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Speaker 1: Hey, guys, I'm Kayleie. Sure and this is too much

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Speaker 1: So this week was a really big one for Song

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Speaker 1: Suffer Jets. I was able to play the seventh anniversary show,

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Speaker 1: which is crazy that it's been going on for seven years.

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Speaker 1: That makes Song Suffer Jets officially my longest relationships. Big deal,

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Speaker 1: Big deal. Now, I've talked about it a little bit

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Speaker 1: might not know what Song Suffer Jets is, and that's okay.

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Speaker 1: I'm going to explain it to you. Song su for

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Speaker 1: Jets is a collective of women in Nashville who are

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Speaker 1: all singer songwriters, all play their own instruments, all sing

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Speaker 1: their own songs they wrote, and we have a weekly

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Speaker 1: show at the Listening Room Cafe. If you guys ever

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Speaker 1: visit Nashville, you have to go. If you go on

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Speaker 1: a Monday, you'll see us. If you go any night,

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Speaker 1: you'll see incredible music. Hey, songs all the good ship

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Speaker 1: that makes Nashville what it is. But Monday nights are

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Speaker 1: very special and that's when we play. We started it

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Speaker 1: after noticing that there was this massive, massive disparity with

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Speaker 1: years ago when this idea came up. My manager, Todd

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Speaker 1: managing me. So he's been managing me for about five

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Speaker 1: or six years, and I've known him for you know,

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Speaker 1: the full seven and a half that I've been in Nashville, which, wow,

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Speaker 1: we're coming up on eight years here really really quickly,

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Speaker 1: which is crazy. But at the time that we started it,

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Speaker 1: women were making up less than ten percent of the

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Speaker 1: country radio airplay charts, and it was really disheartening. And

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Speaker 1: you know, everything from Lime Wire and Napster to Spotify

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Speaker 1: you know, millennials and whatnot, and like you just listen

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Speaker 1: to the radio and that's where you find your new music.

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Speaker 1: So when the radio isn't playing women and that's where

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Speaker 1: you discover your music, that sucks. So I didn't know

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Speaker 1: But we basically just wanted to give girls a place

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Speaker 1: like okay, bye, and then I drunk texted him for

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Speaker 1: like six months after that. But anyways, that should have

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Speaker 1: been my sign that I needed to eat out of there.

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Speaker 1: So it's very very important to me. Thank you guys

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Speaker 1: so much for listening about the story behind songsuf for Jets,

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Speaker 1: and I hope to see you at a show or

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Speaker 1: see you online. Thank you guys so much for tuning in.

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Speaker 1: I'm kaylie shot and this is too much to say.

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Speaker 1: Let's don't ask me questions soon I got too much

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Speaker 1: say out turn it out of you