Hey dear listeners, you know the guest of today's Flashback episode from Dallas

Buyers Club, true detective, interstellar, contact, and a zillion other things.

Here's Academy Award winner Matthew McConaughey.

Ladies and gentlemen, you are listening to On Qualified with your host, Ana Ferris.

Oh man, I can't thank you enough for doing this.

You're welcome. Good to be here, Ana.

It's so great having you. So I heard about your give back program a while ago,

and I was just so impressed. Will you tell our listeners about it?

Yeah, so I've been working with Wild Turkey for quite a few years, and the last five years,

we came up with this campaign of hey, let's give thanks and shine a light on some people,

local heroes who wouldn't have a spotlight on them. And this year, we found some people who

help keep live music going on in their communities by creating virtual events to keep the fans coming

or this one girl in New Orleans was the first DJ who said okay, vaccine mandates to come to the

shows. Anyway, they just stuck to their guns. They love music. They didn't want to die while they

saw so many different, you know, local musicians and small businesses basically going belly up.

These were some people that just said no, we're going to help keep the music going.

We're going to put on free concerts. We're going to keep taking the stage, share our music. And

that's us saying hey, thank you to them. And we've gone in and given $10,000 to each one of them to

give to their local charity that has to do with keeping music going. And it's just a cool fun one

to do, you know. I just love that you're doing this. So this year was homegrown artists, but each year,

you focused on different groups. Can you tell us how the program got started? And this is your fifth

year? Yeah, we've done, I mean, before other years, it was firefighters. It's been frontliners.

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