May 11, 2022

Warren Zeiders | Happy But Not Satisfied

Warren Zeiders | Happy But Not Satisfied
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Warren Zeiders | Happy But Not Satisfied

On this episode of The Story & Craft Podcast, we sit down with country music artist, Warren Zeiders.  At only 22 years old, he’s quickly come onto the country music scene in an unconventional way.  Like most of us, he had some time at home to create during the pandemic.  Though he hadn’t performed professionally, he was encouraged to post cover songs on TikTok and Instagram.  His views on TikTok shot into the millions.  Warren then started to receive requests for original music.  Then, after only a couple of years of using social media to get his music out there, he now has a record deal, over 300 million combined streams and views, as well as a brand new album (717 Tapes).  I’m happy to sit down with Warren to talk story and to share the unconventional story of an artist that we’re going to be hearing about for some time.  SHOW HIGHLIGHTS0:05:27 - Country Music in Pennsylvania0:09:46 - Creating "Ride a Lightning"0:14:52 - Discovering Music Passion Without Familial Influence0:20:18 - Fans Shaped My Musical Journey0:24:23 - From Bedroom to Stage0:25:59 - Timeless Themes in Music Lyrics0:33:08 - Music Career and Family's Reaction0:42:00 - Seven QuestionsListen and subscribe on your favorite podcast app.  Also, check out the show and sign up for the newsletter at www.storyandcraftpod.com. ...#podcast #interview #WarrenZeiders #Singer #Songwriter #SingerSongwriter #Musician #CountryMusic #Country #CountrySinger #CountryLife #NewMusic #Concert #Nashville #MusicCity #Guitar #717Tapes #TikTok #Instagram #actor #acting #actorslife #storyandcraft #voiceover

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Warren Zeiders:

I picked up a guitar in sixth grade.

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Warren Zeiders: You know I was like this could be cool to

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Warren Zeiders: pick up and enjoy.

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Warren Zeiders: I like music and you know guitar is the

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Warren Zeiders: instrument that the ladies seem to like the

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Warren Zeiders: most.

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Warren Zeiders: If you can sing and play guitar, the ladies

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Warren Zeiders: are normally interested.

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Announcer: Welcome to Story and Craft.

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Announcer: Now here's your host, Marc Preston.

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Marc Preston: Hey, welcome back.

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Marc Preston: How are you?

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Marc Preston: Why to have you back for another episode of

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Marc Preston: Story and Craft?

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Marc Preston: I hope your week is going great so far.

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Marc Preston: And, just in case you're listening to this,

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Marc Preston: during the weekend, hopefully you're doing

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Marc Preston: something fun relaxing, walking the dog,

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Marc Preston: hanging out by the pool, exercising,

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Marc Preston: whatever.

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Marc Preston: Thanks a lot for bringing Story and Craft

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Marc Preston: with you.

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Marc Preston: And just in case you're brand new to the

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Marc Preston: show, my name is Marc Preston.

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Marc Preston: Thank you very much for checking it out.

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Marc Preston: This episode really cool.

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Marc Preston: Warren Zeiders, a new country music artist.

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Marc Preston: He's only 22 years old and his story very

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Marc Preston: cool.

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Marc Preston: He started off in kind of an unconventional

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Marc Preston: way.

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Marc Preston: You know, during the pandemic, we were all

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Marc Preston: given a lot, of us were given a lot of time

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Marc Preston: Warren took that time to take his you know

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Marc Preston: his love of playing the guitar and decided

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Marc Preston: to start putting cover songs out on TikTok

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Marc Preston: and Instagram and before you know it, he's

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Marc Preston: got like millions of views.

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Marc Preston: Two years later he's got a record deal and

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Marc Preston: over 300 million combined streams and views

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Marc Preston: and a brand new album 717 tapes.

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Marc Preston: So I'm enjoying the opportunity to bring

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Marc Preston: this story to you Because, even if you're

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Marc Preston: This is a kind of a cool story about how

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Marc Preston: things are different Now.

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Marc Preston: You know getting a record deal, you know

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Marc Preston: getting out there, getting people to listen

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Marc Preston: to you Kind of different from when I was

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Marc Preston: coming up.

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Marc Preston: Artists had a different path to becoming

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Marc Preston: well-known.

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Marc Preston: Now, if you're a big country music fan,

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Marc Preston: check them out on Spotify or wherever you

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Marc Preston: listen to music.

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Marc Preston: And, of course, if you go to

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Marc Preston: Storyandcraftpod.com, you can check out all

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Marc Preston: of his social media links Kind of a big

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Marc Preston: deal, considering he got started on social

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Marc Preston: We've got the TikTok and Instagram, got his

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Marc Preston: website as well.

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Marc Preston: And, of course, you want to find out more

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Marc Preston: So let's get after it.

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Marc Preston: Today it is Warren Zyder's Day right here

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Marc Preston: on StoryAndCraft.

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Marc Preston: Hey, I like your hat, by the way, thank you.

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Marc Preston: Yeah, sorry, I'm traveling today.

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Marc Preston: You know.

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Marc Preston: No, if you travel and that problem means

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Marc Preston: you're working.

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Marc Preston: If you're working, you're probably having

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Marc Preston: some fun, so that's a good thing.

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Marc Preston: Yes, sir, now you're a Pennsylvania guy.

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Marc Preston: Are you still in Pennsylvania or have you

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Marc Preston: made the move to Nashville, back and forth

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Marc Preston: between?

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Warren Zeiders: Pennsylvania and Nashville.

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Warren Zeiders: But speaking of Pennsylvania, that's where

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Warren Zeiders: the 717 comes from, so that's my area code.

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Warren Zeiders: So people think it's 717 or 717, but the

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Warren Zeiders: 717's where I grew up.

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Marc Preston: I was going to ask where that came from.

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Marc Preston: So thank you for beating me to the punch on

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Marc Preston: that one.

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Marc Preston: That's really cool, man, congratulations.

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Marc Preston: I've got so many questions for you today

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Marc Preston: because you're kind of one of the first

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Marc Preston: music acts, artists that I've had an

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Marc Preston: opportunity to speak with that has kind of

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Marc Preston: come up in this new era.

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Marc Preston: Well, I mean, for your generation guys, not

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Marc Preston: you know, with TikTok and Instagram and all

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Marc Preston: that, and you know, when I, back in the day,

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Marc Preston: when I was working, you know, when I worked

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Marc Preston: on the radio years ago, man, you just had

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Marc Preston: to.

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Marc Preston: You know, you didn't have the access to the

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Marc Preston: That just kind of makes life a little

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Marc Preston: easier and I actually think it makes the

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Marc Preston: And TikTok worked out well for you, didn't

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Marc Preston: it?

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Marc Preston: It did, it did.

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Warren Zeiders: You know, I think personally myself, I

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Warren Zeiders: wouldn't go the route of saying easier, so

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Warren Zeiders: to speak I think we have more access to a

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Warren Zeiders: lot of people by the finger by our

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Warren Zeiders: fingertips.

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Marc Preston: Yeah, accessibility, yeah, that's

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Marc Preston: definitely accessibility, absolutely.

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Warren Zeiders: Accessibility yeah, I think accessibility

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Warren Zeiders: and I think the outreach is undeniable.

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Warren Zeiders: By the click of a button you have the

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Warren Zeiders: chance to reach millions and I think that

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Warren Zeiders: there's a lot of beauty in that and it's

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Warren Zeiders: given a lot of artists like myself a chance

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Warren Zeiders: and a voice to touch on that.

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Warren Zeiders: Really, you have that accessibility, but

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Warren Zeiders: it's not easy to, so to speak, because I

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Warren Zeiders: think that it does take hard work.

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Warren Zeiders: There's a lot of thought process into

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Warren Zeiders: everything.

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Marc Preston: Oh yeah.

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Marc Preston: Oh, definitely, there's where I probably

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Marc Preston: misspoke, yeah, when I said that it was

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Marc Preston: None is ever easy, especially.

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Marc Preston: No you're good, you're good, you're good,

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Marc Preston: especially for, like you know, comics on

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Marc Preston: You know, musicians getting rolling to say

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Marc Preston: there's.

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Marc Preston: There's a lot of hustle involved, there's

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Marc Preston: an understatement, but I think what's

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Marc Preston: desire, man, the ability for you to carve

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Marc Preston: out your own space is kind of there.

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Marc Preston: But now I'm going to be honest, this is no

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Marc Preston: This is actually admiration for for the

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Marc Preston: folks of Pennsylvania me being from Texas,

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Marc Preston: of course I recognize Nashville, another

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Marc Preston: I never thought of Pennsylvania as being a

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Marc Preston: You're sort of kind of like an ambassador

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Marc Preston: now and many of us like, oh really,

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Marc Preston: pennsylvania's got a country scene.

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Marc Preston: Was that your genre growing up?

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Marc Preston: Is it what you were listening to?

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Marc Preston: Is it what was always on the radio?

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Marc Preston: Was that?

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Marc Preston: Was country always your thing?

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Warren Zeiders: you know it's funny because my first time

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Warren Zeiders: down the Nashville a lot of people asked

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Warren Zeiders: the question Put it.

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Warren Zeiders: To put it this way where the hell did you

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Warren Zeiders: find a country, country, boy from

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Warren Zeiders: Pennsylvania?

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Warren Zeiders: And I'm like, okay, country doesn't just

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Warren Zeiders: exist down in the south, in Texas, in

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Warren Zeiders: Nashville and all these places.

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Warren Zeiders: There's country everywhere you go and you

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Warren Zeiders: can find anywhere.

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Warren Zeiders: And I think that you know having those

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Warren Zeiders: conversations it's.

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Warren Zeiders: It's funny because people think of

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Warren Zeiders: Philadelphia and Pittsburgh but I'm like

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Warren Zeiders: outside of that it's nothing but country

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Warren Zeiders: land and I still in some some redneck stuff

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Warren Zeiders: growing up my entire life.

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Warren Zeiders: So yes, to answer your question, country

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Warren Zeiders: music was a huge part of my life growing up.

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Warren Zeiders: My grandparents listen to my mom had in the

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Warren Zeiders: house, but also on top of that I grew up in

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Warren Zeiders: church so I listen to a lot of Christian

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Warren Zeiders: music so I touch on a lot of that in my

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Warren Zeiders: song lyrics and stuff to when I'm writing

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Warren Zeiders: my music.

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Marc Preston: And also my dad was a huge rock and roll

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Marc Preston: guy like Garth Brooks.

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Marc Preston: Garth Brooks is big inspiration, I think,

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Marc Preston: is kiss.

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Marc Preston: You know, when I look at people, when that

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Marc Preston: enjoy country, it's not just that they're

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Marc Preston: living the lifestyle, it's just that

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Marc Preston: something resonates with them.

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Marc Preston: And I think that my daughter, emma, who's

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Marc Preston: 16, who Is you know, I'm sure she wishes

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Marc Preston: she was here right now so she can meet you.

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Marc Preston: She is the only one of my kids love, she

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Marc Preston: loves country.

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Marc Preston: I mean, she's very much a city girl, the

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Marc Preston: only one I think of her friend groups

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Marc Preston: really big in the country.

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Marc Preston: The thing about it is it's almost like an

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Marc Preston: aspirational thing.

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Marc Preston: You know it's stories, the lyrics Are they

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Marc Preston: yours?

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Marc Preston: For the most part?

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Marc Preston: Are you collaborating with somebody on the

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Marc Preston: on the song writing?

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Warren Zeiders: yes, so I do a lot of co-writes.

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Warren Zeiders: I think that that's when I do my best work,

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Warren Zeiders: because I'm working with really talented

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Warren Zeiders: people.

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Warren Zeiders: So whether it's a melody or it's a song

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Warren Zeiders: So if you listen to that song yet too, or

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Warren Zeiders: Mama always said I was born on the wild

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Marc Preston: What was the kind of the track you're on?

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Marc Preston: I want to see where I can take this thing

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Warren Zeiders: So, like I said, I did grow up in church.

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Warren Zeiders: I was never in the church band, never in

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Warren Zeiders: So my entire life I was an athlete.

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Warren Zeiders: So so I went to guitar player route and it

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Marc Preston: Yeah, not all major, but you've just been

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Warren Zeiders: I've been.

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Warren Zeiders: So, fast forward, covid comes around and I

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Warren Zeiders: You know, one day I was like you know what,

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Warren Zeiders: you know, instagram, tiktok and YouTube

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Warren Zeiders: So I did that, and little did I know that

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Marc Preston: A year later, Let me, let me think on the

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Marc Preston: sometimes, and this is going on for a long

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Marc Preston: time, but you're saying a year.

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Marc Preston: I think this is a good example of like

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Marc Preston: social media in a way that it never has

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Marc Preston: been able to before, and I think that's

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Marc Preston: And I'm not just saying that because of

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Marc Preston: you're with me, of course, right now.

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Marc Preston: But listening to your album, everything,

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Marc Preston: man, everything I'm going through I'm like

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Marc Preston: It's rare that I listen to an artist and go,

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Marc Preston: wow, okay, I want to know what else they're

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Marc Preston: You know, was your family musical at all?

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Marc Preston: What's your, what's your, what are your

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Warren Zeiders: No musical background whatsoever.

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Warren Zeiders: My friend, I think that no one was ever

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Warren Zeiders: My dad could carry a semi tune, I guess,

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Warren Zeiders: singing in church, but there was no one

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Warren Zeiders: No grandparents, actually.

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Warren Zeiders: No, that's a lie.

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Warren Zeiders: My grandfather played bass guitar, but no

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Warren Zeiders: You know, no one was ever pushing music

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Warren Zeiders: onto me in the sense of oh hey, you know I

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Warren Zeiders: I did this, like you know, you want to try

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Warren Zeiders: It was just kind of something that I found

458

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Warren Zeiders: on my own and you know I believe it.

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Warren Zeiders: Good Lord, how to plan?

460

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Warren Zeiders: And here we are today.

461

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Warren Zeiders: It's crazy.

462

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Marc Preston: It really is.

463

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Marc Preston: What kind of work did your, what kind of

464

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Marc Preston: work did your dad do?

465

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Marc Preston: What did your folks?

466

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Warren Zeiders: do so.

467

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Warren Zeiders: Actually, I grew up in the business world,

468

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Warren Zeiders: so my parents had two restaurants as I was

469

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Warren Zeiders: growing up, my dad had apartments.

470

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Warren Zeiders: My dad sold investments my early childhood.

471

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Warren Zeiders: My mom's a CPA, so she's now a CFO.

472

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Warren Zeiders: So she works as a CFO now.

473

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Warren Zeiders: Just recently changed corporations a year

474

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Warren Zeiders: or two ago, and then now my dad for the

475

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Warren Zeiders: last 14 years has been running car

476

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Warren Zeiders: dealerships.

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Warren Zeiders: So oh, really.

478

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Warren Zeiders: I kind of you and I have that in common.

479

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Marc Preston: Yeah, my father did the same thing.

480

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Warren Zeiders: And I kind of I grew up in this world of

481

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Warren Zeiders: seeing just every single day businesses and

482

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Warren Zeiders: just kind of learning the lingo and just

483

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Warren Zeiders: you know all this stuff that you know it's

484

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Warren Zeiders: not easy running a business, so to speak.

485

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Warren Zeiders: It's a lot of work and you know being an

486

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Warren Zeiders: entrepreneur and stuff like that and

487

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Warren Zeiders: putting yourself out there, but a lot of if

488

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Warren Zeiders: it wasn't for my parents and you know my

489

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Warren Zeiders: upbringing and everything that they taught

490

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Warren Zeiders: me growing up I wouldn't be the man I am

491

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Warren Zeiders: today, and my grandfather too.

492

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Warren Zeiders: he was always a huge.

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Warren Zeiders: I have a lot of.

494

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Warren Zeiders: I'm very fortunate and it's been awesome

495

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Warren Zeiders: for me to grow up in a world where I've had

496

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Warren Zeiders: really awesome male role models in my life

497

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Warren Zeiders: who really supported me and, you know,

498

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Warren Zeiders: pushed me forward in this life whether it

499

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Warren Zeiders: means I had to be a better man and just you

500

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Warren Zeiders: know in today's world and stuff.

501

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Warren Zeiders: But my grandfather growing up you know my

502

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Warren Zeiders: mother and you know my aunts didn't really

503

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Warren Zeiders: have a lot growing up, but my grandfather

504

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Warren Zeiders: was constantly on the road working three

505

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Warren Zeiders: jobs.

506

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Warren Zeiders: He was going all week.

507

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Warren Zeiders: He'd be lucky if he got a chance to come

508

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Warren Zeiders: home on the weekends to, you know, see my

509

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Warren Zeiders: mother and my aunts and I think that

510

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Warren Zeiders: hearing those stories and even seeing how

511

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Warren Zeiders: hard he worked as I was growing up as an

512

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Warren Zeiders: early child, I was always with him, whether

513

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Warren Zeiders: we were working in the garage together or

514

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Warren Zeiders: projects, you know, outside, hunting and

515

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Warren Zeiders: all this kind of stuff.

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Warren Zeiders: I think that seeing all those things really

517

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Warren Zeiders: formed me into you know the way I see the

518

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Warren Zeiders: world and everything today.

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Marc Preston: You know I did notice, speaking to your

520

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Marc Preston: grandfather I had such a wonderful

521

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Marc Preston: relationship with mine as well it sounds

522

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Marc Preston: like you're really a spot on young man when

523

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Marc Preston: it comes to you know 22,.

524

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Marc Preston: I'm saying young man, I'm not that old, you

525

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Marc Preston: know.

526

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Marc Preston: I realized that kind of in the moment, kind

527

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Marc Preston: of like you did.

528

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Marc Preston: It's important to soak that up, like right

529

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Marc Preston: now, because you miss it when you don't

530

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Marc Preston: have it.

531

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Marc Preston: So it's great that you've got those

532

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Marc Preston: inspirations of people around you and it's

533

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Marc Preston: showing up in your music and I think that's

534

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Marc Preston: the beauty of country.

535

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Marc Preston: When it comes to lyrics, you really can

536

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Marc Preston: pull from your own life.

537

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Marc Preston: 717 tapes, man.

538

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Marc Preston: I don't know if I've actually I think I've

539

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Marc Preston: gone through the whole album.

540

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Marc Preston: Do you have anything new coming out?

541

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Marc Preston: Because you know, now you got, now you got

542

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Marc Preston: me, now you got me hungry man.

543

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Marc Preston: What's coming up soon?

544

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Warren Zeiders: So I just I don't know if you saw it, but I

545

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Warren Zeiders: just had this 717 tapes volume to drop last

546

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Warren Zeiders: week, so I have a volume two out now with a

547

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Warren Zeiders: new with one of my favorite songs that I've

548

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Warren Zeiders: put out so far.

549

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Warren Zeiders: It's called Wild Horse and that song's been.

550

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Warren Zeiders: It's been really cool to see how my fans

551

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Warren Zeiders: have connected with that song.

552

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Marc Preston: So you started playing and putting stuff on

553

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Marc Preston: TikTok and where were the people that were

554

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Marc Preston: starting to follow you?

555

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Marc Preston: Did you notice any trends Like, where were

556

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Marc Preston: people coming from that started, that

557

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Marc Preston: started adding up to?

558

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Marc Preston: They were just like over a million people

559

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Marc Preston: or something like that.

560

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Marc Preston: Am I correct?

561

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Marc Preston: That's just like so heady.

562

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Marc Preston: I can't get my head around the fact that

563

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Marc Preston: you know if I'm doing anything with my

564

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Marc Preston: phone that a million people see.

565

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Marc Preston: You know what was the on ramp for people to

566

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Marc Preston: kind of get to really start getting into

567

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Marc Preston: you?

568

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Marc Preston: Or did you notice that whenever a new song

569

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Marc Preston: came out?

570

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Warren Zeiders: The on-ramp.

571

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Warren Zeiders: The short version of it is I was posting

572

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Warren Zeiders: covers on TikTok and Instagram and YouTube

573

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Warren Zeiders: and stuff, and they were only 15, 30-second

574

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Warren Zeiders: snippets.

575

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Warren Zeiders: And again, I was just doing it for fun in

576

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Warren Zeiders: my back half of my junior year of college

577

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Warren Zeiders: and then leading into my summer I mean

578

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Warren Zeiders: leading into my summer and then my senior

579

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Warren Zeiders: year of college, figuring out what I want

580

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Warren Zeiders: to do with my life and I was just posting

581

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Warren Zeiders: covers of stuff that I was learning and

582

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Warren Zeiders: stuff that I was listening to and really

583

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Warren Zeiders: resonating with.

584

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Warren Zeiders: It wasn't until my fans, my followers,

585

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Warren Zeiders: turned into fans and they were like, hey,

586

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Warren Zeiders: this is cool and all, but we don't just

587

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Warren Zeiders: want 15, 30-second snippets, we want full

588

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Warren Zeiders: versions of your covers, we want original

589

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Warren Zeiders: music.

590

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Warren Zeiders: I mean, were they?

591

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Marc Preston: saying that to you?

592

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Marc Preston: I mean, were they sending you notes and

593

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Marc Preston: saying we want more?

594

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Marc Preston: Oh, okay.

595

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Marc Preston: So they were really interactive with you

596

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Marc Preston: and telling you what they wanted.

597

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Marc Preston: To hear, right?

598

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Marc Preston: The?

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Warren Zeiders: biggest thing I could say right now that

600

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Warren Zeiders: any artist should take away, and it's so

601

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Warren Zeiders: simple.

602

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Warren Zeiders: Listen to your fan base.

603

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Warren Zeiders: It's as clear as day.

604

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Warren Zeiders: More than ever, Listen to what they have to

605

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Warren Zeiders: say, because my fans really guided me on

606

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Warren Zeiders: this last year of I'll call it a journey

607

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Warren Zeiders: because it has been one, and you know, I

608

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Warren Zeiders: listened to what they wanted from me.

609

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Warren Zeiders: So when they were like, hey, we want this,

610

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Warren Zeiders: so I went ahead, I started.

611

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Warren Zeiders: I went to Guitar Center one night, grabbed

612

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Warren Zeiders: two microphones.

613

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Warren Zeiders: An interface had no idea what I was doing.

614

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Warren Zeiders: I plugged them in.

615

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Warren Zeiders: I was putting pillows and towels around in

616

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Warren Zeiders: my room and soundproofing the room and I

617

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Warren Zeiders: did my whole acoustic cover album in my

618

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Warren Zeiders: bedroom and they were all one takes.

619

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Warren Zeiders: No editing, nothing, it was just me singing

620

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Warren Zeiders: with playing guitar.

621

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Marc Preston: No, are you serious?

622

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Marc Preston: Yeah, with that setup.

623

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Marc Preston: Man, I was going to ask you, for somebody

624

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Marc Preston: has a recording studio here.

625

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Marc Preston: I was.

626

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Marc Preston: That actually was a question.

627

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Marc Preston: I was curious about the gear setup.

628

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Marc Preston: You know what was your, what was your

629

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Marc Preston: choice?

630

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Marc Preston: You know, just out of curiosity there are a

631

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Marc Preston: good handful of people listen to my show

632

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Marc Preston: that are a little bit of gear heads.

633

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Marc Preston: Mike, the interface, what did you

634

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Marc Preston: originally start with and what are you

635

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Marc Preston: using now for your home setup?

636

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Warren Zeiders: So I had.

637

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Warren Zeiders: I was again too for a guy who was in

638

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Warren Zeiders: college and was trying to figure out what

639

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Warren Zeiders: he was going to be doing with his life

640

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Warren Zeiders: after he graduated.

641

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Warren Zeiders: I didn't really have again.

642

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Warren Zeiders: I didn't have the knowledge of what

643

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Warren Zeiders: equipment to buy, what gear to use.

644

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Warren Zeiders: I just kind of looked up some stuff and was

645

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Warren Zeiders: like, okay, cool.

646

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Warren Zeiders: So I went to Guitar Center and the dude

647

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Warren Zeiders: there was like hey, sm7b, this is some,

648

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Warren Zeiders: this is some of the people like to use.

649

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Warren Zeiders: You want to try it out?

650

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Warren Zeiders: I was like cool.

651

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Warren Zeiders: So I got that.

652

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Warren Zeiders: I don't know what the other Mike was, it

653

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Warren Zeiders: was another SM, it was another Sure Mike

654

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Warren Zeiders: that I used to mic my guitar and then I

655

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Warren Zeiders: used the focus right.

656

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Warren Zeiders: So that's what I did and I had two mics.

657

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Warren Zeiders: That was it.

658

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Warren Zeiders: I used Ableton Live Press Record and it was

659

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Warren Zeiders: all.

660

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Warren Zeiders: One takes, no editing.

661

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Warren Zeiders: I didn't know how to do clips or do a sing

662

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Warren Zeiders: this verse numerous times.

663

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Warren Zeiders: It was all unedited, just super raw.

664

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Marc Preston: There's so many people, I'm sure, listening

665

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Marc Preston: going damn you, you know, because you know

666

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Marc Preston: you're not picking up the most expensive

667

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Marc Preston: stuff.

668

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Marc Preston: It's very democratized.

669

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Marc Preston: You pick up the gear, just what you needed

670

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Marc Preston: to make it happen.

671

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Marc Preston: Now the question is what have you done as

672

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Marc Preston: far as upgrades?

673

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Marc Preston: Now, something tells me you've kind of

674

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Marc Preston: upgraded your setup a little bit.

675

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Marc Preston: What are you using now?

676

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Warren Zeiders: So now I don't really have a home studio.

677

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Warren Zeiders: Now I'm normally spending time with

678

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Warren Zeiders: producers and stuff like that, and whether

679

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Warren Zeiders: it's in a studio or it's in their home

680

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Warren Zeiders: studio, I still have the same setup I have

681

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Warren Zeiders: at home If I'm doing work tapes or demos

682

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Warren Zeiders: that I want to do.

683

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Warren Zeiders: But for me here's another fun story that

684

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Warren Zeiders: people might that might want to say damn

685

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Warren Zeiders: you, Rai.

686

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Warren Zeiders: The lightning was recorded at a place

687

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Warren Zeiders: called sound emporium down in Nashville and

688

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Warren Zeiders: I think I did three vocal passes and three

689

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Warren Zeiders: guitar takes and then my manager didn't

690

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Warren Zeiders: really know what to do because I was still

691

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Warren Zeiders: super new and I was trying to figure things

692

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Warren Zeiders: out.

693

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Warren Zeiders: We used the $10 mastering online and just

694

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Warren Zeiders: did that and just just shipped it out and

695

00:24:58,071 --> 00:25:00,056

Warren Zeiders: that song has become what it is today,

696

00:25:00,096 --> 00:25:02,894

Warren Zeiders: which is that makes me chuckle because good.

697

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Marc Preston: Lord's got a plan.

698

00:25:03,910 --> 00:25:05,495

Marc Preston: Now the other question I got for you let's

699

00:25:05,535 --> 00:25:06,619

Marc Preston: go back, because you didn't mention

700

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Marc Preston: something.

701

00:25:07,370 --> 00:25:08,555

Marc Preston: I'm not going to let you get away with it,

702

00:25:08,930 --> 00:25:10,557

Marc Preston: but you said that the girls like the guitar.

703

00:25:11,110 --> 00:25:16,800

Marc Preston: Now, how much of a trip is it that you're

704

00:25:16,820 --> 00:25:19,491

Marc Preston: doing this now and you're on a stage and

705

00:25:19,511 --> 00:25:20,956

Marc Preston: you got a lot of people is loving on you

706

00:25:20,976 --> 00:25:22,260

Marc Preston: that they've been seeing you online.

707

00:25:22,310 --> 00:25:24,858

Marc Preston: Now it's it's how many pinch you got to

708

00:25:24,918 --> 00:25:26,272

Marc Preston: pinch yourself moments, or are you going

709

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Marc Preston: through on a daily basis?

710

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Warren Zeiders: You know, you know what's funny is I did

711

00:25:31,657 --> 00:25:34,622

Warren Zeiders: this, picked up a guitar in sixth grade for

712

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Warren Zeiders: the ladies, but 70% of my demographics is

713

00:25:39,258 --> 00:25:40,500

Warren Zeiders: male listening to my music.

714

00:25:41,830 --> 00:25:43,155

Warren Zeiders: So I've really captured the male

715

00:25:43,175 --> 00:25:44,914

Warren Zeiders: demographic and I think it's all because of

716

00:25:44,955 --> 00:25:45,791

Warren Zeiders: my mess, I think it's.

717

00:25:46,233 --> 00:25:47,858

Warren Zeiders: I think a lot of it is the type of music I

718

00:25:47,878 --> 00:25:49,431

Warren Zeiders: make and you know, I'm going to still make

719

00:25:49,692 --> 00:25:51,956

Warren Zeiders: the music that I make, but it's.

720

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Warren Zeiders: It's been funny to see how much it's

721

00:25:53,941 --> 00:25:54,702

Warren Zeiders: resonated with.

722

00:25:55,510 --> 00:25:56,856

Warren Zeiders: I like to call it brotherly love.

723

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Warren Zeiders: You know I got a lot of, a lot of the gents.

724

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Marc Preston: Yeah, like I said, I picked out notes in

725

00:26:01,334 --> 00:26:03,760

Marc Preston: your, in your, in your lyrics that make so

726

00:26:03,800 --> 00:26:04,462

Marc Preston: much sense.

727

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Marc Preston: Thing is, it's kind of timeless, timeless

728

00:26:06,936 --> 00:26:08,973

Marc Preston: themes, you know, relationships, things

729

00:26:08,993 --> 00:26:10,670

Marc Preston: like that to the people that influence you.

730

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Marc Preston: And it's like I said, lyrically, man, I

731

00:26:12,476 --> 00:26:13,680

Marc Preston: love, love, love what you're doing, man,

732

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Marc Preston: and I'm, and I told my daughter, emma, that

733

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Marc Preston: I was speaking with you and then, you know,

734

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Marc Preston: so we immediately put on a song in the car.

735

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Marc Preston: And then, you know, and yesterday's, when I

736

00:26:22,197 --> 00:26:25,287

Marc Preston: went through the album and I was like spot

737

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Marc Preston: on, my friend, spot on, now, I want to know

738

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Marc Preston: who was influencing you though, musically,

739

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Marc Preston: country wise and just in general, when you

740

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Marc Preston: were a kid coming up, what bands or acts

741

00:26:34,019 --> 00:26:34,641

Marc Preston: were you digging on?

742

00:26:35,090 --> 00:26:38,477

Warren Zeiders: So you, know from the first ever concert

743

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Warren Zeiders: that I ever experienced in my life, which

744

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Warren Zeiders: I'll remember forever.

745

00:26:42,710 --> 00:26:46,096

Warren Zeiders: I went with my dad and we went to go see

746

00:26:46,276 --> 00:26:48,900

Warren Zeiders: Jeremy camp, who was someone, Christian

747

00:26:48,940 --> 00:26:50,423

Warren Zeiders: artists, who I grew up listening to a lot,

748

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Warren Zeiders: and Toby Mac, so two artists that were

749

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Warren Zeiders: playing a lot in my house.

750

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Warren Zeiders: So Christian music was a huge influence for

751

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Warren Zeiders: me.

752

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Warren Zeiders: Rock and roll, rock and roll wise.

753

00:27:01,717 --> 00:27:03,220

Warren Zeiders: As you can probably tell, I do have a lot

754

00:27:03,260 --> 00:27:04,522

Warren Zeiders: of rock influence in my music.

755

00:27:05,190 --> 00:27:06,272

Warren Zeiders: I was a huge Motley crew.

756

00:27:06,653 --> 00:27:09,019

Warren Zeiders: Ac DC, quiet riots, get a row.

757

00:27:11,050 --> 00:27:13,339

Warren Zeiders: You know I could kiss was one of them.

758

00:27:13,530 --> 00:27:14,634

Warren Zeiders: I mean, I could go on and on.

759

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Marc Preston: I loved rock and roll.

760

00:27:17,330 --> 00:27:18,775

Marc Preston: There's a lot of guys of a certain age,

761

00:27:18,895 --> 00:27:20,620

Marc Preston: close to my age, like all right, all right.

762

00:27:20,770 --> 00:27:22,434

Marc Preston: You know guys giving an out of the air of

763

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Marc Preston: bands and some of the guys who are you know

764

00:27:24,860 --> 00:27:25,482

Marc Preston: of that era.

765

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Marc Preston: I can hear some of it too.

766

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Marc Preston: And what you're doing Now fast forward to

767

00:27:30,735 --> 00:27:30,936

Marc Preston: now.

768

00:27:31,170 --> 00:27:33,176

Marc Preston: Who are you listening to is when you got

769

00:27:33,196 --> 00:27:34,921

Marc Preston: your Spotify playlist locked in.

770

00:27:35,090 --> 00:27:36,095

Marc Preston: Who do you dig on right now?

771

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Warren Zeiders: Yeah, and you know I didn't touch on it too,

772

00:27:38,914 --> 00:27:40,860

Warren Zeiders: but, like Hank Williams Jr and John Denver

773

00:27:40,880 --> 00:27:43,658

Warren Zeiders: was a huge one my mom went to West Virginia.

774

00:27:43,810 --> 00:27:46,396

Warren Zeiders: So I swear to God, I've heard country roads

775

00:27:46,817 --> 00:27:48,200

Warren Zeiders: over a zillion times.

776

00:27:50,190 --> 00:27:53,039

Warren Zeiders: So, and you know, cash and all those boys

777

00:27:53,691 --> 00:27:54,072

Warren Zeiders: I've heard.

778

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Warren Zeiders: I just have so many influences and, but,

779

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Warren Zeiders: honestly, a lot of modern day influence to

780

00:28:01,459 --> 00:28:02,961

Warren Zeiders: tip my hat to the people, like you said,

781

00:28:02,982 --> 00:28:03,963

Warren Zeiders: who are in my playlists.

782

00:28:04,770 --> 00:28:06,176

Warren Zeiders: I'm a huge Morgan Wallen fan.

783

00:28:06,690 --> 00:28:08,056

Warren Zeiders: I love what he's done with the show.

784

00:28:08,310 --> 00:28:09,874

Warren Zeiders: I love what he's done with the genre and

785

00:28:09,894 --> 00:28:11,978

Warren Zeiders: what he does in his own way in his own

786

00:28:12,079 --> 00:28:13,782

Warren Zeiders: realm of country music.

787

00:28:14,390 --> 00:28:16,556

Warren Zeiders: Huge, tyler Childers, zach Bryant, co

788

00:28:16,596 --> 00:28:19,832

Warren Zeiders: Wetzel, parker McCollum you know those

789

00:28:19,892 --> 00:28:22,296

Warren Zeiders: Texas cats, you know those beat I just

790

00:28:22,356 --> 00:28:22,616

Warren Zeiders: there's.

791

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Warren Zeiders: The list goes on and I draw from so many

792

00:28:26,122 --> 00:28:28,345

Warren Zeiders: aspects to modern day punk rock.

793

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Warren Zeiders: You know there's some dudes who are coming

794

00:28:30,414 --> 00:28:34,642

Warren Zeiders: up who I'm a huge, huge fan of as well in

795

00:28:34,682 --> 00:28:35,204

Warren Zeiders: that scene.

796

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Warren Zeiders: I, just to put it simply, I'm in country

797

00:28:38,339 --> 00:28:41,357

Warren Zeiders: music, I love country music, but I love

798

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Warren Zeiders: music as a whole.

799

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Marc Preston: I think Morgan Wallen is you mentioned that

800

00:28:45,718 --> 00:28:47,061

Marc Preston: it's my daughter is going to just jump up

801

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Marc Preston: and down for joy.

802

00:28:47,810 --> 00:28:49,156

Marc Preston: Well, she never really jumps up and down

803

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Marc Preston: for joy.

804

00:28:49,530 --> 00:28:50,856

Marc Preston: The closest she gets to it is like, hey,

805

00:28:50,896 --> 00:28:53,114

Marc Preston: cool, you know, now, right now, you're on,

806

00:28:53,374 --> 00:28:56,882

Marc Preston: you're on tour and I saw that all your 2022

807

00:28:56,902 --> 00:28:57,763

Marc Preston: dates are sold out.

808

00:28:59,066 --> 00:29:00,028

Marc Preston: This is your first tour, man.

809

00:29:00,048 --> 00:29:00,850

Marc Preston: You're only selling it out.

810

00:29:00,950 --> 00:29:01,995

Marc Preston: That is bonkers man.

811

00:29:02,331 --> 00:29:04,784

Marc Preston: So what is that like for you now being on

812

00:29:04,844 --> 00:29:06,291

Marc Preston: tour, where you were in your bedroom, now

813

00:29:06,331 --> 00:29:06,512

Marc Preston: you?

814

00:29:06,813 --> 00:29:08,238

Marc Preston: Now you're on a stage of spotlight.

815

00:29:08,370 --> 00:29:10,651

Marc Preston: You got everything wired up and now you're

816

00:29:10,892 --> 00:29:11,052

Marc Preston: now?

817

00:29:11,092 --> 00:29:12,976

Marc Preston: You were a bona fide country performer.

818

00:29:13,450 --> 00:29:15,039

Marc Preston: How does that feel when you're on stage?

819

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Warren Zeiders: So you know.

820

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Warren Zeiders: So the way we set up this first tour that

821

00:29:20,974 --> 00:29:23,761

Warren Zeiders: I'm doing, we wanted to go play these

822

00:29:24,082 --> 00:29:26,828

Warren Zeiders: smaller club rooms and we wanted to make

823

00:29:26,888 --> 00:29:32,481

Warren Zeiders: this a very coming off the screen from what

824

00:29:32,541 --> 00:29:35,930

Warren Zeiders: I built online to making this really

825

00:29:36,591 --> 00:29:39,459

Warren Zeiders: personal atmosphere with my fans.

826

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Warren Zeiders: Whether it's a 300 seat room or whether

827

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Warren Zeiders: it's a 400, 500, you know, my first show

828

00:29:46,151 --> 00:29:47,834

Warren Zeiders: was a 700 cap room.

829

00:29:48,500 --> 00:29:50,246

Warren Zeiders: You know that feeling and I'm actually not

830

00:29:50,286 --> 00:29:50,768

Warren Zeiders: mic'd up yet.

831

00:29:51,260 --> 00:29:52,528

Warren Zeiders: So we're still, we're using wedges and

832

00:29:52,569 --> 00:29:53,615

Warren Zeiders: stuff like that and it's just.

833

00:29:53,797 --> 00:29:55,064

Warren Zeiders: It's just me and a guitar player.

834

00:29:56,525 --> 00:29:57,931

Warren Zeiders: We're just going out there on the road to

835

00:29:57,951 --> 00:29:59,819

Warren Zeiders: acoustic guitars and it's been awesome to

836

00:30:00,060 --> 00:30:02,647

Warren Zeiders: see and we're pretty much putting on a rock

837

00:30:02,687 --> 00:30:04,532

Warren Zeiders: concert with two acoustic guitars and

838

00:30:04,552 --> 00:30:07,425

Warren Zeiders: people screaming every single song back to

839

00:30:07,466 --> 00:30:10,372

Warren Zeiders: me, which is such an indescribable feeling.

840

00:30:11,340 --> 00:30:12,642

Warren Zeiders: You know I had a lot of nerves.

841

00:30:13,324 --> 00:30:18,313

Warren Zeiders: Finally, you know, it became real for me.

842

00:30:19,380 --> 00:30:21,350

Warren Zeiders: You see the numbers on the phone, you see

843

00:30:21,391 --> 00:30:22,738

Warren Zeiders: all this stuff, you see how people are

844

00:30:22,758 --> 00:30:24,825

Warren Zeiders: connecting and the streams and stuff, and

845

00:30:25,125 --> 00:30:26,228

Warren Zeiders: it's amazing to see.

846

00:30:27,340 --> 00:30:29,003

Warren Zeiders: But that moment I stepped on stage for the

847

00:30:29,043 --> 00:30:33,252

Warren Zeiders: first time, that's when I knew I was born

848

00:30:33,392 --> 00:30:33,973

Warren Zeiders: for doing this.

849

00:30:34,881 --> 00:30:35,722

Warren Zeiders: I was meant to do this.

850

00:30:43,100 --> 00:30:44,323

Marc Preston: I'm curious, what surprised you?

851

00:30:44,564 --> 00:30:46,489

Marc Preston: You know, from going from doing what you're

852

00:30:46,510 --> 00:30:48,945

Marc Preston: doing, you're streaming your music and now

853

00:30:48,965 --> 00:30:50,430

Marc Preston: you're here, now you got a record deal.

854

00:30:50,922 --> 00:30:52,668

Marc Preston: I mean, this is wonderful for you, man.

855

00:30:53,261 --> 00:30:54,486

Marc Preston: I want to say congratulations.

856

00:30:54,640 --> 00:30:55,745

Marc Preston: I know how good it's got to feel.

857

00:30:56,440 --> 00:30:58,246

Marc Preston: But what was something that did surprise

858

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Marc Preston: you about you know, now you're now this is

859

00:31:02,100 --> 00:31:04,024

Marc Preston: not just you in your bedroom, now this is

860

00:31:04,104 --> 00:31:06,990

Marc Preston: you making an in-person connection with

861

00:31:07,010 --> 00:31:07,652

Marc Preston: fans and stuff.

862

00:31:08,340 --> 00:31:09,523

Marc Preston: Anything surprised you or, like you know,

863

00:31:11,066 --> 00:31:12,349

Marc Preston: take you by surprise at all.

864

00:31:13,960 --> 00:31:17,207

Warren Zeiders: I think for me, one of the big surprises is

865

00:31:17,728 --> 00:31:20,413

Warren Zeiders: I do a meet and greet after my shows and

866

00:31:20,660 --> 00:31:21,243

Warren Zeiders: completely free.

867

00:31:22,000 --> 00:31:23,864

Warren Zeiders: I want to do it and I'll, some nights, meet

868

00:31:24,085 --> 00:31:27,772

Warren Zeiders: 100, 400, 500 fans who hang around to do

869

00:31:27,792 --> 00:31:28,313

Warren Zeiders: the meet and greet.

870

00:31:28,880 --> 00:31:31,449

Warren Zeiders: A big surprise for me is standing in that

871

00:31:31,550 --> 00:31:33,898

Warren Zeiders: line and meeting these people who have

872

00:31:33,999 --> 00:31:37,147

Warren Zeiders: followed me from before I even put out my

873

00:31:37,228 --> 00:31:40,316

Warren Zeiders: first song, who were like there from day

874

00:31:40,637 --> 00:31:43,004

Warren Zeiders: one and they're like hey man, I knew this

875

00:31:43,044 --> 00:31:44,862

Warren Zeiders: was going to happen, I knew you had

876

00:31:44,942 --> 00:31:46,466

Warren Zeiders: something early on and they just had

877

00:31:46,586 --> 00:31:50,062

Warren Zeiders: followed this entire time before they knew

878

00:31:50,163 --> 00:31:52,823

Warren Zeiders: it, before I did, and I think that there's

879

00:31:52,843 --> 00:31:54,895

Warren Zeiders: a lot of beauty in that that these people

880

00:31:54,995 --> 00:31:56,623

Warren Zeiders: saw something in me that I didn't even see

881

00:31:56,663 --> 00:31:58,992

Warren Zeiders: in myself when I was just doing it.

882

00:31:59,675 --> 00:32:01,883

Warren Zeiders: You know, for fun, really, and obviously I

883

00:32:01,903 --> 00:32:02,947

Warren Zeiders: still have fun doing it.

884

00:32:03,580 --> 00:32:05,306

Warren Zeiders: I think another thing is, too, is hearing

885

00:32:05,326 --> 00:32:08,899

Warren Zeiders: the stories of how people have connected

886

00:32:08,940 --> 00:32:10,865

Warren Zeiders: with my songs and how much it's.

887

00:32:11,988 --> 00:32:14,975

Warren Zeiders: No, it's been amazing to hear how my music

888

00:32:14,996 --> 00:32:18,366

Warren Zeiders: has helped soldiers come back for more and

889

00:32:18,426 --> 00:32:21,698

Warren Zeiders: deal with their PTSD and, you know, making

890

00:32:21,718 --> 00:32:22,944

Warren Zeiders: sure that I give them all the love in the

891

00:32:22,985 --> 00:32:24,535

Warren Zeiders: world and thank you for your service and

892

00:32:24,595 --> 00:32:26,843

Warren Zeiders: thank you for everything that you do to

893

00:32:26,884 --> 00:32:29,209

Warren Zeiders: allow me to live in a country like this and

894

00:32:29,409 --> 00:32:30,391

Warren Zeiders: make the music that I make.

895

00:32:31,140 --> 00:32:36,212

Warren Zeiders: It's hearing the stories of how one day, I

896

00:32:36,273 --> 00:32:39,300

Warren Zeiders: was in my bedroom learning how to play some

897

00:32:39,420 --> 00:32:42,888

Warren Zeiders: songs for fun to now making music that I

898

00:32:43,189 --> 00:32:46,082

Warren Zeiders: love and hang my hat on, and it's it's

899

00:32:46,163 --> 00:32:50,457

Warren Zeiders: giving people an outlet and something to

900

00:32:50,497 --> 00:32:52,142

Warren Zeiders: connect with and resonate with and help and

901

00:32:52,864 --> 00:32:54,348

Warren Zeiders: aspects of their life that I never could

902

00:32:54,368 --> 00:32:54,930

Warren Zeiders: have imagined.

903

00:32:55,923 --> 00:32:57,209

Marc Preston: Well, I do think it's that social media

904

00:32:57,229 --> 00:32:59,279

Marc Preston: thing that gives people that access to you

905

00:32:59,299 --> 00:33:00,786

Marc Preston: to be able to give that immediate feedback.

906

00:33:00,900 --> 00:33:02,327

Marc Preston: So, like you said before, listen to what

907

00:33:02,347 --> 00:33:03,131

Marc Preston: they have to say.

908

00:33:03,292 --> 00:33:05,683

Marc Preston: And now you are, you know you're responding

909

00:33:05,703 --> 00:33:06,366

Marc Preston: and it's.

910

00:33:06,647 --> 00:33:08,134

Marc Preston: And now do you find yourself?

911

00:33:08,214 --> 00:33:09,540

Marc Preston: When you are in that hotel, you are on the

912

00:33:09,641 --> 00:33:09,822

Marc Preston: road.

913

00:33:10,184 --> 00:33:11,873

Marc Preston: Are you writing stuff right now or are you

914

00:33:11,893 --> 00:33:12,516

Marc Preston: just kind of keeping the?

915

00:33:12,698 --> 00:33:14,222

Marc Preston: Are you writing and creating or are you

916

00:33:14,297 --> 00:33:16,045

Marc Preston: just kind of focusing on what you're doing

917

00:33:16,120 --> 00:33:17,868

Marc Preston: right now and getting your current library

918

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Marc Preston: out there?

919

00:33:18,761 --> 00:33:21,347

Warren Zeiders: I am focusing on what I'm doing at the

920

00:33:21,387 --> 00:33:25,107

Warren Zeiders: moment and when I get an opportunity.

921

00:33:26,110 --> 00:33:28,258

Warren Zeiders: I've kind of backburnered writing for a

922

00:33:28,298 --> 00:33:30,563

Warren Zeiders: little bit because I am on the road and I'm

923

00:33:30,603 --> 00:33:33,970

Warren Zeiders: trying to to focus on this aspect of what

924

00:33:33,990 --> 00:33:34,812

Warren Zeiders: I'm doing right now.

925

00:33:36,100 --> 00:33:39,309

Warren Zeiders: But I have written a lot this last year of

926

00:33:39,479 --> 00:33:42,290

Warren Zeiders: music that needs some touch up, needs some

927

00:33:42,440 --> 00:33:44,667

Warren Zeiders: things for me to, you know, reflect back on

928

00:33:44,747 --> 00:33:45,770

Warren Zeiders: if there's things I need to change.

929

00:33:46,040 --> 00:33:48,326

Warren Zeiders: But I got a lot of fun things in the works

930

00:33:49,289 --> 00:33:51,744

Warren Zeiders: that'll be coming out soon and you know I'm

931

00:33:51,784 --> 00:33:53,229

Warren Zeiders: excited for what's to come.

932

00:33:53,962 --> 00:33:55,046

Marc Preston: Well, the question is what do your folks

933

00:33:55,066 --> 00:33:56,762

Marc Preston: think about it now, Now, now, now they're

934

00:33:56,782 --> 00:33:58,867

Marc Preston: going from like their lacrosse playing kid

935

00:33:58,947 --> 00:34:01,032

Marc Preston: who's dorking around with his guitar in his

936

00:34:01,092 --> 00:34:01,253

Marc Preston: room.

937

00:34:01,320 --> 00:34:03,447

Marc Preston: Now he got a son who's on tour and a record

938

00:34:03,568 --> 00:34:04,290

Marc Preston: deal and everything.

939

00:34:04,521 --> 00:34:05,484

Marc Preston: What do your, what do your folks think

940

00:34:05,524 --> 00:34:05,926

Marc Preston: about this?

941

00:34:06,900 --> 00:34:11,891

Warren Zeiders: My parents were completely confused very

942

00:34:11,951 --> 00:34:15,820

Warren Zeiders: early on because at first it was numbers on

943

00:34:15,840 --> 00:34:18,488

Warren Zeiders: a score screen and they didn't understand

944

00:34:18,528 --> 00:34:18,849

Warren Zeiders: it either.

945

00:34:20,925 --> 00:34:24,583

Warren Zeiders: And it was you know, that's cool, like okay.

946

00:34:24,744 --> 00:34:26,280

Warren Zeiders: So you got some people following you, you

947

00:34:26,300 --> 00:34:28,927

Warren Zeiders: got some people viewing, viewing your

948

00:34:28,967 --> 00:34:29,508

Warren Zeiders: videos.

949

00:34:31,420 --> 00:34:31,902

Warren Zeiders: They were very.

950

00:34:32,303 --> 00:34:33,728

Warren Zeiders: My parents are the most supportive people.

951

00:34:33,860 --> 00:34:35,425

Warren Zeiders: Actually, my parents have been to every

952

00:34:35,445 --> 00:34:36,328

Warren Zeiders: single show I've played.

953

00:34:37,060 --> 00:34:38,745

Warren Zeiders: They've traveled to every single show and

954

00:34:38,825 --> 00:34:40,630

Warren Zeiders: they're actually selling my merch right now.

955

00:34:40,900 --> 00:34:42,146

Marc Preston: So your parents are selling your merch.

956

00:34:42,480 --> 00:34:44,387

Marc Preston: I said is that is well, you do have two

957

00:34:44,407 --> 00:34:45,390

Marc Preston: parents that are business people.

958

00:34:45,580 --> 00:34:46,804

Marc Preston: You know, they got a whole that got that

959

00:34:46,845 --> 00:34:47,788

Marc Preston: whole angle going on.

960

00:34:48,341 --> 00:34:50,467

Marc Preston: Now, do you have any siblings, or are you

961

00:34:50,507 --> 00:34:51,349

Marc Preston: the only child there?

962

00:34:52,220 --> 00:34:54,646

Warren Zeiders: I have a younger sister who's following

963

00:34:54,686 --> 00:34:57,131

Warren Zeiders: more in my mother's footsteps and she's at

964

00:34:57,151 --> 00:34:58,964

Warren Zeiders: school, in college, for accounting.

965

00:34:59,145 --> 00:34:59,607

Marc Preston: Oh, okay.

966

00:35:00,020 --> 00:35:01,024

Marc Preston: So what does she think about having the

967

00:35:01,044 --> 00:35:02,067

Marc Preston: brother who's doing this thing now?

968

00:35:02,620 --> 00:35:04,666

Warren Zeiders: She's got a love hate relationship with it.

969

00:35:06,380 --> 00:35:08,901

Warren Zeiders: I was always the extrovert growing up so I

970

00:35:08,941 --> 00:35:10,185

Warren Zeiders: always did most of the talking.

971

00:35:11,180 --> 00:35:17,263

Warren Zeiders: She was always more of the quiet one, so

972

00:35:18,986 --> 00:35:19,847

Warren Zeiders: it's been a little bit.

973

00:35:21,370 --> 00:35:23,133

Warren Zeiders: She's not a big fan of people coming up to

974

00:35:23,193 --> 00:35:25,245

Warren Zeiders: her and saying, hey, she doesn't want the

975

00:35:25,627 --> 00:35:27,102

Warren Zeiders: attention she doesn't like when people come

976

00:35:27,122 --> 00:35:29,266

Warren Zeiders: up to her like, hey, you're more inside her

977

00:35:29,286 --> 00:35:31,886

Warren Zeiders: sister and that whole fun thing.

978

00:35:32,241 --> 00:35:33,413

Warren Zeiders: But I think she's happy for me.

979

00:35:33,715 --> 00:35:34,876

Marc Preston: You know that's got to be such a weird

980

00:35:34,896 --> 00:35:36,257

Marc Preston: feeling for, like you know family.

981

00:35:36,277 --> 00:35:38,199

Marc Preston: Suddenly now, especially in this era of

982

00:35:38,259 --> 00:35:39,760

Marc Preston: social media, where somebody can just like

983

00:35:39,840 --> 00:35:42,022

Marc Preston: take off, like what you've done is go from

984

00:35:42,062 --> 00:35:43,524

Marc Preston: something just you know number, like set

985

00:35:43,564 --> 00:35:45,846

Marc Preston: numbers on a phone, to now you're like on

986

00:35:45,886 --> 00:35:46,206

Marc Preston: tour.

987

00:35:46,346 --> 00:35:47,307

Marc Preston: You know what.

988

00:35:47,347 --> 00:35:48,888

Marc Preston: Do you have any dream venues, somewhere you

989

00:35:48,908 --> 00:35:51,010

Marc Preston: really want to play, like because you said

990

00:35:51,030 --> 00:35:52,912

Marc Preston: these are smaller venues, it's acoustic

991

00:35:52,972 --> 00:35:53,312

Marc Preston: mostly.

992

00:35:54,237 --> 00:35:55,801

Marc Preston: If you could play anywhere, what kind of

993

00:35:55,841 --> 00:35:56,121

Marc Preston: you know?

994

00:35:56,322 --> 00:35:59,479

Warren Zeiders: a huge place for me that I want to play I

995

00:35:59,499 --> 00:36:03,555

Warren Zeiders: would say hometown Hershey Park Stadium.

996

00:36:05,997 --> 00:36:08,420

Warren Zeiders: I think it's just, it'll be a really full

997

00:36:08,440 --> 00:36:11,603

Warren Zeiders: circle moment for me to play that venue one

998

00:36:11,643 --> 00:36:17,708

Warren Zeiders: day, just because of you know being I want

999

00:36:17,728 --> 00:36:19,110

Warren Zeiders: to go watch high school football games

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Warren Zeiders: there.

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00:36:19,390 --> 00:36:21,755

Warren Zeiders: Growing up, going to Hershey High School, I

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00:36:22,456 --> 00:36:24,921

Warren Zeiders: spent so much time going to Hershey Park

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00:36:24,961 --> 00:36:25,261

Warren Zeiders: growing up.

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00:36:25,321 --> 00:36:26,964

Warren Zeiders: I think there's a lot of history there for

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00:36:27,004 --> 00:36:29,308

Warren Zeiders: me and I think that it'll be a it'll be a

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00:36:29,368 --> 00:36:31,191

Warren Zeiders: cool experience for me to go back there one

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00:36:31,211 --> 00:36:33,575

Warren Zeiders: day and, you know, play that venue.

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00:36:34,116 --> 00:36:34,538

Marc Preston: Going home.

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00:36:34,578 --> 00:36:34,698

Marc Preston: Man.

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00:36:34,718 --> 00:36:35,641

Marc Preston: That's always a big deal.

Speaker:

00:36:35,922 --> 00:36:37,326

Marc Preston: Now you got people who watched you.

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00:36:37,546 --> 00:36:38,148

Marc Preston: You know online.

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00:36:38,188 --> 00:36:39,231

Marc Preston: Now they're coming to concerts.

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00:36:39,271 --> 00:36:40,334

Marc Preston: What's something that people want to know

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00:36:40,354 --> 00:36:40,555

Marc Preston: about you?

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00:36:41,436 --> 00:36:42,658

Marc Preston: Maybe let's say a top question.

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00:36:42,699 --> 00:36:44,221

Marc Preston: You get asked or you know something.

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00:36:44,281 --> 00:36:46,966

Marc Preston: People try to pick your brain on that, both

Speaker:

00:36:47,006 --> 00:36:49,430

Marc Preston: in the comments and the in person.

Speaker:

00:36:49,755 --> 00:36:50,838

Marc Preston: When's more music coming?

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00:36:52,541 --> 00:36:54,324

Warren Zeiders: People, people want to, people want an

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00:36:54,465 --> 00:36:55,347

Warren Zeiders: album, they want it.

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00:36:56,876 --> 00:36:57,818

Marc Preston: They want more from me.

Speaker:

00:36:57,939 --> 00:36:59,343

Marc Preston: Apparently, I did the same thing or asked

Speaker:

00:36:59,363 --> 00:36:59,884

Marc Preston: the same thing.

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00:37:01,217 --> 00:37:02,862

Marc Preston: What was it like when you first heard your

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00:37:02,922 --> 00:37:03,243

Marc Preston: song?

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00:37:05,156 --> 00:37:06,719

Marc Preston: I say radio because it used to be a big

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00:37:06,779 --> 00:37:08,582

Marc Preston: deal when you first hear your song on the

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00:37:08,662 --> 00:37:09,082

Marc Preston: radio.

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00:37:09,163 --> 00:37:10,886

Marc Preston: Now it's like my kids are all about.

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00:37:10,906 --> 00:37:12,708

Marc Preston: You know Spotify and all that, and TikTok

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00:37:12,789 --> 00:37:13,149

Marc Preston: obviously.

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00:37:14,136 --> 00:37:15,839

Marc Preston: But what was that like for you the first

Speaker:

00:37:15,859 --> 00:37:17,763

Marc Preston: time you heard your song play under a

Speaker:

00:37:17,823 --> 00:37:19,626

Marc Preston: record label and it's in its out there?

Speaker:

00:37:19,686 --> 00:37:21,008

Marc Preston: What was that feeling like for you?

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00:37:21,575 --> 00:37:22,457

Warren Zeiders: I think that it was.

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00:37:23,198 --> 00:37:25,563

Warren Zeiders: It was an awesome feeling and you know, to

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00:37:25,623 --> 00:37:31,180

Warren Zeiders: touch on it, I have this mindset of an

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00:37:31,320 --> 00:37:31,801

Warren Zeiders: athlete.

Speaker:

00:37:32,082 --> 00:37:32,503

Warren Zeiders: I have a.

Speaker:

00:37:33,605 --> 00:37:34,667

Warren Zeiders: I'm sure there's other people out there

Speaker:

00:37:34,687 --> 00:37:35,329

Warren Zeiders: that have it too.

Speaker:

00:37:35,715 --> 00:37:38,300

Warren Zeiders: You know, I've I've talked to some people

Speaker:

00:37:38,360 --> 00:37:42,147

Warren Zeiders: who think that, like Riley Greene, for

Speaker:

00:37:42,187 --> 00:37:43,509

Warren Zeiders: example, he was an athlete.

Speaker:

00:37:44,476 --> 00:37:46,680

Warren Zeiders: I'm sure I think, chase Rice, there's some

Speaker:

00:37:46,700 --> 00:37:47,140

Warren Zeiders: other people.

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00:37:47,160 --> 00:37:48,222

Warren Zeiders: You know, I have a.

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00:37:48,242 --> 00:37:51,687

Warren Zeiders: I have a very certain mindset about the way

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00:37:51,748 --> 00:37:55,478

Warren Zeiders: I view what I do, and it's all because of

Speaker:

00:37:56,559 --> 00:37:59,103

Warren Zeiders: whether it's discipline, it's drive, it's.

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00:37:59,203 --> 00:38:01,747

Warren Zeiders: You know, I have all these things inside of

Speaker:

00:38:01,787 --> 00:38:03,509

Warren Zeiders: me that sports all led to.

Speaker:

00:38:03,549 --> 00:38:05,697

Warren Zeiders: In this moment, you know, hearing it, it

Speaker:

00:38:05,737 --> 00:38:08,121

Warren Zeiders: was awesome, but there was also this

Speaker:

00:38:08,202 --> 00:38:12,189

Warren Zeiders: feeling of like OK, I got this.

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00:38:12,997 --> 00:38:16,551

Warren Zeiders: How can I show them that I deserve to

Speaker:

00:38:16,591 --> 00:38:17,535

Warren Zeiders: continue to be put on here?

Speaker:

00:38:18,096 --> 00:38:20,643

Warren Zeiders: How, what's the next song that I can?

Speaker:

00:38:20,703 --> 00:38:22,187

Warren Zeiders: You know, I take the wins.

Speaker:

00:38:22,755 --> 00:38:24,758

Warren Zeiders: One of my favorite sayings that I have is

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00:38:24,959 --> 00:38:29,165

Warren Zeiders: happy but not satisfied, because I and

Speaker:

00:38:29,185 --> 00:38:30,527

Warren Zeiders: that's something about, if you haven't

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00:38:30,547 --> 00:38:32,190

Warren Zeiders: heard money song edge Wild Horse.

Speaker:

00:38:32,655 --> 00:38:35,137

Warren Zeiders: I talk about chasing a wild horse, and the

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00:38:35,177 --> 00:38:36,759

Warren Zeiders: concept of that song is, you know, is

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00:38:36,879 --> 00:38:40,182

Warren Zeiders: always chasing after chasing your dreams

Speaker:

00:38:40,903 --> 00:38:46,308

Warren Zeiders: but never being fully fulfilled, because

Speaker:

00:38:46,328 --> 00:38:50,332

Warren Zeiders: there's always things for us to develop and

Speaker:

00:38:50,392 --> 00:38:52,754

Warren Zeiders: grow in in our lives and be put into

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00:38:52,814 --> 00:38:53,555

Warren Zeiders: uncomfortable situations.

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00:38:53,955 --> 00:38:57,039

Warren Zeiders: And I think a lot of my life this last year

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00:38:57,659 --> 00:38:59,061

Warren Zeiders: I have been put into uncomfortable

Speaker:

00:38:59,101 --> 00:38:59,782

Warren Zeiders: situations.

Speaker:

00:38:59,902 --> 00:39:02,645

Warren Zeiders: But I like that because, again, I went from

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00:39:02,705 --> 00:39:05,028

Warren Zeiders: someone who was learning how to play covers

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00:39:05,048 --> 00:39:07,450

Warren Zeiders: in his bedroom to now full fledged on a

Speaker:

00:39:07,490 --> 00:39:10,539

Warren Zeiders: tour, like you said, record label, all this

Speaker:

00:39:10,619 --> 00:39:10,940

Warren Zeiders: stuff.

Speaker:

00:39:11,220 --> 00:39:13,685

Warren Zeiders: And you know I've just taken, I've taken

Speaker:

00:39:13,705 --> 00:39:15,228

Warren Zeiders: the bull by the horns and I've taken this

Speaker:

00:39:15,308 --> 00:39:17,778

Warren Zeiders: life and you know I'm like you only get one,

Speaker:

00:39:17,918 --> 00:39:19,420

Warren Zeiders: you only get one time around on this world.

Speaker:

00:39:19,481 --> 00:39:22,405

Warren Zeiders: So I'm just going to go for it and you know

Speaker:

00:39:22,645 --> 00:39:24,227

Warren Zeiders: I've taken every opportunity I could get

Speaker:

00:39:24,348 --> 00:39:25,790

Warren Zeiders: and make the best I could of it.

Speaker:

00:39:27,357 --> 00:39:29,743

Warren Zeiders: And you said it was happy but not satisfied.

Speaker:

00:39:29,803 --> 00:39:31,327

Marc Preston: Right Is happy but not satisfied.

Speaker:

00:39:31,575 --> 00:39:32,597

Marc Preston: Yeah, I want to make sure I got that.

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00:39:32,617 --> 00:39:33,158

Marc Preston: I like that.

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00:39:33,559 --> 00:39:34,822

Marc Preston: But, warren, what I want to do, man, I'm

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00:39:34,842 --> 00:39:36,005

Marc Preston: just kind of wrapping up with you here.

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00:39:36,025 --> 00:39:37,187

Marc Preston: You know, because I know you're on the road,

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00:39:37,855 --> 00:39:39,779

Marc Preston: I would call my seven questions, always ask

Speaker:

00:39:39,939 --> 00:39:41,081

Marc Preston: everybody the same questions.

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00:39:41,502 --> 00:39:43,325

Marc Preston: A little bit extra insight, kind of one of

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00:39:43,366 --> 00:39:44,908

Marc Preston: those get to know you kind of things.

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00:39:45,575 --> 00:39:48,900

Marc Preston: Number one what is your favorite comfort

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00:39:48,960 --> 00:39:49,261

Marc Preston: food?

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00:39:49,581 --> 00:39:51,264

Marc Preston: That thing that if you're on, if you're out

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00:39:51,304 --> 00:39:53,607

Marc Preston: on the road, kind of brings you back to

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00:39:53,667 --> 00:39:54,168

Marc Preston: your center.

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00:39:54,288 --> 00:39:54,709

Marc Preston: You know what I mean.

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00:39:55,615 --> 00:39:57,638

Warren Zeiders: Honestly it's going to.

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00:39:58,299 --> 00:39:59,782

Warren Zeiders: I don't even know, but I'll go.

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00:39:59,802 --> 00:40:02,286

Warren Zeiders: This is going to be my answer A good burger.

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00:40:02,887 --> 00:40:04,410

Warren Zeiders: Burgers are always my thing.

Speaker:

00:40:05,036 --> 00:40:07,522

Warren Zeiders: A good burger will put me in, you know,

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00:40:07,662 --> 00:40:09,586

Warren Zeiders: won't make me angry, it'll put me in a good

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00:40:09,606 --> 00:40:09,787

Warren Zeiders: place.

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00:40:11,076 --> 00:40:11,817

Marc Preston: Funny you brought that up.

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00:40:11,898 --> 00:40:14,062

Marc Preston: I'm somebody that thought that burgers are

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00:40:14,102 --> 00:40:16,627

Marc Preston: not meant to be fancy, the same way pizza

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00:40:16,687 --> 00:40:17,148

Marc Preston: is not meant to be.

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00:40:17,188 --> 00:40:19,894

Marc Preston: It's just a good off the grill.

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00:40:19,914 --> 00:40:22,259

Marc Preston: Somebody cooking on charcoal man, it's a

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00:40:22,319 --> 00:40:23,723

Marc Preston: backyard burger Will beat out most

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00:40:23,783 --> 00:40:24,765

Marc Preston: restaurant burgers in my book.

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00:40:26,557 --> 00:40:27,720

Marc Preston: Now, if you could sit down with three

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00:40:27,780 --> 00:40:29,024

Marc Preston: people, you're going to sit down for a cup

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00:40:29,044 --> 00:40:30,527

Marc Preston: of coffee, beer or whatever have you.

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00:40:31,679 --> 00:40:33,806

Marc Preston: Who would three people be that you'd want

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00:40:33,826 --> 00:40:35,632

Marc Preston: to hang out with for a few hours and just

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00:40:35,692 --> 00:40:36,575

Marc Preston: kind of talk story with?

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00:40:40,439 --> 00:40:42,661

Warren Zeiders: I think my grandfather, who I never got to

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00:40:42,721 --> 00:40:46,905

Warren Zeiders: meet because I've heard so many stories

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00:40:47,246 --> 00:40:53,392

Warren Zeiders: about how my dad and him had a relationship.

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00:40:53,595 --> 00:40:56,800

Warren Zeiders: I think I owe a lot to him for raising my

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00:40:56,820 --> 00:40:57,381

Warren Zeiders: dad right.

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00:41:03,836 --> 00:41:05,278

Warren Zeiders: Yeah, I think I'd be him and my dad would

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00:41:05,298 --> 00:41:07,741

Warren Zeiders: be two of them I don't know who a third one

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00:41:07,761 --> 00:41:09,043

Warren Zeiders: would be because I think I would just love

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00:41:09,063 --> 00:41:12,266

Warren Zeiders: that experience to sit down at least with

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00:41:12,306 --> 00:41:16,431

Warren Zeiders: those two to just talk about how my dad was

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00:41:16,491 --> 00:41:18,934

Warren Zeiders: raised and hear his side of things and

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00:41:18,954 --> 00:41:19,575

Warren Zeiders: stories and stuff like that.

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00:41:19,755 --> 00:41:22,040

Warren Zeiders: I think that would be a really cool

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00:41:22,080 --> 00:41:24,906

Warren Zeiders: experience for me to learn a lot about the

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00:41:24,926 --> 00:41:26,389

Warren Zeiders: grandfather I never got to meet.

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00:41:26,735 --> 00:41:28,158

Marc Preston: Everybody is a little bit different and I

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00:41:28,218 --> 00:41:29,721

Marc Preston: think sometimes it comes back to families.

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00:41:30,363 --> 00:41:31,745

Marc Preston: You want to know your DNA a little bit

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00:41:31,785 --> 00:41:34,757

Marc Preston: better, absolutely Now.

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00:41:34,978 --> 00:41:36,761

Marc Preston: Going back in time or even currently

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00:41:37,503 --> 00:41:39,687

Marc Preston: growing up was kind of your celebrity crush.

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00:41:42,077 --> 00:41:43,779

Warren Zeiders: I guess the one that just came to the top

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00:41:43,799 --> 00:41:45,161

Warren Zeiders: of my head would probably be Jennifer

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00:41:45,221 --> 00:41:47,384

Warren Zeiders: Aniston growing up and watching the show

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Warren Zeiders: Friends.

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Warren Zeiders: My mom loved that show too, so it was

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Warren Zeiders: always running in our house.

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Warren Zeiders: So I'll give Jennifer the shout out.

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Marc Preston: That's a perfect answer.

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Marc Preston: Now let's say you're going to be going to

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Marc Preston: an island for a whole year.

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Marc Preston: Okay, now again, you don't have streaming

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Marc Preston: nothing.

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Marc Preston: Man, I know it's ironic considering who you

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Marc Preston: are, but you got to go there and you do

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Marc Preston: have a DVD player.

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Marc Preston: So what an album player, a record player,

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Marc Preston: what album and what DVD are you going to

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Marc Preston: bring with you?

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Warren Zeiders: Man, this is a one DVD.

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Warren Zeiders: Man, that is tough because that's a movie

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Warren Zeiders: that you got to watch over and over again.

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Warren Zeiders: You know what?

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Warren Zeiders: I'm just going to throw it out there.

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Warren Zeiders: And actually you know what Star Wars Empire

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Warren Zeiders: Strikes Back.

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Marc Preston: That's a good one.

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Marc Preston: You know the aficionados of Star Wars, you

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Marc Preston: know a lot of people say that was the best

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Marc Preston: of the original three.

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Marc Preston: All right, cool, cool.

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Marc Preston: Now what album would you want to bring?

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Marc Preston: I know this is going to be kind of easy.

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Marc Preston: They're going to be really hard and really

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Marc Preston: easy for you.

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Warren Zeiders: Yeah, this is because I've never had to

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Warren Zeiders: even think about a question like this.

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Warren Zeiders: I'm going to go with Morgan Wallin's double

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Warren Zeiders: album.

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Warren Zeiders: There's a lot of great music in there.

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Warren Zeiders: It's new, it's fresh and there's a lot of

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Warren Zeiders: bangers he's got in there.

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Warren Zeiders: It's the first thing that comes to the top

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Warren Zeiders: of my head.

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Marc Preston: Awesome, Awesome, Okay, so cool.

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Marc Preston: Now the next question is if you're going to

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Marc Preston: be from time you get up to the time you put

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Marc Preston: your head down on the pillow at night.

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Marc Preston: What's the definition for you of a perfect

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Marc Preston: day Like?

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Marc Preston: What are the component parts of a perfect

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Marc Preston: day for you?

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Warren Zeiders: I would say good meals, healthy eating.

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Warren Zeiders: I would say making sure, whether it's you

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Warren Zeiders: know writing a cool song or you know making

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Warren Zeiders: sure that I got to spend time in the studio

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Warren Zeiders: or you know I'm out there on stage playing

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Warren Zeiders: for hundreds of people and being fans of

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Warren Zeiders: stuff.

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Warren Zeiders: I think a big thing for me, too, is always

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Warren Zeiders: getting a great workout in.

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Warren Zeiders: Workouts are huge to me.

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Warren Zeiders: I'm really big into, you know, physical

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Warren Zeiders: health, but also mental health.

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Warren Zeiders: It's a big thing for me.

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Warren Zeiders: I think that going to the gym is not only

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Warren Zeiders: just a physical thing for me.

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Warren Zeiders: It is very much so a mental thing, and you

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Warren Zeiders: know pushing boundaries and pushing

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Warren Zeiders: yourself.

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Warren Zeiders: So I would say those are some good things

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Warren Zeiders: to touch on.

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Warren Zeiders: And, you know, catching up with family and

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Warren Zeiders: friends when I get a chance to check in and

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Warren Zeiders: stuff.

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Marc Preston: All right, perfect, Perfect.

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Marc Preston: I like that.

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Marc Preston: Now, last question, though if you were to

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Marc Preston: jump in a DeLorean, you know you can go

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Marc Preston: back in time.

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Marc Preston: I usually say to when you were 16, but it's

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Marc Preston: not that long ago for you.

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Marc Preston: So if you want to go back a little bit

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Marc Preston: further, do an important time in your life.

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Marc Preston: You've got like two minutes with yourself.

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Marc Preston: What piece of advice are you going to give

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Marc Preston: a younger you that you think is going to

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Marc Preston: get you on an even better track in life, or

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Marc Preston: make life a little bit easier for you?

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Warren Zeiders: You know what I got to get answer for this.

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Warren Zeiders: You're right where you're supposed to be

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Warren Zeiders: and I believe in that because, in what I

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Warren Zeiders: believe, everything happens, everything is

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Warren Zeiders: supposed to happen for a reason and you

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Warren Zeiders: know as kids and as parents want to protect

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Warren Zeiders: their children.

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Warren Zeiders: I believe that you have to learn from your

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Warren Zeiders: own mistakes and you have to go through the

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Warren Zeiders: highs and lows and to just grow as a human

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Warren Zeiders: being.

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Warren Zeiders: So I think that I would tell some cool

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Warren Zeiders: stories, but I would just tell myself

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Warren Zeiders: everything is going the way it's supposed

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Warren Zeiders: to go.

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Warren Zeiders: Just continue to believe and believe in

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Warren Zeiders: that.

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Marc Preston: That's perfect, my friend, perfect.

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Marc Preston: Now, once again, the 717 tapes volume one's

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Marc Preston: been out.

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Marc Preston: Volume two came out last week, I think.

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Marc Preston: Ride lighting and burn it down, I think

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Marc Preston: that's.

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Marc Preston: Those are songs that were stuck in my head.

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Marc Preston: Yesterday I was moving around the house is

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Marc Preston: like I was literally humming your music.

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Marc Preston: I was like where's this coming from?

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Marc Preston: Oh, she was listening to a song a little

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Marc Preston: while ago.

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Marc Preston: I think that's kind of like the unspoken

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Marc Preston: sign of a great song.

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Marc Preston: It just kind of gets stuck in your head.

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Marc Preston: You know the melody or the hook or whatever.

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Marc Preston: Have you got me?

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Marc Preston: But, man, I certainly appreciate you taking

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Marc Preston: time out to sit down with me today,

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Marc Preston: especially on the.

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Marc Preston: Where are you right now, by the way, as

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Marc Preston: you're in the car moving about?

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Warren Zeiders: I'm in Georgia right now.

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Warren Zeiders: I just got done playing Eddie's Attic and

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Warren Zeiders: then I'm playing in Rome, georgia, tomorrow

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Warren Zeiders: night.

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Marc Preston: I envy a little bit, man.

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Marc Preston: I back in my radio days.

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Marc Preston: Look at the guys that that I really enjoyed.

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Marc Preston: I came by the studio and hung out and I was

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Marc Preston: like man, I would love to be on tour just

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Marc Preston: to do that one time.

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Marc Preston: But much luck to you, my friend, Love your

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Marc Preston: attitude, Love your music.

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Marc Preston: Again, be safe, have fun and I look forward

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Marc Preston: to catching up with you sometime down the

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Marc Preston: road, my friend.

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Warren Zeiders: Yes, sir, I appreciate you.

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Warren Zeiders: Marc, Thanks for having me on man.

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Marc Preston: All right, there you go, warren Zeiders.

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Marc Preston: What a cool story.

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Marc Preston: Still wrapping my head around the idea he's

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Marc Preston: only 22 years old, 300 million combined

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Marc Preston: streams and views Just such an

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Marc Preston: unconventional way of getting people to

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Marc Preston: check out your music proof.

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00:46:37,599 --> 00:46:39,004

Marc Preston: Right there you can make some pretty cool

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Marc Preston: things happen.

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00:46:39,780 --> 00:46:41,708

Marc Preston: Just grab an instrument, get after it.

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Marc Preston: You never know what's going to happen.

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Marc Preston: New album is called 717 tapes.

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Marc Preston: Warren is on tour.

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Marc Preston: You want to find out more about what he's

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Marc Preston: got going on?

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Marc Preston: Check out his link through

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Marc Preston: storyandcraftpod.com.

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Marc Preston: I got all his social media links TikTok,

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Marc Preston: instagram, his website, everything.

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Marc Preston: So check him out.

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00:47:00,881 --> 00:47:01,744

Marc Preston: Get on Spotify.

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Marc Preston: He's got a real cool thing going on.

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Marc Preston: Really enjoyed his music.

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Warren Zeiders

Musician

Warren Zeiders’ shadowy country music is powered by a steady supply of grit, honesty, and muscle. Hailing from central Pennsylvania, the 22-year-old singer/songwriter delivers outlaw sermons in a gravelly voice beyond his years. His music is suited more to the vast wilderness of his home state than the bright lights of Nashville, injecting a healthy dose of Heartland ethos into the honky tonks of Music City. But it’s that space he lives in—between lonesome outsider and magnetic performer—that helps him relate to listeners from all walks of life through songs fueled by unshakeable soul-searching.

As Zeiders himself puts it, howling the opening lines of his haunting single, “Ride the Lightning”: “Mama always said I was born on the wild side—one foot in the flames and the other tryin’ to walk the line.” A dusty and resonant acoustic guitar booms through the empty room, the only other sound on the desolate recording. It’s sparse, but Zeiders’ powerful voice is a force that rises well above any noise and cuts to the heart of anyone in earshot.

“Every walk of life you go through—it doesn't matter how good of a person you think you are—you're always going to be fighting demons for the rest of your life,” Zeiders says about the darker aspects of his music. “You're always going to have sin.”

He comes by his love of music honestly, falling under its spell through the hymns he sang in church pews as a kid along with the music he absorbed from Christian radio. He remembers his mom’s love of country radio with Hank Williams Jr. and John Denver… Read More