July 4, 2025

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

Celebrating A Capital Fourth 2025: Interviews with Lauren Daigle, Josh Turner, The Temptations & More!
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In this star-studded episode of Pop Culture Weekly, join Kyle McMahon as he takes you behind the scenes of PBS's A Capital Fourth 2025, recorded live from the West Lawn of the US Capitol.

Celebrate America's birthday with exclusive interviews from an incredible lineup of guests. Alfonso Ribeiro, hosting the annual special for the third time, shares his passion for unity and gratitude during this patriotic event. Rising star Abi Carter reflects on her journey from local talent shows to the American Idol stage, performing a powerful rendition of "The Climb." The legendary group The Temptations offer insights into their enduring career and timeless hits.

Experience musical inspiration with Lauren Daigle, who talks about her emotional connection to first responders while performing her song "Rescue," and Trombone Shorty, who shares stories of his New Orleans roots and his grandfather's military legacy as inspiration for his latest album. Country star Josh Turner discusses his love for classic American songs, and The Beach Boys bring their iconic surf rock vibes to the celebration. LOCASH shares their excitement about performing at such a historic venue. Enjoy intimate conversations filled with themes of faith, resilience, and the timeless power of music. Tune in for a heartfelt celebration of music, patriotism, and unity in this special episode of Pop Culture Weekly.

A Capitol Fourth 2025 airs lives on PBS, PBS.org & YouTube on July 4th at 8pm EST with an encore presentation immediately following at 9:30. It will be available on demand through July 18th. 

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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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They asked us to be.

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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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Well, it's extra special.

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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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a lot of stuff going on, and people have a

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

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

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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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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,

476
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you know, it's a testament to perseverance.

477
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I love that. And finally, what's next for you? What

478
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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

483
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be all across the country this year. And you know,

484
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just got some things in the hopper, but I can't

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really talk about those things.

486
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All right, you'll come on, iHeart and tell us when

487
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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

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the US Capitol with the One and Only Temptations the

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fourth of July. What does this moment mean to you

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to perform here once again at the Capitol.

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Well, we are repeating history because we were here about

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five or six years ago and here we are again

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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

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a handful?

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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
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Well we're chick it out. So Paul, who was in

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the group at the time, he said, we can never

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take it song out. So my giralism always stay and

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we build around my girl.

508
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Okay, going off of Capital fourth for a moment. You know,

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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.

512
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Well, the one thing in life that is certain is changed,

513
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and we've been able to adapt to what of a

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change is necessary for the temptitious, you continue on. So

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that's the strong point of any group. But for the temptation,

516
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we are very flexible. For whatever the business is, we

517
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will be that as long as it's good business.

518
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Yeah, I love that. And you know, as you're performing,

519
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you guys are touring. You released a new album a

520
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few years back. You know, as you're doing these projects,

521
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do you have that saying do you see it from

522
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a different lens today than you did? You know, say

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when you first started out, No.

524
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We're still home rate. See we started out with that

525
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of the Tiger, and we're going to finish it with

526
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Die of the Tiger. Now, we love it, and you

527
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know it's an amazing feat that you'll be able to

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less hee. We been around for sixty plus years. You

529
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do wonderful good. If you were to be around for

530
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four or five years. Here we are over half a century.

531
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So it's a blessed.

532
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I love that Capital Fourth Whoslawn or the US Capitol

533
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with the temptations. Thank you all so much. I really appreciate.

534
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All right, that's our show for this episode, PBS's annual

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A Capital Fourth. It's such an amazing celebration of America.

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It's a big party.

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With incredibly beautiful tributes to our men and women, the

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brave men and women and their families and their support

539
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systems that help make us safe. So be sure to

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check it out Friday, July fourth, live on PBS Facebook

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and YouTube and PBS dot org a pm Eastern with

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a encore presentation at nine point thirty, and if you

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miss it, you can catch it on demand through July eighteenth.

544
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So let me know what you think of this episode.

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I will see you next week.

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I love you, We.

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Thank you for listening to pop Culture Weekly. Here all

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the latest at popculturewekly dot com. In the reckets redly Yeah,

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