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Speaker 1: Another episode of Unsigned and Independent Season two, Episode two.

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Speaker 1: The artist is Megan Ashley Kevin. Why did you pick

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Speaker 1: to talk to Megan? Actually, her manager reached out to

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Speaker 1: me on Instagram. Dang, we're being found out now on

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Speaker 1: the show blow one up? But Unsigned it Independent, I know.

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Speaker 1: So she reached out and she just kind of introduced

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Speaker 1: me to her, and I came across her Instagram her

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Speaker 1: music and liked what I saw. So I wanted to

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Speaker 1: hear a story. So what if you didn't like what

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Speaker 1: you heard? Would she be on here? Maybe? So you

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Speaker 1: would bring out somebody think sucks? No, No, I wouldn't

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Speaker 1: bring on somebody it sucks, And I want to know

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Speaker 1: that they have a good story before I bring them

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Speaker 1: on too. I need to do some background surgeon, I

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Speaker 1: guess I'm say asking in case people are you wanted

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Speaker 1: to hit you up? So you need to, like, maybe

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Speaker 1: not personally with your preference, enjoy their music, but at

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Speaker 1: least understand why people like it, like it's quality music, yeah,

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Speaker 1: and then know a little bit about them. Yeah. It

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Speaker 1: doesn't need to be something I would person be like,

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Speaker 1: I'm going to listen to this every day, but you

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Speaker 1: know more about them. I know and as long as

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Speaker 1: it's good quality music, that's all right. So Meghan grew

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Speaker 1: up on country music, and she claimed she didn't even

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Speaker 1: know there was another genre until grade school. She moved

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Speaker 1: to Nashville twenty nineteen for a few months, went back

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Speaker 1: to Texas to grab her stuff, and then COVID hit. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: and she said she was building momentum in twenty twenty

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Speaker 1: great thing for her. So she majored in knesiology. Was

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Speaker 1: that something that she wanted to do or something that

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Speaker 1: she just kind of fell into even though she didn't

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Speaker 1: have a passion for that, Yeah, she just kind of

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Speaker 1: fell into it. She said that her older brother majored

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Speaker 1: in it and she didn't know what to do, so

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Speaker 1: she picked that major. Okay, here we go. It is

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Speaker 1: unsigned and independent, Season two, episode two. The artist is

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Speaker 1: Megan Ashley. The interviewer mister Kevin O'Connell, here you go.

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Speaker 1: You are from Texas. You're a Texas girl? Is that correct? Yes?

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Speaker 1: Born and raised in Texas Hill Country. Yes. Now, when

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Speaker 1: I read that, I thought it was it meant to

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Speaker 1: say Texas Hill County maybe, but Texas Hill Country is

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Speaker 1: an actual thing. Is that like you guys just you

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Speaker 1: have your own little country out there, or where's Texas country?

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Speaker 1: I feel like Texas is own country, right kind of

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Speaker 1: that is true. But Texas hill country is just like

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Speaker 1: very hilly. It kind of reminds me of Tennessee a

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Speaker 1: little bit. There's a lot of hills, not as big

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Speaker 1: as you know here, but kind of the same. Okay.

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Speaker 1: And what was Texas Hill Country like for you growing up?

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Speaker 1: Is it out in the middle of nowhere are you?

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Speaker 1: Were you born on a farm or did you live

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Speaker 1: in like the suburbs? What was that like for you? Yes,

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Speaker 1: so my parents were divorced, so I was in between

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Speaker 1: hill country quote unquote, there's just out there. There's just

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Speaker 1: like a lot of lakes. I grew up going the

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Speaker 1: just Texas you know, yeah, Texas doing Texas things in Texas. Absolutely,

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Speaker 1: that's awesome. And were your parents big music fans. Were

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Speaker 1: something later on you got involved in. So nobody played

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Speaker 1: So all you know all that great stuff. Is that

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Speaker 1: the Liens, Martina, all of them, Okay, all the classics. Yes,

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Speaker 1: I surprise your name wasn't Leon. Then, you know, for

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Speaker 1: a while, I'm like, we could just added extra into Megan.

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Speaker 1: I know, there you go. I like the I like

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Speaker 1: some artists will come and move here and it's like, hey,

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Speaker 1: then for you? Huh absolutely, I like it. And what

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Speaker 1: And so when I first moved here, I was like, Okay,

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Speaker 1: at it, absolutely, And what was it about Nashville that

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Speaker 1: whole uh puckets thing back in a Leaper's Fork. So

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Speaker 1: Leaper's Fog area gets you some What are the roasted peanuts?

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Speaker 1: love my parents. My parents are They're honestly some of

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Speaker 1: But I always just try to mind myself, like, Okay,

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Speaker 1: what do I want to release and like why so

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Speaker 1: that's kind of like my goals. Do you have you

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Speaker 1: ever gotten this? Listen to your music? You have like

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Speaker 1: a very calming, soothing voice, thank you. Have you ever

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Speaker 1: thought about even doing one of those the apps or

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Speaker 1: thing where you can kind of because your voice, Like

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Speaker 1: when you hear your voice, you're kind of you're whether

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Speaker 1: you're driving or just sitting there, you can't help but

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Speaker 1: to just kind of sit there and relax. I mean

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Speaker 1: certain songs obviously, right, but you have a very calming

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Speaker 1: sound to you. So have you ever heard thought about

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Speaker 1: something like, hey, maybe I should do some type of

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Speaker 1: apps for like a calming or a meditation app or

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Speaker 1: something like that. Free then two seconds, yeah exactly, and

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Speaker 1: then just start singing to him, just start singing real

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Speaker 1: quick and you're love that. No, I appreciate that. I mean,

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Speaker 1: I hope so Rex like I feel I feel like

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Speaker 1: that's in my friendships soon as my relationships, Like I'm

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Speaker 1: always a hope that I'm like, you know, just a piece,

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Speaker 1: you know, I'm a peacemaker. I'll have you know, everybody

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Speaker 1: being friends. So yeah, I never thought about that, but

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Speaker 1: well that's one of the first thing that came to

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Speaker 1: my mind when I heard a couple of your songs

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Speaker 1: and I was like, this sounds just so calming, like

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Speaker 1: I just want to I just want to sit here

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Speaker 1: and relax. I just thought about that. Love that. But

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Speaker 1: as a former teacher though, and somebody who is you know,

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Speaker 1: chasing what you want to do and it took a

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Speaker 1: few years to figure it out. I'm right there with you.

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Speaker 1: It took me a while. Do you have any advice

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Speaker 1: for somebody maybe listening to this and think, you know,

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Speaker 1: even if it's not music, I would like to ask

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Speaker 1: this question, right, wrap it up, Like, even if it's

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Speaker 1: not music, what is your advice to somebody maybe listening

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Speaker 1: to this thinking about I want to go do this

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Speaker 1: or I want to move here and there. They're hesitant

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Speaker 1: on it, right. I'm definitely a go getter, like I'm

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Speaker 1: going to have a person. I'm not going to wait

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Speaker 1: around to go do something Like I'm like, let's go

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Speaker 1: do it, Like why not? You know, I think the

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Speaker 1: biggest thing, like God's a big part of my life,

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Speaker 1: so I think, like, you know, he always puts ideas

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Speaker 1: in our hearts that we should honestly go after. It's

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Speaker 1: like why not like we get one life and it's short,

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Speaker 1: and so go after whatever you're thinking of. And you know,

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Speaker 1: I feel like a lot of things can be daunting,

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Speaker 1: Like you know, it's like oh, music industry, like oh

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Speaker 1: my gosh, like where do you even start at? You know,

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Speaker 1: and a lot of times like you're pioneering because nobody

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Speaker 1: before you and your family did it or X y Z.

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Speaker 1: So I just really think writing down baby steps, so okay,

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Speaker 1: like here's my goal, how do I get there? And

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Speaker 1: it's like the Bay steps. So you do that and

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Speaker 1: then you go from there. And it's the same thing

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Speaker 1: with like I love to work out, and so it's

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Speaker 1: the same thing with that, like over the years, like

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Speaker 1: the baby steps and just focused on your goal and

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Speaker 1: enjoy it. On anything that's the biggest thing. And also

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Speaker 1: like the relationships you like earn on the way, like

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Speaker 1: Lindsay for example, like she's like a lifelong friend now

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Speaker 1: and it's just like I'm so thankful, like no matter

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Speaker 1: what happens tomorrow, like I'm just so thankful, like I

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Speaker 1: have her friendship now and we got to like do

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Speaker 1: this together and so it's been really good. That's awesome.

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Speaker 1: And what are some of your highlights. I know that

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Speaker 1: you've played at the National Finals Rodeo in Vegas last

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Speaker 1: year and you're playing again this year. Is that correct? Yes?

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Speaker 1: So fun. How is that your favorite venue or event

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Speaker 1: that you've ever played at? Okay, So, I grew up

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Speaker 1: with rodeo. I've worked on the rodeo hall throughout, like

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Speaker 1: you know, kindergarten through twelfth grade, you know, just with

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Speaker 1: my mom, she did a rodeo or she you know,

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Speaker 1: worked on the radio. To you, and so I kind

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Speaker 1: of stepped away from that like industry for long times,

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Speaker 1: kind of because I don't ride horses by any means anymore,

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Speaker 1: but you did growing up. Cows. Oh yeah, I'm like

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Speaker 1: I was a horse girls, I was, though I love horses,

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Speaker 1: but I also like, wasn't the wake boarding scene too

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Speaker 1: growing up? But um Nfar, like my gosh, Like I mean,

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Speaker 1: I grew up with the San Antonio Rodeo. We did that.

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Speaker 1: Um but Nfar was just like another just another world,

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Speaker 1: so much fun. I could have stayed out there all

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Speaker 1: ten days. So but it was just like great because

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Speaker 1: there's live music everywhere a lot of people from the

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Speaker 1: industry were there, so it was really cool to see

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Speaker 1: you know some people I know different you know, aspects

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Speaker 1: of the industry. Um, and obviously you got like cowboys

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Speaker 1: everywhere too, but like, um, it was really cool. I've

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Speaker 1: heard amazing things about it. My mom was actually out

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Speaker 1: there this past year, not for that, but for something else,

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Speaker 1: for a word conference, and she was texting me and

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Speaker 1: she's like, Kevin, like you need to come to this.

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Speaker 1: There's cowboys everywhere and there's just like people everywhere, and

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Speaker 1: I've seen a documentary on them before and I'm like,

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Speaker 1: this is like they're super Bowl right Literally was yeah, yeah.

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Speaker 1: So it's a huge event and it's ten days long

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Speaker 1: and it's definitely on my bucket list. And then as

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Speaker 1: soon as I brought it up, I could see your

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Speaker 1: face just light up and you just smile and be

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Speaker 1: like it's amazing. So maybe I need to go out

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Speaker 1: there this year and maybe I can see you perform

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Speaker 1: out there. That would be awesome. That would be great. Fine.

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Speaker 1: Do you enjoy songwriting or performing more? That's hard? Um,

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Speaker 1: I love both. Um, it's so fun to perform. Like

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Speaker 1: I said, like, I love people. I love meeting people,

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Speaker 1: and so we need to perform. You know, you meet

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Speaker 1: so many people and I love doing that, and then

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Speaker 1: writing is great because it's like, especially once you finish

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Speaker 1: writing a song, I feel so it feel so great.

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Speaker 1: So to create something and then you know, yeah, bring

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Speaker 1: it to life. That's awesome. Well, Megan, thank you so

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Speaker 1: much for coming on here. I really appreciate it. It's

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Speaker 1: been a lot of fun here in your story, here

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Speaker 1: in your journey, and I know there's many things that come.

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Speaker 1: What do we find you on social media? Megan Ashley Music, Yes, sir,

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Speaker 1: on everything, yep, simplest so you can spell it. Okay,

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Speaker 1: So Megan Ashley Music on social media, go follow her,

542
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Speaker 1: check her out. Is there anything else do you want

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Speaker 1: to promote? Talk about upcoming? Maybe this year? Go for it.

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Speaker 1: The floor is yours. Yes, so all my ex'sluming taxes.

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Speaker 1: Female version. I feel like I had to do that.

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Speaker 1: It's been on my mind for a little bit, so

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Speaker 1: because obviously, you know, George is singing about some girls,

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Speaker 1: and so I'm singing it about some voys. So that's

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Speaker 1: a mix of the female version and just be able

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Speaker 1: to look out for more music this year. Oh okay,

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00:25:22,320 --> 00:25:23,680
Speaker 1: you can't go wrong with there's a lot of George

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Speaker 1: straight going on this podcast. Isn't I know. I know

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Speaker 1: it's not a bad thing. I don't mean another bad thing.

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Speaker 1: Absolutely no. Everyone loves from George straight, so that's a

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Speaker 1: great thing. Well, Megan, thank you so much and I

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Speaker 1: really look forward to see what the future holds for you.

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Speaker 1: Thank you appreciate it. Thanks