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Speaker 1: From the Mercedes Benz Interview Lounge. We're so excited Thomas

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Speaker 1: Rhett coming into the studio on a second. His new album,

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Speaker 1: of Course, just came out last night. We're going to

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Speaker 1: play you a couple of cuts because he wants to

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Speaker 1: share the music with you. This is what this guy does.

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Speaker 1: He loves to share his music with you. Of course,

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Speaker 1: the album About a Woman is out right now, and

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Speaker 1: after you hear this interview, if you haven't been a

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Speaker 1: Thomas Rhet fan, you will be a t red fan,

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Speaker 1: or as Froggy calls him, my boy t Ratt boy

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Speaker 1: t Rat so funny. Oh, Danielle, you're a massive fan

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Speaker 2: His music is amazing, right, it's so good.

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Speaker 1: And Gandhi, I mean your boyfriend. One of the first

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Speaker 1: great gestures he gave to you was the gift of music.

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Speaker 1: A Thomas Rhett song.

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

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

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

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Speaker 3: Thomas Rhett just because of that.

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Speaker 1: Well, we have lost to discuss, of course. He was

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Speaker 1: on The Tonight Show the other night with Jimmy Fallon

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Speaker 1: I'll just bring him in. I know you're a big fan.

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Speaker 1: Can you let him come in? Please? Hello, Nate's out

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Speaker 1: there hogging up my time with t Red. I don't

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Speaker 1: like that. It's so good to see you have a

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Speaker 1: seat here. You were sitting there and we're on. We're

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Speaker 1: going the interview began without you here. I'm so glad

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Speaker 1: you'll have a mini bottle of tam We always have

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Speaker 1: to heen sitting around so Froggy is in Jacksonville. He's

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Speaker 1: looking right at you. What's up, Thomas? How are you

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Speaker 1: good man? Good to see you. Likewise, how's your volume

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Speaker 1: in your headphone? It's perfect? Okay, it would be better

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Speaker 1: if I had a gold microphone. You know. Well, some

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Speaker 1: of us need an ego blast. This is this is

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Speaker 1: all get mine. Welcome to New York City. Thanks d

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Speaker 1: you look great on the Tonight show. There the night

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Speaker 1: you Thank you. It was so fun. Jimmy Fallons is

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Speaker 1: the nicest guy ever.

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

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Speaker 1: But I got to really get to know him last night.

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Speaker 1: It was really cool.

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

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Speaker 4: We're planning a golf trip together, which is really nice.

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

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Speaker 4: good energy and in the whole just watching the roots

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Speaker 4: that's the most nerve wracking part of playing fas now.

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

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

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Speaker 4: me and the whole band guys are going, we are not.

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Speaker 1: As good as you. Guys. Well, here's the thing. I

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Speaker 1: know those guys, and they are impressed. They're so good.

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Speaker 1: So about a woman came out last night, Yeah, and

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Speaker 1: everyone's talking about everyone's buzzing about it. We're gonna play

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Speaker 1: a couple of cuts, yeah, a couple of seconds. Amazing

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Speaker 1: because you and I was saying this before you came in,

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Speaker 1: you just have this desire to run around and just

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Speaker 1: share your music with whoever's going to listen to it. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: And if you've always been this way, I've always kind

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

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

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Speaker 1: Excited about a project. And I don't know why.

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

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

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

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

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

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Speaker 1: I'm so freaking pumped. Some great things have happened in

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Speaker 1: There is this convention of thought now about how music

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Speaker 1: forties song. Yeah, yeah, that stuff is. Those walls are dissolving,

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Speaker 1: they're yeah, they're dissolving fast. Yeah, because of you, your thing,

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Speaker 1: It's because of me. Okay. This album, for instance, right now,

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Speaker 1: right now, about a woman. There is a lot of

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Speaker 1: different sounds on this music. Sonically, this this album is

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Speaker 1: covering all sorts of territory. Foundational, yeah, for sure. That's

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Speaker 1: how I grew up man. You know, I grew up

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Speaker 1: you know, country music was my very first love. I

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Speaker 1: mean I remember vividly driving to school with my dad

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Speaker 1: was something different. One morning it would be DMX, like, which, yeah,

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Speaker 1: I was listening to DMX and fourth grade a right.

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Speaker 1: One morning it was DMX, one morning it was Aretha Franklin.

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Speaker 1: so my dad has always just been this walking jukebox. Like, honestly,

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Speaker 1: no one knows more about eighties hair metal than my dad.

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Speaker 1: when I started making music, country was always the core,

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Speaker 1: ever since my second album, I've always kind of taken

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Speaker 1: pride in just kind of pushing, you know, pushing sonically melodically,

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Speaker 1: And I was assumed that a lot of traditionalists in

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Speaker 1: He really that didn't sound like something I grew up with.

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Speaker 1: What is that?

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Speaker 4: I'm saying, Like, I think I'm sure that there were

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Speaker 4: and they were like, well, that's not that's not real country, right,

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Speaker 4: you know what I mean? Everybody, everybody pushes every decade,

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

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

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Speaker 4: so I always love pushing boundaries. Man, it's fun to

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Speaker 1: Am so well in a coral if you want to

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Speaker 1: about looking at it the other direction. Danielle right here.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, grew up in the Bronx yep.

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Speaker 1: All right, see so you grew up your musical influences

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Speaker 5: I listened to a lot of hip hop growing up.

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Speaker 5: I listened to a lot of Top forty growing up

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Speaker 5: country did you listen to I didn't listen to a

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Speaker 5: And I did a country show on radio station, fell

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Speaker 5: in love with country and love Love That was one

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Speaker 5: And then you you know, listen to yourself. I mean,

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Speaker 5: Center Point Road is one of my favorite albums.

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Speaker 1: Serious.

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Speaker 5: I actually wrote down when you when you say the

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Speaker 5: I love the relationship. It's cutest thing ever. Thank you

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Speaker 5: for living this dream I know you never had.

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Speaker 1: It's one of my favorite songs.

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Speaker 2: Yes, and it's one of I'm like, that is just

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Speaker 2: I love it.

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Speaker 1: I love it. I had no idea we're going to

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Speaker 1: talk about deep country. Yeah, okay, let's move over here

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Speaker 1: to Gandhi. Gandhi grew up listening to solely music, for instance,

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Speaker 1: much more hip hop. Yeah.

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

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Speaker 1: Was actually, you know this, y'all are are making all this.

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Speaker 1: You'll got together last night. Y'all did not get together

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Speaker 1: last night, and this is this is all truth.

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

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

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

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

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Speaker 1: Know, country music not so bad, coming on.

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

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Speaker 1: As far as country music goes. Dude, Wow, it's amazing

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Speaker 1: as far as you starting starting playing music on your guitar.

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Speaker 4: What's the first song you ever learned to. We were

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

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Speaker 4: And We're like, what the hell is this? This is

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Speaker 4: pretty amazing. I literally I told because me and I'd

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Speaker 4: never met Rob before. I mean, like so they were

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Speaker 4: actually one of my first concerts. I saw Matchbox twenty

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Speaker 4: And I still have the T shirt to this day. So,

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Speaker 4: like now, I've always been a huge Maxbox fan. So

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

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Speaker 4: and I remember Rob commented on my Instagram page and I.

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Speaker 1: Was like, holy crap, you know, I'm a giant fan.

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Speaker 4: Rob's management emailed and said, hey, would want to sing

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Speaker 4: three AM with us? And I was like, yes, did

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Speaker 4: they know the story behind the song?

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Speaker 1: No, he didn't know.

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

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Speaker 4: you know, like right there, eat eating brisket, you know.

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Speaker 1: So okay. Now let's talk about Froggy for instance. Foggie,

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Speaker 1: of course is the new face of country radio. What's

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Speaker 1: up there? He's running awards? You now, Frog? Look at

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Speaker 1: your Trouba door hat. I know, right? Do you want

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Speaker 1: admit to h Thomas Rhett what you did when you

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

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Speaker 4: When I write love songs, they normally come out in

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Speaker 1: Okay. Of course the album out last night, it's out

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Speaker 1: talk about celebrating a new album. Yeah, that must be

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Speaker 1: like Christmas morning. Here it is, it's out. Let's just party, Yeah,

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

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Speaker 1: You know. It's like, I think, after you're thirty, you

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Speaker 1: I'm doing just fine, or I mean whatever, whatever you're doing.

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Speaker 1: Gravity is not as good. I mean, my man, boobs

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Speaker 5: Can I ask about the competition you have with your

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Speaker 2: So how's that going?

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

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Speaker 4: literally just like one thousand of each one's got like

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Speaker 1: And she's beat me by like sixty percent. Oh wow, Yeah,

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Speaker 1: something to put something to rest right now. I know

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Speaker 1: I love the fact that this is live. Sure, So

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Speaker 1: we feel like it should be. Yeah, No, I mean

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Speaker 4: I get that you have to put things on covers

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Speaker 1: We've never been better. Like, who's going to buy that?

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Speaker 4: And so yeah, I mean marriage is tough, dude, Likely

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Speaker 1: So how much do you love doing what you do?

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Speaker 4: You gotta love it a million. I mean, it doesn't

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Speaker 5: What I got to see you in Nashville on New

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Speaker 5: Yeah, And that was insane the amount of people out

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Speaker 4: It is so cool and then getting to hear y'all's

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Speaker 4: stuff has on people.

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Speaker 1: Do you know what I'm saying?

436
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Speaker 4: Like I would have never known that about either of

437
00:18:00,840 --> 00:18:02,880
Speaker 4: y'all had you told me that. You know, you listen

438
00:18:02,960 --> 00:18:04,399
Speaker 4: to look what God gave her in One of your

439
00:18:04,400 --> 00:18:06,800
Speaker 4: favorite tracks was a song that no one's brought up

440
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Speaker 4: to me in seven years?

441
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Speaker 1: Do you know what I mean? I love it?

442
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Speaker 4: And that that's the beauty of art, is that you

443
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Speaker 4: get to make it and then you get to put

444
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Speaker 4: it out and then people get to decide how it's

445
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Speaker 4: going to impact them, you know, And those stories are

446
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Speaker 4: what make it worth it.

447
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Speaker 1: So Frog get your boy t wreck.

448
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Speaker 5: I know?

449
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Speaker 6: So Thomas, I want to know. So you wrote one

450
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Speaker 6: hundred and fifty songs, you're using fourteen of them. There's

451
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Speaker 6: one hundred and thirty six songs out there that are waiting. Yeah,

452
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Speaker 6: are they been bad?

453
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Speaker 1: One? They didn't make up? They're really bad? So I

454
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Speaker 1: don't know.

455
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Speaker 4: And there's a bartender at the Ritz Carlton that has

456
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Speaker 4: the entirety of all those songs.

457
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Speaker 1: Oh my god, seriously last night, Tequila.

458
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Speaker 4: Last night, I wanted to hear the record over the speakers,

459
00:18:42,480 --> 00:18:45,840
Speaker 4: and the bartender was in control of the uh of

460
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Speaker 4: the bluetooth, So I just text them the dropbox link.

461
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Speaker 1: Go my god, did you call your attorneys this morning

462
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Speaker 1: to la it might be the worst.

463
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Speaker 4: My management's over here to be like, it's the worst

464
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Speaker 4: thing you've ever done in the twelve years of your own.

465
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Speaker 1: What could possibly go wrong? What could go right? You know?

466
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Speaker 6: Is there any chance that any of those other songs

467
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Speaker 6: make it on another album? Or do you write specifically

468
00:19:08,119 --> 00:19:10,959
Speaker 6: for this project and the next project will be totally different?

469
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Speaker 4: Still figuring that out, Like, I think it was kind

470
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Speaker 4: of a mission of mine, this go around to like,

471
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Speaker 4: because I really wanted there to be twenty four songs

472
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Speaker 4: on this album. But gosh, dude, there's just every every Friday,

473
00:19:23,600 --> 00:19:26,439
Speaker 4: there's a million songs that come out, and so I

474
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Speaker 4: really wanted this record to be digestible. I wanted you

475
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Speaker 4: to go to look at it, like I have time

476
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Speaker 4: for that. It makes sense, Like I have time to

477
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Speaker 4: sit down for thirty eight minutes and listen to this record.

478
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Speaker 4: But I think it's gonna be fun. Over the next

479
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Speaker 4: two years, manage to keep sort of just putting music out.

480
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Speaker 5: I think Bob the Bartender might be putting out.

481
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Speaker 1: Yeah, you all go hit up the ritz. Can you

482
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Speaker 1: get the record early? We need you need security to

483
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Speaker 1: protect you the world from you.

484
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Speaker 3: Yeah, say so, I know you travel a lot. You

485
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Speaker 3: said one hundred and eighty days a year. Did you

486
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Speaker 3: just get back from Kenya not too long ago. I

487
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Speaker 3: was looking at Instagram.

488
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Speaker 1: Maybe about yeah, a month ago.

489
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Speaker 3: Okay, So when you travel to Kenya, do you have

490
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Speaker 3: these same moments where shockingly, out of nowhere, somebody approaches

491
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Speaker 3: you and it's like, oh my god, Thomas Ratt, I'm

492
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Speaker 3: listening to your music in Kenya.

493
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Speaker 1: Yes, and it is so wild. It is so wild.

494
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Speaker 4: It actually happened a lot in the airports too, were

495
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Speaker 4: we had a labor in Dubai and there was someone

496
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Speaker 4: that came up to me while I was getting a

497
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Speaker 4: coffee and they were like, you know, we I love

498
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Speaker 4: your music. And I was like, where do you live?

499
00:20:23,160 --> 00:20:25,480
Speaker 4: And they're like here. I was like, are you serious?

500
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Speaker 4: Like that's the wildest compliment in the world. Not so

501
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Speaker 4: much in Kenya, we have we haven't made our to

502
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Speaker 4: the airwaves in Nairobi yet but maybe maybe at some point.

503
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Speaker 4: But yeah, but no, that was uh, that was literally

504
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Speaker 4: a trip of a lifetime.

505
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Speaker 1: It was Yeahari Sofari, I've been on five five.

506
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Speaker 4: Yeah, it's amazing. Everything can kill you over there.

507
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Speaker 1: Oh yeah, absolutely, And it's good to know that you

508
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Speaker 1: were so unimportant, Yes, as compared it's like going to

509
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Speaker 1: see the Grand Canyon. So you see the Grand Canyon

510
00:20:56,760 --> 00:21:00,199
Speaker 1: like we are nothing of that big hole. Yeah, But

511
00:21:00,600 --> 00:21:03,840
Speaker 1: to be able to go and open your mind to

512
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Speaker 1: a whole other universe and that must help in songwriting

513
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Speaker 1: as well. Did you ever find yourself in the tent

514
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Speaker 1: while the wildebeest were trying to eat you writing something

515
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Speaker 1: down going? I don't know what this is. This could

516
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Speaker 1: be a song next year. The very first night that

517
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Speaker 1: we were there, this did not lead to a song.

518
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Speaker 1: I just think this is a crazy story.

519
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Speaker 4: But the very first night we were there, we were

520
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Speaker 4: staying in these it's not camping, it's glamping, you know

521
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Speaker 4: what I'm saying. And so me and my whole family

522
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Speaker 4: are in this tent and they encourage you that anytime

523
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Speaker 4: you walk out of the tent to keep your They

524
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Speaker 4: call it a torch which is a flashlight, and they're like,

525
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Speaker 4: bring your torch with you wherever you go. And I

526
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Speaker 4: walked out. It was like ten pm and I'm literally

527
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Speaker 4: from me to you of two hyenas.

528
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Speaker 1: Oh, and they will crunch your head off.

529
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Speaker 4: Yeah, And so I started flashing my light and I

530
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Speaker 4: was like, this is how I'm gonna die. I'm gonna

531
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Speaker 4: get killed by hyenas flashing a light. And I flashed

532
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Speaker 4: a light and they took off. They ran off. Gosh, man,

533
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Speaker 4: when you're up close to something like that, I've never

534
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Speaker 4: in my life been that close to a hyena or

535
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Speaker 4: a lion, or being that close even to an elephant.

536
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Speaker 1: Like it's just gnarly.

537
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Speaker 4: It's different seeing it at a zoo than it is

538
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Speaker 4: like when they're.

539
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Speaker 1: You're in their territory back and you will do it again,

540
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Speaker 1: that's right. I love sitting at the mess ten at

541
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Speaker 1: night and it is clamping and you see the eyeballs out,

542
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Speaker 1: oh dude. And we had we had hyenas laughing in

543
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Speaker 1: front of you. We had lions roaring behind us. And

544
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Speaker 1: we stayed on the river.

545
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Speaker 4: So the entire night it's just hippos going crazy and

546
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Speaker 4: there's crocs everywhere, like like sixteen foot cross we're talking shoes.

547
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Speaker 1: We're talking yeah, not shoes.

548
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Speaker 2: How do they protect you from that?

549
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Speaker 4: Like the getting Well, there's like a there's like the

550
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Speaker 4: place and then there's like a huge drop off like

551
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Speaker 4: a like almost like a concrete wall. So they can't

552
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Speaker 4: maybe they could, And then I chose to tell myself

553
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Speaker 4: that it was impossible.

554
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Speaker 1: During the day. That's where the world debes ll roll

555
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Speaker 1: down and some of them will not make it. But

556
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Speaker 1: but it's just it's there's nothing like going nothing like that,

557
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Speaker 1: you know. And people say, well, that's something I could

558
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Speaker 1: never do, and no, it's not true. We have friends

559
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Speaker 1: who are guides there and they make it very affordable.

560
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Speaker 4: For you can actually do it pretty cheap actually, but

561
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Speaker 4: I would encourage it for sure.

562
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Speaker 1: It's an awesome trip. I love the fact that Thomas

563
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Speaker 1: Rhett is here with us today and it's a special day.

564
00:23:14,480 --> 00:23:17,320
Speaker 1: The fact that you're here with us makes us feel

565
00:23:17,359 --> 00:23:19,520
Speaker 1: sort of important. You guys are my favorite excited to

566
00:23:19,520 --> 00:23:21,200
Speaker 1: come see us. I mean, it's like literally one of

567
00:23:21,240 --> 00:23:22,640
Speaker 1: my favorite things to do when I'm in New York.

568
00:23:22,680 --> 00:23:25,359
Speaker 1: So thank y'all for having me. Your spirit is just

569
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Speaker 1: on the top of the of the flagpole. Well, it's

570
00:23:28,119 --> 00:23:30,120
Speaker 1: waving a feeling is very mutual. I got to play

571
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Speaker 1: another song from the album, and of course Thomas Rhet's

572
00:23:32,880 --> 00:23:36,199
Speaker 1: album came out last night about a Woman, and I'm

573
00:23:36,240 --> 00:23:37,720
Speaker 1: gonna giving you two cuts today because you got to

574
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Speaker 1: pay for the rest.

575
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Speaker 5: Yeah, download it, you'll get bonus tracks if you go there.

576
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Speaker 1: This is Thomas Rhett and of course Beautiful as You

577
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Speaker 1: Way to go you out?

578
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Speaker 5: Can I ask the question about why artists do that

579
00:23:55,440 --> 00:23:58,000
Speaker 5: thing with the dropping ahead of time, So you dropped

580
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Speaker 5: four songs before the album came out. Now, Lady Wilson

581
00:24:01,920 --> 00:24:03,800
Speaker 5: has an album out today. She did the same thing.

582
00:24:03,840 --> 00:24:06,160
Speaker 5: A lot of the artists do that, now is there?

583
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Speaker 5: What is the reason?

584
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Speaker 1: Is that?

585
00:24:07,680 --> 00:24:10,200
Speaker 2: Just like to let us, you know, taste it a

586
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Speaker 2: little bit?

587
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Speaker 1: You know?

588
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Speaker 4: I still ask myself that question, to be honest, because

589
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Speaker 4: I think the goal probably is to build hype, right like,

590
00:24:17,720 --> 00:24:20,320
Speaker 4: because if you really love the first three that come out,

591
00:24:20,359 --> 00:24:22,280
Speaker 4: then you hope that someone's going to be like I

592
00:24:22,320 --> 00:24:24,359
Speaker 4: bet the rest of the record is just amazing, you know.

593
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Speaker 4: But there's also this part of me that wonders, like,

594
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Speaker 4: when are we going to get back to the mystique

595
00:24:29,680 --> 00:24:31,920
Speaker 4: you know what I'm saying, Like, there's so much teasing,

596
00:24:32,880 --> 00:24:35,720
Speaker 4: and there's so much like check this version out, and

597
00:24:35,760 --> 00:24:37,840
Speaker 4: check this version out, and watch me sing this in

598
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Speaker 4: a bathroom and you know what I mean, and like

599
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Speaker 4: all these things, and it's kind of sort of in

600
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Speaker 4: my opinion, what culture sort of says we have to do.

601
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Speaker 4: But man, like in the seventies and stuff, it was

602
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Speaker 4: just like, wonder what Tom Petty's been doing for the

603
00:24:48,760 --> 00:24:52,040
Speaker 4: last year and a half, and all of a sudden, bam.

604
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Speaker 1: It was the whole album. Whole album. There was no ya,

605
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Speaker 1: maybe we'll get back to that one day, who knows.

606
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Speaker 1: And now we have an artist that just produced song

607
00:24:59,680 --> 00:25:01,720
Speaker 1: by song they don't even think about album, right, Yeah,

608
00:25:01,720 --> 00:25:03,560
Speaker 1: for sure. There's so many different ways to get there.

609
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Speaker 4: So yeah, there's so many It's like music business is

610
00:25:06,640 --> 00:25:09,439
Speaker 4: the Wild West today. Like when I when I first started,

611
00:25:09,520 --> 00:25:11,880
Speaker 4: it was it was so I'm not going to say

612
00:25:11,880 --> 00:25:13,520
Speaker 4: it was easier, but it was like you had kind

613
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Speaker 4: of one or two outlets to put your music out.

614
00:25:15,880 --> 00:25:18,280
Speaker 4: And now there's so many ways to get your music heard,

615
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Speaker 4: you know. So, I mean, you could be an artist

616
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Speaker 4: that lives in Nebraska and you're seventeen years old and

617
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Speaker 4: one day your mom just thinks you're great, and next

618
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Speaker 4: day you're opening for Zach Bryan.

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Speaker 1: You know what I'm saying, Like, it's like weird, it's wild. Yeah.

620
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Speaker 3: And now if you do disappear for a year, people

621
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Speaker 3: are going to say, oh, his marriage is imploding.

622
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Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, this is the implosion period. And uh, look

623
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Speaker 1: at this list. The iHeartRadio Music Festival in Las Vegas.

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Speaker 1: Du A Lipa, Halsey, Big Sean, Comita, Cabeo Doja Cat,

625
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Speaker 1: Gwen Stefani, Hoosier, Keith Urban, New Kids on the Block, Paramore, Shaboozie,

626
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Speaker 1: The Black Crows, Victoria Monet, Thomas Rhantt. What a what

627
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Speaker 1: a lineup? He's got a funny and a Friday of

628
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Speaker 1: music on our show. In thirty minutes, we're going to

629
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Speaker 1: talk to Chris Martin. Holy wonder what that tie in about? Yeah?

630
00:26:07,040 --> 00:26:08,760
Speaker 1: Why wonder why he's on with us?

631
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Speaker 4: Anyway, I'm such a super fan of Coldplayer.

632
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Speaker 1: Young Me too. Gosh, can you imagine they could show

633
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Speaker 1: up at the iHeart Music Festival.

634
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Speaker 2: That would would be amazing.

635
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Speaker 1: Thank you so much for coming in, Thank you man

636
00:26:21,880 --> 00:26:24,840
Speaker 1: and sharing the music measure And it's the gift it's

637
00:26:24,880 --> 00:26:26,760
Speaker 1: the gift you gave us, and we do appreciate it.

638
00:26:26,800 --> 00:26:30,000
Speaker 1: And we've made it very clear to you that every

639
00:26:30,040 --> 00:26:34,280
Speaker 1: single person on this show loves what you do so much,

640
00:26:34,359 --> 00:26:36,080
Speaker 1: loves the fact that you do love what you do.

641
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Speaker 1: That's what makes it so great. Well, y'all are a

642
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Speaker 1: blast to talk to you. Thank you for your time

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