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Speaker 1 (00:02):
Welcome to episode two foot four. We do a couple
of things here. Coming up, we'll talk to Ruthie Collins,
who's the new artist I think you guys are like,
we'll play our new music game show with Adam Hamburg
versus just someone who listens to this show, and if
Adam wins, he gets to promote whatever he wants, and
if the listener wins, they get fifty bucks. I'll bend
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moode them immediately, which we're gonna do this just on zoom.
But Adam was like, hey, you've been being safe with Corona, right.
I was like, yeah, not only that, I tested negative.
That's like my calling card now when someone's like, hey,
I believe what were you talking about? I'm testing negative.
You do whatever you want with me, touch me, like me,
I'm good. I think I'm gonna go again next week. Really,
because I just enjoyed being able to tell people I
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just tested negative. And also there's the responsible part of
it too. But yeah, I think, so have you have
you get tested yet? I haven't know. Man, it's all
the cool kids are doing it, okay, get it first,
all the cool kids wearing masks. Yeah, I do that now,
all the cool kids are getting tested so they can go, hey,
all good here, So we'll do new music now, let's
start at number five. This week, Lori McKenna put out
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a new album called The Balladeer, a Little Big Town's
Karen Fairchild and Kimberly Schlapman guest starring a song called
This Town as a Woman is a Woman Girl. Laurie
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is one of the love junkies who wrote just for
one of the songs of the Mini for A Little
Big Town Girl Crush, so they definitely have a relationship there.
Kaylee Hammock put out a new cover song with Alan
Jackson called Lord. I Hope this Day is Good, which
is a Don Williams song, but her and Alan Jackson
are together. Here you Go says great. I hope this
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stays is good. It's good one. Tim McGraw has a
new song I called Hallelujahville. It's another track from his
upcoming album Here on Earth. It comes out August twenty one,
and here is that song, Can I Get in Amy
Living in Hallelujah. Blake Shelton and Win Stefani have put
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out another duet and it is called Happy Anywhere. I
Swear to be Happy anywhere location, You're as my distanation
kill the other thing that I'm changing before I get
to number one. I expected to have Kanye on this
top five, but there's no Kanye record today. It's not out.
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Why do you think that is? Because he said it
was coming out today. I think he always does this.
He said he's gonna put out an album and then
he comes out like a month later. Do you think
a little bit of it could have been Well, I'm
gonna give it. Give you two scenarios. One, whatever is
going on with him psychologically? Not sure? You know he
had some people are saying a breakdown. Do you think
it has anything to do with that? Or Two? Because
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Taylor put out this record kind of surprised everybody with it,
but they kind of pulled back because they didn't want
to be number two or be overshadowed. I don't think
that factors in either one. I don't. I just think that,
like the last two albums he's put out, He's like,
I'm gonna drop it on this day and it ends
up coming out so much later. I think this is
kind of what he does well. Number one is Taylor
Swift's new album. She put it out called Folklore. This
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is their eighth album, just announced yesterday, just popped up
in a tweet, and she has a song featuring Bonavit
called Exile. I was talking to Lauren from it sounds
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like Nashville, and I said, hey, because she was that
tweeting about it. I said, if you've listened to this
whole record, because we record this on Friday morning, I said,
if you listen to this whole thing already, I want
to talk to you. And because she's a diehard Tales
With fan, She's like, I haven't got all the way
through it. I've been working. So I was trying to
get someone on let's listen to the whole thing already
to give me. But here's the thing, someone listen to
the whole thing is gonna be a die hard fan.
But still I'm curious to know how much have you
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listened to I forgot about four tracks in and I
like it's slower, different. Yeah, that's that's my question. What's
the difference. It's more i'd say more emo India's sounding,
and just very slow piano driven. There any big pop
songs on there? Not so far. Now, how many tracks
are on the record? Do you remember I think it's sixteen. Wow,
that's a lot of tracks. Logic and this is not
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in the top five, but just a little extra here.
The rapper Logic put out his final album called No Pressure.
Here's the song called hit my Line. I think it's
gonna be a good day's So I think I'm retiring
too from this podcast. Okay, I'm gonna retire, but in reality,
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I'll come back next Friday to do it again. He'll
do the same thing. There's no reason trying to jump
out right now. He may take a long break, but
I don't think he's retired for sure. Taylor Acorn put
out a cover of Matchbox twenties. Unwell, I'm not crazy.
I'm just a little well. No, Rod, No, you can't
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but stay well. Maybe then he'll say, differenson of me.
I'm not crazy, I'm just a little impaired. No, Rod, No,
you don't care. But soon enough you're gonna think of me.
I used to be I love Matchbox twenty and I
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liked that song. I think I like her version because
I hear it a little differently. The Matchbox twenty version
is a little more, a little brighter, and I don't
think you're really get the effect that I get with
this version of it, because I don't listen to the
lyrics a lot unless it's really slown down. I don't
listen to the lyrics. I like this version. I can't
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say it's better because it's derivative, but I do enjoy
this with me, so I sing it. That's good. Nice job,
Taylor Corn. What do you think about that? Mike? Yeah,
I mean too. I just hear the words different, like
it hits me different. Uh. Kanye West, Donda, we mentioned
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that earlier he announced the release, and I mean again,
I'll mentioned it real quick. It's not out as of
this podcast recording. If it comes out at six pm
or over the weekend, we weren't able to get it.
Most music comes out at midnight Eastern Friday morning. It
was not there. All Resellers has a new song called
Somebody's Watching Check that out. Levi Hummed has a new
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song called Good Taste. Mickey Guidan has got a new
song out called Heaven Down Here. Hardy has a new
long out called Give Him Some Hell. Neon Trees, Now,
do you have a clip of Neon Trees big song
for Back in the Day, Because for a minute these
guys were just smashing it. Neon Trees have a new
album out called I Can Feel You Forgetting Me. It
is their fourth album Back in the Day. Yeah, or
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is this called Animal? They came and played this in
our studio back in the day. I wouldn't see him live,
you did, but they did pretty good. What's the course
of song? Sound like? It's here? We got waiting for?
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I want some more? What are you waiting for? What
are you waiting for? Bagging out of Heart? And then finally,
super Tonic Mixes is out from Diana Ross. It's a
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mixtape of her number one hits. That's all the new
music out this week. We'll take a quick little break
and we'll come back with Adam Hambrick and a listener.
Who's the listener we have has a lot, a lot
already connected with you today. She's ready to go, Ready
to go. They'll play music trivia and the winner it
gets either money or promotion. By the way, Hamburg gets
no promotion if you lose it. He's just a guy.
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We'll do that next. All right, Welcome to a brand
news segment on the show. I don't really have a
name for it yet. Music Trivia against the musician. I
don't know. That's a working title. Each week we'll come
up with a better name. Stay tuned on the phone
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right now is a listener named Alana. Hey, Lona, how
are you? I'm great? How are you? I'm pretty good?
Where do you live? I live in Arlington, Virginia, just
outside DC. Well do you feel like you're a pretty
proficient in music? Um? I guess I don't know what
a category? Yeah, that's what. That's the deal. That's pretty
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tough because it is Adam Hambrick's here too, who We're
just gonna say as a guy at this point, because
you only get to talk about what you do if
you win. Like that's that's what you're playing. Your promotion
is if you win her deal. If she wins, she
wins fifty and I've been mowing to her immediately, So
Adam Hambrick right now just to get just my friend
who stopped by just that's but that's why you want
to win. That's why I want to win, because we have,
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you know, a million people listen to Thing a month,
and you want to make sure that from those lips
they get to hear what you're working on right now advertised, right,
all right, Atlanta, So what are you doing right us
in DC? Um? I work at a professional organization association.
That is the most generic term for a job. I've
ever heard a professional association of organism. What is it again? Um,
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it's a professional association for country club managers. You're a spy,
aren't you? That's always what they say that, Like, you know,
I work in an organization of places? Yeah, what does
that mean? Okay, well, you are a spy? And which
was the first spy we've ever had on the show? Um?
So you'll each get five questions, and I have a
whole other set in case there is a tie. Now, Adam,
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since you're the celebrity, you get to pick. Do you
want to go first or second? I'll go second. Okay, ladies, first,
you're at first, Atlanta, you get you get your first question?
Which country singer? Which famous country singer wrote Patsy Klein's
hit crazy Correct? Wow? Wow, look at her she comes
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out swinging. Adam Hambrike, who was the first country artist
to sell over ten million copies of an albums Correct
is his self titled debut album, We Are at Wonder
One Atlanta. Which song by the band's Survivor was the
theme song for the nineteen two movie Rocky three. Um,
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the band was Survivor. They put out a song. What
was that song? Oh gosh, five seconds. You know it's
gonna bum you out when you miss it. Time is up.
We put a little clock on you in case you
try to google, which we know you would never do
because you are a professional organization of management associates and
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that is not what you guys are about. That is
I the tiger. It's the of the tiger, ready to
fight going? You know that? All right? Adam which country
legend a member of the Grand Ol Operation since hired
by the Eagles following the death of Glenn Fry. He
was Tiff finsqu Oh, Yeah, that is correct, Adam take
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the lead by one Atlanta. Which artist whose hits include
Born to Run and Glory Days has the nickname the
ball Us his nickname? Correct? Yeah, there you go, There
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you go, Adam Handbrick, Which famous composer created some of
his greatest music while he was going deaf? Beethoven? Correct?
Was that a guest? Or? Do you know? Pretty confident
about that? You feel good about? You had the tone
of Beethoven Beethoven Atlanta, which music icon began his career
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as a member of the group The Whalers, which music
icon began his career as a member of the group.
They were called the Whalers. I have no idea. The
answer was Bob Marley. That's incorrect, Bob Marley and the Whalers. Adam,
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which two country singers teamed out for the two thousand
three hits Beer for My Horses. Oh, that would be
Toby Keith and Willie Nelson. Y'all. He's not gonna miss one, folks.
That's a that's a great song. That's one of my
that'st one of my favorite country songs of that decade.
To be honest Atlanta, which British singer teamed up with
Queen in nineteen eight one for the hit under Pressure. Um,
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that's incorrect. It was Vanilla Ice, that's what it was done.
It was David Bowie Atlanta. You didn't win, but man,
you played the heck of a game. You came out
strong when you hit that first one, and you knew.
Willie Nelson wrote crazy, I thought we gotta contect. Yeah,
because I didn't know that one. I didn't know that
when I was I felt ashamed of my country fanhood
for a second. Well, Atlanta, you did not win fifty dollars,
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but that was very cool to have you on the show.
What's Happening Today at work? Um, not a whole lot
working from home? You know, quarantine in a way, it's
new world. Yeah, you weren't a mask when you go out. Nice.
I did a poll on Twitter and on Facebook because
I wanted to see the demographic difference. And when I
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asked about masks, because listen, I don't like to wear
a mask, but I do it because it's most likely
the socially responsible thing to do so. And if you
just say most likely that it's most likely you're gonna
help somebody, I'm all in because I would want somebody
to most likely help me, because I can't prove what
goes out through a mask. But what I'm listening to
is most scientists, you know, are the overwhelming amount of
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scientists are saying this doesn't isn't the end all be all.
But if you wear one and they wear one, there
is the probability that it could stop in the middle
of that somewhere. And so, um, Michael is my point.
I don't know. I got into a whole little pivot
there even know what I was talking about. Oh no, no,
my I gotta, I gotta. So I'll put on Twitter
and Facebook to see the difference in demographics. And on Twitter,
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I said, hey, just taking a poll of the folks
that are uh following me? Here should we would be
wearing a mask? You wear a mask? And it was
I think a D five And so I posted that
on my Instagram story and a lot of people said, well,
if you do that on Facebook, you're gonna see that
Facebook's probably sixty the other way. And I was like,
I don't think so, Like I have faith in most humans.
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And so I put it on Facebook, and it was
a bit different because the it definitely excused as Twitter
does to the left a bit and and and being progressive,
Facebook does the same thing to the right of being conservative,
and but it was still only then, so it was
I was actually pretty proud of those results for Twitter
and Facebook, the most left and the most right being
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pretty right on with each other. So anyway, all that
to say, Atlantic, good for you. I'm proud of that.
Thank you for playing. I hope you have a great
day at work. And it was really cool talking to you. Yeah,
thanks for having me appreciate all right, there she is
gonna say goodbye to her. Now, well, now it comes
a part of the show that we have to do what.
Uh So I don't just told me he lives. We're
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not gonna say where. Somebody found my address and it's
already sent to be fan mail. I've moved. How in
the world can somebody find out where I live already? Dude,
I don't know, the World's a crazy everything is supposedly
locked down quote unquote. Yeah, but so if you find me,
just know that Adam lives within five miles on me. Now.
He came over and was like, dang, I live super
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close to you. So what are you guys doing? Is
your wife still working? She's working in the hospital. Yeah,
she works at the at the some of the walking
clinics for Vanderbilts. Are they testing COVID? They are, she's
she's doing a lot of that testing. Man, it's been
it's been pretty pretty intent. Do you get a discount
on test you know? Family buying bulk? Yeah? Every night? Now,
I think they do. They do a thing for their employees,
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but I don't think it extends to family. So have
you been tested? I have not been tested and so
but but she's done like the antibody test and she
came back like didn't have any of the the antibodies, Like
she hasn't had it at all. So that's that's a
big that's a big win for us. I got tested
three days ago and it really wasn't as intense as
some make it think. Was it a brain tickle because
now they do it a little bit farther out where
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you don't have to go all the way up into
your It wasn't a brain tickle. But it definitely wasn't
the swab in the top of the notes like it
went deep enough for I was like, oh yeah, but
people act like they stick that thing you know, into
your nose and it comes out your peep hole like
it makes the whole circle. I mean, uh, like, my
wife's tested people and they've passed who passed out? Yeah,
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maybe they've just gotten a little better at at at
doing the test maybe, So I don't know. So, you know,
we've all been locked up. What have you been working on, dude?
I've been working on music, which has been awesome. Does
that mean writing music or or like actually posting some
stuff both. Um. So we like there were three there
were three songs that we cut during quarantine, um and
uh and we just kind of like went back and forth,
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like me and my producer, uh, Andrew Roberts, We just
kind of like ping pong back and forth. Like I
would send a guitar vocal and he would he would
build the track and I'd come back and like do
final vocals? What are you doing these in your house?
You have a little set up there, you know, I do. Yeah,
I have a little setup. We just we just moved
this summer, and uh in the house we were in,
I just had a little fold up our table in
the corner of our small bedroom, you know, and I
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had to like pick it up and take it down.
Now I got a little space in the new in
the new spot. And so uh so, yeah, we've just
been been cutting vocals on on some tracks. I got
some new stuff coming uh next month that I'm really
excited about. So this is so in August or um
in August. Uh So what's the what's the plan is
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it gonna be? You're putting on new three new songs
at once? No? No? So, uh so We're gonna do
kind of a series. I'm calling them flip sides. Uh,
two song drops and uh and we're kind of we're
gonna put the first one out at the end of
August and it's called Top Down Southbound. It's a series,
just just two songs, and uh, we're gonna do a
series of these through uh through the end of the
year and the top of the spring, and uh, we're
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excited about it. Exa I finally put out like some
new music that that that we're really pumped about. If
someone doesn't know your music and everything that's up streaming
right now, what's the one song, Michael, pull it up here.
What's the one song you would be like, this song
right now best personifies who I am as an artist.
What's the one song people can stream right now? The
one song I would I would probably say, all you,
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all night, all summer, good thing for us. Mike has
it ready to go bad? In the West shot was
Baffy Crank with the does of the Cheap Bones Farm
on his Livings and a small I was all, are
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you doing anything virtual where you're actually been able to
make a little money at all? You know, I haven't
haven't done that because I'm still a new artist. I
haven't like fully developed the you know, developed the audience
yet where I feel like somebody's gonna pay twenty dollars
to watch me play songs from my office, right you know. Um,
But but kind of kind of starting to build in
that with this release. We're gonna do some more virtual shows,
you can do some more live streams and all that stuff.
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So yeah, we're fired to follow him. Adam Hamburg, you
can build that fan base he's talking about that he
doesn't have yet. He should have it, though, Adam Hambrick,
that's it. Hey, you win, You're you want to know,
you know what. I feel really good about that because
because you text me last night and I was like,
you know, I don't know if I actually know music
trivia or if I'm just in music, like there's a
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you know, because I didn't grow up the biggest music fan.
It wasn't really I don't think, how do you grow
up not a music fan? Well, it's weird. My family
there there musical people, and we sang songs in church.
But I wasn't like introduced to like music at large,
like popular music and stuff until like high school and
college and and uh so like some of that stuff
just kind of came by way of being around. But
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when did you start learning how to play music? Just
in in the church, Like I sang my whole life,
but then I started playing guitar when I was twelve,
so that's early. Yeah, Like I didn't get introduced to
any sort of music playing, which compared to you, I don't,
but I do enough to be able to, you know,
perform and especially do comedy until you know, I went
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to a pawn shop when I was eighteen or nineteen
and bought a Walmart page and played course, So I
would say you were introduced way earlier than I was.
But I just it was just the radio, man, Yeah,
that that was. That was all. I knew the songs
on the radio. But like, we didn't have Google back then,
so we're like you just yes, Tracy Lawrence paying me
at Birmingham, you know, like but you don't but you
don't know who wrote the song or who you know,
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so so it was kind of different. I just I
just listened to the radio. That was. That was the
extent of my music. What was your station growing up?
Like the top three stations in the format growing up?
Kissing NINETI six and Little Rock that was I mean,
that was it. That was the only station we listened to, really. Yeah. Yeah,
So Kissing ninety six is one of mine too. It
probably wouldn't be the it would be one of the biggest,
but Bob Robbins did mornings, and I'm on that station now. Um,
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so you know, Kissing ninety six Cool ninety five out
of Little Rock was an oldies station and I listened
to all the time. I mean, I think that's why
I feel pretty pretty strong with music from the late
fifties all the way up to probably the early seventies.
I kind of lose some of that late seventies early eighties.
I'm kind of out a little bit when it starts
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to go to the r O Speedwagon stuff. That's because
that wasn't on oldies, and it also wasn't new which
was nineties for me. So it wasn't history, and it
wasn't President. It was kind of this weird purgatory of
music I never cared about getting into. But it was
the pop station kla Z, which my first radio station
ever worked on. Yeah, that was a good one too.
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And and so I grew up a lot in in Mississippi,
so Uh. So, like when I was when I was
really young, till I was like eight years old, we
lived in Arkansas and it was it was all country.
And then I went to I went like moved to Mississippi.
They didn't even really have like any radio stations really
like in the town Corinth, what was it near Um
It was about an hour from Tupelo, and so we
could kind of get a Tupelo station, but you know,
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there wasn't like there was no poperating man. That would
suck if there was no radio. Yeah, we're in such
a rural area that you're not even close enough to
a tower from metropolitan area. Yep. So I just had tapes,
you know at that point, so we just had like
I had Garth no fences on a bootleg, you know
that my that my uncle gave me. And then you know,
like I would get a tape every Christmas and it
was usually Alan Jackson. You know what we would do
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is I would hit hit up some friends. They would
hit me up too, but I didn't have as cool
of stations to them. But I had friends and dialaists
who I would be like, hey, man, take a tape
and we'll just record an hour of the Edge and
then flip it around and record an hour of the
Edge and then mail it to me because you couldn't
listen on the internet. There was no streaming. There was
there's nothing like that, And so they would take a
blank assette and just record an hour of the Edge.
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Yeah that's what we are now. And I would get
that tape and it would be commercials and everything, and
you know, the first time, I will listen all the
way through, just to the whole hour, but then after
that would go through songs. But it was like the
Stabbing Westward Live. It was all that that version of
alternative music. And I was like, I gotta tape from
the Edge and this is so freaking cool. Hey, Mike,
So how old do you can you remember non streaming radio? Yeah, okay,
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I don't really know where that cut off is. Where
it's when you had to listen to radio stations and
not just radio stations, but you had to listen to
them to rush really through it through a tower. Yeah,
so I think I think it was when I was
in college, was the first time I was able to
listen to streaming. Yeah, anything streamed from from somewhere else.
It was like late college to you whatever, ad I'm
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going to see you many good to see it too.
Thanks for what's going to do this weekend? This weekend?
Uh well, I was supposed to go to a wedding
um and so my my my wife and my oldest
daughter who's a flower girl. They went to Oklahoma City
and so I got the baby now and we're here
because I have a couple. I got a TV thing,
a super download TV thing that I have to uh
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not get COVID before. So I'm funny you say that
because I can't get I've been laydlow two because my
nat Geo show was abous to start next week. We
just got delayed again. But they're like, you can't get
COVID because the whole production shuts down. So I haven't
been to the gym. And I owned three gyms and
I felt like we do the safest, but I'm so hyper.
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That's why I got tested to honestly for sure, because
Eddie got it. Yeah, Tim, my head security guy got it.
They all got on vacation like we went away, and
apparently they just went but wild and COVID land. I
talked to Eddie this week. He's he said he was
being super careful. He was. He, well, you don't say
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you're super careful when you go to Florida for vacation.
I love Florida and and and you're got all the
windows down driving through and you get it. And they're
a big part of why I've been able to have
the success I have just Florida in general. However, I
think they would all admit to it's pretty bad down there,
like Florida and California is a real struggle right now
for for COVID. But Ed he's like, oh, we're going
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on to vacation. One of the beach and the funny
part was Lunchbox and Raimundo from the radio show went
to Vegas for Raymundo's bachelor party. Eddie and I stayed away.
We're not can't get COVID. I had the TV show
to worry about. And he's like, you guys are gonna
get COVID. Ha ha ha. And then he goes to Florida,
comes back. It's like he called me. It was like COVID.
(25:58):
He said, I have coronavirus. Coronavirus. He's the full he's
the full term. Uh so, but yeah, I like you,
I'm not allowed to get it or it just delays
not only my job and recording, but all the crew.
There's there's so much, there's so many jobs and so
many people who are like counting on on stuff and
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they're just like so tentatively doing the TV stuff and uh.
And the thing that's the thing, like if you show
up on set and you have COVID, they shut everything down,
millions of dollars down. The two people don't have jobs anymore.
It's a it's a thing. So you have to be
real careful with us. It's as soon as if I
get on an airplane, I have to get tested as
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soon as I land, and then I have to wait
twenty four hours for that test. So then I have
to get to the set a day early. And then
once I get the negative, I get to go into
the shooting three day bubble because we as soon as
you're in the bubble, you don't get to leave. So
then we go into the bubble because we have the
bureaucracy of Disney nat G O because Disney owns not you,
but they're two different entities as well, and BBC, which
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is my production company that I'm I'm working with, so
we're just and good for them, but it's just the
pain in the butt. Yeah, and they all have different process.
We we we got to go through all of them. So
we're supposed to go to Montana, not next week, but
I think the week after that. Now you're allowed to
say where in Montana? Yeah, I think so. I mean
I have the whole Montana is awesome. Let me see,
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I'm going to near Bozeman, but I have the entire girl.
Like I was supposed to go do a wrestler wrestle
of these female wrestlers, they're they're professtional wrestlers, but COVID
shut down that idea because she's a stuntwoman in a
wrestler and we're gonna be a tag team and wrestle
to other wrestlers, female wrestlers. But they were like, this
is like, you can't wrestle during COVID. You're gonna hear
something funny. Fifth grade me swore up and down I
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was gonna be a professional wrestler. That's what I wanted
to do with my life when I was Who was
your guy? You know? I love the nineteen eighties nineteen
nineties cartoonish like wwf WW, like full steroid guys full
steroid old Cogan like one guy was stereotypical. Who was
your one guy? I mean it was probably whole Cogan
like stereo generic. Just when when he made that flit
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with the w c W, I was like, I'm all in,
I'm all in. I was way into wrestling then too.
I was a blonde haired Sting guy though because I
was young, you know, when he went to the black
hair Sting, it got a little weird. I liked it.
He was like the scorpion, but we never saw enough
of him after that. He came in did like company
ratlers and then go back. But yes, Sting. And in
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my first book that I wrote, I wrote a think
about Sting and he signed he I don't know how
he got a copy of it, but he signed the
book and said, hey, thanks man, send me my own
book back. He signed over the part, and so did
Mark Grace, who's my favorite baseball player of all time.
Because Big Cup stand all I listen. We've gone on
and on. Everybody be safe. We have an interview with
Ruthie Collins coming up in a second. You familiar with
Ruthie Collins big fan of her voice? Are you? It
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was fantastic. I have never seen her play. I've only
listened to her on Instagram, listened to her music, met
her twice now. I went up tour in the airport.
I think we touch on this briefly, but I saw
her and she's really good friends with Natalie Stoveball, who
I'm obviously super close to, and Nikita Carmen, who I mean,
I'm freaking brought from Australia to the States. They run
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really tired. But I never met Ruthine and went happened.
I was like, Hey, I feel like I know you.
I just want to come and say hi, and she
goes we met before, and I was like, oh, I'm
such a dude. I didn't remember. But that's just how
do she I am? Apparently it was at St. Jude,
like my first year in town, so that by the
whole thing long time. Yeah, all right, so Ruthie Collins
coming on. Also, go ahead and ask Ruthie about I've
(29:38):
already done the interview. I can't. We did need it's
a podcast. He thinks we have her on the phone
ready to go. What are you gonna tell me to ask?
She she she met she had met me, like we
kind of known each other. It was like right after
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I moved the town and I show up. We're playing
in the show, um and I'm in the round with her. Um.
But then then she comes up to me and she
gets me a big hug and she goes, Scott, I'm
so glad you're here. You were you were late? And
I said, um, First off, I'm not late. Second off,
I'm not sky And her bass player walks in. His
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name is Scott mulbi Hill doppelganger looking just like me,
And I'm like, no, no, this cannot be. Did you
ever play early when you moved to town around and
when you look back, You're like, oh, it's really cool.
I got to play around with that person before they
kind of popped, like before they were anything. But who
was that? My first round at the Bluebird UM Like
it was hilarious because I like literally had a rider
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truck full of my crab from Arkansas, like pulled up
behind the Bluebird, got out of the rider truck, came
in and played around and it was an as cap
like discovery kind of round. It was me and Kelsey
Ballerini and Forest Whitehead. He produces Kelsey or did Yeah,
I don't know if it still does, but definitely did
is he Is he doing music, you know, Forest of
Music his own thing now? Oh, I mean he's just
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producing and writing. Okay, yeah, he's amazing. I've I've written
a bunch of great songs before us. All right, we're
now done. Let's go here, take a break, and then
uh I'll ask Ruthie about Scott. We'll just insert it
in all right. Here, Follow Adam at Adam Hambrike the
one thing you should. It will give you good luck
if you follow Adam today on Instagram at Adam Handbrake.
(31:22):
If you don't, you have bad luck. And I'm putting
that on you right now. But if you do, you
have great luck, like a broken mirror. That's right, all right,
thanks guys. Ruthie, how are you? I'm great? How are you?
It's pretty good. I think this is the first time
we've ever Well, the weird thing about us is I
feel like I know you and we've only met a
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couple of times ever, which is weird. Yeah, in strange
circumstances too. You know. I saw it at the airport
a couple of months ago, and I thought that was
the first time we met. But I guess we met
with Kelsey about once one time in an elevator. Not
that I have a weird I think it was like
at St. Jude's in an elevator with Kelsy. What were
you doing with Kelsey? I think you were with Kelsey?
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Oh okay, well maybe so yeah, something like that. When
you said that, I was like, what were you doing
with Kelsey? Were guys doing a little uh side project?
But I guess if I was with Kelsey that makes sense. Well,
it was good to have you on here. I was
looking at your instagram. Um, I'm gonna play a couple
of these songs. First, let me play Joshua Tree, this
is a room a million Stars will Here's a song
(32:41):
called Dang Dallas. The album is out now, you can
stream it. You can even buy it on vinyl. So
what is that vinyl process? Like you have to go
somewhere and go, hey, let's make this album on vinyl,
and do you have to pay for all that you do?
I've actually been begging my record label Vinyl for years
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and this time they were just like, hey, so we
were thinking it would be a good idea to do vinyl.
I was like, yes, I agree, great idea, so the
process this time was pretty easy for me. I got
to say, but I'm thrilled. Thrilled. I fine, we had Vinyl.
So your friends with Natalie, right, Natalie Stoball and I
think that's how we all kind of are in this article.
With Natalie and I are close. But Natalie went to
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to music school in Boston. Is that is that where
you went to Is that where you guys met? It is? Yes,
we met at Berkeley and then when I moved to Nashville,
I lived with her husband. Before she did that, we
were roommates. But that's always our funny story. So you
went to Boston to music school knowing that you wanted
to do what? Like, what did you study of there?
I studied songwriting? But if I'm honest with you, it
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was honestly just because I wasn't good at anything else
in life beside music, so I thought let's give this
a shot with I mean, people, where I come from,
music is just not like a huge thing there. So
I didn't have really big aspirations until I moved to Nashville. Um,
it just wasn't something that people did where I was from.
So it's sort of just like, let's just see what happens.
It seems like a you know, cool college and you
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could made your own commercial music. So I thought that
was fun. And I met my best friends there, so
it was a great experience. I feel like you're downplaying
it a little bit because anybody I know that went
to Berkeley, they're super like dialed in music genius. What
is it like to have to audition? Like, what's the
process like to get into the Berkeley College music? You know?
It was? It wasn't that bad. I actually auditioned for
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Bellmont as well, And one of my favorite stories is
I got in as a student, but not as a singer.
And I have this really sweet little mom of air
of a mom and she apparently called back and asked
the vocal director why I didn't get in as a singer,
and they said because I had no commercial appeal as
a vocalist, which is one of my favorite underdog stories
of all time because it's the Mike Curb School of
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music and here I am, you know, a decade later,
with a record deal with my Curb. But so after that,
Berkeley didn't seem so scary because they were like, we
think you're great, and here's a scholarship. So I was like, oh,
I'm clearly supposed to go down this path. So you
go to Boston, you moved to Nashville, So what was
the reason you came to Nashville? Was because you love
country music? Or you had friends here? What was that do? Yeah,
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it was more about the songwriting community. I just all
I knew was that I really loved writing songs. That's
when I felt, you know, the most alive, and I
knew that was like a viable profession here, but still
really didn't believe that, you know, record deal and being
a performing artist was something that I could actually do
until maybe a year after I moved here and I
was on one of those reality shows that he was
(35:32):
a CMT can You duet? And all of a sudden,
I was on a national television show competing for record
deal And I'm not even kidding you. That is the
first time in my life that I was like, oh,
maybe I am good enough to do this. So it
was kind of a later in life process for me,
but it just took a lot. What was that can
you do? At? Show? About? Um? It was like a
duo thing. It's like a show for a country duos
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and who did you go on with. I went out
of this girl Victoria Gibson, and we were both late
just as at the cheesecake Factory at the time, So
it was quite culture shot to move into an Opperland hotel,
you know, for like two months in film and then
get off the show and sort of everything went back
to normal, you know. Um, but it just kind of
elevated me a little bit enough to the community that
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I started getting better, right, So then I could kind
of had this bigger community open to me to write with.
And that's sort of how everything happened for me. Here.
Was there a point after you graduated college that you
moved to San Antonio and worked at a church. Yeah, yeah,
the biggest Lutheran church in the country, ten thousand members.
That was crazy, but um, it was sort of writing
(36:34):
songs for like pastoral conferences and volunteer stuff and it
was great, but it just wasn't fulfilling the artistically enough.
And that's when I was like, you know, I think
I'm supposed to be writing songs. I need to go
where the people that write songs live. So you went
from Boston to San Antonio and then how long were
you there? Oh? My gosh, not even six months. That's
pretty pretty quick thing where I was like, this is
not what I'm supposed to be doing a right, So
(36:54):
you moved to Nashville, you guys when you do this show? Um,
Wild Me? Was it the name of your duet? Yeah,
that's it. Yeah. Did you guys think maybe you'd get
out of that show and be Wild Honey for a while? Yeah, yeah, definitely.
But um, you know, we were really young, and we're
in different places. And I had kind of been you know,
I'd come up in the music business a little bit
(37:16):
through college and been around a lot of people, so
I sort of was prepared for like the workload and
ready to dig in and I just we just we're
in different places with that. How far did you guys
get on the show? We came in six season one?
Was there anyone on that season that ended up having
a career in Nashville that we would know? Oh? Yeah,
Jolly and Rory were on that season with me. Did
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they win the show? I think they came in third
or second. And the people that want are they still around?
I don't think so. Let me sure. I'm sure they're
still doing music because they're insanely talented. But there that
was a group named Caitlin and Will and the show
had actually put them together. They didn't know each other,
so that's always risty obviously. Dang. All right, so you
kind of hop into Nashville and when Natalie stovall, we're friends,
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but you live with her husband? Did did you know?
Did you know him before she did? Or yeah? I
think no. I think we all knew each other at
the same time. But he was like, I was dating
the keyboard player in Natalie's band in college. But that's
how we all became friends, and she her husband was
living with that guy. So that's sort of how we
all came to know each other. So when I need
a place to say, James was like, that's just Condowe
(38:22):
in Green Hills. You're welcome the you know, come on
into me and my sister moved in and thus began
my journey in Nashville. It was nice to have a
little bit of a community here. I was watching your
Instagram and I guess you're doing like a tour of
your air stream. That's what that is, right. Yeah. So
basically when COVID hit, I went up to be with
my mom in New York for a while she was
(38:43):
in a farm up there. So I put long term
runners in my house because I had no idea how
long this is the black And obviously with touring not
being bible right now, um, that was a big help financially.
But then when Nashville started reopening, I was like, Okay,
I think it's kind to go home and try to
get back on a routine. Obviously didn't never knew where
to live, but I had this nineteam me through the
airstream that I had renovated maybe five years ago to
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take on the road. Would be kent of it being
like a v I P Performance lange. So I was like,
I'm just going to put about room in there in
a shower and put it in the driveway and move
into that. And now I've been there for a month
and a half and I love it so much that
I might not leave. But I've been doing these online
shows from the air stream. Wait, do you live in
the driveway of the people that you're running to and
do they care that they're living at the house that
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you're running to them? I mean, I asked them when
they were about to side the lease, and they're like
sounds great. Um, we're really good cooks. Maybe we'll invut
you in for dinner. But they have not yet. I'm still, lady,
do you have a relationship with them? Do you see
in their windows they walk around naked in there? What's
the deal? Well, they don't love around naked, but I
did just build an outdoor shower outside the airstream, So
sometimes I feel like they're like, oh, don't go out there,
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and I'm like, you know, it's just like shower curtains
and privacy sense and I'm basically just trying to be
like one with nature in my driveway in East Nashville's
pretty funy is that? Are you heavy? Are you farm girl?
Because you go up on a farm, right, yeah? Yeah, yeah,
all of it, all of it, so all that pretty
normal to you then it is. But I do think
that that's like something COVID bringing out in me. You know,
how people are getting dogs or having babies, and I
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think we're all just trying to do whatever we're doing
to try to control what we can control. I feel
like maybe I'm trying to recreate summer camp, which is
my favorite childhood memory, because everything all of a sudden
is like nature. For me, that seems to be like
where I'm finding and peace, So I think that's kind
of what I'm doing. Are you still hosting that d
I Y show on Annie? No, I haven't been doing
that for a couple of years, but that was super fun.
(40:28):
I a couple of years ago, I just went through
this like sort of big spiritual awakening and I decided
to only do things that I felt like aligned with
and if I'm being honest, um, that's when music really
started going better for me. So I'm don't know. I'm
just like, if I love it, if it's about music,
and it's like my propose passion in life, that's what
I'm focused on. And the design stuff was really fun,
(40:49):
but it's more stuff that I think I enjoyed just
doing for myself. And that was a whole series though,
that you just started. If I'm I'm trying to remember
this because I remember seeing it on Instagram to you
just started doing videos and how did that end up
elevating to the point where somebody hired you for a show? Sure? So, um,
I just was doing little like d I Y things
on Instagram and then got the Airstream and the label
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was like well, we should probably film this process if
you're renovating an airstream to go out, you know, on
the road with So we did a little series for that,
just like online. And then they kind of were like, oh,
you're actually really good at this posting thing. Do you
want to do it? I was like, sure, this is fun,
you know, so just a little by little, and then
it was just something that came through my booking agents.
They were looking for, you know, some hosts for this
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any show called homemade, and I sent in an audition
video and yeah, it was really fun. It was honestly
very easy compared to the music business. They were like,
read this compter, sorry, this nine hour days so long,
and I was like, I've literally been sitting in a
hair and makeup chair for two hours. This is not
hard work. Like please, thank you for the free catering.
This is a great life. I'm gonna play a couple
(41:53):
more clips here. This is cold comfort when your game
you feel the same. And here's a song called bad Woman.
(42:26):
So you're doing some uh some like streaming shows online
right where people can watch you. I'll see sometimes you know,
you get that little notification where it's like mind goes
Ruth Collins is online live and sometimes that you think
you're getting a message and you hit it and not yours.
But have some friends to go live and they have
like nineteen followers, and then I feel like I'm stuck
watching it for a minute because I like, yeah, I know,
(42:46):
it's so awkward, and when people are like they're just
waiting for people to get on, like, I get it.
I feel you. I clicked into one of my friends
the other day and he started talking right to me
because he saw me get on. Actually he's like, hey, Bobby,
and I was like, oh, now if I leave, its
sun not yeah, you better just make some popcorn and
what are you doing on your on your streaming show.
So basically I have dug so far deep into the
(43:09):
trenches with these virtual shows because obviously everyone and their
mom is going live, which is awesome because we're you know,
getting people to stay at home and giving them some entertainment.
But I was like, yeah, I really have to come
up with some creative ways to make this different and
I'm gonna cut through. So I've been doing them shows
every week to encourage your pete um, you know, audience members.
So I'm doing like I think the ones we just announced.
(43:29):
Nikia Carmen and I are actually doing Christmas in July tomorrow,
and then I've got Disney Night Love from Laurel Canyon,
which is gonna be like Semdise California Songs for doing
uh Nights Songs from the Desert to celebrate the one
universary of my song Joshua Tree coming out. So you know,
I've done like movie songs and summertime songs and then
we're selling like Zoom packages we can like chat with
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fans afterwards and they're all pay with you can so
everybody gets to come. But it's just been so fun
and it's honestly been great for me too because I
still feel connected to all these pet flow out there,
you know, which is I think we're all a little
balloon right now. So it's just been so much fun.
I don't really want to stop, to be honest with you,
are you putting up You're putting up your Venmo or
your your PayPal? How is that working for you? So
(44:12):
basically I still want to be able to be giving
free content to everybody. So I'm doing these happy Hour
lives on Thursday, which I have been doing like the
Virtual tip Star char donation if they want to. But
then we are so are selling tickets through event right
to the other online shows that idea every Monday, so
those are on like a separate streaming platform. But like
I said, they'll pay what you can, so you may
fifty cents and come to the show. Ruthie Collins music
(44:33):
on Instagram, but it's spelled our ruthiek is right typo
on my sheet. Ruthie. Someone's getting fired around here? All right,
are you t h I e Ruthie Collins music. Um
well I'll go to talk to you. You can check
out Cold Comfort. I hope a lot of people come
and um well this will go up Friday, so they'll
(44:53):
have Mr Christmas in July. Do you do you post
these afterward or no? No, but you can you can
always buy ticket later and watch, so they're available afterwards.
But there you go, go get your ticket. Pay nickel
or five thousand dollars? What's the most someone has paid? Like,
let's pay what you can. But what's the biggest pay
that someone's done? Um I guess like wow, yeah, So
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sometimes people will pay a hundred bucks to ticket, but
also like if they buy the after parties, you know,
package that makes it go up those or fifty bucks.
People have been so supportive, Bobby, I can't even tell
you like it's it's amazing. It's just amazing. I think
people really start form music and it's definitely brought me
closer to my fans during this time. So I'm just
(45:36):
I'm so thankful for all the sports, but amazing. Do
you have to send them like a lock of hair
a toenail or something like that. No, they're literally getting
like a song request in the twenty minute zoom call,
and I'm just like, hey, how are you doing up
there in New Jersey? Which you have for dinner to? Like,
I talk to these people all the time. Now, it's amazing.
All right, listen, She'll have dinner with you virtually for
(45:56):
the right price, That's right. Ruthie Collins music check, got
cold Comfort, Rosie. Good to talk to you, Good luck
and so much for the support. I really appreciate. Maybe
I'll see you soon. Bye bye, I'm skid h