Big Interview: Country music star Josh Abbott on Texas Tech football & Sweet 16 v. Duke
Until Saturday: A show about college football
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🗓️ 23 March 2022
⏱️ 44 minutes
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Summary
Airborn tortillas; a collegiate javelin thrower named Garth Brooks; concerts with Patrick Mahomes, and many, many more entertaining and informative topics are discussed today with country music star, Josh Abbott. Andy and Josh cover Josh's rise to stardom and his Texas Tech fandom. The guys also chat about NIL collectives, T Tech's best on-field moments, and the Sweet 16 versus Duke.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Andy Staples show. We've got a special guest for you today. |
| 0:13.1 | Josh Abbott, the lead singer of the Josh Abbott band. Massive Texas Tech fan, guns up, |
| 0:19.3 | wreck them, all that good stuff. Quite a day to have Josh on. |
| 0:24.3 | You got Joey McGuire ripping it up on the recruiting trail for football, but also you've got |
| 0:30.1 | the Texas Tech basketball team about to play Duke in the Sweet 16. Texas Tech actually favored |
| 0:36.2 | in this game. If Texas Tech wins, |
| 0:38.8 | that'll be a career for Mike Shoshiewski. So big, big stakes in the Sweet 16. |
| 0:45.4 | About to talk to a guy who may be, uh, maybe in the building when that happens. |
| 0:49.2 | Josh Abbott, one of the stars of Texas country. If you don't know what Texas country is, |
| 0:57.2 | get yourself to your streaming service and start listening because these are great bands, great artists who if you don't |
| 1:04.9 | like the sheen of the current country coming out in Nashville, you might like Texas country |
| 1:10.2 | a little better. |
| 1:10.8 | It's a little twangier, but also little more of a rock edge. If you like Southern Rock, |
| 1:16.3 | you probably like it too. Josh has some great songs, and he'll tell you, he's actually one of |
| 1:22.4 | the popier acts in Texas country, but we'll play a little of Josh Abbott Band and Casey Musgraves oh tonight as we go into |
| 1:31.4 | the interview. |
| 1:32.4 | And you'll see, this guy can sing, he can write songs, and he is a massive, massive college |
| 1:39.8 | football, college basketball fan. |
| 1:41.4 | And that's why we love having him on the show. |
| 1:42.7 | Grab your hand and you say wait. |
| 1:46.0 | I say no, girl, it's way too late. |
| 1:52.3 | We've been playing games for weeks. |
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