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Exclusive Interview with The Malpass Brothers
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Jun 10, 2025
Chris and Taylor Malpass, who make up The Malpass Brothers, talk about their passion for country music, the Country Music Cruise, their passion for the Grand Ole Opry, new music and more.
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hey guys it's Gail with Everything Nash
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here with Chris and Taylor better known
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as the Belus Brothers Yeah Hey so glad
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to be here with you So glad So we
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usually do these on cruise ships So
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we're really happy that we're on solid
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ground today That is It's a change We'll
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rock We'll rock a little bit Y'all are
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doing the country music cruise next We
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are Yes Cuz I don't want to do the
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cruise if you're not going to be on it
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I'm just saying Thank you for that It is
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a lot of fun though I have a big time on
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the cruise That's a great lineup next
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year Oh my gosh Yeah There's a lot of
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people on there I want to see It's
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amazing how many great artists they have
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on one ship Are you like a just a fan on
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the boat mostly Uh I kind of am guys Me
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too Me too I can't help it Okay we're
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not going to talk about that We're going
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to talk about you guys Uh your TV show
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is in its second season It is Yes ma'am
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What in the world I know It's It's done
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really good for us And uh we we thought
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we hope people are enjoying it We're
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having a good time doing it We have a
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lot of cool guests on there We had Randy
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Travis coming up this Saturday night Um
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we've had Lorie Morgan Jean Watson Moy
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all of our heroes have been on there So
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it's been a lot of fun Did you ever
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envision when you started it that you'd
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be in your second season looking forward
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past that No Oh man I I didn't even
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think they would put us on there at all
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No really Well no You know it was a
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dream we both had but uh to get to be
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having your own TV show and and having
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people out that you look up to and
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admire it's really been a dream come
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true Any favorite guests Golly boy
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that's I always love being with Bo Banny
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Yeah my Red and Red Seagull was great He
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was awesome Yeah it's hard to pick All
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of them were good though Randy Travis
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Yeah that was that was really cool cuz
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we grew up you
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know you hadn't seen her since you broke
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up with her years ago Tyler Oh okay Um
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other things we're celebrating 20 years
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of touring like which is weird cuz I
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think you guys are what 25 I wish Yeah
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I'm in my 30s He's in his 30s So yeah
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it's it's uh we've been doing it since
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we were kids and um so it's it's been
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it's crazy that it's been that long How
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have the audiences evolved in the last
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two decades You know what Um it's
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interesting because we had this
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conversation this morning We're starting
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to see more and more younger people at
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our audience in our audiences Um
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you know they're kind of catching on to
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the traditional country You got a lot of
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artists Jake Worer Zack Top people like
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that that are hot right now And I think
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all the younger crowds picking up on the
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traditional music that maybe wasn't as
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many a few years ago if that makes sense
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It seems like it's really coming full
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circle So when you guys started you
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stuck to the traditional country music
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and you have never wavered from that No
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Did you ever think oh maybe we should
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try something different Let's try to get
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on this You never thought about it If we
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if we couldn't do if we couldn't do what
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we love which is this we wouldn't do it
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If somebody said "I'll pay you double
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what you're making now if you'll change
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what you do." I'll never Well if you
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look at a lot of the great artists like
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Merl and and Ernest Tub and all those
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people they their career might have not
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have been huge every point of their
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career but it sustained their career
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They had a a a fan base that was loyal
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all those years I think it's cuz they
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didn't waver a lot I think if you'll be
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true to what you love and and not change
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with the times the people will they'll
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be loyal Okay And let's talk about I
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don't think we've ever talked about this
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Your fabulous outfits Oh I had the idea
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like we're going to like really dress to
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impress Well you know it's kind of just
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part of our our deal We feel like it's
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important when you go on stage to to
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look like an entertainer and show
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respect to the crowd So we've it's kind
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of part of our deal you know We just
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feel like it's it's a must I love it I
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mean my opinion shouldn't really matter
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but I love it No it does matter And we
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appreciate you saying that I didn't I
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didn't feel like dressing like that
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today so I'm going to let him be the But
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you still look good Look
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at you
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Look at that Now that's a salesman right
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there on the website I'm going to link
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to it Do I get a Do I get a kickback Oh
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yeah Of course you do Um let's talk
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about your new album So The one we're
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working on One The one you're working on
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Okay We're getting ready to do the
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Gaither project We're super excited
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about that I love the Gaithers Oh yeah
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In fact we met with Ben today and uh
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we're going to be recording that at the
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end of the month first part of July So
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I'm really excited We're going to be
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doing all gospel project and which is
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where we started We started in churches
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years ago So and it's got some original
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music on it as well So I'm I'm excited
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What songs are you going to have on it
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that we wouldn't know Well there's going
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to be of course he touched me because he
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lives and then Family Bible was written
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by Willie Uh a lot of Luben Brothers
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Gospel Merl Haggard Gospel Happy
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Goodmans Happy Goodman Yeah So we're
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super excited And when is this coming
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out Well it it'll be recorded July 3rd
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so I don't know end of the year I guess
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your mama must be proud She's tickled to
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death Yeah she's really tickled We are
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too Uh touring Still touring Oh gosh Yes
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Yeah It's it's really picked up and we
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feel like we got a good booking agent
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and he does a great job and into uh the
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TV show I know has helped you know
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getting our name out there so we're very
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busy and uh your partnership with Gibson
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Guitar Oh I know he's a Gibson man right
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here I mean that like not many artists
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get to do that Well Gibson uh like I say
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I guess I don't I guess they were
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running out of people to help out but uh
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yeah they've they've offered to let us
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do a little bit of a sponsorship with
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them which is great I'm a Gibson nut and
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Gretch guitar nut and uh I've had a
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Gretch endorsement for a few years and
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uh but the Gibson thing is new So that's
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really exciting Okay I have to let you
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go but what else can we expect from you
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guys this year Well we're we're going to
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be in talks about our third season so
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we're super excited about that Like I
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said uh more operating appearances We
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got another a couple of those coming up
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So we're just keep us keep an eye on us
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and come see us anytime you can We
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should do this backstage at the opera
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One of my favorite places to do We'll be
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there July 5th If you're there come on
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out I might be I feel like those walls
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could just tell so many stories You know
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every time we go backstage I'm like like
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it just feels almost like a church Like
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it's It is I love the Opry is is that's
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our biggest dream to be opera members
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one day with as everybody But that's
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like the epitome of what we love I'm
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speaking it into existence Future OP
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remembers the Malpest brothers