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Speaker 1: See episode one sixty here with Gabby Barrett. Right before

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Speaker 1: we went on. You can ask the question the go ahead,

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Speaker 1: I said, what is the purpose of having headphones if

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

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

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Speaker 1: Now you hear that. I get it. There's music that's

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Speaker 1: accompanying our conversation. Okay, sound effects, yeah, got For example,

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Speaker 1: if I were to play I hope if you didn't

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Speaker 1: have headphones on, you wouldn't hear it. But because okay,

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

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

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Speaker 1: it's okay. Well it's really rainy too. Is that a

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Speaker 1: thing for you? Yes, of course. I You should have

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Speaker 1: seen me running to get in here. It wasn't my house. Yes,

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Speaker 1: this is the first I've been here. Huh. So we

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Speaker 1: met on American Idol. Yes, they brought me into the

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Speaker 1: top twenty four, to mental top twenty four, and they

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Speaker 1: brought me back again later on when it was you,

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Speaker 1: Caleb and Maddie at the end. So you made to

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Speaker 1: the top top three of last season, made to the

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Speaker 1: final show with congratulations on that thank you. But I

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Speaker 1: guess we had spent a little time together because I

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Speaker 1: was doing a show on Pittsburgh, a stand up show,

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Speaker 1: and you and your family came to the show. And

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Speaker 1: this is why I don't was still going, and I

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Speaker 1: really couldn't even say you were there because it was

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Speaker 1: and saying because we were gonna do a song or that. No.

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Speaker 1: I was so bummed about that too. But yeah, I

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Speaker 1: didn't come to that show. And you put on a

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Speaker 1: great chiel. Pretty funny guy. But is that what is

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Speaker 1: that you laugh when I tell a joke. Yeah, I'm

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Speaker 1: so curious about what happens, and I want to guess

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Speaker 1: work backwards right like today? For example, UM, today, what

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

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Speaker 1: I had phone call meetings, and I had um a

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Speaker 1: record label wating okay, without saying the name of the

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Speaker 1: record label. Yes, you went to a record label and

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Speaker 1: did what? Um? I sang some songs you did? Yes?

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Speaker 1: I did. So describe what that's like because here you

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Speaker 1: Are you moving here? I don't know, I don't know.

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Speaker 1: I don't know. I mean, I feel like it's not

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Speaker 1: a bad thing that I don't live here, because if

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Speaker 1: I fly down here for two weeks but then fly

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Speaker 1: back to living somewhere for free. UM, I'll take this

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Speaker 1: as of right now. If you don't live here, you'll

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Speaker 1: never make it here. You don't link to start now.

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Speaker 1: If you make it big, you can move out, you

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Speaker 1: can go. Justin Moore does it. He lives in Arkansas,

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Speaker 1: but he was here. Zach Brown is probably the biggest example.

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Speaker 1: But again he's Zach Brown. So not that you're not

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Speaker 1: Gabby Barrett, but you're just Gabby Barrett right now. My

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Speaker 1: advice to you, I'm still mentoring it. You're ready. I

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Speaker 1: know you're eight teen, but you gotta move here. You

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Speaker 1: have to because you have to be with everybody all

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Speaker 1: the time. You have to be writing all the time,

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Speaker 1: like every day, every night. You have to be writing.

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Speaker 1: But how do you pay your bills in your hand? Exactly?

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Speaker 1: You go and you work at tootsies, you wait tables.

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Speaker 1: There's there's no shame. You can't have shame anymore. It's

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Speaker 1: how bad do you want it? Because if you're not here,

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Speaker 1: there's gonna be so many opportunities pass you by. Someone's

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Speaker 1: gonna go we need someone tomorrow night, and you're gonna

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Speaker 1: be in Pittsburgh's Yeah, and I'll fly down that night.

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Speaker 1: What happened? I'm telling you I've already done it before.

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Speaker 1: You haven't I have. I've taken many red eyes down

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Speaker 1: here before. Well, not the same. I'm just telling you

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Speaker 1: it's not gonna work until you come down here and work,

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Speaker 1: and then it's gonna take a while. It's gonna take

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Speaker 1: a couple of years. Do you believe that? Yeah, yeah

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Speaker 1: I do. I'm trying to get in the door early

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Speaker 1: as early as I can. But because you're good, there's

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Speaker 1: no doubt about it. It's it's crazy to come to

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Speaker 1: you'll write songs all the time. And you have Let's like,

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Speaker 1: to you have anything like that? Okay? You know how

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Speaker 1: like the people and you're like, oh, that's my class

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Speaker 1: and all my mama folks, or like high school even

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Speaker 1: was like, you're doing all right? And so that's what

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Speaker 1: want to harp on that. I actually have quite general

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Speaker 1: questions about what happened today. So tell me about today.

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Speaker 1: You go and you you're they say, hey, come play.

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Speaker 1: Is something like your leather rubbing? What's that noise? Leather squeaking?

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Speaker 1: It's squeaking against the quarter of the headphones that make

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Speaker 1: the noises. So you go and you go to a

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Speaker 1: record label room. Who's in that room? Um, it's me,

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Speaker 1: my manager and three other people. That's it. Yes, And

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

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Speaker 1: guitar blayer okay, and they say what do what? UM?

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Speaker 1: We just started talking about what's been going on after idol,

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Speaker 1: UM and before idle and UM. We played some of

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Speaker 1: have in preparation to release UM as well as I hope,

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Speaker 1: and then I did some songs live so they could

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Speaker 1: do you play them? How many songs did I do? Three?

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Speaker 1: And it's awkward when they're only three people watching and

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Speaker 1: of just getting your own space. It's definitely a challenge

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Speaker 1: I felt like I was back on the executive rounds

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Speaker 1: so it is, but um, I think it went well.

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Speaker 1: So were you watching their faces as you were playing? Yeah, yeah,

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Speaker 1: they give you any sort of direction. Normally you can tell, um,

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Speaker 1: He was like like, basically, I'm I'm really thinking about

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Speaker 1: being on board here. Oh yeah, so what do you

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Speaker 1: have to do next? Um? I just told them I

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

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Speaker 1: that's pretty cool. It's a pretty cool day. You get

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Speaker 1: to a plan for a big record people, it's a

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

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

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Speaker 1: They have producers that reach out or look on the

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Speaker 1: things like that, and I would always put hashtag American,

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Speaker 1: Because well, when you get an email like a producer

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Speaker 1: like I'm Gabby, I am. I think they're like saying

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

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Speaker 1: that time. So you fly down? Do you cut the

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Speaker 1: Country Music the Hall of Fame. Yeah, it was there.

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Speaker 1: It was there. And I was downstairs in a lobby

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Speaker 1: it didn't go the way that I thought it was

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Speaker 1: going to know, Um, why what what did you expect?

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Speaker 1: First of all, you expected to walk in a way? Um? Well,

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Speaker 1: I walked in and sang a country so long because

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Speaker 1: that is mainly what I love to do, UM as

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Speaker 1: my main genre. And they were kind of confused buy

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Speaker 1: it um because I did originally start in a gospel

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Speaker 1: choir R and B was originally my roots UM. And

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Speaker 1: so they weren't very fond of the country at first.

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Speaker 1: And then so I actually got through with a gospel song,

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Speaker 1: gospel what do you sing? His Eyes on the Sparrow?

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Speaker 1: And then they said, okay, but you're a country artist.

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Speaker 1: Well actually saying, um, Carrie Underwood, uh, good Girls and

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Speaker 1: Church Bells three songs. Yeah. I had to sing to

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Speaker 1: those two songs. And they were like, do you have

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Speaker 1: closer to the end, but Alexis Rand and I weren't

425
00:19:34,160 --> 00:19:36,879
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 about the other people?

427
00:19:39,000 --> 00:19:41,560
Speaker 1: Like all week long we were cool and Milan I

428
00:19:41,640 --> 00:19:44,560
Speaker 1: was super cool. But but then when it's the game

429
00:19:44,600 --> 00:19:46,639
Speaker 1: time one, I don't want to lose. And if I lose,

430
00:19:46,680 --> 00:19:48,480
Speaker 1: I'm gonna want to eat my kidney. I would be

431
00:19:48,560 --> 00:19:51,919
Speaker 1: still so. But um, you're good for you. You're more

432
00:19:51,960 --> 00:19:55,080
Speaker 1: mature than I am. Apparently, Oh no, thank you. I'm

433
00:19:55,800 --> 00:19:59,159
Speaker 1: I hate losing. I have a problem losing. Um, if

434
00:19:59,200 --> 00:20:01,560
Speaker 1: you're 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 --> 00:20:06,880
Speaker 1: it all come out. You're still young. Wait for don manifest. Okay,

437
00:20:07,040 --> 00:20:09,879
Speaker 1: just come back. So you go home? When do you

438
00:20:09,880 --> 00:20:12,320
Speaker 1: go home? How many days after idols over um idol

439
00:20:12,400 --> 00:20:15,440
Speaker 1: ended one of May. That was when the finale was

440
00:20:15,640 --> 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
00:20:20,359 --> 00:20:23,320
Speaker 1: you go home? It's weird. I mean, it's so weird

443
00:20:23,400 --> 00:20:27,840
Speaker 1: because you're so used again being in this like this

444
00:20:28,160 --> 00:20:33,440
Speaker 1: different world literally Idols a different world. It's it's a flip.

445
00:20:33,520 --> 00:20:36,760
Speaker 1: It's a flip of what your life has been. Um,

446
00:20:36,800 --> 00:20:42,160
Speaker 1: you're constantly working, constantly emotional, like it's insane. So going

447
00:20:42,240 --> 00:20:44,720
Speaker 1: home and like you already know the answers to everything

448
00:20:44,760 --> 00:20:47,480
Speaker 1: when with Idol like that you were curious about the

449
00:20:47,640 --> 00:20:50,159
Speaker 1: entire time. It's like so weird. But then we had

450
00:20:50,200 --> 00:20:52,920
Speaker 1: to prep for the Idol tour. Oh then you had

451
00:20:52,920 --> 00:20:56,440
Speaker 1: to go to tour. Yeah. Yeah, so it wasn't all

452
00:20:56,440 --> 00:20:59,040
Speaker 1: the way over because the show was over, but then

453
00:20:59,080 --> 00:21:01,160
Speaker 1: you had more work to do for Idle. Yeah. They

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

455
00:21:07,760 --> 00:21:10,560
Speaker 1: was cool, I guess. Yeah, Like when I did dance

456
00:21:10,600 --> 00:21:13,200
Speaker 1: with the Star Store, they paid me like thousand bucks

457
00:21:13,240 --> 00:21:15,520
Speaker 1: a night. I think it's what it was. Really you

458
00:21:15,520 --> 00:21:18,960
Speaker 1: guys weren't that much A thousand but oh heck it

459
00:21:19,040 --> 00:21:22,600
Speaker 1: was ten tho dollars a week and if you did

460
00:21:22,600 --> 00:21:26,679
Speaker 1: a full week, oh my gosh, I think that's a

461
00:21:26,720 --> 00:21:28,560
Speaker 1: lot or something like that. Well, yeah, but I only

462
00:21:28,600 --> 00:21:29,879
Speaker 1: I only did one week. I mean, I don't know

463
00:21:29,880 --> 00:21:32,200
Speaker 1: if that's a lot, like four days, but I just

464
00:21:32,240 --> 00:21:34,800
Speaker 1: wanted it was an idol tour like that. No it wasn't.

465
00:21:35,960 --> 00:21:37,399
Speaker 1: I don't know. I have no idea. I don't know

466
00:21:37,440 --> 00:21:42,560
Speaker 1: if no, no, it wasn't. Um yeah, no, I'm not

467
00:21:42,720 --> 00:21:44,800
Speaker 1: an expert on the whole money thing, but I know

468
00:21:44,880 --> 00:21:48,720
Speaker 1: that it wasn't like ten thou dollars. I didn't. I'm

469
00:21:48,720 --> 00:21:51,920
Speaker 1: just being like some people. I don't think that. I

470
00:21:51,920 --> 00:21:53,480
Speaker 1: don't think I made as much as a dancer, the

471
00:21:53,680 --> 00:21:57,119
Speaker 1: pro dancers. Yeah, I think because we were working in shorts.

472
00:21:57,119 --> 00:21:59,639
Speaker 1: Short but I'd still take that. Well yeah, that's and

473
00:21:59,720 --> 00:22:01,240
Speaker 1: I did it that I didn't have to the tour,

474
00:22:02,320 --> 00:22:05,399
Speaker 1: and I was like, yeah, absolutely, look it up right, Okay,

475
00:22:05,400 --> 00:22:07,359
Speaker 1: so you go, did you save your money? Did I

476
00:22:07,440 --> 00:22:11,240
Speaker 1: 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
00:22:14,520 --> 00:22:17,800
Speaker 1: This is a whole thing with the music industry. You

479
00:22:17,840 --> 00:22:22,080
Speaker 1: have to pay towards all of your music stuff because

480
00:22:22,080 --> 00:22:24,320
Speaker 1: this is very expensive. So on a tour. You have

481
00:22:24,400 --> 00:22:26,640
Speaker 1: to put money down on a tour for and that's

482
00:22:26,640 --> 00:22:28,199
Speaker 1: what I did. So, yeah, I did save it from

483
00:22:28,240 --> 00:22:30,119
Speaker 1: the audit tour and then I ended up putting it

484
00:22:30,400 --> 00:22:32,560
Speaker 1: on the next tour that I went on right after

485
00:22:32,640 --> 00:22:34,640
Speaker 1: the American audit tour was over. Now did you make

486
00:22:34,680 --> 00:22:39,240
Speaker 1: money back on that tour? Um? I think so. Marchandise, Ye,

487
00:22:39,520 --> 00:22:41,199
Speaker 1: you start. You need to start figuring this stuff out.

488
00:22:41,240 --> 00:22:43,240
Speaker 1: You got a business You have a business manager? Yet? Yes?

489
00:22:43,280 --> 00:22:45,200
Speaker 1: I do? All right, you have a good one, yeah,

490
00:22:45,440 --> 00:22:47,040
Speaker 1: because that's a good one. That for me was tough.

491
00:22:47,040 --> 00:22:49,040
Speaker 1: I don't understand the business manager stuff. Now I do

492
00:22:49,119 --> 00:22:51,600
Speaker 1: because I like to understand everything. Yeah, I'm not going

493
00:22:51,680 --> 00:22:55,000
Speaker 1: to have a manager. Do I have a manager? Yeah?

494
00:22:55,520 --> 00:22:58,240
Speaker 1: Sitting right there all right, just making sure he's sitting

495
00:22:58,240 --> 00:23:03,359
Speaker 1: across the room. Do you know the percentage that he gets? Um? No,

496
00:23:05,000 --> 00:23:07,000
Speaker 1: I feel like I don't know it. But I don't know.

497
00:23:07,119 --> 00:23:08,320
Speaker 1: Spit it out. What do you think it is? I

498
00:23:08,320 --> 00:23:10,159
Speaker 1: don't know? Is it like five, ten, fifteen? What is that?

499
00:23:10,240 --> 00:23:11,960
Speaker 1: If it's five? We need to talk because I need

500
00:23:12,080 --> 00:23:15,840
Speaker 1: I need to redo my deal. I can't if you're

501
00:23:16,240 --> 00:23:18,040
Speaker 1: clising me on all this math. And I failed geome

502
00:23:18,359 --> 00:23:21,080
Speaker 1: my school. This isn't. This isn't. I have people that

503
00:23:21,160 --> 00:23:23,399
Speaker 1: handle that I can't. Don't first of all, never be

504
00:23:23,480 --> 00:23:25,560
Speaker 1: that person. But it's my dad, So I can trust

505
00:23:25,560 --> 00:23:28,960
Speaker 1: my dad absolutely. Well sometimes no, yes, there's been a

506
00:23:29,040 --> 00:23:31,240
Speaker 1: lot of stories about dad's Okay, well not my dad.

507
00:23:31,240 --> 00:23:33,200
Speaker 1: And here's my advice to you. Ready, I'm gonna continue

508
00:23:33,200 --> 00:23:35,360
Speaker 1: my mentorship because I'm listen, I'm in the business too,

509
00:23:35,560 --> 00:23:38,960
Speaker 1: right in your full you're like full time on this season, right, Yeah,

510
00:23:39,040 --> 00:23:42,919
Speaker 1: I just talk. I'm talking about music again. You just

511
00:23:43,000 --> 00:23:44,639
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
00:23:48,840 --> 00:23:51,040
Speaker 1: I'll pay attention to it more, just even in your phone,

515
00:23:51,160 --> 00:23:53,760
Speaker 1: like you need to know. Okaycent goes to my manager.

516
00:23:54,560 --> 00:23:57,320
Speaker 1: I don't know what yours is. What yours is? Yeah,

517
00:23:58,880 --> 00:24:00,159
Speaker 1: goes to the agent. I don't know what you're is,

518
00:24:00,280 --> 00:24:02,399
Speaker 1: but that's mine. Okay, you know five percent goes to

519
00:24:02,400 --> 00:24:05,119
Speaker 1: your business manager. Okay, so I think that's I know

520
00:24:05,200 --> 00:24:07,120
Speaker 1: that one. Yeah, it sucks because all your money is gone.

521
00:24:07,119 --> 00:24:08,600
Speaker 1: You make it, you make a dollar, and you know

522
00:24:08,760 --> 00:24:11,160
Speaker 1: forty cents. But the good news is is that they're

523
00:24:11,160 --> 00:24:12,879
Speaker 1: worth more than that forty cents, so it's actually a

524
00:24:12,880 --> 00:24:14,399
Speaker 1: really good investment. But you just need to know that

525
00:24:14,440 --> 00:24:18,399
Speaker 1: stuff just so much. Someone asked you, what do you

526
00:24:18,400 --> 00:24:20,160
Speaker 1: pay your manager that you don't look like a du fist?

527
00:24:20,160 --> 00:24:21,679
Speaker 1: Because I used to be the dupist, because like, what

528
00:24:21,720 --> 00:24:24,480
Speaker 1: do you pay a manager? I don't know one? Dang?

529
00:24:24,760 --> 00:24:27,160
Speaker 1: All right, that's note number two. Alright to things we've

530
00:24:27,200 --> 00:24:28,800
Speaker 1: learned before. One, you have to move to Nashville to

531
00:24:28,800 --> 00:24:32,480
Speaker 1: make it to you to know your percentages my others

532
00:24:32,520 --> 00:24:34,439
Speaker 1: only ever one I've done when I'm like tutoring the

533
00:24:34,440 --> 00:24:39,200
Speaker 1: PERSI during it. Okay, back to you. So you decide

534
00:24:40,640 --> 00:24:42,159
Speaker 1: what do you decide your home? And you're like, I

535
00:24:42,200 --> 00:24:44,199
Speaker 1: think I want to make a run in music, like

536
00:24:44,240 --> 00:24:46,399
Speaker 1: in country music, or do you go I don't want

537
00:24:46,440 --> 00:24:49,040
Speaker 1: to try go to college? Like what what's the now?

538
00:24:50,560 --> 00:24:53,520
Speaker 1: A terrible idea? No, I knew that. I knew I

539
00:24:53,560 --> 00:24:56,080
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 --> 00:25:03,280
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 --> 00:25:08,240
Speaker 1: to do for the rest of my life. Um and

545
00:25:08,320 --> 00:25:11,040
Speaker 1: so even after American, I don't I knew already what

546
00:25:11,359 --> 00:25:13,199
Speaker 1: who I wanted to be like as an artist. That

547
00:25:13,320 --> 00:25:16,400
Speaker 1: was something that even but going through American I will

548
00:25:16,440 --> 00:25:21,159
Speaker 1: definitely reassured me of that, which is country. Um, I

549
00:25:21,160 --> 00:25:22,840
Speaker 1: always help people. I wanted to be the Whitney Houston

550
00:25:23,000 --> 00:25:25,639
Speaker 1: country music so and that's what I do want to be.

551
00:25:25,800 --> 00:25:28,720
Speaker 1: So we'll say that happens. How many labels have been

552
00:25:28,720 --> 00:25:35,440
Speaker 1: saying in front of labels, Um, probably I'd say like

553
00:25:36,840 --> 00:25:38,880
Speaker 1: five or six. Have you had some bad, bad ones

554
00:25:38,920 --> 00:25:40,440
Speaker 1: where you go, oh, that one didn't go so well,

555
00:25:40,800 --> 00:25:43,080
Speaker 1: not that I recall, thankfully, Have you had something better

556
00:25:43,080 --> 00:25:44,840
Speaker 1: than others? We'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
00:25:47,160 --> 00:25:49,600
Speaker 1: also depends on the person's mood of the day. Like

559
00:25:49,640 --> 00:25:51,800
Speaker 1: they could be having a bad day and you know

560
00:25:51,960 --> 00:25:53,919
Speaker 1: they're not in a good mood. So it just depends

561
00:25:53,960 --> 00:25:57,840
Speaker 1: 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 last year,

563
00:26:00,359 --> 00:26:03,760
Speaker 1: since right after I got off the Chris Lane tour. Well, actually,

564
00:26:04,200 --> 00:26:07,560
Speaker 1: in between the American Idol tour, UM, I talked to

565
00:26:07,560 --> 00:26:09,880
Speaker 1: Carrie under One on the phone. I called her because

566
00:26:09,920 --> 00:26:16,359
Speaker 1: she after American Idol. UM, I'm just saying, go ahead,

567
00:26:16,840 --> 00:26:22,320
Speaker 1: oh please your context in your phone. After American Idol,

568
00:26:22,400 --> 00:26:24,280
Speaker 1: she reached out to me and said, you know, like

569
00:26:24,320 --> 00:26:26,720
Speaker 1: if you need any help with anything or I'm here

570
00:26:26,720 --> 00:26:29,480
Speaker 1: for you. She gave me a number. I called her. UM.

571
00:26:29,600 --> 00:26:31,359
Speaker 1: We talked a few times, and I just asked her.

572
00:26:31,400 --> 00:26:33,040
Speaker 1: I was like, what did you do after American Idol

573
00:26:33,080 --> 00:26:34,560
Speaker 1: to keep your my lad I'm going. She was like,

574
00:26:34,600 --> 00:26:37,760
Speaker 1: I would just constantly work. Um, Like while I was

575
00:26:37,760 --> 00:26:40,040
Speaker 1: on the American Idol tour, I would constantly work. And

576
00:26:40,080 --> 00:26:42,879
Speaker 1: I said, Okay, that's what I'm gonna do. Um. So

577
00:26:43,400 --> 00:26:46,160
Speaker 1: during the American Ado tour, we would have like four shows,

578
00:26:46,280 --> 00:26:48,720
Speaker 1: five shows in a row. Show show, show, show, show.

579
00:26:49,040 --> 00:26:52,120
Speaker 1: We have one day off. I would fly here, record

580
00:26:52,160 --> 00:26:54,880
Speaker 1: and write, fly back the next day and do the show.

581
00:26:54,920 --> 00:26:57,440
Speaker 1: So I mean like any day that I have off,

582
00:26:57,440 --> 00:26:59,800
Speaker 1: I'm doing something. Always music that's good. I like that.

583
00:26:59,800 --> 00:27:01,960
Speaker 1: At about you think that's something you really can't teach

584
00:27:02,000 --> 00:27:04,440
Speaker 1: a work ethic and if you were doing that, that's good.

585
00:27:04,440 --> 00:27:08,040
Speaker 1: You kind of 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 --> 00:27:14,360
Speaker 1: people want the same thing and what separates you from

588
00:27:14,359 --> 00:27:17,160
Speaker 1: other people? Though, Listen, this is what you're coming into

589
00:27:17,160 --> 00:27:21,080
Speaker 1: a Nashville. Everybody's really freaking good. Everybody is really good.

590
00:27:21,080 --> 00:27:22,920
Speaker 1: What separates you is the amount of work you put

591
00:27:22,960 --> 00:27:27,320
Speaker 1: into it. It's like the NFL. The the line between

592
00:27:28,240 --> 00:27:31,320
Speaker 1: super athletic and super super atletic is so thin. It's

593
00:27:31,359 --> 00:27:33,719
Speaker 1: the people who put in the work. But that's good.

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

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

596
00:27:38,480 --> 00:27:43,160
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 man? Okay,

599
00:27:51,320 --> 00:27:52,920
Speaker 1: because I was like, damn, look at that. You're already

600
00:27:52,920 --> 00:27:56,360
Speaker 1: writing with like cool big songwriters. Yeah, they're really They're

601
00:27:56,400 --> 00:27:58,159
Speaker 1: really cool. I've gotten to write with a few co

602
00:27:58,600 --> 00:28:00,479
Speaker 1: you wrote the song with the Zachary on John Knight.

603
00:28:00,480 --> 00:28:02,200
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 whoo, come on,

605
00:28:22,480 --> 00:28:26,719
Speaker 1: I can't even get these people in the room with me. Hi,

606
00:28:28,520 --> 00:28:30,240
Speaker 1: you you come in tally work with the biggest and

607
00:28:30,280 --> 00:28:32,800
Speaker 1: the best Already, I'm very blessed. Yeah, so what do

608
00:28:32,880 --> 00:28:34,160
Speaker 1: you what's the light getting in room with those guys?

609
00:28:34,160 --> 00:28:35,480
Speaker 1: What 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 dabbing Barrett. Yeah, um yeah, I

611
00:28:39,520 --> 00:28:42,200
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 --> 00:28:47,800
Speaker 1: I don't know, things just don't click very well and

614
00:28:47,840 --> 00:28:50,000
Speaker 1: you don't connect and you don't come up necessarily with

615
00:28:50,040 --> 00:28:51,920
Speaker 1: a good song. And they're the best song that you

616
00:28:52,080 --> 00:28:54,160
Speaker 1: 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
00:28:57,520 --> 00:28:59,520
Speaker 1: And so we got in that room with John Knight

619
00:28:59,520 --> 00:29:02,280
Speaker 1: and Zach Kale love them both. Um. We got in

620
00:29:02,280 --> 00:29:04,720
Speaker 1: the room that day. It was on Halloween, um of

621
00:29:04,800 --> 00:29:07,720
Speaker 1: last year, and we got on the room. We were

622
00:29:07,720 --> 00:29:09,320
Speaker 1: trying to figure out what we were going to write about.

623
00:29:09,480 --> 00:29:11,880
Speaker 1: And I was like, let's write a relationship song. They're like, okay,

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

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

626
00:29:17,040 --> 00:29:19,480
Speaker 1: kind of wishes him well, and I was like, that

627
00:29:19,600 --> 00:29:22,280
Speaker 1: is not how a girl's think towards Like when a

628
00:29:22,360 --> 00:29:25,960
Speaker 1: guy does this wrong, we don't go. You know, I

629
00:29:26,000 --> 00:29:28,640
Speaker 1: wish you will. We're like, I hope everything bad happens

630
00:29:28,680 --> 00:29:31,080
Speaker 1: to you. I hope you get cheated on literally the

631
00:29:31,120 --> 00:29:32,840
Speaker 1: worst thing. I know it sounds rough, but that's how

632
00:29:32,880 --> 00:29:34,720
Speaker 1: girls are. When you do us wrong, that's why you

633
00:29:34,760 --> 00:29:37,480
Speaker 1: don't do it's wrong. So I wanted to write a

634
00:29:37,560 --> 00:29:41,640
Speaker 1: song that was like, that was the song that females

635
00:29:42,080 --> 00:29:45,440
Speaker 1: never got to say to that person, so that when

636
00:29:45,480 --> 00:29:47,120
Speaker 1: they hear it, they can dedicate it to that that

637
00:29:47,200 --> 00:29:50,360
Speaker 1: type of person. Um words that you know they never

638
00:29:50,400 --> 00:29:52,840
Speaker 1: got to say, but they really did feel. M it's

639
00:29:52,840 --> 00:29:55,760
Speaker 1: pretty cool he switched up like that. Yeah, get all

640
00:29:58,280 --> 00:30:01,200
Speaker 1: that happened to you? Uh. Yeah, I've been in a

641
00:30:01,240 --> 00:30:03,840
Speaker 1: bed relationship before, so I understand and can relate to

642
00:30:03,880 --> 00:30:05,640
Speaker 1: girls that have to Who else have you written with

643
00:30:05,640 --> 00:30:08,400
Speaker 1: this school? I've written to list them. I'll give me

644
00:30:08,400 --> 00:30:13,920
Speaker 1: 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 --> 00:30:23,640
Speaker 1: that's like heavy hitters. Man. Damn, your people must think

647
00:30:23,640 --> 00:30:25,320
Speaker 1: you're pretty good. If they're getting in right with you,

648
00:30:25,960 --> 00:30:28,040
Speaker 1: that's a good thank you, That is a good thing.

649
00:30:28,120 --> 00:30:30,960
Speaker 1: So okay, so you're here today, Yes, then what happens

650
00:30:31,000 --> 00:30:32,400
Speaker 1: did you play tomorrow? Do you go back home for

651
00:30:32,440 --> 00:30:33,960
Speaker 1: like eight months and then come back for another day

652
00:30:34,040 --> 00:30:37,280
Speaker 1: or what? Go home for eight months? Come on now now? Um?

653
00:30:37,560 --> 00:30:42,840
Speaker 1: No tomorrow, I um, I'm trying to think on my um. Tomorrow,

654
00:30:42,880 --> 00:30:45,040
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
00:30:48,240 --> 00:30:50,320
Speaker 1: record downos on another song that I did. So you

657
00:30:50,320 --> 00:30:52,360
Speaker 1: get a lot of work done while you're here, absolutely, yeah,

658
00:30:52,920 --> 00:30:56,360
Speaker 1: stacked schedule Your dad here, yeah, even though you're eighteen,

659
00:30:56,680 --> 00:31:00,480
Speaker 1: he's here. Yeah, because you can't like, he doesn't want

660
00:31:00,480 --> 00:31:02,640
Speaker 1: to leave me by myself. You can have one a

661
00:31:02,680 --> 00:31:06,320
Speaker 1: girl and an eighteen year old girl wondering around. Yeah,

662
00:31:06,440 --> 00:31:08,160
Speaker 1: but if you had a daughter that was eighteen, would

663
00:31:08,160 --> 00:31:10,440
Speaker 1: you want to buy yourself down here? Oh? I mean

664
00:31:10,480 --> 00:31:15,440
Speaker 1: I'd like a girlfriend much less a daughter. All right,

665
00:31:15,720 --> 00:31:19,120
Speaker 1: I'm saying. If I'm saying, if I think if she

666
00:31:19,240 --> 00:31:21,080
Speaker 1: was like, I'm gonna go pursue something in college, same

667
00:31:21,120 --> 00:31:22,680
Speaker 1: thing if you went to college. He's not with you

668
00:31:23,000 --> 00:31:25,520
Speaker 1: I remember having this conversation with you while we're on idol. Yeah.

669
00:31:25,520 --> 00:31:27,200
Speaker 1: I was like, eventually you gotta cut the court. Remember

670
00:31:27,240 --> 00:31:30,240
Speaker 1: that conversation. Yeah, Okay, you don't have to do anything.

671
00:31:30,640 --> 00:31:33,200
Speaker 1: I know, but he's just he's very loyal to me,

672
00:31:33,400 --> 00:31:35,440
Speaker 1: and so I believe that I'm supposed to be loyal

673
00:31:35,480 --> 00:31:37,280
Speaker 1: back towards him. I like him. He's a good dude.

674
00:31:37,360 --> 00:31:39,920
Speaker 1: He's great. I like hanging out with him. What do

675
00:31:39,920 --> 00:31:44,200
Speaker 1: you think about all this? Um, he's loving watching it.

676
00:31:44,240 --> 00:31:45,840
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
00:31:49,640 --> 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 support 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
00:32:05,000 --> 00:32:07,200
Speaker 1: just enjoying everything. I just give you a hard time

685
00:32:07,200 --> 00:32:09,560
Speaker 1: because I like you. You You know that, right? That's sweet? Thanks? Thanks?

686
00:32:09,600 --> 00:32:13,920
Speaker 1: Love hate relationship, No, there's no hate. There's no Are

687
00:32:13,960 --> 00:32:17,760
Speaker 1: you still dating the long hair dude? Yeah? Kate? Where's

688
00:32:17,800 --> 00:32:20,640
Speaker 1: he lived? Texas still. Did you guy see each other ever? Yeah,

689
00:32:20,760 --> 00:32:22,160
Speaker 1: but I just saw him not that long ago. Have

690
00:32:22,200 --> 00:32:24,480
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
00:32:27,680 --> 00:32:30,280
Speaker 1: your dad go on your dates with you? Good for that?

693
00:32:31,160 --> 00:32:33,320
Speaker 1: How's that going you guys? Good? It's really good coming

694
00:32:33,400 --> 00:32:39,280
Speaker 1: up on a year. So yeah, yep. And Ryan Seacrest

695
00:32:39,280 --> 00:32:41,880
Speaker 1: out at us in front of everybody. We were the

696
00:32:41,920 --> 00:32:45,160
Speaker 1: first American Idol couple. Actually, some people think like, oh,

697
00:32:45,200 --> 00:32:48,760
Speaker 1: Mannie Caleb were the first, but with the first, okay,

698
00:32:48,800 --> 00:32:50,360
Speaker 1: so how did that happen? You go on the show,

699
00:32:50,440 --> 00:32:51,960
Speaker 1: You keep it quiet from the producers at first that

700
00:32:52,000 --> 00:32:53,600
Speaker 1: you guys kind of like each other. Yes, and then

701
00:32:53,600 --> 00:32:56,960
Speaker 1: the producers literally just ask you every possible question they

702
00:32:57,000 --> 00:33:00,360
Speaker 1: can and scant what's been going on? And then told

703
00:33:00,360 --> 00:33:02,440
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
00:33:08,880 --> 00:33:12,280
Speaker 1: oh no, oh, you didn't know it's coming. No, because

707
00:33:12,280 --> 00:33:14,840
Speaker 1: we separated relationship from business, we were like, we're not

708
00:33:14,880 --> 00:33:17,080
Speaker 1: gonna we're not gonna put this on the television because

709
00:33:17,080 --> 00:33:19,040
Speaker 1: we came here to win the competition. We didn't come

710
00:33:19,040 --> 00:33:25,120
Speaker 1: to have the bachelorette on UM so because we knew

711
00:33:25,240 --> 00:33:27,360
Speaker 1: you know, we knew of Maddie and Caleb too, so

712
00:33:27,400 --> 00:33:29,600
Speaker 1: we'd always like go out together. So it was just

713
00:33:29,640 --> 00:33:32,440
Speaker 1: funny how everything unwinded though. You try to keep a secret,

714
00:33:32,720 --> 00:33:35,200
Speaker 1: did I try? They everybody tries right to. Of course

715
00:33:35,440 --> 00:33:37,720
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
00:33:42,320 --> 00:33:44,600
Speaker 1: because you couldn't do you can do the long hours, right.

719
00:33:44,760 --> 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 provincial treamment. Yeah, it was interesting

722
00:33:52,440 --> 00:33:54,720
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 --> 00:34:00,160
Speaker 1: the show, So from the beginning, Yeah, during all the

725
00:34:00,160 --> 00:34:03,640
Speaker 1: hard parts where people had to like stay super duper long,

726
00:34:04,120 --> 00:34:06,320
Speaker 1: I got to go back UM. But then like on

727
00:34:06,400 --> 00:34:09,080
Speaker 1: the right timing, I turned eighteen, So it's like it

728
00:34:09,120 --> 00:34:11,040
Speaker 1: all worked. It was really cool. Did you get nervous

729
00:34:11,080 --> 00:34:14,960
Speaker 1: on the live shows? Yeah? Yeah, I mean I when

730
00:34:15,000 --> 00:34:17,520
Speaker 1: I first started, like, I was very fortunate not to

731
00:34:17,600 --> 00:34:21,279
Speaker 1: get nerves around anybody that I said, but American I

732
00:34:21,440 --> 00:34:25,719
Speaker 1: absolutely was definitely a challenge because it's like you've so

733
00:34:25,760 --> 00:34:27,839
Speaker 1: many people telling you, like, look at the camera, look

734
00:34:27,880 --> 00:34:29,279
Speaker 1: at this, pay attention to this, do this, do this,

735
00:34:29,320 --> 00:34:31,160
Speaker 1: do this, and there's a camera with a red dot.

736
00:34:31,200 --> 00:34:32,760
Speaker 1: When you see the red dot come up, there's sixty

737
00:34:32,760 --> 00:34:36,040
Speaker 1: million people watching you. Don't mess up. There's three celebrities

738
00:34:36,320 --> 00:34:38,480
Speaker 1: that you didn't even think we're human beings also watching

739
00:34:38,520 --> 00:34:42,040
Speaker 1: you and critiquing what you're doing. Don't mess up. It's like, yeah,

740
00:34:42,160 --> 00:34:43,799
Speaker 1: so it's kind of hard. And then once you get

741
00:34:43,840 --> 00:34:46,040
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
00:34:48,680 --> 00:34:50,600
Speaker 1: Don't get nervous, don't and nervous you get more nervous.

744
00:34:50,640 --> 00:34:53,160
Speaker 1: So it was a challenge. I had to keep going

745
00:34:53,200 --> 00:34:55,160
Speaker 1: back and forth with myself. Do you watch your social

746
00:34:55,160 --> 00:34:57,640
Speaker 1: media the whole time? Did I watch my social media? Yeah?

747
00:34:57,719 --> 00:35:00,840
Speaker 1: It was crazy to see everything want to grow. Yeah,

748
00:35:00,920 --> 00:35:04,080
Speaker 1: it was awesome, and it's really nice that they stuck

749
00:35:04,120 --> 00:35:06,759
Speaker 1: with me. Yeah, even after American Idol, it's really really nice.

750
00:35:06,800 --> 00:35:09,640
Speaker 1: Like with I hope seeing that, you know, just from

751
00:35:09,640 --> 00:35:12,400
Speaker 1: a straight fan base, it's shot to fourteen on iTunes

752
00:35:12,560 --> 00:35:15,719
Speaker 1: was crazy to me, didn't that means? That just showed me, like,

753
00:35:15,920 --> 00:35:17,719
Speaker 1: while these people are really sticking with me even after

754
00:35:17,760 --> 00:35:21,799
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 --> 00:35:26,319
Speaker 1: you guys so much. You have no idea. Thank you

757
00:35:26,360 --> 00:35:28,719
Speaker 1: so much to everybody that supported me, because you have

758
00:35:28,719 --> 00:35:31,080
Speaker 1: no idea what it means to me, and I wouldn't

759
00:35:31,080 --> 00:35:34,800
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
00:35:39,000 --> 00:35:41,240
Speaker 1: just thank you so much and we're gonna do it together.

762
00:35:41,600 --> 00:35:45,160
Speaker 1: Keep climbing Garden in two years. That's what you used

763
00:35:45,200 --> 00:35:46,960
Speaker 1: to say. That's what you would say that you've moved.

764
00:35:48,320 --> 00:35:50,160
Speaker 1: We talked to here because it was three but now

765
00:35:50,200 --> 00:35:52,480
Speaker 1: it's two thousand nineteen, so it's too Yeah, you would say,

766
00:35:52,480 --> 00:35:56,480
Speaker 1: I'm gonna play Madison Square Garden went headline in three years. Yeah,

767
00:35:56,480 --> 00:35:59,279
Speaker 1: you have two years now, that's the goal? Ye, what

768
00:35:59,400 --> 00:36:00,400
Speaker 1: is it? Goal? What do you want to do? Like

769
00:36:00,440 --> 00:36:02,440
Speaker 1: if we're back here at my house in a year

770
00:36:02,480 --> 00:36:04,160
Speaker 1: and we're in front of the microphones. Where do you

771
00:36:04,160 --> 00:36:06,759
Speaker 1: want to be? Where do I want to be? Um?

772
00:36:06,800 --> 00:36:10,120
Speaker 1: I want too. I think it would be so cool

773
00:36:10,200 --> 00:36:14,680
Speaker 1: to be my ear I have an earring. Do you

774
00:36:14,680 --> 00:36:16,160
Speaker 1: have an ear ring or your ache? I have an

775
00:36:16,200 --> 00:36:19,040
Speaker 1: ear ring? Hearing in and it's like pressing against earring.

776
00:36:19,040 --> 00:36:22,760
Speaker 1: But it's okay, it's okay, beauty Spain, um and okay.

777
00:36:22,800 --> 00:36:27,680
Speaker 1: Next year, I would like to be nominated for um

778
00:36:27,719 --> 00:36:31,000
Speaker 1: A c m A Award. Yeah, I think that would

779
00:36:31,000 --> 00:36:32,759
Speaker 1: be really really cool. That would be really cool. I'd

780
00:36:32,800 --> 00:36:36,640
Speaker 1: like to be nominated for c m A Awards. I

781
00:36:36,680 --> 00:36:38,399
Speaker 1: think that'd be really cool. That's a goal of mine

782
00:36:38,440 --> 00:36:40,640
Speaker 1: for sure. With that's why I'm trying to make the

783
00:36:40,680 --> 00:36:42,960
Speaker 1: best of best songs. You know what you don't like

784
00:36:43,000 --> 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 --> 00:36:51,280
Speaker 1: here all the time. You have to be so sure

788
00:36:51,280 --> 00:36:55,000
Speaker 1: of yourself. And then your goals are super high, which

789
00:36:55,000 --> 00:36:57,640
Speaker 1: is great and people may look at you and go, gab,

790
00:36:57,719 --> 00:36:59,319
Speaker 1: you're crazy. But the crazy ones are the ones that

791
00:36:59,320 --> 00:37:02,040
Speaker 1: are just crazy enough to make it. Yeah, because I'm nuts.

792
00:37:03,600 --> 00:37:05,680
Speaker 1: I've always been told all your nuts, your goals, you

793
00:37:05,719 --> 00:37:08,160
Speaker 1: need to be big. Yeah, you know, if you don't

794
00:37:08,160 --> 00:37:11,640
Speaker 1: have goals for yourself, nobody else will go bigger go home. No,

795
00:37:11,719 --> 00:37:15,080
Speaker 1: don't go home, But you gotta go big, go big.

796
00:37:15,760 --> 00:37:17,400
Speaker 1: I mean, if you're not going big, what's what are

797
00:37:17,400 --> 00:37:19,239
Speaker 1: you doing? Well? You learn when it doesn't go right

798
00:37:19,239 --> 00:37:21,480
Speaker 1: and you keep going big, don't go home. Okay, don't

799
00:37:21,480 --> 00:37:24,240
Speaker 1: pack up your grab and go home. I mean unless

800
00:37:24,239 --> 00:37:28,080
Speaker 1: you're living in Nashville and then go back. Okay, all right, listen,

801
00:37:28,400 --> 00:37:30,759
Speaker 1: it's been good to see you. We did how long?

802
00:37:30,800 --> 00:37:34,640
Speaker 1: Half an hour? Did half? Half an hour? Interview? How

803
00:37:34,680 --> 00:37:37,400
Speaker 1: you feel about it? Good? I haven't seen you know

804
00:37:37,400 --> 00:37:39,080
Speaker 1: what I've seen you since the finale, you know. I

805
00:37:39,160 --> 00:37:41,080
Speaker 1: just said that to my manager coming in. I was like,

806
00:37:41,480 --> 00:37:43,719
Speaker 1: how's at your door? And I was like, oh my god,

807
00:37:43,800 --> 00:37:46,000
Speaker 1: I would see if this American idol? This is so weird.

808
00:37:46,120 --> 00:37:48,960
Speaker 1: So I'm growing so much. I'm a lot taller. Yeah,

809
00:37:49,200 --> 00:37:51,919
Speaker 1: you look a lot different. I was under my house

810
00:37:51,960 --> 00:37:54,320
Speaker 1: but before you got everying to catch a cat, a

811
00:37:54,480 --> 00:37:56,120
Speaker 1: cat that was under my house, and I was crawling

812
00:37:56,200 --> 00:37:57,799
Speaker 1: in the crawl space and I got I got it out.

813
00:37:58,000 --> 00:38:00,480
Speaker 1: He did. Yeah, I'm scared. Yeah, it out right on

814
00:38:00,520 --> 00:38:03,960
Speaker 1: the other side of the outside. I know you think, well, fancy, Bobby. No,

815
00:38:04,000 --> 00:38:05,600
Speaker 1: you know who gets his own cat front of the house. Me.

816
00:38:05,960 --> 00:38:10,640
Speaker 1: There was no butler that does that? I do that. Yeah,

817
00:38:10,719 --> 00:38:14,879
Speaker 1: there's no Butler. No, No, Mike is the closest thing yet. Listen,

818
00:38:14,920 --> 00:38:17,520
Speaker 1: it's good to see at Gabby Barrett underscore. Right g

819
00:38:17,680 --> 00:38:20,120
Speaker 1: A B B Y B A R R E T

820
00:38:20,360 --> 00:38:24,239
Speaker 1: T underscore underscore? Why the underscore to someone already have

821
00:38:24,239 --> 00:38:26,799
Speaker 1: Gabby Barrett and you can't buy it from them? Did

822
00:38:26,840 --> 00:38:29,279
Speaker 1: you try? Now? I tried. They won't tell me. Bobby Bones,

823
00:38:30,080 --> 00:38:31,680
Speaker 1: why don't you try to buy to Gay Barrett. I'm

824
00:38:31,680 --> 00:38:33,680
Speaker 1: gonna look into it. I have never tried that yet.

825
00:38:33,760 --> 00:38:35,279
Speaker 1: So we'll say, all that money you got from the

826
00:38:35,280 --> 00:38:37,799
Speaker 1: Idol tour, Yeah yeah, but does an underscore really make

827
00:38:37,840 --> 00:38:40,040
Speaker 1: like a huge difference? Well, yeah, it's just easier to

828
00:38:40,080 --> 00:38:43,480
Speaker 1: go at Gabby Barrett than the underscore. That's right after it.

829
00:38:44,640 --> 00:38:47,960
Speaker 1: All right, I've had enough of you, alright, I'm just kinished.

830
00:38:49,320 --> 00:38:51,640
Speaker 1: In a year come back, we'll talk about your or

831
00:38:51,680 --> 00:38:54,319
Speaker 1: a c M nomination. All right, it sounds like, let's

832
00:38:54,320 --> 00:38:55,560
Speaker 1: see you by the way. You have you know, I

833
00:38:55,600 --> 00:38:57,520
Speaker 1: forgot to bring up you have seven brothers sisters, right, yes,

834
00:38:57,840 --> 00:39:01,279
Speaker 1: because you brought like half of them to the show. Yes, yeah,

835
00:39:01,280 --> 00:39:03,120
Speaker 1: And I was like, yeah, yeah, like we got all

836
00:39:03,160 --> 00:39:05,759
Speaker 1: these kids absolutely folks. Yeah, because I was I'm a

837
00:39:05,800 --> 00:39:07,640
Speaker 1: big fan of you, so I was like, you guys

838
00:39:07,719 --> 00:39:09,279
Speaker 1: have to come. We all are big fans of you.

839
00:39:09,440 --> 00:39:11,200
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 assuming, yes,

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Speaker 1: music coming. Very not your last song ever, you're saying

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Speaker 1: within the next few weeks you'll hear a new song.

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Speaker 1: All right. There we go, gat Bart Everybody, Episode sixt