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Guaranteed Human.

Hey guys, welcome to the episode.

And before we get into the current stuff, I want to bring in Dan and Reid Isabel, who

have the God's Country podcast, which I'm a fan of.

I'm mostly a fan of the episode that you guys did with me.

My favorite episode, the one you guys did with me. Yeah, it was. It was our least performing

episode. Didn't matter. All the views are from me. So, before.

The guys in here. So you guys check out the God's Country podcast. These guys here are very talented songwriters. Did you guys ever try to do... I'm hoping I'm not insulting you guys. The artist thing? But almost I don't care, right? Because I like, I know you guys. Did you guys try hard to the artist thing? Wait. This is a kind of funny story. If I can take a second. There was a plan. There was a plan. So I had been in town and my buddy Jonathan Singleton. We had this scheme. We were like, dude, my brother reads a really great singer. We'll write all the songs, produce all the stuff, and he can go do the road stuff that we don't want to do. He's miserable. He don't know who he is. He has no idea. We'll just burn him out, right? And so he doesn't have an identity yet. We did this. We wrote a bunch of songs and started working with Scooter Caruso and really like building this and built a five or six song EP that was like kind of bulletproof, right?

So we start mixing and mastering.

And in the meantime, we booked some shows.

We start playing some shows. He's like, will you be in the band? I'm like, ah, I don't really want to do that. But maybe for a few times, you know, so we go do this run. We come back. and then he calls and he's like,

hey, we got, I got a couple of acoustic shows next week.

You're good to go.

And I was like, dude, I'm going to deer camp with dad like what were you talking about we kicked you off you started like he was like do what y'all cooking ribbis i was like yeah it's the week it's the bow opener like we're going i was like i just want to be a songwriter he's he was like'm canceling shows. If y'all think y'all are going to deer company without me, it's never happening. End. That was end of the artist's career? Yeah. I mean, like... Bands fire. And, dude, I always was like... I was on the fence of like being an artist, being a songwriter. and I moved to town, obviously, with the plan to be an artist, but fell in love with writing songs, especially when I was writing with Jonathan and him out the gate. So when you came here, though, you thought it was going to be artist, because that's probably what you knew. Yeah, I mean, all I knew had to do was sing. Oh, he used to get those church ladies worked. I'd be singing the same song two and three times at the end of a service dog. He always had the voice, dude. I can only imagine. Can't sing that. I'll get fine. Yeah. Sorry. Kick us off. What if we missed the work? I can't only. AI probably shuts that down too. Yeah. Yeah, catch the metal I can't even imagine That's all right Yeah you can speak it out I can't Even Well see we have We have full creative control on our podcast So we can do whatever we want You still can, though, because you get sued. We sing songs all the time.

But no.

It's kind of worse.

Yeah, it's like every episode to sing songs.

I wouldn't say that out loud. We used to do that too. They shut us down. Dang, okay. Maybe we'll just cut that part out. Yeah, no, no. Good for you guys. If you want to hear songs saying illegally, God's Country Podcasts. We wrote a bunch of them, though.

It's covers.

Does that matter?

Even worse, actually.

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