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This is Cody Ellen's podcast.

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This is Cody Cast is one

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of my favorite fellow Carolinian's.

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Chris Lane is my guest. Chris

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from North Carolina. I'm from South Carolina,

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and man, just talking about a string of hits

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over the years. Start with fix

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Um way back in the day, and then current

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song filled in boots, Big

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Big Plans came out last year and was massive

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anyway, So Chris Lane with us, Hey,

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what's up? Man? It's good to have to hear

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your phone. By the way, sounds clear as a bell.

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Is that an iPhone thirteen year on? One of the new ones? To

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be quite honest with you, I don't know which iPhone

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because my wife, my wife

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gave me her phone and she took my upgrade

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smart which sounds pretty

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good. I just got the thirteen because, first

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of all, my lucky number, so

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I wanted to is it yeah, me and Taylor

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Swift, although it was mine long

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before Taylor came along, but nonetheless I

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knew I had to get the thirteen, and I was overdue

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for a phone. I was like still on like a I on

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seven or something. So congratulations

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on this big week. You're going to do the Macy

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s Thanksgiving Day parade. Um,

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so how excited are you?

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First of all, did you watch as a kid, and like,

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what's this moment going to mean to you? Yeah?

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So I actually did growing or

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grow up, uh watching

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the Macy's Thanksgiving Day parade? And

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Uh, I have to say, it's pretty dagon

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cool that I'm going to be planning

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on one of the floats. I believe it's the

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Mount Rushmore float um

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if I'm not mistaken. Um.

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But yeah, And I think what makes it even cooler

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for me is is having a five

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month old and I'm able to take him

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with me and I'll be able to tell him for the rest

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of his life that, uh, the year you

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were born I played on the Macy's thanks Might

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be it might be a tradition that we can start

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together and and you know, have him

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watch as a kid like I did. I mean

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so many parent points. You're

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plunching the t get way early for forting.

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I mean that's awesome. Um.

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And by the way, how is he? Uh? I

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love the name. I want to talk about that a second. But

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how's he doing? Like, um, what stage is he yet?

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At this point? Yeah, he's doing great.

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I will say he's

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five months in maybe about five months in

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a weekend now, But um, it

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was the greatest five

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months in my life, but also the most exhausting

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and hard five my life at

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the same time. Um. But he

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is thriving right now, man. He We finally

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got him on a schedule, which

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took us all five months to get to. But he

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is finally sleeping through the night for the most

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part, and that has given

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us a little bit of our sanity back, so

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we're not so exhausted all the time.

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But um, yeah, he's thriving. Now. What's

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been the most surprising thing about fatherhood?

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Has it been? Just the amount of work that

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it is, especially early

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on. It's it's a little bit crazy. I remember. Yeah,

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I think at the end of the day. I've been telling

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all buddies this as well. It's like, you

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know, we prayed hard for it, we

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wanted it, we were ready for it. Um.

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But I think the most surprising thing is is

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that I don't honestly think you can

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really prepare yourself,

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um ever for at

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least your firstborn, Like you just don't

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know what to expect. I mean, we've been in the hospital

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twice now because I feel like

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we were were so uh

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worried over every tiny little

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thing that I think when you have your second third

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I've been told, um, nothing

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really bothers you at that point, But yeah, I

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think it's it's definitely been. The surprising

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part has been. It's

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hard and uh, you know a little

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stressful because you just you want to do

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everything right and you want to make sure that he's taken

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care of and and all that. It's a

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ton of ton of ton of work. One of

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the fun things that um, I loved

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and still loved by being a dad is like sharing

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with your kids things that

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you loved as a kid, like the parade we

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were talking about, but like movies,

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you know, music you can play for them and introduce

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them to for the first time, like Star

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Wars. You could sort of experience your whole

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childhood over. So I

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mean, like, what things are you looking forward to sharing with

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him as he grows older? Yeah,

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I mean all all those things. Obviously. I feel

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like my number one would be, uh

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would be taking him golfing, um

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and showing him my favorite thing in the world to

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do outside of music. But um,

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yeah, I think I think a

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lot of exciting things, sharing music that

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you grew up on him that you loved and and

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uh, also you

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brought up a great point with movies. I've watched

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my brother go through the same thing with

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his ten year old and I've watched this happen

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as they've grown up, but watching old movies

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that we watched. And he loves all those old

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movies, TV shows my

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brothers put him through, uh,

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say by the Bell Family, Matters,

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Full House, all those shows, and he

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he's eating them up, um, just like we

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did when we were kids. And and um,

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one of the things that I used to do every

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Friday night before Pop Warner Saturday

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Morning football is

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my brother and I we would always watch The Little

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Giants together. And uh,

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when Dutton gets involved in football and other

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sports all that kind of stuff, I can't wait to the

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night before play play movies like

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that and let him watch it because I feel like I feel

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like he'll love it like we we used to. I'm

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guessing he doesn't have a choice. We'll have to be a Carolina

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Panthers fan too, right, Yes,

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he does not have a choice, even though, uh, we're

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not doing a whole lot of cheer in this year. I'll

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have to tell him as the first year he was

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born, they really sucked. UM.

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But yeah, he's definitely got to be a

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Carolina Panthers, saying that is sure. Dutton

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is his name, which, as you mentioned in UM,

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named after the Dutton

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family in Yellowstone. UM,

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so tell me how that came about, and like,

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how y'all like settled in on that name because

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it's so unique. Yeah, you

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know what, UM aren't and I

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were fans of the show Yellowstone.

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Uh, and you know

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she was not pregnant when we first started watching

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that show. We all we always just said, you

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know, when we finished season one, we thought,

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you know, if we if we ever, uh we're

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blessed enough to have a boy,

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we should name him Dutton. Like we loved that, We

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loved the last name of the family on there,

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and and thought it could make a good boy's first

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name. And and then we found out we were praying

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that then found out we were having a boy, and and

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we kept calling him duddy buddy the whole time, and

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we just kind of felt like Dutton

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was gonna stick and so and so we uh,

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we just we kept that one. And UM, I

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have to say, I thought it

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was the coolest thing in the world. When you asked

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Kevin Coster in an interview, or

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you you told him about that and I was

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just me and Lauren had the biggest smiles on her fast

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thought that was the coolest thing ever. Yeah,

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it was so fun. First of all, Kevin Coster incredible

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actor as we all know, but um, he

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has a band of his own played the Rivan Auditory

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him. So you're right for CMT. I got to sit down with him

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and chat a little bit, and yeah, I want to

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make sure he knew about that because and he was. He

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was surprised. It put a smile on his face,

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which he's so I love

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the guy. He's really nice. Every time I've done anything

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with him, We've had him on my shows over

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the years. But um, he's very intimidating

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and taller than

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you might think, Chris. He's a little Yeah,

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he's a little till. I thought it'd be like my size of

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your like five ten or something, but

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he he uh, he's probably about six

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foot and um, that surprised

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me. And then he's very quiet. You

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know, he's just got a real kind of shy

7:34

personality, which I didn't know what the Yeah.

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So all that said, Um, it was

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such a cool thing. So maybe, um, I

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feel like because the country music thing, maybe you'll get to

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either meet him one day and play with them,

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you know, on stage or act maybe

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in Yellowstone. Would you ever would

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you ever want to do that? Oh

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my gosh, that would be the greatest thing ever

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to get asked to come on the show and be an accurate

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I would want thousand or sent. I could

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see you fitting in with the cast though, I could

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see you. You know, we might have to grow

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their hair out a little bit, but nonetheless you could. You

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got to fit your way into the Dutton family. I'll

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take that. Yeah, I would. I would

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be a h that would be a bugget

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list. That would be awesome. We love that show.

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When it comes to the new year, outside

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of uh, your potential acting

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career, um, you'll be good shows. Uh

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the Fielding Boots tour of course. So it's

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Dutton by the way, he's gonna go out on the road with you. Will

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will Lauren go how it works? Yeah, So

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we haven't taken him out on the road yet, just because

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we felt like he was too young. Um,

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and even though I had my own bus and we had

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a crib on their forum, we just never made that

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move because we were really trying to

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get him on a schedule, and and now that

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he's really sticking to that schedule, we

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feel like, um, we could potentially

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bring him out on the road, uh, starting

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in January, and and it won't be every

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weekend. We'll kind of pick and choose, just because

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being out on the road is sometimes

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a little uncomfortable. Sometimes

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hard to sleep at night when you're bouncing around on

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the roads. But uh, we just don't

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know how he'll do. Um,

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but we're definitely gonna do some test runs and if

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and if he seems to to thrive out

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there and actually go to sleep when when

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he goes to sleep at home, I think we'll

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start doing it a lot more. Well, you're working too.

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To me, it's like it's great to have the family

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out there, but you know, you've got to get the job done

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and do get your sleep, get your beauty.

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Yeah, And and on the weekends they don't come out, I'll

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be bringing riders out on the road of feast

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so I can I can really work while

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I'm out on the road all day long. And and

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that'll cut down on having to write

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so much during the week to make

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up for the lost time on the weekend. You've got

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some great music out right now fielding Boots, of course,

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is the single you also did with

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Scottie McCreery, a little party

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Hicks tape UM song

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called small Town on It, which you're both

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from North Carolina? Is this kind of made sense? Um?

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What can you tell us about that one? Yeah?

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So, uh, I really loved the small Town

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on it. Um, I'm a big Scotty

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fan as well. We both grew up in North Carolina, so

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um, we kind of had that connection

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going. But a small Town on It's a song that

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I actually recorded, uh

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years ago, and I hadn't put it

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out up until that point. And then we

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got brought up with the Hicks tape idea

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about potentially putting that song out

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and find a collaboration for

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it, and being both from North

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Carolina, I felt like Scotty

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would be a good person to jump on

10:31

that song and and pump that. He said yes,

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and I feel like it turned out great. I can't I haven't

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even been able to play that song live yet,

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so filling Boots tour, I'll probably

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crank that one up in the set, and uh,

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I just love that it has so much energy and

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and again. The song reminds

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me of North Carolina, where I grew up at and I

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just love it. Have you already got the set list

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together for the tour? All the stuff you want

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to do? And kind of I don't. I

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don't, but um, I'm probably

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close on it. Um, it won't

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take a whole lot of rearranging.

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I know around about the songs

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that I'll do and I'm gonna have we haven't announced

11:11

as yet, but I'm gonna have um

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at least one new song out there that I'm very,

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very excited for that I just finished up in the

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studio. Um it's

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called Stop Coming Over. So uh,

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I'm gonna get that one out at some point

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before tour starts. Um to get

11:26

another song in my set and and uh,

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I can't wait for people to hear that one. Ain't

11:32

even met you yet? Is one also

11:34

recently released? And so I thought it might be fun,

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Chris, to play a little game here with you people

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you would like to meet? But haven't

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I think I already know. My first question was famous

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movie star. It sounds like that would be Kevin Costner,

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right, Yeah, we can we can throw

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him in there for sure. Is there anybody

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else you'd like to meet. Who's a movie or TV

11:52

star that, um, you haven't met yet. Reese

11:54

Witherspoon. I

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know that. I know that's such a random

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one, um to say, but I

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don't know. I feel like I always

12:04

grew up a fan of hers, and I feel

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like she's pretty cool. So yeah, probably she

12:08

would be a good one and loves country music and she's

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um all, is she a country fan? She

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yeah, and she has Nashville

12:16

ties. You know, she's got that little shop over

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in Twelfth South. Um,

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And yes, she spends time in Nashville as

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well, So that actually could happen, Hey,

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fingers crossed one day that it will. How

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about a sports figures similar from

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the sports world you'd like to meet you haven't yet. I

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would say, uh, Tiger

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Woods, Oh yes, loves

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the golf. And finally, how about a music

12:39

hero you haven't met yet but you'd still like

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to meet some day. I feel like i've

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met or I know for sure i've

12:46

met Kenny Chesney before, but I am

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a massive Kenny Chesney

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fan, and so I would love just like

12:52

meet him and have a long conversation with them. Yeah,

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I'm with you on that, Like sometimes you

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you can say you met someone, it's another whole story, like

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actually sit down and have a

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conversation that's meaningful. You know, you can kind

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of pick through this brain, especially be in the music business.

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I can see that easy good stuff. Absolutely

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well. Listen, Um, so you'll fly

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out for the parade win like Wednesday,

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actually tomorrow morning, because so

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they do apparently do a rehearsal

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of some kind tomorrow

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night at nine o'clock, which, uh,

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it's gonna be a little chilly. So

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I got some I got some winter clothes that I'm definitely

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bringing that for sure. Yeah, all right, so you get

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there, you'll do the rehearsal and then be live live

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on Thanksgiving morning. Crazy,

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but what a bucket list moment, dude. That that's

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awesome. Oh yeah, I think it's gonna be awesome. I cannot

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wait. All right, see you soon, Chris, Thanks again

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for the time. Always great catching up. Thanks

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for taking the time, you bet And is it too early to say

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Happy holidays? I don't think so. Happy holidays,

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