WEBVTT - Episode 19 - Preston from LoCash (11-7-16)

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<v Speaker 1>All right, welcome to episode nineteen of The Bobby Cast

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<v Speaker 1>and with Preston from Low Cash. Which is weird that

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<v Speaker 1>you're by yourself And this was kind of an issue

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<v Speaker 1>for me too, was like, we don't have two microphones,

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<v Speaker 1>and I wanted to get you guys in, and I

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<v Speaker 1>was like, gonna have too. We can't afford two microphones yet.

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<v Speaker 1>So I was like, well do we wait? Who knows

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<v Speaker 1>when we get on the microphone? Really, I don't know

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<v Speaker 1>when they'll pay for another microphone or I'll get precedent.

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<v Speaker 1>Because Chris and Preston, I actually talked to you, simike.

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<v Speaker 1>We talked every week at least, and so I was like, well,

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<v Speaker 1>let's ask Preston and then if it's not cool, we'll

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<v Speaker 1>just wait six months and they buy us in the microphone.

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<v Speaker 1>And so it's weird for me that you're here by

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<v Speaker 1>yourself in a professional setting. Is that weird for you

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<v Speaker 1>to be by myself? You know, Chris and I never

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<v Speaker 1>do interviews without each other, but just because we're kind

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<v Speaker 1>of a unified voice, and uh, that's just how it's

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<v Speaker 1>always been since day one. And um, you know, I

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<v Speaker 1>called Chris and I told him the situation and he

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<v Speaker 1>was like, dude, you know, um let's do this' it's

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<v Speaker 1>it's awesome. I mean you have been such a life

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<v Speaker 1>changer for us and on and off the air, you know,

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<v Speaker 1>with your words of encouragement off the air, with what

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<v Speaker 1>you've done with us on radio, and uh, and we

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<v Speaker 1>just knew that this was one of those situations where

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<v Speaker 1>if we were gonna make an exception, this is the

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<v Speaker 1>exception right now. Because mikee I talked about it too,

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<v Speaker 1>was like, I want to get a mom but we

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<v Speaker 1>don't have a microphone. So, uh, Chris, I know you're

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<v Speaker 1>listening right now. I miss you, buddy. I'll see in

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<v Speaker 1>the studio, in the big studio soon. That's right. Okay,

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<v Speaker 1>So we got lots to talk about. First of all,

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<v Speaker 1>I got a little turned on a minute ago, and

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<v Speaker 1>you know, it's just a little personal story. I drove

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<v Speaker 1>up and it was like half an hour before so

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<v Speaker 1>the start. I Preston was sitting out in front of

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<v Speaker 1>the house. I get excited on people are early, and

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<v Speaker 1>I was like I shouldn't. I was kind of feeling

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<v Speaker 1>a little bit. I pulled up aside him and I

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<v Speaker 1>was like, what I do to go? Just chilling? Wait,

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<v Speaker 1>and I was like, dang, I love earlier people. So

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<v Speaker 1>hopped in the shower after the workout and uh, it's

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<v Speaker 1>good to go. Um you got yeah, so much talking

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<v Speaker 1>about but you have on these shoes right now. Yes,

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<v Speaker 1>these are gray Nikes and there's I'm a shoe guy.

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<v Speaker 1>I so I noticed the immediately. They're they're great nikes.

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<v Speaker 1>They're high tops. There's low cash on the back of them,

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<v Speaker 1>and I said, they knew or do you just keep

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<v Speaker 1>up with them? Very okay? So yesterday we went to

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<v Speaker 1>do a fundraiser for Adam with Adam Jones of the

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<v Speaker 1>Baltimore Orioles. So we went to Baltimore. We did this

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<v Speaker 1>tailgate party that he does the book, like before the

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<v Speaker 1>Baltimore Ravens football game. And uh so we get out there,

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<v Speaker 1>we're having fun and we're raising money for the Boys

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<v Speaker 1>and Girls Club in that area and Adam walks on

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<v Speaker 1>stage with these two boxes of air Jordan's and we're like,

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<v Speaker 1>I thought we were going to give him away or something.

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<v Speaker 1>I was like, all right, here comes a cool giveaway

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<v Speaker 1>and he grabs the microphone. He says, around here we

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<v Speaker 1>do gifts and I was like, well, that's awesome. We're

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<v Speaker 1>gonna gift these you get nobody. And I was like,

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<v Speaker 1>we're just gonna give these away, you know, And then

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<v Speaker 1>he goes Presty and Chris, I secretly got your shoe

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<v Speaker 1>sizes and I want to give you each a pair

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<v Speaker 1>of Air Jordan's and that are low cash, limited edition.

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<v Speaker 1>And so he gave this toal us yesterday. That's awesome.

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<v Speaker 1>And I just posted a picture of him today and

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<v Speaker 1>he had actually taken a picture in Camden Yards with

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<v Speaker 1>the shoes before he gave them to us, so we

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<v Speaker 1>would have that picture. See, I didn't even know you

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<v Speaker 1>were such a sport. I'm a die hard sports fan. Yeah,

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<v Speaker 1>Like I did a national sports show for years on

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<v Speaker 1>Fox Sports Radio, so like that's my passion music and

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<v Speaker 1>sports and so until recently. And I'm a die hard

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<v Speaker 1>Cubs fan. Yeah I am too, Like my whole life.

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<v Speaker 1>I was trying to get you to go to game

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<v Speaker 1>it was and we'll get to that in a minute.

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<v Speaker 1>But he's the press is a terrible influence, by the way,

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<v Speaker 1>because I go to Game four and I'm there and

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<v Speaker 1>Lindsey and I go up and we're we're at the

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<v Speaker 1>game and process like we're coming up for Game five.

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<v Speaker 1>He said, if you want to ride home, we'll take you.

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<v Speaker 1>I said I can't because one, if they lose, I

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<v Speaker 1>could not take watching Cleveland celebrate on that field regular

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<v Speaker 1>I couldn't do it for my psyche. I couldn't do it.

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<v Speaker 1>So I caught wind that they weren't going to allow

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<v Speaker 1>them to celebrate. I don't know if this is true

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<v Speaker 1>or not, but they were going to get us out

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<v Speaker 1>of there early and get us back, like off the premises,

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<v Speaker 1>just in case they won. But we were on a

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<v Speaker 1>role we were winning that. Yeah, listen, I don't know

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<v Speaker 1>if regally could have handled. I couldn't have handled the celebration,

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<v Speaker 1>and I think people would have been so I think

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<v Speaker 1>that's what it was about. It wasn't anything towards Cleveland.

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<v Speaker 1>I think it was more towards I think they just

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<v Speaker 1>didn't want to rub it in anyone's faces. But the

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<v Speaker 1>thing is too, it would have been a disservice to

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<v Speaker 1>Cleveland for them not to be able to celebrate wherever

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<v Speaker 1>they won, and they probably would have allowed them, like

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<v Speaker 1>a semi celebration or something. If I'm Cleveland, I'm but

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<v Speaker 1>I'm dog Piline. I don't care where it is anywhere

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<v Speaker 1>it's been since the forties. I'm dogs, but I personally

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<v Speaker 1>could not take a Cup's loss. And as much as

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<v Speaker 1>I appreciate, and I was like, present, I appreciate it

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<v Speaker 1>so much, but we just lost seven to two, and

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<v Speaker 1>I was like, I can't. I can't. I was feeling

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<v Speaker 1>for you because you're at that game, and I'm going, oh,

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<v Speaker 1>it's crushing me. That three run homer was just I

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<v Speaker 1>was just like, oh, no, we'll see okay. So game one,

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<v Speaker 1>we lose. Game two and they sing and sing and

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<v Speaker 1>so we sing the national anthem. We're watching the game

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<v Speaker 1>and they tie it up. They win that game, so

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<v Speaker 1>it's one to one. So Chris and I are kind

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<v Speaker 1>of like, hey, we're kind of joking around. We're like,

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<v Speaker 1>maybe we were good luck tonight, you know, so whatever,

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<v Speaker 1>we come home. Then they lose three and four, and

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<v Speaker 1>I literally texted Chris. I was like, Chris, the Cubs

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<v Speaker 1>need us, We've got to go. He's like, press, and

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<v Speaker 1>I gotta be home with my family. I need to

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<v Speaker 1>do this. It's like, Chris, bring the family, Let's go

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<v Speaker 1>to Chicago. We need to be there. Were there rabbits

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<v Speaker 1>foot and so he was like I don't know, man,

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<v Speaker 1>and so we went and the next thing, you know,

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<v Speaker 1>we win. You did. So Hendricks won game two and

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<v Speaker 1>you were there for that, but then you saw Lester

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<v Speaker 1>win Game five. So I'll do this because I knew

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<v Speaker 1>you guys were singing game to the national anthem in Cleveland,

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<v Speaker 1>and I was like, that's weird. I know their cup bands.

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<v Speaker 1>How do they get invited to sing in Cleveland? Well,

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<v Speaker 1>MLB actually invited us, and so MLB handles all of

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<v Speaker 1>the anthems during UH, during the series and probably the

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<v Speaker 1>playoffs two. But they called us assets if we were

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<v Speaker 1>saying we said yes and UH. And I played it

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<v Speaker 1>very neutral that day because out of respect for yeah,

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<v Speaker 1>I'm not gonna walk out there wearing cups stuff, you know,

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<v Speaker 1>and so you know, in my heart, I might have

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<v Speaker 1>had some cupies on these on but so here's a

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<v Speaker 1>little bit of them during the national anthem World Series

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<v Speaker 1>game too sick and you see by Thenswerdly, I gotta

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<v Speaker 1>wonder when you're singing this. It's the World Series and

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<v Speaker 1>you're probably singing it a hundred times and every time.

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<v Speaker 1>And I talked about this a lot of artists because

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<v Speaker 1>everybody sings the ant it's that it's an honor to

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<v Speaker 1>sing it, but there's no win because if you do

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<v Speaker 1>it perfectly, like goes on next minute, nobody cares. You know,

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<v Speaker 1>it's over. Nice job. If you do it in a

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<v Speaker 1>bad way, the world is over and they're waiting for

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<v Speaker 1>you to mess up. Some people out there, uh, in

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<v Speaker 1>the basement of their mom's house on the computer, just waiting,

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<v Speaker 1>you know. But for Chris and I, it was such

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<v Speaker 1>an honor. I mean, there's so much stuff going on

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<v Speaker 1>with the national anthem right now, with the flag, with

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<v Speaker 1>the election, with it just in our country period. So

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<v Speaker 1>Chris and I were like, this is our opportunity to

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<v Speaker 1>walk out on the field, take our hats off, put

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<v Speaker 1>our hands on our hearts, and sing this song, look

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<v Speaker 1>directly at that flag, and sing it for our country,

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<v Speaker 1>sing it for everybody who's ever died for our country,

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<v Speaker 1>sing it for the USA. And it was like the

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<v Speaker 1>most proudest moment of my life. And we just walked

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<v Speaker 1>out and in the middle of all this stuff that's

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<v Speaker 1>going on in the news and just singing it. You know,

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<v Speaker 1>it felt clean. It just felt that way to me too.

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<v Speaker 1>And well, I got a text message from my mom

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<v Speaker 1>right before we walked out, you know, to keep you underground.

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<v Speaker 1>You're inside the stadium and there's a lot of like energy,

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<v Speaker 1>you know, the players are walking by and stuff. And

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<v Speaker 1>so I get this text message from my mom about

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<v Speaker 1>Timmins before we walk out, and she said, I know,

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<v Speaker 1>you guys are probably excited and maybe a little nervous.

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<v Speaker 1>She's like, but I'm gonna be standing in front of

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<v Speaker 1>my TV with my hand on my heart and just

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<v Speaker 1>walk out there and sing it so I can sing along.

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<v Speaker 1>Make me proud. And I was like, that's it. I mean,

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<v Speaker 1>we already sing it traditional, but that was just a

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<v Speaker 1>real clear reminder that, you know, we were just gonna

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<v Speaker 1>walk out there and just hand on our hearts and

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<v Speaker 1>uh uh. There's a lot of lyrics. There's a lot

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<v Speaker 1>of words in that song that you can easily mess

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<v Speaker 1>up the gleamings and the streamings and you know, all

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<v Speaker 1>those things and misplace them. But I just knew that

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<v Speaker 1>if we kind of had tunnel vision and just looked

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<v Speaker 1>at that flag and just remembered why we were all there,

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<v Speaker 1>that we would get through it. And it was a

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<v Speaker 1>big stage, a lot of a lot of viewers, but yeah, viewer,

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<v Speaker 1>uh yeah, a lot of viewers game too. You go

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<v Speaker 1>the Cubs when you sing the national anthem, listen, that's

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<v Speaker 1>a nice night. I gotta lie. It was amazing, I'll

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<v Speaker 1>tell you. Um. We were walking out of the tunnel

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<v Speaker 1>and they were like, all right, in uh sixty seconds,

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<v Speaker 1>you're gonna be singing. So they bring you out right

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<v Speaker 1>behind home plate. You come out the gate and uh,

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<v Speaker 1>I got this uh guitar tuner and that's where I

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<v Speaker 1>get the key for the song. So I'll show you

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<v Speaker 1>what this. This is my life right before we sing

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<v Speaker 1>the national anthem every time, so I'm uh kind of

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<v Speaker 1>keeping the key because we sing it acapella, so oh,

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<v Speaker 1>I think my volumes down, So I do this over

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<v Speaker 1>and over. I'm like mmmm, and I'm like okay, and

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<v Speaker 1>then I started an octave under that, so I'm like

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<v Speaker 1>trying to keep that key in my ear. And then

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<v Speaker 1>I'm like and they're like sixty seconds. So I popped

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<v Speaker 1>my ear and we're ready to go. I've got the key.

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<v Speaker 1>I'm humming it. You know. I'm like, nobody at this

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<v Speaker 1>key going out of my head. I've got it in

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<v Speaker 1>my head. And we walk out and somebody walks up

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<v Speaker 1>and gets in right in front of us. He says hey,

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<v Speaker 1>and and his mouth is moving, but I can't hear him.

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<v Speaker 1>We got my ears popped in, so I was like,

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<v Speaker 1>I don't want to take my ears out because I've

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<v Speaker 1>got the key pop my ear out. And they're like,

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<v Speaker 1>Hank Karon wants to meet you guys. Karen wants to

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<v Speaker 1>meet this right now. I can't believe this is so cool,

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<v Speaker 1>and so I let the key go obviously because it's

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<v Speaker 1>gonna be awesome to meet Hank Karen. So we meet

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<v Speaker 1>Hank Karen and Big Poppy from Boston is with him.

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<v Speaker 1>We take a picture together and they're like, you're twenty

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<v Speaker 1>seconds from going on and I'm like, okay, I'm like

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<v Speaker 1>trying to hurry, and I'm like, here we go again.

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<v Speaker 1>I'm trying to put my ear back in and uh.

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<v Speaker 1>And then they had us walk out, so it all

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<v Speaker 1>worked out. But looking back on it, I think the

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<v Speaker 1>Hank Karon thing kind of took the edge off a

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<v Speaker 1>little bit and made us forget how nervous we were

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<v Speaker 1>and just let us walk out there and do it

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<v Speaker 1>for those aren't sports fans. Tak Care at home run

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<v Speaker 1>later before a Babe Hank Barry that order. Yeah, so

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<v Speaker 1>before our day. But we know, if you're a sports fan,

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<v Speaker 1>you know Hammer and Hank, and I mean and I

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<v Speaker 1>didn't think we would ever get a chance to meet

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<v Speaker 1>somebody like Hank Karen. But then all of a sudden

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<v Speaker 1>he's right there like one of the most one of

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<v Speaker 1>the coolest moments in sports history that we did not

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<v Speaker 1>get to see what we've seen on the internet or

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<v Speaker 1>TV hunter times. And when he hits the home run

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<v Speaker 1>that breaks the record and the guy runs out of

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<v Speaker 1>the crowd and circles the basis with amazing and gives

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<v Speaker 1>and nobody goes to attack the guy. It was a

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<v Speaker 1>friendly her time. Then in imagine if someone broke a

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<v Speaker 1>record now and then circling the basis and someone comes

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<v Speaker 1>running from the snipers taking down people watching. But if

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<v Speaker 1>you if you don't know sports, look for Hank Aaron's

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<v Speaker 1>home run when he breaks the record, and you'll see

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<v Speaker 1>a guy start running the basis with him so excited. Okay,

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<v Speaker 1>so World Series, we got you something. We're at the

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<v Speaker 1>World Series and we were They don't sell World Series

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<v Speaker 1>memorabilia at the World Series. You have to get online

0:11:52.240 --> 0:11:54.600
<v Speaker 1>to buy it and stuff. But down in our dressing room.

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<v Speaker 1>They had a few extra little things that were kind

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<v Speaker 1>of cool. So we got you something you don't to meet.

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<v Speaker 1>Let me finish this right about the world. We can,

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<v Speaker 1>we can, we can wrap this part of it with this.

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<v Speaker 1>But so pressing I find out that we're both die

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<v Speaker 1>hard Cubs fans, and and here's the thing about Cubs fans,

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<v Speaker 1>we don't care if band wagoners come on because we

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<v Speaker 1>only care about our hearts. Like I hope the whole

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<v Speaker 1>world a Cubs fan because I know what I've been

0:12:17.760 --> 0:12:20.960
<v Speaker 1>through my whole life, so more than Merrier and the

0:12:21.000 --> 0:12:23.600
<v Speaker 1>people you see gripping about bandwagoners, they're not real Cubs

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<v Speaker 1>fans because we just know what we've been through and

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<v Speaker 1>we're happy for our own heart to people. We don't

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<v Speaker 1>care if anybody else enjoyed back. It's just from when

0:12:32.080 --> 0:12:35.800
<v Speaker 1>Lee Smith from For me, my hero was Mark Grace

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<v Speaker 1>growing up, and so I wrote in my book even

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<v Speaker 1>about him, and he sent a copy back. I'm just

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<v Speaker 1>a huge sports the Cubs nerd. And you know, I

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<v Speaker 1>like the whole eighty nine National Legue East team that

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<v Speaker 1>won the East, Like you know, I idolized Grace and

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<v Speaker 1>Sandburg and Dunston. It doesn't matter which third base when

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<v Speaker 1>you go, if it's Vance Law or Matt Holiday or

0:12:56.400 --> 0:12:59.000
<v Speaker 1>any of those guys. Dawson, even I remember pal merrow

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<v Speaker 1>out in the outfield, even the backup scrubs like Doug

0:13:02.200 --> 0:13:04.600
<v Speaker 1>Descenzo or Jerom Walton, DWIGHTE. Smith, like all those guys,

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<v Speaker 1>Dude Maddox when when he won eighteen, when he won sixteen,

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<v Speaker 1>it was insane for back then people to know. Joe

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<v Speaker 1>joh we're nerded a big time right now. But Joe

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<v Speaker 1>Girardi was Damon barry Hill's backup with the Cubs. The

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<v Speaker 1>catchers like Girardi, it was the backup catcher for the

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<v Speaker 1>Cubs with Damon Barry Hill was the catcher anyway. Huge

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<v Speaker 1>Cup fans, all right, So I don't know Preston was either.

0:13:27.880 --> 0:13:30.280
<v Speaker 1>And one thing a Cup fan knows when they're around

0:13:30.280 --> 0:13:33.679
<v Speaker 1>another real life Cup fan. And so we're talking and

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<v Speaker 1>I couldn't go to five, and I was like, oh

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<v Speaker 1>my god, I would love to go to seven. And

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<v Speaker 1>he's like we're going to seven, and like like I'm

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<v Speaker 1>happy for him in my heart, but I'm like he's like,

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<v Speaker 1>just come with us, and I can't. I literally couldn't

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<v Speaker 1>because I was doing the c m A Red carpet

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<v Speaker 1>and I was doing it on television and I couldn't

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<v Speaker 1>back out, and it was killing me too. I wish

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<v Speaker 1>you would never offered it because it was killing me,

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<v Speaker 1>like all night. But here's where I got. I didn't

0:13:59.440 --> 0:14:01.720
<v Speaker 1>get in trouble, but here's what got me right. So

0:14:02.120 --> 0:14:04.120
<v Speaker 1>the c m A Right carpet I did. I couldn't

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<v Speaker 1>go to the game, but I was like, I'm not

0:14:06.280 --> 0:14:08.120
<v Speaker 1>staying for the c m AS, straight home to watch it.

0:14:08.200 --> 0:14:10.520
<v Speaker 1>I don't care if it's the fiftieth anniversary. I don't

0:14:10.520 --> 0:14:12.880
<v Speaker 1>care if it's the hundred. I don't care if every

0:14:13.600 --> 0:14:15.520
<v Speaker 1>legend that's dead comes back to life and they have

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<v Speaker 1>them all. I'm watching the cover anniversary of a second

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<v Speaker 1>But my girlfriend played at c m AS and so

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<v Speaker 1>it was I know it was. I still chose the

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<v Speaker 1>TV and home. She was cool about it in her heart,

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<v Speaker 1>and she's a keeper. Then that's perfect. Do you think

0:14:36.560 --> 0:14:38.960
<v Speaker 1>she's cool about really? I think she has too. But

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<v Speaker 1>here's the thing about women. Now, know I don't have

0:14:41.680 --> 0:14:44.800
<v Speaker 1>much because you're Mary, and I don't know because she

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<v Speaker 1>seems like a good one, but they always tended to

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<v Speaker 1>they keep score. Man, you know what I think, Well,

0:14:51.800 --> 0:14:54.480
<v Speaker 1>I know, I know her, and I know she's sweet

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<v Speaker 1>in the heart, you know, and so I think you're good.

0:14:57.800 --> 0:15:01.160
<v Speaker 1>You're good. I think I'm good. Girl would be keeping score,

0:15:01.520 --> 0:15:03.480
<v Speaker 1>but I think you're good. I've just known her for years.

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<v Speaker 1>That's how i got met her two months ago, because

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<v Speaker 1>she's the Instagram model that I was like, you know,

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<v Speaker 1>hitting a d M A right, you know, yeah, it's real,

0:15:10.800 --> 0:15:13.200
<v Speaker 1>and she knows your love for the Cubs is real

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<v Speaker 1>and she does get she knows much freaking tickets to

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<v Speaker 1>So um, I should do this commercial real quick. Okay,

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<v Speaker 1>and you make crazy stuff and good stuff too, So

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<v Speaker 1>they send you fresh, high quality ingredients and so we

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<v Speaker 1>got it all the time. It's box that comes and

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<v Speaker 1>take meals off of this because I can't say it.

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<v Speaker 1>I have such an accent because from market, and I've

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<v Speaker 1>worked to get rid of a lot of it. I

0:16:22.480 --> 0:16:25.240
<v Speaker 1>went to college to I went to speech pathology because

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<v Speaker 1>when I'm not making fun, like my stepdad will come

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<v Speaker 1>on and he's on the show. Whenever you hear this,

0:16:30.600 --> 0:16:33.400
<v Speaker 1>this podcast gets hurt for weeks and weeks at a time.

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<v Speaker 1>But my stepdad comes on the show and I'm gonna

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<v Speaker 1>impression him, which is how I talked before I went

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<v Speaker 1>to college. You good today. How's everything going you? Yeah,

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<v Speaker 1>I was down in the backyard. Doesn't open a windo

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<v Speaker 1>in his cult. So that's how I used to talk, right,

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<v Speaker 1>So I still don't say the word meals right, which

0:16:49.240 --> 0:16:52.640
<v Speaker 1>is what like you eat a meal? A meal a meal,

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<v Speaker 1>So I say meals. And so people were going to

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<v Speaker 1>Blue Apron dot com Bobby Meals. But it was like like,

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<v Speaker 1>like my dad worked at my step working a sawmill,

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<v Speaker 1>so they were going to like Bobby Mills in my

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<v Speaker 1>So they had to change this commercial to just slash

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<v Speaker 1>Bobby because this is great, that's what I Yeah they had, Okay,

0:17:14.119 --> 0:17:17.359
<v Speaker 1>Bobby can't say they were mills, so we gotta change it. Um. So,

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<v Speaker 1>do you know I'm a Arkansas boy? Form in Arkansas

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<v Speaker 1>but about two hours south of Little Rock. You were

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<v Speaker 1>born in Arkansas? No, My daddy took a job in

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<v Speaker 1>Indiana when I was like too, and so I know

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<v Speaker 1>all I have is relatives there. I don't really end.

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<v Speaker 1>The hospital has been tore down and there's nothing really there.

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<v Speaker 1>What what part time you're born? It is a town

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<v Speaker 1>called Dermot, and it's still they're kind of kind kind

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<v Speaker 1>of the other kind of I mean sort of but

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<v Speaker 1>like Mountain Pine where I grew up, the sawmills down.

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<v Speaker 1>It's still there, but kind of it's not the same. Yeah,

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<v Speaker 1>some people just never leave. They're just there forever. Eventually

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<v Speaker 1>it will go away. Yeah, sadly. Yeah, like my town. Wait,

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<v Speaker 1>I want about this present where at the present time.

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<v Speaker 1>I've tried to give this to him five times. This

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<v Speaker 1>is I'm so excited to get. I'm so uncomfortable getting

0:18:03.119 --> 0:18:06.320
<v Speaker 1>complimens and gifts. I'm just telling you that I do too.

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<v Speaker 1>I hate getting gifts from people. But okay, here we go. Alright,

0:18:14.240 --> 0:18:16.480
<v Speaker 1>give us that they give us these um these World

0:18:16.560 --> 0:18:19.600
<v Speaker 1>series bags. So you're getting one of these bags, these

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<v Speaker 1>World serious world and this isn't a huge deal, but

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<v Speaker 1>it is something from the World series. So we got

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<v Speaker 1>you an official because they have the balls back there

0:18:30.359 --> 0:18:33.080
<v Speaker 1>that they were taken out, and we got you one

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<v Speaker 1>of the official World series balls. That's cool. I appreciate them.

0:18:38.320 --> 0:18:40.439
<v Speaker 1>They're and they're very protected. They keep them in on

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<v Speaker 1>the it's super tight too. Yeah, and it says it

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<v Speaker 1>opened it up. That's pretty cool. I don't want to

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<v Speaker 1>open it up. I can read it through it. I don't. Oh,

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<v Speaker 1>it's in gold righting. I'm also I don't know, hopening up,

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<v Speaker 1>screw it, open it out now. I don't know if

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<v Speaker 1>this is true or not. So this is what I

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<v Speaker 1>want to talk about. Is there a hundred and eight

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<v Speaker 1>stitches in a baseball? If that's true, that's weird. I'm

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<v Speaker 1>not going to count them. I heard there's a hundred

0:19:05.240 --> 0:19:08.800
<v Speaker 1>and eight stitches in a baseball. You have Google, Google

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<v Speaker 1>out of there. It's a really cool world they have.

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<v Speaker 1>I don't know this they have. It's all gold. Everything

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<v Speaker 1>on the ball was gold. I appreciate that kept so

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<v Speaker 1>I don't get going, thank you very much. But these

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<v Speaker 1>little bags are awesome. Can I tell you what the

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<v Speaker 1>worst is because I actually like this gift. It's like

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<v Speaker 1>a little jim bag. This is why I don't I

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<v Speaker 1>gifts because a lot of times I'll just talk honestly.

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<v Speaker 1>I'm a single guy and I can buy myself whatever

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<v Speaker 1>I want. I worked hard. I have a pretty good life,

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<v Speaker 1>except for the whole never having a girlfriend or a

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<v Speaker 1>relationship or any family for a long time. You know,

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<v Speaker 1>I can buy. I buy all the crap on one

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<v Speaker 1>so people get me stuff. I was like, oh, you know,

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<v Speaker 1>I don't. Yeah, So I don't like to get gifts.

0:19:43.840 --> 0:19:46.200
<v Speaker 1>It's tough because I have everything that I like one

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<v Speaker 1>and I have all the fake like faces for when

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<v Speaker 1>I get again. Don't even do that, well, I don't.

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<v Speaker 1>I don't do well either. But I'm just like, I

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<v Speaker 1>appreciate that. So great, that's really cool. I appreciate that.

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<v Speaker 1>Thanks man. I we just wanted you to have something

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<v Speaker 1>that from the from game two, you know, And they

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<v Speaker 1>had this box of official game balls, and they still

0:20:04.040 --> 0:20:10.440
<v Speaker 1>wanted we took them. They had them all sitting there

0:20:10.520 --> 0:20:13.080
<v Speaker 1>and I posted a picture and I was just being funny,

0:20:13.080 --> 0:20:15.359
<v Speaker 1>but we posted a picture on Instagram that said it

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<v Speaker 1>takes a lot of balls to sing the national anthem

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<v Speaker 1>at the World Series game. We laughed and I was like,

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<v Speaker 1>maybe we should take a couple of these for ourselves,

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<v Speaker 1>you know. And no one was really counting, and so

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<v Speaker 1>I was like, yeah, let's do this. And they gave

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<v Speaker 1>us the bags anyway, so then uh we cleared it.

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<v Speaker 1>At the end. We're like, okay, we're not very good takers.

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<v Speaker 1>So we were like, um, in our bags, we have, yeah,

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<v Speaker 1>we have these World Series balls and MLB was like

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<v Speaker 1>totally fine, totally fine, cool. Yeah, they were nice. Let's

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<v Speaker 1>uh there, I heard that the other day, so that

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<v Speaker 1>makes it even more perfect. That's crazy, Okay, So let's play.

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<v Speaker 1>Let's talk about some music and some live and what

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<v Speaker 1>I can do is we like to start now and

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<v Speaker 1>kind of work our way all the way back around.

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<v Speaker 1>So let's start with the song right here. This is

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<v Speaker 1>the last song, and I just went number one for

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<v Speaker 1>you guys, wait to get if you're ready with the

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<v Speaker 1>little yeah. As I know, somebody your first ever number

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<v Speaker 1>one never gets tired of hearing that I got it?

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<v Speaker 1>Like have you you haven't had a number one party yet,

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<v Speaker 1>like your official nothing? Nothing? I mean, we have like

0:21:31.520 --> 0:21:33.719
<v Speaker 1>little individual parties every day when we see each other.

0:21:33.720 --> 0:21:38.239
<v Speaker 1>We're like after being because listen, I know artists who

0:21:38.320 --> 0:21:41.639
<v Speaker 1>come to town and they're that point one percent to

0:21:41.680 --> 0:21:44.800
<v Speaker 1>get lucky immediately and it's like you got right place,

0:21:44.880 --> 0:21:47.560
<v Speaker 1>right time, everything boom you have a number one. Then

0:21:47.560 --> 0:21:49.480
<v Speaker 1>I know artists like you, guys that have been grinding

0:21:49.480 --> 0:21:51.520
<v Speaker 1>it out for a long time. When you have finally

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<v Speaker 1>hit a number one, I mean, do you still have

0:21:54.080 --> 0:21:56.480
<v Speaker 1>a twelve oh one? And look and make sure it's official?

0:21:56.600 --> 0:21:58.040
<v Speaker 1>Do you wake up? Do you got to know? The

0:21:58.359 --> 0:22:01.440
<v Speaker 1>race was with Billy Currington, and what a great song

0:22:01.520 --> 0:22:03.480
<v Speaker 1>he had. I mean, I'm a big fan of that song,

0:22:03.960 --> 0:22:07.640
<v Speaker 1>and it was already number one though it was. And

0:22:07.680 --> 0:22:10.400
<v Speaker 1>then so we're neck and neck, and we're so neck

0:22:10.440 --> 0:22:12.640
<v Speaker 1>and neck that we're losing by a lot going into

0:22:12.680 --> 0:22:15.720
<v Speaker 1>the final hours. And as the final hours wrap up,

0:22:16.440 --> 0:22:18.919
<v Speaker 1>we're so close that they called us and said, we

0:22:18.960 --> 0:22:22.000
<v Speaker 1>can't tell you tonight. We're gonna have to reconcile all

0:22:22.040 --> 0:22:24.800
<v Speaker 1>the spins. It's like the recount, dude, it was like

0:22:24.920 --> 0:22:28.119
<v Speaker 1>a total election recount. And I was like, and you know,

0:22:28.280 --> 0:22:31.840
<v Speaker 1>for low cash, we never get the good into the stick,

0:22:31.920 --> 0:22:33.880
<v Speaker 1>like it just never does. Your last song was number

0:22:33.920 --> 0:22:36.520
<v Speaker 1>two of all things, right, and we're and you're sitting

0:22:36.560 --> 0:22:38.639
<v Speaker 1>here thinking maybe it's meant to be a number two

0:22:38.760 --> 0:22:40.239
<v Speaker 1>or something. I don't know, but you're trying to keep

0:22:40.280 --> 0:22:42.720
<v Speaker 1>your energy right and you're trying to think, no, we're

0:22:42.720 --> 0:22:45.520
<v Speaker 1>gonna get this. We're gonna get this. And the entire

0:22:45.600 --> 0:22:48.320
<v Speaker 1>industry rally behind us that night. I mean, other ladies.

0:22:49.240 --> 0:22:51.640
<v Speaker 1>I wondered if you knew that, because I knew that

0:22:51.840 --> 0:22:55.879
<v Speaker 1>other labels were calling Radio stay and this is how

0:22:55.920 --> 0:22:58.320
<v Speaker 1>weird this is. You don't let me say this because

0:22:58.320 --> 0:22:59.680
<v Speaker 1>I don't want you to say thing. It's gonna put

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<v Speaker 1>anything weird, So let me say. Let me tell you

0:23:02.240 --> 0:23:08.520
<v Speaker 1>what what I heard happened. So there was first At

0:23:08.520 --> 0:23:10.399
<v Speaker 1>first there were three songs that they were trying to

0:23:10.640 --> 0:23:12.679
<v Speaker 1>that we're going for number one that week ended up

0:23:12.680 --> 0:23:15.320
<v Speaker 1>being a two horse race and Billy Currington it Don't

0:23:15.359 --> 0:23:16.520
<v Speaker 1>Hurt Like It used to, which by the way, is

0:23:16.560 --> 0:23:20.159
<v Speaker 1>a fantastic song and was number one already, And so

0:23:20.320 --> 0:23:22.040
<v Speaker 1>here it goes. It's going down to the last hour

0:23:22.160 --> 0:23:25.200
<v Speaker 1>and they're pushing for a second week, and everybody didn't

0:23:25.200 --> 0:23:26.679
<v Speaker 1>know that we're gonna push for a second week. It

0:23:26.720 --> 0:23:31.640
<v Speaker 1>was kind of a last thing. And you know, I

0:23:31.640 --> 0:23:35.959
<v Speaker 1>if you follow protocol, you don't do that usually. Now

0:23:36.000 --> 0:23:37.639
<v Speaker 1>I'm a guy that says you shouldn't follow a protocol,

0:23:37.680 --> 0:23:39.399
<v Speaker 1>like you should just go balls out and everybody should

0:23:39.440 --> 0:23:41.199
<v Speaker 1>just fight for number one every week. That's not how

0:23:41.200 --> 0:23:42.960
<v Speaker 1>this format works. And I think that's a crappy part

0:23:42.960 --> 0:23:44.560
<v Speaker 1>of this. That's why they don't say anything. Let me

0:23:44.600 --> 0:23:47.320
<v Speaker 1>just handle this controversial subject um. I think it's a

0:23:47.359 --> 0:23:49.679
<v Speaker 1>crap I think pop radio has the right idea. If

0:23:49.680 --> 0:23:51.200
<v Speaker 1>there's a song that's good enough to be number one,

0:23:51.200 --> 0:23:53.040
<v Speaker 1>for seven weeks. It should be freaking number one for

0:23:53.080 --> 0:23:55.679
<v Speaker 1>seven weeks. Country radio at times is a piece of

0:23:55.680 --> 0:23:58.000
<v Speaker 1>crap because all they do is go, we'll make a deal.

0:23:58.040 --> 0:23:59.840
<v Speaker 1>You're number one here, We're gonna let you have number

0:23:59.840 --> 0:24:02.920
<v Speaker 1>one here. And that's stupid. It's really stupid, and it's

0:24:03.000 --> 0:24:06.080
<v Speaker 1>really a bad part of our format. That and of

0:24:06.119 --> 0:24:08.120
<v Speaker 1>the best format, by the way, because the people are

0:24:08.240 --> 0:24:09.880
<v Speaker 1>the best, but that's a really bad part of it.

0:24:10.200 --> 0:24:13.080
<v Speaker 1>So that being said, belly carctone Sudden is going for

0:24:13.119 --> 0:24:15.240
<v Speaker 1>a second week and number one, and I'm like, huh,

0:24:15.520 --> 0:24:18.239
<v Speaker 1>like I'm and I'm pulling for you guys hard. And

0:24:18.320 --> 0:24:20.840
<v Speaker 1>so then I started to get text and calls going, hey,

0:24:20.840 --> 0:24:23.760
<v Speaker 1>there are other labels, other record labels. They have nothing

0:24:23.800 --> 0:24:26.600
<v Speaker 1>to do with low cash, no investment in low cash.

0:24:26.680 --> 0:24:29.280
<v Speaker 1>And they're calling radio stations going you got to spend

0:24:29.280 --> 0:24:31.879
<v Speaker 1>lo you gotta play this song. And I'm like, I'm like,

0:24:31.920 --> 0:24:34.320
<v Speaker 1>I've never heard of this before, Like this is the cover.

0:24:34.720 --> 0:24:38.560
<v Speaker 1>This is like the Cups coming back from three one

0:24:38.720 --> 0:24:42.359
<v Speaker 1>a second series in a row and winning the whole thing.

0:24:42.640 --> 0:24:47.400
<v Speaker 1>So I called I called my boss and said, where

0:24:47.480 --> 0:24:50.520
<v Speaker 1>is this low cash song? Because I hear and he

0:24:51.240 --> 0:24:54.000
<v Speaker 1>is not acknowledging anything. He's like, listen, I don't know

0:24:54.040 --> 0:24:56.239
<v Speaker 1>what's happening right now. I don't know if he did

0:24:56.320 --> 0:24:57.680
<v Speaker 1>or didn't. But he's like, I don't know what's happening

0:24:57.760 --> 0:25:00.640
<v Speaker 1>right now, as he said, but there's no answer. He said,

0:25:00.680 --> 0:25:02.000
<v Speaker 1>I don't know. I don't know who the number one

0:25:02.000 --> 0:25:03.840
<v Speaker 1>song is. No one did because I wanted to go

0:25:03.920 --> 0:25:06.840
<v Speaker 1>on and tweet, and you know what, I texted you too,

0:25:07.080 --> 0:25:10.240
<v Speaker 1>and I texted you so vaguely and I was like, dude,

0:25:10.480 --> 0:25:14.760
<v Speaker 1>you demand because I knew at that I just knew

0:25:14.760 --> 0:25:17.000
<v Speaker 1>it was at number one at that point, and he wouldn't.

0:25:17.119 --> 0:25:20.080
<v Speaker 1>He responded, Hey, thanks, And I didn't want to even

0:25:20.080 --> 0:25:23.320
<v Speaker 1>say congrats in the number one in case more song track.

0:25:24.280 --> 0:25:26.720
<v Speaker 1>We were so nervous, man. So you finally hear it

0:25:26.760 --> 0:25:28.200
<v Speaker 1>the where do you hear that? Your number? So we

0:25:28.200 --> 0:25:31.240
<v Speaker 1>were in Baltimore, Chris's hometown when we're pushing for number

0:25:31.240 --> 0:25:35.840
<v Speaker 1>one that night, and somebody walked out on stage and said,

0:25:36.080 --> 0:25:38.040
<v Speaker 1>low Cash just hit number one, and I was like,

0:25:38.760 --> 0:25:42.080
<v Speaker 1>did we were one? We weren't. We had just finished.

0:25:42.240 --> 0:25:43.640
<v Speaker 1>We got off stage, and I think Little Big Talent

0:25:43.720 --> 0:25:45.919
<v Speaker 1>was getting ready to go on stage and the radio

0:25:46.000 --> 0:25:49.640
<v Speaker 1>personality walks on stage and says, low Cash just hit

0:25:49.760 --> 0:25:52.800
<v Speaker 1>number one, but what they did, I mean, we did

0:25:52.840 --> 0:25:55.960
<v Speaker 1>hit number one, but it would flip flop back and forth.

0:25:56.640 --> 0:25:59.679
<v Speaker 1>So the news they got was accurate. It was not

0:26:00.040 --> 0:26:02.280
<v Speaker 1>written in five minutes. Yeah, it was gonna keep flipping

0:26:02.280 --> 0:26:05.520
<v Speaker 1>and flopping all night long. And so and you gotta

0:26:05.560 --> 0:26:07.800
<v Speaker 1>go by West Coast time, so it's gonna go till

0:26:07.960 --> 0:26:11.320
<v Speaker 1>because they had the last day midnight, midnight? Is it

0:26:11.480 --> 0:26:15.360
<v Speaker 1>until three o'clock? Yes, Eastern, And so we're like, ah,

0:26:15.800 --> 0:26:19.800
<v Speaker 1>so we're in Baltimore. We're sort of starting to hug,

0:26:20.040 --> 0:26:21.639
<v Speaker 1>but we're not sure yet and we don't want to

0:26:21.720 --> 0:26:24.639
<v Speaker 1>jinx it. So we talked to the record label that

0:26:24.760 --> 0:26:26.320
<v Speaker 1>night and they said, we can't give you any kind

0:26:26.320 --> 0:26:28.639
<v Speaker 1>of confirmation. We're gonna have to wait till in the

0:26:28.680 --> 0:26:32.480
<v Speaker 1>morning because they reconcile these spins, and each label has

0:26:32.480 --> 0:26:36.840
<v Speaker 1>a chance, has like two hours to reconcile fine lost spins,

0:26:37.080 --> 0:26:40.160
<v Speaker 1>miss spins kind of thing, lost votes kind of thing.

0:26:40.480 --> 0:26:45.040
<v Speaker 1>And so I finally just went to sleep, and I

0:26:45.119 --> 0:26:47.359
<v Speaker 1>had my wife and my kid with me, and Chris

0:26:47.560 --> 0:26:50.480
<v Speaker 1>had his wife and his two kids with him, and uh,

0:26:50.520 --> 0:26:52.640
<v Speaker 1>we're staying it like a holiday in or whatever. We're

0:26:52.680 --> 0:26:56.560
<v Speaker 1>just waiting and about nine o'clock in the morning, we

0:26:56.640 --> 0:26:58.520
<v Speaker 1>get a phone call and the label is like, can

0:26:58.560 --> 0:27:00.919
<v Speaker 1>we get on three way? Real serious voice, and I

0:27:00.960 --> 0:27:04.520
<v Speaker 1>was like, oh boy, here we go. We got number two,

0:27:04.560 --> 0:27:07.760
<v Speaker 1>you know, and uh And so I get Chris on

0:27:07.800 --> 0:27:11.199
<v Speaker 1>the phone and Gators are Gator Michael's is ahead of

0:27:11.200 --> 0:27:14.879
<v Speaker 1>our radio team, and he says, he says, guys, after

0:27:14.920 --> 0:27:19.159
<v Speaker 1>the reconciliation came in, you got number one. And I

0:27:19.160 --> 0:27:23.040
<v Speaker 1>mean I just lost it. Man. I was with my

0:27:23.080 --> 0:27:26.720
<v Speaker 1>wife and my kid and my daughter's ten months old,

0:27:27.320 --> 0:27:31.080
<v Speaker 1>and like, that's the first real hug I think I

0:27:31.119 --> 0:27:34.520
<v Speaker 1>ever like felt her give me and she just knew,

0:27:34.960 --> 0:27:39.240
<v Speaker 1>you know, it was awesome. Okay, let me ask you this.

0:27:39.400 --> 0:27:41.040
<v Speaker 1>Let's go back a step and let's go over to

0:27:41.080 --> 0:27:44.640
<v Speaker 1>I Love This Life because this song hit two. And

0:27:44.680 --> 0:27:46.280
<v Speaker 1>the weird thing about this, man, it was such a

0:27:46.320 --> 0:27:48.600
<v Speaker 1>long process because and I don't want to go through

0:27:48.600 --> 0:27:50.040
<v Speaker 1>the whole where you're like, oh, thank you, thank you,

0:27:50.040 --> 0:27:52.560
<v Speaker 1>thank you, You're welcome, okay. And I didn't even do it.

0:27:52.640 --> 0:27:54.280
<v Speaker 1>I didn't even know you guys. I didn't even do

0:27:54.320 --> 0:27:56.800
<v Speaker 1>it because I was like pressent there my boys. I

0:27:56.840 --> 0:27:58.879
<v Speaker 1>did it because of such a positive song. It was

0:27:58.920 --> 0:28:02.320
<v Speaker 1>insane what you did, it was incredible. Blah blah blah.

0:28:02.400 --> 0:28:06.359
<v Speaker 1>I played the song, then everybody got this is the key.

0:28:06.400 --> 0:28:09.320
<v Speaker 1>I get too much credit for breaking artists and songs

0:28:09.359 --> 0:28:11.960
<v Speaker 1>because all I do is go, hey, everybody, look at this.

0:28:12.440 --> 0:28:14.320
<v Speaker 1>That's what I do. I don't make them number one.

0:28:14.640 --> 0:28:16.920
<v Speaker 1>I just take them and go, hey, everybody, please pay

0:28:16.960 --> 0:28:19.640
<v Speaker 1>attention to something that I think is good. I don't

0:28:19.840 --> 0:28:21.200
<v Speaker 1>I don't write the song, all things songs, and I

0:28:21.200 --> 0:28:23.760
<v Speaker 1>don't do anything. I just say everybody, please pay attention.

0:28:23.800 --> 0:28:25.919
<v Speaker 1>But your voice is so big, and your voice is

0:28:25.960 --> 0:28:28.560
<v Speaker 1>so and when I say big, I mean it reaches

0:28:28.680 --> 0:28:32.560
<v Speaker 1>so many people. And and that's what you know. Chris

0:28:32.600 --> 0:28:34.359
<v Speaker 1>and I have just been out there grinding, like you said,

0:28:34.440 --> 0:28:39.160
<v Speaker 1>just you know, like we felt like we never had

0:28:39.160 --> 0:28:41.240
<v Speaker 1>a fair shot at radio. We just felt like we

0:28:41.360 --> 0:28:44.480
<v Speaker 1>never did and and that's what kept us going. We

0:28:44.480 --> 0:28:46.040
<v Speaker 1>could wake up in the morning and say, hey, we

0:28:46.040 --> 0:28:47.520
<v Speaker 1>haven't had a fair shot. If we get a fair

0:28:47.520 --> 0:28:49.920
<v Speaker 1>shot at radio and it doesn't work, we can walk

0:28:49.920 --> 0:28:52.560
<v Speaker 1>away and say we gave it our best and we

0:28:52.640 --> 0:28:55.080
<v Speaker 1>had our best shot, but we just never did. And

0:28:55.080 --> 0:28:57.680
<v Speaker 1>then all of a sudden one morning and laying in

0:28:57.720 --> 0:29:01.320
<v Speaker 1>the bus and I'm a lead and it's like I

0:29:01.320 --> 0:29:03.440
<v Speaker 1>don't know, maybe seven o'clock, eight o'clock in the morning,

0:29:04.000 --> 0:29:09.000
<v Speaker 1>and Chris runs on the bus, throws open the curtain

0:29:09.040 --> 0:29:11.640
<v Speaker 1>to my bond, shakes me and says, pe you gotta

0:29:11.680 --> 0:29:16.320
<v Speaker 1>wake up. And I seriously thought something really bad at happened.

0:29:16.320 --> 0:29:18.120
<v Speaker 1>I thought somebody got hurt. I didn't know, you know,

0:29:18.160 --> 0:29:20.720
<v Speaker 1>you wake up scared to death, set up, hit my

0:29:20.720 --> 0:29:22.760
<v Speaker 1>head on the bunk ahead of me. You know, I'm like, boom,

0:29:23.000 --> 0:29:25.640
<v Speaker 1>and I'm like, what's going on? He goes, I think

0:29:26.160 --> 0:29:29.000
<v Speaker 1>Bobby Bone is just played I Love this Life. It was,

0:29:29.080 --> 0:29:32.120
<v Speaker 1>and like you said, it was just honestly like one

0:29:32.160 --> 0:29:35.000
<v Speaker 1>of those things we had never talked before, and here

0:29:35.120 --> 0:29:37.880
<v Speaker 1>and all of a sudden, in all of America, I

0:29:37.920 --> 0:29:39.960
<v Speaker 1>Love this Life is on the air, and it was

0:29:40.040 --> 0:29:42.200
<v Speaker 1>just like that moment. It was like VH one. Behind

0:29:42.200 --> 0:29:46.240
<v Speaker 1>the music, it was like boom, it just changed for me.

0:29:46.680 --> 0:29:48.000
<v Speaker 1>I heard it and I was like, man, this is

0:29:48.040 --> 0:29:51.160
<v Speaker 1>such a positive song. And then it's also gotta be good,

0:29:51.240 --> 0:29:53.600
<v Speaker 1>like there are two levels to it, like got I

0:29:53.640 --> 0:29:55.960
<v Speaker 1>don't have to like the message. The message has to resonate.

0:29:56.360 --> 0:29:58.640
<v Speaker 1>It is. There are songs that I'm just like, man,

0:29:58.680 --> 0:30:01.320
<v Speaker 1>that's it's kind of a gross message, but growth messages

0:30:01.360 --> 0:30:03.480
<v Speaker 1>are part of life. And does this, you know, does

0:30:03.520 --> 0:30:05.120
<v Speaker 1>it resonate? And then is there a good song? I

0:30:05.160 --> 0:30:07.040
<v Speaker 1>was like, this is a good song and nobody's playing

0:30:07.040 --> 0:30:09.000
<v Speaker 1>it and it's a positive song. So I throw in

0:30:09.040 --> 0:30:11.280
<v Speaker 1>the dance party and then I kept playing it and

0:30:11.280 --> 0:30:13.400
<v Speaker 1>then just other people it just opened eyes. Like I

0:30:13.400 --> 0:30:17.280
<v Speaker 1>didn't do anything, I mean open the world's eyes. And

0:30:17.280 --> 0:30:19.440
<v Speaker 1>then you guys are on a small label. It's not

0:30:19.480 --> 0:30:21.200
<v Speaker 1>like you guys have a million dollar budget to go

0:30:21.240 --> 0:30:24.840
<v Speaker 1>out and promote all this everywhere. And I've never seen

0:30:24.920 --> 0:30:28.520
<v Speaker 1>a tiny little team scramble like they did that morning.

0:30:29.880 --> 0:30:32.520
<v Speaker 1>Phones were ringing everybody, and then all of a sudden,

0:30:32.520 --> 0:30:34.840
<v Speaker 1>they were like, I think Bobby wants you to call

0:30:34.880 --> 0:30:37.479
<v Speaker 1>into the show. And we were like, because then had

0:30:37.480 --> 0:30:40.080
<v Speaker 1>climbed so much on the on the iTunes, that's we're

0:30:40.080 --> 0:30:43.320
<v Speaker 1>trying not to like sound too crazy, like we're like screaming,

0:30:43.400 --> 0:30:45.360
<v Speaker 1>and then we're like, okay, we gotta play it cool man.

0:30:45.360 --> 0:30:47.760
<v Speaker 1>We're about to be on Bobby Bones show. We're like

0:30:47.800 --> 0:30:49.840
<v Speaker 1>trying to get together hear you say that now, because

0:30:49.840 --> 0:30:51.640
<v Speaker 1>they buddies. It's so weird to even think that in

0:30:51.680 --> 0:30:54.200
<v Speaker 1>your head. We were in a gust of Georgia. I

0:30:54.200 --> 0:30:56.240
<v Speaker 1>know right where the bus was parked. I'll never forget it.

0:30:56.400 --> 0:30:58.920
<v Speaker 1>And so we're sitting there on my phone on speaker phone,

0:30:59.600 --> 0:31:03.200
<v Speaker 1>and you're like, guys, do you live on Bobby Bones Show?

0:31:03.280 --> 0:31:05.280
<v Speaker 1>So don't cuss, don't say anything crazy, And I'm like,

0:31:06.720 --> 0:31:08.560
<v Speaker 1>the morning you have to say that, because in the morning,

0:31:08.560 --> 0:31:10.440
<v Speaker 1>most artist it's not time to wake up yet. And

0:31:10.520 --> 0:31:12.440
<v Speaker 1>in that moment, we just want to yell all kinds

0:31:12.480 --> 0:31:15.400
<v Speaker 1>of words. We're just going crazy, like this is wild.

0:31:15.640 --> 0:31:18.960
<v Speaker 1>I'm so glad you said that, and so um, and

0:31:19.040 --> 0:31:21.080
<v Speaker 1>the phone call was over, and I'm like Chris and

0:31:21.080 --> 0:31:23.640
<v Speaker 1>I are looking at like did we talk? I don't

0:31:23.640 --> 0:31:24.960
<v Speaker 1>know if we did. We just talk on the air.

0:31:25.000 --> 0:31:26.520
<v Speaker 1>I don't know if we did. Did we And did

0:31:26.520 --> 0:31:28.840
<v Speaker 1>we say the right things? I don't even know. We're

0:31:28.840 --> 0:31:31.840
<v Speaker 1>like hugging and high fiving. And that was just the

0:31:31.880 --> 0:31:34.480
<v Speaker 1>beginning My only point of that whole call too, because

0:31:34.480 --> 0:31:35.920
<v Speaker 1>I remember going, hey see if we can get those

0:31:35.920 --> 0:31:38.680
<v Speaker 1>guys on the phone, like find their number. At the point,

0:31:38.680 --> 0:31:41.600
<v Speaker 1>this guy the only time we had ever spoken. You

0:31:41.600 --> 0:31:43.800
<v Speaker 1>may not remember this because I have a story about

0:31:43.800 --> 0:31:46.120
<v Speaker 1>when we first met to But the only time we've

0:31:46.160 --> 0:31:48.200
<v Speaker 1>ever spoken is when I first moved to Nashville. We

0:31:48.200 --> 0:31:51.720
<v Speaker 1>did Oklahoma City Relief and you called into the show

0:31:51.840 --> 0:31:53.840
<v Speaker 1>when you guys were toil LoCash Cowboys and you were like,

0:31:53.840 --> 0:31:55.240
<v Speaker 1>hey were doing did the guitar? And I was like,

0:31:55.240 --> 0:31:57.320
<v Speaker 1>who the crap is? Honestly, like, who the crap is?

0:31:57.360 --> 0:32:00.320
<v Speaker 1>LoCash Cowboys? And who's gonna been on this guitar? But they,

0:32:00.440 --> 0:32:03.239
<v Speaker 1>you know, thank you for sending the guitar. That's so

0:32:03.280 --> 0:32:05.360
<v Speaker 1>I was like, hey, get them on the phone because

0:32:05.440 --> 0:32:08.520
<v Speaker 1>I want to see, like how they feel about this song,

0:32:08.600 --> 0:32:11.479
<v Speaker 1>like like what did they write it? I don't think

0:32:11.520 --> 0:32:13.560
<v Speaker 1>about it and then wouldn't do anything they write it?

0:32:13.600 --> 0:32:16.040
<v Speaker 1>What's the message? It's climbing up the charts right now?

0:32:16.040 --> 0:32:18.800
<v Speaker 1>Do they know this? Like do they know that people

0:32:18.920 --> 0:32:21.640
<v Speaker 1>now like this song? It was just happening so fast,

0:32:21.880 --> 0:32:23.920
<v Speaker 1>it was so cool. And then we watched it and

0:32:23.960 --> 0:32:27.080
<v Speaker 1>then I remember you guys. Someone called goes Hey low

0:32:27.160 --> 0:32:29.440
<v Speaker 1>Cash was gonna sing about you on a CMT commercial

0:32:29.440 --> 0:32:31.760
<v Speaker 1>and I was like, I don't know what this means.

0:32:32.480 --> 0:32:34.480
<v Speaker 1>So all of a sudden on CMT, it was like, hey,

0:32:34.480 --> 0:32:36.000
<v Speaker 1>low Cash, you got a new song called I Love

0:32:36.040 --> 0:32:38.240
<v Speaker 1>This Life, and it's like, you know, and I love

0:32:38.440 --> 0:32:40.840
<v Speaker 1>the Bobby Bone Show. And I'm like, whoa, whoa, what

0:32:40.960 --> 0:32:44.120
<v Speaker 1>was happening right now? And we still hadn't met. And

0:32:44.120 --> 0:32:45.520
<v Speaker 1>to be honestly, I don't even know what you look

0:32:45.560 --> 0:32:46.800
<v Speaker 1>like at this time, at this point in my life,

0:32:46.800 --> 0:32:49.080
<v Speaker 1>I had no I was just like, it's a great song,

0:32:49.400 --> 0:32:52.200
<v Speaker 1>it's a great message. That's what I'm here for. Keep

0:32:52.200 --> 0:32:54.280
<v Speaker 1>playing it didn't know what you look like. I didn't.

0:32:54.840 --> 0:32:59.239
<v Speaker 1>I can't get too invested, especially earlier. I can't, And

0:32:59.320 --> 0:33:01.719
<v Speaker 1>so I didn't even look. I didn't look you guys up.

0:33:01.720 --> 0:33:03.680
<v Speaker 1>So I'm walking. I don't know if I told you this,

0:33:03.680 --> 0:33:07.960
<v Speaker 1>but I'm walking. Maybe it was CRST at the Omni

0:33:08.000 --> 0:33:10.640
<v Speaker 1>Hotel and this guy comes up to me and he's

0:33:10.640 --> 0:33:13.200
<v Speaker 1>a little bit emotional, and I'm like, somebody's gonna stab

0:33:13.240 --> 0:33:15.640
<v Speaker 1>me or give me a big old hugs. I don't

0:33:15.720 --> 0:33:18.600
<v Speaker 1>know what it's gonna be, but something, and Nada was

0:33:18.640 --> 0:33:21.400
<v Speaker 1>with me. We were going in and he goes, dude,

0:33:21.560 --> 0:33:23.440
<v Speaker 1>I just want to thank you. And I'm like, I wonder,

0:33:23.880 --> 0:33:26.880
<v Speaker 1>like what what charity. I mean, really, this is what

0:33:26.920 --> 0:33:31.560
<v Speaker 1>I'm thinking. I'm like, yeah, my words probably weren't coming

0:33:31.560 --> 0:33:34.800
<v Speaker 1>out right because I'm emotional. And that's when I was

0:33:34.840 --> 0:33:37.480
<v Speaker 1>the first time we had met and you were like,

0:33:38.080 --> 0:33:41.280
<v Speaker 1>I'm pressed it from low cash and I was like, oh, dude, congratulations.

0:33:41.400 --> 0:33:43.840
<v Speaker 1>You know, it's really great to see and you were liked,

0:33:44.040 --> 0:33:46.000
<v Speaker 1>and it was just a really cool moment. I'm pulling

0:33:46.000 --> 0:33:48.800
<v Speaker 1>this bag, My bag falls over, it hits like somebody.

0:33:48.880 --> 0:33:51.480
<v Speaker 1>You know, it's a total train wreck. But I have

0:33:51.640 --> 0:33:54.240
<v Speaker 1>to get the bobby and thank him. And I'm like,

0:33:54.480 --> 0:33:55.960
<v Speaker 1>no matter what, I got to catch him for he

0:33:55.960 --> 0:33:59.520
<v Speaker 1>gets on the escalators. We're about to walk on the escalator.

0:33:59.520 --> 0:34:01.760
<v Speaker 1>When he goes up, it's over. He's gonna be busy

0:34:02.080 --> 0:34:04.000
<v Speaker 1>and I'll never catch him, and then I'll really look

0:34:04.040 --> 0:34:07.080
<v Speaker 1>like a stock or flying up. That's got who's running

0:34:07.120 --> 0:34:10.120
<v Speaker 1>up the opposite side of the escalator. That was a

0:34:10.160 --> 0:34:13.600
<v Speaker 1>really cool for me because it was so freaking organic.

0:34:13.680 --> 0:34:15.680
<v Speaker 1>I'm glad because once again I walked away like did

0:34:15.680 --> 0:34:17.959
<v Speaker 1>I just freak I don't know, because I just wanted

0:34:17.960 --> 0:34:20.880
<v Speaker 1>to say things like I happened to. There was nothing

0:34:20.920 --> 0:34:23.319
<v Speaker 1>planned about it. I just happened to walk in. You

0:34:23.360 --> 0:34:25.759
<v Speaker 1>were right there. I didn't know who you were. And

0:34:25.800 --> 0:34:27.360
<v Speaker 1>then I was like and I walked up and I

0:34:27.400 --> 0:34:29.439
<v Speaker 1>was like that was really cool, Like that was really cool.

0:34:29.680 --> 0:34:31.319
<v Speaker 1>And that was one of those moments where I'm like,

0:34:31.320 --> 0:34:33.040
<v Speaker 1>this is why I do this. And sometimes you don't

0:34:33.040 --> 0:34:35.120
<v Speaker 1>want to interrupt somebody, and that's how I was feeling.

0:34:35.160 --> 0:34:38.120
<v Speaker 1>I was like, he's on his way towards something, a

0:34:38.160 --> 0:34:39.880
<v Speaker 1>meeting in the show or something, and I didn't know

0:34:39.880 --> 0:34:42.120
<v Speaker 1>if I should, you know, should even run up and interrupt,

0:34:42.120 --> 0:34:44.640
<v Speaker 1>but I was like I have to because this is

0:34:44.680 --> 0:34:48.920
<v Speaker 1>the guy that that turned America onto us on the air.

0:34:49.000 --> 0:34:51.520
<v Speaker 1>And I was like, no matter what this comes off, like,

0:34:51.640 --> 0:34:53.360
<v Speaker 1>no matter if my bag falls over and I'm a

0:34:53.400 --> 0:34:56.399
<v Speaker 1>train wreck, I gotta go over there and say thank you.

0:34:56.600 --> 0:34:59.799
<v Speaker 1>And that was, you know I. So let's go to

0:34:59.840 --> 0:35:03.800
<v Speaker 1>this song. So it it hits a number two before

0:35:03.880 --> 0:35:06.640
<v Speaker 1>this song? What was your highest charting song? Uh, well,

0:35:06.719 --> 0:35:08.359
<v Speaker 1>we had we were on a record label called Strout

0:35:08.440 --> 0:35:12.359
<v Speaker 1>of various years ago, like oh, eight oh nine, two

0:35:12.360 --> 0:35:13.839
<v Speaker 1>thousand ten right in there, and we had a song

0:35:13.920 --> 0:35:16.920
<v Speaker 1>called keep in Mind that got to number thirty two,

0:35:16.960 --> 0:35:21.719
<v Speaker 1>I think, and the record label that's it. That's the song.

0:35:23.800 --> 0:35:36.719
<v Speaker 1>What song, so keep in mind and the one that

0:35:39.239 --> 0:35:48.200
<v Speaker 1>I love the song. So this song OFFENSI story. I

0:35:48.200 --> 0:35:49.320
<v Speaker 1>just wanted to play it while you were telling it.

0:35:49.400 --> 0:35:52.800
<v Speaker 1>Jeffrey Steele and Shane Miner wrote that song. Jeffrey Steele

0:35:52.880 --> 0:35:56.880
<v Speaker 1>was and still is a huge like mentor big brother

0:35:57.120 --> 0:36:00.080
<v Speaker 1>everything to us, and he believed when nobody did it

0:36:00.200 --> 0:36:03.879
<v Speaker 1>way back in oh eight, you know, and Uh took

0:36:03.960 --> 0:36:06.760
<v Speaker 1>us to his studio and we started writing songs together,

0:36:07.360 --> 0:36:10.160
<v Speaker 1>and he just kept telling us, through all the highs

0:36:10.160 --> 0:36:12.960
<v Speaker 1>and the lows, you gotta keep writing songs no matter what.

0:36:13.040 --> 0:36:16.640
<v Speaker 1>Just keep writing throughout all the good, throughout all the bad,

0:36:16.800 --> 0:36:19.640
<v Speaker 1>and and your and your little diamonds will be at

0:36:19.640 --> 0:36:21.279
<v Speaker 1>the end of that. You know, you'll have this little

0:36:21.320 --> 0:36:23.719
<v Speaker 1>pile of songs. Some of them will suck, you know,

0:36:24.080 --> 0:36:25.759
<v Speaker 1>like a lot of them will suck, but there'll be

0:36:25.760 --> 0:36:28.279
<v Speaker 1>this little handful of songs that will be special and

0:36:28.360 --> 0:36:31.799
<v Speaker 1>real and they'll be the ones. And so, Uh one

0:36:31.880 --> 0:36:34.359
<v Speaker 1>day we were at his studio and we overheard him

0:36:34.480 --> 0:36:37.839
<v Speaker 1>say that Rascal Flats might be recording and keep in mind,

0:36:38.920 --> 0:36:41.880
<v Speaker 1>and we just looked at him and we said, nobody's

0:36:41.920 --> 0:36:44.200
<v Speaker 1>ever given us a song like this or giving us

0:36:44.239 --> 0:36:46.040
<v Speaker 1>a shot to record it, and we feel like we

0:36:46.040 --> 0:36:49.440
<v Speaker 1>could record this, will you give it to us? And

0:36:49.560 --> 0:36:52.200
<v Speaker 1>he kept it and took it off hold from all

0:36:52.200 --> 0:36:54.520
<v Speaker 1>the other artists and let us record it. And I mean,

0:36:54.520 --> 0:36:56.919
<v Speaker 1>that's the number one for anybody, a multi week number

0:36:56.960 --> 0:36:59.840
<v Speaker 1>one for anybody, but for low cash. Uh, and this

0:37:00.200 --> 0:37:02.640
<v Speaker 1>little label we were on, it was a shot. It

0:37:02.760 --> 0:37:04.800
<v Speaker 1>was it was a chance, and it got us to

0:37:04.880 --> 0:37:07.919
<v Speaker 1>thirty two, and um, it could have went a lot higher,

0:37:07.920 --> 0:37:10.520
<v Speaker 1>but the record label closed at thirty two. And while

0:37:10.560 --> 0:37:12.440
<v Speaker 1>we had a bullet and we're going up the charts,

0:37:12.920 --> 0:37:17.279
<v Speaker 1>the record label shut down for other budgeting reasons and

0:37:17.360 --> 0:37:20.080
<v Speaker 1>we got left hanging right there at thirty two. So

0:37:20.280 --> 0:37:24.640
<v Speaker 1>thirty two was your highest to that point ever And

0:37:24.760 --> 0:37:28.040
<v Speaker 1>so once I love this life hit stop twenty Is

0:37:28.040 --> 0:37:31.279
<v Speaker 1>that a celebration? Oh my gosh, everything was a celebration

0:37:31.320 --> 0:37:33.960
<v Speaker 1>like forty was. And I'll tell you what when I'll

0:37:33.960 --> 0:37:36.200
<v Speaker 1>tell you what was a real celebration for us. We

0:37:36.200 --> 0:37:39.520
<v Speaker 1>were going down the highway and uh and Gator Michael's

0:37:39.560 --> 0:37:42.200
<v Speaker 1>was driving the car and he looked back and he says, hey, guys,

0:37:42.719 --> 0:37:46.560
<v Speaker 1>your song just went to thirty one. For me, that

0:37:46.800 --> 0:37:49.560
<v Speaker 1>was that moment, that was that threshold, and it was like, Okay,

0:37:49.560 --> 0:37:52.640
<v Speaker 1>it's a new world. It's a new shot at thirty

0:37:52.920 --> 0:37:55.520
<v Speaker 1>and then and then twenty, and like you said, you know,

0:37:55.760 --> 0:37:58.279
<v Speaker 1>it's a celebration that every tier. You're like, okay, the

0:37:58.320 --> 0:38:01.200
<v Speaker 1>new goal is you know, ninet, and then fifteen and

0:38:01.239 --> 0:38:04.480
<v Speaker 1>then ten and all bets are off at ten. But

0:38:04.800 --> 0:38:06.719
<v Speaker 1>I mean it's like Nascar. All these cars are just

0:38:06.800 --> 0:38:09.200
<v Speaker 1>zooming as fast as they can. They've all made pit

0:38:09.320 --> 0:38:12.560
<v Speaker 1>stops and and and when I say cars, I mean songs.

0:38:12.600 --> 0:38:14.600
<v Speaker 1>But here we here you are on the top ten

0:38:15.000 --> 0:38:16.960
<v Speaker 1>and you're up there with people like Luke Bryan and

0:38:17.000 --> 0:38:20.759
<v Speaker 1>Kenny Chesny and it is legit, it's real, and everybody's

0:38:20.800 --> 0:38:23.320
<v Speaker 1>gunning for that number one slot and you don't know

0:38:23.360 --> 0:38:26.160
<v Speaker 1>what's gonna happen. You're just like praying. So whenever it

0:38:26.239 --> 0:38:29.759
<v Speaker 1>doesn't hit number one and it's a two, is there

0:38:29.760 --> 0:38:32.480
<v Speaker 1>a disappointment there? Um? I think there was a disappointment

0:38:32.600 --> 0:38:35.840
<v Speaker 1>and die happy. Man just didn't die quick enough. You

0:38:35.960 --> 0:38:40.040
<v Speaker 1>got The timing was awful. The Song of the Year

0:38:40.200 --> 0:38:43.280
<v Speaker 1>was out at the same time, and we were number

0:38:43.280 --> 0:38:46.160
<v Speaker 1>one on Monday, and then he moved in it on

0:38:46.200 --> 0:38:49.799
<v Speaker 1>Tuesday and never left for like weeks, and we stayed

0:38:49.840 --> 0:38:53.359
<v Speaker 1>at number two the entire time, which is a huge

0:38:53.360 --> 0:38:57.080
<v Speaker 1>success for us to just remain right there with him,

0:38:57.120 --> 0:38:59.319
<v Speaker 1>but we couldn't overtake him. It was a powerful song.

0:38:59.760 --> 0:39:03.000
<v Speaker 1>It was a song or the year. And so at

0:39:03.000 --> 0:39:04.960
<v Speaker 1>the Cmas, which we didn't watch because we're watching the game,

0:39:04.960 --> 0:39:06.880
<v Speaker 1>it was one. But here's the thing, and this is

0:39:07.000 --> 0:39:08.920
<v Speaker 1>you're funny you talked about two. I was doing the

0:39:08.960 --> 0:39:12.440
<v Speaker 1>story about Olympians when they win medals, and so I'm

0:39:12.520 --> 0:39:15.520
<v Speaker 1>only the psychology of sports as well. The gold medal

0:39:15.520 --> 0:39:17.680
<v Speaker 1>people are always happy or they're not, you know whatever

0:39:17.840 --> 0:39:19.880
<v Speaker 1>for me. For me, I don't like to win. I

0:39:19.920 --> 0:39:22.880
<v Speaker 1>just hate losing. So I'm I'm a nut case anyway.

0:39:22.920 --> 0:39:25.240
<v Speaker 1>But what they found was the gold medal winners were happy,

0:39:25.560 --> 0:39:30.000
<v Speaker 1>the silver medal people were very unhappy, and the bronze

0:39:30.000 --> 0:39:33.080
<v Speaker 1>medal people were super happy. And now here's why the

0:39:33.120 --> 0:39:35.840
<v Speaker 1>gold medal people won. The silver medal people felt like

0:39:35.920 --> 0:39:38.520
<v Speaker 1>I was so close to winning that I should have

0:39:38.520 --> 0:39:40.080
<v Speaker 1>won if I would have just worked harder, So they

0:39:40.080 --> 0:39:42.200
<v Speaker 1>didn't have that in their heart of like what I did.

0:39:42.440 --> 0:39:46.200
<v Speaker 1>And the bronze was like man, I'm happy to be here,

0:39:47.120 --> 0:39:51.279
<v Speaker 1>like I wasn't gonna pitch first, and so just being

0:39:51.280 --> 0:39:52.960
<v Speaker 1>on the stand as an honor, and they found that

0:39:53.000 --> 0:39:56.880
<v Speaker 1>it was gold, bronze, silver in that order in happiness.

0:39:57.200 --> 0:39:58.880
<v Speaker 1>I mean that in our world, that's kind of like

0:39:58.960 --> 0:40:03.120
<v Speaker 1>top five too and one. Yeah, like I can see

0:40:03.160 --> 0:40:05.480
<v Speaker 1>how somebody would achieve a top five and say we

0:40:05.520 --> 0:40:08.200
<v Speaker 1>did it top five when we roll out, but for us,

0:40:08.239 --> 0:40:10.359
<v Speaker 1>we got so close. I mean it was right there.

0:40:10.880 --> 0:40:13.160
<v Speaker 1>And but you know what, I Love his Life feels

0:40:13.200 --> 0:40:15.399
<v Speaker 1>like a number one song. To me. It's the most

0:40:15.480 --> 0:40:18.439
<v Speaker 1>powerful song in our set every night to this day

0:40:18.480 --> 0:40:20.879
<v Speaker 1>when we go out and we sing, I mean, it's

0:40:20.880 --> 0:40:23.799
<v Speaker 1>the last song of the show every night. There's no

0:40:23.840 --> 0:40:25.759
<v Speaker 1>other place for I Love this Life to sit because

0:40:25.800 --> 0:40:30.360
<v Speaker 1>it's the one that you know, that introduced us to

0:40:30.560 --> 0:40:34.759
<v Speaker 1>America as well as it's still has this thing that

0:40:34.880 --> 0:40:38.960
<v Speaker 1>changes people's day. Like it's just a smile. So that's

0:40:39.200 --> 0:40:41.640
<v Speaker 1>how I just said, like it makes you smile, hands

0:40:41.680 --> 0:40:45.160
<v Speaker 1>go up, smiles come over the faces, and uh, and

0:40:45.200 --> 0:40:49.200
<v Speaker 1>we leave the stage feeling like we've you know, you know,

0:40:49.280 --> 0:40:51.640
<v Speaker 1>kind of gave him a really positive message. Who'd you

0:40:51.640 --> 0:40:57.319
<v Speaker 1>write that song with? Chris Danny Myrick was there, and

0:40:57.400 --> 0:40:58.719
<v Speaker 1>I'll tell you what. We were trying to write an

0:40:58.719 --> 0:41:01.000
<v Speaker 1>anthem for Garth. We heard he was cutting. We're like,

0:41:01.080 --> 0:41:03.640
<v Speaker 1>let's write an anthem for Garth. What would Garth say?

0:41:03.680 --> 0:41:05.280
<v Speaker 1>And we're like he'd get out there with a fist

0:41:05.360 --> 0:41:07.839
<v Speaker 1>and and be like, I love this life, you know.

0:41:07.960 --> 0:41:10.440
<v Speaker 1>And so we started. We made a laundry list of

0:41:10.440 --> 0:41:12.399
<v Speaker 1>all the things we loved, and we're like, let's keep

0:41:12.440 --> 0:41:14.759
<v Speaker 1>this simple, let's just not even think about this. What

0:41:14.920 --> 0:41:17.239
<v Speaker 1>are the things we love? And we just made a

0:41:17.280 --> 0:41:20.480
<v Speaker 1>list and then we sort of formulated and it in

0:41:20.680 --> 0:41:24.160
<v Speaker 1>versus and named it I love this life. And we're like,

0:41:25.560 --> 0:41:27.440
<v Speaker 1>when you finished, okay. So I know a lot of

0:41:27.719 --> 0:41:29.319
<v Speaker 1>artists were writing for Garth at the time when he

0:41:29.360 --> 0:41:32.680
<v Speaker 1>was It was like he was taking emails like you

0:41:32.760 --> 0:41:34.719
<v Speaker 1>just take the song and you get to him, and

0:41:34.760 --> 0:41:38.160
<v Speaker 1>they would listen to everything. So did you what are

0:41:38.160 --> 0:41:41.960
<v Speaker 1>you disappointed that Garth didn't? Yeah? First, I was like, dang,

0:41:42.400 --> 0:41:45.399
<v Speaker 1>I thought maybe we had something there, And and we

0:41:45.400 --> 0:41:47.839
<v Speaker 1>were already doing it live and Chris and I take

0:41:47.880 --> 0:41:50.040
<v Speaker 1>songs onto the stage and just sing them just to

0:41:50.080 --> 0:41:53.920
<v Speaker 1>see what the reaction is like. And uh, we were

0:41:53.960 --> 0:41:56.640
<v Speaker 1>watching every night and the crowds were like, already going crazy.

0:41:56.680 --> 0:41:58.160
<v Speaker 1>I've never ever heard it on the radio, and their

0:41:58.200 --> 0:42:00.960
<v Speaker 1>hands are up, they're feeling good. And our tour manager

0:42:01.000 --> 0:42:03.359
<v Speaker 1>was like, I'm telling you guys, there's something special about

0:42:03.360 --> 0:42:05.120
<v Speaker 1>this song. And I kind of blow it off and

0:42:05.160 --> 0:42:07.719
<v Speaker 1>go to the bus. So I was kind of disappointed

0:42:07.719 --> 0:42:10.880
<v Speaker 1>when I heard that Garth, you know, um didn't cut it,

0:42:10.960 --> 0:42:13.400
<v Speaker 1>and I don't even know if he really heard it,

0:42:13.440 --> 0:42:18.280
<v Speaker 1>who knows, but another artist supposedly had it on hold,

0:42:18.960 --> 0:42:23.160
<v Speaker 1>and it was on a stronghold, and um, you know,

0:42:23.239 --> 0:42:26.919
<v Speaker 1>as songwriters, we were all banking on that to be

0:42:27.160 --> 0:42:29.000
<v Speaker 1>good for us. We're all like, that could be good

0:42:29.040 --> 0:42:32.919
<v Speaker 1>for us. We all get a paycheck. And so when

0:42:32.960 --> 0:42:34.600
<v Speaker 1>we got our record, we didn't have a record deal,

0:42:34.920 --> 0:42:36.680
<v Speaker 1>and so when we got a record deal, all of

0:42:36.760 --> 0:42:39.520
<v Speaker 1>a sudden, the record levels is we want to make

0:42:39.560 --> 0:42:41.759
<v Speaker 1>I Love This Life the single, and we were like,

0:42:42.520 --> 0:42:44.000
<v Speaker 1>Chris kind of looks at me, He's like, maybe you

0:42:44.000 --> 0:42:48.280
<v Speaker 1>should take it off hold, And I was like, well,

0:42:48.480 --> 0:42:52.239
<v Speaker 1>if it's gonna be for another artist, it's probably bad form,

0:42:52.280 --> 0:42:55.680
<v Speaker 1>but maybe with a shot for us as the songwriters,

0:42:56.480 --> 0:42:58.200
<v Speaker 1>you're gonna take it off hold from artists A to

0:42:58.200 --> 0:43:00.440
<v Speaker 1>give it to artist B. That's probably not cold. Yeah,

0:43:00.440 --> 0:43:02.560
<v Speaker 1>if you're taking it off, hold for yourself when you

0:43:02.600 --> 0:43:04.480
<v Speaker 1>wrote it, because you have a new project that's a

0:43:04.480 --> 0:43:07.000
<v Speaker 1>little more excut. That's a little different because now it's like,

0:43:07.200 --> 0:43:09.960
<v Speaker 1>wait a minute, we sort of have the trump card

0:43:10.080 --> 0:43:13.239
<v Speaker 1>on a on a song that we write, and so

0:43:13.320 --> 0:43:15.320
<v Speaker 1>when we you know, we had to call Jansen and

0:43:15.360 --> 0:43:17.560
<v Speaker 1>we had to call Danny and say, guys, I think

0:43:17.560 --> 0:43:19.920
<v Speaker 1>we're gonna keep the song for ourselves, which a bit

0:43:20.040 --> 0:43:22.279
<v Speaker 1>for them is gonna be disappointing. Yeah, you never know,

0:43:22.360 --> 0:43:24.480
<v Speaker 1>they want a big artist to have it because listen,

0:43:24.520 --> 0:43:26.160
<v Speaker 1>just playing here, it's gonna be me for a second,

0:43:26.560 --> 0:43:29.560
<v Speaker 1>like I want little cash cutting a song a big

0:43:29.680 --> 0:43:32.520
<v Speaker 1>artist can cut at the time, you know, would you Yeah,

0:43:32.600 --> 0:43:35.000
<v Speaker 1>I mean I've been there. I mean it's like, oh gosh,

0:43:35.040 --> 0:43:38.360
<v Speaker 1>what do we do? But you know, man, Jansen is

0:43:38.400 --> 0:43:40.720
<v Speaker 1>one of our brothers. He's like, he's our best friend

0:43:40.719 --> 0:43:44.320
<v Speaker 1>in music. And uh, those guys after after we talked

0:43:44.320 --> 0:43:47.120
<v Speaker 1>it out, everybody understood we just wanted a shot, and

0:43:47.200 --> 0:43:49.279
<v Speaker 1>so we all kind of rolled with it. And I

0:43:49.320 --> 0:43:51.360
<v Speaker 1>think everyone send it up big prayers and cross some

0:43:51.440 --> 0:43:54.960
<v Speaker 1>fingers and toes and uh. Now you look back on

0:43:55.000 --> 0:43:57.680
<v Speaker 1>it and you're like, wow, what a great decision we

0:43:57.760 --> 0:44:00.680
<v Speaker 1>all made. That's awesome, dude, dude, and here you are

0:44:01.239 --> 0:44:04.160
<v Speaker 1>praying the guards. You know, wise man once said some

0:44:04.239 --> 0:44:09.560
<v Speaker 1>of God's great it's gifts, and guards said that. Alright.

0:44:09.600 --> 0:44:12.239
<v Speaker 1>So I love this life goes the number two. It

0:44:12.280 --> 0:44:14.319
<v Speaker 1>puts you by the way. I'll say this now with

0:44:14.400 --> 0:44:16.080
<v Speaker 1>I love this life and I know somebody, you guys

0:44:16.120 --> 0:44:19.080
<v Speaker 1>are now real players in the game. With one song,

0:44:19.160 --> 0:44:21.120
<v Speaker 1>you're not a real player. You're okay, cool the head

0:44:21.160 --> 0:44:24.480
<v Speaker 1>of song. With two songs in a row, you automatically

0:44:24.480 --> 0:44:26.600
<v Speaker 1>get that third. Everybody gives you the benefit of the

0:44:26.600 --> 0:44:28.520
<v Speaker 1>down the third song. Just don't make the third song

0:44:28.600 --> 0:44:30.480
<v Speaker 1>suck yet, you know. I mean, that's the goal. But

0:44:30.560 --> 0:44:34.200
<v Speaker 1>the first make the first song amazing. Yeah, that's what

0:44:34.280 --> 0:44:36.480
<v Speaker 1>the plan is on. The second song is okay, cool,

0:44:36.520 --> 0:44:38.520
<v Speaker 1>we have a little ans, let's follow it up. The

0:44:38.520 --> 0:44:40.759
<v Speaker 1>third one is we're going to get the benefit of

0:44:40.800 --> 0:44:44.680
<v Speaker 1>the doubt. Just don't song. Do you feel that? I

0:44:44.680 --> 0:44:47.400
<v Speaker 1>feel that, and it's like, just don't mess this up.

0:44:47.520 --> 0:44:51.319
<v Speaker 1>This is the moment, and you know, everybody, I feel

0:44:51.320 --> 0:44:55.000
<v Speaker 1>like we have a really um solid album. We're getting

0:44:55.160 --> 0:44:57.520
<v Speaker 1>a lot of feedback on different songs. People are like,

0:44:57.719 --> 0:45:00.439
<v Speaker 1>I think this should be your third song, about playing

0:45:00.440 --> 0:45:02.239
<v Speaker 1>a different song I shouldn't have played. Hey, I don't

0:45:02.239 --> 0:45:05.440
<v Speaker 1>even care what you play because I'm all about I

0:45:06.360 --> 0:45:08.600
<v Speaker 1>love it that you went deep into the album and

0:45:08.680 --> 0:45:12.120
<v Speaker 1>found a cut that is important to us. That song

0:45:12.160 --> 0:45:15.120
<v Speaker 1>is so important to us, and who knows you may

0:45:15.120 --> 0:45:17.719
<v Speaker 1>have willed it into being a single eventually. Who knows

0:45:17.800 --> 0:45:19.920
<v Speaker 1>the one that I played before we played the next single?

0:45:20.360 --> 0:45:22.600
<v Speaker 1>I heard this song, Oh I no, no. Before I

0:45:22.600 --> 0:45:24.480
<v Speaker 1>heard it, I just looking at the tracks and I

0:45:24.560 --> 0:45:28.000
<v Speaker 1>was like, God Loves Me More. I don't even know

0:45:28.040 --> 0:45:30.040
<v Speaker 1>what this is, but I have to hear the song

0:45:30.120 --> 0:45:33.760
<v Speaker 1>because I don't know. My mind as a creative goes, okay,

0:45:33.800 --> 0:45:35.640
<v Speaker 1>how would I make this a song? And what's with

0:45:35.760 --> 0:45:38.279
<v Speaker 1>the angle? What's the angle of God Loves Me More?

0:45:38.320 --> 0:45:40.200
<v Speaker 1>Because it sounds like the most arrogant song I've ever

0:45:40.280 --> 0:45:42.759
<v Speaker 1>heard of my It sounds like a terrible song and

0:45:42.760 --> 0:45:45.400
<v Speaker 1>its yes, And so I go and I listened to

0:45:45.400 --> 0:45:47.640
<v Speaker 1>the song right, And so it's called God Loves Me

0:45:47.680 --> 0:45:57.040
<v Speaker 1>More because he gave me angel And I'm like, I

0:45:57.080 --> 0:46:06.600
<v Speaker 1>got it. Now I'm gonna tell you this. And I

0:46:06.600 --> 0:46:08.799
<v Speaker 1>haven't said this on the air, and I won't say

0:46:08.800 --> 0:46:10.640
<v Speaker 1>it on the air because it'll put our bait in.

0:46:10.680 --> 0:46:13.360
<v Speaker 1>We were placed, but I took this song and I

0:46:13.840 --> 0:46:16.880
<v Speaker 1>and the head of my heart Country, the biggest company,

0:46:17.000 --> 0:46:20.920
<v Speaker 1>in the biggest format is the guy that was the

0:46:21.080 --> 0:46:24.400
<v Speaker 1>guy who moved me to Nashville, like is my number

0:46:24.440 --> 0:46:28.040
<v Speaker 1>one like friend confidante, he punched me in the face,

0:46:28.160 --> 0:46:31.120
<v Speaker 1>he congratulates me. Um, And I sent him this song.

0:46:31.160 --> 0:46:32.759
<v Speaker 1>I was like, dude, this this song of the year,

0:46:33.120 --> 0:46:35.640
<v Speaker 1>Like if it's ever, if it's ever a single, it's

0:46:35.719 --> 0:46:38.160
<v Speaker 1>this this song of the year potential. I mean, it

0:46:38.239 --> 0:46:40.520
<v Speaker 1>feels like I remember sitting in the back of the

0:46:40.520 --> 0:46:45.320
<v Speaker 1>bus with Matt Alderman, Uh, Phil Barton, Phil Eric Passley

0:46:45.320 --> 0:46:46.880
<v Speaker 1>and I wrote when I Grow Up, the number one

0:46:46.960 --> 0:46:51.720
<v Speaker 1>kids song together. He's awesome and uh and so is Phil, Matt,

0:46:51.880 --> 0:46:54.120
<v Speaker 1>Chris and me and we're sending back to the bus

0:46:54.120 --> 0:46:56.960
<v Speaker 1>and I'll never forget Matt Alderman had the idea and

0:46:57.000 --> 0:47:00.319
<v Speaker 1>he goes guys because this idea, and he's just he's

0:47:00.320 --> 0:47:01.960
<v Speaker 1>a big old country boy, you know. He's holding his

0:47:02.000 --> 0:47:05.000
<v Speaker 1>guitar and he says it's called God loves me more

0:47:05.040 --> 0:47:07.560
<v Speaker 1>than you. And I was like, just like you. I

0:47:07.640 --> 0:47:10.920
<v Speaker 1>was like just stunned. And then he even said this,

0:47:11.320 --> 0:47:13.960
<v Speaker 1>and so before I said yes or no, and I

0:47:14.000 --> 0:47:18.799
<v Speaker 1>just said okay, sing sing how this should go? And

0:47:18.880 --> 0:47:21.120
<v Speaker 1>he kind of had this twist that God loves me

0:47:21.200 --> 0:47:23.200
<v Speaker 1>more than you because he gave me an angel hold

0:47:23.239 --> 0:47:24.680
<v Speaker 1>onto and that's all he kind of had. And I

0:47:24.719 --> 0:47:29.360
<v Speaker 1>was like, oh boy, this is this could be amazing.

0:47:29.560 --> 0:47:32.080
<v Speaker 1>And so then we just backed up and said, it's

0:47:32.080 --> 0:47:34.600
<v Speaker 1>a redneck love song. It's a country boy who has

0:47:34.640 --> 0:47:36.640
<v Speaker 1>no other way to say it, but just like this,

0:47:37.080 --> 0:47:39.560
<v Speaker 1>and so we just started. You know, I drank too much,

0:47:39.840 --> 0:47:41.920
<v Speaker 1>you know, I fined, I cuss that kind of thing.

0:47:41.960 --> 0:47:45.200
<v Speaker 1>And it worked and I played it on the air

0:47:45.440 --> 0:47:50.080
<v Speaker 1>and it went like number forty one. Yes, I was

0:47:50.080 --> 0:47:52.760
<v Speaker 1>calling everybody's like new single, guys, let's go. I felt

0:47:52.760 --> 0:47:54.960
<v Speaker 1>bad that I played it because I didn't know what

0:47:55.000 --> 0:47:57.040
<v Speaker 1>the new single was. And I was just like, guys,

0:47:57.040 --> 0:47:58.759
<v Speaker 1>I heard this low cash song and you have you

0:47:58.800 --> 0:48:01.040
<v Speaker 1>have to just hear it. It's just that good. And

0:48:01.080 --> 0:48:03.160
<v Speaker 1>I played it and I talked to I guess he

0:48:03.160 --> 0:48:09.000
<v Speaker 1>owned your label. Uh. He was like hey, and I

0:48:09.080 --> 0:48:13.319
<v Speaker 1>was walking out of the the stupid c M. As

0:48:13.680 --> 0:48:16.200
<v Speaker 1>I was walking out of the um the interviews of

0:48:16.239 --> 0:48:18.200
<v Speaker 1>that day and he was like, hey, God loves me

0:48:18.239 --> 0:48:20.440
<v Speaker 1>more went up like five thoent when you pay they do.

0:48:20.480 --> 0:48:21.719
<v Speaker 1>It's a good song. I didn't write it, I didn't

0:48:21.719 --> 0:48:23.839
<v Speaker 1>sing it. I did nothing except go, hey, everybody check

0:48:23.920 --> 0:48:27.319
<v Speaker 1>this out. It already exists. I mean, I love the

0:48:27.360 --> 0:48:29.680
<v Speaker 1>song so much. It could be the single right now,

0:48:29.680 --> 0:48:31.719
<v Speaker 1>and I'd be fine with that. But the single right

0:48:31.760 --> 0:48:33.600
<v Speaker 1>now is ring on Every Finger, which I have to

0:48:33.640 --> 0:48:36.040
<v Speaker 1>admit never heard it. Like, as I'm about to play,

0:48:36.080 --> 0:48:37.839
<v Speaker 1>I've never heard it. You've never heard it, never heard

0:48:37.840 --> 0:48:41.000
<v Speaker 1>the first time. I've never heard one note from this song.

0:48:41.640 --> 0:48:44.960
<v Speaker 1>Because here we go. Now this isn't gonna account because

0:48:45.120 --> 0:48:47.120
<v Speaker 1>it's not the right environment. I have my environment to

0:48:47.160 --> 0:48:50.200
<v Speaker 1>hear that's not the right environment. But I've never So

0:48:50.280 --> 0:48:51.920
<v Speaker 1>here's a little something about ring on Everything, or a

0:48:51.960 --> 0:48:56.520
<v Speaker 1>little backstory. Um Thomas Rhett wrote it with Josh Ker

0:48:56.880 --> 0:49:01.080
<v Speaker 1>and Jesse Frasier his team, and they write great songs.

0:49:01.120 --> 0:49:03.239
<v Speaker 1>And we got pitched this song after he had cut

0:49:03.320 --> 0:49:05.280
<v Speaker 1>his album, so I don't think he had it done

0:49:05.360 --> 0:49:07.920
<v Speaker 1>in time for his album. We heard it and we

0:49:07.920 --> 0:49:11.320
<v Speaker 1>were like, this is amazing. So the guy that beats

0:49:11.320 --> 0:49:15.560
<v Speaker 1>you at number one right with die Happy Man we

0:49:15.680 --> 0:49:18.520
<v Speaker 1>just talked about it, has now given you a song

0:49:18.600 --> 0:49:21.800
<v Speaker 1>that's gonna be ay this whole World's dad wrote I

0:49:21.920 --> 0:49:25.279
<v Speaker 1>know somebody, that's right. Rhet wrote I have somebody. Yeah,

0:49:25.320 --> 0:49:28.400
<v Speaker 1>So we're all excited, going, is this gonna be a

0:49:28.400 --> 0:49:30.799
<v Speaker 1>true store? I mean this is crazy, you know, dude.

0:49:30.800 --> 0:49:36.160
<v Speaker 1>This is like a freaking lifetime original CMT combination. All

0:49:36.239 --> 0:49:38.719
<v Speaker 1>here we go ring. This is the hook Mike, So

0:49:38.719 --> 0:49:40.640
<v Speaker 1>I'm not gonna get the full effect, which doesn't matter.

0:49:41.040 --> 0:49:42.759
<v Speaker 1>This is our ring on every finger. This is the

0:49:42.760 --> 0:50:00.080
<v Speaker 1>new Locust single thing my last name just seeing in

0:50:01.200 --> 0:50:06.000
<v Speaker 1>the world. Oh that's a cool I like that. That

0:50:06.880 --> 0:50:09.839
<v Speaker 1>just just melodically speaking. Yeah, because I need to hear

0:50:09.880 --> 0:50:11.800
<v Speaker 1>the all song and it's got the Thomas Hrett energy

0:50:12.000 --> 0:50:15.640
<v Speaker 1>for sure. I can hear the Thomas in the Yeah,

0:50:15.719 --> 0:50:18.279
<v Speaker 1>that's cool. Yeah, it's okay. That's the new single. Don't

0:50:18.280 --> 0:50:19.480
<v Speaker 1>a lot about it. I'm not gonna talk a lot

0:50:19.480 --> 0:50:21.799
<v Speaker 1>about it. So that's the new single. I'm sure what

0:50:21.800 --> 0:50:23.919
<v Speaker 1>we're talking about that a lot in the future. Yeah,

0:50:24.200 --> 0:50:28.000
<v Speaker 1>let's let's go back. So I want to go back

0:50:28.040 --> 0:50:31.120
<v Speaker 1>to whenever people that have been around town a long

0:50:31.160 --> 0:50:34.000
<v Speaker 1>time talking about you guys, and I'm talking about long timers.

0:50:34.480 --> 0:50:36.640
<v Speaker 1>They're like, you know, no, President, you just do. He's

0:50:36.640 --> 0:50:39.680
<v Speaker 1>to teach dance classes. And I'm like he did. I

0:50:39.719 --> 0:50:44.839
<v Speaker 1>didn't know this. I'm like, president us yeah. And then

0:50:44.840 --> 0:50:46.279
<v Speaker 1>he was like, yeah, we go. He teaching like it

0:50:46.480 --> 0:50:49.600
<v Speaker 1>did dancing with the Wild Horse really yep. So when

0:50:49.640 --> 0:50:53.200
<v Speaker 1>I first moved to town, I heard that everybody would

0:50:53.239 --> 0:50:54.960
<v Speaker 1>hang out with the Wild Horse, and so I was like,

0:50:55.040 --> 0:50:56.919
<v Speaker 1>I didn't know anything about Nashville. So I went down

0:50:56.920 --> 0:50:59.839
<v Speaker 1>the Second Avenue, went to the Wild Horse, walked in

0:51:00.400 --> 0:51:02.959
<v Speaker 1>and it's kind of buzzing. You know, this is two

0:51:02.960 --> 0:51:06.560
<v Speaker 1>thousand two. I'm in there and the buzzes, you know, rocking.

0:51:06.600 --> 0:51:09.280
<v Speaker 1>There's people dancing, there's lights. It's a big, big nightclub.

0:51:09.880 --> 0:51:13.600
<v Speaker 1>And I'll look over in the DJ hanging out, you know,

0:51:13.760 --> 0:51:15.680
<v Speaker 1>having fun. He's got some girls in the DJ booth.

0:51:15.680 --> 0:51:23.279
<v Speaker 1>He's having fun. Hands up, Chris. So I walk over right.

0:51:23.560 --> 0:51:25.520
<v Speaker 1>So I walk over to the DJ booth and I'm like,

0:51:25.640 --> 0:51:27.520
<v Speaker 1>it looks like you got a cool job. That's how

0:51:27.560 --> 0:51:29.799
<v Speaker 1>you met him, And that's where we met. And he

0:51:29.920 --> 0:51:33.080
<v Speaker 1>goes he goes, yeah, what are you doing in town?

0:51:33.320 --> 0:51:34.880
<v Speaker 1>He's like, you seem like a new guy around here.

0:51:34.920 --> 0:51:37.160
<v Speaker 1>I said, yeah, man, I just moved here. I don't

0:51:37.160 --> 0:51:39.040
<v Speaker 1>even have a job. And he's like, well, first things first,

0:51:39.160 --> 0:51:41.360
<v Speaker 1>you're gonna need a job. And I was like really,

0:51:41.680 --> 0:51:43.600
<v Speaker 1>because I saved a little bit money and I'm just

0:51:43.600 --> 0:51:46.680
<v Speaker 1>gonna Songwright every day, so focused on Songwright. And he goes,

0:51:46.760 --> 0:51:48.799
<v Speaker 1>you're gonna need a job, dude. It takes longer than

0:51:49.000 --> 0:51:51.360
<v Speaker 1>you know, than what you think. And so I was

0:51:51.400 --> 0:51:53.839
<v Speaker 1>like okay. So he says, why don't you work here?

0:51:54.080 --> 0:51:56.719
<v Speaker 1>He says, you have any dancing like background, you could

0:51:56.719 --> 0:51:59.239
<v Speaker 1>teach line dancing here. It's a fun job, pays well.

0:51:59.719 --> 0:52:03.640
<v Speaker 1>Dancing background. Yeah. So so Chris and I both have

0:52:03.760 --> 0:52:08.120
<v Speaker 1>dancing background. So, um, like viacom and like v H

0:52:08.239 --> 0:52:10.560
<v Speaker 1>one and MTV would fly us to New York City

0:52:10.840 --> 0:52:13.399
<v Speaker 1>and have us do like hip hop clinics and all

0:52:13.520 --> 0:52:15.839
<v Speaker 1>kinds of stuff. Where did you learn to dance? Because

0:52:15.840 --> 0:52:17.680
<v Speaker 1>it sounds like you've been trained to dance, but I

0:52:17.840 --> 0:52:21.000
<v Speaker 1>never had to dance lesson in my life. But um,

0:52:21.200 --> 0:52:25.600
<v Speaker 1>dancing just one of things down right, I mean, throw

0:52:25.680 --> 0:52:27.759
<v Speaker 1>some cardboard down with the boom box man, we're good

0:52:27.760 --> 0:52:29.680
<v Speaker 1>to go, So no dance lessons, but you were really

0:52:29.760 --> 0:52:31.920
<v Speaker 1>that good that you would go dance. And Chris was

0:52:31.960 --> 0:52:34.920
<v Speaker 1>the same way, coming from Baltimore. He had breakdancing, and

0:52:34.960 --> 0:52:36.440
<v Speaker 1>so the two of us hit it off. We're like,

0:52:36.600 --> 0:52:40.280
<v Speaker 1>wait a minute, we both like can dance and freestyle

0:52:40.320 --> 0:52:43.279
<v Speaker 1>and have fun, and and we come from the same background.

0:52:43.320 --> 0:52:45.879
<v Speaker 1>We listened to the same music growing up, and so

0:52:45.960 --> 0:52:49.000
<v Speaker 1>we started working together. And they had two microphones, and

0:52:49.080 --> 0:52:52.400
<v Speaker 1>so I would DJ and he would walk out and

0:52:52.400 --> 0:52:54.719
<v Speaker 1>and like being m C and welcome everybody to the

0:52:54.719 --> 0:52:56.640
<v Speaker 1>Wild Horse. There'll be like three thousand people in there,

0:52:57.000 --> 0:52:59.240
<v Speaker 1>and be like hey everybody, and I'll be playing background

0:52:59.320 --> 0:53:01.200
<v Speaker 1>music on this and then on this machine called the

0:53:01.239 --> 0:53:04.000
<v Speaker 1>Instant Replay. So I'm like dropping like Magnum p I

0:53:04.120 --> 0:53:07.920
<v Speaker 1>music or whatever, like thank Chris is out there talking

0:53:08.200 --> 0:53:10.960
<v Speaker 1>and it's the show. Two man show. And then the

0:53:11.040 --> 0:53:13.120
<v Speaker 1>next break, I would go out with the mike and

0:53:13.200 --> 0:53:14.840
<v Speaker 1>Chris would be the DJ, and he would put on,

0:53:14.960 --> 0:53:17.160
<v Speaker 1>you know, like the music to Three's Company, and I'd

0:53:17.200 --> 0:53:19.719
<v Speaker 1>go walking out and we had this little thing going.

0:53:20.280 --> 0:53:22.440
<v Speaker 1>And then one day we got bored and we're like,

0:53:22.560 --> 0:53:26.440
<v Speaker 1>you know what, there's two mics. Well, let's just press

0:53:26.480 --> 0:53:28.759
<v Speaker 1>play on the instant replay and then we'll just walk

0:53:28.800 --> 0:53:32.720
<v Speaker 1>out together and we'll just start you know, hosting together.

0:53:32.760 --> 0:53:35.000
<v Speaker 1>So we walked out together, and the jokes got funnier

0:53:35.280 --> 0:53:38.200
<v Speaker 1>and the timing got better, and we started picking on

0:53:38.239 --> 0:53:40.600
<v Speaker 1>people in the crowd, and then one of us would

0:53:40.680 --> 0:53:42.640
<v Speaker 1>save the person the other one was picking on. You know,

0:53:42.680 --> 0:53:44.759
<v Speaker 1>we kind of had this little team thing going and

0:53:44.920 --> 0:53:48.600
<v Speaker 1>it was a lot like almost like a rat pack

0:53:48.719 --> 0:53:52.359
<v Speaker 1>kind of comedy. It was just fun and Costello, right,

0:53:52.360 --> 0:53:54.960
<v Speaker 1>it was like the Smothers brothers. So we go out

0:53:54.960 --> 0:53:56.839
<v Speaker 1>and just have a good time, and then we would

0:53:56.880 --> 0:53:59.359
<v Speaker 1>teach a line dance lesson at the end of the night,

0:53:59.440 --> 0:54:02.000
<v Speaker 1>and people learn a line dance lesson, and we would

0:54:02.000 --> 0:54:04.439
<v Speaker 1>make the line dances because we came from like hip

0:54:04.520 --> 0:54:08.480
<v Speaker 1>hop breakdancing, we would make the line dances a little

0:54:08.520 --> 0:54:12.279
<v Speaker 1>extra cool, so you weren't doing the old you know,

0:54:12.560 --> 0:54:15.160
<v Speaker 1>the old school thing. Just give it a fresh edge.

0:54:15.480 --> 0:54:18.400
<v Speaker 1>And so it worked, and the numbers started growing and

0:54:18.440 --> 0:54:22.680
<v Speaker 1>the wild Horse was just exploding. And then we made

0:54:22.719 --> 0:54:26.960
<v Speaker 1>eight by tens with like two of a picture of us. Oh,

0:54:27.040 --> 0:54:29.400
<v Speaker 1>just a sign, like a picture of just like like

0:54:29.440 --> 0:54:32.239
<v Speaker 1>a head shop two guys on it, the guys from

0:54:32.280 --> 0:54:35.759
<v Speaker 1>the Wild Horse. So we gave the merchandise store the

0:54:35.800 --> 0:54:37.680
<v Speaker 1>pictures what was the name on the bottom of the

0:54:37.880 --> 0:54:40.799
<v Speaker 1>christ and pressing. I mean that's all we had. We know,

0:54:41.000 --> 0:54:43.359
<v Speaker 1>nothing else, like you couldn't come up. But then right,

0:54:43.520 --> 0:54:49.920
<v Speaker 1>the boys anything and so well. And then at one

0:54:49.920 --> 0:54:52.680
<v Speaker 1>point we're like, we should call ourselves nash Vegas. And

0:54:52.880 --> 0:54:55.200
<v Speaker 1>because at the time that was like the term around here,

0:54:55.400 --> 0:54:57.520
<v Speaker 1>they were like, no, that's kind of dumb, and so

0:54:57.600 --> 0:54:59.720
<v Speaker 1>we didn't do it. So we just wanted Christen Press

0:54:59.760 --> 0:55:01.839
<v Speaker 1>and we gave the merchandise store this eight by ten

0:55:02.440 --> 0:55:06.120
<v Speaker 1>and uh they sold out or like, well, that's kind

0:55:06.120 --> 0:55:09.719
<v Speaker 1>of cool, and so we ordered more pictures. And then

0:55:09.760 --> 0:55:11.880
<v Speaker 1>we were like, I wonder if like we were already

0:55:11.880 --> 0:55:13.520
<v Speaker 1>starting a song write with people in town, because we

0:55:13.600 --> 0:55:15.719
<v Speaker 1>knew we wanted to be a duo, but you know,

0:55:15.760 --> 0:55:18.600
<v Speaker 1>you kind of gotta learn. And so we were writing

0:55:18.880 --> 0:55:22.359
<v Speaker 1>with people and stuff, and we wrote the song and

0:55:22.719 --> 0:55:25.719
<v Speaker 1>called an Unordinary Day. Nobody's probably ever heard it. And

0:55:25.760 --> 0:55:28.279
<v Speaker 1>so we take this song, we write this song, and

0:55:28.320 --> 0:55:31.719
<v Speaker 1>we record it, we demo it like over on Demo Hill,

0:55:31.800 --> 0:55:34.439
<v Speaker 1>you know, so we demo the song and we burn

0:55:34.560 --> 0:55:38.200
<v Speaker 1>CDs on our MacBook, on our laptop in the DJ

0:55:38.320 --> 0:55:40.680
<v Speaker 1>booth and we're selling them. We make up a line

0:55:40.760 --> 0:55:42.880
<v Speaker 1>dance to it, and we're like, dude, I think we

0:55:42.920 --> 0:55:45.480
<v Speaker 1>can sell these for like four up your own line

0:55:45.520 --> 0:55:47.080
<v Speaker 1>dance to see that's what I'm talking about. That's how

0:55:47.120 --> 0:55:49.080
<v Speaker 1>you do it. We made up our own dance to

0:55:49.160 --> 0:55:52.919
<v Speaker 1>our own song. Unting of Nashville. You created your own

0:55:53.239 --> 0:55:56.240
<v Speaker 1>to The line was out the door for these CDs.

0:55:56.360 --> 0:55:58.800
<v Speaker 1>I couldn't burn them fast enough. I was like pop

0:55:58.800 --> 0:56:01.040
<v Speaker 1>a CD in and then just to be like, in

0:56:01.360 --> 0:56:03.759
<v Speaker 1>thirty seconds, your CD has done. It's like a microwave.

0:56:06.080 --> 0:56:08.040
<v Speaker 1>And they were hot in my hand while I'm like

0:56:08.160 --> 0:56:10.080
<v Speaker 1>writing on it. We didn't have a picture on them.

0:56:10.200 --> 0:56:13.920
<v Speaker 1>I would just write christ and Preston on ordinary day

0:56:14.120 --> 0:56:17.040
<v Speaker 1>and hand it to him for five bucks. And and

0:56:17.080 --> 0:56:18.960
<v Speaker 1>it was happening so fast. I was taking the money

0:56:19.000 --> 0:56:21.080
<v Speaker 1>and throwing it in a drawer. I wouldn't even look.

0:56:21.280 --> 0:56:22.560
<v Speaker 1>And at the end of the night I would open

0:56:22.640 --> 0:56:24.960
<v Speaker 1>up the drawer. Room was just full of five dollar bills.

0:56:25.280 --> 0:56:27.880
<v Speaker 1>I mean just full. And that stuff adds up quick

0:56:28.320 --> 0:56:31.080
<v Speaker 1>when you're living on I can tell you when I

0:56:31.080 --> 0:56:33.920
<v Speaker 1>weighed tables. Does one dollar build that up quick? I

0:56:33.920 --> 0:56:36.440
<v Speaker 1>mean we needed that, you know. And then some nights

0:56:36.440 --> 0:56:38.160
<v Speaker 1>I would work alone or Chris would work alone. We

0:56:38.200 --> 0:56:40.719
<v Speaker 1>called you a bit. Do we selling the CDs and night? Yeah? Man,

0:56:40.800 --> 0:56:45.000
<v Speaker 1>like three packs from Walgreens, you know, like we're selling packs.

0:56:45.920 --> 0:56:50.239
<v Speaker 1>That's how we just yeah, and so we so we're

0:56:50.239 --> 0:56:55.080
<v Speaker 1>selling pictures, were selling CDs and then dream Works calls

0:56:55.120 --> 0:56:58.359
<v Speaker 1>and says we want to sign you guys, and so

0:56:58.560 --> 0:57:00.000
<v Speaker 1>we go to dream Work. Did you have a name

0:57:00.120 --> 0:57:03.960
<v Speaker 1>at this point, Christen prisses. So we go to DreamWorks

0:57:04.080 --> 0:57:06.520
<v Speaker 1>and we sit down with them and James Stroud was

0:57:06.560 --> 0:57:09.320
<v Speaker 1>the head of the label, and we were so nervous.

0:57:09.320 --> 0:57:12.840
<v Speaker 1>The night before we learned nine songs to be ready

0:57:12.880 --> 0:57:14.560
<v Speaker 1>to audition because we didn't know what to expect. We

0:57:14.600 --> 0:57:17.440
<v Speaker 1>didn't have a demo other than this one song. So

0:57:17.480 --> 0:57:19.680
<v Speaker 1>we go to DreamWorks and we walk into the office

0:57:20.400 --> 0:57:23.880
<v Speaker 1>and uh, and the general manager of the whole label says,

0:57:23.920 --> 0:57:25.640
<v Speaker 1>you know what, I've seen enough. I was at the

0:57:25.640 --> 0:57:28.720
<v Speaker 1>Wild Horse the other night. I saw it. I'm ready

0:57:28.720 --> 0:57:31.080
<v Speaker 1>to sign you guys, and I was like, well, what

0:57:31.240 --> 0:57:33.400
<v Speaker 1>can we sing for you? But we worked up some songs.

0:57:33.760 --> 0:57:36.800
<v Speaker 1>It's the opposite of what happens in every room ever, right,

0:57:37.160 --> 0:57:38.880
<v Speaker 1>And so I said, um, it was a guy named

0:57:38.880 --> 0:57:41.560
<v Speaker 1>Wayne Helper. I said, can we sing a song for you?

0:57:41.600 --> 0:57:43.840
<v Speaker 1>Because we worked a song up and I'm kind of

0:57:43.840 --> 0:57:45.480
<v Speaker 1>proud of this and we're ready for this moment. We

0:57:45.520 --> 0:57:49.040
<v Speaker 1>set up all night and he says, no, I don't

0:57:49.080 --> 0:57:51.600
<v Speaker 1>need you to sing a song. I've seen enough and

0:57:51.640 --> 0:57:54.160
<v Speaker 1>we'll take this in and we'll we'll, you know, find

0:57:54.160 --> 0:57:55.920
<v Speaker 1>some songs for you guys, and will make this happen.

0:57:56.280 --> 0:57:59.120
<v Speaker 1>I said, Wayne, Uh, we would like to sing for you.

0:57:59.360 --> 0:58:02.200
<v Speaker 1>And so he's like, and he looks at our manager

0:58:02.200 --> 0:58:04.120
<v Speaker 1>at the time. He says, I would highly advise they

0:58:04.200 --> 0:58:06.680
<v Speaker 1>don't sing right now because they could mess this up actually,

0:58:06.960 --> 0:58:09.919
<v Speaker 1>And so she was like, I say, let him, saying

0:58:09.960 --> 0:58:12.200
<v Speaker 1>they they're determined they want to sing. So we're saying

0:58:12.240 --> 0:58:14.960
<v Speaker 1>like five songs and he listened to all of them

0:58:15.000 --> 0:58:17.000
<v Speaker 1>and he still gave us a record deal and it

0:58:17.080 --> 0:58:20.920
<v Speaker 1>was awesome and uh, but then Steven Spielberg sold uh

0:58:21.080 --> 0:58:23.960
<v Speaker 1>DreamWorks before we could ever get in the studio. So, okay,

0:58:24.120 --> 0:58:26.640
<v Speaker 1>did you come up with the name then? Though, no,

0:58:26.800 --> 0:58:29.400
<v Speaker 1>it was just a little bit after that deal. We

0:58:29.440 --> 0:58:32.040
<v Speaker 1>lost our deal with DreamWorks, and uh, it was like

0:58:32.080 --> 0:58:35.400
<v Speaker 1>Tracy Lawrence, Shelley, Tennyson, Emerson Drive. All of us got

0:58:35.400 --> 0:58:38.960
<v Speaker 1>cut the same day, and we're like, Okay, that's all right,

0:58:39.040 --> 0:58:41.040
<v Speaker 1>We'll just go get another record deal. We're just gonna

0:58:41.040 --> 0:58:43.800
<v Speaker 1>go do this again. But it wasn't that easy the

0:58:43.800 --> 0:58:46.960
<v Speaker 1>second time around, and we were knocking on doors and

0:58:47.000 --> 0:58:50.040
<v Speaker 1>we were begging, working hard and doing showcases and all that,

0:58:50.120 --> 0:58:52.360
<v Speaker 1>and it just wasn't working. So that's when we realized

0:58:52.360 --> 0:58:54.800
<v Speaker 1>we needed to pack our bags, pack up the cheap

0:58:54.880 --> 0:58:57.760
<v Speaker 1>Cherokee and put the U haul on the back and

0:58:57.800 --> 0:59:01.200
<v Speaker 1>just go to shows and and and learn earn, yeah,

0:59:01.280 --> 0:59:03.680
<v Speaker 1>how to how to be a duo. So you go,

0:59:03.800 --> 0:59:06.680
<v Speaker 1>you go play? Are you Christen? I'm so enamored when

0:59:06.720 --> 0:59:08.880
<v Speaker 1>with them in the name? Who came up with the

0:59:08.920 --> 0:59:10.600
<v Speaker 1>name and when it came out? Okay, So back in

0:59:10.640 --> 0:59:13.920
<v Speaker 1>the day in Cocomo, Indiana where I'm from, it was

0:59:14.440 --> 0:59:16.000
<v Speaker 1>me and my high school buddies we had this thing

0:59:16.000 --> 0:59:19.920
<v Speaker 1>called Low Cash Money Boys, and um, we call ourselves

0:59:20.040 --> 0:59:22.520
<v Speaker 1>l c MB, Low Cash Money Boys, and you had

0:59:22.520 --> 0:59:25.160
<v Speaker 1>to be like initiated. You had to get a nickname,

0:59:25.720 --> 0:59:27.920
<v Speaker 1>and it was like a little fraternity high school fraternity,

0:59:28.280 --> 0:59:31.640
<v Speaker 1>and we low Cash was kind of a figure of speech,

0:59:32.120 --> 0:59:34.760
<v Speaker 1>if you could, because none of us had very much money.

0:59:34.760 --> 0:59:36.440
<v Speaker 1>So if something really cool would happen, we'd be like

0:59:36.520 --> 0:59:39.000
<v Speaker 1>that was so low cash, high five and be like

0:59:39.040 --> 0:59:41.520
<v Speaker 1>that's awesome. And so that's how low Cash kind of

0:59:41.520 --> 0:59:44.919
<v Speaker 1>came to be. So while we're out in my jeep

0:59:45.000 --> 0:59:48.080
<v Speaker 1>Cherokee with the U haul, I tell Chris, I said, man,

0:59:49.080 --> 0:59:50.480
<v Speaker 1>you know up in Cookemo, I want you to meet

0:59:50.480 --> 0:59:52.840
<v Speaker 1>my buddies when we when we play Cookemo. He says okay.

0:59:52.920 --> 0:59:56.120
<v Speaker 1>So he meets everybody and he says, um, uh, these

0:59:56.120 --> 0:59:58.120
<v Speaker 1>guys are pretty cool. This is pretty cool little crew

0:59:58.120 --> 1:00:00.640
<v Speaker 1>of dudes. And I said, yeah, you should be in

1:00:00.720 --> 1:00:02.560
<v Speaker 1>the low cash family with us. We'll give you a

1:00:02.640 --> 1:00:05.440
<v Speaker 1>nickname everything. So we give him a nickname and everything.

1:00:05.520 --> 1:00:08.000
<v Speaker 1>Chris says, he gives the you know, the light bulb.

1:00:08.120 --> 1:00:12.280
<v Speaker 1>He's like, we should be the country boys of Low Cash.

1:00:12.320 --> 1:00:14.440
<v Speaker 1>And I was like, because the meaning is just never

1:00:14.480 --> 1:00:16.880
<v Speaker 1>forgetting where you're from. It's not about being poor. It's

1:00:16.920 --> 1:00:20.000
<v Speaker 1>about cool stuff happening for next to nothing, best things

1:00:20.000 --> 1:00:22.320
<v Speaker 1>in life for free kind of attitude. So Chris says,

1:00:22.360 --> 1:00:24.680
<v Speaker 1>we should be the country boys low cash, and I

1:00:24.720 --> 1:00:27.040
<v Speaker 1>was like, I love that. So then we were like,

1:00:27.120 --> 1:00:30.720
<v Speaker 1>let's be a little cash cowboys. And we came back

1:00:30.720 --> 1:00:34.160
<v Speaker 1>to Nashville and we told our management. We're like, we

1:00:34.280 --> 1:00:36.800
<v Speaker 1>got a name, weren't called ourselves low cash Cowboys. And

1:00:36.800 --> 1:00:41.320
<v Speaker 1>they're like that will never work, and we're like, okay,

1:00:41.400 --> 1:00:43.520
<v Speaker 1>well then that's it. We're going with low cash cowboys.

1:00:43.520 --> 1:00:45.520
<v Speaker 1>If you say it will never work, at least it's polarizing,

1:00:45.560 --> 1:00:47.919
<v Speaker 1>it's making you feel something right now, So we're gonna

1:00:47.920 --> 1:00:50.880
<v Speaker 1>go with it. And so we did. So you're low

1:00:50.920 --> 1:00:54.080
<v Speaker 1>cash Cowboys and you don't have a deal at this point. No, okay,

1:00:54.120 --> 1:00:57.520
<v Speaker 1>So when did the next deal? And what was the

1:00:57.560 --> 1:00:59.880
<v Speaker 1>first song that you guys tried to hit with? Here

1:01:00.000 --> 1:01:02.840
<v Speaker 1>Come Summer was the very first song that ever came

1:01:02.880 --> 1:01:06.680
<v Speaker 1>out two thousand and ten and uh, and it raced

1:01:06.800 --> 1:01:11.320
<v Speaker 1>up to like forty this is it and a lot

1:01:11.360 --> 1:01:15.840
<v Speaker 1>of and a big fidd up the cooler and become

1:01:16.040 --> 1:01:19.400
<v Speaker 1>the girls and giving meet and get her jump up

1:01:19.440 --> 1:01:23.640
<v Speaker 1>in my g drive. After the lay day after every

1:01:23.720 --> 1:01:29.360
<v Speaker 1>loving day after day, here comes. So you put this

1:01:29.400 --> 1:01:33.360
<v Speaker 1>out word at the end the fall in the one

1:01:33.360 --> 1:01:36.120
<v Speaker 1>in ten weeks and you felt how about that. We

1:01:36.120 --> 1:01:39.880
<v Speaker 1>were we were so excited. I mean, getting the forty

1:01:39.880 --> 1:01:43.360
<v Speaker 1>one in ten weeks is unheard of these days. And

1:01:43.400 --> 1:01:45.760
<v Speaker 1>we were like, this is unless you're a superstar artist.

1:01:46.000 --> 1:01:48.040
<v Speaker 1>And we were like, this is it. It's gonna happen.

1:01:48.520 --> 1:01:51.160
<v Speaker 1>Here comes Summer's going up the charts. And uh, the

1:01:51.160 --> 1:01:54.160
<v Speaker 1>next thing, you know, the record label decided to put

1:01:54.160 --> 1:01:56.919
<v Speaker 1>out another act. They started feeling, you know, like, oh,

1:01:56.960 --> 1:01:58.400
<v Speaker 1>this is going so well, we'll put it on another

1:01:58.440 --> 1:02:00.880
<v Speaker 1>act and a lot of the focus for you messed

1:02:01.080 --> 1:02:03.440
<v Speaker 1>everything up. Who was the other act? It was a

1:02:03.480 --> 1:02:06.960
<v Speaker 1>knack called Houston County. So they never did anything. I

1:02:07.000 --> 1:02:09.400
<v Speaker 1>love those guys. They were from Houston County, Alabama. They're

1:02:09.400 --> 1:02:12.840
<v Speaker 1>now a little big town. They changed their name to Yeah.

1:02:13.000 --> 1:02:15.240
<v Speaker 1>So when did it go from? And why did you

1:02:15.320 --> 1:02:17.640
<v Speaker 1>drop cowboy? Because when I heard of look ash Cowboys,

1:02:17.680 --> 1:02:20.240
<v Speaker 1>I thought a real cowboys. Yeah, and you guys aren't

1:02:20.240 --> 1:02:23.200
<v Speaker 1>really you're not You're not cowboys? No, So when did

1:02:23.200 --> 1:02:25.000
<v Speaker 1>they go from we need to pull the cowboys off

1:02:25.040 --> 1:02:28.560
<v Speaker 1>our name? You know, we were we had just gotten

1:02:28.560 --> 1:02:30.480
<v Speaker 1>a new record deal with Revival Records. The guy you

1:02:30.520 --> 1:02:33.040
<v Speaker 1>met and we knew, I love this life was gonna

1:02:33.040 --> 1:02:36.080
<v Speaker 1>be the single. We and um, we just did a

1:02:36.080 --> 1:02:39.920
<v Speaker 1>photo shoot and we're feeling good about like everything is

1:02:40.360 --> 1:02:42.800
<v Speaker 1>new energy, knew everything. And so I was sitting in

1:02:42.800 --> 1:02:44.840
<v Speaker 1>the front lounge of the bus and I was doodling,

1:02:45.480 --> 1:02:47.560
<v Speaker 1>and I'm a little bit of a graffiti artist, and

1:02:47.600 --> 1:02:49.320
<v Speaker 1>so I was just kind of messing on a napkin

1:02:49.640 --> 1:02:53.320
<v Speaker 1>with a sharpie, messing around. And I always liked the

1:02:53.480 --> 1:02:57.240
<v Speaker 1>zz top logo and Chris like that too, so like

1:02:57.280 --> 1:02:59.720
<v Speaker 1>the on top of each other, the letters, like they

1:02:59.800 --> 1:03:01.960
<v Speaker 1>just really cool rock and roll looking stuff. And I

1:03:02.000 --> 1:03:04.560
<v Speaker 1>looked at Van Halen, I looked at Montley Crue, and

1:03:04.560 --> 1:03:06.520
<v Speaker 1>I'm looking at all these other stuff that had a

1:03:06.520 --> 1:03:09.240
<v Speaker 1>lot of energy and was really slick and smooth and fun,

1:03:09.560 --> 1:03:12.240
<v Speaker 1>and I was like that, man, it's easy top things

1:03:12.280 --> 1:03:14.560
<v Speaker 1>pretty cool. And so I sort of started working on

1:03:14.600 --> 1:03:18.560
<v Speaker 1>a new logo and I just had done low Cash.

1:03:18.600 --> 1:03:20.400
<v Speaker 1>I didn't even put cowboys on there yet. And Chris

1:03:20.440 --> 1:03:22.560
<v Speaker 1>wakes up, walks up to the front lounge. He goes,

1:03:22.680 --> 1:03:24.360
<v Speaker 1>what are you doing. I said, yeah, I'm just kind

1:03:24.360 --> 1:03:26.600
<v Speaker 1>of working up that new logo like we talked about,

1:03:26.600 --> 1:03:28.000
<v Speaker 1>and he was like, dude, I love it, just like that.

1:03:28.040 --> 1:03:30.360
<v Speaker 1>Don't even put cowboys on there, and I was like really,

1:03:30.960 --> 1:03:32.880
<v Speaker 1>and so we were kind of like like a logo

1:03:32.960 --> 1:03:34.520
<v Speaker 1>for a ball cap or something, We're like, we'll just

1:03:34.600 --> 1:03:37.720
<v Speaker 1>leave it at this. So we turned it in and

1:03:37.760 --> 1:03:40.480
<v Speaker 1>everyone's like, oh my gosh, you changed your name or

1:03:40.560 --> 1:03:43.960
<v Speaker 1>like not really, I mean not really kind of. I

1:03:44.000 --> 1:03:46.920
<v Speaker 1>don't know did we because we just turned into new logo.

1:03:47.760 --> 1:03:50.520
<v Speaker 1>I know, like, is this is this you want like

1:03:50.760 --> 1:03:53.080
<v Speaker 1>we did and if you don't, we didn't. That's how

1:03:53.080 --> 1:03:55.640
<v Speaker 1>it was. And they were like, we love it, We're

1:03:55.680 --> 1:03:57.560
<v Speaker 1>just gonna go with this. It's just low Cash and

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<v Speaker 1>we're like okay, and so we went with low Ash

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<v Speaker 1>and everything just sort of lined up. I mean, everything

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<v Speaker 1>just worked. How long you're Crispin together from the day

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<v Speaker 1>you met him at the wild Horse two thousand two,

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<v Speaker 1>Holy crap, I met him in two thousand two, so

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<v Speaker 1>and I know, weeks after I moved to town I

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<v Speaker 1>was twelve. I know that there were times in your

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<v Speaker 1>career where as a band, you guys thought, Okay, well,

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<v Speaker 1>we're not gonna able to do this anymore. I mean

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<v Speaker 1>they're hides and lows over that period of time thousand

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<v Speaker 1>and eleven to that was the year it comes right

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<v Speaker 1>in two thousand and eleven. That's when what happened January, Um,

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<v Speaker 1>keep in minds going up the chart. I don't even

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<v Speaker 1>know where we were in January, but we were made

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<v Speaker 1>making a really strong mood keep in mind, And all

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<v Speaker 1>of a sudden in January, Chris stadd passed away suddenly,

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<v Speaker 1>I mean suddenly, no uh, no signs of it happening,

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<v Speaker 1>and it just happened, and it devastated Chris, devastated both

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<v Speaker 1>of us. That devastated our whole team, our whole camp.

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<v Speaker 1>I mean I remember going to the funeral in Baltimore

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<v Speaker 1>and our record label showed up, and I mean it

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<v Speaker 1>just really hit us hard because you know, um, Jack

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<v Speaker 1>was Chris's dad, and he was Chris's you know, best friend,

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<v Speaker 1>biggest fan, and he was like a dad to me too,

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<v Speaker 1>you know. So all of a sudden, we're singing this

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<v Speaker 1>song keep in mind, it's kind of the charts, and

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<v Speaker 1>we lose Jack. And then two weeks later, literally almost

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<v Speaker 1>to the day, Uh, Chris's aunt, who's a big supporter,

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<v Speaker 1>a big fan of ours, sweetest woman in the world,

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<v Speaker 1>passes away suddenly and we're like, whoa, whoa, what's happening?

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<v Speaker 1>You know? And then a few weeks after that, the

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<v Speaker 1>record label shuts down and we lose keep in Mind

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<v Speaker 1>at thirty two on the charts, and we're like, okay,

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<v Speaker 1>a song is not even nearly equal to a life.

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<v Speaker 1>But it's all of a sudden, it's just lost. Hit

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<v Speaker 1>after hit, his coming and it's Chris's dad, then his aunt,

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<v Speaker 1>then a song, and we're and then all of a sudden,

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<v Speaker 1>the label shuts down and we're stuck. I mean, if

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<v Speaker 1>you if you think it's hard to get a record deal,

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<v Speaker 1>try to get out of a record deal that is

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<v Speaker 1>that's twice as hard. And so we're sitting here going, okay,

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<v Speaker 1>we're stuck on a label. We lost our song two

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<v Speaker 1>very close to loved Ones, and then our fiddle player

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<v Speaker 1>gets sick and we just continue to do shows. We're

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<v Speaker 1>trying to stay positive. And our fiddle player gets sick

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<v Speaker 1>and he dies. He passes away, and he'd been with

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<v Speaker 1>us years and so now the hits are just they're

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<v Speaker 1>starting to pile up on us, and it just seems

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<v Speaker 1>like I remember feeling like it was as dark as

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<v Speaker 1>it could get, Like this is it like we've we've

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<v Speaker 1>hit the wall. I mean, our wheels are spinning. We're

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<v Speaker 1>just sinking in this one spot and we can't get out,

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<v Speaker 1>like we're just gonna have to throw the talent we're

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<v Speaker 1>and that's kind of what's on our mind, but nobody's

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<v Speaker 1>saying it. Chris and I are looking at each other

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<v Speaker 1>like what are we gonna do? And I guess around. Well,

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<v Speaker 1>in the fall of that year, we get a phone

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<v Speaker 1>call and it's Keith Urban and he's guys, the song

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<v Speaker 1>he wrote called You're Gonna Fly. I'm gonna make it

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<v Speaker 1>my next single, and uh, that changed our lives. I

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<v Speaker 1>mean even the song what the song is about? Dude? Again,

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<v Speaker 1>there's not a day I don't think about it as

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<v Speaker 1>I and it's awesome. Keith Urban picks a song and goes, hey,

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<v Speaker 1>you guys, but again, what the freaking song? The message? Everything?

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<v Speaker 1>I mean, it was like it blows my mind to

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<v Speaker 1>this day when I think about it, and and how

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<v Speaker 1>Keith Urban. I remember being at the Wild Horse and

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<v Speaker 1>being the DJ and playing songs like you know I

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<v Speaker 1>Love someone like You and all these huge hits, and

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<v Speaker 1>I remember thinking, what is how do you even get

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<v Speaker 1>a Keith Urvan cut? Like how does that even happen?

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<v Speaker 1>Like will it ever happen. I doubt it, Like, but

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<v Speaker 1>I'm here to try, you know, and but You're like

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<v Speaker 1>it seems so out of reach and then all of

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<v Speaker 1>a sudden, in that moment, that's when it happens. And

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<v Speaker 1>I have to pinch myself to this day, I mean,

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<v Speaker 1>he saved us, he got us back on track. So

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<v Speaker 1>how does he hear your song? Though? You know? It's

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<v Speaker 1>still a bit of a mystery. Um. We well, I'll

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<v Speaker 1>tell you. We wrote You're Gonna Fly with Jaren Johnston

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<v Speaker 1>from From and it's the only song we've ever written together.

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<v Speaker 1>And to this day, Karen, we need to write more songs. Um,

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<v Speaker 1>but we write this song, we turned it in and

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<v Speaker 1>we get a phone call from Sony a TV. We're

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<v Speaker 1>all signed to Sony eight TV as songwriters, and um,

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<v Speaker 1>they said, but we love this song and turn in

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<v Speaker 1>called You're Gonna Fly and we think it's going to

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<v Speaker 1>be a single for someone. We're like, somebody's gonna record

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<v Speaker 1>our song. They're like, yeah, Jimmy Wayne and I was like,

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<v Speaker 1>oh my gosh, he just had that song. Uh do

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<v Speaker 1>you believe me? Now? Just went number one and Jimmy

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<v Speaker 1>was awesome, and we're like, this is great, We're all

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<v Speaker 1>high five. We gotta Jimmy Wayne Cut coming. He's gonna

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<v Speaker 1>maybe making a single, and I'm not just supposed to

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<v Speaker 1>talk about all this, but it's years past now, so

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<v Speaker 1>I don't care. So we get this phone call one

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<v Speaker 1>night and it's the president, the head guy of sony

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<v Speaker 1>A TV Publishing, Troy Tomlinson, says, I need to see

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<v Speaker 1>you in my office tonight, and I'm like, Okay, we're

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<v Speaker 1>in trouble. We did something wrong, and because you're supposed

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<v Speaker 1>to write so many songs as a quota, and I'm like, Chris,

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<v Speaker 1>if you've been turning songs in and he's like, um,

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<v Speaker 1>only as song as you probably turned in. And I'm like,

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<v Speaker 1>I haven't turned the many in. I've been kind of

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<v Speaker 1>stacking him up for us. We're we're gonna turn mom.

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<v Speaker 1>It was like, okay, we're in trouble, like we haven't

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<v Speaker 1>turned enough songs. That's why he wants to meet with us.

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<v Speaker 1>So we're of like freaking out. I said, Chris, let

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<v Speaker 1>me do all the talk. And we walk in here.

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<v Speaker 1>So we sit down with him and he says, guys,

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<v Speaker 1>do you know why you're here? And I was like,

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<v Speaker 1>before you say anything, Troy, we have a bunch of

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<v Speaker 1>songs written and a promise we're going to turn him

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<v Speaker 1>in and he's like, that's not why, and I was like,

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<v Speaker 1>I'm just joking, Troy. I was just joking. Has nothing.

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<v Speaker 1>Why do you want to talk to about? You know?

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<v Speaker 1>And he says, he says, what I want to talk

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<v Speaker 1>to you about is something very rare. And it's funny

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<v Speaker 1>that you brought this up earlier in the show about

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<v Speaker 1>do you take a song from you know, artists A

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<v Speaker 1>and give it to artisp and so he says, never

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<v Speaker 1>do we normally do this, but we have a unique situation.

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<v Speaker 1>Jimmy Wayne has your song on hold and he's possibly

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<v Speaker 1>gonna make it a single. But we just got a

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<v Speaker 1>phone call tonight from a very high level artist that

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<v Speaker 1>they really want this song. It wasn't you didn't know,

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<v Speaker 1>and they're like, they're willing to record it immediately to

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<v Speaker 1>prove to you that they loved this song and they

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<v Speaker 1>want it now. And as Sony a TV, we're making

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<v Speaker 1>the decision for you. We're going to take it from

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<v Speaker 1>artists and give it to artists b And I was like,

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<v Speaker 1>I mean, my breath kind of got taken because I

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<v Speaker 1>was like, this has gotta be somebody really big, because

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<v Speaker 1>I'm over here partying about Jimmy Wayne, you know, And

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<v Speaker 1>I'm like, and he says, who do you think it

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<v Speaker 1>could be? And Chris and I remember it got real quiet,

1:11:33.680 --> 1:11:37.800
<v Speaker 1>and I was like, man, Alan Jackson, maybe, I mean

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<v Speaker 1>maybe Tim McGraw. I mean, I'm running these downs like

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<v Speaker 1>no way, no way. And I actually said outlies that

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<v Speaker 1>Chris or me, one of us said Keith Urban or like, no,

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<v Speaker 1>Keith writes all of his own hits. And when he

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<v Speaker 1>said it's Keith Urban, I'll never forget, just like looking

1:11:54.880 --> 1:12:00.920
<v Speaker 1>at him confused, like are you serious? And man, it

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<v Speaker 1>was Keith Irban. Nowth cuts it, but it takes a while, dude,

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<v Speaker 1>it took He he likes the song two thousand nine,

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<v Speaker 1>he says. So Troy says, if you want him to

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<v Speaker 1>go in the studio right now, he will, he'll record

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<v Speaker 1>it right now. But he's not going to the studio

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<v Speaker 1>for a while, so it's up to you. We could

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<v Speaker 1>just put it on hold and leave it on hold

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<v Speaker 1>until he's ready. We're like, yeah, let's just leave it

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<v Speaker 1>on hold and let's just see what happens. But yeah,

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<v Speaker 1>we'll just we'll just trust him. He says, Okay, that's

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<v Speaker 1>April of two thousand nine ish right in there. So

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<v Speaker 1>two thousand ten rolls around, still hasn't cut it. Two

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<v Speaker 1>thousand eleven rolls around it still hasn't really cut it,

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<v Speaker 1>and we're going, what's happening, And then the flood hits.

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<v Speaker 1>He's supposed to go in the studio. Sony calls and

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<v Speaker 1>says he's going to the studio to record your song.

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<v Speaker 1>We're like, awesome, and they were like, it's gonna be

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<v Speaker 1>on one of three days. He's recording his whole album

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<v Speaker 1>in three days. So the first day he starts recording it,

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<v Speaker 1>starts raining, and we're like nothing. At the end of

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<v Speaker 1>the day, you're supposed to get a phone call and

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<v Speaker 1>they're like nothing, he didn't record it, and we're like okay, okay,

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<v Speaker 1>maybe tomorrow. So the next day it's raining harder still

1:13:14.640 --> 1:13:18.320
<v Speaker 1>and literally raining outside in Nashville, harder and harder, and

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<v Speaker 1>he doesn't cut it, and they're like, okay, he's gonna

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<v Speaker 1>cut it on day three. But now the storm is

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<v Speaker 1>getting out of control in Nashville. And what I'm talking

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<v Speaker 1>about was the flood, the hit and the flood hits

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<v Speaker 1>so hard that night. They canceled the third day and

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<v Speaker 1>I was like, that's it, guys, we lost it. That

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<v Speaker 1>we're never gonna get the song cut because he's going

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<v Speaker 1>to hear another song that's gonna be better, and who

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<v Speaker 1>knows how long it's gonna take before he goes back

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<v Speaker 1>in again. And I just don't think we're gonna get

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<v Speaker 1>it now. And it just seemed like the luck of

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<v Speaker 1>two thousand and eleven, you know. It was just like

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<v Speaker 1>the hits just kept on coming that year, you know,

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<v Speaker 1>and Uh, all of a sudden, out of the blue,

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<v Speaker 1>I got a phone call one day and we're like,

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<v Speaker 1>he just cut it where I was just like I

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<v Speaker 1>was driving, where where did he cut it? And in

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<v Speaker 1>the studio real he just want to didn't even tell anybody.

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<v Speaker 1>So I went in and cut the song. Was it

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<v Speaker 1>the first thing o from the record? It was supposed

1:14:15.120 --> 1:14:18.559
<v Speaker 1>to be, and so he was like, it's gonna be right.

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<v Speaker 1>It was supposed to be the first single, and we're like,

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<v Speaker 1>we got the first single, and then they took it

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<v Speaker 1>away and they went with put you in a song,

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<v Speaker 1>and um, we didn't even know if we were going

1:14:29.600 --> 1:14:31.160
<v Speaker 1>to get a single. And then the second single came

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<v Speaker 1>out and it was without You, awesome song, and they're like, uh,

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<v Speaker 1>maybe you have the third single. And then the third

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<v Speaker 1>single comes out and it's long Hot Summer, and I'm like, guys,

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<v Speaker 1>I don't think we got it. But Keith kept reassuring

1:14:47.479 --> 1:14:49.960
<v Speaker 1>everybody through emails. He would send these emails and he

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<v Speaker 1>would say, guys, it's going to be a single, It's

1:14:51.600 --> 1:14:53.800
<v Speaker 1>going to be a single. He he was the steadfast

1:14:53.840 --> 1:14:57.360
<v Speaker 1>guy in all of it. And sure enough we got

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<v Speaker 1>the fourth single, and man in I mean what it

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<v Speaker 1>was like Game seven rain delay, here we go. You know,

1:15:05.800 --> 1:15:08.320
<v Speaker 1>big things happen. It just takes a while. But you guys,

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<v Speaker 1>I know right. It was so nerve racking, but we

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<v Speaker 1>got it. And then four months after that we got

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<v Speaker 1>Truck Yeah, which with him you guys wrote with Chris Janson. Janson, dude,

1:15:20.600 --> 1:15:28.479
<v Speaker 1>the whole world is just like jackson at all. I

1:15:28.520 --> 1:15:30.439
<v Speaker 1>saw you guys on stage on the Instagram and it

1:15:30.520 --> 1:15:32.760
<v Speaker 1>was YouTube and christ I guess you guy just played

1:15:32.760 --> 1:15:35.320
<v Speaker 1>together somewhere. Yeah, we were doing shows in Jacksonville at

1:15:35.360 --> 1:15:37.680
<v Speaker 1>the same time, but different parts of town. And he

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<v Speaker 1>texted and he goes, are you guys over at Mavericks.

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<v Speaker 1>We're like, yeah, are you over at the fair? And

1:15:43.040 --> 1:15:45.120
<v Speaker 1>he was like yeah, and so he said, you guys

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<v Speaker 1>should come over here, and so we literally grabbed a

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<v Speaker 1>car and drove over to the fair and jumped on

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<v Speaker 1>stage with him and sang with him a couple of songs.

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<v Speaker 1>So what songs have you guys written together with with Jansen?

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<v Speaker 1>He wrote truck Yeah, truck, Yeah, we had UM, we

1:16:01.160 --> 1:16:04.519
<v Speaker 1>had I Love his Life, UM about sixty more. Nobody's

1:16:04.520 --> 1:16:06.639
<v Speaker 1>ever heard what songs? Songs? We heard that a bunch

1:16:06.640 --> 1:16:10.000
<v Speaker 1>of stuff. Chris and I have a song called UM

1:16:10.040 --> 1:16:13.479
<v Speaker 1>back in the day on Parmelis record, the old record.

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<v Speaker 1>It's it's uh not the new one. UM. And then

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<v Speaker 1>we have a Joe Nickels song that he just cut

1:16:20.680 --> 1:16:25.080
<v Speaker 1>really called I'd Sing About You and it's to me.

1:16:25.120 --> 1:16:28.960
<v Speaker 1>It's a smash. I hope Joe's listening makes it a single,

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<v Speaker 1>but if he doesn't, we will if you'll take it

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<v Speaker 1>back and do it again. If he doesn't make this single,

1:16:35.400 --> 1:16:37.600
<v Speaker 1>that's what passed. Passley was in here, and you know

1:16:37.640 --> 1:16:40.800
<v Speaker 1>Passley the song writer all these hits first, and his

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<v Speaker 1>whole thing was he got three and he never had

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<v Speaker 1>any and they got three in one year. Was like

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<v Speaker 1>and then he got that Triple Play Award and he

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<v Speaker 1>was like, I had nothing forever, and then it was

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<v Speaker 1>like boom, boom boom. And so for him, he wrote

1:16:53.120 --> 1:16:55.200
<v Speaker 1>Friday Night and Lady Annebell and picked it up. They

1:16:55.240 --> 1:16:56.800
<v Speaker 1>kept saying we're gonna put it as a single. They

1:16:56.840 --> 1:16:58.400
<v Speaker 1>never did. He said, can I have it back? Got

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<v Speaker 1>his own song back number one? Boom. So that's right,

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<v Speaker 1>that's cool. So what of all the songs you guys

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<v Speaker 1>have written, what's the most lucrative one for you guys

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<v Speaker 1>so far? I would say probably I Love This Life, yeah,

1:17:10.240 --> 1:17:13.800
<v Speaker 1>because that's the one that changed um. That's the one

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<v Speaker 1>that changed our show guarantee as well, pouring money everything

1:17:17.360 --> 1:17:21.479
<v Speaker 1>changed merchandise. Uh, life did. Like I said, whenever I

1:17:21.520 --> 1:17:23.000
<v Speaker 1>look at you and I say it changed our life,

1:17:23.200 --> 1:17:25.840
<v Speaker 1>changed our life in every respect, you're able to say,

1:17:25.880 --> 1:17:28.679
<v Speaker 1>that's a good T shirt too, I Love this Life, Yeah,

1:17:28.800 --> 1:17:29.920
<v Speaker 1>I mean it really is that. I mean you have

1:17:29.920 --> 1:17:31.360
<v Speaker 1>to think about that stuff too. That's a good teach.

1:17:31.439 --> 1:17:33.240
<v Speaker 1>And I look at this store called Life is Good

1:17:33.280 --> 1:17:35.960
<v Speaker 1>and they sell all this product and I'm like, maybe

1:17:35.960 --> 1:17:37.680
<v Speaker 1>we should have I Love this Life t shirts in

1:17:37.760 --> 1:17:39.640
<v Speaker 1>life is good or something you know or something. I

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<v Speaker 1>mean this, the opportunities are endless. Congratulations, man, Thanks dude,

1:17:44.920 --> 1:17:48.000
<v Speaker 1>and tell Chris one day with another microphone. We're both

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<v Speaker 1>going to get in here, Chris, I hope you know.

1:17:50.880 --> 1:17:54.559
<v Speaker 1>It's just the the story of and it's on a

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<v Speaker 1>on a much bigger level. But I was talking about

1:17:57.640 --> 1:18:01.519
<v Speaker 1>Maren Moore is who I've become close with um and

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<v Speaker 1>just it's one of those that I was like, Wow,

1:18:05.479 --> 1:18:08.200
<v Speaker 1>it's so good and she was talking and I forgot

1:18:08.240 --> 1:18:09.360
<v Speaker 1>I did this. But I had her on the air

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<v Speaker 1>plane before you can even buy her songs, which is

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<v Speaker 1>kind of a weird thing to do because you come

1:18:12.640 --> 1:18:14.600
<v Speaker 1>on the air to sell your songs. But I was like,

1:18:14.640 --> 1:18:17.120
<v Speaker 1>you have to just come play, and she had reminded

1:18:17.160 --> 1:18:19.679
<v Speaker 1>me of it. She was like, hey, you were having

1:18:19.720 --> 1:18:21.559
<v Speaker 1>me up before you can even buy my music. But

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<v Speaker 1>so I'm such a big Marion Morris fan and I

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<v Speaker 1>didn't know her that well at first. I don't let

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<v Speaker 1>the relationships really culminate personally because I just don't want

1:18:30.120 --> 1:18:32.960
<v Speaker 1>to be invested in a personal level. I'd like to

1:18:33.000 --> 1:18:36.360
<v Speaker 1>just present and say, hey, here's here's the thing. So

1:18:36.560 --> 1:18:38.439
<v Speaker 1>with Mary, she got up once you wanted to see amazing.

1:18:38.439 --> 1:18:40.960
<v Speaker 1>And I watched the speech back and she said, one

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<v Speaker 1>year ago, I was watching this at a bar across

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<v Speaker 1>the street, and tonight I'm up here on stage winning

1:18:47.479 --> 1:18:50.800
<v Speaker 1>this award. You gotta be freaking kidding me. So, but

1:18:50.920 --> 1:18:53.519
<v Speaker 1>you can, because this is what I'm gonna say. Marin

1:18:54.200 --> 1:18:59.720
<v Speaker 1>is a microcosm of low Cash, because it's the look

1:18:59.720 --> 1:19:02.000
<v Speaker 1>where you are. You just had a number one. Before that,

1:19:02.080 --> 1:19:05.400
<v Speaker 1>you had a number two. You're now you're out. You

1:19:05.439 --> 1:19:08.280
<v Speaker 1>guys are real now it's it's hard to be real.

1:19:09.080 --> 1:19:14.479
<v Speaker 1>And you started and you went from teaching line dancing

1:19:15.680 --> 1:19:21.040
<v Speaker 1>through struggles, ups, downs, ups, downs, and here you are today,

1:19:22.080 --> 1:19:25.040
<v Speaker 1>hwelve thirteen eight. I don't know. I mean, I don't

1:19:25.120 --> 1:19:28.720
<v Speaker 1>do math. Why don't you guys meet oh to fourteen

1:19:28.840 --> 1:19:32.479
<v Speaker 1>years later? So and like Mike here, who's producing the show,

1:19:32.560 --> 1:19:35.760
<v Speaker 1>my class over a hundred pounds, because that's amazing the

1:19:35.800 --> 1:19:38.559
<v Speaker 1>same thing with men like you, just take a step,

1:19:39.280 --> 1:19:42.360
<v Speaker 1>you take another step, like low Cash, take another step,

1:19:42.640 --> 1:19:45.240
<v Speaker 1>keep taking steps. When you can't take any more steps,

1:19:45.360 --> 1:19:48.840
<v Speaker 1>take another freaking step. Yeah, and there's always tomorrow. The

1:19:48.880 --> 1:19:52.240
<v Speaker 1>phone could ring and change everything. I lived it. I

1:19:52.320 --> 1:19:56.080
<v Speaker 1>was in my bunk when Chris shook me and said, dude, baby,

1:19:56.080 --> 1:19:59.080
<v Speaker 1>Blone's just played our song. And I mean those kinds

1:19:59.080 --> 1:20:02.840
<v Speaker 1>of moments I'm telling you did. I mean, it's it's real.

1:20:03.479 --> 1:20:07.640
<v Speaker 1>The day that they sat me down and I had

1:20:07.680 --> 1:20:14.000
<v Speaker 1>built my own company with in Austin, and I did

1:20:14.000 --> 1:20:16.160
<v Speaker 1>it with my own paycheck, and I was broke, like

1:20:16.240 --> 1:20:18.679
<v Speaker 1>we all are in any creative business. You're broke until

1:20:18.720 --> 1:20:22.880
<v Speaker 1>you're not, basically, and so broke. It's taken invest in

1:20:22.920 --> 1:20:25.679
<v Speaker 1>all my own money into building this thing and instead

1:20:25.720 --> 1:20:28.400
<v Speaker 1>started to have a pretty successful run. And it was

1:20:28.400 --> 1:20:30.040
<v Speaker 1>doing no music. We don't playing any music. It was

1:20:30.040 --> 1:20:32.000
<v Speaker 1>a weird thing. And so we were just an all

1:20:32.000 --> 1:20:36.760
<v Speaker 1>talk show for five hours. And I've been talking to Row,

1:20:36.840 --> 1:20:38.240
<v Speaker 1>the guy who runs out of country. It was like, man,

1:20:38.240 --> 1:20:40.639
<v Speaker 1>I really want to do country, but there's no national.

1:20:40.720 --> 1:20:43.200
<v Speaker 1>There's nothing national about the format. There never was. I

1:20:43.200 --> 1:20:44.679
<v Speaker 1>was the first guy who coming to do a national

1:20:45.360 --> 1:20:49.200
<v Speaker 1>and he was like, man, I think this could work.

1:20:49.280 --> 1:20:51.400
<v Speaker 1>He was the first one to tell me like what

1:20:51.479 --> 1:20:53.920
<v Speaker 1>you want to do can work. And so I remember

1:20:54.320 --> 1:20:56.720
<v Speaker 1>that was a year before they flew me to Nashville

1:20:56.760 --> 1:20:58.560
<v Speaker 1>tricked me. They were like, hey, you're coming in to

1:20:58.600 --> 1:21:00.559
<v Speaker 1>meet these guys because you're taught for each picking up

1:21:01.040 --> 1:21:02.800
<v Speaker 1>and they set me down and go, we want you

1:21:02.800 --> 1:21:04.840
<v Speaker 1>to move to Nashville and run the whole format. And

1:21:04.880 --> 1:21:08.320
<v Speaker 1>I remember that moment at that moment where I was like,

1:21:08.439 --> 1:21:12.760
<v Speaker 1>oh my god, that's like you're serious, Like this has

1:21:12.800 --> 1:21:15.360
<v Speaker 1>never happened before. You're way different people. It's gonna be

1:21:15.360 --> 1:21:17.639
<v Speaker 1>a struggle because you're way different than anybody that's ever

1:21:17.720 --> 1:21:19.240
<v Speaker 1>done this, and people are gonna hate you for a

1:21:19.240 --> 1:21:22.439
<v Speaker 1>long time. And you're also pretty polarizing, so you obviously

1:21:22.439 --> 1:21:24.280
<v Speaker 1>know people are gonna not you. But they said this

1:21:24.280 --> 1:21:26.400
<v Speaker 1>to me. You obviously know people are never ever always

1:21:26.479 --> 1:21:30.120
<v Speaker 1>gonna be on you, but that you're the guy to

1:21:30.280 --> 1:21:32.559
<v Speaker 1>take and take the format in the direction that the

1:21:32.560 --> 1:21:34.400
<v Speaker 1>people are already in, just the radio is not in.

1:21:35.320 --> 1:21:36.760
<v Speaker 1>And I was like, I may I remember the moment.

1:21:36.760 --> 1:21:38.760
<v Speaker 1>I remember exactly what I was setting. I remember the

1:21:38.800 --> 1:21:42.120
<v Speaker 1>whole every person sitting around me. There were three of them,

1:21:42.200 --> 1:21:45.880
<v Speaker 1>John and kiss at them, Rod Phillips, Clay Honeycut who

1:21:45.960 --> 1:21:47.839
<v Speaker 1>used to be the head of the thing of the format,

1:21:48.439 --> 1:21:50.639
<v Speaker 1>and it was just like that. I had no idea

1:21:50.720 --> 1:21:53.400
<v Speaker 1>that day that moment was about to come and boom,

1:21:53.439 --> 1:21:56.120
<v Speaker 1>there was that moment and it freezes in your mind.

1:21:56.320 --> 1:21:59.400
<v Speaker 1>You remember all the details moment. I don't know what

1:21:59.439 --> 1:22:01.599
<v Speaker 1>to have for breakfast this morning, but vividly I can

1:22:01.640 --> 1:22:05.840
<v Speaker 1>tell you four years ago when they said this. Yeah,

1:22:06.040 --> 1:22:08.600
<v Speaker 1>so dude, this has been one of the and we

1:22:08.680 --> 1:22:11.200
<v Speaker 1>do these a lot, Mike. Have I ever told anyone

1:22:11.200 --> 1:22:12.920
<v Speaker 1>this is like one of the best ones you've ever done. No,

1:22:13.080 --> 1:22:14.760
<v Speaker 1>never think it has been one of the best ones

1:22:14.880 --> 1:22:17.439
<v Speaker 1>like I've this has been. I mean that you thanks

1:22:17.439 --> 1:22:19.679
<v Speaker 1>for pulling up all this music. Oh dude, we got

1:22:19.760 --> 1:22:33.040
<v Speaker 1>like that means we wrote this about Chris Stay that's

1:22:33.160 --> 1:22:38.000
<v Speaker 1>my grass from the We're at the Grand ol Oufry

1:22:38.800 --> 1:22:42.160
<v Speaker 1>and uh for the very first time, and we made

1:22:42.200 --> 1:22:46.320
<v Speaker 1>our debut and we walked off stage. We lost his

1:22:46.400 --> 1:22:49.639
<v Speaker 1>dad in January, and it was May. It was Mother's

1:22:49.720 --> 1:22:53.000
<v Speaker 1>Day weekend and our moms were there and they gave

1:22:53.000 --> 1:22:55.560
<v Speaker 1>our mom's roses and stuff. It was real special. And

1:22:55.640 --> 1:22:57.599
<v Speaker 1>we walked off stage and we were taking a picture

1:22:57.640 --> 1:23:00.760
<v Speaker 1>with the Gatlin brothers and and it's like surreal, way

1:23:00.840 --> 1:23:05.680
<v Speaker 1>here we are at the Opery and Chris isn't in

1:23:05.720 --> 1:23:08.240
<v Speaker 1>the picture, and I said, wait, we can't take this

1:23:08.280 --> 1:23:10.479
<v Speaker 1>picture without Chris. I've got to go out. I know

1:23:10.560 --> 1:23:13.439
<v Speaker 1>it's Larry Gatlin. I've got to go find Chris. So

1:23:13.520 --> 1:23:15.640
<v Speaker 1>I look over and I see Chris in the shadows

1:23:16.360 --> 1:23:17.720
<v Speaker 1>and I walked over to him and I said, Hey,

1:23:17.760 --> 1:23:19.120
<v Speaker 1>what's going on? And he kind of had tears in

1:23:19.120 --> 1:23:22.280
<v Speaker 1>his eyes and he said, man, tonight was perfect, but

1:23:22.360 --> 1:23:27.880
<v Speaker 1>it wasn't perfect perfect because my dad's not here. And

1:23:27.920 --> 1:23:30.320
<v Speaker 1>for whatever reason, I just looked at him and I said,

1:23:30.320 --> 1:23:32.360
<v Speaker 1>your dad is Your dude's got the best seat in

1:23:32.400 --> 1:23:36.080
<v Speaker 1>the house tonight. He's right there looking down over the opery.

1:23:36.360 --> 1:23:39.360
<v Speaker 1>He saw everything, and we just kind of looked at

1:23:39.360 --> 1:23:46.880
<v Speaker 1>each other and we're like, maybe this is so we

1:23:46.960 --> 1:23:53.479
<v Speaker 1>wrote it and who knows, maybe it'll come back someday.

1:23:54.479 --> 1:24:00.880
<v Speaker 1>That crazy like like three times you I'm emotional during

1:24:00.920 --> 1:24:05.799
<v Speaker 1>this thing. I don't even have emotions and emotional dude,

1:24:06.280 --> 1:24:11.680
<v Speaker 1>Chase a little love. This is a jam. I like

1:24:11.720 --> 1:24:14.000
<v Speaker 1>when people said their own song from the jam everything

1:24:14.320 --> 1:24:18.559
<v Speaker 1>This is a Jamn. I love this song. It was

1:24:18.600 --> 1:24:21.200
<v Speaker 1>such a fun video too. We had our cars and

1:24:21.280 --> 1:24:32.400
<v Speaker 1>it was a black you know, we got Kendra Wilkinson

1:24:32.800 --> 1:24:35.960
<v Speaker 1>and Girls next Door to be in our video. Wow

1:24:36.720 --> 1:24:41.120
<v Speaker 1>was she uh Kendrew before Hank and Kendra liked with Hank. Okay,

1:24:41.200 --> 1:24:44.880
<v Speaker 1>and he's awesome. And he wasn't there, but he called

1:24:44.920 --> 1:24:46.519
<v Speaker 1>and like speaking from he's like, all right, boys, now,

1:24:46.800 --> 1:24:49.320
<v Speaker 1>don't put your hands on the girl now. He was

1:24:49.360 --> 1:24:58.800
<v Speaker 1>a really cool dude, are yeah, dude, we're ready for you.

1:24:59.120 --> 1:25:01.800
<v Speaker 1>This is incredible ready for I pressed him from low

1:25:01.800 --> 1:25:10.720
<v Speaker 1>Cash new song ring on everything my last name. I

1:25:10.720 --> 1:25:13.120
<v Speaker 1>can't wait to see what you really think about the song, yeah,

1:25:13.120 --> 1:25:20.160
<v Speaker 1>because I don't know yet. Yeah, you get just to

1:25:20.200 --> 1:25:30.920
<v Speaker 1>show the world show shot. Thanks for hanging dude, Thank

1:25:30.960 --> 1:25:32.960
<v Speaker 1>you appreciate that. What's the great night? What do you

1:25:33.000 --> 1:25:35.519
<v Speaker 1>guys have going on this week? Anything? Well, we just

1:25:35.560 --> 1:25:37.559
<v Speaker 1>got home from Baltimore from that thing, so we have

1:25:37.640 --> 1:25:40.880
<v Speaker 1>today and tomorrow and then we leave tomorrow midnight for Pittsburgh,

1:25:40.920 --> 1:25:44.280
<v Speaker 1>Columbus and since which, by the way, and we won't

1:25:44.280 --> 1:25:45.599
<v Speaker 1>go into the story here because I think it's maybe

1:25:45.600 --> 1:25:48.559
<v Speaker 1>the long how long we havet Mike? Okay, Um, you

1:25:48.560 --> 1:25:51.719
<v Speaker 1>did propose you post your wife on the operas? They didn't? Yeah, yeah,

1:25:51.800 --> 1:25:55.400
<v Speaker 1>in the circle right there and uh and I don't

1:25:55.400 --> 1:25:57.439
<v Speaker 1>know how I got the words right, but I kind

1:25:57.439 --> 1:26:00.240
<v Speaker 1>of thought up in my mind. I said, Okay, how

1:26:00.280 --> 1:26:01.720
<v Speaker 1>am I gonna do this? What am I gonna say?

1:26:01.760 --> 1:26:03.400
<v Speaker 1>I'm gonna have a microphone in one hand and I

1:26:03.439 --> 1:26:05.879
<v Speaker 1>have a ring in the other. It's like in my pocket.

1:26:05.920 --> 1:26:07.439
<v Speaker 1>I don't have the box. I just have the ring

1:26:07.479 --> 1:26:10.320
<v Speaker 1>in my pocket. And I'm like, what am I gonna say?

1:26:10.560 --> 1:26:14.600
<v Speaker 1>And I thought of this thing, like you know, like um,

1:26:14.720 --> 1:26:17.160
<v Speaker 1>I brought her out. She stepped into the circle and

1:26:17.479 --> 1:26:19.439
<v Speaker 1>and I told Chris, I said, I might or might

1:26:19.520 --> 1:26:23.080
<v Speaker 1>not do it here. I'm not sure. And so he

1:26:23.160 --> 1:26:25.840
<v Speaker 1>stepped where people are there? Yeah, it was. It was real.

1:26:27.200 --> 1:26:29.840
<v Speaker 1>And I always forget how many people are there until

1:26:29.880 --> 1:26:31.320
<v Speaker 1>they kind of flip the lights on and off and

1:26:31.360 --> 1:26:34.040
<v Speaker 1>then you see like ten million people. And I and

1:26:34.040 --> 1:26:36.519
<v Speaker 1>I was like, oh my gosh, I'm nervous. I never

1:26:36.600 --> 1:26:38.800
<v Speaker 1>get nervous, and I'm nervous because I'm about to do

1:26:38.840 --> 1:26:42.000
<v Speaker 1>something I've never done in my life. And I hit

1:26:42.040 --> 1:26:44.600
<v Speaker 1>my knee and I just said, you know, standing in

1:26:44.640 --> 1:26:48.200
<v Speaker 1>the most coveted circle in country music, I want to

1:26:48.240 --> 1:26:54.760
<v Speaker 1>give you the most coveted circle. And I thought I

1:26:54.800 --> 1:26:56.720
<v Speaker 1>would mix all those words up and get them wrong,

1:26:56.760 --> 1:27:03.600
<v Speaker 1>but they came out right. For yourself, the circle that's awesome, dude,

1:27:03.800 --> 1:27:07.120
<v Speaker 1>and that I was nervous man, and now you gotta

1:27:07.720 --> 1:27:10.280
<v Speaker 1>a little kid. Thanks every time I see that things

1:27:10.320 --> 1:27:12.960
<v Speaker 1>going like your weed. Yeah, And we just put an

1:27:12.960 --> 1:27:15.400
<v Speaker 1>offer on a house, the first house we've ever lived in.

1:27:15.439 --> 1:27:17.200
<v Speaker 1>I mean, I've never lived in the house in my

1:27:17.240 --> 1:27:19.880
<v Speaker 1>life other than than my house I grew up in.

1:27:19.920 --> 1:27:23.000
<v Speaker 1>You know, It's always been apartments and little places, and

1:27:23.040 --> 1:27:26.880
<v Speaker 1>so it's it's we're exciting, they're happy for you. Thank

1:27:26.920 --> 1:27:32.760
<v Speaker 1>thank you. Well, there you go. Pressing from Lowkash Mike

1:27:33.800 --> 1:27:36.720
<v Speaker 1>are probably a time. Uh my, this is this is

1:27:36.760 --> 1:27:39.960
<v Speaker 1>this Honestly, sometimes I'll cut him early and then's all, well,

1:27:40.040 --> 1:27:42.559
<v Speaker 1>that's along as I've ever done. And that's a good thing.

1:27:43.400 --> 1:27:45.559
<v Speaker 1>That's like getting nast place second song in the morning show,

1:27:45.640 --> 1:27:47.120
<v Speaker 1>because sometimes I alnot to come in. Will be like,

1:27:47.160 --> 1:27:50.880
<v Speaker 1>all right, I'm a good night. I appreciate the time.

1:27:51.160 --> 1:27:52.880
<v Speaker 1>Thank thank you very much. Means a lot that you've

1:27:52.920 --> 1:27:56.600
<v Speaker 1>done this. Check out fighter, uh low cash, lots of

1:27:56.680 --> 1:27:58.960
<v Speaker 1>lots of stories here, holyycount and we'll see you. I'll

1:27:58.960 --> 1:28:01.160
<v Speaker 1>see you guys next time. Don't forget right now. It's

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<v Speaker 1>on the Bobby Bones Show on demand channel, but it

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<v Speaker 1>will all be moved to Bobby Cast and just a

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<v Speaker 1>couple of episodes, so I hot radio search Bobby Cast.

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<v Speaker 1>All right, thank you guys, we'll see you next time.