Celebrating A Capital Fourth 2025: Interviews with Lauren Daigle, Josh Turner, The Temptations & More!

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In this episode of pop Culture Weekly, it is all

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about PBS's A Capital four, twenty twenty five. I interview

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all the performers, including The Beach Boys, The Temptations, Lauren Daegel, Trumbone, Shorty,

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Josh Turner and more.

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Let's go Welcome to pop Culture Weekly with Kyle McMahon

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from iHeartRadio, your pop culture news, views, reviews, and celebrity

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interviews on Fall, the movies, TV music, and pomp Culture

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You Crave Weekly. Here's Kyle McMahon.

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Hello, and welcome to pop Culture Weekly with Kyle McMahon. I,

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of course from Kyle McMahon, and I am live from

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the West lawn of the US Capital for the rehearsals

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for a Capital fourth, PBS's annual concert. It is a

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celebration of America. It's a party. I've been watching rehearsals

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all day and it is going to be an incredible show.

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Depending on when you're listening to this, it airs live

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tonight on PBS at eight o'clock Eastern, with an encore

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following directly after that at nine thirty. And if for

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some reason you've missed it, first of all at Rude,

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but secondly you can catch it on demand through July eighteenth,

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and if you don't watch it live on PBS, you

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could also watch it on PBS dot org, live streaming, YouTube,

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and Facebook. So let's just get right into these interviews.

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I've got a whole bunch of great interviews with the performers,

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and I'm excited to bring them to you.

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It's always a great show, all right. I am here

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with the one and only Abby Carter on the West

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lawna the US Capitol for a Capitol fourth on the

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fourth of July. What's what does that moment mean for you?

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I mean, that's act. I mean, the fourth of July

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is one of my favorite holidays. It's it's the most

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I've said together holiday. I can't find the right words

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for it, but it's the most I don't know's. It's

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really big on community and coming together and celebrating something

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that means so much to all of us as a country.

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And I'm so honored to be here.

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I love that. And you're performing the Climb, which I

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love that song so much. You do such an incredible

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job with a What does that song mean for you?

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Especially in this context?

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I mean, in this context, it's incredible considering It's really

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just about the struggles of life and overcoming those things

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and realizing at the end of the day, the destination

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only means so much to you because of the journey

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behind it, and all of the struggles and things that

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you've gone through life are what make the positives so wonderful.

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And I'm honored to be singing if you're today. I

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sung it when I was ten years old at a

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talent show and it's kind of a full circle moment

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to be able to come back here and sing it

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on much more of a national stage rather than at

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the date festival in my hometown. I'm excited to do it.

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And to be here, and you know, under the lens

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of American Idol, yeah, you know, I feel like the

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climb also is kind of you know, kissmit with with that,

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you know, does that resonate with you at all?

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I absolutely. I mean American Idol in itself was a struggle.

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It was a competition for sure, and you had to

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work really hard every week to just keep moving forward.

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And sometimes it felt like, man, I wish I would

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just get vote at home this week. I'm tired. But

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I mean it made it all the much, all the

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much more worth it and more valuable to be there

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at the end and realize that you put so much

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work toward it and to get there.

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So it was, in fact, all about the climb.

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It was all about the climb.

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What can we expect? You're working on your new album,

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You're working on your album, now, you're touring next. What's

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up for you?

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Know?

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What can we expect from you next?

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So I released an album this past November, and I

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went on tour this spring winter, winter, spring kind of,

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and then I'm going back on tour in the fall.

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But I'm working on new music right now, and I

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love albums in general. So maybe or maybe not, I'm

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working on the next book.

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If you were, it would be twenty six, I mean.

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Awesome, Abby, thank you so much for speaking with me.

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I really appreciate it so much. Thank you, Thank you

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so much, Thank you. Abby. All Right, I am here

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once again with Alfonso Robero on the West lawn of

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the US candital Yes, we're a capital fourth. I just

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saw you last month. Yeah, so you're hosting everything. You're

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hosting up my birthday party next week actually right on.

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Right on, right on, we'll work out the detail, exactly detail.

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What's the feeling I mean, you know, to be on

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the West Lawn of the United States Capitol Capitol July fourth.

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This is my third year hosting the show, and it

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is actually very quite special to be here on the

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West Lawn Capitol Building. We're out here about to have

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an incredible show tomorrow night, and we'll be doing a

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dress rehearsal tonight, and it's a very special thing to

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be here in America four our birthday, right this is

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a celebration. It's a party, and we're having a party

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for all the positive things that we all feel about

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this country. Of course, there are things that are very

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difficult and difficult times for different people, but it's all

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about coming together, celebrating being together, loving one another, trying

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to see eye to eye and having a great time

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and recognizing our independence from Great Britain many many two

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hundred and forty nine years ago.

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And do you find you know, this year there's some

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incredibly incredible stories that are featured of some of the

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brave men and women you know who have given the

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ultimate sacrifice and those that love and support them and

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our first responders and that sort of thing. Do you

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feel a responsibility when you're hosting a show that features

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those kinds of stories or are you able to kind

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of separate yourself for the show itself. Well, I wouldn't

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say a responsibility. I would say what I do feel

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is the ability to be here and be part of

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this part of their story, part of their celebratory moments,

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to pay you know, and pay homage and honor them

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in this incredible space. I feel fortunate that I get

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to be a part of that. I love that there's

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you know, there's no pressure.

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Right, It's about just being real and being true in

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the moment and letting your heart speak for itself and

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letting that come through to the American public. So for me,

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it's an honor really to be able to be a

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part of that.

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I love that you and I had talked a couple

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of years ago about if you weren't here, you would

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be in your RV and your motor home going across

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the one I'm sure somewhere is that. Are you still

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into into that or still into it? Not as much lately?

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than the full cross country road trips. But the plan

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is to obviously do it again. But I you know,

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this week, I probably would have been at home, hanging

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out at the golf club, getting ready for my tournament

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next week. That's what I probably would have been doing.

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I love that, Alfonso. As always, it's a pleasure. Thank you, Sair,

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thanks for having I'll see you next weekend. I'm your

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host of Mike Birthday.

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I am here with the one and only Michael Up

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with the Beach Boys. Uh you performing on the west

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lawn of the United States Capitol Washington, d C. For

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Capital fourth on the fourth of July. So what is

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that like? The Beach Boys doing that.

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That's an amazing thing. It's the forty ninth anniversary. We

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were here a few years back and Jimmy Jimmy Buffett

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came out and sang the second verse of Cocomo with us,

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So that was quite an iconic moment. Yes, but this

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time our buddies LoCash, who just set on number one

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record in country, are joining us on stage and they're

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doing their song favorite their favorite three favorite colors, which

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is red, White and blue, which is perfect for this occasion. Yeah,

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and we you know, the Beach Boys have been known

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for having fun, fun, fun for many years, and so

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we're just really blessed and delighted to be able to

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come out and perform on America's holiday.

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I love that. And you you know, you've been in

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the business for so long performing iconic hits like this. Yes,

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does it have a different meeting today to perform these

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songs than it did when you first debut them.

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It's a little extra special because years ago in and

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I do to come out and do it free concert

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in July fourth, and that was a lot of incredible.

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It was like Againnes spoke of records, there's so many

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people on the monument grounds. But this is an iconic

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forty nine year tradition going on fifty and we are

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like so blessed to be invited to be part of

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the celebration of July fourth.

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Amazing. Thank you, sir. I really appreciate it and I

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can we can't wait to see tomorrow.

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Thank you very much.

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Thank you. All Right, I am here live at the

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West lawn of the Capitol for with low cash for

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a Capitol fourth. How you guys doing, man, We're doing

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it very I asked it, what a great day man,

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as I did. Yeah, so you're performing one of your

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own songs, you're also performing with the Beach Boys. What

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does that feel like on fourth of July?

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stage with icon like the Beach Boys, I mean, it's amazing.

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And Mike Love and Bruce have become like big brothers

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to us, and so we've been on tour with them

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this year.

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They asked us to be.

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Part of this and we were honored.

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you know, you have your own catalog, which we'll talk

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about in a moment, But when you're doing a song

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with them, do you feel like, you know, any extra

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pressure than your own material or I.

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iconic crew. But Mike has just been family to us,

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and we've always felt like family with those guys. Their

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music is very positive, Our music is very positive. While

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we looked up to those guys growing up and and

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writing the songs kind of like the Beach Boys, you know,

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as much as we can. So we're happy to be here,

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honored to be here for America.

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I love that.

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And finally, you just put out an album song that

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went number one again, What does that feel like? This

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at the you know, at this point in your career

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to you're still releasing these hits.

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We started our own record label right, hired our own

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radio team, whole staff, and so we pushed this song

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up ourselves. We just decided to roll up our sleeves

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and do it ourselves. And we've been in this industry

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for a while and we knew what it would take,

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and it took some hard work, but we got our

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first number one is a two week number one Hometown Home.

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If you haven't heard, to check it out, and Raw

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Hearts is out now. It's our fastest rising single yet today.

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So we're off to a good start and we're thankful

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for it.

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I love that. Finally, you guys, you release some upbeat bops,

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right yeah? And why has that been you know, kind

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of a whole mark of your careers. You guys do

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uplifting bops? You know, why was that important to you

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as artists?

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I think as as music goes, I mean, like the

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Beach Boys, like Huey Lewis that that that kind of

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stuff where you're driving in the car and you remember

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as a kid and you just wrote down the windows

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and it just made you feel good. You know, there's

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a lot of stuff going on, and people have a

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lot of stories, and you know, there's a lot of

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negative and we've got to try and find the positive

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and everything, and and music can do that. Music can

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bring those people there, you know, and us too. So

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we rely on music and it's everything. And that's where

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we've kind of taken Low Cash to that level to

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make you know, hey, every now and then we'll have

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a slow song, but we want we want to hit.

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We want to hit the hearts of America. I love

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that Low Cash. Thank you so much, man, I really

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asreciate you as well in capital for it.

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All right, We're gonna take a quick break to pay

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West Lawn of the Capitol and rehearsals for a Capital Fourth.

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All right, I am here with the one and only

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Lauren Daegel in the West lawn of the US Capital

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for a Capital fourth. What's it feel like to be

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performing here in DC for the fourth of July?

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Oh, I'm so First of all, I'm so honored. I

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got to bring my family, my parents.

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And there's this really sweet moment where my mom last

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night we were talking about being out here after rehearsals

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and she said, Lauren, do you realize this is the

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closest I've ever been to the Capitol And I thought, Oh,

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my goodness, this is it is so special. So I

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know there's going to be a lot of families in

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the crowd. I know there's gonna be a lot of

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families having picnics and things like that.

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Just getting to celebrate the port It's very exciting.

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I love that. And the one of the songs that

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are performing, Rescue, It's such a powerful song. And what

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was that? Why was why? Why that song for this moment?

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Okay, well, I'm really excited. I don't know if this

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is a spoiler alert, are we allowed to say?

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Okay, there's a I'm like, the beauty of that song

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is because it's going to be met with so many

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first responders on stage. And whenever they told me, they

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asked about it, like a couple of weeks before our rehearsals,

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and I was like, do y'all want me to sing

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a song or crap? I feel like, for me, it's

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gonna be one of the most moving moments of the evening.

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Yeah, I'm really excited what those people pay for.

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My brother is a first responder, and what they see

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and what they experience and what they go through on

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a day in and day.

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Out basis is really powerful.

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And any moment in life that we get to thank

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them and honor them and show our gratitude for everything

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that they've done to keep this country safe and to

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keep people looked after is really beautiful to me.

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I love that. And on another note, you had gone

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for American Idol a couple of times. Yeah, your journey

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took you in a much different place. Do you think

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it all worked out the way was meant to?

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And you know, oh yeah, I'm so grateful and I

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still have great relationships with the American Idol team.

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I've gone back a couple of times seeing some of

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the contestants and stuff.

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But I remember when I got told no on American Idol,

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when I was walking out the double doors open, Simon

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Kyle had just said no, and I tears started filling

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my eyes, and my mom looked at me and she said, Lauren,

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you can either believe that no of man or the

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yes of God. And if you believe God's calling you

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to do this, then just stay focused. And it really

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did something to me. I remember saying, don't cry about this,

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get up, girl, let's go. And it was the first

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day that I realized, oh, I really care about this,

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Because sometimes when you're told no, it's actually fuel you realize, oh,

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this is something I care about.

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If it hurts.

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If it doesn't hurt, then you're like, oh, I guess

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I didn't really care about that as much as I

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thought i'd did, you know. So it's just a beautiful

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moment for me to realize, oh, I actually care about this,

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and I really.

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Want to pursue music, and so the journey began. Honestly

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from that moment.

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I love that. And finally, you are so inspirational in

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your performance and your music. What do you want people

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to take from Lauren Daegel.

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Oh, I love that.

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I honestly, anytime that I get to sing, I just

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want to spread hope into this world, the hope of Christ,

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the hope of knowing anybody who's going through any situation,

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if you need someone to lean on, if you need

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someone who's for you and not against you.

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For me, that is Jesus, you know. So when I

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think what do what does lo and Degel look like?

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I just want to reflect His glory and his goodness.

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And I want that to be able to be seen

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for generations to come. That's my my hope.

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I love that, Lauren, thank you so much. I really

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appreciate it.

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I appreciate it.

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So I am here with the warning only trombone and

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Surety all the way from New Orleans, Washington, d C.

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Capital Fourth just heard you rehearse. Awesome, Medley. What's this

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moment like for you? It's a wonderful moment.

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To be able to represent the great city of New

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Orleans on the national stage in front of America is

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a beautiful thing for me. And hopefully we can make

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the city of New Orleans proud by being here. So

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it is big for me to be able to be

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a representative.

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Of that place. How did you decide what songs in

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that medley too that you were gonna do.

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I just thought that we would choose an original song

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Hurricane Seize that kind of capture the brass band second

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line feel of what I what I grew up playing.

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And also some New Orleans classics. Moighty Ground New Orleans

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by the Great Professor Long Haul, which is the stand

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up and when the Saints Go Mark Jann is just

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a great song that bring everyone together and sing along with.

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For speaking of New Orleans, you're from the Tremain neighborhood RG. Yes,

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So how has that influenced your work and your career?

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I mean it's a very specific neighborhood in New Orleans.

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Yes, that's the sixth Ward in New Orleans is where

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Congo Squarez.

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But I grew up in like a musician village.

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Naturally there was a Reaper brass band that lived around

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the corner Kermit Roughens. Of course, my family, Andrews family

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all brass musicians. The late Great Tube of Fats was

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dead of Trimmee brass band. So I would wake up

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in the morning and go to school elementary school, and

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I would see people playing jazz funerals and parades, and

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then I would come home and then they would be

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celebrating whatever it is. So I was surrounded by music

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in their neighborhood my entire life. So it's a big

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Without that place, I wouldn't be here today.

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Wow. I love that you have this very specific fusion

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of traditional jazz and hip hop and pop. How did

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that all come about for you? For that? For that

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Trumbu and.

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Shorty South, Well, all of that music is things that

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I grew up playing or being a part of, or

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listening to. So having people like the Neville Brothers and

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Doctor John, also being able to work with people like

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Many Fresh and Cash Money Records as I was coming up,

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all of those situations are like gumbo to me. Everyone

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I'll get placed in. I take a little bit from

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it and add it to the sound. So even though

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we grew up in a very traditional city, I was

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still listening to master P and the Hot Boys and

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stuff as a youngster, as a teenager, So that's type

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of music.

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I didn't blost that out and I just put it

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into my music.

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Then I had a chance to work with him personally

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and then everywhere I go, I just take a little

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bit from it like a sponge.

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I love that. So this finally, and this kind of

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builds off that you've worked with.

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Madonna, Bruno, Mars, Lenny Kravitz, all kinds of incredible artists.

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Do you take something from each of them and give

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them trumb as well?

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Well, you know, I think when I'll play with them,

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they might take a little bit. But I'm definitely learning

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from some of the great people and any situation I get,

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and everyone has a different musical approach, so whatever that

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may be, I try to take a little bit from

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that naturally, because I'm a fan of music, and I'm

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just learning from everyone that I touched the stage with

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or record with, because a lot of people are very

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strong at certain things that you can learn from that.

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So I definitely bring everything I can. You know, to me,

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music is like a.

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Neighborhood, a musical neighborhood, So any place I go, I

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try to take a little bit away from that and

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add it to my thing.

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That's amazing. The one and only trombone Shorty, thank you, brother,

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thank you. I appreciate it. Blanging my brother, of course.

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A rare.

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So first of all. Thank you for speaking with me, Josh,

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I appreciate it.

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Yeah, the song that you're performing for Capital Fourth has

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a bit of more meaning for you than just as

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it may seem to somebody listening. Can you tell me

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about that story a little.

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Yeah, So, a little over ten years ago, I had

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asked my uncle if I could see all of my

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granddaddy's military records, papers, medals, anything he had. I knew

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he had been awarded the Purple Heart. Unfortunately the Purple

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Heart had been lost or misplaced, but that wasn't necessarily

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the most important thing to me. It was the story

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and reading his papers, trying to figure out, you know,

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what his story was. Because he never talked about it.

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Nobody in our family really knew a whole lot about

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what he had done. And so I just kind of

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started digging into it. And I was inspired almost a

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year later to write this song and just kind of

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stashed it away. It kind of sat on the shelf

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for basically a decade while untill this record, and I

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just felt like it was the right time to bring

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it to the surface and to the light, you know.

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And it's so far as it's meant a lot to

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a lot of people. I kind of regret not bringing

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it out sooner, but you know, everything happens for a reason,

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and you know, the timing was right.

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Yeah, And now it's on your latest album. You are

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now performing that song. Well, I think you debuted it

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around Memorial Day.

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And now you're performing it on the West lawn of

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the US Capitol and DC for the Fourth of July.

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That has to be a surreal thing for you.

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It is. You know, this is one of only two

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songs throughout my whole career that I ever cried at,

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you know about during like in the studio, because I

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was so moved by the fact that I had written

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something that was a tribute to my granddaddy and a

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story that had never been told. And so I just

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felt overwhelmed by emotion. And then all these opportunities that

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I've had, you know, with this, I've got to play

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it on Veterans Day last year on the Today Show,

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we got to do a small little video for it,

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and debuted it, like you said, on Memorial Day, all

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these different Veterans events, and now you know, here at

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the Capital forths out here in our nation's capital is

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just it's kind of overwhelming. So it's pretty awesome.

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You've been very vocal about opening about your faith speaking

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about that, and you've also been in the business for

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a long time. Is there a time where you feel.

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Your faith was tested, that you were obviously able to

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persevere and how did you do that?

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I feel like it's always tested, but early on in

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my career was definitely tested because nobody knew who I was,

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Nobody knew really what I stood for. Nobody knew anything

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about my music or me as an artist or as

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a person, or how I wanted to conduct my business,

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and so all of that, you know, coming together all

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at once was extremely stressful. It took a toll on

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me physically, mentally, spiritually, and I just had to persevere.

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I had to tell you, one step at a time,

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one decision at a time, and I had to do

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what I felt like I knew was right and what

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I felt like the Lord was telling me to do.

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And so I'd say it's worked out. Yeah, I've been

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doing this now for over twenty years and still having fun,

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still love what i'ved and got a great group of

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people around me fighting for me every day, and so yeah,

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you know, it's a testament to perseverance.

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I love that. And finally, what's next for you? What

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can we expect next?

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I'm on tour pretty heavily right now, on the This

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Country Music Thing.

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Tour supporting now Alad, my latest.

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Record, in which I'm very proud of. So yeah, we'll

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be all across the country this year. And you know,

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just got some things in the hopper, but I can't

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really talk about those things.

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All right, you'll come on, iHeart and tell us when

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you're ready. Josh, thank you so much. I really appreciate it.

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All right. I am here on the West lawn of

489
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the US Capitol with the One and Only Temptations the

490
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fourth of July. What does this moment mean to you

491
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to perform here once again at the Capitol.

492
00:23:50.680 --> 00:23:53.839
Well, we are repeating history because we were here about

493
00:23:53.839 --> 00:23:56.039
five or six years ago and here we are again

494
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celebrating our nation's birthday.

495
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So it's a wonderful occasion.

496
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And you have so many iconic kids, right, I mean

497
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you guys the soundtrack, so many lives. How do you decide,

498
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you know, how do you narrow it down to just

499
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a handful?

500
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Well, what we will do and will not do.

501
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We will not take my girl out now we got

502
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to do a whole lot of things around my girl.

503
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But that's all we got cussed out long time ago.

504
00:24:21.799 --> 00:24:24.400
Well we're chick it out. So Paul, who was in

505
00:24:24.400 --> 00:24:25.880
the group at the time, he said, we can never

506
00:24:26.000 --> 00:24:29.160
take it song out. So my giralism always stay and

507
00:24:29.200 --> 00:24:30.359
we build around my girl.

508
00:24:30.480 --> 00:24:35.759
Okay, going off of Capital fourth for a moment. You know,

509
00:24:36.279 --> 00:24:40.759
you guys are an originator of vocal groups, you know,

510
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legends icons over the generations. How have you all seen

511
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specifically vocal groups changed through time and music.51200:24:53.039 --> 00:24:55.680



Well, the one thing in life that is certain is changed,51300:24:56.160 --> 00:24:58.039



and we've been able to adapt to what of a51400:24:58.160 --> 00:25:01.359



change is necessary for the temptitious, you continue on. So51500:25:01.480 --> 00:25:04.240



that's the strong point of any group. But for the temptation,51600:25:04.440 --> 00:25:07.319



we are very flexible. For whatever the business is, we51700:25:07.400 --> 00:25:09.480



will be that as long as it's good business.51800:25:09.559 --> 00:25:13.960



Yeah, I love that. And you know, as you're performing,51900:25:14.000 --> 00:25:16.400



you guys are touring. You released a new album a52000:25:16.400 --> 00:25:22.880



few years back. You know, as you're doing these projects,52100:25:24.160 --> 00:25:26.480



do you have that saying do you see it from52200:25:26.480 --> 00:25:29.640



a different lens today than you did? You know, say52300:25:29.680 --> 00:25:31.240



when you first started out, No.52400:25:31.279 --> 00:25:33.599



We're still home rate. See we started out with that52500:25:33.720 --> 00:25:35.680



of the Tiger, and we're going to finish it with52600:25:35.759 --> 00:25:38.200



Die of the Tiger. Now, we love it, and you52700:25:38.240 --> 00:25:39.839



know it's an amazing feat that you'll be able to52800:25:39.960 --> 00:25:42.640



less hee. We been around for sixty plus years. You52900:25:42.759 --> 00:25:45.240



do wonderful good. If you were to be around for53000:25:45.279 --> 00:25:47.960



four or five years. Here we are over half a century.53100:25:48.000 --> 00:25:48.680



So it's a blessed.53200:25:49.039 --> 00:25:53.200



I love that Capital Fourth Whoslawn or the US Capitol53300:25:53.240 --> 00:25:56.799



with the temptations. Thank you all so much. I really appreciate.53400:25:59.000 --> 00:26:03.240



All right, that's our show for this episode, PBS's annual53500:26:03.359 --> 00:26:07.759



A Capital Fourth. It's such an amazing celebration of America.53600:26:07.839 --> 00:26:09.160



It's a big party.53700:26:09.119 --> 00:26:14.079



With incredibly beautiful tributes to our men and women, the53800:26:14.119 --> 00:26:17.400



brave men and women and their families and their support53900:26:17.480 --> 00:26:20.400



systems that help make us safe. So be sure to54000:26:20.480 --> 00:26:25.480



check it out Friday, July fourth, live on PBS Facebook54100:26:25.559 --> 00:26:30.200



and YouTube and PBS dot org a pm Eastern with54200:26:30.480 --> 00:26:34.920



a encore presentation at nine point thirty, and if you54300:26:35.000 --> 00:26:39.559



miss it, you can catch it on demand through July eighteenth.54400:26:39.759 --> 00:26:41.880



So let me know what you think of this episode.54500:26:42.039 --> 00:26:43.119



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