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This is The Wally Show and that is new music from the van Mercy Me and this is great because we got the guys live in studio with us.

Everybody, all of them. Every time we hear our song, we can show it to the front door.

You guys have been on the road for so long, but you've had years and years and years of doing this, but then COVID hits and you've been home for a while.

Is this been a good time for you guys or are you just like, I got to get back on the road again?

It's been a weird time. I know it's been really hard for everybody. We have been very fortunate that three out of the five have gotten COVID and it was very mild thank goodness.

Oh really? Which three? So I know who not to hug.

We're not going to tell you want to see if the hugs feel different from us. We have some of your knowledge now.

Yeah, I know it's not running, but they didn't very just put a mask so just weeded it out for us.

My whole family got around Christmas, but overall the pandemic, I think for the first couple of months we thought this will be over soon and then when it kind of settled in, it was really weird.

Luckily, we had an album to work on, so it felt like we had something that felt somewhat normal.

But I'll say personally, when you go on vacation and you come back, there's deadlines, you're trying to catch up.

It's not, but this was like everybody pushpaws. In other words, for keen country, couldn't get ahead.

So we feel like we still did somehow move forward.

They were still doing a ton of shows, man. I think Joel just stream when he's sleeping.

He never turned off. He went to bed dressed for sure.

We talked about, we got the guys from Mercy Me and you're talking about like a new album.

So normally you have X amount of time usually to work on an album. Did you have more or less time because of COVID to work on the album?

This album took two years and one month to make. So yeah, we ended up writing about 40 songs.

Really? Now, do you find that actually having more time is worse?

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