All right, first podcast of 2023, Cole Cheney, huge fans, what's up, man?

I'm going on, y'all.

Want to quickly ask you about some, we had some fan questions we'll get to, but the

success of your only album so far, Mercy, which has done incredibly well in

Spotify and streaming and got a ton of buzz for you. Awesome album. I was actually

looking at it and comparing the numbers. We've talked about this before, comparing

some of the numbers, even on the deep cuts, some of the stuff that maybe wasn't

catching as much of fire, but still getting crazy, crazy listens on the whole

album. You got major label people in Nashville that don't get close to these

types of numbers. And do you pay attention to that? Or do you just let it

let it take care of itself? Because we love seeing this. We've seen it with

Charles Westy God. When we've seen it with you, we see it with others. And it's it's

always like a funny thing to me because we feel like the major label Nashville

bubble kind of doesn't, they don't kind of go out and notice these things. But

do you pay attention to it or not really? I mean, I'd be aligned if I said that, you

know, I didn't keep an eye on that stuff because certainly, you know, you

want to be doing well on numbers and stuff. But honestly, man, I don't really, I

don't put that much worth into my numbers per se because the fact of the matter

is that those can be bought and people buy them all the time. They buy listeners,

they buy followers and all that stuff. So yeah, it's cool. And I do keep up with

that stuff. But, you know, I guess I try to kind of leave that up to folks like you

to watch, but you know, I try to just kind of stay out of forward with the whole

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