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Speaker 1: Taking a Walk.

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Speaker 2: I think writing music is very therapeutic, and playing music and.

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Speaker 3: Listening to music.

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Speaker 2: I really believe music is the most powerful thing that

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Speaker 2: we all have, you know, like when you go to

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Speaker 2: a concert or you throw it on and it's such

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Speaker 2: a connective experience with other people. It doesn't matter how

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Speaker 2: Music is just such a connective experience.

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Speaker 1: This is the Taking a Walk Podcast with your host

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Speaker 1: Buzz Night. Buzz talks with everyone from new emerging artists

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Speaker 1: to Hall of famers. On this episode, Buzz talks with

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Speaker 1: a young country music singer and songwriter building his path

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Speaker 1: to success. His name is Ryan Montgomery and he's next

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Speaker 1: on Taking a Walk.

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Speaker 4: Ryan Montgomery, thanks for being on the Taking a Walk Podcast,

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Speaker 4: a virtual edition. We like going for walks with folks,

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Speaker 4: but if we can't do it in person, then in

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Speaker 4: the world of virtual we're game right.

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Speaker 3: Thanks for having me and happy to be here.

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Speaker 5: So take me back Lake Worth, Florida.

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Speaker 4: Growing up, could you have imagined that you would have

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Speaker 3: I really couldn't have.

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Speaker 2: You know, music is the thing that I have loved

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Speaker 1: You know.

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Speaker 2: I was that five year old little kid that my

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Speaker 4: So do you remember that first experience though, when you

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Speaker 2: My first, My first performance that I had ever done

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Speaker 2: and man, it was I definitely got the bug for it.

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Speaker 2: That's for sure, And I don't know how we pulled

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Speaker 5: Did you have stage fright at all?

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Speaker 4: And who were those real important sounds that shaped ultimately

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Speaker 4: So what was your experience like when you first heard

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Speaker 3: It was surreal.

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Speaker 2: Drop a Tailgate, and it comes on. You're like, whoa,

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Speaker 5: How many shrieks occurred?

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Speaker 5: How do you deal with the rigors of the road,

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Speaker 2: I I love being on the road, I really do.

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Speaker 2: It's being in the studio and being on the road

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Speaker 4: So there's people inside either your organization or your family

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Speaker 5: Hey, Ryan, dude, come on, you know what are you doing?

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Speaker 2: Absolutely absolutely always yeah.

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Speaker 5: And they only have your best interest at heart.

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Speaker 4: So Ryan, take us inside the studio, how you approach it,

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Speaker 5: Give us the inside scoop here. Yeah.

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Speaker 2: Absolutely, In Nashville, it's such a cool process. What we

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Speaker 2: It's a we record together as a band, and then

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Speaker 2: I'll sing vocals, and then we have a background vocalist

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Speaker 3: So it's a big it's a.

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Speaker 2: Big process, but it's really fun the way we get

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Speaker 2: Absolutely yeah, on this last group of songs that we did,

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Speaker 2: I don't think I had missed anybody, But yeah, those

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Speaker 5: I'm glad you highlighted them. That's pretty darn cool.

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Speaker 4: And what do you learn in a session that you

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Speaker 3: I think maybe two things. One, just how talented you

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Speaker 2: It's it's unbelievable how good those guys are. I mean,

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Speaker 2: And I think that's what really could create the magic

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Speaker 2: Brandon is so phenomenal at doing that.

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Speaker 4: So, yeah, you have this sense of independence about you.

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Speaker 4: Where did you get that sense of independence?

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Speaker 2: Oh?

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Speaker 3: Thank you? Man?

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Speaker 2: I'm coming from a good family, I really do, and

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Speaker 3: You know.

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Speaker 4: Do you have a position on what artificial intelligence means

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Speaker 3: I do, you know, I think, uh, I think it's cool.

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Speaker 2: I think AI is really cool, but I think, you know,

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Speaker 2: and I think there's very valuable ways for it to

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Speaker 3: But you know, I just don't think art is art.

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Speaker 2: What makes art art is the humanism in it, and

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Speaker 3: The emotion that goes into it.

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Speaker 2: And I don't think I don't think AI is ever

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Speaker 4: So you're on a desert island and you're able to

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Speaker 5: Five of your favorite albums of all time? What do

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Speaker 3: Oh my gosh, Oh that's so hard. I would probably

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Speaker 3: Was that six?

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Speaker 5: You could bring along some of yours if you want.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, and then I would do that.

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Speaker 2: I would fill the rest maybe with with with my

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Speaker 3: Maybe, I don't know.

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Speaker 5: I don't know.

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Speaker 3: That's not probably be a good little mix.

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Speaker 4: how do I play them?

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Speaker 5: There's no electricity?

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Speaker 3: Right to bring your guitar instead?

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Speaker 5: Yeah, exactly. We produce this other podcast.

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Speaker 4: It's called Music Saved Mean, and it's about the healing

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Speaker 2: I mean, I think everybody has felt that, you know,

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Speaker 2: such a connective experience. And yeah, I absolutely believe that.

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Speaker 2: And as you tour the country.

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Speaker 4: You know, we look, we have a country that's divided

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Speaker 3: Oh? God, yeah, yeah, it is, absolutely It is so special.

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Speaker 4: So in closing, who would you like to collaborate with?

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Speaker 4: If you could just dream that up that you have

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Speaker 2: Oh my gosh, that would be well, Okay, my one

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Speaker 2: of my dream collaborations would probably have to beat Man.

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Speaker 2: There's so many, but one of them, and I've always

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Speaker 5: That'd be a mind blow, wouldn't.

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Speaker 3: It'd be pretty cool. Yeah? Wow.

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Speaker 4: Well, Ryan Montgomery, I so enjoyed having you on the

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Speaker 4: Taking a Walk podcast too. I wish you continued success

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Speaker 4: and thanks for your great spirit and your passion.

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Speaker 3: Man oh man, thank you so much. I really appreciate

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Speaker 3: you having me on.

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Speaker 5: It was a blast.

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