Inside Thoughts Episode 2 Ft Corey Kent

Country singer Corey Kent talks with Nick about his chart topping song "Wild As Her"

Episode Transcript

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That should not have made it tothe rest of us. Check we're live,
it's going on inside thoughts. Appreciateyou for listening. Got a cool
interview for you at the end.Corey kenn Is a country singer. He's

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got a song that's just I mean, it's been going crazy but wild as
her He kind of blew up.So that's a cool interview I got for
you at the end of the show. If if you just join us,
you haven't missed much. This isthe only what the second episode? Wait,
you can't count to two, buddy, Yeah, it's the second episode,
and uh, yeah, you haven'tmissed much. It's just me talking

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about stuff that doesn't matter. Andthen there's an interview with the cool person
at the end of the podcast.You make us listen to your stuff where
we get to the cool part.You can skip it, dude. I
don't care how you listen to it, because if you click on this and
you still drag it over to likethe twenty minute mark or whatever, it
still counts as a listen. I'mpretty sure. So I don't care if
you just skip to the end.You know it's what you're gonna do.

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Okay, I can't stop you.You're in your car, you're on your
phone, listening on the iHeartRadio.I can't stop you. And even if
I could, I don't think Iwould stop you. Okay, you got
free, will you do whatever youwant? I don't care, but yeah,
I got I get to interview coolpeople for my job. So I'm
always gonna have like a comedian orcountry artist on here, or hopefully I'm

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gonna have that. Sometimes you askpeople to do some interviews and they're like,
hey, whoa, why don't you, you know, go to hell?
And I'm like, okay, justtry to create some content here.
What Yeah, So this is episodetwo. Man, I've been having like
the longest week because my car isback in the shop. Dude, I
swear your car is the one thingin your life. Parents, I'm sure

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you have two it's car and kids. But I don't have kids. So
the one thing in my wife thatalways knows when I have a little bit
of extra money is my car.Bro. Every time, every single time
I get well extra money, it'slike, hey, you know what,
I might be able to save,some might be able to pay off some
dance man, might be able tolike invest in a roth Ira or something,

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create some generational wealth, anything likethat. My car goes wrong,
you're bore. My god. Iwas almost there. It was almost there,
dude. So my car has beenin the shop, Dude, like,
I gotta fix and it's so dumb. What's wrong with it? I
didn't get it fixed it, butit's so dumb. What's wrong with it?
Because I took it into the shopand the guy was like, well,

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it's looking like a blown head gasketthere, buddy. I'm like,
all right, cool, how muchis that gonna? Be? Like?
It's not cheat and he told mehow much. I was like, all
right, whatever, get on thepayment plan. No, I'm not worried
about I'll pay some interest. That'swhat happens sometimes. But then he calls
me back. He was like,well, all sense, it's a blown
head gasket. Once we fix that, we're gonna have to check your engine

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and see if your engine still works. And then if the engine doesn't work,
it's gonna be a new engine.I was like, how much for
a new engine? He was like, not cheap, buddy, And when
you added the two not cheap amountstogether, it was worth more than my
car. So I was like,what can I totally say what do I
do? He goes, now,man, I'll just fix it. Man,
you'll have a brand new car.And I was like, no,
that's not how jeeps work. Bro. You fix the engine on the jeep

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and then the transmission goes out.And all I'm doing is paying thousands of
dollars to this car that is notworth that much money. Stupid man.
So anyway, I been talking about, or been talking to my insurance company
just like all week, and it'sa pain in the butt. Like anytime

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you gotta call up an insurance company, you're just like, this is gonna
be forty five minutes of my wife. They don't want to kill myself because
you're talking to somebody about some moneythat you want to get that they should
owe you. But it's an insurancecompany, so they never actually end up
own you. They're like, well, actually is if you check your coverage,
there is a little little addition righthere to the contract that says we

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don't actually have to pay you anymoney. Okay, all right, then
why do I have insurance? Bro? I swear insurance. It never it
never works for when you want.But whatever, So, like I've been
talking and I feel kind of badbecause like, if you work in insurance,
especially for a customer service part ofthe insurance, I feel so sorry

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for you, Like I try andthink about it on that side when I'm
talking because I'm not in a goodmood. Imagine if you had to talk
to hundreds of people every day whoare not in a good mood. So,
like you wake up the alarm goesoff in the morning, you look
in the mirror, just bags onyour eyes, and you're like, man,
I cannot wait for four hundred andsixty seven able to call me a

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dumba today. I can't wait.Dude, that takes some incredible strength.
So I'm not shipping on you ifyou work for an insurance company. I'm
just saying I don't like talking toyou. I don't have fun when I
talk to you. I've been dealingwith that, trying to get on back
on the road to do some standup because I was fine, like car

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has been in the shop for awhile, Like the first week I didn't
have my car, I was like, hey, this is a nice break
from stand up, you know,because like I was just doing it back
to back to back back nights drivingto towns. I didn't know existed.
I mean, it's fun. Likethe people in those small towns always just

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make the show so much more funbecause they come there for that. Like
there's there's nothing else to do inElon, North Carolina except read books,
go to work, and if there'ssomething going on in town that night,
you're going to it. So likewhen you pull out to these shows,
these people are ready to go,and all you gotta do is just get
them going in that first like fortyfive seconds, just get like a big

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laugh, and then they're on yourside. Whatever you say. After that.
You can try new shit out,you can do your old stuff that
you know hits. It doesn't matter, it's gonna hit because these people are
ready to have fun. And Ilove that so much. Because, Bro,
sometimes you go to stand up showsand it happens a lot at breweries.

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I know, you're thinking, whatgood. I didn't know they do
stand up shows at breweries. Youdo stand up shows at breweries when you're
not actually a good comedian. Youjust do the brewery circuit and you're like,
let's go ambush these people. Tonightat eight o'clock, they were just
hanging out at a brewery drinking somewhatever ipa that tastes like but it's different
than bud white, so it's goodand expensive. Those people just want to

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have conversations night out after work,and you walk in and set up your
speakers and go, all right,we're gonna have a comedy show. And
everybody looks around with those shows,are you You gotta work to make those
kind of people laugh, man,I'm telling you, like I said,

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the small towns, you get themin the first forty five seconds, a
big laughter on your side, brewerypeople. Bro, you gotta get them
early, like you gotta come rightoff the cuff, just in the first
fifteen seconds. Make them chuckle becausethey're not gonna laugh hard. They're looking
around at everybody else, like arewe actually participating and laughing at this really

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hard? Or everybody can see mein here. The lights are super super
bright. Are we allowed to laughat everything? It's it's like that,
So you gotta get them immediately.Walk up, points something out, say
something about the last comedian that cameup. Look for somebody in the crowd,
Like right before you come up,you're like, okay, I'm gonna
talk to this dude wearing you're wearingog boots. Buddy, Okay, it

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was eighty degrees outside, you're wearingog boots? Is that your girlfriends you
make you do that, and you'rejust that's how you got to get in.
But if you don't, like,it's gonna be it's gonna be a
long twenty minutes, bro. Likethat's that's where I'm at right now,
like feature comedian twenty to thirty minutes. And sometimes, oh baby, it
gets long at tim Brewery's. Youreally you gotta you gotta work, but

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it's uh, it's tough. Likethe first week I didn't have my car
um. That's what I was like, Okay, this feels good. I
sleep in a normal time, gowork out, eat some healthy food.
I'm not slamming beers every night.This is this is good. Second week
I started to miss it a littlebit. Third week I was getting itchy.

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I was like, I gotta giveit back out there, dude,
I gotta get back out there.Like it doesn't feel like my day has
been complete yet. Like you hadthat you got you have that one thing
that you do every day, Likeit's not work, it's not the stuff.
You gotta do, that one thingthat you get home and you get
to do like I don't, orif it's like drawing or cooking or reading

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a book, learning something new,whatever it is, going home and making
absolute bangers of songs. I don'tcare what it is. But that one
thing that you have to do thatmakes you happy about the day, that's
that's stand up for me. Sothat's what you can take a little bit.
You can take a little bit oftime off. But when you take
too much time, your body startsgetting visibly itchy. Should you go to

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the doctor for that? No,it's mental. It's mental. It's not
a it's not an itchy doctor thing, all right. Anyway, throw this
dip out. Sorry to throw mydip out. Probably should have thrown that

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out for sir of the podcast.Dipping such a gross habit. Yeah,
I know it is, trust me, very aware. And I'm doing the
doing the long cut, no stuffboy, doing the long cut, Grizzly
Winner, Green Wonka. I've beendoing because I'm trying to quit. But
addictions are tough people. What areyou gonna do? They're doing it for

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two one. My brain's dumb.I can't stop my addictions. So um,
I've been doing the Zen winter Green, like the six percent of the
three percent, it's just nicotine pouches. I guess it's like diet coke where
everybody's like, well, it's it'shealthier. Oh really, no, it's
it's still gonna give me cancer.Right. Oh yeah, that's what I
thought. But the thing about thoseis they're like supposed to be better for

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you or a way to we startweaning yourself off dip. But I gotta
be honest, every every time you'rethrowing is in, you're like, you
know, it'd be a lot betterright now, just a regular dip,
just a regular lipperd did, justa normal fatty boom batty. Do you
feel the bra So that's what youthink when you throw is in. And

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it's funny because I got a coupleof buddies they cannot do zis, Like
they they their brains are smart,so they don't have like stupid crippling addictions
that they have to have, sothey don't dip all the time. So
when they get drunk, you know, they'll go rip a burner, have
a zig or throw in a zinand they'll hit the group chat and be

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like, I'm losing my the zinright now, I'm I'm losing the fight,
bro, and I'm just thinking thewhole time, like, oh you
would, but it is a it'sa nasty habit. I need to stop.
And I was doing pretty good withthe Zin, but sometimes I go
into a gas station to get anotherone. You know, my zin ran

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out. I still need to keepthe addiction going. And the gas station
I go into they don't have zen. It's like, okay, God,
you want me to have a regulargrizzly winter green walk I can. What
was I gonna do about it?I came in here. You knew I
had to come in here, andyou didn't have it in there? What
am I supposed to do? Godwanted me to have a regular can today?

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What if it's the devil? Couldbe I'm losing a temptation. What
if it's nothing and it's just chanceand they don't stock those in there because
their customer basis that go in there. I don't know what the answer is,
but I'm telling you I went inthere and I got a candid dip
regular hard stuff dip. Bro,got it? It feels good. I
don't care. What do I wantto talk about today? Mama phone like

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so much and my Wee's favorite thingabout it is when the apps talk to
you like apps used to children wayback in the day, Like I don't
know, five years ago, wayback in the day, in the olden
times, apps used to just sendyou notifications for what was going on in

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the app. It wasn't like Facebooknow, where they give you a notification
about somebody you could give a shitabout it, like I have not talked
to this person in nine years.Why do I care that they posted a
picture? Well, you know,we just want you to interact with the
app more so you give us moreof your time and then we can sell
more money to advertisers, more moneyfor herself. I know why you're doing
it, but stop. Okay,I don't like it, but apps talk

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to you way too much now.I got downloaded this app, cap Cut.
It's a good app. Helps youchop up videos, throw them in
TikTok's a lot easier. I makeTikTok's every day because I'm a man child.
But the app started talking to melike a person. Bro. It
was like cap cut sent me amessage and said, hey, you're awesome.

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Template was used five thousand times.Why don't you come check out another
one of our templates and have somemore fun. And I was like,
you know what, cap Cut,don't talk to me like a person.
You're an app. You're not real. Don't try and humanize with me,
Bro, I don't need it.Okay, I don't need your humanization.

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I'm not that lonely. I'm okaywith my thoughts sometimes my own thoughts.
As I thought, that's like theapps, just keep talking to you,
bro. The dating apps are prettybad too, because the dating apps or
feeding off our already crippling loneliness,like tender bumble hinge. If you're using
anything other than that, just juststop, focus on yourself and figure out

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what you want to do, likeI don't know, eat healthy, go
to the gym, do what yougotta do. Maybe get a pet or
something. Okay, like if you'regoing all the way down like the Farmers
Only or Black People Meat dot comor Christian mingel dot com or whatever.
And then if you drop lower intoDante's inferno of dating apps and you're going

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on like Facebook Dating or Plenty ofFish, stop just that's you wanting to
need closeness. Okay, you canyou're better than that, all right.
Just figure yourself out first, andthen it'll come okay. Because like the
baseline of dating apps you should beon is tender, bumble or hinge.
Most people are not how do Iput this? Most people are not for

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the streets and only have like oneapp, but you know I got three?
What are you gonna do? Butwhat was I talking about it?
Anyway? Oh, the dating appsthey talk to you because they're feeding off
your loneliness that they know you alreadyhave. So they're like, hey,
six o'clock on a Saturday night,you don't have plans, like come on,

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start swiping, find some plans.Start low key like bullying you a
little bit, or it'll be theychange them up depending whatever the day is,
Like Sunday, they know your anxietieshigh because you got to go back
and work and you're living with allyour terrible garbage decisions that you made during
the weekend, all that money youspent, the things you said to people,

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the text messages you fired off.Bro, you're not happy with yourself.
I know you're not. It's okay, but that's when bumble strikes.
Man. They're like, hey,we know it sucks right now, but
it's gonna be Okay, you knowwhat will make it better finding love?
Right now, this is a greattime to swipe. Oh you're just like,

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stop talking to me, stop beingevil. Okay, you know you
have access to my attention. Onlygive me the attention I want that your
program for If I interact with yourapp, you tell me when stuff's going
on inside the app that I needto know about. Okay, stop trying
to get me to be on theapp longer. I hate it. I
hate it, and if you gothate in your heart, let it out.

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I think the absolute worst app thattalks to you, though, is
those sons are over at Snapchat.Team Snapchat has got to be the least
favorite notification I've ever got in myentire life. There's people that have talked
to me through my phone that Ilegitimately hate it, didn't care for.

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I was in a fight with them. I hate them less than Team Snapchat
snaps. It'll be be a holidaythat's an easy one that gets you.
They're like, hey, happy fourthof July. Here's something we made our
intern make that we're sending out toeverybody. And there's that split second where
you get like, who I gota notification? Little bit of dopamine shoots

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off in your brain, little notification. You're like, who's talking to me?
Am I gonna have plans to night? Or am I have to get
or am I gonna have to getback on plenty of it? So you
get that instant little gratification. Thenyou look as team snapchat bro drives me
off the wall. I hate it. I hate it, But enough about
that. Every week, after Iget through talking about all the stuff that

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doesn't matter that's just sitting in myhead, I read like the headline of
the week that I saw on theinternet. So I'm on the internet a
lot, and there's there's so manygreat headlines, but it will mostly be
a study or a survey of somekind. And this week I came across
another one on study finds dot org. It's great, what's It's a great

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website if you just want to readstuff about stuff, isn't that one I'm
reading anything's about? Yeah, Okay, there's a dumb way to say it.
My fault, bro, if youwant to feel like you're reading smart
stuff, but it's probably still actuallydumb stuff. But it's a dot org,
so you trust it a little bitmore. It's on the Internet.
It's kind of trustworthy. So thisweek's headline was having mystical experiences lowers anxiety

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and depression. So they were talkingabout doing psychedelics like magic mushrooms. They're
going into a bunch of medicinal studiesfor it, for it, trying to
figure out how do we use thisas medicine. But this headline to me
is so funny, like they're saying, having a mystical experience lowers your anxiety

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and depression. I was thinking aboutthat, and I was like, this
is where we've gotten to as aspecies, you know what I mean?
Like we got to freak ourselves outin a weird way. We got to
see the devil to actually feel likewe went through something tramatic enough to harden
us up and be like, oh, all this other stuff that goes on,
it shouldn't freak me out or makeme sad like it used to be

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human beings. We have the fightor flight in our brain to keep us
alive because there used to be likea saber tooth tiger trying to kill us.
So then after we got freaked outby the saber tooth tiger, we
didn't get as mad when ooga Boogatook more berries out of their communal dinner
plate than they should have, andwe didn't have any We freaked out about

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stuff that was actually life or death. And now we don't have too many
life or death situations left because societyhas just gotten better and better, or
we fell off the cliff. Idon't know, depending on what you believe.
But now the things that freak usout are like, oh, I
gotta make sure I do my jobright. I wonder what they think about
me, instead of oh my god, that saber tooth tigers trying to kill

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us, you know what I mean? Like, we got first world problems.
So when your brain doesn't have anythingto solve and you won't throw your
brain into fight or flight, youjust start freaking out about nothing, like,
oh, they said that it wasmean on Facebook's dude, who cares?
Facebook's not real. That's why you'resad. Okay, they get off
the phone. If looking at that'smaking you sad, quit looking at it.

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But we don't do that because we'relike, well, everybody's on their
phone. I gotta And that's wherewe get anxiety and depression from. So
now, in order to have somethinghappened that is so crazy and actually scares
us to where our brain kind ofrecalibrates perception and you go, oh,
all this other stuff is not thatscary and not that dangerous, and your

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anxiety and depression will go down.That's where we're at, Scott. I
mean, that's a good thing thatyou know, we don't have like pumas
trying to kill us, but alsofigure it out people I don't know.
All right, I think that's aboutenough talking. I got a really cool
interview with Corey Kent. It'll begood. So here's Corey Kent. What's

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up, Nick? Thanks for havingme? No problem, man. So
you you kind of blowing up withwild as her right now? How how's
that feel? Man? Still gettingused to it? Not gonna lie?
You know. I actually went tothe Super Bowl and while I was walking
around, people were like, youknow, hey, Corey, can we
get a picture? And I'm like, man, life's changing. If you're

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at the super Bowl and you youare picking me out of a crowd,
that's that's pretty absurd. So right, it's uh, it's amazing, man,
It's been life changing in the bestway. Dude. That's awesome.
Yeah, you're at the Super Bowland people are like, hey, that's
that's I couldn't believe it. I'mlike, dude, I'm standing next to
Ben Stiller. You don't want hispicture? That is so cool because you've
been at it for a while.What did you start, like when you

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were eleven years old? Yeah?Man, started playing this uh kind of
music called Weston Swing when I waseleven, just kind of showed the ropes
a bot some Hall of famers andgot to got to tour on the country
and get a lot of hours inand it just kind of evolved into me
writing my own music and moving toNashville and riding there for a few years
years and moving out to Texas andbuilding my touring career and then you know

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this, uh this kind of theslow seventeen year result of it all,
slow seventeen year result. Well,dude, I'm glad this is paying off.
Where where'd you live at in Texas? I live in North Dallas right
now, a place called Frisco.Okay, I got you. That's a
I live out in College Station fora little bit, and everybody from college
dude, she said, the Addisare nuts, but they love going up

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to Dallas. You're like, Ican't wait to go off to Dallas.
Yeah. Man, that's so funny. We love College Station. That's awesome.
All right, So you're coming totown August eleventh with Jason al Dean.
How did that tour happen? Man? I mean, I know that
they were looking for some support,somebody that could sell some tickets, and

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we had built a pretty good fanbase and in a lot of those cities,
and so I think we were betweenhaving a pretty substantial hit that was
climbing and um, you know,also just being a lie act. Like
there's a lot of people that havehits that don't tour a lot, and
so for us, I mean,we play hundreds of shows every year and
just kind of like old school mentalitybuilding on the road. I think that

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might have been what put us inthe running. But man, I honestly,
I don't know. I mean Ijust got a phone call and the
offer was there, and I wassitting in my driveway with my wife and
my three kids were sleeping in theback of the suburban and it was late
and I hung up the phone andlooked at my wife. She because everything
okay. I was like, yeah, we just accepted a tour with Jason
Aldean, like forty cities. Andwhat's the craziest part about that, man,

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is that at that moment, lessthan twelve months from that moment,
sitting in my driveway, twelve monthsprior, I was working at a pavement
company in Dallas, just you know, through COVID, making ends meet for
my family and trying to keep themusic dream alive. And so I don't
know, man, it's a it'sa god thing. It's a Jason Aldean
thing. Like everybody, you know, somebody made the decision, and I

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don't I know, Jason's probably heavilyinvolved in that. So we're stoked and
honored. Dude, that is socool, man, From working at a
pavement to getting that call, Man, that's that's wild. For real.
Well, for real, we're lookingforward. When you've been a rally before,
I've only passed through, So I'mlooking forward to spending some time there.
All right, Well, we'll getyou some good food when you come

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down here. What are you mostexcited for for twenty twenty three other than
touring with Jason now being you're workingon new music or what what can we
expect from you in this year?Yeah? Man, so Um, I
have been hard at work in thestudio, and I know everybody said that
this is I don't live in Nashville, so it's like I gotta go in
in between touring and living in Texas. So it's been tough to find the

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time. But we've really carved outthe time and I've been working with a
guy named Jay Joyce, who isjust an incredible producer. He uh he
produces Eric Church and a bunch ofothers that are just But we have just
been able to get really creative andexperiment with some these sounds, and I
love pushing the envelope. You know. I don't ever want to try to

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recreate something. My goal is notto recreate wild is Hurt. My goal
is to pioneer whatever that next newsound is and that next new hit is.
So that's kind of a mentality we'vegone in with and we have about
three fourths of the record done andit's pretty exciting. Man. I'm loving
what we're getting back and obviously workingwith a legend like Jay has been a
dream come true. I listened toa lot of records that he made when

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I was sixteen rolling around in myjeep, and now I'm working with the
guys. Pretty cool, dude.That's awesome. Well, I'm excited for
you, Broll, looking forward toyou coming here this summer, and I
appreciate you taking the time to talkto us right on. Nick, thank
you so much for your time.Bro th money for money for money