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Exclusive New Home Free Interview Wtih Everything Nash
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Apr 18, 2025
Home Free talks to Everything Nash about the Opry, new music, mental health and so much more.
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hey guys it's Gail with Home Free here
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in Nashville with my favorites Home Free
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good to see you guys
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how's everyone doing very great we've
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had a nice full week and been working on
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some music videos uh we've been in the
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studio pretty much the last few months
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working on stuff so we've been busy and
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now we're ready to take a break for a
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little bit after you talk to me after we
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talk to you of course yes okay things we
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have to talk about first of all you guys
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played the oprey last night how many
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times have you played the opera 28 we
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think it was our 28th time yeah okay so
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how did it go well it went extra well
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because we brought Secret Weapon Jimmy
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Fortune from the Statler Brothers did
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you not know and we premiered uh our
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version of Elizabeth with him it's our
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first time ever singing it live oh and
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and and Oh brought Down the House
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standing
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his voice is just like nobody else's mhm
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it's crazy i mean I hope I sound half
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that good at 70 he sounds better than
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ever yeah but he doesn't have a five
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octave range like Tim Fel does so he
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doesn't need it so talk about playing
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the opera we've talked about this before
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but 28th time that's like you're
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regulars now we are it was his fourth
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time so he's still in the uh nerves
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phase of the operating i've reached the
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point where my my nervousness was a
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little bit less than my excitement this
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time i was always excited but the nerves
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just really took over this time it was
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like okay I'm I'm happy i'm excited and
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then I got out there and then I got
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really nervous but you know we're we're
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making progress isn't the backstage at
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the opery just like there's nothing else
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in country music like backstage at the
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opery it's so cool we're all so you know
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busy everyone's got their own schedule
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and so it's like the one place that all
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of musicians can just hang out it's a
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it's a reunion every single time you
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know it's the opera or music festivals
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but outside of that we rarely and the
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country music crews we rarely get to
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just hang out and catch up and it it's
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so fun uh let's talk about videos you
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guys are nominated for a telly award how
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many telly awards do you have oh my god
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too many to the good fortune we had the
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good fortune of forgetting yeah we we've
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been lucky with those we And we And
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honestly that's just a testament to our
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team our team always has great ideas and
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puts together these great concepts for
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us that kind of take our vision to the
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the music videos and uh yeah I think
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we're up for people's choice award for
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Skull and Bones this time around that's
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cool which is very cool yeah which are
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fan voted mhm yes okay so fans are going
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to vote for it uh please do you know how
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many you have can you ballpark it
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uh off camera off camera a lot how many
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do we have double digits okay double
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digits we're going to add to that
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collection with this one because fans
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are going to vote I'm sure uh video I am
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not okay coming out Friday friday talk
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what a powerful song talk about doing
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that song yeah I mean it's an incredible
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song it's incredible initiative uh we're
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all you know believers in the importance
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of mental health and mental wellness and
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um you know three of us are married to
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therapists really
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that's an interesting dynamic
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totally coincidental very
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helpful but uh you know May is mental
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health awareness month so we wanted to
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do something special in conjunction with
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that so we decided to put our spin on
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that incredible Jelly Roll song have you
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met Jelly Roll we haven't officially met
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him yet i think so around him bumped
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into him and by him at the at the CMA
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award
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he accidentally
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say "Excuse me Mr roll." Or is it Mr
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jelly i don't know i don't know which
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one it is okay so let's talk about
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mental health a little bit i am not okay
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i've written about that song it's such a
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powerful song what do you guys do for
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your mental health
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a lot i mean a lot of different things
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uh I I tackled a lot of different ways
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even just in the therapeutic sphere um
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you know I I have my own personal
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therapists and I try different like a
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few different modalities as well you
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know I like talk therapy um also like um
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some experiential stuff i've had one
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session of uh um brain spotting and that
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went really well um my wife and I do
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marriage therapist with a couple
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different therapists as well we recently
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started doing ecoin therapy and it is
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magical really yeah i mean we're all
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such advocates like you said for mental
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health and and everybody's journey is so
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different but a big thing that uh is is
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important to us too is is being in the
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music industry and having a musician
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schedule and families at home it's
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that's a huge thing that we've all had
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to deal with too and and yeah so we're
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we're pushing mental health for everyone
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and therapy like we're huge advocates
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for therapy and you can I add Yeah
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please i think one one thing that comes
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up a lot when it comes to therapy and
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those those sorts of experiences for
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people is that it's cost prohibitive for
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a lot of people so I think it's also
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really good to know the things that
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resonate with you as an individual like
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the things that make you feel alive and
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peaceful so like I think for me it's
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like getting my hands in the dirt doing
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some landscaping or going to a body of
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water and just looking out over the
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horizon i think it's really therapeutic
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just things that calm you down that
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allow your head to stop spinning because
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I think that's what happens a lot with
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people that are dealing with mental
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health issues is that you have one
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thought and that spirals to another to
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another so even if you don't have the
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money to see a therapist you can find
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other ways you got to know yourself i
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think I think that's an important thing
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to like be able to be introspective and
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know what you need
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okay you heard it from them take care of
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your mental health um let's talk about
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new music album coming this year that's
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right hey we just turned in the the
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master on Monday oh tell me all about it
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well that's probably all we can tell you
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you can tell me but you'll have to kill
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me what can you tell me about it i will
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say that in some ways this album is a
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departure for us and in other ways not
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at all yeah you're going to get some of
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that same old Home Free that people know
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and love but you know I think our fans
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and and they're I know they're grateful
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for this we put out so much music and
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this one's a way for us to do something
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that's a little bit different not too
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different but a little bit different
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don't you love how perfectly vague this
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is the plot
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thickens um when we talked on the cruise
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when you talked to us on the cruise you
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said that there was a new tour perhaps
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idea coming can we talk about that
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anymore yet uh I'm looking over at
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Chrissy can we talk about the jukebox
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tour okay okay jukebox tour we're not
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going to talk about it yet but we're
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going to find out about it and get back
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to everybody we know the name of it we
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know the name of it and you did tell us
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on camera last time that it might
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involve some more fan participation yeah
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yeah yeah
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and the plot to get excited about when
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you guys tour you know we've talked so
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many times i don't think I've ever asked
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you this when you guys are on the road
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you're in the bus together what are
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different people's roles like who gets
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up early who's the one that gets
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everybody moving who's the one that's
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sloppy what is it like with life on
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Humphrey well I mean we all have
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different schedules like Rob's the first
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one after the show to go i don't even
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see him sometimes i haven't even changed
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my stage outfit and he's already in his
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bunk asleep but the rest of like I'm a
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night owl bastian you're more of a night
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owl for the most part yeah i try and
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stay on the dad schedule a little bit so
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I'm up earliest well both of us are
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usually up pretty early and I go to bed
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the earliest i'm a lot of fun on the
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road
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you sound like you and I would be about
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the same because I don't do late nights
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anymore i think all of us play the role
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of taskmaster in different ways yeah
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like it depends on on what that is um
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it's either that there's one of us kind
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of leading the charge or none of us at
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all that can happen sometimes too where
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we're just all sitting there not doing
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anything we like to do that it's
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important sometimes and I don't think
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there's this I don't think there's a
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sloppy one okay not really yeah I mean
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we're all very like respectful of you
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know each other's needs and the the
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communal space and we've kind of really
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developed this familial vibe out there
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on the road not just us but our crew
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that travels with us and uh you know
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it's where it's where we it's where we
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live so we we try to respect that okay
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and how's it going for you last time we
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talked you were still getting your feet
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wet a little bit how we doing now
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feeling really good i I I was actually a
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little disappointed that we didn't do a
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spring tour because I started to kind of
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miss the bus life these guys are like
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"Calm down new guy." But um no I I
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really I really love it i love any time
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that I get to spend with them and it's
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like I'm still having a lot of new
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experiences you know we're doing a lot
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of press things this week which is the
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most that I've ever done with you guys
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but like everything else I feel really
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well supported and just sitting in a
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room with these guys talking to people
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that I've never met before and I'm just
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encouraged every step of the way i love
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it well we love you being part of
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Humphrey i'm just going to say it okay
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if people want to see you you're playing
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at CMA Fest which is going to be here
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before we know it
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always yeah it always sneaks up on you
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it's such a crazy week uh we've actually
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got our own show at uh City Winery this
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year and it's a special one our 25th
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birthday can rent a car now
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but who's going to be the driver if you
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rent a car not
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it do it okay okay so City Winery 25th
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June 8th that doesn't even 25 years
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does that seem possible to you you know
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you've lived all of them yeah i feel old
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25 of those you were 10 you were 10 when
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Home Free started right
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okay but really 25 years like just sit
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with that for a minute i sit with it
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every day could you have imagined 25
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years ago
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where Home Free would be now hell no no
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no not even close i mean it's uh it's
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been a wild ride for sure like uh you
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know it was a huge struggle early on as
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every musician will probably have a
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similar story of just trying to figure
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out how to do what you're going to do
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and just thankfully through perseverance
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you know one thing leads to another and
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then you meet the right people and then
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you know things happen as long as you
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keep at it and you love to you have the
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same goals and you just you want to
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reach out to more people with your music
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and then just all things everything kind
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of falls into place as you keep trying
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to do it so yeah where do you think Home
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Free would be if not for the Sing Off
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have you gone there in your mind on a
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cruise ship
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fair fair making decent money
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yeah i mean we were doing a full-time
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career for you know the two years before
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that show happened so we had thought we
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had already made it because we were able
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to do this as our day job we probably be
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in a a middle school gymnator yeah
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something like that right now talking to
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kids no listen as someone that wasn't a
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part of the ride I what I see is that
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there still would have been a viral
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YouTube moment that would have
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catapulted the group maybe for all the
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wrong reasons we know but you're you're
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right you're right you're probably right
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with their focus on videos you're
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probably right always been there and I
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and I just love to have been able to
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watch it from the outside and jump back
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in but yeah I think there'd still be
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gymnatorium not quite yet maybe in 10
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years maybe a gymnasium
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okay okay I have to let you guys go
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because you have other things to do
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today besides talk to me but what else
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can we look forward to this year i mean
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you know we release a new single and
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music video about every two weeks and if
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I don't write about it your fans will
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let me know so just have we have another
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collaboration coming out pretty soon
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very exciting you can say with who right
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you can say Oh okay hey we've got a a
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recording with a chapel heart
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mhm and a very very fun music video as
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well you can't not have fun with You
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can't not have fun with them and those
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harmonies together
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okay we're going to definitely talk
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about that later once it comes out okay
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good to see you guys anything else did
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we cover think we need to i think we did
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well y'all go to homefreemusic.com check
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out our tour dates we want to see you on
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the road thanks guys
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