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The Ricochet Superfeed

Not Dead Yet: Clint Black

The Ricochet Superfeed

Ricochet

News, Politics

4.4651 Ratings

🗓️ 12 May 2026

⏱️ 73 minutes

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Summary

Singer, songwriter, musician, actor, and record producer Clint Black joins underachievers Ben and Chris. The gang talks about country music, writing, parenting, career choices, and gratitude. How much does art depend on lived-experience and pain, or can performers serve their audiences without working through their own trials?

Transcript

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0:00.0

Hi, I'm Ben Sass.

0:08.3

And I'm Chris Steyerwalt.

0:10.0

And this is not dead yet.

0:12.3

We're all dying, but only some of us have been brought face to face with that reality.

0:17.1

However long, each of us have to do it, though, we all want to live a good life.

0:21.2

One with meaning, love, and joy, and our guests are here to help us do exactly that.

0:27.2

All right, Ben Sass, you are coming to us live from inside the cabin of a car in a parking lot

0:33.9

waiting to pick your wife up at the airport.

0:37.1

So no diagnosis, however, terminal

0:40.9

will take a man out of his husbandly duties, and I think this is to be commended. I think this is

0:48.1

to be commended. I am excited to see my bride. I am excited that I am in the middle of a five-day run of not having to

0:56.3

check into any hospital in Houston. And so my wife is going to get off a plane and I get to pick

1:01.8

her up and she's going to be real excited to see me for 45 seconds. And then she's going to realize

1:06.3

I drove one of our cheap old beater cars that has no AC, and the love for Ben will be over.

1:12.2

So decisions were made.

1:14.8

Choices were made.

1:17.0

I love the environment just like you do, and yet there was a good part of American life 20 or 30 years ago when you could know a guy and for a hundred bucks you could

1:27.8

get some free on and you could make your AC work for another six or eight weeks.

1:31.8

And I don't know that guy anymore.

1:33.9

I think they've all been crushed by the EPA.

1:38.8

I, when I bought the first car that I had that had the sealed engine, my current car, a 2018, but that had the sealed

1:47.3

engine.

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