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Danielle Robay
This is an I Heart Podcast. I knew I wanted to obey and submit, but I didn't fully grasp for the rest of my life what that meant for my heart. Podcasts and Rococo Punch this is the Turning River Road. In the woods of Minnesota, a cult leader married himself to 10 girls and forced them into a secret life of abuse. But in 2014, the youngest escaped. Listen to the Turning river road on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts or wherever you get your podcasts. My Uncle Chris was a real character, a garbage truck driver from South Carolina who is now buried in Panama City alongside the founding families of Panama. He also happens to be responsible for the craziest night of my life. Wild stories about adventure, romance, crime, history and war intertwine as I share the talk tales and hard truths that have helped me understand Uncle Chris. Listen now to Uncle Chris on Will Ferrell's Big Money Players Network on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts or wherever you listen to podcasts just like great shoes, great books take you places through unforgettable love stories and into conversations with characters you'll never forget. I think any good romance, it gives me this feeling of like butterflies. I'm Danielle Robay and this is bookmarked by Reese's Book Club, the new podcast from hello Sunshine and I Heart Podcast where we dive into the stories that shape us on the page and off. Each week I'm joined by authors, celebs, book talk stars and more for conversations that will make you laugh, cry and add way too many books to your TBR pile. Listen to Bookmarked by Reese's Book Club on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts or wherever you get your podcasts. Join iHeartRadio and Sarah Spain in celebrating the one year anniversary of iHeart Women's Sports with powerful inter and insider analysis. Our shows have connected fans with the heart of women's Sports. In just one year, the network has launched 15 shows and built a community united by passion podcasts that amplify the voices of women in sports. Thank you for supporting iHeart women's sports and our founding sponsors E L F Beauty, Capital One and Novartis. Just open the free iHeart app and search iHeart Women's Sports to listen now. Welcome to Pretty Private with ebony, the podcast where silence is broken and stories are set free. I'm Ebony and every Tuesday I'll be sharing all new anonymous stories that would challenge your perceptions and give you new insight on the people around you. Every Tuesday, make sure you listen to Pretty Private from the Black effect podcast network. Tune in on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you listen to your favorite shows.
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Covino
Hey, it's Covino and Rich and Welco to over promised our bonus podcast live in Atlanta from the iHeartRadio studios. What a week. Y All star game, Home run Derby. We came, we saw, we bushwhacked, we conquered, and we had a lot of cool interviews and we caught up with Zack Brown, the country star. We went into his suite. Yeah. And not only did we catch up with Zack Brown, he got to sing the national anthem. We talked to him moments before he hit the stage, hit the field. Yeah, no pressure. But not only did he sing the anthem, he's got a new residency at the Sphere in Vegas, I believe starting in December. He's a big deal. And a new album coming out again, Love and Fear, December 5, starring Dolly Parton, Snoop Dogg, Marcus King. A lot of collaborations on the new album. And the first single comes out July 18th featuring Snoop Dogg, so. And it's called Let it run. So listen out for it and enjoy our catch up with Zach Brown from Atlanta at the MLB all star game. Hey, it's Cavino and Rich. We're at the all star game to his field and we have a guest. He's got a new album, he's got a new residency, and he's singing the national anthem. It's Zach Brown. Zach Brown.
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Danielle Robay
No.
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Rich
I gotta ask you what's happening now?
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Covino
I feel like a guy like you, fully composed, a guy like Cavino's like, even he's gotta be a little nervous for the national anthem or performance like this. You got any nerves or.
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Rich
No, not at all. I get excited. Like when I get ready to go play a show, I just get like. Like I'm in a shoot, like, let me out and let me go do my thing. I love it.
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Covino
Have you been preparing? You know the words?
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Rich
Yeah, I've sung it a couple of times, actually. It was a Braves game. The first time I ever did the Anthem, I was 14 at Fulton County Stadium when it was over at the other spot. So I had some nerves then, but it's pretty easy now.
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Covino
It's funny you would say when you were 14, because Cal Raleigh won the Home Run Derby last night. Video floating around of him as a little kid, like, I'm gonna be a Home Run Derby champ. You got some old shit, old footage of you playing in front of like, not many people. Do you have some of that stuff?
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Rich
Yeah, I mean, playing in a coffee house, but I mean, honestly, not to date myself, but no one had cameras in their pockets. Like somebody had to literally carry a camera around with them to actually get that. So I don't know. There's some footage when I was working at camp, summer camp, you know, singing when I was probably 7, 16, 17.
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Covino
Do you remember the first person that really believed in you? Like, yo, Zach, stick with him, man. You, you got this.
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Rich
Yeah. My brother in law, David, when I was young, I was playing guitar and singing. He's like, you ought to move to Nashville and go do this, you know, and the people. It's amazing in a young person's life when somebody says something like that to you, like, hey, you're really good at these. Just stick with it. Like, that could be a life changing moment.
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Covino
And he goes from coffee house to the Sphere in Vegas. That's a huge announcement, by the way. Great transition there. You like that? You like that? Yeah, yeah, yeah. When I was a kid, I was like, I'm going to be a big radio star. See, look at me now. No, man, tell me about that. Are you involved in the process, in the design? Like, how big is this for you?
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Rich
This is the biggest thing we've ever done. And this is like, this is my baby. And I've been wanting to do a spectacle for the last two or three years and finding the right moment to do it where. But that place is the craziest canvas for creativity that's ever been made. So you're only limited by your imagination and your budget. Yeah, so we've been, we've been cranking. We've been working on the content for 14 months and we've still got a few, few months to go. But it's. The stuff we have right now is mind blowing.
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Covino
How hands on are you with the visuals and everything?
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Rich
All of it. I'm hands on with every second of it, from wardrobe to the design. I mean, we filmed a 40 piece orchestra, we filmed a 20 person choir. We've got. And this album, you know, same name, Love and Fear is the same name as the show at the Sphere. But this is our masterpiece so far. And this is one of those years to like bet on yourself and you have to fund it all. It's like making a movie, you know, making a movie that goes along with it. And it's. People will not expect what's gonna happen there, I'll tell you that much. It's gonna be. It's gonna be incredible.
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Covino
Well, you're talking about Love and Fear. I heard Dolly Parton's on the album. She's gonna be in Vegas too. Any surprise appearances and duets from you? From her.
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Rich
We may or may not be doing some amazing collabs too. I mean, the song that she sang on this album, I just sent it to her. And what she sent back and how she sang on it was just. She's unbelievable. Like, her singing now is as good as it ever was. She's insane. There'll never be another Dolly Parton. And to have her on this album and in Vegas the same time that we are. So we're cooking up some stuff for.
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Covino
The fans and there's a lot of collaboration. Snoop Dogg, the first single. But I heard word on the streets. There's a lot of rock like a rock. And I'm a big rock fan. Tell me about that.
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Rich
Yeah, so there, there's a, there's three rock songs on the album that are killing, you know, I mean, we did the one with Chris Cornell back in the day. We got our first number one on the rock chart, which was like a dream of mine because I'm such a rock fan. And we've got, we've got some heat on this record too. So super excited. You know, I wrote, wrote with Dave Grohl for this record, wrote with Dan Reynolds from Imagine Dragons, Charlie Starr from BlackBerry Smoke. Like we've got some real rock in there. And some of it is just like this is our chance to do like a rock opera thing, you know, it's just like this is our moment to do it, to do something that's Vegas but on us. There's four acres of video in that place. They have to measure it in acres.
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Danielle Robay
25 years, 25 players. Before training camp kickstarts a new NFL season, NFL Daily is going to look back. It is a special six episode series where myself, Greg Rosenthal and some of the top NFL minds like Kevin Harlan, Mina Kimes and Bill Barnwell make the case for each player. We're taking a look back giving you NFL Daily's top 25 players of the last 25 years. So who made the list? You know, Tom Brady's on it. Where's Patrick Mahomes?
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Covino
Touchdown Kansas City.
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Danielle Robay
He's on it. How about Lamar Jackson?
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Rich
Jackson takes it himself.
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Danielle Robay
Look at him. Dirt back and forth. Oh, he broke his ankles and he's got a touchdown.
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Covino
He is Houdini.
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Danielle Robay
You are going to have to listen to find out. Listen to NFL Daily's top 25 players of the last 25 years. Starting on June 30 on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts.
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Rich
Adventure should never come with a pause button.
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Danielle Robay
Remember the MoviePass era where you could watch all the movies you wanted for just $9? It made zero sense and I could not stop thinking about it. I'm Bridget Todd, host of the tech podcast There Are no Girls on the Internet. On this new season, I'm talking to the innovators who are left out of the tech headlines, like the visionary behind MoviePass, Black founder Stacey Spikes, who was pushed out of MoviePass, the company that he founded. His story is wild and it's currently the subject of a juicy new HBO documentary. We dive into how culture connects us.
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Rich
When you go to France or you go to England or you go to.
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Danielle Robay
Hong Kong, those kids are wearing Jordans. They're wearing Kobe's shirt.
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Rich
They're watching Black Panther and the challenges.
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Danielle Robay
Of being a Black Founder.
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Rich
Close your eyes and tell me what.
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Danielle Robay
A tech founder looks like.
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Rich
Like they're not going to describe someone who looks like me and they're not going to describe someone who looks like you.
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Danielle Robay
I created There Are no girls on the Internet because the future belongs to all of us. So listen to There are no girls on the Internet, on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts.
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Rich
I know a lot of cops and.
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Danielle Robay
They get asked all the time, have.
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Rich
You ever had to shoot your gun?
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Danielle Robay
Sometimes the answer is yes. But there's a company dedicated to a future where the answer will always be no. Across the country, cops called this Taser the Revolution.
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Rich
But not everyone was convinced it was that simple.
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Covino
Cops believed everything that Taser told them.
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Danielle Robay
From Lava for good and the team that brought you Bone Valley comes a story about what happened when a multi billion dollar company dedicated itself to one visionary mission. This is Absolute Season one, Taser Incorporated. I get right back there and it's bad. It's really, really, really bad.
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Rich
Listen to new episodes of Absolute Season.
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Danielle Robay
1, Taser Incorporated on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts or wherever you get your podcasts binge episodes 1, 2 and 3.
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Rich
On May 21 and episodes 4, 5.
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Danielle Robay
And 6 on June 4 ad free at Lava for Good. Plus on Apple Podcasts. Foreign welcome to Pretty Private with Ebony, the podcast where silence is broken and stories are set free. I'm Ebony and every Tuesday I'll be sharing all new anonymous stories that would challenge your perceptions and give you new insight on the people around you. On Pretty Private, we'll explore the untold experiences of women of color. Color who faced it all childhood trauma, addiction, abuse, incarceration, grief, mental health struggles and more. And found the strength to make it to the other side. My dad was shot and killed in his house. Yes, he was a drug dealer. Yes, he was a confidential informant. But he wasn't shot on a street corner. He wasn't shot in the middle of a drug deal. He was shot in his house, unarmed. Pretty Private isn't just a podcast. It's your personal guide for turning storylines into lifelines. Every Tuesday, make sure you listen to Pretty Private from the Black Effect podcast network. Tune in on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you listen to your favorite shows.
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Covino
Now, when you write music, I always hear artists say, that song came to me in like five minutes. This one we labored over for months. Any of your big hits, ones that just came to you? And did others take like months of you guys working it out and writing?
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Rich
For sure. It happens every kind of way, man. Sometimes you finish it in three hours and sometimes like, goodbye in her eyes. I was looking, waiting for a bridge for that for 11 years. So. But if you know it's great, you don't want to compromise, you don't want to just mail it in, you know, you gotta wait until every line is like what you want it to be.
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Covino
How do you know when it's done, by the way? That's always the obstacle, I imagine, right?
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Rich
Yeah, for sure. Well, I think you got a good radar. And when you're co writing with somebody and you're looking for that line, somebody will say something. You're like, let's try to beat that, you know? And then it doesn't matter who says it. When you're, when you're writing, somebody will say it and you know it's the right one. When everybody agrees politely, how do you.
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Covino
Politely be like, yeah, yeah, that's good.
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Rich
But I mean, I think that's the thing. Like, it's such a, like, positive positivity. So important. It's like fertile ground for creating. So you don't want to hate on anything. You just want to be like, that's great. Let's hold that, let's keep that here and let's see if we can beat that later and you move on to something else. Then you go back, you're like, listen. And like, this part's not quite as strong as the rest of it, so let's see if we can beat that line. And if you're collaborating with the right people, you can do that. And there's no ego about it. When the right thing pops out, everybody's like, that's the one.
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Covino
I want to get back to the album, but we're here for the All Star Game. Zac Brown, obviously, we always say music and sports goes hand in hand. You're a big Atlanta Braves guy. Were you a good player growing up? Did you have some skills? Are you good baseball player?
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Rich
No, I never played baseball. I never did. But I loved it. Baseball cards were my life. I used to ride in Cumming, Georgia, down the road. I'd ride five miles on my bike to work at a card shop. And I got paid in baseball cards. So I was like fanatic card collector.
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Covino
What was your. What was your best one back in the day?
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Rich
Man, back then it was probably an Eric Davis rookie card, like 87. Fleer.
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Covino
Was that Jose Canseco rookie?
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Rich
Oh, yeah. All the rated rookie.
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Covino
Yeah, the 87 with the wood border for tops.
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Rich
Yeah. They printed 9 billion of those Topps cards. They're still around. You still get the piece of gum out of there and break your teeth on it.
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Covino
Well, as an Atlanta guy, who was your guys? Like Chipper Jones, Dale Murphy, who was your dude?
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Rich
Yeah, back then, Dale Murphy, Bob Horner. And Bob Horner wasn't really like a guy that looked like an athlete. A lot like John Kruck back in the day. It's like those kind of guys. But, you know, I was at the game when he smashed four home runs in a game. And it's like. But those memories are attached, like at those cards. When I look at it, like, takes me right back to when I was a kid.
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Covino
Well, I gotta ask you, we just got off the field and we were overwhelmed. It's like, Aaron Judge, all our heroes are there. Do you get that thrill meeting some of these guys?
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Rich
Absolutely. Absolutely. I mean, my. My son just met Ellie De La Cruz and just like that just made his day. Because we've been watching that dude's highlights, man. He's an absolute alien.
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Covino
And, you know, it's cool. It's a mutual respect because they feel that way when they meet you.
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Rich
That's weird. Just like musical heroes and things like that. Getting to collaborate and work with people that are your heroes. They're like superheroes and then you're friends with them. That's even more weird. You're, like, at their house. It's like. It's weird.
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Covino
That's wild. Now I gotta ask, because you have new stuff that your fans are excited about. In fact, within five minutes of learning that, we were gonna interview you. My wife's best friend's like, we gotta go see Zach Brown. They just announced Vegas fans excited about the new stuff. You got the old hits. Do you get excited to play both, or are there times where you're tired of the old stuff, or do you, like, still love that?
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Rich
No, I still love it when I'm. When I'm on stage, like. Like, because it. The goal. I just love making people feel good. So when they're singing along and singing back to me, I love it. Like, I don't sit around my house just singing chicken fried. But when I'm on a stage, I absolutely love it. I love the energy it brings. I love that connection with the fans.
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Covino
So I'm sorry to interrupt. Are you wearing a pair of jeans that fit just right? Are those them? Nice. How do we know when they fit just right? How do you know, man? I love that line, by the way. Every time I put on a sweet pair, I'm like, there they are. That's what Zach Brown's talking about.
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Rich
They don't smash your junk.
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Covino
Yeah, I was gonna say also cool to know that some of your songs just mean so much to people in a part of their life. Like, whatever it is reminds me of when I first started dating my wife. So that's gotta be cool when you look out and realize these songs mean so much, right?
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Rich
People tell me that a lot, man. You know, I've got a lot of veterans that come to our shows, and we bring a veteran up on stage every night. And some of the guys that I've played for over in Iraq, like, they've lost some of the guys that were there with them, and they're like, man, these. These songs mean so much. So get you emotional. Just. Just like, creating something that people can resonate with that reminds them of their own life and being able to connect them. It's such a gift, man. Music is such medicine, man. It was. It's still medicine for me.
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Covino
I love hearing that.
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Danielle Robay
We're.
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Covino
We're music guys. We're. And sports guys, right? I mean, they go hand in hand, like I said. And I want to thank you for the collaborations. I feel like rock especially needs more of the collaborations because I believe it works in hip hop. And you're collaborating with rock dudes and hip hop dudes. What was it like working with Snoop and how Smokey was that studio? You got to give us the scoop, for real.
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Rich
Snoop's amazing, man. He's always stay relevant, man. Always. And this song, I can't wait for this. It's just a few days from this song coming out. I mean, he killed it. It's. It's amazing. We've actually got a little pop up coming up where he's gonna sit in, so I'm super stoked about that.
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Covino
Do you still get that thrill hearing it on the radio for the first time? People getting to know your song for sure, man.
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Rich
And we're doing this whole album, this whole thing without a label. This one's full independent and we're funding it ourself and pushing it out there and using all of our friends. Thanks to Major League Baseball for helping us to spread the word and to be such an incredible partner, man. Such incredible people. And for helping out with Hop as well. You know, Hop is fighting ALS and he's got his charity Hop on a cure, and MLB's been incredible helping to spread awareness for that as well. So amazing people. Just stoked to be a part of it.
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Covino
Well, congrats on the new album and the sphere. We're hoping to be there. I'm gonna go congrats on everything and yeah, man, thanks for your time.
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Rich
My pleasure, man.
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Covino
So much. Z and Rich with Zack Brown.
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Danielle Robay
I knew I wanted to obey and submit, but I didn't fully grasp for the rest of my life what that meant for my heart. Podcasts and Rococo Punch this is the Turning River Road. In the woods of Minnesota, a cult leader married himself to 10 girls and forced them into a secret life of abuse. But in 2014, the youngest escaped. Listen to the Turning river road on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts or wherever you get your podcasts. I'm Ian Pfaff, the creator and host of the Uncle Chris podcast. My Uncle Chris was a real character, a garbage truck driver from South Carolina who is now buried in Panama City alongside the founding families of Panama. He also happens to be responsible for the craziest night of my life. Wild stories about adventure, romance, crime, history and war intertwine as I share the tall tales and hard truths that have helped me understand Uncle Chris. Listen now to Uncle Chris on Will Ferrell's Big Money Players Network, on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts or wherever you listen to podcasts just like great shoes, great books take you places through unforgettable love stories and into conversations with characters you'll never forget. I think any good romance, it gives me this feel like butterflies. I'm Danielle Robaix and this is bookmarked by Reese's Book Club. The new podcast from hello Sunshine and I Heart Podcast where we dive into the stories that shape us on the page and off. Each week I'm joined by authors, celebs, book talk stars and more for conversations that will make you laugh, cry and add way too many books to your TBR pile. Listen to Bookmarked by Reese's Book club on the iHeartRadio app. Apple Podcasts are Wherever you get your podcasts. Join iHeartRadio and Sarah Spain in celebrating the one year anniversary of iHeart Women's Sports with powerful interviews and insider analysis. Our shows have connected fans with the heart of women's Sports. In just one year, the network has launched 15 shows and built a community united by passion podcasts that amplify the voices of women in sports. Thank you for supporting iHeart Women's Sports and our founding sponsors ELF Beauty, Capital One and Novartis. Just open the free iHeart app and search iHeart Women's Sports to listen now. Welcome to Pretty Private with ebony, the podcast where silence is broken and stories are set free. I'm EBONY and every Tuesday I'll be sharing all new anonymous stories that would challenge your perceptions and give you new insight on the people around you. Every Tuesday, make sure you listen to Pretty Popular Private from the Black Effect Podcast Network. Tune in on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts or wherever you listen to your favorite shows. This is an iHeart podcast.