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Darryl Worley talks to Everything Nash about his new Awful Beautiful Life Luxury Tiny Home Resort, returning to the Country Music Cruise in 2027, new music, and more.
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Hey guys, it's Gail with Everything Nash
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here with one of my most favorite people
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and my friend Daryl Worley. Good to see
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you.
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You too.
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How's your 2026 so far?
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Actually really good. We're uh we've got
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a lot of different things going on, you
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know, as far as work and and uh just
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projects. Uh trying to get things kind
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of squared away to get back on the road,
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which is start it's starting a little
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bit earlier than what it normally does.
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I tell you, man, Contract Music's coming
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back.
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It blows my mind. I I'm getting dates
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like I hadn't got in a lot of years, and
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I'm like, I bet you guys missed me.
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I bet they did. Well, we're talk we have
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a lot to talk about today. And but I'm
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so excited about what we're starting
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with your tiny homes project. I I have a
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million questions about it. So, just
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give me all the details.
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Oh, that's that's not a 30 second, you
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know, thing. Uh it so the project uh and
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and and and we've been talking a lot
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about the military because it's in
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Enterprise Alabama. The first the the
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first phase there's these things are
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going to be all over. Uh a very close
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friend of mine, Ronnie Gilly, who lives
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down in the Enterprise area uh came up
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with this.
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I mean, it's genius. and and why someone
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hasn't done this before. I don't I don't
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I mean it's very seldom that you come up
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with an idea that no one has has done
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before. And so uh basically
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think of our first phase of our
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development. I think there's 71 units in
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the first phase of this thing. It's it's
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really close to Fort Novaale right there
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which was Fort Rucker. uh we you know we
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graduate a a ton of our army aviators
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out of that place. So there's an
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constant influx and outflow of people
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coming and going from from there. Uh
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Enterprise has they just built a $33
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million sports complex and so they
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they're they're having all kinds of ball
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tournaments and stuff. Uh just the
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natural flow of traffic to that area is
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insane. So if you think about it, most
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people go right through Enterprise to
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get to the panhandle of Florida and
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that's 18 plus million people a year
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that pass through there. So uh we knew
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the location was incredible, but we have
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a development with think of it as a a
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hotel or a motel because each unit you
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can go in there and buy a home. As a
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matter of fact, investors have found out
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about this and they're selling faster
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than we can build them inside of our
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development because of the the
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investment opportunity. And we can get
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to that later, but um
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I I'll give you for instance, if you
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were say a aviator and you lived off
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base, you could come in and buy a home,
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a tiny home. Right now, we're doing a
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kind of a special thing because it is
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our first phase and and my buddy Ronnie
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said, "Give them the Daryl discount."
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So, we're selling the homes inside here
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for $89,000. You can buy the tiny home.
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I know. And then if you want it, I'm
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talking decked out. Uh you you get all
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the appliance package and all that
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stuff, all the basics with the 89,000.
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But if you want it the full uh furniture
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package, the decor, they have they have,
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you know, designers that come in and and
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and everything's every each room is
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different. Each each home is different.
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And then the electronics package, then
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you pay 99,000. And I can tell you
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because I have seen the difference,
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the 99,000 is the deal because an
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average guy can't go get all this stuff
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that we put in there for the price that
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we get it for because we're doing
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hundreds of these. And and so it's to me
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it's over the top. Ronnie had this idea
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because the previous administration had
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gotten the interest rates so screwed up
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and and and he gotten the uh cost of
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homes and and and just uh uh housing was
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insane. And he said, "If we can do this,
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they're going to flock here." But the
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amenities is what makes this
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like the most incredible opportunity
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you've ever seen. Our whole idea was to
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to to help people realize that something
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about downsizing.
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There's a freedom, incredible freedom in
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it. And so, think about the the
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families. And this is this is the best
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thing for me. You know, I think
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constantly about the American dream
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because I'm that guy. I I believe it
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should still be real. But for lots and
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lots of people who have worked hard
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their whole life, it's just not real.
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you can have it here because you're
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downsizing and getting in this tiny home
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and the amenities that are right there
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at your fingertips. I mean, it's a we
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were looking at they're in progress in
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building the lagoon pool. It's like a
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full-blown resort pool. Uh it has a
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event center. It's got pickle ball
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courts. It's got a doggy park. It's got
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uh cornhole courts. It's got a full uh
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equipped fitness center. Um,
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help me mom. It's a tiki bar. There's
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there's waterfalls and bars all around
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the pool. Uh, it's one of those places
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that you go to and you have like the
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greatest vacation of your life and you
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look at your partner and say, "I don't
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want to leave. I don't want to go back
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home." And and here you don't have to.
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That is home. And it's just uh it's so
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the the amenities and stuff are not like
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a 2.5 star hotel. I won't call any
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names, but this is like five-star resort
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stuff. And uh
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there's just not a downside. And and
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here's another beautiful thing. If if
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say the the the aviator
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gets their mission, their orders for
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their next uh appointment, whatever they
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have to do, might be going to Korea,
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whatever. uh they can put their unit in
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our what we call our management option
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and we rent it out for them just like we
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do every other unit in there. It's
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actually like ao It's like a hotel or
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motel. I would say it's it's designed to
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be short-term lodging, but that that
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aviator that has gone off to Japan or
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Korea, wherever they are, they can earn
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double digits on this. You know, I'll
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give you the market average is like we
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did we've done so much research and we
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have all these numbers, but the market
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market average you could go buy this
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thing and each month if you if you're in
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our management option, you can pay your
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payment and still cash flow $15 to
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$1,700. But the truth is, because this
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is not an a market average product, this
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is way above that, probably double. you
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could probably do more like 3,000 or
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3500 bucks a month cash flow. That's
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after you pay your payment on the tiny
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home. So, that's the the part that I
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think is magical because
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we're about to do phase two. These
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things are selling faster than we build
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them. And the the the uh a lot of
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people, a lot a lot of the buyers are
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investors because they see what we've
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figured out here and they're like, "Oh,
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I want as many of those as as you'll let
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me buy." And so I think we're going to
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get one.
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Can I come? Can I come visit at least? I
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want to come visit.
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Oh my gosh. You need to check it out. I
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wish people who I'm talking to could
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actually see. you'll be seeing pictures
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on the website of of the uh like they're
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in the process of uh ceramicking some of
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the stuff in the pool right now. And so
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he took a lot of videos last night and
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there's going to be a bunch of fresh
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photos up there that show you what's
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actually happening. And it is just
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coming to life. It's amazing.
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Oh, it's got a chill lounge, too, where
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it's a small it's smaller room with a
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little stage and we're going to do a lot
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of acoustic sets there. It's just it's
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just an incredible vibe.
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Okay.
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Well, I'm not opposed to driving to
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Enterprise Alabama to check it out. I'm
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just saying.
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Come and see us. You would love it.
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I will. I will. I want to go when you're
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there, though.
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Yeah. Yeah. Well, we we're talking about
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that already. Uh and Ronnie feels
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strongly about capturing a certain
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number of days on my schedule so that
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that I can come often. Uh I mean, it
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bears my name and my resemblance. So, we
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I need to be there from time to time.
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And uh
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So, when are they actually opening?
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Uh you can buy uh units now. And I
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Ronnie said last night that if we were
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blessed with good weather, which it has
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not been, man. We had like eight or nine
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weeks of of just rain. It It's just been
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in insane here in the south. I don't
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know. Are you in Nashville?
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I'm in Nashville.
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Well, then you know.
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Um
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so, it's really held up our progress.
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But he said last night, didn't he say
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that that in how many weeks the place
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could be open? It's It's pretty quick,
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but they're working day and night.
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Okay. I'm going to come check it out
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when you're there. We'll have a good
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time.
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I I wish you would. And And uh you know,
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I'll have the guys come in often and
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we'll just do acoustic sets because And
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he'll have us probably doing full-blown
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shows out by the pool and stuff. I'm
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telling you right now. Um,
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the amenities. I've probably left stuff
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out. I've probably left some things out.
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I mean, twist my
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I'll come visit and I'll end up buying
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one.
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Well, I mean, you know what? It's weird
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that you can It's almost a price that
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you don't even have to think about. I
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mean, you know, when nowadays, how often
10:05
can you buy a home? And I understand
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it's a tiny home. We're trying to help
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people to realize that, man, when you
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get rid of junk you don't need and you
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and you bring it down to the
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necessities.
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You wouldn't believe these things have
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incredible little closet spaces. The
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bathroom's big. It's even got a sleep
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loft in it and you could put five kids
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up there. It's It's amazing. And I I
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just think it's a no-brainer. I'm I'm so
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excited about it. and it's the and I've
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done tons of projects with him in the
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enterprise area over the past 25 years
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and this is without a doubt the coolest
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thing we've ever done.
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Okay, I'm going to come check it out.
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I'll bring my husband and kids. We'll
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have a good time. Uh, switching gears.
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Yeah,
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we're 2026. Can't I can't believe it's
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2026. 25 years ago. Have you forgotten?
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Does it feel like 25 years?
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It doesn't for me. It doesn't for us.
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But uh
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but I think you I think time passes
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faster when you're busy and you're
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moving fast
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and and that's what we've been doing,
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you know, just just trying to make a
11:13
living. And uh um
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it's actually kind of sobering to think
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it's been that long. I I it's hard to
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believe.
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You know, it still stands up pretty
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good, too. The song does.
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I was just going to say that song has
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stood the test of time.
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It truly has, and I'm thankful for that.
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I'm uh you know, you never know when you
11:33
have a song. I have a few of those. Uh
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you never know how they'll weather, but
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this is this one has it may be more
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relevant right now than it ever has
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been.
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You might not be wrong. You said at the
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beginning fans love country music.
11:48
You're touring a lot. Talk about it a
11:49
little bit and tell me what's happening
11:50
with new music with you because you know
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we love Daryl Whley music.
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I have been writing a ton, but I've been
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writing so much by myself. I mean, it's
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really
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I I'm I'm I'm away from Nashville now
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and it's and I go there a lot because my
12:06
podcast, you know, happens in in a
12:08
Nashville area for the most part unless
12:10
we're taking it out uh mobile. Um so,
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it's not that I can't sit down and write
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with my old partners. Uh I I still do
12:19
some, but I need to I need to get back
12:21
to doing it more. But I think this time
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where I've been pinning a few things all
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by myself has been really good for me.
12:30
You know, Nashville has this tendency to
12:32
get you away from that because their
12:34
mind is we need songs song as many as
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you can write in a year. I'm going to
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put you in a room with other people cuz
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two heads or three are better than one.
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We get more volume that way. All that
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stuff. And down here it don't work like
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that. down here. It is uh you know, you
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had a lot of time to think and when
12:56
something hits you, uh when all the
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work's done in the evening, uh you know,
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and the cows are are fed, you got time
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to sit down and think about things. I'll
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slip over here to the old farmhouse and
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and uh start cranking away and and I've
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written some pretty incredible things. I
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think the the next thing out might be
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something that I've sat here and written
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by myself. Uh they're they're pushing
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pretty hard for a song right now called
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Sweet Lucy. And uh it's about my
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daughter, but but I didn't I wrote it.
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So she is right on the verge of moving
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out and we're we're falling apart,
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right? So we don't know. We're we're
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just lost. And uh you can laugh, but
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you'll get there.
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You know I will in about five years. I'm
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about five years behind you.
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Just was. It ain't easy. And so, uh, I
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wrote this thing by myself about her
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leaving. And, um, I wrote it to where
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you don't know if it's a you don't know
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if it's a daughter or a girlfriend or a
13:58
wife or you, it's just someone's
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leaving. And it's a great song and the
14:02
guy it's it's actually the band's
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favorite song to play right now. So, and
14:06
it could be the next thing you hear from
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us. Uh, just a good story. It's a it's a
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it's one of those and I I think I'm
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getting better
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at that craft as far as the songwriting
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is concerned. It's always been my
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favorite part of the process and uh but
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but we put more work on the books in uh
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October, November, December of last year
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for this year than we have done in
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probably 15 years or more. Uh I don't
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don't ask me. I I don't even I don't
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even spend a lot of time thinking about
14:42
that part of it. I just look at that
14:45
schedule and go, "Hey, mom going to be
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gone for a while." And and uh it it's
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it's going to be a busy year. I think
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we're going to work more than we have in
14:54
a while. And and and the cool thing is
14:56
is uh it's some pretty quality jobs.
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Like we're getting back on some of the
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big festivals and all kinds of stuff
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like that, which you know, I I didn't
15:04
know if anything like that ever happened
15:06
again. So,
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okay, we have to talk about another gig
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you have coming up in 2027. You're
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cutting the cruise.
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I literally shrieked when I saw you're
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going to be back on next year. I was
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like, "Thank God." Because I love when
15:18
you're on. Talk about coming back on the
15:20
cruise because cabins are selling now.
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By the way,
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I had a friend call me two nights ago,
15:25
never been on a cruise, and he's gonna
15:27
come bring his wife out just because,
15:29
you know, we're back on it. Um,
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you know, we've been doing it for a
15:34
while and and they don't usually have
15:36
they don't usually have you back this
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quick. Uh, they have plenty of folks to
15:40
choose from, but uh I don't know how I
15:43
don't know what it is. I I don't when I
15:46
get to go do things like that to me that
15:48
is a um a grand opportunity and a lot
15:52
and most of the time my wife gets to go
15:53
with me and and we just we just live it
15:56
up because when we get back home the
15:58
work go you know it it's all piled up
16:01
and we got to get right back at it. So
16:04
we don't hide out in our cabin, we're
16:05
out with the people the whole time. And
16:08
something about that has really
16:09
resonated with the the crowd on those
16:12
boats. Uh, and I think they enjoy my
16:15
music. I I think that's part of it. But
16:17
we're just very uh down to earth people.
16:21
We like to get out and and mingle. And
16:22
we've met so many people who've remained
16:25
good friends of ours on that cruise. Um,
16:27
it's my favorite cruise of all time.
16:30
And, you know, I I don't know what's
16:32
happening this time. I know that there's
16:35
a there's a chance I might be bringing
16:37
my band out. I I don't know that for
16:40
sure yet. Uh, but my manager kind of
16:43
thought maybe so because there was just
16:46
a lot of things about the process that
16:47
were different this time. And sometimes
16:50
when there's a little more money
16:51
involved, you you you're like, "Oh, uh,
16:54
we might be stepping up the old ladder
16:56
there." I kind of hope that happens
16:59
because man, I guess I have the best
17:01
band right now that I've ever had in my
17:03
whole career. And that's saying
17:05
something cuz I've had some good ones,
17:06
but these guys are are really they're
17:10
just very studio like musicians and that
17:13
that will go out on the road, which is
17:15
hard to find, but uh we're laying it
17:18
down out there. It's it's just good
17:20
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