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Exclusive Country Music Cruise Interview with Neal McCoy
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Jan 29, 2025
It’s not a Country Music Cruise without Neal McCoy. He told us why he keeps coming back year after year, why supporting those serving our country is important to him, and why he wants to keep saying the Pledge of Allegiance every day.
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yeah hey guys it's Gail with everything
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Nash backstage at the Country Music
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Cruise with Neil McCoy I love talking to
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you on the cruise aren't you sweet and
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and you don't like talking to me any
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other time just on the
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Cru it seems like where we talk at this
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is the only time we ever get to talk so
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why do you love this Cruise so much just
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good people and and the whole idea of
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this cruise and that they bring so much
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country music on here it's from every
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level uh and and every so people can
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come here and if they if they don't love
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somebody that's coming forward they'll
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find somebody else they do love because
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there's so much music from some new
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people and some middle people some old
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I'm not midd I'm a middle AG older uh
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but but there's just great music on here
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and everybody seems to get along
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everybody seems to get along and you're
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coming back next year again we are
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they've already booked us and we're
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excited about it yeah you guys should
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come and it's a great lineup next year
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Josh Turner right never heard of him but
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go ahead Pat lovess no no no can't help
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her yeah I'm so excited about that
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because she's still a great sing Oh my
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God she can sing uh let's talk about
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music 35 years am I right that about 35
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years for you yeah we've been at it yeah
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uh dude but you're only like what 35 so
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that's weird I wish uh 66 now and I'm
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getting I'm getting uh Medicare now oh
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look at that I'm just saying if you get
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there get it because it's worth it you
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got to get the supplements going I've
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been added probably I met Charlie PR
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that's how I got into country music in
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1981 so now 40 44 years oh my gosh does
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it feel like that long yes it feels much
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longer no it's great we are we we are so
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blessed in that I get I'm in a job where
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I get to as hokey as it sound bring joy
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to people they get to forget everything
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for a little while and have fun with us
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and just makes you feel good about
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yourself and you're knowing that you're
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helping others and you're 65 maybe yeah
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but you're still touring so much Neil we
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are why do you want to keep doing that I
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love it okay yeah and and I learned long
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Charlie Pride a long time ago he said if
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you'll just put on a great show every
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night and be nice to people you can work
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in this business for as long as you want
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to and we are living proof of that and
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you've also done which I love this about
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you so much the Uso tours yeah been on a
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lot of them and you support the veterans
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in so many ways I want you to just
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briefly tell me why that is the cause
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that's so important to you well because
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they're taking care of us and and what
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not just the ones that are in now but
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the ones that have come before him from
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100 years ago have have sacrificed
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sometimes the ultimate sacrifice some
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have lost your lives lost lims and they
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have gone and done that so that we can
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do this we can be out here on a cruise
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ship and talk to each other and not have
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to worry about anything and and I just
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any chance I get to to hug a neck or
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shake a hand of a troop and and thank
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the Veterans for their service I take
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that and I also extend that all the way
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down through through the First
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Responders deputy sheriff police
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firefighters those kind of folks those
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are all they're doing almost the same
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thing as a lot of these military guys
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doing they're just doing at home and
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sometimes the situations they get into
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is is about as tough as any of those
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guys could get over in over there you're
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not wrong um you also involved in
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something that I really love coffee I
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didn't even know that about you till I
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started you ought to be ashamed that
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means that means I know you haven't ever
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bought any I well maybe I should try
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some Old Glory horse and cattle ranch
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wow what made you want to do that you
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know it's it's one of those deals where
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my wife and daughter and everybody I
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know are big coffee drinkers I'm not uh
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so but that's the way I tested the
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coffee so somebody said well how you
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know how how you know it's so good I
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said well I gave it to her and her and
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they like it so that's enough for me but
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we just you know in this business you
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try and do some stuff that I tried wine
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I had my own wine line for a little bit
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that didn't work oh but but wine is
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different because coffee you can sell
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anywhere wine you can only sell into a
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certain amount of states and then they
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won't allow some other people coming in
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I guess they're trying to keep their
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wine stuff at the top of list so they
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won't let you bring wine into their
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states about eight states so and some of
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those were some of my biggest followings
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so I thought when I got saw that I
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thought I'm going to quit this I just
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went to coffee and it's easy you can
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take coffee with you can't take wine
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across the county line I'm going to try
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your coffee I'm going to try your coffee
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I'm going to hold you to it okay uh last
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question I'm gonna let you go eat dinner
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um what is happening with you in 2025
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new music I know you're touring a lot
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we're working uh and I am working on new
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music and I haven't had anything out in
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a long time but we are out there and if
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in ny.com because and if you've never
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seen our show the reason that we talk
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about coughing talk about other things
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is hopefully to peque your interest to
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to diving in find out more about us and
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then when you find out and see a show
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then you'll know why we're doing all
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this so we can stay out here working and
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getting a chance to come see youall and
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he's also very active on social media
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which is I am mostly Facebook because
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I'm not as cool as the kids and so the
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Tik Tok Instagram I don't do well on
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them but Facebook I'm I'm strong on
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Facebook okay wait I do have one more
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question last year you told me that you
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were going to do the pledge of
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allegiance to you got to 3,000 I think
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and we're at
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3,35 as of EX are we going to keep going
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you know we are keeping going now my
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next goal I guess if it's a goal try to
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get to be 10 years next January 7th if I
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continue the rest of this year it'll be
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10 years without missing a day but then
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you're gonna have to do it on the cruise
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next year so that's right I'll just take
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off I'll probably just keep it going but
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I never set out for a goal on it I just
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set out to to say it and let people know
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where I stood and that I I love and
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respect our flag and our country simple
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as that not not choosing a side or
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anything and I just wanted people to
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know that if they want to show their
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love and respect for our flag in the
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country they can come to our Facebook
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page which is at Neil McCoy music the at
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sign and say it usually average is about
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10: a.m. Central Time it moves about an
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hour each way in case we're out of where
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we uh call home but we would love for
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you and if you're interested in in love
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it you can join us every morning morning
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about 10: a.m. Central Time Neil MCO
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guys that's right
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