1 00:00:00,120 --> 00:00:02,440 Speaker 1: Laney Wilson is one of the biggest names in country 2 00:00:02,480 --> 00:00:05,040 Speaker 1: music these days. But it's the old story. It's a 3 00:00:05,040 --> 00:00:07,880 Speaker 1: brilliant story from living in a trailer outside the recording 4 00:00:08,000 --> 00:00:10,400 Speaker 1: studio and a guy called Luke Colmes used to wander 5 00:00:10,440 --> 00:00:12,479 Speaker 1: buy every now and again. And that's singing right together. 6 00:00:12,520 --> 00:00:15,320 Speaker 1: These days, she wins award, She phil's stadia all over 7 00:00:15,360 --> 00:00:17,320 Speaker 1: the world. She's coming here for the first time next year. 8 00:00:17,640 --> 00:00:18,759 Speaker 1: Laney Wilson's with us. 9 00:00:18,800 --> 00:00:21,200 Speaker 2: Good morning, Good morning to you too, Mike. 10 00:00:21,360 --> 00:00:23,599 Speaker 1: Can I talk about some football with you? Because I 11 00:00:23,640 --> 00:00:25,600 Speaker 1: saw you it must have been so it was Thanksgiving, 12 00:00:25,600 --> 00:00:28,080 Speaker 1: so it must have been last November. You're at the Cowboys, 13 00:00:28,080 --> 00:00:29,880 Speaker 1: the Giants, NFL. The Cowboys, the Giants. 14 00:00:29,880 --> 00:00:33,120 Speaker 2: That was you, right, that was us, That was us. 15 00:00:33,360 --> 00:00:36,240 Speaker 2: That was insane. I think there were a lot of 16 00:00:36,280 --> 00:00:38,280 Speaker 2: people watching. I'm glad. I didn't know how many people 17 00:00:38,280 --> 00:00:39,839 Speaker 2: were tuned in until I after. 18 00:00:40,680 --> 00:00:43,839 Speaker 1: Because, funnily enough, just over this past weekend, I was 19 00:00:43,880 --> 00:00:46,360 Speaker 1: watching some of that Hall of Fame in Ohio they 20 00:00:46,440 --> 00:00:49,519 Speaker 1: do each year, and who has it been announced this 21 00:00:49,560 --> 00:00:51,320 Speaker 1: week is going to be performing next year at the 22 00:00:51,320 --> 00:00:55,760 Speaker 1: Hall of Fame week? Exactly me? 23 00:00:56,800 --> 00:00:59,120 Speaker 2: I am I'm so excited to. I'll tell you what. 24 00:00:59,200 --> 00:01:01,600 Speaker 2: I've got some some family members who are excited that 25 00:01:01,640 --> 00:01:04,880 Speaker 2: I'm doing some NFL things. They're like, they think I'm 26 00:01:04,880 --> 00:01:05,759 Speaker 2: actually doing something. 27 00:01:05,800 --> 00:01:08,479 Speaker 1: Now, now, you're obviously an NFL fan. 28 00:01:09,000 --> 00:01:11,280 Speaker 2: I have to be because I'm marrying a man that 29 00:01:11,319 --> 00:01:12,520 Speaker 2: played in the NFL. 30 00:01:12,760 --> 00:01:14,399 Speaker 1: So you talk football a lot. 31 00:01:14,640 --> 00:01:17,679 Speaker 2: Yeah, we talked football a lot. I'm learning what's offense, 32 00:01:17,760 --> 00:01:22,480 Speaker 2: what's defense? No, I love football. I love I love 33 00:01:22,520 --> 00:01:26,679 Speaker 2: the atmosphere. I love sitting around and you know, having 34 00:01:26,720 --> 00:01:29,559 Speaker 2: friends over at the house and drinking some cold Corse 35 00:01:29,640 --> 00:01:33,520 Speaker 2: light and uh yeah, it's I don't know. There's an 36 00:01:33,640 --> 00:01:36,560 Speaker 2: energy to it that I definitely love. It feels like 37 00:01:36,720 --> 00:01:37,640 Speaker 2: a community thing. 38 00:01:37,959 --> 00:01:40,040 Speaker 1: You bet. Now the tour that took about the two 39 00:01:40,080 --> 00:01:41,520 Speaker 1: of the too is on. You'll come to New Zealand. 40 00:01:41,560 --> 00:01:44,120 Speaker 1: I'm looking at your schedule as far as I can 41 00:01:44,160 --> 00:01:45,959 Speaker 1: work out, you're pretty much on tour between now and 42 00:01:46,000 --> 00:01:48,200 Speaker 1: the end of the year. I'm assuming you take Christmas 43 00:01:48,240 --> 00:01:50,280 Speaker 1: off and then you hit New Zealand and Australia. 44 00:01:50,360 --> 00:01:53,320 Speaker 2: That's right, that's right, we're coming. I'm so excited. This 45 00:01:53,400 --> 00:01:57,320 Speaker 2: is my first time to New Zealand and so I've 46 00:01:57,320 --> 00:01:59,920 Speaker 2: been hearing for a while. Actually years ago at CEM 47 00:02:00,560 --> 00:02:04,640 Speaker 2: that happens in Nashville every June, I met some people 48 00:02:04,720 --> 00:02:08,040 Speaker 2: from New Zealand and it blew my mind that there 49 00:02:08,040 --> 00:02:11,720 Speaker 2: were even country music fans over there. So it's about 50 00:02:11,760 --> 00:02:13,600 Speaker 2: time that that we make our way now. 51 00:02:13,639 --> 00:02:16,280 Speaker 1: Do tell us about that, because Morgan came a couple 52 00:02:16,320 --> 00:02:19,079 Speaker 1: of years ago, and I mean he was really blown 53 00:02:19,120 --> 00:02:22,800 Speaker 1: away and they just couldn't believe how big it had got. 54 00:02:23,400 --> 00:02:26,359 Speaker 1: And Luke Holmes came last year. He said, the same thing. 55 00:02:27,000 --> 00:02:29,920 Speaker 1: Does the wood get around the country community in places 56 00:02:29,960 --> 00:02:32,840 Speaker 1: like Nashville? You know that maybe what you got going 57 00:02:32,880 --> 00:02:34,880 Speaker 1: here is just a bit more global than you guys 58 00:02:34,919 --> 00:02:35,720 Speaker 1: might have realized. 59 00:02:36,120 --> 00:02:38,960 Speaker 2: For sure, we all taught. Me and Luke Holmes go 60 00:02:39,080 --> 00:02:42,600 Speaker 2: way back, and so do me and Morgan. Luke used 61 00:02:42,639 --> 00:02:44,680 Speaker 2: to come over to my camper trailer where I lived 62 00:02:44,720 --> 00:02:47,440 Speaker 2: my caravan, I think is what y'all probably call it, 63 00:02:47,840 --> 00:02:51,079 Speaker 2: and we would write music together. But we definitely communicate 64 00:02:51,120 --> 00:02:53,760 Speaker 2: about it, you know, and we're always like, hey, man, 65 00:02:53,800 --> 00:02:55,480 Speaker 2: have you been to have you been there? Have you 66 00:02:55,520 --> 00:02:57,240 Speaker 2: done this? You got to go there. I'm telling you, 67 00:02:57,280 --> 00:03:00,919 Speaker 2: the fans there, they're on fire. And so I've heard 68 00:03:00,960 --> 00:03:02,080 Speaker 2: nothing but great things. 69 00:03:02,360 --> 00:03:04,480 Speaker 1: Now, take me back a little bit because this hole. 70 00:03:04,600 --> 00:03:07,480 Speaker 1: I was in a campavan caravan thing, and Luke would 71 00:03:07,520 --> 00:03:09,960 Speaker 1: come by paint that picture of that caravan. I mean, 72 00:03:10,000 --> 00:03:12,720 Speaker 1: were you like down to your last dollar or was 73 00:03:12,760 --> 00:03:13,880 Speaker 1: it not quite as bad as that? 74 00:03:14,240 --> 00:03:16,440 Speaker 2: It wasn't nice. It was not a nice one. I'll 75 00:03:16,440 --> 00:03:18,519 Speaker 2: tell you that, Mike. It was twenty foot long. It 76 00:03:18,600 --> 00:03:23,240 Speaker 2: was a flag staff bumper pool camper trailer caravan, and 77 00:03:24,720 --> 00:03:27,280 Speaker 2: I flooded it a few times. The floor was starting 78 00:03:27,280 --> 00:03:30,680 Speaker 2: to ride out. It had a lot of issues. The 79 00:03:30,720 --> 00:03:33,280 Speaker 2: propane would never last. There was nights I had to 80 00:03:33,560 --> 00:03:36,280 Speaker 2: sleep in jackets and coats because my furnace couldn't keep 81 00:03:36,360 --> 00:03:39,960 Speaker 2: up with the weather in Nashville. But the funny thing is, 82 00:03:40,000 --> 00:03:45,000 Speaker 2: looking back on it now, I just I knew that 83 00:03:45,040 --> 00:03:47,880 Speaker 2: I wanted to do this so bad. I was gonna 84 00:03:47,960 --> 00:03:49,720 Speaker 2: I was willing to put up with whatever I had 85 00:03:49,760 --> 00:03:51,760 Speaker 2: to put up with to be able to do it. It 86 00:03:51,720 --> 00:03:54,400 Speaker 2: didn't even cross my mind that it was actually hard 87 00:03:54,440 --> 00:03:56,920 Speaker 2: in the moment. Looking back on it now, I'm like, dang, 88 00:03:57,000 --> 00:03:57,840 Speaker 2: I did that? 89 00:03:58,760 --> 00:04:01,080 Speaker 1: Did you have it like any date in mind? Because 90 00:04:01,120 --> 00:04:04,200 Speaker 1: there must have been difficult periods. I mean, how many 91 00:04:04,200 --> 00:04:06,320 Speaker 1: people go to It's story as old as time. Right, 92 00:04:06,320 --> 00:04:08,520 Speaker 1: how many people go to Nashville. I want to be discovered? 93 00:04:08,560 --> 00:04:11,880 Speaker 1: Some do, most of them don't. Was there a thought 94 00:04:11,880 --> 00:04:13,680 Speaker 1: process that maybe it was going to get a little 95 00:04:13,720 --> 00:04:14,080 Speaker 1: too hot. 96 00:04:14,480 --> 00:04:19,400 Speaker 2: I knew it was gonna be hard, but I knew 97 00:04:19,440 --> 00:04:21,559 Speaker 2: I had a weird sense of peace in my heart 98 00:04:21,800 --> 00:04:23,919 Speaker 2: that this is what I was supposed to do. I 99 00:04:24,000 --> 00:04:27,360 Speaker 2: knew that I loved storytelling. I knew at nine years 100 00:04:27,360 --> 00:04:28,960 Speaker 2: old that I was going to be in Nashville and 101 00:04:29,000 --> 00:04:30,479 Speaker 2: that I was going to tell stories, and so it 102 00:04:30,520 --> 00:04:33,599 Speaker 2: was important for me to like listen, to listen to 103 00:04:33,680 --> 00:04:36,960 Speaker 2: that feeling and see it through. And so I didn't 104 00:04:36,960 --> 00:04:41,000 Speaker 2: know it was gonna look like this, but I knew 105 00:04:41,000 --> 00:04:42,960 Speaker 2: that I was going to write songs. I knew that 106 00:04:43,000 --> 00:04:45,880 Speaker 2: I was going to tell stories, And turns out it 107 00:04:45,880 --> 00:04:48,240 Speaker 2: looks even better than I could have ever imagined. 108 00:04:48,400 --> 00:04:50,360 Speaker 1: And that nine year old thing. So your family trip 109 00:04:50,440 --> 00:04:53,479 Speaker 1: to Nashville was that the turning point? That was the 110 00:04:53,480 --> 00:04:55,080 Speaker 1: time you thought, this is what I'm going to do. 111 00:04:55,960 --> 00:04:58,720 Speaker 2: Yeah, I knew at five years old when I sang 112 00:04:58,760 --> 00:05:01,640 Speaker 2: a song called Butterfly, Ki says at my kindergarten graduation 113 00:05:01,880 --> 00:05:04,880 Speaker 2: on stage, I knew that there was something about being 114 00:05:04,920 --> 00:05:07,480 Speaker 2: on stage that I really loved. And I knew that, 115 00:05:07,760 --> 00:05:09,760 Speaker 2: like I was a bashful little girl and I would 116 00:05:09,800 --> 00:05:12,080 Speaker 2: kind of like hide in behind my mama's legs at 117 00:05:12,080 --> 00:05:14,760 Speaker 2: the grocery store. But there was something about being on 118 00:05:14,839 --> 00:05:16,840 Speaker 2: stage in that spotlight where I just kind of like 119 00:05:16,960 --> 00:05:19,640 Speaker 2: came to life. So I remember that feeling. But then 120 00:05:19,720 --> 00:05:22,640 Speaker 2: at nine years old is when I wrote my first song, 121 00:05:22,880 --> 00:05:25,880 Speaker 2: and my parents took me to Nashville and we went 122 00:05:25,920 --> 00:05:29,560 Speaker 2: to the Grand Ole Opry, and like, I remember who 123 00:05:29,640 --> 00:05:32,159 Speaker 2: was playing specifically, I remember where I was sitting. I 124 00:05:32,200 --> 00:05:35,239 Speaker 2: remember thinking, like I'm going to be up in that circle. 125 00:05:35,320 --> 00:05:38,440 Speaker 2: And it's just crazy to think that. I mean, even 126 00:05:38,440 --> 00:05:43,240 Speaker 2: the people that I watched that night, Bill Anderson, Crystal Gale, 127 00:05:43,279 --> 00:05:48,080 Speaker 2: Little Jimmy Dickens, Jenny Sealey. Jenny Sey actually just passed 128 00:05:48,080 --> 00:05:50,479 Speaker 2: away this past week and I got to go tell 129 00:05:50,520 --> 00:05:52,800 Speaker 2: her by, and it's just crazy to think that I 130 00:05:52,880 --> 00:05:54,880 Speaker 2: was there at nine years old and I saw her 131 00:05:55,240 --> 00:05:58,440 Speaker 2: and she was a part of she was a part 132 00:05:58,440 --> 00:06:00,760 Speaker 2: of my journey. She was supposed to be there. I 133 00:06:00,800 --> 00:06:02,679 Speaker 2: was supposed to be there that night to watch her 134 00:06:03,040 --> 00:06:06,960 Speaker 2: and to have that seed planted to make me feel 135 00:06:06,960 --> 00:06:08,200 Speaker 2: like maybe I could do this. 136 00:06:08,440 --> 00:06:09,919 Speaker 1: Oh I wanted Lana. I want to go back to 137 00:06:09,920 --> 00:06:12,080 Speaker 1: the caravan, you know, and Luke comes. So when Luke comes, 138 00:06:12,080 --> 00:06:14,240 Speaker 1: is coming over. He's around there and you're playing in 139 00:06:14,320 --> 00:06:17,320 Speaker 1: right hand stuff. Was he well known at that point 140 00:06:17,400 --> 00:06:17,560 Speaker 1: or not? 141 00:06:18,080 --> 00:06:20,960 Speaker 2: He was starting to get some buzz. He was definitely 142 00:06:21,000 --> 00:06:24,120 Speaker 2: playing some kind of He had like an underground following. 143 00:06:24,160 --> 00:06:26,040 Speaker 2: I guess you could say he was playing lots of 144 00:06:26,080 --> 00:06:30,040 Speaker 2: bars and selling them out and everybody knew. Everybody was 145 00:06:30,080 --> 00:06:33,159 Speaker 2: starting to hear the name Luke Colmbs. But by then, 146 00:06:33,240 --> 00:06:37,000 Speaker 2: by the time he got to town, I had been 147 00:06:37,040 --> 00:06:41,040 Speaker 2: in town probably about four or five years before him, 148 00:06:41,120 --> 00:06:43,320 Speaker 2: and I still did not really have much going on. 149 00:06:43,520 --> 00:06:47,120 Speaker 2: But I had heard him sing at a place on 150 00:06:47,200 --> 00:06:51,200 Speaker 2: Demumbrian in Nashville called Tenruf Revival, and I remember walking 151 00:06:51,279 --> 00:06:53,480 Speaker 2: up to him and I tapped him on the shoulder 152 00:06:53,520 --> 00:06:54,919 Speaker 2: while he was playing, and I said, I want to 153 00:06:54,920 --> 00:06:57,400 Speaker 2: write with you. And so he actually he came back 154 00:06:57,440 --> 00:06:59,640 Speaker 2: to Nashville. He wasn't even living there at that time, 155 00:07:00,200 --> 00:07:02,720 Speaker 2: and I was one of his very first co writes 156 00:07:03,120 --> 00:07:06,840 Speaker 2: in Nashville. So we still talk about that and we're 157 00:07:06,880 --> 00:07:10,360 Speaker 2: like man like just thinking back to those moments. I mean, 158 00:07:10,520 --> 00:07:12,600 Speaker 2: we go way back, and I'm so proud. 159 00:07:12,320 --> 00:07:14,960 Speaker 1: Of him, but you're sitting in the caravan, and so 160 00:07:15,280 --> 00:07:17,840 Speaker 1: he's starting to make it, but you'll not yet. Do 161 00:07:17,880 --> 00:07:19,960 Speaker 1: you sit there and go, damn, damn, damn. What is 162 00:07:20,000 --> 00:07:21,880 Speaker 1: it he's got that I don't you know? 163 00:07:22,160 --> 00:07:25,400 Speaker 2: It's I definitely saw people move to town and pass 164 00:07:25,480 --> 00:07:27,600 Speaker 2: me up left and right. But I still just had 165 00:07:27,680 --> 00:07:31,160 Speaker 2: this feeling of just like, maybe I haven't lived enough 166 00:07:31,240 --> 00:07:33,360 Speaker 2: life yet to tell the kind of stories that I'm 167 00:07:33,400 --> 00:07:35,560 Speaker 2: supposed to tell to the kind of fans that I'm 168 00:07:35,560 --> 00:07:40,040 Speaker 2: going to have, And so I just tried to remember that. Now. 169 00:07:40,200 --> 00:07:42,360 Speaker 2: Don't get me wrong, there were definitely times where I 170 00:07:42,400 --> 00:07:45,119 Speaker 2: was beating my head against the wall, being like, dang, 171 00:07:45,160 --> 00:07:47,560 Speaker 2: I need a publishing deal. I got to pay my bills, man, 172 00:07:47,600 --> 00:07:49,440 Speaker 2: I want a record deal. I want to be able 173 00:07:49,480 --> 00:07:51,760 Speaker 2: to do all the things that my friends are doing. 174 00:07:52,280 --> 00:07:53,840 Speaker 2: But I knew that it was going to be worth 175 00:07:53,880 --> 00:07:54,200 Speaker 2: the wait. 176 00:07:54,680 --> 00:07:57,040 Speaker 1: Now tell me what happened then, because when it started 177 00:07:57,040 --> 00:07:59,320 Speaker 1: to blow up, and it did blow up, how do 178 00:07:59,400 --> 00:08:00,720 Speaker 1: you have have you handled that? 179 00:08:00,720 --> 00:08:04,640 Speaker 2: Do you think the best I could? No? I think 180 00:08:04,680 --> 00:08:07,520 Speaker 2: I've actually handled it pretty good. I feel like my 181 00:08:07,640 --> 00:08:11,640 Speaker 2: life has completely changed, but I still feel the same 182 00:08:11,880 --> 00:08:13,320 Speaker 2: for the most part. I mean, at the end of 183 00:08:13,360 --> 00:08:15,760 Speaker 2: the day, you know, when your life changes, you have 184 00:08:15,840 --> 00:08:20,160 Speaker 2: to change different parts of your life. That means just 185 00:08:20,240 --> 00:08:23,720 Speaker 2: kind of rising to whatever that is and just having 186 00:08:23,720 --> 00:08:25,960 Speaker 2: to like level up in certain areas of my life. 187 00:08:25,960 --> 00:08:30,280 Speaker 2: And so at the end of the day, it's it 188 00:08:30,320 --> 00:08:34,920 Speaker 2: has been a whirlwind, no pun intended, But I feel 189 00:08:34,960 --> 00:08:37,400 Speaker 2: like because I've had so many years under my belt. 190 00:08:37,440 --> 00:08:40,120 Speaker 2: I've been in Nashville now for fourteen years. I feel 191 00:08:40,160 --> 00:08:44,560 Speaker 2: like all those years prepared me for this, and so 192 00:08:44,840 --> 00:08:46,960 Speaker 2: I don't know what it would look like if I 193 00:08:46,960 --> 00:08:48,440 Speaker 2: didn't have those years under my belt. 194 00:08:48,559 --> 00:08:50,800 Speaker 1: I mean, that's that's a life listen, isn't it's I 195 00:08:50,840 --> 00:08:52,920 Speaker 1: think it's true to say that the great times are 196 00:08:52,960 --> 00:08:55,680 Speaker 1: better when there have been bad times on the way. 197 00:08:55,880 --> 00:08:57,080 Speaker 2: It makes them that much sweeter. 198 00:08:57,240 --> 00:09:00,439 Speaker 1: I reckon, Now, listen to the thing to know Aboutnashville 199 00:09:00,440 --> 00:09:02,160 Speaker 1: took me through this. We had El Dean on the 200 00:09:02,160 --> 00:09:04,960 Speaker 1: program the other day, so he's got to buy right now, 201 00:09:05,040 --> 00:09:07,800 Speaker 1: You've got to buy now. What is it about Nashville 202 00:09:07,880 --> 00:09:11,240 Speaker 1: Is that like when you become famous, the some broker 203 00:09:11,280 --> 00:09:13,199 Speaker 1: in town that goes right, you saw X number of 204 00:09:13,280 --> 00:09:14,520 Speaker 1: million records, so you got to. 205 00:09:14,480 --> 00:09:18,960 Speaker 2: Have a buy, yeah, something like that, something like that. 206 00:09:19,720 --> 00:09:22,680 Speaker 2: You know. Whenever I got to Nashville in twenty eleven, 207 00:09:24,280 --> 00:09:26,880 Speaker 2: there was not much of that, and I wasn't even 208 00:09:26,880 --> 00:09:29,320 Speaker 2: old enough to go down to Broadway during that time. 209 00:09:29,360 --> 00:09:32,440 Speaker 2: I was nineteen years old. But it is funny being 210 00:09:32,480 --> 00:09:34,800 Speaker 2: able to like look down the street and you see mine, 211 00:09:34,840 --> 00:09:37,480 Speaker 2: and then you see Jelly Rolls, and then you see 212 00:09:37,520 --> 00:09:41,200 Speaker 2: Al Dean's and you see Miranda's, and it's funny to 213 00:09:41,200 --> 00:09:43,360 Speaker 2: see everybody's pop up and I'm one of them. 214 00:09:43,440 --> 00:09:45,079 Speaker 1: There you go, are you hands on? By the way, 215 00:09:45,120 --> 00:09:47,280 Speaker 1: do you know what price the cocktails are at your places? 216 00:09:47,280 --> 00:09:48,000 Speaker 1: It's just marketing. 217 00:09:48,320 --> 00:09:52,000 Speaker 2: I couldn't tell you literally to the ascent, but I 218 00:09:52,040 --> 00:09:55,280 Speaker 2: have a great idea of what it is. Nashville's cheap, 219 00:09:55,720 --> 00:09:58,559 Speaker 2: but the drinks are good and they're worth every. 220 00:09:58,360 --> 00:10:02,360 Speaker 1: Penny very well. So now there seems in country music 221 00:10:02,400 --> 00:10:05,360 Speaker 1: this this camaraderie. I know that, I'm sure there are egos, 222 00:10:05,360 --> 00:10:08,280 Speaker 1: but everyone correct me if I'm wrong, seems genuinely happy 223 00:10:08,320 --> 00:10:09,840 Speaker 1: with everyone else's success. 224 00:10:10,520 --> 00:10:13,480 Speaker 2: Honestly, for the most part, I feel like that's the 225 00:10:13,920 --> 00:10:16,760 Speaker 2: that's the vibe. It does feel like one big old family. 226 00:10:16,800 --> 00:10:16,960 Speaker 1: You know. 227 00:10:16,960 --> 00:10:18,680 Speaker 2: We don't get to see each other all the time. 228 00:10:18,720 --> 00:10:21,640 Speaker 2: It might be when we're on the road with each 229 00:10:21,640 --> 00:10:26,160 Speaker 2: other or at award shows, but everybody's for the most 230 00:10:26,200 --> 00:10:29,120 Speaker 2: part excited for each other and lifting each other up 231 00:10:29,160 --> 00:10:32,680 Speaker 2: and encouraging each other. And you know, if there is 232 00:10:32,720 --> 00:10:35,400 Speaker 2: a bad egg here and there, they show their colors 233 00:10:35,600 --> 00:10:38,280 Speaker 2: pretty quick and we just move on and the good 234 00:10:38,280 --> 00:10:41,280 Speaker 2: ones stick together and continue lifting each other up. And 235 00:10:42,080 --> 00:10:43,760 Speaker 2: that's what it takes. It's a community. 236 00:10:44,000 --> 00:10:45,720 Speaker 1: Now, just bring me up to speak because I'm not 237 00:10:45,760 --> 00:10:47,960 Speaker 1: one hundred percent sure of the date. But the Grand 238 00:10:48,000 --> 00:10:50,560 Speaker 1: Old Opry, right, so, you were there as a nine 239 00:10:50,600 --> 00:10:53,040 Speaker 1: year old. You think one day maybe I'm going to 240 00:10:53,120 --> 00:10:55,520 Speaker 1: be there and anyway, the other day you get handed 241 00:10:56,360 --> 00:10:59,960 Speaker 1: by none other than Reba McIntyre the invite to pick 242 00:11:00,120 --> 00:11:04,360 Speaker 1: I'm a member of the Grand Old Opry. So is 243 00:11:04,400 --> 00:11:05,520 Speaker 1: that you already in. 244 00:11:06,000 --> 00:11:08,120 Speaker 2: I'm already in it. Here's the thing. At the end 245 00:11:08,120 --> 00:11:10,360 Speaker 2: of the day, you can take whatever you want to 246 00:11:10,400 --> 00:11:12,200 Speaker 2: away from me, but you can't take away the fact 247 00:11:12,240 --> 00:11:16,000 Speaker 2: that I am a Grand Old Opry. Remember that right there. 248 00:11:16,360 --> 00:11:19,000 Speaker 2: That is one of the biggest accomplishments that I will 249 00:11:19,000 --> 00:11:23,480 Speaker 2: ever have and to and for Reba to break the 250 00:11:23,520 --> 00:11:27,360 Speaker 2: news to me, I mean she is, she's my friend, 251 00:11:27,559 --> 00:11:30,520 Speaker 2: and she has blazed some trails for people like me, 252 00:11:30,840 --> 00:11:33,960 Speaker 2: and so it's just it's wild. I've always felt like 253 00:11:34,000 --> 00:11:36,080 Speaker 2: I was a part of the grand O Opry family, 254 00:11:36,120 --> 00:11:38,680 Speaker 2: they just didn't know it, and so I'm glad to 255 00:11:38,720 --> 00:11:40,520 Speaker 2: be officially a part of the family. 256 00:11:40,679 --> 00:11:42,800 Speaker 1: Well, we look forward to welcoming you to New Zealand, 257 00:11:42,800 --> 00:11:44,280 Speaker 1: of course for the first time in the U. You 258 00:11:44,280 --> 00:11:46,679 Speaker 1: have great rest of the year and tour and maybe 259 00:11:46,679 --> 00:11:49,400 Speaker 1: we catch up when you hear thank you, Lady Wilson. 260 00:11:49,840 --> 00:11:52,320 Speaker 1: She is delightful, isn't she. So it is February, there's 261 00:11:52,320 --> 00:11:56,120 Speaker 1: something to think about for Christmas, February six and eight. 262 00:11:56,200 --> 00:11:58,440 Speaker 1: So it's a Friday and a Sunday spike in Auckland 263 00:11:58,520 --> 00:12:02,720 Speaker 1: on these sixth and Sunday eighth at Wolfbank Arena in Christian. 264 00:12:03,320 --> 00:12:06,240 Speaker 1: For more from The Mic Asking Breakfast, listen live to 265 00:12:06,320 --> 00:12:09,400 Speaker 1: News Talks at b from six am weekdays, or follow 266 00:12:09,440 --> 00:12:11,040 Speaker 1: the podcast on iHeartRadio.