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Speaker 1: Hey, welcome to episode three thirty five. Caroline Brian, who

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Speaker 1: you know asn't a song writer, but as extremely interesting

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Speaker 1: and that's really the reason we brought her on. But

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Speaker 1: there's so much interesting stuff about her life, about Luke's life,

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Speaker 1: Caroline Brian went to Georgia Southern University, which we talked

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Speaker 1: about here, you're actually here, we go where'd you go

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Speaker 1: I know her dad was a social specialist, her mom

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Speaker 1: worked as an operator and an insurance company, and you know,

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Speaker 1: Caroline went to school and had her own career going.

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Speaker 1: And she talks about for a while when Luke was

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Speaker 1: And the one thing in this that Luke told her

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Speaker 1: like of all the things Luke said, I'm doing this,

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Speaker 1: and I was. I guess I wasn't surprised, and I

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Speaker 1: I thought it. I felt a little more normal at

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Speaker 1: Just love this. I think you'll love it too. And

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Speaker 1: Caroline Brian Luke Brian's wife, but so much more than that,

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Speaker 1: Here you go, Caroline, good to see you again. I

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Speaker 1: So first of all, I um, I bought this big

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Speaker 1: how did you get the van out of the mud.

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Speaker 1: Did someone come and pull it out? Oh? Absolutely, did

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Speaker 1: Got it? Do you feel like a little bit you

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Speaker 1: There is this the life that you guys live that

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Speaker 1: I think they're both. So I think that's why people

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Speaker 1: We've always said that life somehow has a way of

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Speaker 1: How do you raise kids with again their dad and

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Speaker 1: It sounds to me, as again not a parent myself yet,

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Speaker 1: Chalk chalk mines, Okay, So there are there a lot

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Speaker 1: I mean they have how do you call it, it's

426
00:23:53,320 --> 00:23:57,920
Speaker 1: not a fake heart, it's a it's a model of

427
00:23:58,400 --> 00:24:00,080
Speaker 1: a heart that they can do. But they all so

428
00:24:00,240 --> 00:24:03,680
Speaker 1: have um no, but there's a different word and I've

429
00:24:03,680 --> 00:24:07,080
Speaker 1: gone blank. So they have a heart that they can

430
00:24:07,080 --> 00:24:13,359
Speaker 1: place into a child, and it's like a mechanical heart. God.

431
00:24:13,600 --> 00:24:16,600
Speaker 1: Um So we've seen that happen and that keeps a

432
00:24:16,680 --> 00:24:20,800
Speaker 1: child alive until they have a donor, which is amazing.

433
00:24:20,920 --> 00:24:23,359
Speaker 1: Created a mechanical heart that is like a placeholder for

434
00:24:23,359 --> 00:24:26,800
Speaker 1: a real hardness until but there's only a certain amount

435
00:24:26,840 --> 00:24:30,000
Speaker 1: of time, but it is they I mean we've seen

436
00:24:30,200 --> 00:24:33,840
Speaker 1: children live because of that and so but it has

437
00:24:33,880 --> 00:24:38,040
Speaker 1: to be funded, and so we do anything from research

438
00:24:38,200 --> 00:24:44,080
Speaker 1: to immediate help to mental health because these parents come

439
00:24:44,080 --> 00:24:47,280
Speaker 1: in with children and they have other kids at home

440
00:24:47,400 --> 00:24:51,160
Speaker 1: and they don't understand why they're mom and dad aren't home.

441
00:24:51,240 --> 00:24:55,760
Speaker 1: So it's we try to do everything all around. If

442
00:24:55,800 --> 00:24:58,160
Speaker 1: you guys want to check this out, go to apt

443
00:24:58,200 --> 00:25:01,359
Speaker 1: Bright for Brett and you know the working race finds

444
00:25:01,359 --> 00:25:04,600
Speaker 1: a good directly toward research initiative h D. And I

445
00:25:04,640 --> 00:25:08,119
Speaker 1: mean that mechanical heart is wild and even for thirty minutes,

446
00:25:08,440 --> 00:25:11,480
Speaker 1: even for five minutes that that would go in and

447
00:25:11,520 --> 00:25:13,560
Speaker 1: actually work as a placeholder for a heart so they

448
00:25:13,560 --> 00:25:16,560
Speaker 1: could do things to actually save the kid's life that

449
00:25:16,720 --> 00:25:19,480
Speaker 1: I did not know that. Wow, So yeah, be sure

450
00:25:19,480 --> 00:25:28,280
Speaker 1: to check that out at bright for bread. Well, let's

451
00:25:28,280 --> 00:25:34,080
Speaker 1: rewind you talk. Gluke calls you on some corded phone

452
00:25:34,160 --> 00:25:37,280
Speaker 1: from the hundred. I'm always yours. I had the same phones,

453
00:25:37,840 --> 00:25:41,040
Speaker 1: and he's like, all right, we should Then what happens

454
00:25:41,080 --> 00:25:43,879
Speaker 1: do you guys say, let's start over or let's just

455
00:25:43,920 --> 00:25:46,120
Speaker 1: pick up where we left off. How do you start

456
00:25:46,160 --> 00:25:49,439
Speaker 1: a relationship back after that long Well, so at this

457
00:25:49,560 --> 00:25:54,200
Speaker 1: time I was living in Georgia. He's in Nashville, and

458
00:25:54,440 --> 00:25:57,600
Speaker 1: I was traveling a good bit with the company I

459
00:25:57,640 --> 00:26:01,800
Speaker 1: was with. So this is just when texting just started happening.

460
00:26:02,160 --> 00:26:06,120
Speaker 1: So you know, I was just learning how to text. Seriously. Uh,

461
00:26:06,400 --> 00:26:10,239
Speaker 1: he called me. I was working in Cincinnati for like

462
00:26:10,320 --> 00:26:14,119
Speaker 1: two weeks and he called me out of the blue,

463
00:26:14,160 --> 00:26:16,919
Speaker 1: And so I invited him to my family's Christmas party

464
00:26:17,080 --> 00:26:21,160
Speaker 1: in Atlanta. He said, okay, he drove down, got there

465
00:26:21,200 --> 00:26:25,840
Speaker 1: at midnight, and we slept on some cot I don't

466
00:26:25,840 --> 00:26:28,600
Speaker 1: even know. I nothing happened. I swear it was like

467
00:26:28,760 --> 00:26:34,040
Speaker 1: a peck on the cheek and it's been we've been

468
00:26:34,200 --> 00:26:38,919
Speaker 1: together since then. What stage of his career was he

469
00:26:38,960 --> 00:26:42,159
Speaker 1: when you guys got back together, he had just signed

470
00:26:42,160 --> 00:26:47,920
Speaker 1: with Capital, And as we know, just because you signed,

471
00:26:48,160 --> 00:26:49,920
Speaker 1: I don't mean it doesn't mean I mean it actually

472
00:26:49,960 --> 00:26:51,840
Speaker 1: means probably more broke, because now you got to do

473
00:26:51,840 --> 00:26:54,520
Speaker 1: a bunch of freestyle. We were broke. Yeah. Yeah, So

474
00:26:54,560 --> 00:26:58,880
Speaker 1: you're with a struggling artist who I'm assuming I'm sure

475
00:26:58,960 --> 00:27:01,040
Speaker 1: that who you believed and as an artist, not just

476
00:27:01,119 --> 00:27:03,960
Speaker 1: as a man, because you believed in him, but what

477
00:27:04,040 --> 00:27:07,919
Speaker 1: did you see in him as a young artist that

478
00:27:08,000 --> 00:27:10,159
Speaker 1: led you to believe? And I think he could actually

479
00:27:10,160 --> 00:27:15,720
Speaker 1: do this? Well, I mean I think everybody who meets Luke,

480
00:27:15,800 --> 00:27:19,080
Speaker 1: I mean he's got this big. I mean, his personality

481
00:27:19,119 --> 00:27:23,200
Speaker 1: is huge. It's just you. You can't fake it. It's

482
00:27:23,280 --> 00:27:26,040
Speaker 1: just huge. And so I always knew that. I mean,

483
00:27:26,080 --> 00:27:29,719
Speaker 1: first of all, he's talented, but he can come in

484
00:27:29,760 --> 00:27:32,080
Speaker 1: and he can talk to anybody, and he can say

485
00:27:32,119 --> 00:27:35,320
Speaker 1: anything and it can come all funny, even if it's wrong.

486
00:27:35,840 --> 00:27:39,439
Speaker 1: He can laugh and it comes off okay. So I

487
00:27:39,520 --> 00:27:41,960
Speaker 1: just always knew that he could he could do it.

488
00:27:42,680 --> 00:27:45,520
Speaker 1: But then there were times when he doubted himself and

489
00:27:45,560 --> 00:27:48,360
Speaker 1: you know that's not like Luke. So it was like

490
00:27:50,600 --> 00:27:52,879
Speaker 1: there was a time where he really doubted that he

491
00:27:52,880 --> 00:27:55,800
Speaker 1: could do it and he was thinking about doing something else,

492
00:27:55,840 --> 00:27:58,480
Speaker 1: and I'm like, no, I don't think you should give up. Yeah,

493
00:27:58,600 --> 00:28:00,840
Speaker 1: even though it's hard when you don't see your spouse

494
00:28:00,960 --> 00:28:06,160
Speaker 1: or for weeks at a time, but it paid off.

495
00:28:06,280 --> 00:28:09,200
Speaker 1: And but I know I never doubted that he could

496
00:28:09,280 --> 00:28:13,240
Speaker 1: do it if he wanted to. When did the trajectory

497
00:28:13,280 --> 00:28:16,680
Speaker 1: actually start to turn around? And not heavily It doesn't

498
00:28:16,680 --> 00:28:20,400
Speaker 1: have to like full, but were you two together to go, well,

499
00:28:20,480 --> 00:28:23,080
Speaker 1: we have a little bit of traction this, we're not

500
00:28:23,520 --> 00:28:27,280
Speaker 1: just in the hole, Like when what was that? What happened?

501
00:28:27,800 --> 00:28:31,200
Speaker 1: I think when it really started to be like okay, whoa,

502
00:28:31,359 --> 00:28:34,520
Speaker 1: this this could be big? Was um when he put

503
00:28:34,560 --> 00:28:38,600
Speaker 1: out Country Girl. I think were you guys married by then?

504
00:28:38,880 --> 00:28:43,200
Speaker 1: Okay we had kids? Yeah? Okay, oh so you kids?

505
00:28:43,200 --> 00:28:48,080
Speaker 1: Where did you guys get married? Tursh Okay? So I'm

506
00:28:48,080 --> 00:28:50,560
Speaker 1: assuming there weren't a lot of people out there. We

507
00:28:50,680 --> 00:28:53,880
Speaker 1: just told friends like whoever wants to come, come, So

508
00:28:53,920 --> 00:28:58,320
Speaker 1: I think we had probably it was about of us. Yeah,

509
00:28:58,320 --> 00:29:00,200
Speaker 1: that's about what I would imagine not four it and

510
00:29:00,560 --> 00:29:03,400
Speaker 1: oh god no, So you go to Turks and Kike Ghosts,

511
00:29:03,400 --> 00:29:05,040
Speaker 1: which I don't even know if you gave me a map.

512
00:29:05,320 --> 00:29:08,560
Speaker 1: I'm assuming it's down there by Cuba somewhere, and the

513
00:29:09,000 --> 00:29:12,520
Speaker 1: it's about I guess about four hundred and naughty something

514
00:29:12,560 --> 00:29:17,480
Speaker 1: mouse south of Miami area. Let me know my geography.

515
00:29:17,880 --> 00:29:20,400
Speaker 1: Come on, so you go to Turks and Cake ghost

516
00:29:20,720 --> 00:29:24,000
Speaker 1: How did he propose? Let's back it up a little bit. Um,

517
00:29:24,040 --> 00:29:28,400
Speaker 1: he proposed. I had been gone two weeks working in Indiana.

518
00:29:28,680 --> 00:29:32,239
Speaker 1: I came home and he came outside the house and

519
00:29:32,280 --> 00:29:35,480
Speaker 1: he had shaved, which you know, Luke shaving doesn't happen much.

520
00:29:35,480 --> 00:29:37,640
Speaker 1: And I was like, okay, and he dressed he had

521
00:29:37,720 --> 00:29:40,520
Speaker 1: dressed up. I thought he just missed me. And he

522
00:29:40,560 --> 00:29:44,000
Speaker 1: had made this CD of like our favorite songs in college.

523
00:29:44,800 --> 00:29:46,720
Speaker 1: And then he told me he was taking me somewhere

524
00:29:46,760 --> 00:29:49,959
Speaker 1: to eat. And then he put a blindfold on me,

525
00:29:50,080 --> 00:29:52,880
Speaker 1: which I thought. I knew something was up then, because

526
00:29:52,920 --> 00:29:55,400
Speaker 1: you know, that's just not get blindfolded every Saturday night.

527
00:29:55,520 --> 00:30:01,640
Speaker 1: Oh god, no, no, we're not. We're not like that. Um.

528
00:30:01,680 --> 00:30:04,440
Speaker 1: And then he took me and he just walked me

529
00:30:04,520 --> 00:30:07,280
Speaker 1: up these steps and he took it off and he

530
00:30:07,360 --> 00:30:10,239
Speaker 1: was on one name, and I'm assuming it was an

531
00:30:10,240 --> 00:30:14,880
Speaker 1: easy yes, yeah, of course. Yeah. So you get married

532
00:30:14,960 --> 00:30:18,720
Speaker 1: and and we're traveling for work. What was the job

533
00:30:18,760 --> 00:30:21,160
Speaker 1: that you were doing, like when you're in Cincinnati, Like,

534
00:30:21,160 --> 00:30:23,640
Speaker 1: what was that job? Specifically? I was a drug rap

535
00:30:23,760 --> 00:30:26,720
Speaker 1: so we always had to go have training, like because

536
00:30:26,760 --> 00:30:29,840
Speaker 1: I was always learning a new drug. So you'd go

537
00:30:29,920 --> 00:30:33,800
Speaker 1: away for two weeks, sometimes a month. It was just

538
00:30:34,840 --> 00:30:37,040
Speaker 1: it was just constant, like an artist's life. But it

539
00:30:37,120 --> 00:30:40,280
Speaker 1: was me. Hell, Like, I guess that's all I've ever

540
00:30:40,320 --> 00:30:44,120
Speaker 1: known now, so I mean, I guess I never thought

541
00:30:44,120 --> 00:30:47,000
Speaker 1: about that. But yeah, yeah, it sounds like a lot

542
00:30:47,000 --> 00:30:49,720
Speaker 1: of road time, a lot of hotels. Oh god, yea

543
00:30:50,720 --> 00:30:52,840
Speaker 1: hotel food, and so you must know what it's like

544
00:30:52,880 --> 00:30:55,920
Speaker 1: then to be a traveling artist, especially in the early stages,

545
00:30:55,960 --> 00:30:58,120
Speaker 1: because you stay in crappy hotels and they eat the

546
00:30:58,160 --> 00:31:01,480
Speaker 1: same kind of food over and over again. Yeah, but yes,

547
00:31:01,560 --> 00:31:04,600
Speaker 1: but no, but you know Luke like, oh my gosh,

548
00:31:04,760 --> 00:31:07,560
Speaker 1: the starting days he would be on. There was a

549
00:31:07,600 --> 00:31:13,080
Speaker 1: time when he had fourteen flights in seven days, and

550
00:31:13,320 --> 00:31:17,440
Speaker 1: you know, I mean he's just exhausted, but he never

551
00:31:17,680 --> 00:31:22,360
Speaker 1: he never stopped. So but you get married and Luke

552
00:31:22,400 --> 00:31:26,560
Speaker 1: has a record deal. When you get married, yes, okay,

553
00:31:26,960 --> 00:31:30,440
Speaker 1: so how do you support like, what do you do?

554
00:31:30,440 --> 00:31:33,920
Speaker 1: Do you can you quit your job at that point?

555
00:31:34,280 --> 00:31:39,240
Speaker 1: I mean no, I supported us really for how long? Shoot?

556
00:31:40,360 --> 00:31:42,680
Speaker 1: Oh my gosh, I don't even know. Not terrible. I mean,

557
00:31:42,800 --> 00:31:47,040
Speaker 1: he always made money, but you know, he was doing

558
00:31:47,040 --> 00:31:50,000
Speaker 1: all these free shows and I had I had a

559
00:31:50,040 --> 00:31:52,040
Speaker 1: good job, so yeah, I mean, and that was my

560
00:31:52,040 --> 00:31:53,680
Speaker 1: point with the record deal. When you sign a record deal,

561
00:31:53,920 --> 00:31:56,640
Speaker 1: sometimes you go into the hole even more because again

562
00:31:56,680 --> 00:31:59,560
Speaker 1: you have to do free shows because the record company

563
00:32:00,040 --> 00:32:01,560
Speaker 1: used to go and suck up to the radio station.

564
00:32:01,880 --> 00:32:03,160
Speaker 1: So you have to play a show over the radio

565
00:32:03,160 --> 00:32:05,680
Speaker 1: station and you don't get paid for so you actually

566
00:32:06,280 --> 00:32:10,120
Speaker 1: it's worse financially for you. So he's quite lucky that

567
00:32:10,200 --> 00:32:13,400
Speaker 1: he had you at the time. He would have been fine.

568
00:32:13,960 --> 00:32:16,080
Speaker 1: He would have been fine, like Luke would have always

569
00:32:17,200 --> 00:32:19,520
Speaker 1: you know, sad, hustled. He would have been fine. But

570
00:32:19,560 --> 00:32:22,880
Speaker 1: I mean, but yeah, just us having a house and

571
00:32:23,440 --> 00:32:25,400
Speaker 1: but yeah, but and then you know he was on

572
00:32:25,480 --> 00:32:28,480
Speaker 1: my insurance and so that always helped. But which is

573
00:32:29,200 --> 00:32:31,320
Speaker 1: sounds weird to like, I'm like, no, he was on

574
00:32:31,360 --> 00:32:34,880
Speaker 1: my insurance and people don't get that. I'm like, but that, yeah,

575
00:32:35,800 --> 00:32:38,400
Speaker 1: you have to have insurance. But what about you moving

576
00:32:38,480 --> 00:32:42,520
Speaker 1: up here? What was that story? Oh? I was ready.

577
00:32:42,680 --> 00:32:45,840
Speaker 1: I never thought twice about it. Did he say, hey, Caroline,

578
00:32:45,880 --> 00:32:47,920
Speaker 1: move up here? Yeah? And I said, okay, that was it.

579
00:32:49,040 --> 00:32:53,040
Speaker 1: I've never been I've never been homesick once, truly. Do

580
00:32:53,080 --> 00:32:56,400
Speaker 1: you get back home often? I don't. I don't because

581
00:32:56,440 --> 00:32:58,959
Speaker 1: we're everything is so busy here. You know, We've our

582
00:32:59,040 --> 00:33:02,600
Speaker 1: kids are here, we they have lives, Luke, and I mean,

583
00:33:02,680 --> 00:33:06,640
Speaker 1: we're constantly on the go. So I don't want I

584
00:33:06,760 --> 00:33:08,880
Speaker 1: need to want to play you a voicemail. This is

585
00:33:09,160 --> 00:33:12,880
Speaker 1: a listener was in Vegas and Luke was doing his

586
00:33:12,960 --> 00:33:16,360
Speaker 1: residency there and you guys were all there, um. And

587
00:33:16,360 --> 00:33:18,800
Speaker 1: I only played this because I knew that you had

588
00:33:18,880 --> 00:33:21,080
Speaker 1: publicly shown on social media that you were all there.

589
00:33:21,120 --> 00:33:22,760
Speaker 1: Otherwise I would have just not said it. I would

590
00:33:22,760 --> 00:33:25,680
Speaker 1: have kept it off the air. But this is Julian St.

591
00:33:25,720 --> 00:33:28,280
Speaker 1: Louis who had this question. And then I'll let you respond.

592
00:33:28,320 --> 00:33:31,080
Speaker 1: I'll tell you how I responded, but go ahead. Hey,

593
00:33:31,080 --> 00:33:33,240
Speaker 1: So I just had a question. I was at the

594
00:33:33,320 --> 00:33:36,600
Speaker 1: Luke Brian concert. This past weekend in Vegas, and I

595
00:33:36,640 --> 00:33:39,840
Speaker 1: saw his wife and boys in the concert and they

596
00:33:39,880 --> 00:33:42,000
Speaker 1: were just sitting there watching, And of course the boys

597
00:33:42,040 --> 00:33:44,200
Speaker 1: were like bored out of their mind and it made

598
00:33:44,240 --> 00:33:48,320
Speaker 1: me laugh. No one like said anything to them, no

599
00:33:48,400 --> 00:33:51,440
Speaker 1: one like knew that it was them. And so my

600
00:33:51,600 --> 00:33:55,000
Speaker 1: question is, can I go say hello? Would that have

601
00:33:55,080 --> 00:33:59,880
Speaker 1: been not? Okay? Like, what's the rule on famous people's family?

602
00:34:01,200 --> 00:34:04,240
Speaker 1: So I thought this was a great question, And so

603
00:34:05,200 --> 00:34:09,279
Speaker 1: what is your personal rule, especially in this situation when

604
00:34:09,320 --> 00:34:13,719
Speaker 1: she sees the whole family out together watching Luke? Okay? So,

605
00:34:14,400 --> 00:34:18,239
Speaker 1: first of all, we um are super careful, especially if

606
00:34:18,280 --> 00:34:21,160
Speaker 1: I have my kids out in the crowd. So we

607
00:34:21,239 --> 00:34:25,919
Speaker 1: did have two guards around us, and they they did

608
00:34:26,000 --> 00:34:31,839
Speaker 1: stop some some people. Um, but anybody can come up

609
00:34:32,040 --> 00:34:35,520
Speaker 1: and say, hey, just I just don't touch my children,

610
00:34:35,600 --> 00:34:37,520
Speaker 1: and you know that's what I said, Yeah, I just

611
00:34:37,520 --> 00:34:40,160
Speaker 1: just just don't touch my kids because that's happened in

612
00:34:40,480 --> 00:34:43,399
Speaker 1: the past. And you know, this is a stage where

613
00:34:43,440 --> 00:34:47,240
Speaker 1: there is no side stage, so we can't stand side

614
00:34:47,320 --> 00:34:51,080
Speaker 1: stage and watch Luke. So but everything went so smoothly

615
00:34:51,160 --> 00:34:53,960
Speaker 1: and people were awesome. So but yeah, I mean people

616
00:34:54,000 --> 00:34:57,640
Speaker 1: can come up and say, hey, just don't grab a child,

617
00:34:57,680 --> 00:35:03,000
Speaker 1: because then I will go into psycho mode. My general

618
00:35:03,160 --> 00:35:05,000
Speaker 1: answer to that if someone's like, hey, when can I

619
00:35:05,080 --> 00:35:07,360
Speaker 1: not say hello to somebody they have their eating or

620
00:35:07,400 --> 00:35:11,600
Speaker 1: with their kids, Like generally that's the rule. They're at

621
00:35:11,600 --> 00:35:13,520
Speaker 1: a table eating, there's food in front of them, leave

622
00:35:13,560 --> 00:35:16,920
Speaker 1: them alone. But that never happens. Yeah, you know that

623
00:35:17,000 --> 00:35:20,760
Speaker 1: never happens. But I try to make it happen more.

624
00:35:22,120 --> 00:35:24,680
Speaker 1: I tried. And then if they're with their kids, and

625
00:35:24,680 --> 00:35:27,799
Speaker 1: what I told her specifically was if she's by you,

626
00:35:28,239 --> 00:35:31,399
Speaker 1: say hello to Caroline. And if there's a situation where

627
00:35:31,400 --> 00:35:34,200
Speaker 1: Caroline is taking pictures, but don't ask for the kids

628
00:35:34,200 --> 00:35:37,120
Speaker 1: to be in a picture, don't write, don't ask of

629
00:35:37,160 --> 00:35:40,680
Speaker 1: the kids anything. And if for some reason Caroline is like, hey,

630
00:35:40,960 --> 00:35:42,360
Speaker 1: my kids are here, do you want them to be

631
00:35:42,360 --> 00:35:44,879
Speaker 1: in the picture, then you can allow that. But kids

632
00:35:44,920 --> 00:35:48,399
Speaker 1: are a whole different level that you guys didn't sign

633
00:35:48,480 --> 00:35:52,920
Speaker 1: up for them to be in this life. And so um,

634
00:35:52,960 --> 00:35:55,759
Speaker 1: I you know, I think that's the eating part. The

635
00:35:55,840 --> 00:35:57,839
Speaker 1: people let me run this by you, and I don't

636
00:35:57,840 --> 00:35:59,600
Speaker 1: know how if you guys can even go to dinner anymore,

637
00:36:00,520 --> 00:36:04,600
Speaker 1: we totally can. I think we know our places and

638
00:36:04,680 --> 00:36:08,839
Speaker 1: the times and you know, I mean, if you're with Luke,

639
00:36:08,880 --> 00:36:11,520
Speaker 1: it's gonna be tough. I don't care. But here in

640
00:36:11,640 --> 00:36:15,320
Speaker 1: town it's not that bad. But I mean, people are

641
00:36:15,400 --> 00:36:17,759
Speaker 1: going to come up and say, I'm so sorry to

642
00:36:17,800 --> 00:36:24,640
Speaker 1: bother you. That's just how it goes. It always starts

643
00:36:24,640 --> 00:36:27,359
Speaker 1: off with I'm so sorry to bother you. But I'd

644
00:36:27,440 --> 00:36:31,080
Speaker 1: rather have that. I think our pet peeve is when

645
00:36:31,080 --> 00:36:34,919
Speaker 1: a person comes up to us and goes, you don't

646
00:36:34,920 --> 00:36:39,040
Speaker 1: know who I am? Do you? It's the hardest. Yeah,

647
00:36:39,040 --> 00:36:42,480
Speaker 1: it's yeah, it's tough. I just like, why would you

648
00:36:42,520 --> 00:36:45,920
Speaker 1: do that to a person? What's my name? You don't

649
00:36:45,920 --> 00:36:47,480
Speaker 1: know who I am? Do you? We met once? Who

650
00:36:47,480 --> 00:36:49,760
Speaker 1: am I? I like, I don't meet in Green Tublow,

651
00:36:49,760 --> 00:36:54,160
Speaker 1: I don't know what you met? Ten million people like,

652
00:36:54,200 --> 00:36:59,960
Speaker 1: I'm so sorry I don't but yeah, that's so. But yeah,

653
00:37:00,239 --> 00:37:05,719
Speaker 1: if you're eating in public, I wonder. And the level

654
00:37:05,760 --> 00:37:07,680
Speaker 1: of what I do is nothing to the level of Luke's.

655
00:37:07,719 --> 00:37:10,600
Speaker 1: But what it has been difficult for us only recently

656
00:37:10,640 --> 00:37:14,160
Speaker 1: in the last couple of years, has been people will

657
00:37:14,200 --> 00:37:18,160
Speaker 1: just film us eating the whole time and an awkward

658
00:37:18,200 --> 00:37:21,400
Speaker 1: by and you know what, I'm okay with it, but

659
00:37:22,120 --> 00:37:27,759
Speaker 1: my wife, it just doesn't want to be and she's like, oh,

660
00:37:27,960 --> 00:37:29,880
Speaker 1: she just feels uncomfortable. But someone's got a phone like

661
00:37:29,920 --> 00:37:36,200
Speaker 1: recording us eating and they think that they're slides. They're like, yes,

662
00:37:36,480 --> 00:37:39,640
Speaker 1: they're they're pointing their phone like over here, but look

663
00:37:39,680 --> 00:37:42,640
Speaker 1: in the opposite way and they're like, dude, I know

664
00:37:42,680 --> 00:37:46,759
Speaker 1: what you're doing. I mean, And the reality is I

665
00:37:46,920 --> 00:37:50,759
Speaker 1: love to meet people if if i'm as much says hey,

666
00:37:50,800 --> 00:37:52,200
Speaker 1: you know, if I get a picture, if I'm on

667
00:37:52,320 --> 00:37:54,680
Speaker 1: two feet and I'm not eating or with your kids,

668
00:37:54,880 --> 00:37:56,440
Speaker 1: you have to add you know, I'm happy to take

669
00:37:56,440 --> 00:37:58,799
Speaker 1: a picture anytime anywhere. But I just wondered about the

670
00:37:58,800 --> 00:38:00,640
Speaker 1: eating part, like if you that's can even go to

671
00:38:00,680 --> 00:38:02,839
Speaker 1: a restaurant, And if so, do you have to have

672
00:38:03,400 --> 00:38:07,040
Speaker 1: do you have to get somewhere specific or I mean

673
00:38:07,120 --> 00:38:10,759
Speaker 1: it's it's going to happen anywhere. But we're so accustomed

674
00:38:10,760 --> 00:38:13,120
Speaker 1: to it. But we've taught our our kids got in

675
00:38:13,160 --> 00:38:16,680
Speaker 1: trouble wants because I do want them to be respectful.

676
00:38:16,800 --> 00:38:20,439
Speaker 1: So that a guy came up to our table and

677
00:38:21,280 --> 00:38:23,560
Speaker 1: Luke and I had been talking, so we let our

678
00:38:23,600 --> 00:38:26,400
Speaker 1: boys play on their phone just to give us a

679
00:38:26,440 --> 00:38:29,080
Speaker 1: minute to talk. Well, a guy comes up to our

680
00:38:29,080 --> 00:38:32,000
Speaker 1: table and is saying hey, and our boys were still

681
00:38:32,040 --> 00:38:36,200
Speaker 1: playing on their phone when the guy left, they got

682
00:38:36,200 --> 00:38:38,319
Speaker 1: in so much trouble because that's just I mean, I

683
00:38:38,360 --> 00:38:40,719
Speaker 1: was like, boys, don't you ever do that again. I mean,

684
00:38:40,760 --> 00:38:42,680
Speaker 1: I don't care who it is. Put the phone down,

685
00:38:42,840 --> 00:38:46,759
Speaker 1: look them in the eye, and just say hello. So

686
00:38:47,400 --> 00:38:50,239
Speaker 1: I'm weird about that too, because I just want I

687
00:38:50,280 --> 00:38:54,120
Speaker 1: don't want my kids to ever ignore a human. It

688
00:38:54,200 --> 00:38:56,359
Speaker 1: sounds like being a great parent is like priority number

689
00:38:56,440 --> 00:38:59,880
Speaker 1: one for you. Yeah, of course, Like that's that's the

690
00:39:00,160 --> 00:39:02,600
Speaker 1: thing that like when I we've talked about a bunch

691
00:39:02,600 --> 00:39:03,799
Speaker 1: of stuff and still have a lot of stuff talk

692
00:39:03,800 --> 00:39:07,279
Speaker 1: to you about. But that's when I really see like

693
00:39:07,400 --> 00:39:10,480
Speaker 1: strong love and opinion come out of you, Like you

694
00:39:10,520 --> 00:39:13,080
Speaker 1: get the face like this is what I really care about. Yeah.

695
00:39:13,120 --> 00:39:16,560
Speaker 1: I just wanted to make them gentlemen and with good manners.

696
00:39:16,640 --> 00:39:19,799
Speaker 1: And I mean, I don't care if they're they're never

697
00:39:19,960 --> 00:39:22,640
Speaker 1: gonna be the smartest kids in the class. That ain't

698
00:39:22,680 --> 00:39:25,520
Speaker 1: gonna happen with with my family, but they can have

699
00:39:25,600 --> 00:39:30,600
Speaker 1: the best manners and just open doors for girls. Stand

700
00:39:30,640 --> 00:39:35,600
Speaker 1: up if a girl comes to a table, shake hands, Yes, ma'am, yes, sir,

701
00:39:35,719 --> 00:39:39,480
Speaker 1: please thank you or they know that I'll I'm not

702
00:39:39,480 --> 00:39:42,160
Speaker 1: going to say hit them because you can't say that anymore,

703
00:39:42,239 --> 00:39:46,320
Speaker 1: but I might. We just have to know that. I

704
00:39:46,400 --> 00:39:49,319
Speaker 1: want to talk for a second and again we'll break

705
00:39:49,360 --> 00:39:51,880
Speaker 1: back in that in a minute. But best bad Influence

706
00:39:51,960 --> 00:39:54,960
Speaker 1: dot Com. Now if you go to that site, what

707
00:39:54,960 --> 00:39:59,640
Speaker 1: what's there? You tell me? So we started a merch

708
00:39:59,760 --> 00:40:03,680
Speaker 1: line on a while back, and that's been like my

709
00:40:03,760 --> 00:40:08,960
Speaker 1: tagline since I was a kid, because something happened years

710
00:40:09,000 --> 00:40:10,920
Speaker 1: ago when I was called a bad influence and I

711
00:40:10,960 --> 00:40:13,640
Speaker 1: was not, and so I was like, well, if I'm

712
00:40:13,680 --> 00:40:16,400
Speaker 1: a bad influence, I'm the best bad influence that this

713
00:40:16,480 --> 00:40:20,120
Speaker 1: person will ever have. And so I've said that, And

714
00:40:20,200 --> 00:40:25,799
Speaker 1: so we started a march line and it's done. It's

715
00:40:25,840 --> 00:40:27,840
Speaker 1: better than we ever thought. So we're just going to

716
00:40:27,960 --> 00:40:29,560
Speaker 1: keep on building it. So what kind of march are

717
00:40:29,600 --> 00:40:33,600
Speaker 1: we talking about? Here? T shirts, cups, stickers. Um, We're

718
00:40:33,600 --> 00:40:36,960
Speaker 1: gonna do a pop up shop at Luke's Bar on

719
00:40:37,640 --> 00:40:42,520
Speaker 1: in Town. This will be thirty eight March. We're going

720
00:40:42,560 --> 00:40:45,160
Speaker 1: to give away a cooler scooter, which I've had like

721
00:40:45,239 --> 00:40:47,960
Speaker 1: twelve of those, So it's gonna be a cooler scooter.

722
00:40:47,960 --> 00:40:49,839
Speaker 1: I think I saw you writing that on your Instagram, right,

723
00:40:49,880 --> 00:40:52,360
Speaker 1: that's what that was. Yeah, I love him a cooler scooter.

724
00:40:52,800 --> 00:40:55,000
Speaker 1: And so will you be at this pop up shop?

725
00:40:55,080 --> 00:40:58,560
Speaker 1: Of course? Yes, I don't know. I'll be there. We'll

726
00:40:58,600 --> 00:41:01,680
Speaker 1: be surrounded by humongous a uity guards. Don't look at

727
00:41:01,719 --> 00:41:03,560
Speaker 1: her in the eye. I don't know. I would never

728
00:41:03,600 --> 00:41:12,239
Speaker 1: do that. No, I want to play a song for you.

729
00:41:12,280 --> 00:41:14,040
Speaker 1: This is to the Moon and Back. Here is a

730
00:41:14,160 --> 00:41:27,280
Speaker 1: clip I blow somethingbody to the moon through the words

731
00:41:28,760 --> 00:41:37,480
Speaker 1: me in the through. So word is this is the

732
00:41:37,480 --> 00:41:41,720
Speaker 1: first song he wrote about you? Is that true? Okay?

733
00:41:41,880 --> 00:41:45,360
Speaker 1: So he did not write this song, but he heard

734
00:41:45,400 --> 00:41:49,440
Speaker 1: it and I think McGraw had it on hold, but

735
00:41:49,520 --> 00:41:52,000
Speaker 1: Luke went't asked for it because that's kind of like

736
00:41:52,120 --> 00:41:55,359
Speaker 1: our our family line. I love you to the Moon

737
00:41:55,400 --> 00:41:58,080
Speaker 1: and Back. So he recorded it and he told me

738
00:41:58,120 --> 00:42:00,279
Speaker 1: it was for me, which is very sweet. So when

739
00:42:00,280 --> 00:42:02,920
Speaker 1: he heard it, it it reminded him of you. Yes, okay,

740
00:42:03,200 --> 00:42:07,799
Speaker 1: here is sorority girl. This is and you can tell

741
00:42:07,840 --> 00:42:09,960
Speaker 1: me if this is true or not. It describes your

742
00:42:10,000 --> 00:42:13,520
Speaker 1: budding relationship while in college. Is this is this true?

743
00:42:13,640 --> 00:42:17,040
Speaker 1: This song? Which which part I don't know? Let's play

744
00:42:17,040 --> 00:42:28,600
Speaker 1: a little bit of it, Jeff try and some of

745
00:42:28,600 --> 00:42:30,520
Speaker 1: the stuff on the internet is not true some so

746
00:42:30,560 --> 00:42:33,439
Speaker 1: I just like to ask the questions, is this sorority girl?

747
00:42:33,640 --> 00:42:36,239
Speaker 1: Is this about your relationship of college? I don't think

748
00:42:36,320 --> 00:42:39,200
Speaker 1: it's about our relationship. But he did put ad pive

749
00:42:39,320 --> 00:42:42,640
Speaker 1: first because that's what I was in college. So I

750
00:42:42,680 --> 00:42:44,520
Speaker 1: told him. I was like, if you write a song

751
00:42:44,560 --> 00:42:46,759
Speaker 1: about a sorority, you have to put mine first. So

752
00:42:47,280 --> 00:42:49,600
Speaker 1: there is your influence on the song, just just a

753
00:42:49,640 --> 00:42:54,440
Speaker 1: little bit. After many many years, if he writes a

754
00:42:54,520 --> 00:42:56,879
Speaker 1: song and he's like, hey, Carolyss, reminds me of you,

755
00:42:57,000 --> 00:42:59,920
Speaker 1: or I wrote this thinking about you a little bit,

756
00:43:00,080 --> 00:43:04,080
Speaker 1: is it like song? No? I think it's so sweet.

757
00:43:04,120 --> 00:43:06,040
Speaker 1: But do you know what he did do? And he

758
00:43:06,080 --> 00:43:08,920
Speaker 1: did it all wrong? And someday he'll tell you about this.

759
00:43:09,960 --> 00:43:12,080
Speaker 1: We went on a two day trip just to be

760
00:43:12,160 --> 00:43:14,960
Speaker 1: alone because we never get time alone. He goes, I

761
00:43:14,960 --> 00:43:18,000
Speaker 1: want to play you this song he wrote. It's it's

762
00:43:18,040 --> 00:43:20,879
Speaker 1: a great song. First of all, he wrote it. He goes,

763
00:43:20,920 --> 00:43:23,960
Speaker 1: I want you to hear this. And so we're sitting

764
00:43:23,960 --> 00:43:27,160
Speaker 1: out on the balcony having a glass of wine and

765
00:43:27,200 --> 00:43:32,440
Speaker 1: the song is called married for for the kids, and

766
00:43:32,480 --> 00:43:34,879
Speaker 1: I'm listening to it and I'm like, I'm staring at him.

767
00:43:34,960 --> 00:43:37,640
Speaker 1: You know, Luca's clueless. He's like it in this good

768
00:43:38,920 --> 00:43:41,040
Speaker 1: and I'm like, what, so what are you trying to

769
00:43:41,080 --> 00:43:44,160
Speaker 1: tell me? I was like, it was just the wrong

770
00:43:44,200 --> 00:43:46,400
Speaker 1: time to approach me with this song, like it's a

771
00:43:46,480 --> 00:43:49,200
Speaker 1: song called it's a great song. He goes, I want

772
00:43:49,200 --> 00:43:51,960
Speaker 1: you to hear this, or I just wrote it. It's

773
00:43:52,000 --> 00:43:55,520
Speaker 1: called married for the kids. I said, Luke, I mean,

774
00:43:55,560 --> 00:43:58,400
Speaker 1: this is just the wrong time to like, are you

775
00:43:58,440 --> 00:44:00,759
Speaker 1: trying to tell me something? Do you bring me here

776
00:44:00,800 --> 00:44:04,200
Speaker 1: alone to tell me something? And he just begat. I

777
00:44:04,239 --> 00:44:06,279
Speaker 1: was like, He's like, I'm sorry, that was the wrong

778
00:44:06,360 --> 00:44:10,040
Speaker 1: time to ever bring that up. When you were younger,

779
00:44:10,120 --> 00:44:13,760
Speaker 1: did you have anyone say, Caroline, you should perform because

780
00:44:13,800 --> 00:44:17,920
Speaker 1: I feel like natural never not singing, but maybe on stage.

781
00:44:19,800 --> 00:44:26,880
Speaker 1: Um no, no acting. No. Um. Well, I think I

782
00:44:26,920 --> 00:44:29,040
Speaker 1: was scarred early because well, first of all, I have

783
00:44:29,120 --> 00:44:32,360
Speaker 1: no talent. I can't sing, and I kind of got

784
00:44:32,440 --> 00:44:35,680
Speaker 1: kicked out of ballet class when I was in the

785
00:44:35,760 --> 00:44:38,960
Speaker 1: third or fourth grade. They politely told my mom that

786
00:44:39,040 --> 00:44:44,440
Speaker 1: I should not come back, so I don't think I should. Evidently,

787
00:44:44,520 --> 00:44:48,239
Speaker 1: I was disrupted, but they never thought she's funny. She

788
00:44:48,320 --> 00:44:51,319
Speaker 1: has a presence about no one told you to any

789
00:44:51,920 --> 00:44:54,399
Speaker 1: I'd like to get an entertainment in anyway. I mean

790
00:44:54,480 --> 00:44:57,920
Speaker 1: when I was a senior, I was voted wittiest in

791
00:44:58,000 --> 00:45:02,720
Speaker 1: my class, but I never embraced like how I truly

792
00:45:02,760 --> 00:45:07,200
Speaker 1: am until honestly, until I was in college. I mean,

793
00:45:07,239 --> 00:45:12,400
Speaker 1: I've never really I just played this role of you know,

794
00:45:12,760 --> 00:45:15,400
Speaker 1: because I played sports author high school, so I never

795
00:45:16,320 --> 00:45:18,919
Speaker 1: I mean I was goofy, I did weird stuff, but

796
00:45:19,160 --> 00:45:22,520
Speaker 1: I just never thought about it truly. Let's go back

797
00:45:22,880 --> 00:45:25,080
Speaker 1: and jump back on the timeline for a second. When

798
00:45:25,400 --> 00:45:28,480
Speaker 1: when in Luke's career, then did it go from while

799
00:45:28,480 --> 00:45:31,759
Speaker 1: we're gaining a little traction to well, this thing is

800
00:45:31,800 --> 00:45:33,799
Speaker 1: actually going to be a monster, and this is gonna

801
00:45:33,840 --> 00:45:37,839
Speaker 1: be so much success that yes, it's great, but there

802
00:45:37,840 --> 00:45:42,040
Speaker 1: are also some other elements of success that can be um,

803
00:45:42,160 --> 00:45:45,040
Speaker 1: maybe not troublesome, but it's just you're not prepared for

804
00:45:45,080 --> 00:45:48,319
Speaker 1: some of it because you get so famous. Um. I

805
00:45:48,360 --> 00:45:51,719
Speaker 1: think my first and it took years, but I think

806
00:45:51,760 --> 00:45:56,279
Speaker 1: my first big freakout was when he told me at

807
00:45:56,280 --> 00:45:59,040
Speaker 1: the beach once he goes, hey, I'm having dinner. I

808
00:45:59,080 --> 00:46:01,440
Speaker 1: think I'm going to be a judge on American Idol,

809
00:46:02,520 --> 00:46:05,879
Speaker 1: and I didn't know how to because he was already touring, songwriting,

810
00:46:06,280 --> 00:46:09,759
Speaker 1: you know, just being Luke. And I remember I just

811
00:46:09,960 --> 00:46:12,759
Speaker 1: I went for a jog and I was going for

812
00:46:12,800 --> 00:46:15,120
Speaker 1: an hour and a half. So that really shook you

813
00:46:15,160 --> 00:46:17,120
Speaker 1: a little bitter. I did, because I was scared. I

814
00:46:17,120 --> 00:46:18,680
Speaker 1: didn't know how to handle it. I was like, how

815
00:46:18,800 --> 00:46:22,880
Speaker 1: how are we going to handle your touring and l

816
00:46:22,920 --> 00:46:25,600
Speaker 1: A and all this, And so that was my first

817
00:46:25,760 --> 00:46:30,000
Speaker 1: big just I mean, I had not a meltdown, but

818
00:46:30,080 --> 00:46:33,600
Speaker 1: I just had. I was just scared. So I just

819
00:46:33,920 --> 00:46:36,239
Speaker 1: took off and because he was supposed to go a

820
00:46:36,320 --> 00:46:40,919
Speaker 1: jog with me, and then I just I just shot out.

821
00:46:41,520 --> 00:46:44,480
Speaker 1: And he had he was wildly successful as an artist.

822
00:46:44,520 --> 00:46:48,640
Speaker 1: And but and correct me if I'm wrong. That grew

823
00:46:49,080 --> 00:46:51,239
Speaker 1: a little by a little by medium and you were

824
00:46:51,320 --> 00:46:53,760
Speaker 1: kind of able to nurture that as it got bigger

825
00:46:53,760 --> 00:46:55,920
Speaker 1: and bigger. Or the American Idol thing was just like

826
00:46:56,040 --> 00:47:00,560
Speaker 1: coming from left field and like boom ABC, He's launching

827
00:47:00,640 --> 00:47:05,560
Speaker 1: their version of American Idol. Judge gone like all that.

828
00:47:06,000 --> 00:47:08,760
Speaker 1: You didn't have time to sit with it. I didn't

829
00:47:08,840 --> 00:47:11,879
Speaker 1: so then I mean he just told me. He goes,

830
00:47:11,960 --> 00:47:14,680
Speaker 1: I've got to have dinner. And Luke always holds back

831
00:47:15,040 --> 00:47:18,440
Speaker 1: any info that think that if he thinks it's going

832
00:47:18,480 --> 00:47:21,360
Speaker 1: to freak me out, he holds it back into the

833
00:47:21,440 --> 00:47:24,799
Speaker 1: last second, which is not really the smartest thing. So

834
00:47:24,960 --> 00:47:28,799
Speaker 1: don't do that with Kaitlin. But yeah, just give her

835
00:47:28,920 --> 00:47:32,040
Speaker 1: time to process stuff, especially if it's something big like that.

836
00:47:32,880 --> 00:47:34,960
Speaker 1: But when he goes, Okay, look, I've got to go

837
00:47:35,040 --> 00:47:38,080
Speaker 1: have dinner tonight, Um, I think I'm going to be

838
00:47:38,120 --> 00:47:42,080
Speaker 1: a judge on American Idol, And so I didn't have.

839
00:47:42,239 --> 00:47:45,200
Speaker 1: I was like, what how are we going to handle

840
00:47:45,280 --> 00:47:47,600
Speaker 1: something else? You know, we still have all these kids?

841
00:47:47,640 --> 00:47:51,759
Speaker 1: And so I freaked out. But then you know, when

842
00:47:51,800 --> 00:47:56,759
Speaker 1: it started happening, it wasn't it wasn't as bad. I mean,

843
00:47:56,760 --> 00:48:00,439
Speaker 1: it's still tough because you know, you're still gone. You've

844
00:48:00,440 --> 00:48:04,319
Speaker 1: done it far long hours, multiple days in a row.

845
00:48:04,920 --> 00:48:07,960
Speaker 1: It's tough, and it's it's tough on a on a wife.

846
00:48:08,040 --> 00:48:10,919
Speaker 1: It's just because we you know, we truly miss having

847
00:48:11,000 --> 00:48:14,600
Speaker 1: y'all around, but we understand that you have this drive.

848
00:48:14,800 --> 00:48:18,279
Speaker 1: But I just really had to wrap my head around it.

849
00:48:18,560 --> 00:48:22,480
Speaker 1: Did you and in our relationship and I've only we've

850
00:48:22,480 --> 00:48:24,480
Speaker 1: only been married six or seven months. But you know,

851
00:48:24,480 --> 00:48:30,400
Speaker 1: the struggle that we have is that for my life,

852
00:48:30,600 --> 00:48:34,239
Speaker 1: I have been very focused on my career and have

853
00:48:34,400 --> 00:48:37,600
Speaker 1: been just chipping away. And I don't have some you know,

854
00:48:37,719 --> 00:48:40,279
Speaker 1: crazy talent that people were like, Wow, you're twenty two,

855
00:48:40,400 --> 00:48:42,000
Speaker 1: let's give you all these great jobs. I've had to

856
00:48:42,120 --> 00:48:45,720
Speaker 1: really work in grind to get opportunities that built opportunity

857
00:48:45,719 --> 00:48:48,120
Speaker 1: to build opportunities. So now here I am and I'm

858
00:48:48,160 --> 00:48:54,359
Speaker 1: finally starting to have really nice opportunities, large opportunities. And

859
00:48:54,440 --> 00:48:56,759
Speaker 1: so I've known Caitlin for a few years, we've been

860
00:48:56,800 --> 00:48:59,680
Speaker 1: married for a little less than one, but she only

861
00:48:59,719 --> 00:49:03,720
Speaker 1: no was that version of of me where I'm getting

862
00:49:03,760 --> 00:49:06,480
Speaker 1: these opportunities and we're deciding together. But now they're all

863
00:49:06,480 --> 00:49:08,080
Speaker 1: coming at once and I can't believe it. I'm like, Wow,

864
00:49:08,120 --> 00:49:09,600
Speaker 1: that's a big and I'll take it. Wow, that's a

865
00:49:09,640 --> 00:49:11,480
Speaker 1: big one. I'll take it. And so we've had to

866
00:49:11,560 --> 00:49:15,080
Speaker 1: kind of make uh a word of that stuff for me.

867
00:49:15,120 --> 00:49:17,480
Speaker 1: We've had to compromise. And then I said, Hey, I'm

868
00:49:17,480 --> 00:49:21,560
Speaker 1: gonna do this show for Disney Plus and then I'm

869
00:49:21,600 --> 00:49:23,279
Speaker 1: gonna stay off the road. I'm gonna do stand up.

870
00:49:23,320 --> 00:49:25,759
Speaker 1: I'm gonna for three months and then I'm going to

871
00:49:25,920 --> 00:49:29,719
Speaker 1: take this show with this other network. But we've had

872
00:49:29,760 --> 00:49:32,360
Speaker 1: to compromise in that way. Did you find that you

873
00:49:32,400 --> 00:49:36,000
Speaker 1: and Luke had to find and dedicate time to just

874
00:49:36,160 --> 00:49:40,200
Speaker 1: him being Luke the dad and father, I guess the

875
00:49:40,200 --> 00:49:43,440
Speaker 1: same person, but the dad and like Nashville Guy, was

876
00:49:43,480 --> 00:49:45,799
Speaker 1: there a space where it's like, you can't do this

877
00:49:45,880 --> 00:49:47,520
Speaker 1: all the time or you're not gonna have the family.

878
00:49:48,280 --> 00:49:51,480
Speaker 1: Well that's what we've done. I mean, so I don't

879
00:49:51,520 --> 00:49:56,640
Speaker 1: know what Caitlin does, you know, on her world, but

880
00:49:57,360 --> 00:50:00,440
Speaker 1: every girl has to have her her own world, whether

881
00:50:00,560 --> 00:50:04,799
Speaker 1: it's a job or whether it's hobbies, friends. Um, I

882
00:50:04,800 --> 00:50:07,239
Speaker 1: don't think people like you and Luke are going to

883
00:50:07,320 --> 00:50:11,600
Speaker 1: ever change. You're gonna wanna drive drive, drive, go go go.

884
00:50:11,680 --> 00:50:15,800
Speaker 1: That that's just that's just your personality and there's nothing

885
00:50:15,800 --> 00:50:18,920
Speaker 1: wrong with that. Um. But for years, you know, I've

886
00:50:19,200 --> 00:50:23,880
Speaker 1: I've just been a mom with children, going back and

887
00:50:23,920 --> 00:50:27,279
Speaker 1: forth to see Luke and you know, trying really embracing

888
00:50:27,560 --> 00:50:30,800
Speaker 1: his dream. And so now that our kids are a

889
00:50:30,840 --> 00:50:33,680
Speaker 1: little bit older, you know, I'm doing things that I

890
00:50:33,719 --> 00:50:37,600
Speaker 1: never thought I would do. But it's been fun. But

891
00:50:37,600 --> 00:50:42,560
Speaker 1: but still, I mean, y'all can't change. You're still gonna go.

892
00:50:42,719 --> 00:50:44,440
Speaker 1: I want to do this. I want to do this,

893
00:50:44,520 --> 00:50:47,600
Speaker 1: and as long as she's okay with it, do it.

894
00:50:47,920 --> 00:50:51,759
Speaker 1: But I find myself not honoring. Does it seems sound

895
00:50:51,800 --> 00:50:56,759
Speaker 1: terrible to say, not honoring the promises completely because I

896
00:50:56,760 --> 00:50:58,840
Speaker 1: will say I will not go on the road for

897
00:50:58,880 --> 00:51:02,279
Speaker 1: three months, So no again, no touring, no TV show.

898
00:51:02,440 --> 00:51:05,239
Speaker 1: Can you do that? Well, here's what happens. Well it

899
00:51:05,280 --> 00:51:06,960
Speaker 1: comes up, Well, I go, well, I was just offered

900
00:51:06,960 --> 00:51:10,960
Speaker 1: a private comedy show in Vegas. It's five thousand people

901
00:51:11,080 --> 00:51:12,799
Speaker 1: and the money, and here's the money, and I can't

902
00:51:12,800 --> 00:51:14,920
Speaker 1: believe it does the same thing. And I'm like, you

903
00:51:14,960 --> 00:51:17,040
Speaker 1: have to live. And she's like, okay, if you think

904
00:51:17,080 --> 00:51:19,279
Speaker 1: it's worth it, then sure that this is what you

905
00:51:19,320 --> 00:51:21,759
Speaker 1: told me. But honest, she's like, but if you this

906
00:51:21,840 --> 00:51:23,120
Speaker 1: is worth it, do it. I'm like, thank you, and

907
00:51:23,080 --> 00:51:24,200
Speaker 1: I'll go do it. And I'd be like, I just

908
00:51:24,239 --> 00:51:27,880
Speaker 1: got off another one and it's not going to stop.

909
00:51:28,040 --> 00:51:30,160
Speaker 1: I try, but I just I'm not. I'm gonna say

910
00:51:30,200 --> 00:51:33,439
Speaker 1: I'm a bad person. It's not been it's not being

911
00:51:33,520 --> 00:51:36,520
Speaker 1: about Luke does this stuff to me every week, right,

912
00:51:37,239 --> 00:51:39,759
Speaker 1: And so he's like, Okay, well, I gotta do this

913
00:51:39,960 --> 00:51:42,200
Speaker 1: soon because he's he's been gone for almost a month.

914
00:51:42,320 --> 00:51:45,759
Speaker 1: We've traveled back and forth to see and then he

915
00:51:45,840 --> 00:51:47,520
Speaker 1: called me and he goes, okay, I've got to do

916
00:51:47,600 --> 00:51:52,000
Speaker 1: this March first, March second, like okay, okay, okay, okay.

917
00:51:52,200 --> 00:51:56,880
Speaker 1: But the more, I mean, he's so focused on building,

918
00:51:56,920 --> 00:52:00,239
Speaker 1: building building, and then some day he says it he

919
00:52:00,280 --> 00:52:02,520
Speaker 1: just wants to just stop. Every same I just want

920
00:52:02,520 --> 00:52:06,160
Speaker 1: to cult you will never stop, You'll never stop. I

921
00:52:06,239 --> 00:52:07,320
Speaker 1: just want to build it to a point where I

922
00:52:07,320 --> 00:52:11,240
Speaker 1: feel safe and I'm gonna quit everything and just hangsity.

923
00:52:13,040 --> 00:52:14,640
Speaker 1: But I do have a dream that I would be

924
00:52:14,680 --> 00:52:16,799
Speaker 1: able to do that. But you can cut back a

925
00:52:16,880 --> 00:52:21,160
Speaker 1: lot and they have a nice nest egg. But you

926
00:52:21,200 --> 00:52:23,759
Speaker 1: guys will never tell he stop. There's no way. I

927
00:52:23,760 --> 00:52:29,319
Speaker 1: guess the difference in me is. And then Luke looks

928
00:52:29,320 --> 00:52:32,240
Speaker 1: a lot richer than I am. So I still fear

929
00:52:32,440 --> 00:52:35,399
Speaker 1: that I'm going to be broke one day. Every man

930
00:52:35,600 --> 00:52:38,320
Speaker 1: thinks that, which I mean I think, I mean, I

931
00:52:38,320 --> 00:52:41,120
Speaker 1: don't worry about that, but what if something happens. What

932
00:52:41,200 --> 00:52:45,200
Speaker 1: if Luke says one wrong word and you just I

933
00:52:45,239 --> 00:52:49,319
Speaker 1: think that's normal, especially if you come from nothing and

934
00:52:49,400 --> 00:52:51,840
Speaker 1: you build, you work your ass off and then you

935
00:52:52,520 --> 00:53:01,720
Speaker 1: have something great. It's normal. H You mentioned the kids

936
00:53:01,960 --> 00:53:05,040
Speaker 1: getting older and you're starting to kind of find yourself

937
00:53:05,040 --> 00:53:07,360
Speaker 1: in a different space. Like what you know? I asked

938
00:53:07,360 --> 00:53:09,600
Speaker 1: you in tenth grade? But what is the dream now?

939
00:53:10,680 --> 00:53:13,359
Speaker 1: I still don't know. I don't, I don't. I mean

940
00:53:13,400 --> 00:53:16,520
Speaker 1: this is all like like I said, I spent fourteen

941
00:53:16,880 --> 00:53:22,840
Speaker 1: years raising kids, and you know, we're working around Luke's life.

942
00:53:22,880 --> 00:53:26,960
Speaker 1: That so a few things happened that we didn't plan on.

943
00:53:27,160 --> 00:53:32,879
Speaker 1: And I truly I'm having fun in the moment and

944
00:53:33,000 --> 00:53:37,200
Speaker 1: just trying to keep kids alive, trying to keep Luke alive.

945
00:53:38,320 --> 00:53:40,360
Speaker 1: I just want to be real selfish in this question

946
00:53:40,400 --> 00:53:44,440
Speaker 1: for you though the kids five years from now, the

947
00:53:44,560 --> 00:53:47,040
Speaker 1: kids are great. You don't have to worry about them.

948
00:53:47,080 --> 00:53:48,640
Speaker 1: You always got to worry about them, but you don't

949
00:53:48,640 --> 00:53:51,960
Speaker 1: have to worry about it. And it's like, and Luke

950
00:53:52,040 --> 00:53:54,520
Speaker 1: says Caroline, I wanted to help you do what you

951
00:53:54,560 --> 00:53:56,600
Speaker 1: want to do. What do you want to do? I'm

952
00:53:56,600 --> 00:53:59,040
Speaker 1: giving you full support, time, effort. What do you want

953
00:53:59,080 --> 00:54:03,080
Speaker 1: to do? I want to take a nap? Can you

954
00:54:03,120 --> 00:54:07,200
Speaker 1: imagine just sleeping past like five am for me. No,

955
00:54:07,800 --> 00:54:08,920
Speaker 1: I don't have to wake up for kids if you

956
00:54:08,920 --> 00:54:13,520
Speaker 1: wake up from radio show. But um, but what what

957
00:54:13,719 --> 00:54:16,120
Speaker 1: is it if you don't know? Some of the most

958
00:54:16,360 --> 00:54:18,280
Speaker 1: people I know still don't know right now, I truly

959
00:54:18,320 --> 00:54:20,560
Speaker 1: don't know. I mean we're playing it. I mean I've

960
00:54:20,680 --> 00:54:24,960
Speaker 1: enjoyed you know, you know, being on podcast, meeting all

961
00:54:24,960 --> 00:54:27,880
Speaker 1: these people, you know, traveling, I've enjoyed that. But my

962
00:54:27,960 --> 00:54:31,320
Speaker 1: happiest times are when we're all at home. That's the

963
00:54:32,719 --> 00:54:36,239
Speaker 1: doing your own show. I don't know about any of that.

964
00:54:36,280 --> 00:54:38,080
Speaker 1: I mean, I don't think I have the talent for

965
00:54:38,160 --> 00:54:40,640
Speaker 1: any of that. I would disagree. I think you have

966
00:54:40,719 --> 00:54:44,640
Speaker 1: the I think you have the natural intuition to do

967
00:54:44,800 --> 00:54:47,640
Speaker 1: that and you just have to learn the format. Well.

968
00:54:47,960 --> 00:54:51,920
Speaker 1: I have such a healthy fear. It's not healthy. I

969
00:54:52,000 --> 00:54:55,080
Speaker 1: just have like this fear of failing anything. I just

970
00:54:55,120 --> 00:54:58,760
Speaker 1: don't want to. That's what that holds me back from

971
00:54:58,800 --> 00:55:02,480
Speaker 1: a lot. But we're trying. We're trying stuff. I mean,

972
00:55:03,320 --> 00:55:06,320
Speaker 1: this one over here is pushing me to do everything.

973
00:55:06,360 --> 00:55:09,760
Speaker 1: And people can't say here, but her name is Nicole.

974
00:55:10,880 --> 00:55:14,759
Speaker 1: She's young, but she's an old soul. She's pushing you

975
00:55:14,800 --> 00:55:17,440
Speaker 1: to do everything. We're just not pushed me, but just

976
00:55:17,640 --> 00:55:22,759
Speaker 1: encouraging me to try difference or maybe you won't do

977
00:55:22,800 --> 00:55:25,600
Speaker 1: anything and then we miss out because you're not doing it.

978
00:55:27,560 --> 00:55:31,040
Speaker 1: I'm still like, I just see honestly, I mean, I'm

979
00:55:31,080 --> 00:55:35,440
Speaker 1: just being realistic. I'm not you know, I'm not Luke.

980
00:55:36,200 --> 00:55:40,360
Speaker 1: I don't have his I don't Luke's special. He just

981
00:55:40,560 --> 00:55:42,600
Speaker 1: I don't think now though, that people look at you

982
00:55:42,960 --> 00:55:45,600
Speaker 1: as and I'm gonna I'll say this as honestly as possible,

983
00:55:45,640 --> 00:55:47,200
Speaker 1: right to your face. I don't think people just look

984
00:55:47,200 --> 00:55:49,560
Speaker 1: at you as Luke's wife anymore. That's the that's the

985
00:55:49,640 --> 00:55:52,879
Speaker 1: God's honest truth. It's very sweet. I think people used

986
00:55:52,920 --> 00:55:56,200
Speaker 1: to know you as Luke's wife, but I don't think

987
00:55:56,239 --> 00:56:01,200
Speaker 1: now Caroline is just associated as Luke Bryan's why life well,

988
00:56:02,280 --> 00:56:05,080
Speaker 1: and that's me watching from afar, And that's also me

989
00:56:05,160 --> 00:56:08,320
Speaker 1: watching from medium to close. You know, Luke and I

990
00:56:08,360 --> 00:56:10,720
Speaker 1: have a relationship. You and I've spent a little time together.

991
00:56:11,280 --> 00:56:13,719
Speaker 1: Um and then also I get to watch just on

992
00:56:13,719 --> 00:56:15,760
Speaker 1: social media and I get to see you doing other stuff.

993
00:56:16,080 --> 00:56:18,200
Speaker 1: So I think you're actually kind of breaking out of

994
00:56:18,200 --> 00:56:21,879
Speaker 1: the of a wonderful shell that you can also live

995
00:56:21,920 --> 00:56:24,960
Speaker 1: in that you're just not You're just not Luke's wife anymore.

996
00:56:25,000 --> 00:56:27,680
Speaker 1: You'll always be Luke's wife and my mom. But now

997
00:56:27,840 --> 00:56:31,440
Speaker 1: you're starting to be freaking Caroline. And that's awesome, just terrifying.

998
00:56:31,680 --> 00:56:33,080
Speaker 1: Yes it is. You never know what I'm gonna do

999
00:56:33,600 --> 00:56:35,920
Speaker 1: and that, but that's what's great for us, maybe not

1000
00:56:35,960 --> 00:56:38,080
Speaker 1: for you. That's great for us is that you never

1001
00:56:38,120 --> 00:56:40,439
Speaker 1: know what you're gonna do or say. Let me mention

1002
00:56:40,480 --> 00:56:42,640
Speaker 1: a few things again, and then I'll end on one

1003
00:56:42,719 --> 00:56:46,400
Speaker 1: question here because we've done almost an hour here. Okay, first,

1004
00:56:46,960 --> 00:56:49,640
Speaker 1: best bad Influence dot Com if you want to check

1005
00:56:49,640 --> 00:56:52,400
Speaker 1: out Caroline's merch and then they will be at a

1006
00:56:52,440 --> 00:56:56,279
Speaker 1: pop up shop with all new merch March at Short

1007
00:56:56,360 --> 00:57:00,200
Speaker 1: Things Cigars in thirty eight Florida's Yeah, like me, I

1008
00:57:00,200 --> 00:57:04,840
Speaker 1: can read um at Brett's Barn to follow the rescue animals,

1009
00:57:04,840 --> 00:57:08,360
Speaker 1: which is wonderful or bright for Brett for more info

1010
00:57:08,520 --> 00:57:11,959
Speaker 1: on general heart disease, down syndrome and what the Brett

1011
00:57:12,000 --> 00:57:15,719
Speaker 1: Boyer Foundation does. And you are very involved in so

1012
00:57:15,760 --> 00:57:19,240
Speaker 1: many things, Like I think it's really cool. I think

1013
00:57:19,240 --> 00:57:21,439
Speaker 1: it's really cool how you balance out all the things

1014
00:57:21,440 --> 00:57:22,840
Speaker 1: That's why I lead with the question like, how do

1015
00:57:22,920 --> 00:57:26,760
Speaker 1: you how do you balance two different lives front facing

1016
00:57:26,760 --> 00:57:28,960
Speaker 1: and inward facing. I don't know if I can just

1017
00:57:29,000 --> 00:57:32,959
Speaker 1: be known for I mean this, this sounds so fake,

1018
00:57:33,040 --> 00:57:35,240
Speaker 1: but it's not. If I could just be known for

1019
00:57:36,440 --> 00:57:39,360
Speaker 1: helping and just get giving back, then I mean, you know,

1020
00:57:40,200 --> 00:57:42,560
Speaker 1: if we're blessed with all this stuff and if we

1021
00:57:42,640 --> 00:57:46,240
Speaker 1: don't give back, then shame on us. So that's truly,

1022
00:57:46,320 --> 00:57:48,560
Speaker 1: that's that's really it all right here. This is my

1023
00:57:48,600 --> 00:57:52,160
Speaker 1: final little line up questioning. I've I did not get

1024
00:57:52,200 --> 00:57:55,240
Speaker 1: married till later in my life because I just I

1025
00:57:55,240 --> 00:57:58,240
Speaker 1: mean I didn't. I never wanted to marry anybody. Honestly,

1026
00:57:58,400 --> 00:58:00,520
Speaker 1: I never told a single person I loved him. I

1027
00:58:00,600 --> 00:58:05,480
Speaker 1: never so finally I did, and I do and it's

1028
00:58:05,720 --> 00:58:08,800
Speaker 1: and it was unlike anything that I'd ever experienced with

1029
00:58:08,840 --> 00:58:11,760
Speaker 1: a person. And now we've been married six months the

1030
00:58:11,880 --> 00:58:15,840
Speaker 1: first year of marriage. What's your advice about the first

1031
00:58:15,960 --> 00:58:19,560
Speaker 1: year of marriage? Because for me, at times, I live

1032
00:58:19,600 --> 00:58:23,040
Speaker 1: by myself forever. I know, I'm not the easiest person

1033
00:58:23,120 --> 00:58:26,920
Speaker 1: to She kind of has to rebreak me in because

1034
00:58:26,920 --> 00:58:29,960
Speaker 1: I've been so selfish and not that it's just I

1035
00:58:30,080 --> 00:58:32,720
Speaker 1: keep everything not in that but selfish and it's my time.

1036
00:58:33,200 --> 00:58:36,360
Speaker 1: I've only ever knowniced take care of myself. What is

1037
00:58:36,400 --> 00:58:40,320
Speaker 1: your first year of marriage advice? Well, first of all,

1038
00:58:40,480 --> 00:58:44,640
Speaker 1: being selfish without kids and a wife, that's not a

1039
00:58:44,680 --> 00:58:47,800
Speaker 1: bad thing. That's your time to be selfish and do

1040
00:58:48,080 --> 00:58:51,720
Speaker 1: whatever you want. First year, I think is the same

1041
00:58:51,760 --> 00:58:56,320
Speaker 1: as every year. Talk talk, talk, don't don't ever not

1042
00:58:57,280 --> 00:59:00,840
Speaker 1: tell each other how you're feeling, and there there is

1043
00:59:00,880 --> 00:59:04,160
Speaker 1: no secret as long as both people are in and

1044
00:59:04,200 --> 00:59:10,360
Speaker 1: putting it in work. But always talk communication times I

1045
00:59:10,440 --> 00:59:13,960
Speaker 1: say things when talking that makes it uncomfortable, well, then

1046
00:59:14,240 --> 00:59:17,720
Speaker 1: shut your mouth and just give her a minute. That's

1047
00:59:17,720 --> 00:59:20,120
Speaker 1: the thing that I've also learned is to let her

1048
00:59:20,160 --> 00:59:24,880
Speaker 1: process because I struggle, Like, we have a lot in comments.

1049
00:59:24,960 --> 00:59:28,040
Speaker 1: So if she's mad, do you want want to talk

1050
00:59:28,080 --> 00:59:31,280
Speaker 1: it out then and not give her I don't. I

1051
00:59:31,280 --> 00:59:32,560
Speaker 1: do not want to give her a moment for anything,

1052
00:59:32,560 --> 00:59:34,200
Speaker 1: because I'm like, looks the same way. I wait till

1053
00:59:34,200 --> 00:59:36,760
Speaker 1: the last second and then I say okay, and then

1054
00:59:36,800 --> 00:59:38,640
Speaker 1: I'm like, don't be mad. You can't be mad. Why

1055
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Speaker 1: are you mad? And I'm just like ah, and try

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Speaker 1: to fix it real quick. Man can't okay? Men are fixers.

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Speaker 1: I'll learn this in therapy a while back. Man want

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Speaker 1: to fix everything right then sometimes you can't fix it.

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Speaker 1: Just I'm the same way. If I'm mad, Luke needs

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Speaker 1: to just give me a moment, which he can't. God,

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Speaker 1: he wants to fix it right then sometimes you can't

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Speaker 1: fix it. You can just listen, even if we sound ridiculous,

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Speaker 1: just listen. But you can't fix it. Sometimes I feel

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Speaker 1: like maybe she goes, why did I marry him? No,

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Speaker 1: she doesn't. She just wants a moment alone. Well, let's

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Speaker 1: hope that's the case. She doesn't think. Let's hope that's

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Speaker 1: the case. All right, You guys follow Caroline l I

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Speaker 1: n A Brian three. When people ask you that, do

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Speaker 1: you say Lena Brian three or it looks like it

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Speaker 1: is Lina and I get called Lena all the time,

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Speaker 1: but that was my nickname in college was Lana, like

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Speaker 1: Carolina in the morning, which that's my singing voice. Pretty goodhead.

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Speaker 1: A lot of labels are on the phone right now,

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Speaker 1: So yeah, Lina Brian three. Uh, you've been a real

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Speaker 1: as always. You've been a real treat to talk to.

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Speaker 1: Thank you for having and I appreciate you coming over

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Speaker 1: and I don't know if you've ever done an hour before,

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Speaker 1: but you know, I feel like you could do another hour.

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Speaker 1: So that's what do All right, here we go Part two?

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Speaker 1: All right, LINEA Brian three. You guys follow her and

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Speaker 1: if you can help the Brett Boyer Foundation. And I

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Speaker 1: think the best way to help is just to learn,

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Speaker 1: and then from learning you make decisions. But if you

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Speaker 1: never learned, you never know and you but people always go, hey,

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Speaker 1: how can I help? Well, if you just read a

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Speaker 1: little bit about it and learn about it, like that's enough.

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Speaker 1: That's all the help that I could ask for anyone

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Speaker 1: to give. And then if you're motivated, inspired to actually

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Speaker 1: do more than great, and if not, you already did

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Speaker 1: more than I could have ever hoped you would do.

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Speaker 1: And so I hope you guys check it out, all right,

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Speaker 1: um Lina Brian three on Instagram and good to see.

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Speaker 1: Thank you guys, Thank you