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Jake Hoot speaks to Everything Nash about being on 'The Voice,' new music, being a father, touring, and more.
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Hey guys, it's Gail with Everything Nash
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here with my very good friend Jac. Just
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so good to see you.
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>> It's good to see you. It's been a
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minute.
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>> Been a hot minute. You haven't been
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doing anything like we were talking
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about off camera.
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>> Oh yeah. Sipping pina coladas with
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umbrellas, pinkies up, just, you know,
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doing nothing.
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>> Doing nothing. Uh, let's talk about what
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you have been doing. The Blade.
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>> The Blade. Yes.
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>> Start there. What a great song.
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>> Um, you know, I I remember when Ashley
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Monroe's album came out. Um, I was
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working in radio at the time and always
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loved the song. Jamie and I wrote that
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the Kelly Clarkson duet with Dean Sams
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and had no idea she was coowriter on the
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Blade. Then we were doing a writer round
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a year or two later and she plays it. I
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was like, Jamie, I love that song. And
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so whenever we would do shows together,
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I started asking her, "Hey, can I come
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out and just sing harmony with you on
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the blade because I know every word."
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And then we turned it into a true duet
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for one of our last shows that we did
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together. And it went over so well that
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we just decided, hey, let's turn this
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into a duet. And her husband Jimmy
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produced it and it's just I mean, it's
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one of my favorite ones I put out.
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>> I mean, you you know, duets. Hi, Kelly
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Clarkson.
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>> No big deal.
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>> The goat. No big deal. Yeah.
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>> The gift that keeps on giving. I I
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looked it up and I forget what it was,
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but millions and millions of views on
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YouTube now.
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>> I mean, it's ridiculous. Yeah. I I don't
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know why anybody would I'm not Okay,
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let's be real. They're not watching it
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to see me. They're watching it to see
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Kelly. But, you know, it's kind of that
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Beauty and the Beast kind of yingyang.
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You know, you get the the champ and then
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you get the guy hiding in the shadows.
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>> You're not terrible. Let's be honest.
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>> Oh, well, you know, I I try. Blind
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squirrel finds a nut every once in a
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while. So, yeah.
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>> Okay. While we're talking about Kelly
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Clarkson, you were just back on The
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Voice again.
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>> I was. I was.
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>> Talk about
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>> They keep letting me back in for some
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reason. Um,
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>> and Kelly invited you, right?
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>> She did. Yeah. they got to pick uh six
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past like fan favorites slashwinners
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and I was I was one of the ones that
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Kelly's picked and so it was myself and
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Girl Named Tom and we represented for
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Kelly. I got to sing Desperado again and
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it just it it went over better than I
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could have expected. So,
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>> and you made it you made it through to
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the next round.
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>> Uh well, it was just it was that one the
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that we all just battled each other. So,
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I battled Javier Cologne which shout out
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to Javier. He is the GOAT. I love that
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guy. Wonderful person.
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But I we once whoever's team got more
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wins um which both of Kelly's champions
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ended up winning. So Kelly got an
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advantage in the finale. So it was
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great. I mean I got to see Jordan Smith
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perform in person, Men, Renzo who did
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Dream On by Aerosmith and absolutely
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crushed it and of course girl Named Tom
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Javier and myself and we I mean it was
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great to be back.
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>> Do you ever I just saw Drake Milligan.
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We were talking about him being on AGT.
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I'm going to ask you the same question.
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Do you ever do the mind game of if I
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hadn't been on The Voice, what would
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have happened?
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>> You know, I don't think I had honestly I
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have never thought that. And because,
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you know, before The Voice, I was
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singing every weekend at different bars
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and wineries and stuff like that. And so
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I had quite a good little circuit in
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Middle Tennessee. My I probably had tens
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of followers on on Instagram and
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Facebook. and they gave me a they gave
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me a jump start and gave me a platform
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that I didn't have. Um, not to say that
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everything has been simple. I mean, it's
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been a grind and I mean, it's almost
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like you start at ground zero as soon as
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you come home, especially since I won
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right before CO hit. Um, but it's been
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it's been great and it opened a ton of
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doors. It got me, you know, my Grand Old
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Opry debut. I've played it 33 times
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since then and got me in the room with a
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bunch of like of the in my opinion the
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world's best writers and so it opened so
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many doors and so I've never really
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looked back. I've I've always you know
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that if I've asked myself anything is
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what if I would have won when it wasn't
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right before
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>> co
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>> but
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>> even then you know everybody came to a
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screeching halt and all of us had to
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figure a way to reinvent the wheel and
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but it's been good we're you know I get
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I tell people I used to build houses for
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a living years and years ago and now I
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get to sing songs and put food on the
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table for my babies. So I've got it good
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>> babies. You have a few now.
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>> Three little girls. Uh
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>> you are whipped.
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>> 11 three and two. And it is a lot of yes
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ma'ams and I'm sorry these days. So I
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just, you know,
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>> I've been outnumbered since day one and
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I'm okay with it. I I love it. And uh
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we're taking them to Disney in a couple
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days. So the two youngest have never
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been. Actually, one of them has, but she
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was in mama's belly and so now she gets
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to go out and experience princesses in
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real life. So it's going to be great.
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>> And how is your sweet wife? I love her.
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She's perfect.
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>> She is She's the best. She's She's doing
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great. Um, she was going to try to be
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here, but with everything going on and
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us packing up, I leave tomorrow for a
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show in Ohio for Saturday night, and
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then we leave at like 4:00 a.m. in the
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morning to get back here and play on the
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uh, Spotlight Stage Sunday at 2:00. So,
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we're running all over the place. So, I
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said, "Y'all just stay home and rest
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because if mom and babies are not well
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rested, it's not a great uh, road trip
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that we're going to be doing." And so I
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just said, "Y'all relax and let me do
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all the run and then we'll get it down
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the road."
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>> Uh, speaking of children, you also wrote
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a children's book because apparently you
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don't have enough things to do.
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>> Well, you know, it's it's one of those
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things where I tell people I just like
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to tell stories. And I've got a lot of
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crazy things up in here. And so a couple
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years ago, I just started writing
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everything down. And the longest the
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hardest thing was just finding an
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illustrator. And Izzy B, shout out to
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that guy. He illustrated it. And now
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that I've It's like anything you do,
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once you do it the first time, you're
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like, "Oh, this is this is easier than
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what I thought it was. Um, and just
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getting over that. And so now we're
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looking at doing more." And we're just
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going to see where it goes. My girls
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love it. My I wrote it. It's based on a
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true story. Um, and my three-year-old,
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her name is Maddie, she calls it her
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poop book. She'll introduce it. That's
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my poop book. So, if you haven't gotten
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Maddiey's poop book, please go get one.
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It's
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>> on Amazon. Uh, new music. What else is
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happening with you? new music. We uh
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we're putting out a honky tonk song here
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pretty quick. Um you know, we didn't put
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out music for over two years there for a
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little while. Just trying to get right
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people in place and everything. And now
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we've got great team and we're
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unleashing everything right now. So
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we've got Honky Tonk song, we've got a
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song about Colorado, like a very John
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Denverish song coming out. Doing some
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symphony shows this year that we're
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going to we're going to do our best to
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turn into a live album. So and bunch of
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new music on that that people have never
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heard. So, it's going to be a great
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year. We're looking forward to it.
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>> Because people may not know, Jake can
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also sing opera.
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>> Not today, of course, but most days.
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>> As if he's not talented enough, he can
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also sing opera and speak Spanish.
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>> Yes. Yes. I I don't know what I'm
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singing when I sing opera. And I can
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understand more than I speak anymore on
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Spanish, but I can still sling it a
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little bit. Um, every once in a while
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when I get around some old friends, we
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got a friend here from Nicaragua, Mr.
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Laz and uh every once in a while he and
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I will just sling it back and forth, but
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it's it's one of those things where you
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got to keep up with it otherwise you
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lose it and so it takes me a little bit
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to get back into it. But I mean it's
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great. I mean I you know I got to learn
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it playing dominoes growing up. So much
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worse ways to learn it different
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>> in the Dominican Republic. I mean we
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could go on for days about you. Anything
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else we need to talk about?
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>> Uh you know let's see. I'm trying to
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think. Um just got back from a trip in
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Ireland. uh played some played some
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shows over there. And so we are
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potentially going to be putting out a
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traditional Irish song um that I was so
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deeply moved by when I heard it over
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there. A little 11-year-old girl sang it
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to me in her living room and I was so
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moved I said, I've got to do something
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with this. And so just was in the studio
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a couple days ago and starting to map
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that out and see what that looks like.
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So that will be something that comes out
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before too long.
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>> Okay. Well, whenever you want to talk,
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we'll talk about more music.
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>> Let's do it. Take it.
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