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Speaker 1: Hey guys, Bobby here and I wanted to share an

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Speaker 1: episode of the Bobby Cast it you might have missed now.

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Speaker 1: It's Gabby Barrett. You probably saw on the header there.

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Speaker 1: She finished third on the first season of American Idol

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Speaker 1: on ABC, which was the first season that I was

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Speaker 1: working on the show too, so I got to know

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Speaker 1: her pretty well on that show. And she wasn't even

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Speaker 1: living in town as in Nashville yet when we recorded this.

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Speaker 1: So she stopped by a pretty fresh off the show,

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Speaker 1: going back between Nashville and Pittsburgh, and you'll hear me

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Speaker 1: lecturing her that she needs to move to town, which,

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Speaker 1: by the way, since then she has um and now

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Speaker 1: she has a top twenties song. So I wanted to

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Speaker 1: bring this back. She's really like, made a nice career move,

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Speaker 1: starting to be a real factor in Nashville, and I

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Speaker 1: wanted to share this episode with you in case you

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Speaker 1: missed it. Also, I don't know when you're listening to this,

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Speaker 1: but season three of American Idol and ABC premiere Sunday

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Speaker 1: at eight seven Central. Here's episode one sixty As we

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Speaker 1: go back. I thought this is a cool one to

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Speaker 1: bring back up. Here is Gabby Barrett. On The Bobby

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Speaker 1: Cast episode one sixty here with Gabby Barrett before we

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Speaker 1: went on, you can ask the question, go ahead, I said,

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Speaker 1: what is the purpose of having headphones if you just

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Speaker 1: in talking into them? Mike, if you take off your

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Speaker 1: headphones and you could hear the same thing. Now you

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Speaker 1: hear that. I get it. There's music that's accompanying our conversation. Okay,

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Speaker 1: sound effects, yeah, got it. For example, if I were

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Speaker 1: to play I hope if you didn't have headphones on,

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Speaker 1: you wouldn't hear it. But because oh okay, got it,

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Speaker 1: they're useful. Okay, what do you wanna up? Yeah, it's

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Speaker 1: gonna flat on the top of my hair, but it's okay.

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Speaker 1: Well it's really rainy too. Is that a thing for you? Yes,

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Speaker 1: of course. I You should have seen me running to

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Speaker 1: get in here. It wasn't my house. Yes, this is

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Speaker 1: the person I've been here. Huh. So we met on

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Speaker 1: American Idol. Yes, they brought me into the top twenty four,

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Speaker 1: to mental top twenty four, and they brought me back

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Speaker 1: again later on when it was you, Caleb and Maddie

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Speaker 1: at the end. So you made to the top top

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Speaker 1: three of last season, made to the final show. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: congratulations on that, thank you. But I guess we had

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Speaker 1: spent a little time together because I was doing a

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Speaker 1: show Pittsburgh, a stand up show. Then you and your

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Speaker 1: family came to the show. And this is why I

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Speaker 1: don't was still going, and I really couldn't even say

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Speaker 1: wouldn't even let you get up and saying because we

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Speaker 1: were gonna do a song or that. No. I was

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Speaker 1: so bummed about that too. But yeah, I didn't come

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Speaker 1: to that show. And you put on a great TIELM

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Speaker 1: pretty funny guy. But is that what is that you

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Speaker 1: laugh when I tell a joke? Yeah, I'm so curious

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Speaker 1: about what happens, and I want to guess work backwards

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Speaker 1: right like today? For example, Um, today, what did you

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Speaker 1: do in town today? Today? I went to I had

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Speaker 1: phone call meetings and I had UM a record label meeting. Okay,

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Speaker 1: without saying the name of the record label. Yes, you

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Speaker 1: went to a record label and did what? Um? I

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Speaker 1: sang some songs you did? Yes? I did? So describe

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Speaker 1: what that's like because here you are your new artists

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Speaker 1: are do you live here yet? Are you moving here?

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Speaker 1: for um, I'll take this as of right now. If

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Speaker 1: He lives in Arkansas, but he was here. Zach Brown

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Speaker 1: So not that you're not Gabby Barrett, but you're just

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Speaker 1: Gabby Barrett right now. My advice to you, I'm still

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Speaker 1: mentoring it. You're ready. I know you're eighteen, but you

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Speaker 1: at tootsies, you wait tables. There's there's no shame. You

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Speaker 1: I'll fly down that Night's happened. I'm telling you I've

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Speaker 1: already done it before. You haven't done it. I have.

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Speaker 1: I've taken many red eyes down here before. Well, right,

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Speaker 1: of years. Do you believe that? Yeah, yeah, I do.

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Speaker 1: when you graduate, like at your class, you make those

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Speaker 1: And they say what to you? I'm sorry, am I

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Speaker 1: And then you went from over there to over here. Yes,

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Speaker 1: good day. So tell me about let's go back to idle.

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Speaker 1: That's kind of rewind a bit. So you auditioned where

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Speaker 1: They're like, I'm Gabby. I am pretty sure. I think

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Speaker 1: they're like saying your name and your age, and then

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Speaker 1: them what you're gonna saying? You sing and then they're like, yeah,

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Speaker 1: I don't deal with any I didn't deal with at

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Speaker 1: Um Ivana from Harry Potter with her and I got

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Speaker 1: closer to the end. But Alexis R and I weren't

425
00:19:34,200 --> 00:19:36,919
Speaker 1: that close. Um so but really, who cares who I

426
00:19:36,920 --> 00:19:38,680
Speaker 1: was competing? Who gives a crap out the other people?

427
00:19:39,000 --> 00:19:41,600
Speaker 1: Like all week long we were cool and Milan I

428
00:19:41,600 --> 00:19:44,600
Speaker 1: were super cool. But but then when it's the game

429
00:19:44,640 --> 00:19:46,639
Speaker 1: time one, I don't want to lose, and if I lose,

430
00:19:46,680 --> 00:19:48,520
Speaker 1: I'm gonna want to eat my kidney. I would be

431
00:19:48,560 --> 00:19:51,959
Speaker 1: still so. But um, they're good for you. You're more

432
00:19:52,000 --> 00:19:55,120
Speaker 1: mature than I am. Apparently, Oh no, thank you. I'm

433
00:19:55,800 --> 00:19:59,240
Speaker 1: I hate losing. I have a problem losing. Um, if

434
00:19:59,240 --> 00:20:01,600
Speaker 1: you already complex, don't worry one day. One day you'll

435
00:20:01,600 --> 00:20:04,080
Speaker 1: have to go to therapist and it all come out. Yeah,

436
00:20:04,119 --> 00:20:06,920
Speaker 1: it all come out. You're still young. Wait for don manifest. Okay,

437
00:20:07,080 --> 00:20:09,879
Speaker 1: just come back. So you go home? When do you

438
00:20:09,920 --> 00:20:12,320
Speaker 1: go home? How many days after Idols over. Um Idol

439
00:20:12,440 --> 00:20:15,440
Speaker 1: ended one of May. That was when the finale was

440
00:20:15,680 --> 00:20:18,160
Speaker 1: twenty second. We did all the press the next day

441
00:20:18,200 --> 00:20:20,360
Speaker 1: after that we went back. So what's it like when

442
00:20:20,400 --> 00:20:23,320
Speaker 1: you go home? It's weird. I mean, it's so weird

443
00:20:23,440 --> 00:20:27,880
Speaker 1: because you're so used again being in this like this

444
00:20:28,200 --> 00:20:32,880
Speaker 1: different world. Literally, Idol is a different world. It's it's

445
00:20:32,920 --> 00:20:36,760
Speaker 1: a flip. It's a flip of what your life has been. Um,

446
00:20:36,800 --> 00:20:42,200
Speaker 1: You're constantly working, constantly emotional, like it's insane. So going

447
00:20:42,280 --> 00:20:44,760
Speaker 1: home and like you already know the answers to everything

448
00:20:44,760 --> 00:20:47,520
Speaker 1: when with Idol like that you were curious about the

449
00:20:47,680 --> 00:20:50,200
Speaker 1: entire time. It's like so weird. But then we had

450
00:20:50,200 --> 00:20:52,919
Speaker 1: to prep for the Idol tour. Oh then you had

451
00:20:52,960 --> 00:20:56,440
Speaker 1: to go to tour. Yeah. Yeah, so it wasn't all

452
00:20:56,480 --> 00:20:59,080
Speaker 1: the way over because the show was over, but then

453
00:20:59,080 --> 00:21:01,200
Speaker 1: you had more work to do for Idol. Yeah. They

454
00:21:01,200 --> 00:21:07,639
Speaker 1: pay you guys, good decent, decent enough to you It

455
00:21:07,760 --> 00:21:10,600
Speaker 1: was cool, I guess. Yeah, Like when I did Dance

456
00:21:10,640 --> 00:21:13,280
Speaker 1: with the Star Store, they paid me like thousand bucks

457
00:21:13,280 --> 00:21:15,520
Speaker 1: to night. I think it's what it was. Really you

458
00:21:15,560 --> 00:21:19,000
Speaker 1: guys weren't that much a thousand but oh heck it

459
00:21:19,040 --> 00:21:22,440
Speaker 1: was ten tho dollars a week and sho if you

460
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Speaker 1: did a full week, Oh my gosh, I think that's

461
00:21:26,600 --> 00:21:28,359
Speaker 1: a lot or something like that. Well, yeah, but I

462
00:21:28,400 --> 00:21:29,840
Speaker 1: only I only did one week. I mean, I don't

463
00:21:29,840 --> 00:21:32,000
Speaker 1: know if that's a lot, like like four days, but

464
00:21:32,040 --> 00:21:33,760
Speaker 1: I just wanted it with an idol tour like that. No,

465
00:21:34,359 --> 00:21:37,080
Speaker 1: it wasn't. I don't know. I have no idea. I

466
00:21:37,119 --> 00:21:41,720
Speaker 1: don't know if no, no, it wasn't. Um, yeah, no,

467
00:21:42,200 --> 00:21:44,479
Speaker 1: I'm not an expert on the whole money thing, but

468
00:21:44,560 --> 00:21:48,560
Speaker 1: I know that it wasn't like ten thousand dollars. I didn't.

469
00:21:48,560 --> 00:21:51,840
Speaker 1: I'm just being like some people. I don't get that.

470
00:21:51,880 --> 00:21:53,399
Speaker 1: I don't think I made as much as the dancer

471
00:21:53,640 --> 00:21:56,200
Speaker 1: the pro dancers. Yeah, I think because we were working

472
00:21:56,240 --> 00:21:59,360
Speaker 1: in shorts short but I'd still take that. Well yeah,

473
00:21:59,359 --> 00:22:00,840
Speaker 1: and that's and I did it that I didn't have

474
00:22:00,880 --> 00:22:04,520
Speaker 1: to tour. But I was like, yeah, absolutely, pook it

475
00:22:04,600 --> 00:22:06,760
Speaker 1: up right. Okay, so you go, did you save your money?

476
00:22:07,080 --> 00:22:11,280
Speaker 1: Did I save it from the tour? Um all that jacket? No,

477
00:22:11,359 --> 00:22:14,000
Speaker 1: you know what I had to do. You have to pay.

478
00:22:14,560 --> 00:22:17,800
Speaker 1: This is a whole thing with the music industry. You

479
00:22:17,880 --> 00:22:22,080
Speaker 1: have to pay towards all of your music stuff because

480
00:22:22,119 --> 00:22:24,359
Speaker 1: this is very expensive. So on a tour you have

481
00:22:24,440 --> 00:22:26,640
Speaker 1: to put money down on a tour for and that's

482
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Speaker 1: what I did. So yeah, I did save it from

483
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Speaker 1: the audit tour and then I ended up putting it

484
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Speaker 1: on the next tour that I went on right after

485
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Speaker 1: the American audit tour was over. Now did you make

486
00:22:34,680 --> 00:22:39,280
Speaker 1: money back on that tour? Um? I think so? Yeah. Marchandise, ye,

487
00:22:39,520 --> 00:22:41,239
Speaker 1: you start. You need to start figuring this stuff out.

488
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Speaker 1: You got a business have a business manager? Yet? Yes?

489
00:22:43,320 --> 00:22:45,280
Speaker 1: I do? All right, you have a good one. Yeah,

490
00:22:45,440 --> 00:22:47,760
Speaker 1: because that that for me was tough. I don't understand

491
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Speaker 1: the business manager stuff. Now I do because I like

492
00:22:49,640 --> 00:22:52,800
Speaker 1: to understand everything. Yeah, I'm not gonna you have a manager?

493
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Speaker 1: Do I have a manager? Yeah? Sitting right there all right,

494
00:22:56,720 --> 00:22:59,200
Speaker 1: just making sure you're sitting across the room. Do you

495
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Speaker 1: know the percentage? They he gets? Um? No, I feel

496
00:23:05,400 --> 00:23:07,359
Speaker 1: like I don't know it. But I don't know. Spit

497
00:23:07,359 --> 00:23:08,639
Speaker 1: it out. What do you think it is? I don't know?

498
00:23:08,720 --> 00:23:10,399
Speaker 1: Is it like five, ten fift? What is that? If

499
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Speaker 1: it's five? We need to talk because I need I

500
00:23:12,240 --> 00:23:16,560
Speaker 1: need to redo my deal. I can't if you're quising

501
00:23:16,560 --> 00:23:18,800
Speaker 1: me on all this math and I failed geometry my school.

502
00:23:18,840 --> 00:23:21,639
Speaker 1: This isn't. This isn't. I have people that handle that

503
00:23:21,760 --> 00:23:23,920
Speaker 1: I can't. Don't. First of all, never be that person.

504
00:23:24,119 --> 00:23:26,600
Speaker 1: But it's my dad, So I can trust my dad absolutely.

505
00:23:26,600 --> 00:23:29,600
Speaker 1: Well sometimes no, Yeah, there's been a lot of stories

506
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Speaker 1: about dad's Okay, well not my dad. And here's my

507
00:23:31,600 --> 00:23:33,800
Speaker 1: advice to you. Ready, I'm gonna continue my mentor show

508
00:23:33,840 --> 00:23:36,000
Speaker 1: because I'm listen. I'm in the business too, right in

509
00:23:36,080 --> 00:23:38,960
Speaker 1: your full you're like full time on this season, right, yeah,

510
00:23:39,280 --> 00:23:42,919
Speaker 1: just top twenty. I'm talking about music again. You just

511
00:23:43,040 --> 00:23:44,680
Speaker 1: you don't have to know everything's coming in and out

512
00:23:44,680 --> 00:23:46,320
Speaker 1: when you're so busy, right, you have people to do that,

513
00:23:46,359 --> 00:23:48,520
Speaker 1: but you need to know what percentages you're paying people. Okay,

514
00:23:48,880 --> 00:23:51,080
Speaker 1: I'll pay attention to it more, just even in your phone,

515
00:23:51,200 --> 00:23:54,639
Speaker 1: like you don't know, Okay, goes to my manager. I

516
00:23:54,640 --> 00:23:59,080
Speaker 1: don't know what yours is. What yours is? Yeah, goes

517
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Speaker 1: to the agent. I don't know what you're this, but

518
00:24:00,440 --> 00:24:02,480
Speaker 1: that's mine. Okay, you know five percent goes to you

519
00:24:02,480 --> 00:24:05,119
Speaker 1: a business manager. Okay, so I think that's I know

520
00:24:05,200 --> 00:24:06,920
Speaker 1: that one. Yeah. It sucks because all your money is

521
00:24:06,960 --> 00:24:09,320
Speaker 1: gone making you make a dollar and you know forty cents.

522
00:24:09,760 --> 00:24:11,560
Speaker 1: But the good news is is that they're worth more

523
00:24:11,560 --> 00:24:13,560
Speaker 1: than that forty cents, so it's actually a really good investment.

524
00:24:13,600 --> 00:24:17,640
Speaker 1: But you just need to know that stuff. Just someone

525
00:24:17,640 --> 00:24:19,119
Speaker 1: with someone asks you what do you pay your manager?

526
00:24:19,160 --> 00:24:20,440
Speaker 1: That you don't look like a du fist because I

527
00:24:20,480 --> 00:24:21,840
Speaker 1: used to be the dupist, because like, what do you

528
00:24:21,880 --> 00:24:25,080
Speaker 1: pay a manager? I don't know one? Dang? All right,

529
00:24:25,200 --> 00:24:27,840
Speaker 1: that's note number two. Alright, two things we've learned before. One,

530
00:24:27,840 --> 00:24:29,920
Speaker 1: you have to move to Nashville to make it too.

531
00:24:30,000 --> 00:24:32,880
Speaker 1: You need to know your percentages my others only ever

532
00:24:33,000 --> 00:24:36,080
Speaker 1: one I've done when I'm like tutoring the persident during it. Okay,

533
00:24:36,280 --> 00:24:41,439
Speaker 1: back to you. So you decide what do you decide

534
00:24:41,480 --> 00:24:42,679
Speaker 1: your home? And you're like, I think I want to

535
00:24:42,720 --> 00:24:45,240
Speaker 1: make a run in music, like in country music, or

536
00:24:45,240 --> 00:24:47,119
Speaker 1: do you go I don't want to try to go

537
00:24:47,200 --> 00:24:50,440
Speaker 1: to college? Like what what's the now? Of course it's

538
00:24:50,560 --> 00:24:53,560
Speaker 1: a terrible idea. No, I knew that. I knew I

539
00:24:53,560 --> 00:24:56,159
Speaker 1: wasn't going to college before I did American Idol because

540
00:24:56,240 --> 00:24:58,200
Speaker 1: me and my dad had talked about that. I told him,

541
00:24:58,240 --> 00:25:00,159
Speaker 1: I said, this is Plan A and Plan B. What

542
00:25:00,200 --> 00:25:03,359
Speaker 1: was planning and Plane B? To make it in music? Okay?

543
00:25:03,480 --> 00:25:05,720
Speaker 1: And just this was it. This is what I wanted

544
00:25:05,760 --> 00:25:08,280
Speaker 1: to do for the rest of my life. Um. And

545
00:25:08,320 --> 00:25:11,679
Speaker 1: so even after American, I knew already what who I

546
00:25:11,720 --> 00:25:13,840
Speaker 1: wanted to be like as an artist. That was something

547
00:25:13,920 --> 00:25:17,520
Speaker 1: that even but going through American I will definitely reassured

548
00:25:17,640 --> 00:25:21,600
Speaker 1: me of that, which is country. Um. I always tell

549
00:25:21,640 --> 00:25:23,600
Speaker 1: people I wanted to be the Whitney Houston old country music.

550
00:25:23,640 --> 00:25:25,919
Speaker 1: So and that's what I do want to be. So

551
00:25:26,520 --> 00:25:28,920
Speaker 1: we'll say what happens. How many labels have be saying

552
00:25:28,920 --> 00:25:37,080
Speaker 1: in front of labels? Um? Probably i'd say like five

553
00:25:37,160 --> 00:25:39,120
Speaker 1: or six. Have you had some bad, bad ones where

554
00:25:39,160 --> 00:25:40,919
Speaker 1: you go, oh, that one didn't go so well, not

555
00:25:41,000 --> 00:25:43,199
Speaker 1: that I recall, thankfully. Have you had some better than

556
00:25:43,240 --> 00:25:44,840
Speaker 1: others where you're like, oh, for sure they want me

557
00:25:44,920 --> 00:25:47,159
Speaker 1: to sign with them. Yeah, it depends. I mean, it

558
00:25:47,200 --> 00:25:49,639
Speaker 1: also depends on the person's mood of the day. Like

559
00:25:49,680 --> 00:25:51,679
Speaker 1: they could be having a bad day and it you

560
00:25:51,720 --> 00:25:53,560
Speaker 1: know they're not in a good mood. So it just

561
00:25:53,600 --> 00:25:57,840
Speaker 1: depends on the day. Are you recording music right now? Yes? Really, yes,

562
00:25:58,080 --> 00:26:00,280
Speaker 1: I've been working so hard on music since I year

563
00:26:00,359 --> 00:26:03,239
Speaker 1: since right after I got off the Chris Lane tour. Well,

564
00:26:03,280 --> 00:26:07,480
Speaker 1: actually in between the American Idol tour. UM, I talked

565
00:26:07,480 --> 00:26:09,920
Speaker 1: to Carrie Under on the phone. I called her because

566
00:26:09,920 --> 00:26:17,479
Speaker 1: she after American Idol. Um. I'm just saying, oh, please

567
00:26:17,520 --> 00:26:22,840
Speaker 1: your context in your phone. After American Idol, she reached

568
00:26:22,840 --> 00:26:24,600
Speaker 1: out to me and said, you know, like if you

569
00:26:24,640 --> 00:26:26,919
Speaker 1: need any help with anything or I'm here for you.

570
00:26:26,920 --> 00:26:29,679
Speaker 1: She gave me a number. I called her. UM. We

571
00:26:29,720 --> 00:26:31,480
Speaker 1: talked a few times and I just asked her. I

572
00:26:31,520 --> 00:26:33,119
Speaker 1: was like, what did you do after American Idol to

573
00:26:33,160 --> 00:26:34,639
Speaker 1: keep your my lad I'm going. She was like, I

574
00:26:34,680 --> 00:26:37,879
Speaker 1: would just constantly work. Um, Like while I was on

575
00:26:37,880 --> 00:26:40,960
Speaker 1: the American Idol tour, I would constantly work. And I said, Okay,

576
00:26:41,000 --> 00:26:44,040
Speaker 1: that's what I'm gonna do. Um. So during the American

577
00:26:44,040 --> 00:26:46,959
Speaker 1: Audoit tour, we would have like four shows, five shows

578
00:26:46,960 --> 00:26:49,240
Speaker 1: in a row, show show, show, show show. We have

579
00:26:49,359 --> 00:26:52,639
Speaker 1: one day off. I would fly here, record and write,

580
00:26:53,160 --> 00:26:55,040
Speaker 1: fly back the next day and do the show. So

581
00:26:55,080 --> 00:26:57,640
Speaker 1: I mean like any day that I have off, I'm

582
00:26:57,640 --> 00:27:00,199
Speaker 1: doing something always music that's good. I like that about

583
00:27:00,240 --> 00:27:02,320
Speaker 1: you think that's something you really can't teach at work

584
00:27:02,359 --> 00:27:04,480
Speaker 1: ethic and if you were doing that, that's good because

585
00:27:04,480 --> 00:27:08,080
Speaker 1: you d taking the day off and just chilled. Yeah,

586
00:27:08,080 --> 00:27:10,800
Speaker 1: but there's I think of it as like how many

587
00:27:10,920 --> 00:27:14,080
Speaker 1: people want the same thing, you know, and what separates

588
00:27:14,080 --> 00:27:16,760
Speaker 1: you from other people? Though? Listen, this is what you're

589
00:27:16,760 --> 00:27:20,639
Speaker 1: coming into a Nashville. Everybody's really freaking good. Everybody is

590
00:27:20,680 --> 00:27:22,680
Speaker 1: really good. What separates you is the amount of work

591
00:27:22,680 --> 00:27:26,480
Speaker 1: you put into it. It's like the NFL. The the

592
00:27:26,520 --> 00:27:31,000
Speaker 1: line between super athletic and super super atalytic is so thin.

593
00:27:31,200 --> 00:27:33,760
Speaker 1: It's the people who put in the work. But that's good.

594
00:27:33,760 --> 00:27:36,480
Speaker 1: I didn't know you were doing that. I commend to

595
00:27:36,520 --> 00:27:38,480
Speaker 1: you get you get a ribbon after this is over

596
00:27:38,520 --> 00:27:43,200
Speaker 1: for all right for doing that. The song here? Uh,

597
00:27:43,400 --> 00:27:47,040
Speaker 1: I hope you wrote with John Knight. That's how did

598
00:27:47,040 --> 00:27:51,320
Speaker 1: you get that? Right? Um? Through a great mansion Okay,

599
00:27:51,359 --> 00:27:52,920
Speaker 1: because I was like, damn, look at that. You're already

600
00:27:52,960 --> 00:27:56,400
Speaker 1: writing with like cool big songwriters. Yeah, they're really They're

601
00:27:56,400 --> 00:27:58,520
Speaker 1: really cool. I've gotten to write with a few co ones.

602
00:27:58,600 --> 00:28:00,480
Speaker 1: You wrote the song with the Zachary Ellen, John Night.

603
00:28:00,520 --> 00:28:02,240
Speaker 1: I'm gonna play a little bit of I Hope Here

604
00:28:02,240 --> 00:28:22,240
Speaker 1: we Go. Produced by Ross Cooperman yeah, whoo, who come on,

605
00:28:22,520 --> 00:28:24,400
Speaker 1: I can't even get these people in the room with me.

606
00:28:28,960 --> 00:28:30,359
Speaker 1: You come to Tally work with the biggest and the

607
00:28:30,400 --> 00:28:32,920
Speaker 1: best already, I'm very blessed. Yeah, So what do you

608
00:28:32,960 --> 00:28:34,240
Speaker 1: what's the light getting in room with those guys? What

609
00:28:34,280 --> 00:28:35,480
Speaker 1: do you do in the writing room? You walk in,

610
00:28:35,520 --> 00:28:39,480
Speaker 1: You're like, hey, I'm David Barrett. Yeah, um yeah, I

611
00:28:39,560 --> 00:28:42,240
Speaker 1: just make sure like everybody's comfortable. I feel like that's

612
00:28:42,240 --> 00:28:44,440
Speaker 1: such an important thing because when you're uncomfortable and like,

613
00:28:45,240 --> 00:28:47,719
Speaker 1: I don't know, if things just don't click very well

614
00:28:47,760 --> 00:28:49,920
Speaker 1: and you don't connect and you don't come up necessarily

615
00:28:49,920 --> 00:28:51,840
Speaker 1: with a good song, and they're the best song that

616
00:28:51,880 --> 00:28:54,160
Speaker 1: you come up with. So anytime I get into a room,

617
00:28:54,200 --> 00:28:57,440
Speaker 1: I just want to keep writing songs that could blow up. Um.

618
00:28:57,560 --> 00:28:59,520
Speaker 1: And so we got in that room with John Knight

619
00:28:59,560 --> 00:29:02,320
Speaker 1: and Zach Kale love them both. Um. We got in

620
00:29:02,320 --> 00:29:04,680
Speaker 1: the room at day It was on Halloween, um of

621
00:29:04,800 --> 00:29:07,760
Speaker 1: last year, and we got on the room. We were

622
00:29:07,760 --> 00:29:09,280
Speaker 1: trying to figure out what we're going to write about.

623
00:29:09,480 --> 00:29:11,920
Speaker 1: And I was like, let's write a relationship song. They're like, okay,

624
00:29:12,000 --> 00:29:14,080
Speaker 1: let's start a song about a guy and a girl.

625
00:29:15,040 --> 00:29:17,000
Speaker 1: You know, they don't work out, but the girl still

626
00:29:17,080 --> 00:29:19,480
Speaker 1: kind of wishes him well. And I was like, that

627
00:29:19,600 --> 00:29:22,600
Speaker 1: is not how girls thing towards, Like when a guy

628
00:29:22,640 --> 00:29:26,280
Speaker 1: does this wrong, we don't go you know, I wish

629
00:29:26,280 --> 00:29:28,959
Speaker 1: you will. We're like, I hope everything bad happens to you.

630
00:29:29,320 --> 00:29:31,480
Speaker 1: I hope you get cheated on literally the worst thing.

631
00:29:31,480 --> 00:29:33,320
Speaker 1: I know it sounds rough, but that's how girls are.

632
00:29:33,320 --> 00:29:35,040
Speaker 1: When you do us wrong, that's why you don't do

633
00:29:35,040 --> 00:29:38,080
Speaker 1: it's wrong. So I wanted to write a song that

634
00:29:38,160 --> 00:29:42,760
Speaker 1: was like, that was the song that females never got

635
00:29:42,800 --> 00:29:45,840
Speaker 1: to say to that person, so that when they hear it,

636
00:29:45,880 --> 00:29:47,840
Speaker 1: they can dedicate it to that that type of person.

637
00:29:48,360 --> 00:29:50,880
Speaker 1: Um words that you know they never got to say,

638
00:29:50,880 --> 00:29:53,400
Speaker 1: but they really did feel. M it's pretty cool he

639
00:29:53,440 --> 00:29:56,080
Speaker 1: switched up like that. Yeah, I get you all better,

640
00:29:56,880 --> 00:30:00,840
Speaker 1: all better that that happened to you. Uh. Yeah, I've

641
00:30:00,920 --> 00:30:03,360
Speaker 1: been in a bed relationship before, so I understand and

642
00:30:03,400 --> 00:30:05,200
Speaker 1: can relate to girls that have to Who else have

643
00:30:05,200 --> 00:30:08,239
Speaker 1: you written with school? I've written the list them. I'll

644
00:30:08,240 --> 00:30:13,960
Speaker 1: give me a couple though, Um David Garcia, Josh Miller, UM, uh,

645
00:30:14,160 --> 00:30:20,320
Speaker 1: Zach Kale, John Knight, Ross Copperman, Um, Josh ker Oh yeah,

646
00:30:20,760 --> 00:30:23,800
Speaker 1: that's like heavy hitters. Man. Your people must think you're

647
00:30:23,800 --> 00:30:26,320
Speaker 1: pretty good. If they're getting in right with you, that's

648
00:30:26,360 --> 00:30:28,520
Speaker 1: a good thank you. That is a good thing. So okay,

649
00:30:28,560 --> 00:30:31,160
Speaker 1: so you're here today, Yes, then what happens? Did you

650
00:30:31,200 --> 00:30:32,760
Speaker 1: play tomorrow? Do you go back home for like eight

651
00:30:32,760 --> 00:30:34,680
Speaker 1: months then come back for another day or what? Go

652
00:30:34,760 --> 00:30:38,280
Speaker 1: home for eight months? Come on now now? Um? No tomorrow,

653
00:30:38,480 --> 00:30:42,840
Speaker 1: I um, I'm trying to think of my um. Tomorrow,

654
00:30:42,880 --> 00:30:45,080
Speaker 1: I have a writing session actually with Zach Kale and

655
00:30:45,080 --> 00:30:48,200
Speaker 1: two others from eleven three, and then I have to

656
00:30:48,280 --> 00:30:50,280
Speaker 1: record demos on another song that I did. Do you

657
00:30:50,320 --> 00:30:53,360
Speaker 1: get a lot of work done while you're here? Absolutely stacked?

658
00:30:53,400 --> 00:30:56,360
Speaker 1: Schedule your dad here? Yeah? Yeah, even though you're eighteen,

659
00:30:56,680 --> 00:31:00,479
Speaker 1: he's here. Yeah, because you can't like, he doesn't want

660
00:31:00,480 --> 00:31:02,680
Speaker 1: to leave me by myself. You can have one a

661
00:31:02,720 --> 00:31:06,360
Speaker 1: girl and an eighteen year old girl wondering around. Yeah,

662
00:31:06,480 --> 00:31:07,960
Speaker 1: but if you had a daughter that was a teen,

663
00:31:07,960 --> 00:31:10,280
Speaker 1: would you want to buy yourself down here? Oh? I

664
00:31:10,320 --> 00:31:15,440
Speaker 1: mean I'd like a girlfriend much like a daughter. All Right,

665
00:31:15,760 --> 00:31:19,120
Speaker 1: I'm saying. If I'm saying, if I think if she

666
00:31:19,240 --> 00:31:21,120
Speaker 1: was like, I'm gonna go pursue something in college. Same

667
00:31:21,120 --> 00:31:22,720
Speaker 1: thing if you went to college, he's not with you.

668
00:31:23,000 --> 00:31:25,480
Speaker 1: I remember having this conversation with you while we're on idol. Yeah,

669
00:31:25,560 --> 00:31:26,960
Speaker 1: I was like, eventually you got to cut the court.

670
00:31:26,960 --> 00:31:30,240
Speaker 1: Remember that conversation. Yeah, okay, you don't have to do anything.

671
00:31:30,680 --> 00:31:33,200
Speaker 1: I know, but he's just he's very loyal to me,

672
00:31:33,400 --> 00:31:35,480
Speaker 1: and so I believe that I'm supposed to be loyal

673
00:31:35,520 --> 00:31:37,280
Speaker 1: back towards him. I like him. He's a good dude.

674
00:31:37,400 --> 00:31:39,959
Speaker 1: He's great. I like hanging out with him. What do

675
00:31:39,960 --> 00:31:44,200
Speaker 1: you think about all this? Um, he's loving watching it.

676
00:31:44,280 --> 00:31:45,880
Speaker 1: I mean he's been a part of it with me

677
00:31:45,960 --> 00:31:49,600
Speaker 1: since I was just started. He's the reason why I

678
00:31:49,680 --> 00:31:53,200
Speaker 1: even I am where I am, honestly, because he's just

679
00:31:53,280 --> 00:31:55,080
Speaker 1: been my rock and my sports system through it all.

680
00:31:55,160 --> 00:31:57,800
Speaker 1: He's the one that's given money to get me two shows.

681
00:31:57,840 --> 00:31:59,600
Speaker 1: He's the one that's given his time. He's the one

682
00:31:59,640 --> 00:32:02,160
Speaker 1: that's not everything. So I wouldn't be here without him,

683
00:32:02,200 --> 00:32:05,000
Speaker 1: and he is really my main support system. So he's

684
00:32:05,040 --> 00:32:07,200
Speaker 1: just enjoying everything. I just give you a hard time

685
00:32:07,240 --> 00:32:09,600
Speaker 1: cause I like it. You know that, right? That's sweet? Thanks? Thanks?

686
00:32:10,560 --> 00:32:13,920
Speaker 1: Love hate relationships, No, there's no hate, there's no Are

687
00:32:13,960 --> 00:32:17,680
Speaker 1: you still dating the long hair dude? Yeah, Kate, where

688
00:32:17,680 --> 00:32:19,880
Speaker 1: does he live? Texas? Still? Did you guy see each

689
00:32:19,920 --> 00:32:22,160
Speaker 1: other ever? Yeah? I just saw him not that long ago.

690
00:32:22,240 --> 00:32:24,520
Speaker 1: You ever come to town? Um? Yeah, we actually come

691
00:32:25,040 --> 00:32:27,680
Speaker 1: quite often together and we do our own stuff. Did

692
00:32:27,720 --> 00:32:30,320
Speaker 1: your dad go on your dates with you? Good for that?

693
00:32:31,160 --> 00:32:33,360
Speaker 1: How's that going you guys? Good? It's really good coming

694
00:32:33,440 --> 00:32:39,280
Speaker 1: up on a year. So yeah, yep. And Ryan Seacrest

695
00:32:39,320 --> 00:32:42,640
Speaker 1: out at us for everybody, we were the first American

696
00:32:42,640 --> 00:32:45,760
Speaker 1: Idol couple. Actually, some people think like, oh, Manne Caleb

697
00:32:45,840 --> 00:32:48,920
Speaker 1: were the first, but okay, we're the first. Okay, So

698
00:32:48,960 --> 00:32:50,480
Speaker 1: how did that happen? You go on the show, You

699
00:32:50,560 --> 00:32:52,080
Speaker 1: keep it quiet from the producers at first that you

700
00:32:52,080 --> 00:32:53,720
Speaker 1: guys kind of like each other. Yes, and then the

701
00:32:53,720 --> 00:32:57,200
Speaker 1: producers literally just ask you every possible question they can

702
00:32:57,280 --> 00:33:00,360
Speaker 1: and scan at what's been going on, and then told

703
00:33:00,400 --> 00:33:02,479
Speaker 1: I guess they told Ryan Secrest and he outed it

704
00:33:02,520 --> 00:33:05,080
Speaker 1: because I had no idea when he performed, and they like,

705
00:33:05,480 --> 00:33:08,760
Speaker 1: he did the whole reveal of everything. I was backstage like,

706
00:33:08,920 --> 00:33:12,320
Speaker 1: oh no, oh, you didn't know it's coming. No. Because

707
00:33:12,320 --> 00:33:14,840
Speaker 1: we separated relationship from business, we were like, we're not

708
00:33:14,880 --> 00:33:17,120
Speaker 1: gonna We're not gonna put this on the television because

709
00:33:17,120 --> 00:33:19,040
Speaker 1: we came here to win the competition. We didn't come

710
00:33:19,080 --> 00:33:25,120
Speaker 1: to have the Bachelorette on UM, so because we knew

711
00:33:25,280 --> 00:33:27,400
Speaker 1: you know, we knew of Maddie and Caleb too, so

712
00:33:27,440 --> 00:33:29,600
Speaker 1: we'd always like go out together. So it was just

713
00:33:29,640 --> 00:33:32,040
Speaker 1: funny how everything unwanted though, and you try to keep

714
00:33:32,040 --> 00:33:35,240
Speaker 1: a secret? Did I try? Everybody tries? Right? Of course,

715
00:33:35,440 --> 00:33:37,760
Speaker 1: you keep it on the d L. It's it's crazy

716
00:33:37,600 --> 00:33:40,320
Speaker 1: the minors they call them on American Idol. You guys

717
00:33:40,360 --> 00:33:42,320
Speaker 1: had your own schedule. Yeah, you had to go first

718
00:33:42,360 --> 00:33:44,640
Speaker 1: because you couldn't do you can do the long hours, right.

719
00:33:44,800 --> 00:33:46,400
Speaker 1: That would be pretty cool to be like seventeen and

720
00:33:46,440 --> 00:33:48,640
Speaker 1: a half and do Idol and not eighteen, right because

721
00:33:48,640 --> 00:33:52,000
Speaker 1: you get all the preferential treatment. Yeah, it was interesting

722
00:33:52,480 --> 00:33:54,760
Speaker 1: you know now that yeah, you're pointing that out. I

723
00:33:54,760 --> 00:33:57,120
Speaker 1: mean in the beginning, because I turned eighteen while on

724
00:33:57,160 --> 00:33:59,920
Speaker 1: the show, So from the beginning, Yeah, during all the

725
00:34:00,200 --> 00:34:03,680
Speaker 1: hard parts where people had to like stay super duper long,

726
00:34:04,160 --> 00:34:06,400
Speaker 1: I got to go back. UM. But then like on

727
00:34:06,440 --> 00:34:09,080
Speaker 1: the right timing, I turned eighteen, So it's like it

728
00:34:09,120 --> 00:34:11,120
Speaker 1: all worked. It was really cool. Did you get nervous?

729
00:34:11,120 --> 00:34:14,960
Speaker 1: On the live shows. Yeah. Yeah, I mean I when

730
00:34:15,040 --> 00:34:17,560
Speaker 1: I first started, like, I was very fortunate not to

731
00:34:17,600 --> 00:34:21,439
Speaker 1: get nerves around anybody that I said. But American Ido

732
00:34:21,480 --> 00:34:25,560
Speaker 1: absolutely was definitely a challenge because it's like you have

733
00:34:25,640 --> 00:34:27,720
Speaker 1: so many people telling you, like, look at the camera,

734
00:34:27,760 --> 00:34:29,279
Speaker 1: look at this, pay attention to this, do this, do this,

735
00:34:29,320 --> 00:34:31,200
Speaker 1: do this, and there's a camera with a red dot.

736
00:34:31,200 --> 00:34:32,800
Speaker 1: When you see the red dot come up, there's sixty

737
00:34:32,800 --> 00:34:36,080
Speaker 1: million people watching you. Don't mess up. There's three celebrities

738
00:34:36,360 --> 00:34:38,520
Speaker 1: that you didn't even think we're human beings also watching

739
00:34:38,520 --> 00:34:42,120
Speaker 1: you and critiquing what you're doing. Don't mess up. It's like, yeah,

740
00:34:42,200 --> 00:34:43,839
Speaker 1: so it's kind of hard. And then once you get

741
00:34:43,880 --> 00:34:46,080
Speaker 1: yourself into that mode, it is so hard to get

742
00:34:46,080 --> 00:34:48,680
Speaker 1: out of. It's like an avalanche, Like it's a snowball.

743
00:34:48,719 --> 00:34:50,600
Speaker 1: Don't get nervous, unkt and nervous, you get more nervous.

744
00:34:50,640 --> 00:34:53,200
Speaker 1: So it was a challenge. I had to keep going

745
00:34:53,239 --> 00:34:55,160
Speaker 1: back and forth with myself. Do you watch your social

746
00:34:55,200 --> 00:34:57,680
Speaker 1: media the whole time? Did I watch my social media? Yeah?

747
00:34:57,760 --> 00:35:01,000
Speaker 1: It was crazy to see everything to wat Yeah, it

748
00:35:01,160 --> 00:35:04,800
Speaker 1: was awesome, and it's really nice that they stuck with me. Yeah,

749
00:35:04,880 --> 00:35:07,000
Speaker 1: even after American Idol. It's really really nice, like with

750
00:35:07,120 --> 00:35:10,040
Speaker 1: I hope seeing that, you know, just from a straight

751
00:35:10,120 --> 00:35:13,320
Speaker 1: fan base. It's shot to fourteen on iTunes. Was crazy

752
00:35:13,400 --> 00:35:15,719
Speaker 1: to me, didn't that means? That just showed me like

753
00:35:15,920 --> 00:35:17,759
Speaker 1: while these people are really sticking with me even after

754
00:35:17,760 --> 00:35:21,880
Speaker 1: American Idol, which means a lot. So they're probably all listening. Now, Hey,

755
00:35:22,040 --> 00:35:24,080
Speaker 1: what do you want to say to them? I love

756
00:35:24,120 --> 00:35:26,360
Speaker 1: you guys so much. You have no idea. Thank you

757
00:35:26,400 --> 00:35:28,719
Speaker 1: so much to everybody the supported me because you have

758
00:35:28,760 --> 00:35:31,080
Speaker 1: no idea what it means to me, and I wouldn't

759
00:35:31,120 --> 00:35:34,760
Speaker 1: be here without you. It's really all about you guys. Um,

760
00:35:34,920 --> 00:35:38,879
Speaker 1: anytime I perform, it's about everybody else, not yourself. So um,

761
00:35:39,040 --> 00:35:41,280
Speaker 1: just thank you so much and we're gonna do it together.

762
00:35:41,640 --> 00:35:44,839
Speaker 1: Keep climbing. What are our garden in two years? That's

763
00:35:44,840 --> 00:35:46,120
Speaker 1: what you used to say. That's why you would say

764
00:35:46,120 --> 00:35:49,440
Speaker 1: that you moved we chalked to here because it was

765
00:35:49,480 --> 00:35:52,080
Speaker 1: three But now it's two thousand nineteen, so it's too Yeah,

766
00:35:52,120 --> 00:35:54,520
Speaker 1: you would say I'm gonna play Madson Square garden went

767
00:35:54,560 --> 00:35:57,600
Speaker 1: headline in three years? Yeah you have two years now?

768
00:35:57,719 --> 00:35:59,799
Speaker 1: Tis that's the goal? Ye? What is it? Goal? What

769
00:35:59,800 --> 00:36:01,239
Speaker 1: do you want to do. Like, if we're back here

770
00:36:01,440 --> 00:36:03,120
Speaker 1: at my house in a year and we're in front

771
00:36:03,160 --> 00:36:04,520
Speaker 1: of where the microphones? Where do you want to be?

772
00:36:04,920 --> 00:36:08,359
Speaker 1: Where do I want to be? Um? I want too.

773
00:36:08,480 --> 00:36:13,239
Speaker 1: I think it would be so cool to be my ear.

774
00:36:13,440 --> 00:36:15,239
Speaker 1: I have an earring. You have an ear ring or

775
00:36:15,280 --> 00:36:17,880
Speaker 1: your ache. I have an ear ring. Hearing in and

776
00:36:17,920 --> 00:36:19,919
Speaker 1: it's like pressing against earring. But it's okay, It's okay,

777
00:36:19,960 --> 00:36:24,160
Speaker 1: beauty Spain, um and Okay. Next year, I would like

778
00:36:24,320 --> 00:36:30,520
Speaker 1: to be nominated for um a CMA Award. Yeah, I

779
00:36:30,560 --> 00:36:32,200
Speaker 1: think that would be really really cool. That would be

780
00:36:32,200 --> 00:36:34,240
Speaker 1: really cool. I'd like to be nominated for CMA Awards.

781
00:36:36,600 --> 00:36:38,439
Speaker 1: I think that's really cool. That's a goal of mine

782
00:36:38,480 --> 00:36:40,640
Speaker 1: for sure. With that's why I'm trying to make the

783
00:36:40,680 --> 00:36:43,000
Speaker 1: best of best songs. You know what you don't like

784
00:36:43,040 --> 00:36:45,600
Speaker 1: about you? You have no shortness. There's no short of

785
00:36:45,640 --> 00:36:48,120
Speaker 1: confidence with you, which you have to have. You have

786
00:36:48,160 --> 00:36:49,520
Speaker 1: to you have to have so much confidence to be

787
00:36:49,560 --> 00:36:51,279
Speaker 1: here all the time. You have to be so sure

788
00:36:51,320 --> 00:36:54,439
Speaker 1: of yourself. Yeah, and then your goals are super high,

789
00:36:54,760 --> 00:36:57,680
Speaker 1: which is great, and people may look at you and go, gab,

790
00:36:57,719 --> 00:36:59,320
Speaker 1: you're crazy. But the crazy ones are the ones that

791
00:36:59,360 --> 00:37:02,000
Speaker 1: are just crazy enough to make it. Yeah, because I'm nuts.

792
00:37:03,640 --> 00:37:05,680
Speaker 1: I've always been told all your nut your goals, you

793
00:37:05,719 --> 00:37:08,279
Speaker 1: need to big. Yeah. You know, if you don't have

794
00:37:08,360 --> 00:37:11,680
Speaker 1: goals for yourself, nobody else will go bigger go home. No,

795
00:37:11,760 --> 00:37:15,080
Speaker 1: don't go home, but you gotta go big, go big.

796
00:37:15,800 --> 00:37:17,400
Speaker 1: I mean, if you're not going big, what's what are

797
00:37:17,440 --> 00:37:19,239
Speaker 1: you doing? Well? You learn when it doesn't go right

798
00:37:19,280 --> 00:37:21,480
Speaker 1: and you keep going big. Don't go home. Okay, don't

799
00:37:21,480 --> 00:37:24,280
Speaker 1: pack up your crab and go home. I mean unless

800
00:37:24,280 --> 00:37:28,120
Speaker 1: you're living in Nashville and then go back. Okay, all right, listen,

801
00:37:28,440 --> 00:37:30,759
Speaker 1: it's been good to see you. We did how long?

802
00:37:30,840 --> 00:37:34,759
Speaker 1: Half hour? Did half? Half an hour? Interview? How you

803
00:37:34,760 --> 00:37:37,520
Speaker 1: feel about it? Good? I haven't seen you know what

804
00:37:37,600 --> 00:37:39,279
Speaker 1: I've seen you since the finale, you know. I just

805
00:37:39,320 --> 00:37:41,120
Speaker 1: said that to my manager coming in. I was like,

806
00:37:41,480 --> 00:37:43,799
Speaker 1: how's it your door? And I was like, oh my gosh,

807
00:37:43,800 --> 00:37:45,279
Speaker 1: I would seen it. Is this a weird and idle?

808
00:37:45,360 --> 00:37:47,680
Speaker 1: This is so weird? So I'm growing so much. I'm

809
00:37:47,719 --> 00:37:51,319
Speaker 1: a lot taller. Yeah, you look a lot different. I

810
00:37:51,360 --> 00:37:52,799
Speaker 1: was under my house, but before you got to want

811
00:37:52,800 --> 00:37:55,439
Speaker 1: to catch a cat. Cat that was under my house

812
00:37:55,480 --> 00:37:57,120
Speaker 1: and I was crawling in the crawl space and I

813
00:37:57,200 --> 00:37:59,719
Speaker 1: got I got it out he did. Yeah, I'm scared. Yeah,

814
00:38:00,000 --> 00:38:02,200
Speaker 1: it out right up the other side of the outside.

815
00:38:02,360 --> 00:38:04,160
Speaker 1: I know, you think, well, fancy Bobby. No, you know

816
00:38:04,160 --> 00:38:05,640
Speaker 1: who gets his own cat front of the house. Me.

817
00:38:06,000 --> 00:38:10,640
Speaker 1: There was no Butler that does that? I do that. Yeah,

818
00:38:10,760 --> 00:38:14,960
Speaker 1: there's no Butler. No, No, Mikey is the closest thing yet. Listen,

819
00:38:14,960 --> 00:38:17,520
Speaker 1: it's good to see at Gabby Barrett underscore, right, g

820
00:38:17,680 --> 00:38:20,359
Speaker 1: A B B Y B A r R E T

821
00:38:20,360 --> 00:38:24,279
Speaker 1: T underscore underscore? Why the underscore to someone already have

822
00:38:24,280 --> 00:38:26,839
Speaker 1: Gabby Barrett and you can't buy it from them? Did

823
00:38:26,880 --> 00:38:29,359
Speaker 1: you try? Now? I tried. They won't sell me Bobby bones.

824
00:38:30,080 --> 00:38:32,160
Speaker 1: Why don't you try to buy Gaett. I'm gonna look

825
00:38:32,200 --> 00:38:34,120
Speaker 1: into it. I have never tried that yet. So we'll

826
00:38:34,160 --> 00:38:35,759
Speaker 1: say all the money you got from the Idol tour.

827
00:38:36,000 --> 00:38:38,000
Speaker 1: Yeah yeah, But does an underscore really make like a

828
00:38:38,080 --> 00:38:40,359
Speaker 1: huge difference? Well, yeah, it's just easier to go at

829
00:38:40,400 --> 00:38:44,920
Speaker 1: Gabby Barrett than the underscore. Let's right after it. All right,

830
00:38:44,960 --> 00:38:49,440
Speaker 1: I've had enough of you. Alright, I'm just kidding. In

831
00:38:49,440 --> 00:38:51,680
Speaker 1: a year, come back, we'll talk about your A or

832
00:38:51,719 --> 00:38:54,359
Speaker 1: a c M nomination. All right, it sounds like, let's

833
00:38:54,360 --> 00:38:55,600
Speaker 1: see you by the way you have you know, I

834
00:38:55,600 --> 00:38:57,560
Speaker 1: forgot to bring up you have seven brothers and sisters, right, yes,

835
00:38:57,880 --> 00:39:01,319
Speaker 1: because you brought like half of them to my show. Yes, yeah,

836
00:39:01,320 --> 00:39:03,160
Speaker 1: And I was like, yeah, yeah, like look at all

837
00:39:03,200 --> 00:39:05,799
Speaker 1: these kids absolutely folks. Yeah, because I was I'm a

838
00:39:05,840 --> 00:39:07,719
Speaker 1: big fan of you, so I was like, you guys

839
00:39:07,719 --> 00:39:09,320
Speaker 1: have to come. We all are big fans of you.

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Speaker 1: We all would listen to you. So it was really

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Speaker 1: cool and it's really cool to being back here. So

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Speaker 1: thank you very much. Yeah, all right, Gabby Barrett, there

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Speaker 1: we go. We'll see you soon. Alright, I check out,

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Speaker 1: I hope, and you're gonna put other music out. I'm

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Speaker 1: assuming yes, this new music coming, Arry is not your

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Speaker 1: last song ever, saying within the next few weeks you'll

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Speaker 1: hear a new song. All right. There we go, GABARTT

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Speaker 1: everybody EISOD one, sixt