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Exclusive Country Music Cruise Interview with Diamond Rio.
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hey guys it's Gale with everything Nash
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backstage with two members of Diamond
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Rio good to see you guys to here so how
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are we feeling about our country music
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Crews experience great uh I'm I'm not a
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big Cruiser but but uh I got out voted
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by my partners here and their wives and
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I'm here with a smile on and I get off
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tomorrow why are you not a
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cruiser oh I think it has something to
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do with just being cooped up or I don't
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know it's a phobia maybe I have no idea
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I love the people and I love the music
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and all that it's just I can't step off
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and hit a golf ball well that's true but
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what we've been talking about with
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people is you are with your fans on this
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Cruise do you love that yeah absolutely
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absolutely and you know what it's
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different since you are we're performing
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for the fans but we're also living with
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the fans we're eating with the fans and
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the what sometimes at shows you know you
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have security and there's this kind of
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status oh these guys are up here and you
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know there's this weird thing with fans
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and security and shows and stuff and
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that all goes away on a Country Music
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Cruise and so we're in Key West shopping
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around I ran into this uh Gary
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professional retired professional
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baseball player fascinating you know had
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this incredible yeah he knows Maddox I
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told him the whole Greg Maddox thing
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with with the deal you know and so
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anyway it's just it's really cool okay
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well they love having you and we were
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talking off camera about your
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performance which was the first night
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y'all that was unbelievable the bar was
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so high talk about fans that have been
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engaging with you for over 30 years now
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oh my goodness yeah we've been very
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fortunate uh to have fans who have stuck
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with us from day one and actually raised
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their children on our music and we see
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that now and The Internet's been
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incredible and uh and we see them on
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these you know cruises and when we come
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to their area they come to see us every
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time it is uh yeah I don't know that we
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really plan for all that the the
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longevity of all this but that's one I
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think that's a very unique thing to
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country music but uh that they once a
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fan always a fan and it's just and true
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fans they and they they know all about
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us and about our music and and and it's
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not that weird that we would have
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relationships and have belt
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relationships with lots of our our fans
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yeah actually and one of the things
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that's special for the artists when we
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come on these we've we've done three
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cruises four cruises this our four this
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is our fourth Cruise um on this
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particular Cruise because of the lineup
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of artists it's like you've got a family
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that showed up you know what I mean and
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the camaraderie from the artists along
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with you know nobody's like hiding from
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fans and stuff like it it all there's
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such a great melding and I man I'm
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having more fun on this one just because
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I showed up with tons of people I knew
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great Arts of love the music We just
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watched Jimmy Fortune this morning un
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like thisone voice after all this time
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singing that is incredible watch the
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malus brothers and I'm trying to catch
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50 Shades of hay every day so because
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they're also amazing and you guys are
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amazing when you started your band I
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think it was 34 years ago as Diamond Rio
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Diamond Rio 36 years ago actually could
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you have imagined who's counting who's
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counting I can't math could you have
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imagined this now
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so many years later so many fans still
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singing from your very first meet inth
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middle single no I mean I we were having
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a hard time imagining um making it the
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next six months without having to break
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up and do something else uh to be quite
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honest we our dream was to have get a
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record deal uh and maybe get chart
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singles and uh instead of just being we
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were all musicians and had been making a
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living pling music beforehand and uh um
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some of us may not have ended up doing
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that but I think well most of us would
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have and um and some other way shape or
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form it's kind of what we do but that is
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uh once it went you know had a single go
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number one then you're and you win all
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these Awards I remember Jimmy and I sit
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in the hotel room after the first ACM
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going you know kind of a let down he's
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sitting there bed just it was a sad B
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picture from a from an old black and
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white White movie with the artist and
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his award and the and the half Cowboy
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tuxedo with the jeans and thing going is
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this really what well it was the journey
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it turns out I didn't know I was a
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cliche I really love the journey I like
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making the records the writing the songs
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doing all that stuff you know and then
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the the thing of course I got to work on
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that a little bit luckily we won several
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Awards I'm much better at it now but the
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but the the reality of that if you're
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able to make it through is it's not it's
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about the journey and uh you know the
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rewards come and go but um we I don't
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know we just feel really blessed to be
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able to continue to do it and and at
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this point yeah it's um you almost feel
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like you don't want to brag about it too
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much because somebody might find find
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out like you're getting away with
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something you're not supposed to but you
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guys also I was shocked you guys sound
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the same like I mean you gotten a few
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years I assume because I have but you
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sound the same it's the same players
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same instruments uh and you know for the
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most part it's not all the same voices
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uh Jean is is gone and so Carson's
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taking his place but um you know th I
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mean we have just been blessed to be
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around long enough to where two of our
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guys literally just decided to retire
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and and successfully so and they're
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doing very well and I think they're
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enjoying it can we talk for a little bit
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you added a female to your and she was
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phenomenal in case anybody hasn't seen
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them yet phenomenal can you talk about
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that yes actually actually this is
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Carson mcke right here Carson mcke
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friends yes Carson she's young and new
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yes she is fabulous yes so are we so
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this this she's amazing she's amazing
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when she came in the band uh and not
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saying anything about Brian and Jean
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they you know they wanted to retire and
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so when you want to retire maybe you
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don't want to be here anymore well
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Carson and Micah they really it's like
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oh my gosh all these new toys and you
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got a bunch of old guys that are kind of
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waking up going oh they and I think I've
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got like a size 11 Carson mcke boot in
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my butt to go hey come on man we're
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gonna pick we're gonna write some songs
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and stuff like that so that's what's
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we're we're getting with that and this
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actually came from we played our
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hometown and all of her family showed up
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in Carson mcke shirts um and we've done
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a show back in the 90s where Marty's
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family showed up with I'm Marty Rose
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cousin I forget where was that KY
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Eastern Kentucky at the ash condu yeah
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yeah so anyway um we're I'm going off
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his phone is ringing during the
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interview it's fine yes that's because
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I'm on vacation because he's on vacation
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friends yeah well she was fabulous and I
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was because I'm an OG fan I was like how
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is this gonna work she's amazing and if
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anybody questions she's truly amazing
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yes yes so and and then we've got micus
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weinburg who's our new Drummer and Micah
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came on and we didn't realize that he
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was an unbelievable technical guy so any
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of the video that you saw behind us
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that's Micah and our and Willis our
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light guy and Micah has produced and
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directed uh our first music video since
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they both came in the kick an
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instrumental that we did and so which is
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phenomenal really guy's got deep shots
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and he's a big old boy's about 65 and we
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we lays a mid on those drums it's just
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they're hollering ouch it's amazing so
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we're in good we're in a good spot you
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are in a good
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something I thought of when I was
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watching you guys that I don't think I
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ever really registered your faith is so
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much a part of your music can you talk
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about
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that yeah I mean it's not something that
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we um I think wor on a on on the front
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of our t-shirt necessarily we let try to
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let our you know our walk uh be more
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loud than our talk um it but it played a
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role in all the material we chose um we
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just wouldn't choose to do
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um some traditional subject matter for
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country music at least during the 80s
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70s and 80s sometimes and um just wanted
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it to be about positive things fun and
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positive the positive side of
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relationships not the negative um and uh
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then we got the opportunity later to to
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kind of do that a little more forward
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with a with a gospel uh project called
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the reason and want to Grammy with that
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that project and wrote All Jimmy was the
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spearhead of it really and and just
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wrote from personal experience and it
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and it really it was very very uh it was
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almost it was a healing process for me
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and uh it was just I mean that was just
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wonderful but yeah God is God is what
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we're about before Diamond reel and
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we're thankful to say that Micah and
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Carson have carried on that tradition
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and uh and we don't make any apologies
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for it but we're not trying to cram down
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anybody's throat It's a Wonderful Life
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yeah we we've we've been able to
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successfully have a career without uh
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drinking songs and without cheating
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songs and a lot of that has to do with
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Marty and uh it wasn't like a really
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hard projection of morality but you know
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um getting pitch songs and Nashville and
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stuff meant this is a smash you know
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what guys my parents are going to hear
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this and that was the barometer that
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Diamond Rio Ed Marty Rose parents are
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going toar
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not don't want them to hear me singing
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this and you know what it was a perfect
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threshold for us I love that okay I have
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to let you go because you have other
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things to do uh what can we expect in
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2025 from you guys we are working on a a
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a new old song uh Jimmy and I wrote a
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song about 10 years ago when my daughter
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uh left uh for college but happened to
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be in Australia and I was uh pining she
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was my oldest and
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just really uh scared for her you know
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excited scared for her she was going to
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uh start in the praise and worship music
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business in Sydney Australia for Hill
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song and and it is as far away as you
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can go without getting closer again and
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and I always I always kept saying she's
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on the other side of the world and you
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know every time I would call her she
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would be either getting up or going to
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bed one or the other and I would be
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doing the opposite and he had this idea
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to write a song on the other side of the
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world and we wrote it and nothing
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happened with it and now we have a
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25-year-old girl where a father daughter
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doet makes sense and so we did it we're
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cut it and it's mixed and bastter just
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about ready to come out excited awesome
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okay well we're GNA keep track with you
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guys thank you so much always good to
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see you thank you
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