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Max McNown

Max McNown

American singer-songwriter

Sep 25, 2026

6:13
And she was like, no,
6:14
she's luckily very respectful.
6:17
Yeah.
6:17
of my artistic freedom and my creative freedom.
6:21
So she will never veto.
6:22
I've never experienced her vetoing a song.
6:24
She'll give me honest opinions on it.
8:32
And then on the, I also, who do you look, who are your idols? Okay.
23:40
It ended up getting out of
23:41
hand.
23:41
It started out, the owner... had a quote when it shut down and it started out very wholesome and innocent.
23:48
It was just, it's like chat roulette.
23:50
So you just go on anywhere in the world, you get placed with one person, you're on FaceTime with them.
23:55
You can skip or they can skip at any moment with the press of a button and you just meet people.
24:00
And people ended up using it for very, in very predatory ways.
27:27
And I think once you lose hope or excitement, you're dead in the water.
39:14
Yeah.
39:14
So it's, it's that basically.
39:16
So Omegle is, you log on and you get placed with somebody from anywhere in the world, and you can try to direct who you're being placed with with hashtags.
39:28
Um, and how it works is at any point you can skip them with the press of a button, and at any point they can skip you and move on.
39:35
And so you see a lot of really nasty stuff, but you also see just people just kind of having a good time, like, "What are we going to find today?" And so, uh, I would come across every once in a while a group of friends, like, you know, whether it's a bunch of dudes or a gr- you know, two girls that are on there k- kinda just having fun.
39:55
And I would come on, and you gotta try to hook their attention immediately, other- otherwise they skip you.
40:00
And so I'd say, "Hey, my name is Max.
44:53
So why move to Nashville? What happened that made ya move?
6:39
Yeah.
6:39
I mean, uh, Mark, the drummer, and Lee, the, uh, band leader now, uh, they kinda came as a package deal.
6:49
We got them around the same time.
6:51
Uh, and they were actually...
6:53
How I knew Lee was from the first music video I ever filmed, which was for Love I Got Left and Rather Have a Nightmare.
6:59
And, uh, so it was a slow, one-by-one, very vetted process-

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25:12
Yeah
25:12
...
4:20
that you're the best singer of the bunch?
4:23
I don't even know.
4:24
I don't even know if I would even say that.
4:26
My little sister specifically, beautiful voice.
4:29
My brother's incredible voice is truly...
4:31
They would never admit that to you.
4:33
They are very humble and...
9:06
You
14:43
Yeah, you do.
14:44
No, but I looked into the future and I saw just the chaos that this entire journey is going to bring.
14:50
It's a lot of missing home and a lot of...
14:57
Temptations on the road, weird decisions, lack of sleep.
15:00
It can be a little heavy on the mind, especially.
15:05
And so I just wanted to basically secure the bag early.
15:09
Done For is just about that decision.
17:09
And I think it works so perfectly, you guys together, because I think all of you, in different ways, kind of sit very comfortably in country and also sit very comfortably out of

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