Inside Thoughts Episode 14 Ft Julia Cole

Country artist & Tv host Julia Cole talks with Nick about starting a singing career, and her new tv show.

Episode Transcript

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Life speaking that that should not havemade it to the rest of us.
Hey you're live, baby, Welcomeback to Inside Thoughts. Appreciate you listen.
Got a cool interview for you atthe end of the podcast. Julia

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Cole. She is a country singer, TV show host, honestly all around
bad. She was pretty cool.Um, you're gonna like that interview at
the end. I got back fromthe beach. I was on vacation last
week, and I gotta tell youwhat, Man, going to the beach
when you hit thirty years old nolonger becomes a relaxing vacation. It's because

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like you're still in the mode ofI got a drink because I'm not at
work. I gotta eat food becauseI'm not by a gym. But your
body is starting to turn into likethe old fifty year old I'm gonna go
to the beach foot all the beach. You read a book of just maybe
I'll fall asleep and wake up witha sub burg Like that's that's where your

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body's going. Your brains still like, yeah, they're at the beach,
shot gun beers and eat pizza.Then you wake up with heartburn every single
night of the trip. Man Iwent down to Wrightsville Beach and I was
only there for like three days.Three days. Probably had eighty beers and
so much food. Like my buddy'sfamily let us come down there, and

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his uncle's like just go all outcooking. So they had a theme for
every night that they were cooking onthe beach, and so like Wednesday when
I got there, it was ItalianNight, Thursday was Hibachi night, and
then Friday night was eat everything that'sleft in the fridge so we don't have

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to take anything back. Bro.I woke up Saturday, I thought I
was having a heart attack. Myheart brother was so bad. I was
like, dude, I can't breathe, it hurts. Oh, I'm gonna
die. That's thirty at the beachbecause can't drank like early twenties. But
you're not gonna sit around because yourbrain gets bored just sitting there. You

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haven't accomplished enough to just sit ona beach peacefully. You got to do
something. But it was fun.And then Saturday night I went and met
my girl in Charlotte. We wentto the Luke Combs concert and that was
fun. There was just a wholebunch of heahash going on to that concert,
man, I was cracking up.I've never seen Riley Green live before.

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He was opening for Luke Combs andwe were up in the Sweet Slite
Flex and we were like listening tohim, and I don't know if the
acoustics were bad or Riley Green asthe most hic accent I've ever heard my
entire life. He gets on themand he was like huh and I was

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like, what did he just say? But it was weird because the whole
crowd understood what he was saying.They were like. I looked at my
girl. I was like, didyou understand one thing that anybody down there
just said? He was like,no, it didn't. So that was
fun. But Luke Combs came out. He absolutely crushed it. He sounds
exactly like he does live as hedoes in songs, so that was that

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was fun. And then Sunday gotdrunk on a boat on a lake and
I gotta be honest, man,my body hurts. It's just it hurts.
Man. This is like the onlytime I feel I'm getting old because
I can still run around, Ican still work out, my mind still
feels sharp ish, you know what. I mean, but when you go

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on a bender, like a weekbender, you feel old. You're like,
Okay, I'm about to die.I can not put that amount of
poison in my body anymore and stillbe Okay. I need a nap and
a pepto bismol shot. Okay,man, that's what I've been doing.
But oh, speaking of country music, can I can I just ask you

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to do something for me? Please? Can you stop listening to Last Night
so I can get it off theradio. I'm not saying don't listen to
Morgan Wallen. I like Morgan Wallen, but just pick a different song to
listen to it. I gotta hearthat song all the time, dude.
It plays on our country station,and then when I walk out of the

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country station, it's playing on thepop station too. I hear it all
the time, Like I wake upin cold sweats in the middle of the
night hearing that song play, likein a nightmare, you know what I
mean, Like you know how theDevil Whenever a devil pops up in a
movie, it's like Hula and thenit's the devil. It's like that old

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nineteen twenties music. Well, inmy dream, the Devil's singing. Last
night, He's like, last,now we land the Liquor Talk. I
don't remember everything we see, butwe sit it all and I'll wake up
like whoa, it's ridiculous, man, hear it all the time, just
waking up in cold sweats. Lastnow we land on liquor Talk. Pick

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a different song to listen to,okay, because that's how they torture people
in Guantanamo Bay. The CIA takespeople and they're like, hey, tell
us the secrets. The prisoners likeno, so they go, okay,
play the song. Last now weland the Liquor Talk. I can't remember
it, and they're like, okay, okay, okay, I'll tell you

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all the secrets. It's fine,it's fine. Stop playing that song a
million times. It's making me crazy. Pick a different song. Y'all are
not that sad? Okay, that'sa sad song. You are not that
sad. I don't know who you'resad about. But they're not coming back,
and they're not gonna come back ifyou keep listen to that song.
Well, it just I feel like, in this relationship, we say a

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lot of things to each other,and last now weld the liquor talk.
But maybe they'll come back, youknow, like this is this is like
us. Do you remember that?Stop listening to that song. I want
it off the radio before I losemy mind. Okay, is that too
much ask? I don't think so. I do a lot for you just

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saying stop listening to that song.I give you tickets. That's about it.
I've tried you some tickets for notlistening to this song anymore. Pick
a different Morgan Walland song. Idon't care any other Morgan Walland song.
I just can't last now weld theliquor talk. It's in my brain like

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a tumor. It's not the tumit's a tumor. I'm gonna die if
you don't stop listening to this song. I need to get off. Serious
like waking up in cold sweats.Devil's talking to me. I can't remember,
but I have a time we say, oh, we said it all
right, before he kills me inmy dream. Just please pick pick a

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different song, man? What else? What else has been going on?
I? Oh, some hilarious ithappened at stand up last week. So
every Tuesday I go to this placein Fuquay Verena called the Feinting Goat Brewery's
like, just go check out,or you just go there and try all

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your new jokes, see what sticks, see what you need to work on
that type of thing. And eightypercent of the time there's not too many
people in there, like ten peoplein there. It feels like it's packed,
you know what I mean. Andthat's about all you need. For
example size just hey, did peoplelaugh when they weren't expecting to hear this
kind of joke? Okay, nowI can take this to a bigger stage.

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We start incorporating this joke into theact. But I walked in there
last Tuesday. There's about thirty fortypeople in there. I was like,
oh man, this is gonna beIt's gonna be nice. So a couple
of my buddies happen Page showed up. So sitting outside on the patio with
them, just catching up and Larry, the guy who runs the Feinting Goat.

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Mike comes out and he's like,Nick, we've got three comedians including
you tonight, I'm gonna have yougo last. You close it out,
all right, do as much timeas you want to do, Buddy.
I'm like, all right, coolman. So first comedian goes up,
I know who he is. He'syou know, tells a bunch of one
whiners. He's funny. Second personthat goes up, I've never seen this
person my entire life before, butI'm not thinking about it because, you

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know, talking with Happing page.And about three minutes into this person set,
like this table of six just walksout of the room. I was
like, huh, that's weird.Stinks. I guess they're not going to
be in there for when I goup, but whatever. Get back to
having a conversation. And then thisother couple walks out and they just have

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this disgusted look on their face,and I was like, hey, excuse
me. Is the comedian saying somethingthat's making y'all leave? And they're like,
Buddy, I gotta be honest.I don't know what in the good
guy they're talking about, but Idon't care for it. And I was
like, what the Like fifteen morepeople walked out and I walked back in
there. When Larry told me togo up, there were six people in

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the whole place, and I turnedto Larry. I was like, Larry,
I thought this was gonna be afun time. This is gonna turn
into some work man. You gottawork to make six people laugh. So
I've started asking the crowd. Iwas like, hey, what was that
person talking about. This guy inthe back was like, I don't know,
something about like some gay nazis fuckingand listen, buddy, I like
a crew joke between me and you. I like a crew joke, but

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this gotta be funny. And whateverthat was wasn't funny. Didn't like it.
So starting off from there but endedup being good. Tried out a
couple of new jokes, and thislady at the end, she was sitting
with her husband. They actually they'refrom Ohio, so we kind of connected
that way. I was like,the hell are you doing in fuke Way
Verena, North Carolina, And they'reright, well, we were supposed to

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be in Iceland for my friend's wedding, but of course Delta dimp and I
was like, you know what,don't care. Sorry, I'll make you
laugh. I'll try and make itas good as it can be. But
at the end of the show,she came up to me and she was
like, here, take this,hand me a twenty dollar bill. She
was like, you were funny.I was like, I can't take that.
She was like, no, no, no, you made my night.
You take this money. I neverfelt like such a dirty hole before.

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I was like, yeah, Itold my jokes, did my little
twenty thirty minutes and money here,money on the dresser. All right,
now I can leave. Thank you. Oh man. All right, let's
let's get to your headline in theweek and then I'm gonna get out of
here because I gotta go be onthe local the local news channel. I

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forgot to tell you about that.So we're going on CBS seventeen to talk
about the radio station's promotions with gotgoing on and uh so we got different
people from every radio station going upthere, and my radio station was coming
up. So our boss, theBig Boss, was like, all right,

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who do we got going on TVthis week? And the promotions director
looked it was like Nick next goingBig Boss books and he goes, is
anybody going with him? Can weget Trevor? Who's my boss? Can
we can we get him to gowith you? And I was like,
sure, you know it's pre recorded, right, I'm not gonna say anything
terrible. He's like, no,no, no, just just go it's

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fine, it don't worry about it. Just have him go. So I
got my chaperone going with me.But yeah, let's uh, let's get
your headline in the weeks. Igotta get out of here. Um.
Tourists are flocking to Death Valley toexperience possible world record heat of one hundred
and thirty one degrees. So peopleare going to Where's Death Valleys? That

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Zona? What about Clemson? NowI'm not talking about that, the actual
Death Valley like out in the desert. I think it's Arizona. So the
heat is expected or it was expectedto hit one hundred and thirty one degrees
fahrenheit on Sunday, which would haveset a world record for the hottest temperature
ever reliably recorded, according to theNational Weather Service. This is what people

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are doing on their vacations. Havewe run out of stuff to do?
Ladies and gentlemen, you want togo see how hot it is? Have
you ever had somebody ask you togo on a hike before, Like when
it's like eighty five degrees outside,You're like, no, that sounds terrible
and be sweating my balls off thewhole time. I don't want to do
that way come on and be fine. We'll see nature, and then like

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a bunch of mosquitoes hit you andyou're sweating and you're like, no,
I could have been using my weekendto sit at home in my underwear playing
video games. But we'll go ona hike. Can you imagine going to
a place with no trees, nocover, bunch rocks, rattlesnakes, and
desert spiders when it's a hundred andthirty one degrees outside. The's got to

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be the dumbest people Like this iswhere the fitness sector of social media has
gotten out of control, because Iknow that's who's going so like, oh,
okay, dude, So my bodyis a temple. All I do
is put fuel in my temple.I make gains. Is there anything tougher

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than me? No? So whatI'm gonna go do is face off with
the sun. N Yeah, you'rean idiot. Part of me hopes some
of these people passed out. Whathappened to going on a regular vacations?
Go to the beach, go tothe mountains, go to Disney World.
I don't care where you go,but let's walk through the desert when it's

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a hundred and thirty one degrees outsideto experience a world record heat You want
to know what hell feels like?Is that what you want? You heathens?
I wonder what our place is goingto feel like when we get to
hell, because that's where we're goingif we make another fitness TikTok baby.
All right, those people are idiots. Like every every week, I lose

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more and more faith in humanity.And this is why the robots are gonna
win. Nailed it. I broughtrobots robots back in. I found a
way to do it to keep myobsession going. All right, let's get
this Julia Cole interview going my chickone too. Hey, all right,
Scott, all right, I gota very special guest here. A country

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singer, a television host, hasbeen on CMT, CBS, a million
channels. We got the one theonly Julia call. How are you doing?
I am doing great. I appreciateyou coming by. So how did
you start? First of all,how did you get into singing? Because
you were telling me off air howsmart your family is? How did singing?

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Okay, I didn't say it likethat. Closet nerds is really how
I say it. Because we areI have two amazing sisters. My parents
are also our best friends. Ourfamily is really close. My dad always
called us the coal team growing upbecause we all played sports and sports actually
how I got into music, whichis the weirdest thing ever, But I

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started singing national anthems for my ownvolleyball and basketball games. That's crazy.
What did somebody not show up onegame and they're like, we need somebody.
Well, they would play it juston the you know, the recording
one and exactly. And it actuallystarted with my older sister. We did
duets for our basketball games. Sowe did duet national anthem together because they

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would hear us on the bus fromthe locker room, just kind of humming
around and stuff, and they're like, this is kind of fun, y'all
should do it together. And Imean, this is Texas high school sports,
so it actually like there was adecent crowd, so I kind of
got comfortable singing in front of people. And then she graduated and I started
doing it by myself. And thenmy volleyball coach was like, why don't

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you send a video into the TexansAnd so my dad just record a little
video of me singing the anthem.We signed into the Texans and then I
started singing for the Texans Astros,Houston, Dynamo Houston, Last Stock Show,
and Rodeo NASA like in high school, what rocket goes off? It
was a NASA Awards ceremony, andI was like, I'm actually in a

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room with the smartest people on theplanet right now, like it was at
Coates wrong. No, it wasreally crazy. It was like this cool
gala. It was the first timeI got to wear like a big fancy
gown for something, because I mean, this is high school, you know.
So I kind of fell into music, but I didn't play guitar yet.
I had never written a song.Um. And then I started to

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meet some people in the Texas countryscene and they were like, you need
to be in Nashville. That's that'swhere you need to land. And so
I went to Vandy. That's prettyawesome. I'm still just like cracking up.
But the idea of you sing inthe national anthem right before you go
give somebody like twenty points, that'sgot to be. It was like full
uniform, Like I'm sweating from warmup, like huffing and puffing from what

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we were just doing. And thenI go sing for two minutes and run
straight back out on the court andthen I'm gonna give you some buckets.
That's crazy. It was pretty fun. It was like a an extra little
side moment of starting the music world. But I had no intention of going
into music until my volleyball coach hadme start doing it for like the big

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events in Houston. And I actuallyremember the very first time I sang for
the Texans. I didn't know thatthey had, you know, jets flying
over and everything had a time limit, like they needed me to sing it
at an exact this needs to bewhatever ninety seconds or you got to hit
the rockets, red gotta hit.Everything has to be right, and I
and I'd always sing it a differentway, and so I remember, like

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our family, being the sports familywe are, my dad got his little
stop watching sat in the back andhe was like, all right, go
and so we started like trying toshave down the anthem, to cut it
down for the right speed, Andan hour later I was in front of
seventy five thousand people doing it ina completely different way than I'd ever done
it. So I was like,if I can do that, I can
probably Yeah, I'm gonna be famous. Yeah, that's pretty incredible, man.

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So you go to Nashville, Well, first of all, who are
your favorite Texas country singers? Becausethat's what I found out when I lived
in Texas. There's a staunch difference. Oh no, that's Nashville country little
yes, ye, yes. Sowho are your Texans friends with a bunch
of the people in Texas country scene, And Brie Bagwell is one of my
favorite people. She's the biggest femalein Texas country. And then I've opened

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for Kevin Fowler there and I actuallyhave a cut on Kyle Park's record.
He's one of the Texas country artistswho just has such fun music and his
concerts are amazing. He's so greatlive. And then Cody Johnson, I
mean, we can't even pretend likethe whole world isn't obsessed with him,
and he actually was so nice.I met him at the CMT Artists of

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the Year Awards and you know,they were putting all of us together,
like why did you get a photoof the artists? And after I tell
I was like, by the way, I'm from Houston and watching everything you
did with the Houston Livestock showan rodeo, which is kind of how he got
his big break. He was thefirst independent artist to sell out the Houston
Livestock Sean Rodeo because he was fillingin for I think it was Lady Annabellum
had um like a death in thefamily or something and had to pull out

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of the show. And he camein, saved the day and just like
lit the arena up. It wasso amazing and I told him, I
was like, you've inspired me,and he said, I built the bridge.
Now you have to cross over andkeep this going. I was like,
yes, sir, whatever you say. He's so legitimate. One of
my friends co writes a bunch ofstuff for him, and he was like

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when I went to the last numberone party for Cody Johnson, and this
guy's like a tall, athletic,like big manly man. He was like,
I felt like the least manly manin that room. Everyone was like
a legitimate cowboy who had been thrownoff of like two thousand pound bulls.
And I was over here like,I write songs. All right, Hey
guys, that is awesome. Allright, So get to Nashville do your

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stuff. How did the Circle Network? What is it? The Ultimate fan
Fest? I got a call oneday it was like, I've actually hosted
a few different things. I wouldhost writers rounds that I was fundraising for
the Boys and Girls Club, andso I'd bring a bunch of my friends
who had written number one songs orwere artists who had songs on the Highway
or things like that coming up,and we'd do writers rounds where everyone tells

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stories about their songs and performs them, and I would host it as well
as play just a little bit.But I was mainly introducing people, hyping
them up, telling the crowd like, why is this person super amazing because
a lot of people don't know thesongwriters behind the scenes. I'm like,
no, they have like ten numberones coming up exactly. You know.
I love being the hype guy,and so I kind of started hosting some

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things around town. During COVID,I did this Cold Team Quarantine series on
Instagram, hosting pro athletes and modelsand TV stars and obviously there musicians to
just talk about how they were gettingthrough the pandemic and motivate people, inspire
people to keep going, and soall these things kind of built up and
I was like, I guess Ido host. I actually got oast I

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got asked to co host series XMThe Highway, and I was like,
this might be a conflict of interestbecause I have music also, But then
you weren't going to slide your ownstuff, you know, Like I feel
like it would have just felt likecheesy or weird. It's amazing every time
they asked me, well, whatdid you do this weekend, and it's
all just going to sound like aplug because I'm like, oh, I
was performing this weekend, because I'malways performing every weekend. So I didn't

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end up doing that. But whenI got the call asked to come and
host this television series going to musicfestivals, it was such an organic fit
because I go to music festivals toperform all the time, but I'm always
stuck backstage. It's like, soI get to go experience the real culture
and lifestyle of every festival. NowI'm in sign me up. I mean
that sounds like an amazing show.So basically, you go to a festival,

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you kind of take everybody backstage,but also you're hanging out with everybody.
I got to golf with Darius Rucker, I got to play ping pong
against some of the indy car driversat the Music City Grand Prix while I
interviewed them about how they got intorace car driving and I got in a
Mantra truck, went mushing with sleddogs, taste tested every different thing you
can think of from all over thecountry. I mean, there was just

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whatever that local delicacy was. Yougot to try the best barbecue, the
most random, scary things. Ihad to eat in some places because it
was just what the locals did.What's the weirdest thing you had to eat?
I feel like I'm not allowed toeven say it because it sounds like
a cussword in my head, butit's like, just imagine like the lower
part of a bowl that you wouldn'twant to eat Colorado. What do they

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call? What are bull nuts?Golf? I can't even I mean it's
in the show. If you wantto find out, watch the show.
But I was like, I promisemyself, I'm like, I'm never ever
talking about what about saying that wordagain? I'm sorry that it was actually
really funny because it didn't taste bad. And I'm like, well, they
just fry you de fry anything andstock shown Rodeo where we actually did The

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State Fair of Texas is one ofthe episodes we did. But I grew
up going to the Houston Livestock showanrodeo, and I mean the first time
I went to one of those placesthat just has like eighteen different things fried.
You can get fried oreos, friedmarshmallows, fried fried, but you
literally can order fried butter, andit's like, why is this so delicious?
And they all taste the same,even though there's something completely different inside

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them. All Right, So,how like I don't have cable, so
how how do I watch your show? I think the easiest way to give
people that information is if they justhit me up on Instagram at Julia Coole
Music or check out Circle all Accessdot com and you can find all the

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different directions. There are a bunchof different ways to access it. And
we're about to launch an app forCircle TV, which will make it just
as easy as you know, logginginto a different streaming platform site. That's
what's up. And then it's afree app, so it should be very
easy for people to no, no, no, it is free. That

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is awesome. Um, I feellike there's something else I wanted to ask
you, but I can't remember rightnow. You got anything else? To
plug or something you're excited about,Like, what what's this next year looking
like for you? Because it soundslike you already shot what's going in the
show. Now you just actually haveto go there or have it play out.
But what are you excited about forthe rest of the year. It's
been an amazing last year. Everythingkind of started taking off. And the

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craziest thing, so it took meuntil I guess last July I broke one
hundred million streams and it's been mywhole career trying to get to that number.
And then I'm already about to breaktwo hundred million. So it's just
crazy. How through social media,through I guess, performing at the Grand
Ole Opry and some of these differentyou know, new team members and family

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members I have on the Coal team, How the music is reaching so many
more people, and um about toput an album out. I've got some
of the singles from the album arealready released, but that is going to
be an exciting little bow tied onit when I get to put the full
album out. It sounds like anawesome year. Man, What's what's the
name of the album going to becalled? That's what I'm still deciding that's

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because like, well, yeah,the last album, I named it like
just Julia Cole. And I've seensome people who will just do like Volume
two or something like that, orthey'll name it just the title track of
one of the songs. And Imight do that. I might name it
after a song that's going to beon the record. But part of me
is like, it's it's more thanjust that one song, so I might
have to just create my own.That's part of what this last decision making

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processes. But I guarantee you canfind it Unduly Cole sites everywhere. So
there you go, last quite becauseyou brought it up and I remembered what
was it like performing at the GrandOld Opery, Like just for the first
time walking out there, walked methrough what that was like, because you
already said, well, you sangyou know at Energy Stadium, Houston Rodeo

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in front of NASA, So likewhat was the barometer of excitement nervousness or
you were just like Nope, thisis where I'm supposed to be. It's
probably the only show I've ever beennervous for, and I think the reason
is because I'm so close to myfamily and even my extended family, and
this was one of the first showsthat everybody came to, Like there were

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forty people from Texas and Louisiana thatcame to my grand O Opery debut from
my family, and I was reallynervous. I'm like, this is the
first time they're really seeing me performbecause I'm all over the country. They
can't just come to random shows,right. And my grandfather, who loved
the opera more than anybody, passedaway right before my opera debut, and

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I was able to ask him beforehe passed away if I could wear something
of his on the Opry stage.So he gave me all his old western
wear shirts. And my friend Kellywith the Bluff Agency designed my dress with
Poppy's fabric, and now it's turnedinto my whole wardrobe. Like my guitar
strap has poppy fabric. This isall from my grandpa's shirt, my belt

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is and it's just like every pieceof wardrobe that I wear in the show
from post him passing all has Poppypieces. And I got to sing a
song to his wife, Maudie thatI wrote for her on the grand Ole
Opry stage as my debut, andshe was there. It was like it
was such a moment for reasons soso much more than like, oh,

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your career is doing well, likethat wasn't it at all. It was
it was a family like I gotto experience this with the people who mean
the most in the world to me, and there's nothing like that. That's
incredible. Man. Yeah, it'sa lot different when you're performing in from
like your family and friends, becauseif you, you know, have a
bad set in front of strangers,it's like who cares? Right, But

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you got to show up to Thanksgivingand Christmas exactly exactly. Hey, Julia,
I appreciate you taking the time andtalk to me and stopping buy and
I'm excited for everything you got goingon one more time. You want to
plug the show, Circle's Ultimate FanFast you can find it, message me
on Instagram at Julia Cole Music,or you can go to Circle all Access

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dot com to get the details.Thanks to Cold Money for Cold Money,
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