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Speaker 2: Okay, So this podcast basically about the million Dollar Show

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Speaker 2: and the journey of the million Dollar Show from day

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Speaker 2: one to now. Brought to you a boy Yundai. I

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Speaker 2: love Hyundai. It's all about the journey with Hyundai. I

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Speaker 2: think we've done eight million dollar shows, which by the way,

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Speaker 2: this is airing after our last one, but we we

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Speaker 2: haven't done the last one yet. That's we're just days

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Speaker 2: away from that. So Eddie's here too, and so mostly

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Speaker 2: it's just man thinking back about how we started this thing.

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Speaker 2: The genesis of it was Eddie and I have been

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Speaker 2: doing a bunch of free shows. Also we sucked, not

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Speaker 2: that we're Grammy Award winning now anyway, but we were

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Speaker 2: playing parodies and restaurants.

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Speaker 3: Like barbecue joints, and they would just move the tables

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Speaker 3: out of the way. And they're fifty.

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Speaker 2: People, yes, and twenty two of them were just having

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Speaker 2: brisket already.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, wondering what is this on stage?

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Speaker 2: And we would get a car. We'd rent a car

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Speaker 2: just in the suit would drive us. We'd find an

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Speaker 2: op quote opening act, which for a long time it

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Speaker 2: was Kelsey Ballerini.

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Speaker 3: Yeah.

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Speaker 2: So we would get in the car and we would

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Speaker 2: drive to North Carolina. We would drive to Tallahassee, Florida.

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Speaker 2: We would do Lewis, all these places that were somewhat

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Speaker 2: they were far enough to drive, but they weren't comfortable,

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Speaker 2: meaning we couldn't get there in an hour. The first

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Speaker 2: ever show we did those the Raging Idiots was the

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Speaker 2: Amy show for thirty apes. Yeah here in Nashville at

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Speaker 2: a pavilion. Who were that crap?

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Speaker 3: Yeah? And people showed up.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, but it wasn't for us. Were other artists there too, true,

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Speaker 2: we had, Yeah, it wasn't that wasn't for us.

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Speaker 3: I think one thing you've been really good at is

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Speaker 3: surrounding us with really good artists in our shows, you know,

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Speaker 3: so when we do play, we do have some other

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Speaker 3: good artists to come. Hence the million dollars show man, Like,

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Speaker 3: that's what's so awesome about it. It's not us, it's

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Speaker 3: so much, so many good artists around us.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, the first one, there were other artists there. Then

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Speaker 2: after that it was and we would, you know, do it,

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Speaker 2: but Kelsey wasn't known then. But what we would do

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Speaker 2: is in my mind, it didn't matter if I said

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Speaker 2: where we were playing, like on Instagram, but it was

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Speaker 2: always how can I sell this thing? And how can

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Speaker 2: I market it as being sold out even if it's

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Speaker 2: thirty people. So we'd go play a restaurant and nobody

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Speaker 2: else could fit, but I'd be like sold out raging idiots,

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Speaker 2: and we'd play like parodies basically and lots of covers. Yeah,

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Speaker 2: and with the ukuleles and just Eddie and I and

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Speaker 2: so we would do these shows, and we did them

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Speaker 2: for like six months. We donated all the money. I

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Speaker 2: And then we started to do slightly bigger venues, and

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Speaker 2: I just wanted to be able to say everything was

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Speaker 2: our shows, not knowing how bad we kind of were.

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Speaker 2: Where it was fortunate for us was we were getting

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Speaker 2: we played early on, it was it was rough. The

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Speaker 2: But remember the barbecue place in DC when the fire

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Speaker 2: it was kind of a disaster because the people were

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Speaker 2: for another it wasn't our vault. But then we went

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Speaker 2: it was forever. I can't remember when that was. And

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Speaker 2: so we just did this for a long time. We

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Speaker 2: donated all the money, all the money, and in my

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Speaker 2: I want to have a celebration concert, because we didn't

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Speaker 2: keep any of the money. I want to have a

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Speaker 2: at the rhyment at first. And I remember going and

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Speaker 2: Roddick had asked me, Hey, can you come out to

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Speaker 2: but you'll be part of the music. And I said, Man,

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Speaker 2: we'll just count that because that's money. We're playing at

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Speaker 2: a charity event. And so it hit a million bucks.

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Speaker 2: And I remember calling like my management guy and being like, hey,

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Speaker 2: what we should do the call it million dollar show

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Speaker 3: Oh he he mentioned the Ryman.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, it wasn't me, okay, because I was like, what

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Speaker 2: be there. We did play a car dealership early on.

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Speaker 2: We did in Wichtalk, Kansas. We didn't make any money,

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Speaker 2: neither to the charity. The station just kept that money.

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Speaker 2: And we use the word people loosely because they were bodies. Yeah,

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Speaker 2: there weren't that well, there weren't that many people there.

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Speaker 2: So we got to a million bucks. So we set

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Speaker 2: the show to be six or seven months away. But

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Speaker 2: in the process, the Raging Idiot started to pick up

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Speaker 2: a little steam. I feel like I marketed it so

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Speaker 2: And we were doing the radio show saying where we're

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Speaker 2: coming to the different towns, and so before we had

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Speaker 2: done the first million dollars show, we raised two million

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Speaker 2: dollars and I was like, dang, which called the two

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Speaker 3: So well we've made two million.

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Speaker 2: We go we do the first ever million dollar show

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Speaker 2: with the idea of maybe we can get people to

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Speaker 2: come and play with us because we had a band.

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Speaker 2: And the reason we had a band is because festivals

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Speaker 2: were asking us to play, because big festivals, bigger than

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Speaker 2: we should have played, and we were playing after we

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Speaker 3: We were no in no position to be in those slots.

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Speaker 2: Our band was really great, but we didn't like have

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Speaker 2: songs and I can't sing. So we're playing massive festivals

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Speaker 2: all over the country. We played Stage Coach, we played

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Speaker 2: We got to be okay, and now we had the

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Speaker 2: a couple of calls myself for the first ever show,

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Speaker 2: and Derk s. Bentley played and Brett Eldridge played a

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Speaker 2: playing with our band? And because I knew them. They

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Speaker 2: were all like, yeah, great, and it was awesome. But

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Speaker 2: we made a few hundred thousand bucks and so we're like, cool,

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Speaker 2: what a fun memory. We'll never do that again.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, like a one off.

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Speaker 2: Right, Well, we celebrated the million bucks and so, but

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Speaker 2: we were such a and I still am such a

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Speaker 2: about it. They were like, can wait till next year?

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Speaker 2: And I was like, oh, no, next year. So then

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Speaker 2: I'm all freaking out about it. But they're like, we're

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Speaker 3: And we didn't.

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Speaker 2: We get just then we started touring. Our brains off

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Speaker 2: signed a little record deal, didn't really do anything record wise,

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Speaker 2: and they were like taking money, not not illegally, but

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Speaker 2: I didn't.

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Speaker 3: Realize that's the record deal. Yeah that's what that means.

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Speaker 2: Because they weren't really promoting it. So and then and

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Speaker 3: Dude, we were full fletched. We were a band. We

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Speaker 2: Yeah, we had to a van though yeah, yeah, yeah,

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Speaker 2: But what I'm saying is like struggling artist because we're

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Speaker 2: Yes, we drove back. Well, not even that. We played

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Speaker 2: And there's like a little it's like a dance floor

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Speaker 3: But the reason I remember that is because we were like,

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Speaker 3: I'm driving. I think Tim drove or was it Tim?

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Speaker 3: Maybe they both did they just but either way we

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Speaker 2: Oh, we cheated. We were like, we'd rather just drive

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Speaker 2: We were exhausted and we didn't even know what we

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Speaker 2: exhausted your your asks with all your yess. So I

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Speaker 2: And then at the end what I knew was gonna

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Speaker 2: happen was Garth was gonna come out and present a

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Speaker 2: check because he said he we don't know how much

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Speaker 2: it was gonna be and Garth comes out in for

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Speaker 2: since a two million dollar check and then he was

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Speaker 2: out on stage and we were just like, let's sing

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Speaker 2: one because he wasn't going to sing, but he wasn't

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Speaker 3: Sing, and he was already there.

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Speaker 2: Here was there and it's not like he's gonna say no.

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Speaker 2: So he sang and we did what Friends and Love Places.

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Speaker 3: Highlight of my life.

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Speaker 2: Million dollar three Urban. This one was super cool because

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Speaker 2: it was urban and Darius and Darius came out and

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Speaker 2: But Madaline is like next level. She played the piano.

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Speaker 2: Are you in?

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Speaker 3: I want to hear?

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Speaker 2: Actually, oh my god, there's nothing embarrassing. I don't think no,

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Speaker 4: Do I remember what the text?

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Speaker 2: the other. I'm going to respond. But the new chapter

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Speaker 3: And that's it, Madeline. Is that is that hard to

437
00:18:47,040 --> 00:18:48,879
Speaker 3: set a text like that because you are doing your

438
00:18:48,880 --> 00:18:49,399
Speaker 3: own promotion?

439
00:18:50,119 --> 00:18:53,000
Speaker 4: Yes, I mean listen it's Bobby Bones.

440
00:18:53,080 --> 00:18:54,960
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, that massive star, the.

441
00:18:55,480 --> 00:18:59,440
Speaker 1: Most massive Yes, like I listened to you growing up,

442
00:18:59,680 --> 00:19:01,760
Speaker 1: you know. So it's weird to send a text like

443
00:19:01,840 --> 00:19:04,880
Speaker 1: that and be like, Okay, we're doing this on our own.

444
00:19:05,240 --> 00:19:07,640
Speaker 4: Let's see if you know that words.

445
00:19:08,040 --> 00:19:09,760
Speaker 2: For you to say that that you're texting me is

446
00:19:09,800 --> 00:19:12,360
Speaker 2: unfair because Eddie, look at this is how much we've

447
00:19:12,400 --> 00:19:13,720
Speaker 2: texted over time.

448
00:19:13,760 --> 00:19:14,720
Speaker 3: That's a lot of conversation.

449
00:19:15,320 --> 00:19:17,520
Speaker 2: It's a lot. It's not like you's got my number

450
00:19:17,520 --> 00:19:20,360
Speaker 2: and it's like I'm nervous to text them.

451
00:19:20,520 --> 00:19:22,639
Speaker 1: No, it's just been a minute. Yeah, I know. I

452
00:19:22,720 --> 00:19:24,080
Speaker 1: kind of disappeared for a little bit.

453
00:19:24,160 --> 00:19:27,080
Speaker 2: Me too. Everybody disappeared, but you, which is why I'm

454
00:19:27,080 --> 00:19:29,840
Speaker 2: excited you're here. It's been a few years since you've

455
00:19:29,840 --> 00:19:34,520
Speaker 2: had stuff like new stuff, So what's up? What's up

456
00:19:34,520 --> 00:19:36,000
Speaker 2: with that? Oh? Man?

457
00:19:36,359 --> 00:19:39,000
Speaker 1: I mean I'm putting out a new album and I

458
00:19:39,000 --> 00:19:40,359
Speaker 1: want to talk about your show.

459
00:19:40,680 --> 00:19:41,439
Speaker 4: You know, we don't have to.

460
00:19:41,800 --> 00:19:43,760
Speaker 2: No, no, I'm here. I'm here to talk about you

461
00:19:43,840 --> 00:19:44,160
Speaker 2: right now.

462
00:19:44,200 --> 00:19:46,000
Speaker 3: Okay, So let's ask that question.

463
00:19:46,080 --> 00:19:49,240
Speaker 4: Yeah, okay, now, I'll let you do it.

464
00:19:48,920 --> 00:19:52,639
Speaker 2: You're in my home, so I've planned the meal. So

465
00:19:52,680 --> 00:19:54,760
Speaker 2: we're going to start with this course talking about you.

466
00:19:55,400 --> 00:19:58,600
Speaker 2: So let me ask this, Well, what did you do

467
00:19:58,640 --> 00:20:00,960
Speaker 2: the last three years? What was going on a lot?

468
00:20:01,600 --> 00:20:04,280
Speaker 1: I've been working on this album for the last three years,

469
00:20:04,359 --> 00:20:06,760
Speaker 1: and it's been a lot of good and a lot

470
00:20:06,760 --> 00:20:11,120
Speaker 1: of bad. I last year lost my brother. He got

471
00:20:11,119 --> 00:20:15,439
Speaker 1: diagnosed with schizophrenia and took his own life, and that

472
00:20:15,640 --> 00:20:19,960
Speaker 1: was really tough, and you know, it just kind of

473
00:20:20,080 --> 00:20:22,959
Speaker 1: kept leading into like a hell of a year. And

474
00:20:23,000 --> 00:20:25,919
Speaker 1: so a few months after that, I lost, you know,

475
00:20:26,000 --> 00:20:29,639
Speaker 1: my team, And I mean, that's honestly the most insignificant

476
00:20:29,640 --> 00:20:32,800
Speaker 1: part of the story. The story is beautiful because I

477
00:20:32,840 --> 00:20:35,720
Speaker 1: got to see so much fruit in my life because

478
00:20:35,880 --> 00:20:39,000
Speaker 1: of this community I have in Nashville and how much

479
00:20:39,119 --> 00:20:42,119
Speaker 1: people surrounded me, and they came around me when this

480
00:20:42,160 --> 00:20:44,960
Speaker 1: happened like they always have. When my husband was in

481
00:20:44,960 --> 00:20:48,000
Speaker 1: the hospital, they came around me when my brother passed,

482
00:20:48,000 --> 00:20:50,000
Speaker 1: they came around me and it was it was just

483
00:20:50,080 --> 00:20:55,280
Speaker 1: such a just such a beautiful story of artistry and

484
00:20:55,320 --> 00:20:59,320
Speaker 1: storytelling in Nashville and how that always kind of comes

485
00:20:59,359 --> 00:21:01,440
Speaker 1: first and it's always the pinnacle. And I think people

486
00:21:01,520 --> 00:21:03,760
Speaker 1: saw this story and we're like, you know what, we

487
00:21:03,840 --> 00:21:05,760
Speaker 1: don't care what happened. We just kind of want to

488
00:21:05,800 --> 00:21:08,000
Speaker 1: help push this story into the world because we think

489
00:21:08,040 --> 00:21:10,800
Speaker 1: it's really beautiful. And my families come from a lot.

490
00:21:10,880 --> 00:21:13,240
Speaker 1: I mean, I've come on your show before and I've

491
00:21:13,240 --> 00:21:17,040
Speaker 1: talked to you about my dad and you know, surviving

492
00:21:17,080 --> 00:21:20,200
Speaker 1: abuse and me and my siblings just kind of banding

493
00:21:20,240 --> 00:21:24,400
Speaker 1: together and just surviving the odds. And so the fact

494
00:21:24,440 --> 00:21:26,840
Speaker 1: that I get to tell this on the other side

495
00:21:26,840 --> 00:21:29,520
Speaker 1: of things with my brother being gone is like, man,

496
00:21:29,680 --> 00:21:33,680
Speaker 1: it's life is so precious and time is so precious.

497
00:21:34,040 --> 00:21:34,199
Speaker 1: You know.

498
00:21:34,240 --> 00:21:34,720
Speaker 4: It's funny.

499
00:21:34,720 --> 00:21:36,760
Speaker 1: When I came on your show last time, I think

500
00:21:36,800 --> 00:21:38,640
Speaker 1: you asked me a question of like, what do you want?

501
00:21:39,119 --> 00:21:42,600
Speaker 1: And I kept answering, like I want a Grammy or

502
00:21:42,600 --> 00:21:44,480
Speaker 1: something some bullshit like that.

503
00:21:44,880 --> 00:21:48,359
Speaker 2: Has that changed? I mean, if I asked you that question, hey, madam,

504
00:21:48,400 --> 00:21:49,880
Speaker 2: what do you want? Now? What do you want?

505
00:21:50,720 --> 00:21:54,240
Speaker 1: I have everything I want now for you, that's perspective,

506
00:21:54,480 --> 00:21:59,800
Speaker 1: it is. I live a beautiful life, you know. I

507
00:21:59,800 --> 00:22:02,360
Speaker 1: guess I to walk into a studio almost every day

508
00:22:02,359 --> 00:22:05,760
Speaker 1: and make music and write stories with beautiful people, and

509
00:22:05,840 --> 00:22:08,760
Speaker 1: I think that's the best life in the world.

510
00:22:09,280 --> 00:22:13,240
Speaker 2: You shared a lot about your brother. Let's go pre

511
00:22:13,359 --> 00:22:16,480
Speaker 2: your brother that couple years and then post your brother.

512
00:22:16,600 --> 00:22:19,800
Speaker 2: Were you working on something and did that change after

513
00:22:20,280 --> 00:22:23,120
Speaker 2: that very difficult time. You're still in that difficult time,

514
00:22:23,119 --> 00:22:25,840
Speaker 2: But did that change what you were creating and how

515
00:22:25,880 --> 00:22:26,720
Speaker 2: you were creating it?

516
00:22:27,920 --> 00:22:28,000
Speaker 1: No?

517
00:22:28,280 --> 00:22:29,920
Speaker 4: Actually, well yes, and no, I was.

518
00:22:30,560 --> 00:22:33,879
Speaker 1: I had already started an album about the redemption of

519
00:22:33,880 --> 00:22:38,000
Speaker 1: my family and our story and you know, us kind

520
00:22:38,040 --> 00:22:43,119
Speaker 1: of banding together in the name of Jesus and trying

521
00:22:43,200 --> 00:22:46,920
Speaker 1: to live an absolutely normal life against the odds. And

522
00:22:47,960 --> 00:22:53,159
Speaker 1: I think Jonah's passing just further propelled that story and

523
00:22:53,480 --> 00:22:58,119
Speaker 1: just showed that we could come together in some pretty

524
00:22:58,119 --> 00:23:01,520
Speaker 1: significant ways. My family is so strong. I'm so proud

525
00:23:01,560 --> 00:23:04,679
Speaker 1: of my siblings and the way we tell our story.

526
00:23:04,720 --> 00:23:07,560
Speaker 1: My brother out in Houston, his name is Mike Edwards.

527
00:23:07,560 --> 00:23:10,920
Speaker 1: He goes by mister Texas Soul. And you know, he's

528
00:23:10,960 --> 00:23:13,399
Speaker 1: the second oldest so he and I would step in

529
00:23:13,440 --> 00:23:16,320
Speaker 1: a lot and parent the younger kids when you know,

530
00:23:17,320 --> 00:23:20,000
Speaker 1: when they were off doing their thing and my dad

531
00:23:20,040 --> 00:23:22,560
Speaker 1: wasn't around and my mom was just kind of surviving abuse,

532
00:23:22,720 --> 00:23:26,320
Speaker 1: and you know, my brother and I it took a

533
00:23:26,320 --> 00:23:29,359
Speaker 1: toll on a relationship being parents and not just getting

534
00:23:29,400 --> 00:23:33,080
Speaker 1: to be best friends and siblings, and so there was

535
00:23:33,119 --> 00:23:37,040
Speaker 1: a lot of time that passed where you know, it

536
00:23:37,080 --> 00:23:39,320
Speaker 1: was a lot of tension and it's crazy, it's so

537
00:23:39,440 --> 00:23:42,800
Speaker 1: full story because I invited him here to Nashville to

538
00:23:42,800 --> 00:23:45,760
Speaker 1: come write with me for his record, and while he

539
00:23:45,800 --> 00:23:48,000
Speaker 1: was writing with me, we got like the last minute

540
00:23:48,040 --> 00:23:51,440
Speaker 1: call to do the Opry for Dolly Parton's birthday, and

541
00:23:51,520 --> 00:23:53,760
Speaker 1: I told him, I'm like, listen, I'll only do this

542
00:23:53,920 --> 00:23:57,320
Speaker 1: on one occasion, if that's if my brother can sing a

543
00:23:57,359 --> 00:23:59,840
Speaker 1: song with me on the Opry stage. And so that

544
00:23:59,920 --> 00:24:02,560
Speaker 1: was his first time being at the Opry. Ever, like

545
00:24:02,640 --> 00:24:05,600
Speaker 1: let go, it was incredible. I mean, we did some

546
00:24:05,840 --> 00:24:09,320
Speaker 1: back catalog of Dolly's and we got texts from our

547
00:24:09,359 --> 00:24:11,480
Speaker 1: siblings all night being like, man, we get to feel

548
00:24:11,560 --> 00:24:15,679
Speaker 1: Jonah's spirit again. It's like our family is surviving this again,

549
00:24:16,000 --> 00:24:19,960
Speaker 1: and we get to see our story continue to thrive

550
00:24:20,440 --> 00:24:23,359
Speaker 1: by seeing us kind of like be up on that

551
00:24:23,440 --> 00:24:26,240
Speaker 1: stage together. It's crazy, like there's so many full circle

552
00:24:26,280 --> 00:24:26,880
Speaker 1: things like that.

553
00:24:27,000 --> 00:24:29,760
Speaker 2: I feel like too, what you're saying is a bit

554
00:24:29,800 --> 00:24:32,320
Speaker 2: of a parallel with the song Sunshine and the rain

555
00:24:32,600 --> 00:24:36,520
Speaker 2: m hm, because rain is a difficulty and how you

556
00:24:36,560 --> 00:24:38,879
Speaker 2: see the sunshine whenever it's raining. I mean telling me

557
00:24:38,880 --> 00:24:39,440
Speaker 2: about the song.

558
00:24:40,760 --> 00:24:43,639
Speaker 4: I wrote it with Foy Vance. He's incredible.

559
00:24:43,880 --> 00:24:48,240
Speaker 1: He's an incredible singer songwriter in the folk space, and

560
00:24:48,320 --> 00:24:50,880
Speaker 1: he's done a lot of stuff with Ed Sheeran. And

561
00:24:51,680 --> 00:24:53,800
Speaker 1: you know, I came in with a song a few

562
00:24:53,800 --> 00:24:57,320
Speaker 1: months after Jonah passed and it's called Other Side Grief

563
00:24:57,359 --> 00:25:02,159
Speaker 1: and Major C and I into the studio and it

564
00:25:02,280 --> 00:25:03,320
Speaker 1: was just me and him.

565
00:25:03,240 --> 00:25:04,000
Speaker 4: And he's crazy.

566
00:25:04,040 --> 00:25:07,000
Speaker 1: He has this like crazy like twisted mustache and he

567
00:25:07,040 --> 00:25:10,800
Speaker 1: looks like a character out of like a.

568
00:25:09,640 --> 00:25:12,560
Speaker 4: Lord of the Rings film or something. It's wild.

569
00:25:12,800 --> 00:25:14,520
Speaker 1: But I walked in and I'm like, I have this song,

570
00:25:14,800 --> 00:25:16,240
Speaker 1: you know, I would love for you to finish it

571
00:25:16,280 --> 00:25:18,840
Speaker 1: with me. And I walk in and he's like, you know,

572
00:25:19,400 --> 00:25:21,720
Speaker 1: I think you have this song done. I'm gonna go

573
00:25:21,760 --> 00:25:24,199
Speaker 1: get coffee for an hour and you're gonna finish this

574
00:25:24,240 --> 00:25:27,120
Speaker 1: song by yourself, and then we're gonna start another one.

575
00:25:27,359 --> 00:25:30,320
Speaker 1: And so he left for an hour and left me

576
00:25:30,359 --> 00:25:33,119
Speaker 1: in this room with like all of these instruments in

577
00:25:33,160 --> 00:25:37,560
Speaker 1: this beautiful grand piano, and it's just this gorgeous loft space.

578
00:25:37,600 --> 00:25:39,679
Speaker 1: I can't remember whose studio it was actually, now that

579
00:25:39,680 --> 00:25:41,720
Speaker 1: i'm thinking about it, but I just stayed there for

580
00:25:41,760 --> 00:25:43,359
Speaker 1: an hour and finished out the song and then he

581
00:25:43,400 --> 00:25:45,600
Speaker 1: came back and then we wrote Sunshine in the Rain together.

582
00:25:45,800 --> 00:25:50,360
Speaker 2: So, and this is the first song of eventually the album, right,

583
00:25:51,600 --> 00:25:55,879
Speaker 2: So what's the plan time wise on other songs? And

584
00:25:55,880 --> 00:25:57,720
Speaker 2: then when does the full bot the album come out?

585
00:25:58,400 --> 00:26:01,919
Speaker 1: So Sunshine in the will come out on March twenty first,

586
00:26:02,640 --> 00:26:06,440
Speaker 1: and then I'll be releasing single number two six weeks

587
00:26:06,520 --> 00:26:10,199
Speaker 1: after that, and then single number three six weeks after that.

588
00:26:10,320 --> 00:26:12,280
Speaker 2: Oh, that's what it is like every month in a

589
00:26:12,359 --> 00:26:13,360
Speaker 2: couple of weeks.

590
00:26:13,680 --> 00:26:17,000
Speaker 1: Well, the album's going to drop in June, so a few,

591
00:26:17,359 --> 00:26:20,560
Speaker 1: you know, weeks before the Bob and Willie tour, which is.

592
00:26:20,520 --> 00:26:22,320
Speaker 2: Exciting, and I do for sure we'll talk about that.

593
00:26:22,480 --> 00:26:24,000
Speaker 2: And I'm not going to play the whole song because

594
00:26:24,000 --> 00:26:25,159
Speaker 2: it's not out yet. I want to steal it, but

595
00:26:25,440 --> 00:26:28,840
Speaker 2: from my phone from far away here it is. That's

596
00:26:28,840 --> 00:26:30,880
Speaker 2: all you get. Dan's just playing in the room, don't

597
00:26:31,119 --> 00:26:32,880
Speaker 2: about it. That's all you get, just played low key,

598
00:26:33,040 --> 00:26:37,160
Speaker 2: so loady have it. So when you say Bob and Willie,

599
00:26:37,880 --> 00:26:41,800
Speaker 2: Bob Dylan, yeah, casual, Yeah, how'd that? How'd that come about?

600
00:26:41,800 --> 00:26:42,880
Speaker 2: That's pretty that's pretty cool.

601
00:26:43,040 --> 00:26:45,720
Speaker 1: I have an incredible agent that stuck with me through

602
00:26:45,760 --> 00:26:49,199
Speaker 1: all this, and she's the one that got me the

603
00:26:49,240 --> 00:26:53,560
Speaker 1: Stapleton tour for my first tour. And you know, she

604
00:26:53,720 --> 00:26:55,800
Speaker 1: reached out to the right people and said, I think

605
00:26:55,840 --> 00:26:57,960
Speaker 1: this is a story that needs to be heard. This

606
00:26:58,000 --> 00:27:01,000
Speaker 1: is a woman who survived a lot, and she keeps

607
00:27:01,160 --> 00:27:05,439
Speaker 1: pressing forward with this story of redemption and how you

608
00:27:05,480 --> 00:27:08,200
Speaker 1: can live between joy and pain and a really beautiful life.

609
00:27:08,240 --> 00:27:09,560
Speaker 4: And so, I don't know.

610
00:27:09,640 --> 00:27:11,600
Speaker 1: She sent them my demos and my work tapes and

611
00:27:11,640 --> 00:27:14,000
Speaker 1: then they got back to her like I think a

612
00:27:14,119 --> 00:27:16,440
Speaker 1: day later and offered me the tour quicker.

613
00:27:16,160 --> 00:27:17,480
Speaker 2: Than I got back to you. Bob Dylan got back

614
00:27:17,520 --> 00:27:21,480
Speaker 2: quicker than that. Wow? And right? Yeah. And with Willie,

615
00:27:21,560 --> 00:27:23,560
Speaker 2: how'd that come about? Same thing, same thing.

616
00:27:23,600 --> 00:27:27,040
Speaker 4: It's the same tour, Outlaw tour I'm taking.

617
00:27:27,560 --> 00:27:28,919
Speaker 2: You're doing stuff with Cheryl.

618
00:27:29,040 --> 00:27:32,280
Speaker 1: Right, so Outlaw is going to be Willie Nelson, Bob Dylan,

619
00:27:32,400 --> 00:27:37,240
Speaker 1: Cheryl Crow, Waxahatchie, and me for that Littlest Coast.

620
00:27:37,040 --> 00:27:38,840
Speaker 2: Round all that's on the same show.

621
00:27:40,960 --> 00:27:43,280
Speaker 3: While I feel like Bob and Willy have been touring

622
00:27:43,480 --> 00:27:45,440
Speaker 3: done shows together for so long.

623
00:27:45,520 --> 00:27:46,160
Speaker 4: I think they have.

624
00:27:46,400 --> 00:27:49,560
Speaker 1: Yeah, I think they've done the Outlaw tour together before. Actually,

625
00:27:49,640 --> 00:27:50,760
Speaker 1: now that I'm thinking about.

626
00:27:50,520 --> 00:27:51,240
Speaker 3: It, it's really cool.

627
00:27:51,720 --> 00:27:52,680
Speaker 2: Yeah, that's pretty legit.

628
00:27:52,760 --> 00:27:53,160
Speaker 4: Mm hmm.

629
00:27:53,359 --> 00:27:55,440
Speaker 2: I'd for sure like want to get them to sign something,

630
00:27:55,440 --> 00:27:57,200
Speaker 2: but I guess she gotta be cool. Huh.

631
00:27:57,359 --> 00:27:58,600
Speaker 4: I mean, do you want to come with me?

632
00:27:58,800 --> 00:27:59,320
Speaker 2: No? No?

633
00:27:59,320 --> 00:27:59,359
Speaker 3: No?

634
00:27:59,600 --> 00:27:59,919
Speaker 1: Wow?

635
00:28:00,440 --> 00:28:01,639
Speaker 2: You know what he means though, Like I want to

636
00:28:01,640 --> 00:28:03,360
Speaker 2: go anywhere? Like, how do you ask Bob.

637
00:28:03,240 --> 00:28:05,560
Speaker 3: Dylan and Willie Neils for an autograph without looking not cool?

638
00:28:05,760 --> 00:28:09,199
Speaker 4: I don't think I think they would know. Maybe they

639
00:28:09,200 --> 00:28:10,879
Speaker 4: Wouldn't you met Bob Dylan at all?

640
00:28:10,960 --> 00:28:16,280
Speaker 2: Ever? Nomm met Willie at all? Met Willie? Super nice,

641
00:28:16,320 --> 00:28:16,800
Speaker 2: super nice?

642
00:28:16,880 --> 00:28:18,359
Speaker 4: Right, he seems super nice nice?

643
00:28:18,480 --> 00:28:20,040
Speaker 2: Oh a gentle but old.

644
00:28:20,240 --> 00:28:22,879
Speaker 3: Yeah, Like he doesn't have to give you a minute

645
00:28:22,880 --> 00:28:24,359
Speaker 3: of his time, but he will give it to you

646
00:28:24,400 --> 00:28:25,840
Speaker 3: and he will look at you the whole time and

647
00:28:25,880 --> 00:28:26,720
Speaker 3: talk to you for as long.

648
00:28:26,640 --> 00:28:27,479
Speaker 4: As you've met him too.

649
00:28:27,520 --> 00:28:29,480
Speaker 3: Oh yeah, yeah.

650
00:28:29,600 --> 00:28:30,679
Speaker 4: Did y'all smoke weed with him?

651
00:28:30,720 --> 00:28:31,200
Speaker 2: Though he did?

652
00:28:31,400 --> 00:28:33,280
Speaker 3: No, I did not. That's my biggest regret in my life.

653
00:28:33,280 --> 00:28:35,880
Speaker 3: I thought of you. He offered it to me.

654
00:28:35,880 --> 00:28:37,399
Speaker 4: But I'm pretty sure he's just on eddies.

655
00:28:37,480 --> 00:28:40,080
Speaker 3: Now. I was driving, and I drove. I drove to

656
00:28:40,120 --> 00:28:42,320
Speaker 3: Willie's ranch, me and a and a reporter that were

657
00:28:42,320 --> 00:28:44,080
Speaker 3: going to interview him about some relief show he was

658
00:28:44,120 --> 00:28:47,120
Speaker 3: gonna do. Yeah, And we got there in his ranch

659
00:28:47,200 --> 00:28:49,520
Speaker 3: and and so it's really cool is his bus is

660
00:28:49,600 --> 00:28:52,840
Speaker 3: parked outside, like three buses parked out, plugged in, and

661
00:28:52,920 --> 00:28:55,360
Speaker 3: his house is up on a hill. He never goes

662
00:28:55,400 --> 00:28:56,920
Speaker 3: in the house. He lives on the bus.

663
00:28:57,160 --> 00:28:57,480
Speaker 4: Really.

664
00:28:57,560 --> 00:28:58,600
Speaker 2: He says he's comfortable.

665
00:28:58,640 --> 00:29:00,520
Speaker 3: He says his wife's up there. But he's like, this

666
00:29:00,560 --> 00:29:01,360
Speaker 3: is this is where I stayed.

667
00:29:01,440 --> 00:29:01,960
Speaker 4: I'm dead.

668
00:29:02,360 --> 00:29:06,160
Speaker 3: Yeah. So then like after forty five minutes he busts

669
00:29:06,160 --> 00:29:12,360
Speaker 3: out a joint and wait, when was this probably two thousand,

670
00:29:13,200 --> 00:29:15,920
Speaker 3: I would say around two thousand, Yeah, And I said

671
00:29:16,120 --> 00:29:19,000
Speaker 3: I can't William driving and he's like, oh, you should have.

672
00:29:19,240 --> 00:29:21,640
Speaker 2: You should have gotten a hotel this uber.

673
00:29:21,800 --> 00:29:24,920
Speaker 4: You should have just slept in your car, like honestly.

674
00:29:24,760 --> 00:29:28,520
Speaker 2: I know, yeah, maybe no Ubers in though. No Ubers

675
00:29:28,560 --> 00:29:30,200
Speaker 2: And you can't really put a pen at Willie's house.

676
00:29:30,280 --> 00:29:32,520
Speaker 3: No, and his ranch is so out, so far out there.

677
00:29:32,520 --> 00:29:34,320
Speaker 4: Oh my gosh. Was this in Austin?

678
00:29:34,440 --> 00:29:35,160
Speaker 3: This was in Austin.

679
00:29:35,280 --> 00:29:37,280
Speaker 2: Yea, yeah, that's where I met him too. It was Austin.

680
00:29:37,440 --> 00:29:38,280
Speaker 2: He did the show what.

681
00:29:38,240 --> 00:29:40,760
Speaker 3: Did you guys? You guys talk about He.

682
00:29:40,800 --> 00:29:46,920
Speaker 2: Was in Duke's Hazard, the movie, and so he came

683
00:29:46,920 --> 00:29:48,640
Speaker 2: into the studio because he lived in Austin. So he

684
00:29:48,680 --> 00:29:51,000
Speaker 2: just came in the studio. Yeah, it's it's super cool.

685
00:29:51,000 --> 00:29:52,800
Speaker 2: I know a soun pretty well too. I know, a

686
00:29:52,880 --> 00:29:53,520
Speaker 2: son better than.

687
00:29:53,560 --> 00:29:54,600
Speaker 4: Lucas is so great.

688
00:29:54,720 --> 00:29:55,360
Speaker 2: He's awesome.

689
00:29:55,400 --> 00:29:56,040
Speaker 4: I love him.

690
00:29:56,400 --> 00:30:00,960
Speaker 2: And man, when he sings, I know, it's like religion

691
00:30:00,960 --> 00:30:02,600
Speaker 2: in your guts. I know, it's like there's a little

692
00:30:02,640 --> 00:30:05,560
Speaker 2: chart service happening right in your belly. Huh. And so uh,

693
00:30:05,640 --> 00:30:07,600
Speaker 2: I'm super happy you're here. And you know, we were

694
00:30:08,240 --> 00:30:11,320
Speaker 2: talking before you came in about the million dollar show

695
00:30:11,320 --> 00:30:12,720
Speaker 2: that we've been doing for a long time, and I

696
00:30:12,800 --> 00:30:14,520
Speaker 2: was talking about like some of the artists that I

697
00:30:14,520 --> 00:30:16,680
Speaker 2: brought in selfishly, like from bands that I loved when

698
00:30:16,680 --> 00:30:19,880
Speaker 2: I was a kid too, like people that are my friends.

699
00:30:20,000 --> 00:30:22,200
Speaker 2: And then it was like there were artists that I've said, man,

700
00:30:22,240 --> 00:30:23,880
Speaker 2: they are so good, I want to put them on

701
00:30:23,920 --> 00:30:27,520
Speaker 2: stage even if they haven't popped yet. And I say yet,

702
00:30:27,560 --> 00:30:29,440
Speaker 2: because I've never put anyone on that I don't believe

703
00:30:29,520 --> 00:30:32,760
Speaker 2: is going to just pop like crazy. And You're obviously

704
00:30:32,840 --> 00:30:34,720
Speaker 2: one of them. Were you last year or the year before?

705
00:30:34,800 --> 00:30:35,800
Speaker 2: My years get messed up?

706
00:30:36,080 --> 00:30:38,080
Speaker 4: I think it was like twenty twenty two.

707
00:30:38,280 --> 00:30:40,640
Speaker 2: See covid COVID's covis fired my brain for knowing who

708
00:30:40,840 --> 00:30:43,320
Speaker 2: I wouldn't brain. Yeah, was that your you were.

709
00:30:43,320 --> 00:30:44,840
Speaker 4: There, you were playing guitar coorse, Yeah?

710
00:30:44,960 --> 00:30:45,120
Speaker 3: Was that?

711
00:30:45,200 --> 00:30:45,360
Speaker 2: Yeah?

712
00:30:45,440 --> 00:30:47,880
Speaker 1: That was my Yes, it was. And you took a

713
00:30:47,960 --> 00:30:51,280
Speaker 1: video of me crying during sound check. If you still

714
00:30:51,320 --> 00:30:52,960
Speaker 1: have that, I want you to hear drop it to me.

715
00:30:53,160 --> 00:30:54,920
Speaker 2: I don't know if I still have that.

716
00:30:55,080 --> 00:30:58,520
Speaker 3: Okay, that was amazing too, because it was just sound check.

717
00:30:59,160 --> 00:31:01,080
Speaker 3: I'll look, I'll look and for people that don't know.

718
00:31:01,120 --> 00:31:04,120
Speaker 3: It's like the day of the show is sometimes just

719
00:31:04,120 --> 00:31:06,640
Speaker 3: the only time we can really rehearse with people playing

720
00:31:06,680 --> 00:31:08,920
Speaker 3: the show, and we do it from like all day

721
00:31:09,040 --> 00:31:12,400
Speaker 3: till the show starts and yeah, you got really emotional.

722
00:31:12,600 --> 00:31:16,640
Speaker 1: I mean, how can you not like you feel the history. Also,

723
00:31:16,680 --> 00:31:18,760
Speaker 1: I think I was still so new to Nashville that

724
00:31:18,920 --> 00:31:22,320
Speaker 1: like soaking that all in and just realizing, like, hey,

725
00:31:23,520 --> 00:31:25,479
Speaker 1: I always have to have these little check ins with

726
00:31:25,520 --> 00:31:28,600
Speaker 1: my thirteen year old self and be like, hey you

727
00:31:28,640 --> 00:31:30,640
Speaker 1: did this, Like I almost just said, bitch, hey, bitch,

728
00:31:30,680 --> 00:31:37,960
Speaker 1: you did it like anyway, but you have to like

729
00:31:38,600 --> 00:31:41,600
Speaker 1: it goes by so fast. This industry is so fast paced,

730
00:31:41,640 --> 00:31:45,520
Speaker 1: and then before you know everything's gone. And so I'm

731
00:31:45,600 --> 00:31:49,480
Speaker 1: having to like mentally take these checkpoints of this is

732
00:31:49,520 --> 00:31:51,239
Speaker 1: what you've always wanted to do, and you get to

733
00:31:51,280 --> 00:31:54,480
Speaker 1: hear your voice, fill this space. Make sure that you

734
00:31:54,560 --> 00:31:57,680
Speaker 1: congratulate your younger self for doing that. And so I

735
00:31:57,680 --> 00:32:00,800
Speaker 1: think in that moment when you caught me crying, it

736
00:32:00,920 --> 00:32:03,960
Speaker 1: was just me recognizing that I'm getting to do everything

737
00:32:03,960 --> 00:32:05,720
Speaker 1: that I've always wanted to do and it doesn't take

738
00:32:05,760 --> 00:32:09,000
Speaker 1: Grammys and it doesn't take any crazy awards or recognition.

739
00:32:09,040 --> 00:32:12,040
Speaker 1: It's just getting to understand that you get to sing

740
00:32:12,080 --> 00:32:14,160
Speaker 1: in front of people and let them hear your story.

741
00:32:14,200 --> 00:32:16,280
Speaker 2: It's cool then and not you crushed and they loved

742
00:32:16,280 --> 00:32:17,280
Speaker 2: you obviously.

743
00:32:17,360 --> 00:32:18,200
Speaker 4: Oh I did crush.

744
00:32:18,440 --> 00:32:19,960
Speaker 3: You crushed so good.

745
00:32:20,320 --> 00:32:22,560
Speaker 2: Yeah, and that's so cool for you to know you

746
00:32:22,560 --> 00:32:24,760
Speaker 2: did so because you did. I mean, you absolutely walloped

747
00:32:24,760 --> 00:32:27,920
Speaker 2: the room and they appreciated you wallopping the room. It

748
00:32:27,960 --> 00:32:30,440
Speaker 2: was real, it was a real moment. But yeah, it's

749
00:32:30,480 --> 00:32:33,120
Speaker 2: always important for me, like in my personal film my

750
00:32:33,160 --> 00:32:39,200
Speaker 2: cup self is to find people that deserve it, or

751
00:32:39,400 --> 00:32:41,400
Speaker 2: maybe we'll deserve it in the future. Maybe they don't

752
00:32:41,400 --> 00:32:44,640
Speaker 2: even know they deserve it yet, and go all right,

753
00:32:44,680 --> 00:32:46,440
Speaker 2: here's a little taste of the big leags. Let's see

754
00:32:46,440 --> 00:32:48,200
Speaker 2: how you do. And then you just crushed.

755
00:32:48,680 --> 00:32:52,720
Speaker 4: It's awesome, Thank you, thank you. Well, so did you and.

756
00:32:52,720 --> 00:32:55,480
Speaker 2: So did you? You know I tend to no, we didn't.

757
00:32:56,520 --> 00:32:58,719
Speaker 3: How musical are you? Because like one thing I did

758
00:32:58,880 --> 00:33:02,240
Speaker 3: notice when you walk, even the first time we rehearsed,

759
00:33:02,720 --> 00:33:04,520
Speaker 3: like you know, you know what you want, you know

760
00:33:04,560 --> 00:33:07,400
Speaker 3: what you're doing, you know what to tell Walker on keys,

761
00:33:07,440 --> 00:33:10,080
Speaker 3: like hey, yeah, you needn't play this, and like how

762
00:33:10,160 --> 00:33:12,000
Speaker 3: musical are you? Like could you play everything?

763
00:33:12,400 --> 00:33:12,640
Speaker 2: Well?

764
00:33:12,720 --> 00:33:15,520
Speaker 1: I can play keys and drums. I just started on

765
00:33:15,560 --> 00:33:19,080
Speaker 1: guitar last year and I'm absolutely it's absolutely it's so bad.

766
00:33:19,160 --> 00:33:20,320
Speaker 2: I did it for more than a year, but I'm

767
00:33:20,360 --> 00:33:20,800
Speaker 2: not too.

768
00:33:20,720 --> 00:33:21,560
Speaker 4: Yeah, so bad.

769
00:33:22,360 --> 00:33:25,320
Speaker 1: You're better than I am, though possibly I can only

770
00:33:25,320 --> 00:33:26,760
Speaker 1: play and drop D right now.

771
00:33:27,160 --> 00:33:29,480
Speaker 2: Well okay, well you just don't even know.

772
00:33:29,920 --> 00:33:33,960
Speaker 1: Yes, I'm just saying, but yes, I would like to

773
00:33:33,960 --> 00:33:35,120
Speaker 1: consider myself musical.

774
00:33:35,160 --> 00:33:37,959
Speaker 4: I'm producing my album right now or I go produced it.

775
00:33:38,000 --> 00:33:41,880
Speaker 2: So I think something too is that you? And Ringo Star.

776
00:33:42,240 --> 00:33:43,480
Speaker 2: I was talking with him, he was at the house

777
00:33:43,520 --> 00:33:46,160
Speaker 2: doing the podcast last week, and we were talking about

778
00:33:46,200 --> 00:33:48,560
Speaker 2: because the Beatles are put in the book Outliers about

779
00:33:48,560 --> 00:33:50,560
Speaker 2: doing ten thousand hours, and he's like, yeah, we're referencing

780
00:33:50,600 --> 00:33:53,440
Speaker 2: the book because they would play six hours at these

781
00:33:53,640 --> 00:33:55,760
Speaker 2: six hours, six hours every day. But you had to

782
00:33:55,800 --> 00:33:59,520
Speaker 2: play a lot in like restaurants, Yes, like for hours

783
00:33:59,520 --> 00:34:01,120
Speaker 2: and hours. You had to learn how to be so

784
00:34:01,280 --> 00:34:02,920
Speaker 2: versatile that all.

785
00:34:02,880 --> 00:34:07,360
Speaker 1: The best I ever sounded. Mm hmmm, what do you mean, oh, man,

786
00:34:07,480 --> 00:34:08,319
Speaker 1: Like your voice is.

787
00:34:08,320 --> 00:34:11,120
Speaker 2: A muscle because it's just worked. You're working at work.

788
00:34:11,200 --> 00:34:14,239
Speaker 1: So I would sing five nights a week for like

789
00:34:14,320 --> 00:34:17,399
Speaker 1: four or five hours a night and play piano and sing,

790
00:34:17,719 --> 00:34:21,240
Speaker 1: and my voice was just cream of the crop.

791
00:34:21,719 --> 00:34:23,120
Speaker 4: I need I need to do that again.

792
00:34:23,160 --> 00:34:25,480
Speaker 2: And your piano skills, I'm sure were sharpest crap too,

793
00:34:25,520 --> 00:34:26,960
Speaker 2: because I mean, you're doing it so often even if

794
00:34:26,960 --> 00:34:29,319
Speaker 2: you don't realize it, like you're on oh yes, yeah.

795
00:34:29,320 --> 00:34:31,440
Speaker 2: So when he said are musical, I thought, well, you

796
00:34:31,640 --> 00:34:34,359
Speaker 2: kind of even if you are, which you always have been,

797
00:34:34,760 --> 00:34:38,560
Speaker 2: Like those blades were sharpened so much. Yeah, by that

798
00:34:38,600 --> 00:34:40,359
Speaker 2: four or five nights a week, for four or five

799
00:34:40,360 --> 00:34:43,640
Speaker 2: hours a night, hm, when it maybe doesn't feel so glamorous,

800
00:34:43,680 --> 00:34:45,360
Speaker 2: but who cares. You're paying the bills, right, That's that

801
00:34:45,400 --> 00:34:47,200
Speaker 2: stage of life. We all had those, yeah, where you're

802
00:34:47,200 --> 00:34:49,080
Speaker 2: like happy to do something you love and pay the bills.

803
00:34:49,280 --> 00:34:51,799
Speaker 1: Oh man, I mean I feel like that prepared me

804
00:34:52,320 --> 00:34:55,640
Speaker 1: coming to Nashville. I'm so grateful for playing in steakhouses

805
00:34:55,680 --> 00:34:58,160
Speaker 1: where people didn't give a crap if I was singing

806
00:34:58,160 --> 00:35:00,719
Speaker 1: to them, because you know, you come to Nashville with

807
00:35:00,719 --> 00:35:04,320
Speaker 1: almost more performance capability than some of these TikTok people

808
00:35:04,360 --> 00:35:05,640
Speaker 1: that are coming in with none.

809
00:35:05,760 --> 00:35:07,920
Speaker 4: So I'm totally good with that, you know.

810
00:35:08,280 --> 00:35:10,880
Speaker 2: And also when you play that long that offen, you

811
00:35:11,000 --> 00:35:14,040
Speaker 2: learn that a mess up really doesn't matter. Then you

812
00:35:14,120 --> 00:35:16,080
Speaker 2: learn how you learn how to correct it quickly, you

813
00:35:16,239 --> 00:35:19,120
Speaker 2: how to bounce back even if you don't correct it quickly.

814
00:35:19,120 --> 00:35:20,960
Speaker 2: Because show must go on. Look, there are all these

815
00:35:21,000 --> 00:35:24,359
Speaker 2: little skills that you can only get by doing it wrong.

816
00:35:24,600 --> 00:35:26,120
Speaker 2: When I started doing stand up, that was it like

817
00:35:26,160 --> 00:35:28,279
Speaker 2: I would be freaking out, screwed up, screwed up, but

818
00:35:28,280 --> 00:35:29,759
Speaker 2: then I would do it wrong so many times. Yeah,

819
00:35:29,840 --> 00:35:33,600
Speaker 2: sun comes up, Sun comes up tomorrow, regardless five minutes

820
00:35:33,640 --> 00:35:35,239
Speaker 2: from now. I can't be thinking about that like a

821
00:35:35,280 --> 00:35:38,360
Speaker 2: defensive back of my football. Okay, they just do intercept

822
00:35:38,560 --> 00:35:40,120
Speaker 2: to a touchdown over your head. You can't think about

823
00:35:40,120 --> 00:35:41,760
Speaker 2: it that it's going to affect the rest of your performance.

824
00:35:42,280 --> 00:35:44,160
Speaker 2: And I'm sure that was valuable in that world.

825
00:35:44,200 --> 00:35:46,200
Speaker 4: And if you point it out, it's actually kind of funny.

826
00:35:46,400 --> 00:35:48,719
Speaker 2: Yeah, until but I'd pointed out like eight times in

827
00:35:48,719 --> 00:35:50,360
Speaker 2: a row, and so then they were like, Okay, we

828
00:35:50,400 --> 00:35:53,600
Speaker 2: get it. It's not that funny. So okay. So here's

829
00:35:53,600 --> 00:35:55,719
Speaker 2: where we are, Sunshine and the rain is out. You'll

830
00:35:55,719 --> 00:35:58,000
Speaker 2: be dropping songs every month and a half or so.

831
00:35:59,120 --> 00:36:02,480
Speaker 2: You're on tour with I mean awesome people. That's crazy

832
00:36:02,640 --> 00:36:05,760
Speaker 2: mm hmm. And you go to Madeline Edwards music dot com.

833
00:36:05,800 --> 00:36:08,520
Speaker 2: I did not ignore you, and you do know that now, right, like.

834
00:36:08,600 --> 00:36:10,960
Speaker 1: I do know you did more than not ignore me.

835
00:36:11,440 --> 00:36:13,680
Speaker 1: You went above and beyond.

836
00:36:13,840 --> 00:36:16,839
Speaker 2: Yes, well, she messaged again, this is my head. You

837
00:36:16,840 --> 00:36:19,960
Speaker 2: message me, and I go, I can respond back with

838
00:36:20,000 --> 00:36:22,439
Speaker 2: an answer that's going to seem like bullcrap and go, hey,

839
00:36:22,880 --> 00:36:25,799
Speaker 2: I don't know what's happening. I know what our schedule is.

840
00:36:26,000 --> 00:36:27,880
Speaker 2: Would luck and I would have meant that, but it

841
00:36:27,920 --> 00:36:30,799
Speaker 2: would have sounded like typical garbage that everybody says here

842
00:36:30,880 --> 00:36:35,520
Speaker 2: all the time. So I thought to myself, I'm going

843
00:36:35,560 --> 00:36:37,840
Speaker 2: to say nothing because I would rather not think. I

844
00:36:37,880 --> 00:36:39,960
Speaker 2: would rather not her think I'm like lying or kicking

845
00:36:39,960 --> 00:36:42,440
Speaker 2: the game. So I said nothing, and I was like,

846
00:36:42,480 --> 00:36:45,200
Speaker 2: I'd rather her think that I'm ghosting her or have

847
00:36:45,280 --> 00:36:45,640
Speaker 2: changed that.

848
00:36:45,719 --> 00:36:49,880
Speaker 1: Which I wasn't offended. You're so like you're busy. I

849
00:36:49,960 --> 00:36:51,560
Speaker 1: wasn't going to be offended if you didn't.

850
00:36:51,640 --> 00:36:53,880
Speaker 2: I just you know, but I thought, and then it

851
00:36:53,920 --> 00:36:56,600
Speaker 2: would be extra like, Oh, I knew I had faith

852
00:36:56,600 --> 00:36:58,600
Speaker 2: in that guy because I came up and talked to

853
00:36:58,600 --> 00:37:00,520
Speaker 2: Scuba and we got it all set up.

854
00:37:00,680 --> 00:37:01,640
Speaker 4: Uh huh.

855
00:37:01,680 --> 00:37:03,160
Speaker 2: And I didn't even if you come up today, because

856
00:37:03,160 --> 00:37:05,120
Speaker 2: we're doing this today and we're all good.

857
00:37:05,719 --> 00:37:06,400
Speaker 4: It all worked out.

858
00:37:06,520 --> 00:37:08,560
Speaker 2: Made sure that other things were cool in this situation,

859
00:37:08,760 --> 00:37:09,680
Speaker 2: like that they you know.

860
00:37:10,239 --> 00:37:13,440
Speaker 4: So it's great Hyundai sponsorship, Like.

861
00:37:13,400 --> 00:37:15,359
Speaker 2: I do the hell, man, I did not ignore you.

862
00:37:15,440 --> 00:37:18,759
Speaker 4: What the hell? How do you find this? Like how

863
00:37:18,800 --> 00:37:19,440
Speaker 4: does he do that?

864
00:37:19,840 --> 00:37:20,200
Speaker 2: Do what?

865
00:37:20,960 --> 00:37:21,120
Speaker 3: Yeah?

866
00:37:22,760 --> 00:37:23,840
Speaker 2: No, yeah, how do I do what? I don't know?

867
00:37:23,880 --> 00:37:25,840
Speaker 1: You're even saying like how do you find random like

868
00:37:25,920 --> 00:37:27,760
Speaker 1: Hyundai sponsorships for artists?

869
00:37:27,800 --> 00:37:29,200
Speaker 4: Like what what is this?

870
00:37:29,400 --> 00:37:32,919
Speaker 2: So I Hyundai is that's my my team? Okay, so

871
00:37:33,239 --> 00:37:35,000
Speaker 2: I'm a partner with Hundai. I have been a Houndai

872
00:37:35,000 --> 00:37:37,839
Speaker 2: guy forever. Okay, love it. And when they're like who

873
00:37:37,840 --> 00:37:40,279
Speaker 2: do you love, I'm like, I love her. Let's get

874
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Speaker 2: her in.

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Speaker 3: It's that easy.

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Speaker 2: Hey, let's get her in. Let's promote her. Let's hey, heck,

877
00:37:43,520 --> 00:37:45,200
Speaker 2: let's throw it, let's break off alltle something for it.

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Speaker 4: Well, I appreciate you thinking of me for that.

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00:37:48,400 --> 00:37:49,800
Speaker 2: Yeah, because it could have been than you, you know what,

880
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Speaker 2: It could have been anybody, but it was you, dude.

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Speaker 2: I know what, but ten percent?

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Speaker 4: Hey, listen, I'll give you. I'll give you twenty you

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Speaker 4: want twenty.

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Speaker 2: I'm really great to see you, looking forward to seeing

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Speaker 2: this next phase play itself out, and the question like

886
00:38:11,360 --> 00:38:16,239
Speaker 2: what do you want? It's changed, You've changed, perspective has

887
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Speaker 2: been what has changed that. And perspective is like the

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Speaker 2: greatest thing we can get, and you don't get perspective

889
00:38:20,840 --> 00:38:22,839
Speaker 2: without going through hard times. No one in my life

890
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Speaker 2: has ever got great perspective because everything was fun and easy.

891
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Speaker 2: Like it is the most valuable tool that you could

892
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Speaker 2: possibly have, but you have to get it through difficult situations.

893
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Speaker 2: And I'm very sorry that. I'm very sorry about your brother.

894
00:38:35,640 --> 00:38:38,080
Speaker 2: I feel terrible for you with what happened with you

895
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Speaker 2: growing up. But from that you have a toolkit that

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Speaker 2: not only will make you better but will help others,

897
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Speaker 2: and there's real value in that. So I appreciate you

898
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Speaker 2: and appreciate the time, and good luck with the music.

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Speaker 4: Thank you, thanks for having me.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, there she is. There's nobody clap y