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Speaker 1: Podcast Playground. I'm buzznight host of Taking a Walk, music

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Speaker 1: History on Foot, and welcome to this bonus Friday episode.

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Speaker 1: Follow us at Apple Podcasts, Spotify or wherever you get

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Speaker 1: your podcasts, and do leave us a review if you could,

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Speaker 1: and pass the word I'm taking a walk. Today we

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Speaker 1: welcome a multi talented entertainer, actor, singer, songwriter, Charles Eston,

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Speaker 1: currently playing in season three of Outer Banks Ward Camera

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Speaker 1: and also in the series Nashville. He played Deacon Claybourn.

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Speaker 1: Charles is our guest right now. I'm taking a walk, Hi, Charles. Hello, Buzz.

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Speaker 1: How you doing. I'm doing excellent. How are you doing today?

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Speaker 1: I am doing very very well. I get to talk

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Speaker 1: about this show that I love. It's blowing up, so

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Speaker 1: I'm happy again. What's it like being one of the

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Speaker 1: busiest men in show business? You've got, you know, season

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Speaker 1: three of Outer Banks, which is exciting, and then you've

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Speaker 1: got your forthcoming debut One Good Move. How you find

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Speaker 1: in the time? Man? Oh, it's a joy. Actually, they

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Speaker 1: say makes hey while the sun shines. I am making

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Speaker 1: hey right now. As an actor, this is the kind

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Speaker 1: of role that you get to sink your teeth into

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Speaker 1: and these are the kind of people, our casts and

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Speaker 1: our crew that you just love to be around. So

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Speaker 1: my days working with them are beautiful. Now having said that,

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Speaker 1: I have more time. This is a big old cast

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Speaker 1: and words not in every single moment of the show.

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Speaker 1: So that means sometimes I'm sitting in my trailer, sometimes

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Speaker 1: I'm sitting at home. Sometimes I'm sitting on Zoom with

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Speaker 1: a co writer and writing songs. So music is that's

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Speaker 1: where the deepest part of my heart is and it

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Speaker 1: sort of is the water that I swim in while

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Speaker 1: I'm doing everything else. So it's really it's really amazing

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Speaker 1: for me that Out of Banks has just dropped. It's

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Speaker 1: doing so well. And now then right beside that, going

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Speaker 1: along with it is my new single. I'm a happy camper.

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Speaker 1: It's one good movement and I'm grateful for you mentioning it. Well,

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Speaker 1: We're going to get back to music at a second,

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Speaker 1: because I know it's central to your life. But can

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Speaker 1: your character, Ward Cameron go any lower in season three? Well,

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Speaker 1: that's you asking the fundamental question. You take your character

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Speaker 1: the end of season two, Ward has just done something

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Speaker 1: gotten progressively worse. But when he finally lays his hands

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Speaker 1: real treasure of his life. That's he's seemingly at rock

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Speaker 1: bottom and that's where we leave it. It's kind of

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Speaker 1: a little bit of a morality tale. For all the

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Speaker 1: you know, treasure hunting and all the wild laughs and everything.

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Speaker 1: At the heart of it, Ward has all the gold,

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Speaker 1: he has the Cross, he has everything seemingly, but he

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Speaker 1: has nothing at all. He's empty. And meanwhile the pogues

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Speaker 1: our heroes there they have no cold, they have no cross,

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Speaker 1: it's definitely finding out where does Ward go from here?

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Speaker 1: And it was an amazing ride from me. Now, when

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Speaker 1: you start a series like this, do you know that

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Speaker 1: it's destiny has more than one season in it. Oh No,

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Speaker 1: that's the nature of the television and streaming and the

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Speaker 1: whole world. The audience has to show up. They have

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Speaker 1: strength to strength, and I couldn't be happier. Lightning in

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Speaker 1: Word will do and where Ward goes. So that's all

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Speaker 1: you can ask for a character. Charles, as an active

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Speaker 1: member of music or Musicians on Call, can you talk

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Speaker 1: about from your perspective the healing power of music? Oh? Man,

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Speaker 1: you're you hit me right where I live. That is

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Speaker 1: This is an organization that gets music where it is

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Speaker 1: Oh that's so awesome. I have goosebumps. Charles. I want

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Speaker 1: so much. I want to say one more thing. It's

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Speaker 1: hope you can come out and say hi. We'll play

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Speaker 1: somebody on my music too. Ah. That's awesome, Thank you, Charles,

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Speaker 1: I appreciate it. Taking a Walk with Buzznight is available

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