Country Music Unites for Autism Awareness

Tony Mantor: Why Not Me the World

Tony Mantor

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🗓️ 6 April 2025

⏱️ 17 minutes

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Send us a text Country music and autism awareness come together at Nashville Palace for "An Acoustic Evening for Autism," where artists use their platform to support families affected by autism through the newly formed Country Music Autism Awareness Foundation. • Doug Mathis explains how his song about an autistic boy named Jack led to creating an annual benefit concert • The event features performances from Daryl Worley, T Graham Brown, John Barry, and others to raise funds for Vanderbilt's...

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0:00.0	Welcome to Why Not Me, the World Podcast, hosted by Tony Mantor.
0:11.6	Broadcasting from Music City, USA, Nashville, Tennessee.
0:18.0	Join us as our guests tell us their stories.
0:21.5	Some will make your laugh, some will make you cry.
0:25.5	Real life people who will inspire and show that you are not alone in this world.
0:34.8	Hopefully you gain more awareness, acceptance, and a better understanding
0:40.3	for autism around the world.
0:43.3	Hi, I'm Tony Mantor, and welcome to today's episode of Why Not Me the World.
0:57.6	We're recording live at the Nashville Palace for a special remote podcast, unscripted, unedited, and full of heart.
1:05.9	Tonight's episode supports an acoustic evening for autism, a show happening right here this evening.
1:13.1	We're thrilled to bring you this country experience, and I hope you enjoy it as much as we're enjoying sharing it with you.
1:20.8	We've got two fantastic guests join us tonight, and for the next three weeks, I'll be featuring two guests per episode to dive into everything
1:30.0	we're covering right here tonight. Thanks for tuning in. All right, I'm here with Doug Mathis.
1:36.8	So tell me a little bit about what you're doing tonight. Tony, it's a lot of work.
1:42.8	Yes, yeah, it is.
1:44.5	We are hosting an event called an acoustic evening for autism.
1:50.3	And we've got Daryl Worley, T. Graham Brown, John Barry, Dylan Massengale.
1:58.5	I've left somebody, Jamie O'Neill, her sister Minnie Murphy, who has an autistic child.
2:06.3	Okay.
2:07.5	I'll be performing and Faron Hamlin will be performing with his autistic nephew.
2:12.3	Nice.
2:12.8	So it's going to be, it's going to be great.
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