053
00:48:56,200 --> 00:48:58,360
Speaker 1: But here you are now and you're solo and you

1054
00:48:58,480 --> 00:49:03,759
Speaker 1: have a personal that's you know, pretty public, do you

1055
00:49:04,719 --> 00:49:10,799
Speaker 1: consider more of a spotlight on the direct hubbards now?

1056
00:49:11,560 --> 00:49:14,359
Speaker 1: You know, we've talked about that, Haley and I, you know,

1057
00:49:14,480 --> 00:49:17,440
Speaker 1: and and I. I'd be silly to think that it's

1058
00:49:17,440 --> 00:49:19,080
Speaker 1: not going to change a little bit from me now

1059
00:49:19,080 --> 00:49:21,840
Speaker 1: that it's like my name and my face as opposed

1060
00:49:21,880 --> 00:49:23,440
Speaker 1: to because a lot of times somebody might say, hey,

1061
00:49:23,440 --> 00:49:25,719
Speaker 1: they're Florida Georgia line. It's like, well, actually I'm not

1062
00:49:25,800 --> 00:49:29,239
Speaker 1: Florida Georgia Line. But sure, so yeah, I mean I

1063
00:49:29,320 --> 00:49:32,800
Speaker 1: expect a little bit of a shift, you know. Um.

1064
00:49:32,880 --> 00:49:36,120
Speaker 1: But also we're trying to be intentional with man, like

1065
00:49:36,320 --> 00:49:39,080
Speaker 1: how much do we eat? Because it's so hard because

1066
00:49:39,719 --> 00:49:44,239
Speaker 1: our kids are such uh bringers of joy for us

1067
00:49:44,280 --> 00:49:46,120
Speaker 1: that you give us so much joy and they're so

1068
00:49:46,200 --> 00:49:48,439
Speaker 1: funny and they're entertaining and there this and that. That's

1069
00:49:48,440 --> 00:49:51,160
Speaker 1: so we're always constantly like sending videos to our friends.

1070
00:49:51,480 --> 00:49:53,799
Speaker 1: We're wanting to post videos for the fans because it's

1071
00:49:53,840 --> 00:49:56,120
Speaker 1: just so entertaining and that you know, everybody loves it.

1072
00:49:56,480 --> 00:49:58,680
Speaker 1: So we're trying to now find this like, Okay, well,

1073
00:49:58,520 --> 00:50:02,080
Speaker 1: we need to be careful a little bit here, because

1074
00:50:02,120 --> 00:50:04,360
Speaker 1: how much privacy do we want to have because we

1075
00:50:04,400 --> 00:50:06,560
Speaker 1: don't need to you know, we need to keep some

1076
00:50:06,640 --> 00:50:08,480
Speaker 1: of this private. We need to and we need to

1077
00:50:08,480 --> 00:50:10,440
Speaker 1: showcase what we want to showcase, but it needs to

1078
00:50:10,440 --> 00:50:13,600
Speaker 1: be again, intentional and thought out, and we don't need

1079
00:50:13,640 --> 00:50:17,359
Speaker 1: to just be um putting them on blasts all the time.

1080
00:50:17,400 --> 00:50:18,960
Speaker 1: They don't know that, you know, they don't they're not

1081
00:50:19,000 --> 00:50:22,680
Speaker 1: old enough to know. So anyways, Um, again, it's something

1082
00:50:22,680 --> 00:50:25,440
Speaker 1: we're constantly trying to navigate and figure out and and uh,

1083
00:50:25,480 --> 00:50:27,200
Speaker 1: we try to back off from that a little bit

1084
00:50:27,280 --> 00:50:29,520
Speaker 1: and just stick to you know, the music and the

1085
00:50:29,600 --> 00:50:32,040
Speaker 1: branding and the purpose behind what we're doing. And Haley's

1086
00:50:32,080 --> 00:50:36,240
Speaker 1: got a you know, um platform herself, and so she's

1087
00:50:36,280 --> 00:50:39,080
Speaker 1: and it's around motherhood and stuff like that. So there's

1088
00:50:39,080 --> 00:50:41,520
Speaker 1: a little bit of overflow there with a personal life

1089
00:50:41,520 --> 00:50:44,680
Speaker 1: and but she's also kind of especially lately, really trying

1090
00:50:44,680 --> 00:50:47,760
Speaker 1: to be you know, trying to be focused more um

1091
00:50:48,520 --> 00:50:51,080
Speaker 1: on outside things and outside of people other than other

1092
00:50:51,160 --> 00:50:53,520
Speaker 1: than our family and our kids. But we just love

1093
00:50:53,520 --> 00:50:56,439
Speaker 1: our family so much that makes it more difficult. For sure,

1094
00:50:57,080 --> 00:51:00,520
Speaker 1: what do they know? How old your oldest kiddos? Our

1095
00:51:00,560 --> 00:51:03,200
Speaker 1: oldest is live and she's four, Okay, so she ight

1096
00:51:03,239 --> 00:51:06,160
Speaker 1: doesn't still grass. You would be very surprised. I swear

1097
00:51:06,280 --> 00:51:08,560
Speaker 1: sometimes I think she has a brain of a twenty

1098
00:51:08,600 --> 00:51:10,880
Speaker 1: five year older. It blows my mind. She probably grasped

1099
00:51:10,920 --> 00:51:12,640
Speaker 1: quite a bit more than a lot of four year olds,

1100
00:51:12,680 --> 00:51:14,279
Speaker 1: and I wouldn't have I wouldn't be able to say

1101
00:51:14,320 --> 00:51:16,520
Speaker 1: that if it didn't have two boys to compare it to.

1102
00:51:16,760 --> 00:51:21,040
Speaker 1: So it's drastically different. So I'm like, okay, um, but

1103
00:51:21,200 --> 00:51:26,840
Speaker 1: for her, I mean, um, like what dad does, but

1104
00:51:26,960 --> 00:51:32,080
Speaker 1: also who these people are. If you're somewhere and somebody

1105
00:51:32,120 --> 00:51:35,200
Speaker 1: that she doesn't know comes up to you, like, this

1106
00:51:35,239 --> 00:51:38,000
Speaker 1: is all normal to her, but it's not normal, right,

1107
00:51:38,040 --> 00:51:42,720
Speaker 1: So how do you have that conversation? Yeah? Well everything

1108
00:51:42,880 --> 00:51:45,520
Speaker 1: is is exactly that, just a conversation, right, And I

1109
00:51:45,560 --> 00:51:47,439
Speaker 1: try to keep it simple for her, But I try

1110
00:51:47,480 --> 00:51:52,480
Speaker 1: to inform her because she's super intuitive and also really aware,

1111
00:51:52,640 --> 00:51:54,640
Speaker 1: like way more than I ever thought about being. But

1112
00:51:54,680 --> 00:51:58,040
Speaker 1: Hayley's more like that. So she's really and sometimes I

1113
00:51:58,040 --> 00:51:59,799
Speaker 1: don't even have to tell her. She just gets it.

1114
00:51:59,840 --> 00:52:01,360
Speaker 1: She just knows, like, oh yeah, they're a fan of

1115
00:52:01,440 --> 00:52:04,320
Speaker 1: Daddy's music. Oh yeah, and they know they've known for years.

1116
00:52:04,880 --> 00:52:07,600
Speaker 1: Daddy writes songs and Daddy plays shows and Daddy makes music.

1117
00:52:07,680 --> 00:52:10,680
Speaker 1: That's what Daddy does, and so they're super proud of that.

1118
00:52:10,760 --> 00:52:14,120
Speaker 1: They love my music, which makes me feel good. But there, um,

1119
00:52:14,160 --> 00:52:16,440
Speaker 1: they've also become kind of my I mean, they'll tell

1120
00:52:16,480 --> 00:52:17,799
Speaker 1: me if they don't like a song too, so they're

1121
00:52:17,840 --> 00:52:22,160
Speaker 1: kind of like my and our team unsolicited uh opinions.

1122
00:52:22,239 --> 00:52:25,080
Speaker 1: But um, but it's great and and right now it's

1123
00:52:25,200 --> 00:52:27,799
Speaker 1: it's a really a fun season where we hadn't had

1124
00:52:27,840 --> 00:52:31,680
Speaker 1: to navigate to too much of that, you know, um,

1125
00:52:31,880 --> 00:52:34,440
Speaker 1: the fame thing. I mean, honestly, the pandemic really protected

1126
00:52:34,520 --> 00:52:38,560
Speaker 1: us and allowed us to live a very very normal, simple,

1127
00:52:38,760 --> 00:52:42,359
Speaker 1: just you know, um life. Um, but I think now

1128
00:52:42,400 --> 00:52:44,480
Speaker 1: that we're getting back on tour, they'll be and she's

1129
00:52:44,480 --> 00:52:47,560
Speaker 1: getting a little older and um, but a lot of

1130
00:52:47,600 --> 00:52:50,560
Speaker 1: it just comes with living life. She's super observant and

1131
00:52:50,640 --> 00:52:52,960
Speaker 1: just having conversations, and she'll ask the questions when she

1132
00:52:53,000 --> 00:52:54,880
Speaker 1: doesn't when she wants to know something, she'll ask. So

1133
00:52:54,960 --> 00:52:57,120
Speaker 1: it's really just being prepared to know how to answer.

1134
00:53:03,320 --> 00:53:05,520
Speaker 1: What does more music coming out this year? I mean,

1135
00:53:05,560 --> 00:53:08,319
Speaker 1: what does that mean? Um? Well, I'm going on this

1136
00:53:08,360 --> 00:53:10,480
Speaker 1: fall tour. I know I need more than three songs

1137
00:53:10,480 --> 00:53:12,480
Speaker 1: out to play, and I probably won't be able to

1138
00:53:12,520 --> 00:53:15,279
Speaker 1: put all the songs out that um that I'll be

1139
00:53:15,320 --> 00:53:17,200
Speaker 1: playing on the tour, but I'd love to have some more.

1140
00:53:17,200 --> 00:53:19,239
Speaker 1: So we're gonna put some more songs out throughout the

1141
00:53:19,239 --> 00:53:22,360
Speaker 1: fall and just keep them coming and then we're gonna Um.

1142
00:53:22,400 --> 00:53:24,160
Speaker 1: As of now, at least the plan is to put

1143
00:53:24,320 --> 00:53:27,080
Speaker 1: to put an album out in the beginning of next year.

1144
00:53:27,480 --> 00:53:30,000
Speaker 1: So will you play songs? And I guess you're gonna

1145
00:53:30,000 --> 00:53:31,960
Speaker 1: have to, but let me ask a questions like a dummy.

1146
00:53:32,120 --> 00:53:35,400
Speaker 1: Will you play songs that aren't out? Yeah? Yeah, that

1147
00:53:36,040 --> 00:53:38,880
Speaker 1: I'll play for you for sure sixty minutes if you

1148
00:53:38,960 --> 00:53:41,840
Speaker 1: only got three songs out, unless you're playing like the

1149
00:53:41,880 --> 00:53:45,520
Speaker 1: Big Dave Matthews Band jam fish jam style, you know.

1150
00:53:45,640 --> 00:53:47,640
Speaker 1: So I think I'm gonna have like eight or nine.

1151
00:53:47,640 --> 00:53:50,680
Speaker 1: I'm gonna try to have like eight songs out um

1152
00:53:50,840 --> 00:53:53,080
Speaker 1: by the time hopefully. I don't know if it'll be

1153
00:53:53,120 --> 00:53:55,359
Speaker 1: right when tour starts, but anyways, it'll be it'll be

1154
00:53:56,080 --> 00:53:58,080
Speaker 1: top of fall, you know, at some point in there,

1155
00:53:58,120 --> 00:54:00,600
Speaker 1: and then just so I can have some more familiarity.

1156
00:54:00,640 --> 00:54:03,160
Speaker 1: But even though songs will be brand new, they probably

1157
00:54:03,200 --> 00:54:05,440
Speaker 1: won't be known, so it'll be different for sure, playing

1158
00:54:05,480 --> 00:54:09,600
Speaker 1: songs that people hadn't heard. So and we're getting close

1159
00:54:09,640 --> 00:54:11,279
Speaker 1: to the time here, and I appreciate you hanging out

1160
00:54:11,440 --> 00:54:16,279
Speaker 1: and talking for an hour. Um, what does indefinite what's

1161
00:54:16,280 --> 00:54:20,160
Speaker 1: the term you guys use indefinite hiatus? What's what was it? Yeah,

1162
00:54:20,160 --> 00:54:25,560
Speaker 1: because I'm sure official my official uh thing was we're

1163
00:54:25,600 --> 00:54:28,840
Speaker 1: not breaking up, We're just taking a break, you know, Um,

1164
00:54:28,920 --> 00:54:32,640
Speaker 1: which was which it is that? But at the same time, UM,

1165
00:54:32,680 --> 00:54:35,919
Speaker 1: you know, these careers that we've chosen to pursue don't

1166
00:54:35,960 --> 00:54:38,720
Speaker 1: happen overnight. You know, it's not like you're just gonna

1167
00:54:38,920 --> 00:54:41,720
Speaker 1: there's a building process and there's a there's a journey

1168
00:54:41,719 --> 00:54:45,640
Speaker 1: that happens if you want to pursue a uh launching

1169
00:54:45,680 --> 00:54:51,239
Speaker 1: a different career and so or another career. Um, so yeah,

1170
00:54:51,280 --> 00:54:53,160
Speaker 1: for me, I mean I told b K, you know,

1171
00:54:53,239 --> 00:54:56,200
Speaker 1: let's we're gonna give this adent and we're gonna both

1172
00:54:56,239 --> 00:54:59,000
Speaker 1: build something great and then we can reassess when when

1173
00:54:59,239 --> 00:55:02,080
Speaker 1: you know, five ten years down the road, we can.

1174
00:55:02,880 --> 00:55:05,120
Speaker 1: But I'm not taught. Yeah, but for me, this is

1175
00:55:05,120 --> 00:55:08,840
Speaker 1: the thing that I'm gonna be doing for for a while.

1176
00:55:09,000 --> 00:55:10,840
Speaker 1: You get a million bucks to play a wedding together?

1177
00:55:12,120 --> 00:55:17,360
Speaker 1: Uh uh probably not? Probably not right now. It's that

1178
00:55:17,520 --> 00:55:19,359
Speaker 1: important to you, And I'm not saying it is a reason,

1179
00:55:19,440 --> 00:55:21,280
Speaker 1: but I'm just it's that important to you to really

1180
00:55:21,640 --> 00:55:26,080
Speaker 1: focus on the Tyler Hubbard. Yeah, and I'll tell you why,

1181
00:55:26,400 --> 00:55:28,600
Speaker 1: because UM and I and I have had to turn

1182
00:55:28,640 --> 00:55:31,640
Speaker 1: down some dates because if you don't cut it off completely,

1183
00:55:31,640 --> 00:55:34,120
Speaker 1: it will always be there and it always creates more

1184
00:55:34,320 --> 00:55:36,799
Speaker 1: UM confusion for the fans. They don't know what's going on.

1185
00:55:36,920 --> 00:55:40,359
Speaker 1: They think you know and not. Well, it's multiple, there's

1186
00:55:40,440 --> 00:55:43,680
Speaker 1: multiple things to it. UM. At this point I needed

1187
00:55:43,680 --> 00:55:46,319
Speaker 1: to fully fully stop one thing to be able to

1188
00:55:46,360 --> 00:55:49,799
Speaker 1: fully focus on another, UM because it really does take

1189
00:55:50,080 --> 00:55:53,560
Speaker 1: all the capacity that I have, all the creativity, all

1190
00:55:53,600 --> 00:55:56,560
Speaker 1: the schedule, all the time. UM. Because you have that

1191
00:55:56,640 --> 00:55:58,399
Speaker 1: wedding date that you just mentioned there would have been

1192
00:55:58,400 --> 00:55:59,920
Speaker 1: something that popped up that I needed to go do

1193
00:56:00,160 --> 00:56:02,040
Speaker 1: that I would have had to say no to last

1194
00:56:02,080 --> 00:56:05,120
Speaker 1: minute or you know what I mean, just something and

1195
00:56:05,160 --> 00:56:10,719
Speaker 1: so um, so yeah, we've just decided to um completely

1196
00:56:10,760 --> 00:56:13,359
Speaker 1: pushed pauls on all that. Starting in Septembers are last

1197
00:56:13,360 --> 00:56:14,879
Speaker 1: f g L date and then we're are you're still

1198
00:56:14,920 --> 00:56:17,560
Speaker 1: playing shows? Yeah, we're playing f GL shows through the

1199
00:56:17,600 --> 00:56:21,240
Speaker 1: summer festivals that we've committed to, got on the books,

1200
00:56:21,239 --> 00:56:23,200
Speaker 1: and we kind of wanted to get to play some

1201
00:56:23,320 --> 00:56:26,640
Speaker 1: shows before we well I commend you guys were sticking

1202
00:56:26,680 --> 00:56:30,160
Speaker 1: with that. I mean I no contractually, but yeah, still

1203
00:56:30,440 --> 00:56:31,879
Speaker 1: we wanted to. We thought we were going to get

1204
00:56:31,880 --> 00:56:33,799
Speaker 1: to do more, honestly, and we ended up having to

1205
00:56:33,800 --> 00:56:35,719
Speaker 1: cancel some tours and it was trying to get back

1206
00:56:35,760 --> 00:56:38,480
Speaker 1: into it after the pandemic was hard for us. So

1207
00:56:38,520 --> 00:56:42,120
Speaker 1: to get to have some shows for closure wasn't was important.

1208
00:56:42,160 --> 00:56:44,239
Speaker 1: You know, well, you do a final shows, and you

1209
00:56:44,280 --> 00:56:47,520
Speaker 1: do a purposeful final show, Uh like this is it

1210
00:56:48,200 --> 00:56:50,759
Speaker 1: the last one will be the last one. But it's

1211
00:56:50,800 --> 00:56:52,759
Speaker 1: like it's like a schedule to have a special log

1212
00:56:52,840 --> 00:56:57,279
Speaker 1: huge you guys get along right now? Yeah? Completely, I mean, yeah,

1213
00:56:57,360 --> 00:57:00,640
Speaker 1: we don't hang out on the weekends. Uh. Yeah, we

1214
00:57:00,760 --> 00:57:03,120
Speaker 1: when we get together and play shows, it's just like

1215
00:57:03,200 --> 00:57:06,520
Speaker 1: all right here, you know you still hang like like

1216
00:57:06,560 --> 00:57:08,439
Speaker 1: my show, we don't hang out. I mean we both

1217
00:57:08,480 --> 00:57:11,440
Speaker 1: literally we both have our own bus. Even before all,

1218
00:57:11,480 --> 00:57:13,919
Speaker 1: I mean for the last five years, it's really not

1219
00:57:13,960 --> 00:57:16,880
Speaker 1: like we you know, I don't go antiquing with b K.

1220
00:57:17,200 --> 00:57:20,720
Speaker 1: I don't completely get the thirteen years. Right, it's important

1221
00:57:20,720 --> 00:57:22,440
Speaker 1: to have each other. We used to hang out all

1222
00:57:22,440 --> 00:57:24,880
Speaker 1: the time. We don't anymore together all the time, right,

1223
00:57:24,960 --> 00:57:27,560
Speaker 1: That's how we That's exactly how it was a Bekna.

1224
00:57:27,800 --> 00:57:30,400
Speaker 1: And then now that we live in different states, you know,

1225
00:57:30,480 --> 00:57:32,360
Speaker 1: it's it's it's not like it used to be where

1226
00:57:32,360 --> 00:57:33,800
Speaker 1: we're hanging out all We used to live in the

1227
00:57:33,800 --> 00:57:36,680
Speaker 1: same house together, right, So so yeah, it's shifted. But

1228
00:57:36,840 --> 00:57:40,280
Speaker 1: uh and we're both in different seasons of life. But ultimately, um,

1229
00:57:40,400 --> 00:57:42,160
Speaker 1: b K is my bro and I love him and

1230
00:57:42,240 --> 00:57:45,200
Speaker 1: we've you know, created a lot of life together and

1231
00:57:45,440 --> 00:57:47,320
Speaker 1: when we get back together and play shows, it's it's

1232
00:57:47,360 --> 00:57:50,480
Speaker 1: a good time for sure. I get off that. My

1233
00:57:50,600 --> 00:57:53,480
Speaker 1: final part of this is a lot of people and

1234
00:57:53,520 --> 00:57:55,600
Speaker 1: you probably heard it yourself, say those guys do not

1235
00:57:55,680 --> 00:57:57,680
Speaker 1: like each other, that's why they split up, or or

1236
00:57:57,720 --> 00:58:00,600
Speaker 1: it was political you know. Sure you've heard that too.

1237
00:58:00,600 --> 00:58:02,360
Speaker 1: And if I don't ask this, people gonna kill me online.

1238
00:58:03,040 --> 00:58:08,040
Speaker 1: I'm glad you are. Was it a political division that

1239
00:58:08,120 --> 00:58:10,200
Speaker 1: caused you guys to go, we can't do this as

1240
00:58:10,200 --> 00:58:13,160
Speaker 1: a unit anymore. I'm so glad you asked, because nobody

1241
00:58:13,200 --> 00:58:16,600
Speaker 1: does ask. And the problem is, UM, at the time,

1242
00:58:17,960 --> 00:58:20,280
Speaker 1: we didn't want to talk about what was going on internally,

1243
00:58:20,640 --> 00:58:23,240
Speaker 1: or I should take that back. B K did not

1244
00:58:23,320 --> 00:58:26,000
Speaker 1: want to talk about what was going on. I wanted

1245
00:58:26,040 --> 00:58:28,600
Speaker 1: to talk about the shifts that were happening, the decisions

1246
00:58:28,640 --> 00:58:31,120
Speaker 1: that were being made, the conversations that were being had.

1247
00:58:31,160 --> 00:58:33,920
Speaker 1: I really wanted to sorry in the band, within the band,

1248
00:58:34,720 --> 00:58:37,680
Speaker 1: but but I also wanted to respect b Kay's desire

1249
00:58:37,760 --> 00:58:40,919
Speaker 1: not to talk about it, and so I didn't feel

1250
00:58:40,920 --> 00:58:42,600
Speaker 1: like it was my place to tell his story with

1251
00:58:42,680 --> 00:58:45,880
Speaker 1: his decision and his you know everything that you know,

1252
00:58:46,200 --> 00:58:48,320
Speaker 1: he's the one that initiated this whole solo thing in

1253
00:58:48,360 --> 00:58:50,120
Speaker 1: the first place, so I didn't feel like it was

1254
00:58:50,160 --> 00:58:56,280
Speaker 1: my job or my responsibility UM, And so basically nothing

1255
00:58:56,320 --> 00:59:00,160
Speaker 1: got said. So it created confusion in which everyone to

1256
00:59:00,240 --> 00:59:02,880
Speaker 1: creating their own narrative at that point, to have something

1257
00:59:02,960 --> 00:59:05,320
Speaker 1: to try to understand why in the world would these

1258
00:59:05,320 --> 00:59:07,000
Speaker 1: guys not be you know, why would they want to

1259
00:59:07,040 --> 00:59:09,479
Speaker 1: go do their own thing? And so at the time,

1260
00:59:09,720 --> 00:59:11,680
Speaker 1: it was in the middle of the big political It

1261
00:59:11,720 --> 00:59:15,280
Speaker 1: was actually literally around the same time that the um

1262
00:59:15,400 --> 00:59:18,640
Speaker 1: that the election happened and all that, and so that

1263
00:59:18,720 --> 00:59:22,320
Speaker 1: was kind of people just said, well, it's political, you know, um.

1264
00:59:22,360 --> 00:59:25,360
Speaker 1: But ultimately, no, it was never political. Me and b

1265
00:59:25,480 --> 00:59:29,440
Speaker 1: K don't. I mean, we definitely don't see out on

1266
00:59:29,520 --> 00:59:32,760
Speaker 1: every single thing, but we don't have any animosity about it,

1267
00:59:32,800 --> 00:59:34,760
Speaker 1: you know what I mean, we totally agree to disagree

1268
00:59:34,760 --> 00:59:37,120
Speaker 1: on certain things. We talked about it. We've never had

1269
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Speaker 1: any beef over any kind of politics. I'd like, I mean,

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Speaker 1: I literally I'm personally not a political person, so it

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Speaker 1: kind of it's just sort of humorous to me. And

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Speaker 1: we've never up until the election, we never even had

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Speaker 1: any conversations about politics that did you hear that people

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Speaker 1: were going, you guys are fighting. Oh. I would see

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Speaker 1: it all the time. I still do, because people say

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Speaker 1: why are they breaking up? And then someone else will say, oh,

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Speaker 1: it's political, and I'm like, which kind of bothers me.

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Speaker 1: I'm just sid of decided like not to let it

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Speaker 1: bother me. But I'm like, because they gotta they gotta

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01:00:05,400 --> 01:00:08,320
Speaker 1: um blame it on something other than they can't just say, oh,

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01:00:08,360 --> 01:00:10,560
Speaker 1: the guys really just want to have some individuality and

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Speaker 1: do something different. They've been doing this for ten years

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01:00:12,720 --> 01:00:15,959
Speaker 1: like um so, so yeah, I mean, we can blame

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Speaker 1: it on that if we want to, But ultimately it

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01:00:18,080 --> 01:00:19,880
Speaker 1: does bump me out because I'm like, no, that's not

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01:00:19,920 --> 01:00:24,880
Speaker 1: the narrative. That's not the story. Um and and quite honestly,

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Speaker 1: I don't I don't care enough about politics to let

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Speaker 1: it affect my life, especially my career. So I was,

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01:00:32,360 --> 01:00:34,840
Speaker 1: you know, I was a little bunned that that was

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Speaker 1: a narrative. But at the same time, again, like I said,

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Speaker 1: I didn't feel like it was my place to to

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01:00:40,000 --> 01:00:43,080
Speaker 1: buddy in. But when anybody asked me, I'll gladly talk

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Speaker 1: about it. So say a million bucks no wedding, that

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Speaker 1: we can't do it, I'll just be tight we could

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Speaker 1: do it, yeah, and I'll pass crap. All right, Well, listen,

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Speaker 1: I you know, I commend you for a few bucks

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Speaker 1: about a wedding. I love. That's that's what stood out. Well,

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Speaker 1: I mean the question is, you know, is this a

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Speaker 1: line of all right, that's that, this is this, We're

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01:01:10,360 --> 01:01:12,880
Speaker 1: not mudding the That's a great way to ask it. Hey,

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Speaker 1: million dollars yes or no, and probably not. I'm like,

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Speaker 1: all right, well I get it. You are respletely dedicated.

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Speaker 1: If it's your September, nope, call me, call me on

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01:01:23,400 --> 01:01:27,960
Speaker 1: the personal number and I'll come for half at Tyler Hubbard. Um, yeah,

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Speaker 1: I appreciate you sharing that, and you know, you know

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01:01:30,320 --> 01:01:33,560
Speaker 1: as well as I do. People are gonna pick up

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01:01:33,600 --> 01:01:36,080
Speaker 1: that back part of that especially, and that's going to

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01:01:36,160 --> 01:01:39,360
Speaker 1: be in lots of places going. Hey said it wasn't political. Um,

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Speaker 1: I think it's good. I think that's I think that's

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Speaker 1: a good thing, and so good luck. Man. It's cool

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Speaker 1: to see. You definitely could have just gone, you know,

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01:01:48,160 --> 01:01:51,440
Speaker 1: I'm good for a while. Chill. I tried that, bro,

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01:01:51,960 --> 01:01:53,800
Speaker 1: I literally did. I'm like, I'm just gonna write songs

1314
01:01:53,840 --> 01:01:56,160
Speaker 1: and literally just chilling my family. But what what was?

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01:01:56,240 --> 01:01:58,520
Speaker 1: What was itching? What that was? It? To get on

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01:01:58,520 --> 01:02:01,560
Speaker 1: a stage? Was it? It was? It was to make it.

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Speaker 1: It was to see if you could do it by yourself.

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01:02:04,040 --> 01:02:05,720
Speaker 1: It was all the above. It was to tell my

1319
01:02:05,760 --> 01:02:07,720
Speaker 1: story to see if I could do it by myself,

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01:02:08,080 --> 01:02:11,200
Speaker 1: to record songs that I loved and and you know,

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01:02:11,560 --> 01:02:13,840
Speaker 1: maxing master songs that I love and have a project

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Speaker 1: and then yeah, I'm mistouring like crazy, and so yeah,

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Speaker 1: all those things that I thought I could do without

1324
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Speaker 1: for about six months, I realized pretty quickly now that's

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Speaker 1: a big piece of the puzzle that that's what that's

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Speaker 1: part of what makes songwriting so much fun. You know.

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Speaker 1: It's also and will end on this It's gonna be

1328
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Speaker 1: a fun humble not that you need it, but I've

1329
01:02:33,680 --> 01:02:35,080
Speaker 1: had it in a way too of you having to

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Speaker 1: be you're the second act. You're now the guy that

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01:02:37,080 --> 01:02:39,240
Speaker 1: they didn't buy tickets to see, you know, and you

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Speaker 1: have to kind of win them over. And that's kind

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Speaker 1: of a new world that you've seen for acts that

1334
01:02:46,520 --> 01:02:48,640
Speaker 1: you've brought on and now you got to go back

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Speaker 1: and do it. And it's just getting to appreciate that

1336
01:02:52,840 --> 01:02:55,320
Speaker 1: again because once you're in it, you're like, oh, dang,

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Speaker 1: you know, for me to have like my own radio

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Speaker 1: show or TV show and then for me to have

1339
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Speaker 1: to drop down and go and be on American Idolize

1340
01:03:02,960 --> 01:03:06,760
Speaker 1: not the main I'm second. I'm the second line. It's

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Speaker 1: Ryan and Luke and Katie Lionel. Then it's me and

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Speaker 1: it's like, man, this is all I'm used to and

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01:03:13,880 --> 01:03:15,960
Speaker 1: it's great, but it's like, yeah, it's I had to

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01:03:16,040 --> 01:03:19,000
Speaker 1: adjust and go, well the same about me, and that's weird.

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01:03:19,080 --> 01:03:23,280
Speaker 1: But it was great for me because it's perspective that

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01:03:23,360 --> 01:03:26,080
Speaker 1: I lost a bit when I was only worried about

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Speaker 1: running the show. So it's good man, I I'm I'm

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Speaker 1: super pomph for you. You know your song is doing

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01:03:34,120 --> 01:03:36,080
Speaker 1: really well right now. I looked at it before you

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01:03:36,080 --> 01:03:38,560
Speaker 1: came over, think maybe like nineteen or twenty or twenty

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01:03:38,600 --> 01:03:41,280
Speaker 1: one or something. Are you watching it? No, I just

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Speaker 1: look at my weekly update that I get, which is

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01:03:43,640 --> 01:03:45,920
Speaker 1: that's watched just enough, just enough to know what's going on,

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01:03:45,960 --> 01:03:48,200
Speaker 1: but not to get obsessed with it, because yeah, it

1355
01:03:48,200 --> 01:03:50,760
Speaker 1: will it could. I can see it over taken. When

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Speaker 1: you gets is that when you start to go probably

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Speaker 1: top ten, probably six, yeah, because then you know, well,

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Speaker 1: some more requests. There's gonna be some work tied to

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Speaker 1: the rest of this this pool here, so yeah, you

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Speaker 1: guys follow Tyler at Tyler Hubbard Three songs out now,

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Speaker 1: but as he said, it'll keep coming and then he'll

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Speaker 1: be out with Keith uh this fall. That's it. You're

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Speaker 1: doing it. You're doing it. It's a different stage and

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Speaker 1: I'm super excited for you and it's an honor coming

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01:04:17,280 --> 01:04:19,080
Speaker 1: here and hang out with you. It's always fun. Thanks

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01:04:19,080 --> 01:04:21,520
Speaker 1: for chatting with me, and thanks for the support. Dude

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01:04:21,560 --> 01:04:23,480
Speaker 1: means a lot. Read Anything you want to say to Tyler,

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01:04:24,160 --> 01:04:27,440
Speaker 1: you've been what you've been? Reads a big you know,

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01:04:27,600 --> 01:04:29,920
Speaker 1: music guy. He runs all the digital, but he usually

1370
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Speaker 1: has a question. He's been just itching to ask. All right,

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Speaker 1: let's see here. Um, how often do you find yourself

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Speaker 1: recording at home? Like do you have a home studio?

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01:04:38,560 --> 01:04:42,040
Speaker 1: I do? Um, that comes in waves for me. You know,

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01:04:42,120 --> 01:04:45,640
Speaker 1: I'll take a few weeks off and then I'll you know,

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01:04:46,400 --> 01:04:48,400
Speaker 1: I'll feel creative and want to get on there and

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01:04:48,440 --> 01:04:52,040
Speaker 1: make tracks and try to record some demos. Um, but

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01:04:52,320 --> 01:04:54,080
Speaker 1: just enough for me not to get good enough to

1378
01:04:54,120 --> 01:04:56,080
Speaker 1: want to do it on the regular basis, because I'm

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01:04:56,120 --> 01:04:57,960
Speaker 1: there's so many great guys in this town that it's

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01:04:58,040 --> 01:05:02,000
Speaker 1: you know, it's it can be frustrating, um, because they

1381
01:05:02,040 --> 01:05:03,760
Speaker 1: make it look so easy and it's not always that

1382
01:05:03,800 --> 01:05:06,280
Speaker 1: easy so, but I do enjoy like tracking vocals and

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01:05:06,320 --> 01:05:08,640
Speaker 1: getting to kind of have that outlet if I want.

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01:05:08,800 --> 01:05:10,880
Speaker 1: That's awesome. I like it really good job, I've had,

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01:05:11,400 --> 01:05:15,280
Speaker 1: Jealousy you Have. That was the first song to listen to.

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01:05:15,320 --> 01:05:17,600
Speaker 1: I just got a new vehicle. I'm not trying to

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01:05:17,640 --> 01:05:22,680
Speaker 1: flax or anything. It's got a new whip, all right, Tyler.

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Speaker 1: Good to see abuddy too. Bro. Thanks