WEBVTT - Marie Osmond 0:00:09.320 --> 0:00:14.920 Carola. She's the queen of talking. He was sown your man. 0:00:16.000 --> 0:00:18.600 She's only this side. She got the snoop on the walls, 0:00:19.160 --> 0:00:22.079 on the ones in side. No one can do with quiet, 0:00:22.280 --> 0:00:33.040 back Carola, Caroline, No one can do with quiet Caroline 0:00:34.720 --> 0:00:38.040 Tile Caroline. Hey, y'all, welcome to Hyper Caroline Hobby. I 0:00:38.159 --> 0:00:41.840 am your host, Caroline Hobby. I know music, I know people, 0:00:41.960 --> 0:00:43.960 and I know the questions do you want to ask? 0:00:44.200 --> 0:00:48.000 So let's get hyper heads up. These are adults having 0:00:48.040 --> 0:00:53.920 adult conversations, so there could be adult content. You guys, 0:00:54.160 --> 0:00:58.240 welcome to season two of Hyper Caroline Hobby Podcast. Oh 0:00:58.320 --> 0:01:01.000 my gosh, I cannot believe we're on season two. Thank 0:01:01.040 --> 0:01:03.280 you so much for loving this podcast, for tuning in 0:01:03.400 --> 0:01:05.680 each week, for growing it. It has been such a 0:01:05.720 --> 0:01:09.959 blast in y'all. This season is already often epic start. 0:01:10.400 --> 0:01:14.280 My first guest is Marie Osmond, the Marie Osmond of 0:01:14.440 --> 0:01:17.800 Donnie and Marie, the Marie Osmond who had her first 0:01:17.880 --> 0:01:22.400 hit Paper Roses at h thirdeen. Her career is insane. 0:01:22.480 --> 0:01:24.440 We talked all about it. We talked about her show 0:01:24.480 --> 0:01:27.000 in Vegas with her brother Donnie. We talked about her 0:01:27.080 --> 0:01:30.360 books that she's written. How she has remarried her first 0:01:30.520 --> 0:01:33.880 husband almost thirty years later. In two thousand eleven, they 0:01:33.920 --> 0:01:36.920 remarried and she's she wore the same wedding dress. This 0:01:37.080 --> 0:01:40.040 interview is incredible and so much fun. 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So in 0:03:17.600 --> 0:03:19.720 her hobby h O B B Y and go to 0:03:19.800 --> 0:03:21.799 Hello Fresh dot com and get thirty five dollars off 0:03:22.000 --> 0:03:29.919 you guys, here's Marie Osmond. There she comes. Sorry Osman, 0:03:34.360 --> 0:03:37.480 you are You're really cute. You're making me very excited, 0:03:37.560 --> 0:03:39.400 say next to you, and I'm so excited for your 0:03:39.480 --> 0:03:43.760 husband and his success and everything. And and I got 0:03:43.840 --> 0:03:47.880 to record one of her songs and it's just so cool. Girl. 0:03:48.200 --> 0:03:52.160 I'm the one that is like flabbergassid that this even happened. 0:03:52.640 --> 0:03:57.000 Oh no, the song is phenomenal. Jason, Jason Darry your 0:03:57.080 --> 0:04:01.680 producer way, Taylor Lynn. Yeah, we were writing and then 0:04:01.760 --> 0:04:04.000 that song made its way to you and your story. 0:04:04.120 --> 0:04:07.000 If it's perfectly it's your single. So it's our new single. 0:04:07.080 --> 0:04:09.320 But how what what made you come up with that idea? 0:04:09.960 --> 0:04:11.160 You know, I think I have to give the full 0:04:11.200 --> 0:04:14.080 credit to Jason. Really, Jason Dear is one of the 0:04:14.200 --> 0:04:16.920 most talented songwriters. He's in this room right over there. 0:04:17.040 --> 0:04:22.440 Yeah he's hiding, he's hiding. But we were writing for 0:04:22.520 --> 0:04:24.400 our band at the time, and I think he had 0:04:24.440 --> 0:04:27.039 the idea and it fit perfectly with our lives because 0:04:27.080 --> 0:04:29.400 we were all kind of in love. Well, it fit 0:04:29.520 --> 0:04:32.640 perfectly with my life. Your story brought it to a 0:04:32.720 --> 0:04:36.600 whole another level. Isn't that crazy? So talk about crazy, baby, 0:04:36.600 --> 0:04:39.680 you're crazy. After twenty five years of never seeing my 0:04:39.800 --> 0:04:42.920 first husband never, I mean that happened. Well, you know, 0:04:42.960 --> 0:04:44.560 your kid gets to a certain age and they set 0:04:44.640 --> 0:04:46.520 up their own visitation and everything else, and it was 0:04:46.560 --> 0:04:48.600 just we never saw I never saw him. You are 0:04:48.640 --> 0:04:50.760 married like three years and I was married to my 0:04:50.839 --> 0:04:53.920 second husband for twenty years and I know, and so, 0:04:55.080 --> 0:04:58.120 uh boy, you know that's there's a song right there 0:04:58.160 --> 0:05:02.280 to be right now. I'm kidding, truly, your life is incredible. 0:05:02.520 --> 0:05:04.840 But after twenty five years of not seeing him, we 0:05:04.960 --> 0:05:08.640 ran into each other where and in Vegas just random. Well, 0:05:08.920 --> 0:05:10.720 I was moving in the house. He was with my 0:05:10.800 --> 0:05:13.800 oldest son, our our child together and I needed some 0:05:13.920 --> 0:05:16.560 things lifted and I said, Stephen, can you come over? 0:05:16.600 --> 0:05:18.880 And he says, well, dad's with me. So he came 0:05:18.920 --> 0:05:21.600 over helped, and we uh we said, well, let's just 0:05:21.680 --> 0:05:23.440 go catch up. It's been a long time, so you 0:05:23.600 --> 0:05:25.720 haven't seen each other in twenty five years. No, you 0:05:25.839 --> 0:05:29.640 never like thought about reconciling or anything now And I 0:05:29.760 --> 0:05:32.200 had pretty much decided I was never getting married again, 0:05:32.400 --> 0:05:35.640 right yeah, And it was just led to dinner and 0:05:35.720 --> 0:05:39.720 another dinner and boom, I married him. Again no, not 0:05:39.839 --> 0:05:43.960 quite that fast. So how is the first marriage wedding dress? 0:05:44.080 --> 0:05:46.200 I know, well, I mean your body is banging, no 0:05:46.360 --> 0:05:49.000 obviously up in that second. But I wore that dress 0:05:49.120 --> 0:05:53.040 for the point and you looked amazing, in incredible, but 0:05:53.160 --> 0:05:56.599 it was it was just one of those crazy That's 0:05:56.600 --> 0:06:00.000 another weird story is I had designed a wedding dress 0:06:00.040 --> 0:06:03.159 us in five days before the wedding. The lady had 0:06:03.760 --> 0:06:06.320 a meltdown and the dress showed up in like three 0:06:06.960 --> 0:06:11.200 something pieces and I had no dress. And you know, 0:06:11.320 --> 0:06:13.920 when you're married twenty years to someone and you've moved, 0:06:14.000 --> 0:06:17.360 you know what you have, right, you know the boxes, 0:06:17.480 --> 0:06:19.240 whatever you start and I do all that, so I 0:06:19.360 --> 0:06:23.000 knew everything. That dress was nowhere in my house. I 0:06:23.080 --> 0:06:25.840 had never seen that dress for twenty five years. And 0:06:26.680 --> 0:06:29.640 when I was kind of in in tear mode five 0:06:29.680 --> 0:06:31.600 and I'm like, God, really, I can't do this. And 0:06:31.640 --> 0:06:33.320 I had to go to work at the filmy that night. 0:06:33.640 --> 0:06:35.960 I walked out and there was a box leaning against 0:06:36.040 --> 0:06:39.480 my car door and it was my wedding dress. And 0:06:39.920 --> 0:06:42.680 nobody knows where that thing came from. It was well, 0:06:42.720 --> 0:06:44.120 I think it was my mother on the other side, 0:06:44.160 --> 0:06:47.520 because she really liked him. She did. She did so 0:06:47.720 --> 0:06:51.320 Compare the first time he married him to the second time, 0:06:52.160 --> 0:06:55.640 it was so incredible. We were surrounded by just family 0:06:55.720 --> 0:06:59.200 and very very few friends, and and it was so 0:06:59.400 --> 0:07:05.120 sweet because it was like, I'm home. He never remarried. 0:07:05.360 --> 0:07:07.400 He was in loving you the whole time married. Well, 0:07:07.440 --> 0:07:09.720 I told him I'm a hard habit to break. I 0:07:09.800 --> 0:07:12.440 could see that. I could totally say that we're hard 0:07:12.480 --> 0:07:15.840 to let you go. But it was. It was the 0:07:15.920 --> 0:07:20.960 most wonderful God's miracles. You know. That's why if you 0:07:21.000 --> 0:07:24.720 think I'll ever walk away, you're crazy. You're You're absolutely crazy. 0:07:25.160 --> 0:07:27.440 And I love the beginning where you know, I hated 0:07:27.560 --> 0:07:30.480 meeting this and I don't want to admit that. Okay, fine, 0:07:30.520 --> 0:07:33.480 I will, but it's just a great song and it's 0:07:33.520 --> 0:07:36.960 perfect for your story. So that's that country radio right now. Yeah, 0:07:37.680 --> 0:07:39.600 and that's your single. This is the first so in 0:07:39.640 --> 0:07:42.000 the past five years, this is your first album in 0:07:42.040 --> 0:07:44.320 the past twenty years. This is the first You've only 0:07:44.360 --> 0:07:46.320 done two albums, so this is kind of thing I've 0:07:46.320 --> 0:07:48.480 done more than that, but but it's been a while 0:07:48.600 --> 0:07:51.200 since since like meet me in Montana, Okay, I no 0:07:51.280 --> 0:07:53.440 stopping your heart read my lips. You're still new to 0:07:53.520 --> 0:07:57.040 me those hits, because I mean, I've had wonderful success. 0:07:57.080 --> 0:07:59.120 I mean I was twelve when I had my first 0:07:59.200 --> 0:08:02.000 time never read, and then I had hits with my brother, 0:08:02.080 --> 0:08:04.600 and then I had other hits through the years, and 0:08:04.680 --> 0:08:07.040 I just thought, well, you know, when we got a 0:08:07.120 --> 0:08:09.720 CMA Duo of the Year with Montana, I thought, okay, 0:08:09.840 --> 0:08:12.400 thank you. God has been really good. Really had no 0:08:12.520 --> 0:08:15.640 intention of recording again, and then Jason came saw the 0:08:15.720 --> 0:08:20.080 show and he said, your voice sounds radio and I 0:08:20.160 --> 0:08:25.720 was like, nah, no, really, you know that is so weird. 0:08:25.920 --> 0:08:28.400 And we start talking. I said I have been feeling 0:08:28.480 --> 0:08:32.280 this feeling to record again, and I was like no, 0:08:32.880 --> 0:08:36.679 and and things anyway just started falling into place, and 0:08:36.960 --> 0:08:39.160 I just I fell in love with him and the 0:08:39.280 --> 0:08:41.400 passion that he had, and I thought, man, I haven't 0:08:41.400 --> 0:08:43.920 seen that kind of passion in a while. And so 0:08:44.120 --> 0:08:45.959 we went in the studio and then it debuted ten 0:08:46.360 --> 0:08:50.240 on bill Billboard, which was crazy, and and then Blake 0:08:50.280 --> 0:08:52.800 Shelton said it was his favorite download on iTunes and 0:08:52.880 --> 0:08:55.880 I was like, shut up, not bad for twenty nine. Yeah, 0:08:57.840 --> 0:09:02.120 and so but that's that's what amazing about music. Is 0:09:02.160 --> 0:09:05.679 that why you titled a music is medicine. Well, it 0:09:05.840 --> 0:09:08.840 has been through my entire life. You know. Other people 0:09:08.920 --> 0:09:11.800 got high on other things, right, and I got high 0:09:11.840 --> 0:09:14.680 in music. And I have a weird voice. I sing 0:09:15.280 --> 0:09:17.920 many different styles of music. And you know I went 0:09:18.000 --> 0:09:21.280 to Broadway and you were in two you started two 0:09:21.360 --> 0:09:24.679 Broadway shows. The well what you have done is insane. Well, uh, 0:09:26.160 --> 0:09:28.120 you know, Rogers and Hammerstein came to me to do 0:09:28.240 --> 0:09:31.839 Maria and they said, well, you can't sing it the 0:09:31.840 --> 0:09:33.760 way you say sound of music. Yeah, you can't sing 0:09:33.880 --> 0:09:36.719 it like you. So he hooked me up with this 0:09:36.880 --> 0:09:40.040 lady who taught Mary Martin and all these people, and 0:09:40.400 --> 0:09:44.680 I learned to sing uh legit soprano. And then they 0:09:44.720 --> 0:09:46.240 took it in a notch up there and I did 0:09:46.400 --> 0:09:48.520 a legit soprano with a British accent. And I had 0:09:48.559 --> 0:09:50.960 three weeks to learn how to do that. And then 0:09:51.080 --> 0:09:52.559 from there, the lady who taught me, she goes, you 0:09:52.640 --> 0:09:55.800 know you can sing opera. So in the show in Vegas, 0:09:55.840 --> 0:09:58.120 now I singing NESSU norma And are you kidding me? 0:09:58.200 --> 0:10:01.320 Oh no, it's really fun. Do been blasting your Vegas show? 0:10:01.520 --> 0:10:04.000 I you know it's It's fun because it's a little 0:10:04.000 --> 0:10:06.760 bit of everything. It's kind of like variety comes back 0:10:07.000 --> 0:10:11.560 to Vegas a little bit. But it's just but my love, 0:10:11.720 --> 0:10:14.079 my passion, what I would like to leave on an album. 0:10:14.120 --> 0:10:16.960 I'm country, yes, And it's like I said, I was country. 0:10:17.040 --> 0:10:18.959 I'm in a little bit country and I was country before. 0:10:19.120 --> 0:10:22.520 You've always a little made it cool. You've always been 0:10:22.520 --> 0:10:27.680 a little bit country always. So your family was the Osmond's. 0:10:27.679 --> 0:10:29.800 It started with the Osmond's, and that was your mother, 0:10:30.080 --> 0:10:34.280 Tito brother's band, Jermaine, Tito, Marlin, Michael, and there was 0:10:34.360 --> 0:10:42.240 OsmAnd get it, but it was what's the Jackson? Now, 0:10:42.679 --> 0:10:46.040 there's so many I really remember young you have so 0:10:46.400 --> 0:10:50.040 you have nine sidlings though in years and nine eight brothers, 0:10:50.120 --> 0:10:54.800 the only girl. And I'm giving you a guess. I 0:10:54.960 --> 0:10:56.959 know a lot of your family. I just don't know 0:10:57.000 --> 0:11:04.240 all their names. It's that was funny, Okay, it really 0:11:04.400 --> 0:11:11.560 was funny. It wasn't like Michael in there just kidding, okay, Okay, yeah, 0:11:12.160 --> 0:11:14.120 a thriller. It wasn't that a big one for he 0:11:14.160 --> 0:11:17.319 played football with Michael and Janet and all those guys 0:11:17.920 --> 0:11:23.240 in hotels and that's crazy. Well, I mean what other 0:11:23.320 --> 0:11:26.440 families were there. You know, Michael was was an interesting 0:11:26.520 --> 0:11:29.280 kid and German. I mean I d up together. Oh yeah, 0:11:29.920 --> 0:11:33.160 and uh, it's funny because their father used to make 0:11:33.240 --> 0:11:36.000 them sit and watch my brothers and Andy Williams and 0:11:36.320 --> 0:11:40.040 and they followed all their moves and everything else and dancing. 0:11:40.160 --> 0:11:42.800 So yeah, we have a long history together. So the 0:11:43.440 --> 0:11:47.920 mothers have the same birthday of our that's ironic. That's 0:11:47.920 --> 0:11:50.040 a good day. Your mothers are important. Your mother is 0:11:50.040 --> 0:11:52.240 an important part of your life. You wrote your third 0:11:52.280 --> 0:11:54.760 book kind of based on your mom. Like it really, 0:11:55.160 --> 0:11:59.079 I didn't even know. I'm bested. Yeah, like it like 0:11:59.200 --> 0:12:02.000 it's all about of and what she taught you. Well 0:12:02.320 --> 0:12:04.679 that it is true. You know, we are in a 0:12:04.800 --> 0:12:09.720 society that is so competitive and wanting to be seen 0:12:09.880 --> 0:12:12.040 and to you know, it's so important. And she's like, 0:12:12.160 --> 0:12:14.800 you know, really the key to life is love. I agree. 0:12:14.920 --> 0:12:17.640 You got to love yourself. Yes, you've got to love others. 0:12:18.160 --> 0:12:19.880 You know, you have to know who you are at 0:12:19.920 --> 0:12:22.400 the core of what your existence is. And as you 0:12:22.480 --> 0:12:25.880 get older too, boy, if you don't love yourself, agings rough. 0:12:26.559 --> 0:12:28.160 But if you like who you are, it's kind of 0:12:28.240 --> 0:12:31.120 a really neat experience. How did you get to that place? 0:12:31.400 --> 0:12:34.000 I don't know. I'm twenty nine. I know you're super young. 0:12:34.040 --> 0:12:36.959 You're ahead of the game here. How how have you 0:12:37.040 --> 0:12:39.400 figured out how to fully love yourself? Because you radiate 0:12:39.480 --> 0:12:43.360 love and you radiate authenticity, do you know? I think 0:12:43.720 --> 0:12:46.280 it's one of the hardest things that we have to do. 0:12:47.200 --> 0:12:52.160 And I think the first thing is to not not 0:12:52.360 --> 0:12:55.080 compete with each other. It's better to complete each other 0:12:55.280 --> 0:12:59.280 and to you know, to really support this experience of 0:12:59.440 --> 0:13:02.760 life that we're going through, especially as women, and and 0:13:03.040 --> 0:13:06.520 and try to understand somebody else's shoes and what they're in, 0:13:06.720 --> 0:13:09.480 and and to really be compassionate. But I think the 0:13:09.559 --> 0:13:11.199 world tries to get us to remove that and to 0:13:11.280 --> 0:13:13.839 try to make us men. You know, I have eight brothers. 0:13:13.840 --> 0:13:15.760 I don't want to be a guy. I love being 0:13:15.800 --> 0:13:19.440 a woman and and I like I like the respect 0:13:19.520 --> 0:13:21.920 that my brothers always gave me. They did, yeah, they 0:13:21.960 --> 0:13:25.760 always treated me as an equal, but but it was 0:13:26.360 --> 0:13:29.439 but I was I was treated nicely. Like my mother 0:13:29.559 --> 0:13:33.439 or my father would kill them. How did your mother 0:13:33.559 --> 0:13:36.520 and your father keep hold of all of your siblings 0:13:36.600 --> 0:13:38.880 and when you are taking off and all becoming superstars? 0:13:38.960 --> 0:13:44.240 Pretty much. How did that? How is your childhood? Bizarre? Bizarre, bizarre? 0:13:45.240 --> 0:13:49.120 You know, I it wasn't to me. It was a 0:13:49.160 --> 0:13:51.520 lot of pressure. I mean just the Donnie and Richos 0:13:51.559 --> 0:13:53.199 as fourteen when we started those, and I had to 0:13:53.240 --> 0:13:56.400 memorize like three fifty pages of script in two and 0:13:56.400 --> 0:13:59.640 a half days. And so and that was you know, 0:13:59.760 --> 0:14:03.319 dan answer tins and sketches and costume fittings and everything, 0:14:03.520 --> 0:14:05.720 and and I went and I was going to school 0:14:05.720 --> 0:14:08.280 at the same time, and so it was you know, 0:14:08.400 --> 0:14:10.920 some day Sundays, eighteen hour days a lot of the time, 0:14:11.600 --> 0:14:14.360 and it was it was very overwhelming, and I knew 0:14:14.400 --> 0:14:16.360 I was giving up a childhood. But at the same time, 0:14:16.400 --> 0:14:18.400 I knew that I was working with, you know, all 0:14:18.440 --> 0:14:22.800 these iconic people, and you know, from Fred Astaire to 0:14:23.400 --> 0:14:26.400 uh Bob Hope, who was like a second father to me. 0:14:26.920 --> 0:14:29.640 Oh yeah, I mean I did his I did many 0:14:29.680 --> 0:14:31.120 shows with him, but he asked me to do his 0:14:31.280 --> 0:14:34.760 last USO tour over to Saudi Arabia. It was really 0:14:35.080 --> 0:14:40.280 just awesome, incredible experience. And you know, from John Wayne 0:14:40.400 --> 0:14:43.680 to ethel Mermon to you know, all these people. And 0:14:43.880 --> 0:14:47.200 so I always was brought back from by my parents 0:14:47.280 --> 0:14:50.520 to say, counter blessings. You're having experiences. Maybe you're not 0:14:50.640 --> 0:14:53.360 having these kinds of experiences, but you're having these kinds. 0:14:53.400 --> 0:14:56.840 So just love the life God gave you and work hard. 0:14:57.120 --> 0:14:59.880 Don't ever get caught up in it because it's a 0:15:00.040 --> 0:15:02.960 job and God doesn't care what we do. He doesn't care. 0:15:03.280 --> 0:15:05.680 There's no difference in what we all do here. It's 0:15:05.720 --> 0:15:07.480 just He cares how we do it, if we have 0:15:07.600 --> 0:15:10.120 passion for it, and if we love those people along 0:15:10.160 --> 0:15:12.360 the way that we work with. But you walk that 0:15:12.520 --> 0:15:15.360 walk to you don't just talk. Even when you walked 0:15:15.400 --> 0:15:18.160 in this room. You are a superstar, even a seperstar 0:15:18.280 --> 0:15:20.640 since you're years old. But you walk in here and 0:15:20.720 --> 0:15:23.520 you make everyone feel like you're just like their friends. 0:15:23.680 --> 0:15:25.800 You know. I flew in here last night late, and 0:15:26.320 --> 0:15:30.280 I was like, wow, I feel so blessed honestly to 0:15:30.400 --> 0:15:34.120 be especially a female in this business who has been 0:15:34.160 --> 0:15:37.200 around for five decades and but you're only twenty nine. 0:15:37.280 --> 0:15:41.000 I know, amazing. I was a fetus when I started, 0:15:43.440 --> 0:15:47.160 but um, just just to enjoy it at this point. Really, 0:15:47.240 --> 0:15:51.800 I feel so blessed and and uh lucky that people 0:15:51.840 --> 0:15:54.560 are still wanting to see our shows and that we're 0:15:54.880 --> 0:15:56.920 able to do the things and to do things I 0:15:57.040 --> 0:15:59.520 love to do. I really do. And it's not like 0:15:59.600 --> 0:16:01.640 a rig or a schedule in Vegas because I only 0:16:01.680 --> 0:16:04.200 worked twenty six weeks, I think it is a year. 0:16:05.120 --> 0:16:07.080 But you know, I do the Neutral System things and 0:16:07.160 --> 0:16:10.480 all that other and it's just, you know, I stayed 0:16:10.520 --> 0:16:13.120 very busy. I'm one of the founders of Children's Miracle Network, 0:16:13.440 --> 0:16:14.920 so I do a lot of things to help the kids, 0:16:14.960 --> 0:16:17.360 and we help about eleven million kids a year, so 0:16:17.520 --> 0:16:19.600 they're just I just and then I get to record 0:16:19.640 --> 0:16:22.080 again and here we are talking about it, and I've 0:16:22.080 --> 0:16:24.520 seen one of your songs, so see, God is amazing. 0:16:25.200 --> 0:16:28.920 I've almost ordered Neutral System, like you don't need five 0:16:29.040 --> 0:16:34.400 times based on your commercial though, because you look so fantastic. 0:16:35.520 --> 0:16:38.040 I'm not to tell you. Okay, So you know music 0:16:38.160 --> 0:16:40.680 is medicine. If you have you seen the video. Okay, 0:16:40.760 --> 0:16:43.360 So I go into these children's hospitals and they don't 0:16:43.400 --> 0:16:45.800 even know I've seen, you know, these these you know, 0:16:46.240 --> 0:16:49.480 six and five and eight year olds, and I went, okay, 0:16:49.520 --> 0:16:51.480 this is we've got to do something. They and so 0:16:52.440 --> 0:16:55.080 they just think I'm this Neutral System chick, right, did 0:16:55.160 --> 0:16:58.080 they know what it is. So I did Music is medicine, 0:16:58.080 --> 0:17:00.520 and I did it in a children's hospital. And I'm 0:17:00.520 --> 0:17:05.120 an alien because I didn't want to be. You're dancing too, 0:17:05.800 --> 0:17:08.159 which is incredible. We do that. We dance in the 0:17:08.160 --> 0:17:11.200 show too. It's really fun. But I love it so 0:17:11.359 --> 0:17:13.560 fun because now they know me as the alien. I'm 0:17:13.680 --> 0:17:18.240 I'm the alien chick. That music is awesome and it's 0:17:18.359 --> 0:17:21.640 spreading love and music and healing. Yeah, and the kids 0:17:21.680 --> 0:17:26.000 are precious, and um, it's unique. John is John is 0:17:26.040 --> 0:17:28.320 one of the founders of Children's Miracle Network with me, 0:17:29.040 --> 0:17:32.000 and he'll be here tomorrow at the Opry. And you 0:17:32.080 --> 0:17:36.000 know we dated what I dated John, Yeah, back in 0:17:36.040 --> 0:17:38.440 the day and it was going really well and we 0:17:38.520 --> 0:17:40.760 were getting serious. And what happened when he was sending 0:17:40.760 --> 0:17:44.960 flowers to Donnie, he was just using Johnny. That's where 0:17:45.560 --> 0:17:47.760 that was the golden ticket right there the whole time. 0:17:47.920 --> 0:17:53.960 It's just a user rude. Oh my gosh, kill didn't 0:17:53.960 --> 0:17:55.280 iye it and say it was for tom But no, 0:17:58.240 --> 0:18:00.760 it's so bad. I love you. Gonna call me out? 0:18:01.240 --> 0:18:05.399 That's amazing. Are you excited about the Opery? I am 0:18:05.480 --> 0:18:08.359 so excited. It's just going to be played before, not 0:18:08.560 --> 0:18:10.800 on this stage. You've never played on this stage, on 0:18:10.920 --> 0:18:13.680 this stage, so this is a bit okay for you, 0:18:14.160 --> 0:18:16.840 Marie Osmond. It would be hard to do something that 0:18:17.000 --> 0:18:19.920 you haven't done yet, because you literally accomplished pretty much 0:18:19.920 --> 0:18:23.600 every career goal that anyone could dream of. Seriously, is 0:18:23.640 --> 0:18:25.520 there anything left on the bucket list? Is this a 0:18:25.560 --> 0:18:29.280 bucket list item? Oh? This is definitely Are you kidding? 0:18:29.480 --> 0:18:33.280 Loving country music because I mean pop music wasn't was 0:18:33.359 --> 0:18:35.800 a definite easy direction for me to go because of 0:18:35.880 --> 0:18:39.600 my family and the connections. But I chose country. You know. 0:18:39.800 --> 0:18:43.680 I loved Loretta, I loved I loved her. She was 0:18:44.080 --> 0:18:48.760 my hero, and I made that choice to come here, 0:18:48.800 --> 0:18:52.240 and Sunny James believed in me and and opted to 0:18:52.359 --> 0:18:55.520 take me and record. You know, back then it was 0:18:55.640 --> 0:19:00.600 all live sixties something plus people. Jordan ears right here 0:19:00.680 --> 0:19:02.919 singing live you know, and I'm like, shut up. They 0:19:02.960 --> 0:19:06.600 stay with ohs and and I stood there as this 0:19:06.720 --> 0:19:10.679 twelve year old girl fulfilling this incredible dream. And now 0:19:10.800 --> 0:19:13.159 to go onto this stage with all that history, and 0:19:13.200 --> 0:19:15.080 I know they have even parts of the original that 0:19:15.160 --> 0:19:17.280 I did. Yeah, I was on the original, But to 0:19:17.440 --> 0:19:20.240 be there at this and the history and and to 0:19:20.359 --> 0:19:22.640 still be singing and to have an album that's doing 0:19:23.040 --> 0:19:25.840 radio is playing even though I'm twenty nine. Uh, it's 0:19:25.920 --> 0:19:30.040 really it really is very humbling and and one of 0:19:30.080 --> 0:19:32.120 those experiences. I mean, I don't know how much longer 0:19:32.160 --> 0:19:35.719 I'll do what I do. You have to know your 0:19:35.760 --> 0:19:39.119 fans would die. If they would, they wouldn't know me. 0:19:39.160 --> 0:19:42.760 They just know me as the neutral system lady. But 0:19:43.240 --> 0:19:47.320 I love I love this experience, and um just it's 0:19:47.359 --> 0:19:49.879 just gonna be really fun tomorrow. If you had to 0:19:50.040 --> 0:19:53.480 pinpoint three highlights from your career, is it even possible 0:19:53.640 --> 0:19:55.800 to say, like, these are moments that have marked time 0:19:55.880 --> 0:19:58.639 for me or your life in general. Because you have 0:19:58.720 --> 0:20:01.320 the children. I was in a beautiful love story with 0:20:01.400 --> 0:20:04.960 her husband. Know I have had you know, highs and lows. 0:20:05.040 --> 0:20:06.639 I mean, and that was one of your books you 0:20:06.680 --> 0:20:09.640 wrote about. Why did you feel the need to express 0:20:09.720 --> 0:20:13.080 that to get that out? Well, the first book I 0:20:13.119 --> 0:20:17.040 wrote was on postpartum depression, much appreciated with many women. Well, 0:20:17.119 --> 0:20:19.400 it had never been talked about, I think, I really yeah, 0:20:19.440 --> 0:20:22.159 I was the first celebrity to talk about it. And 0:20:22.280 --> 0:20:24.680 you just felt called to be authentic and expressed that 0:20:24.960 --> 0:20:28.959 I felt it was such a lonely feeling and depression. 0:20:30.400 --> 0:20:33.240 I don't know, I don't I don't care who you are, 0:20:33.840 --> 0:20:37.240 but that loneliness and that lonely feeling depression is depression 0:20:37.280 --> 0:20:40.280 no matter how you get it. And nobody was talking 0:20:40.359 --> 0:20:43.920 about it, and so I really wanted to well, yes, 0:20:45.080 --> 0:20:48.359 actually yeah, And was that a time when people are 0:20:48.400 --> 0:20:50.800 trying to act like everything was perfect. Well, I was 0:20:50.840 --> 0:20:53.280 doing a talk show at the time, and I didn't 0:20:53.320 --> 0:20:56.080 know what was wrong with me, and uh, And there 0:20:56.080 --> 0:20:57.720 are a lot of interesting things in the back of 0:20:57.800 --> 0:21:02.800 the book. There's like fourteen or so signals that if 0:21:02.840 --> 0:21:05.280 these things are going on in your life, you probably 0:21:05.320 --> 0:21:07.280 are going to get postpartum depression. I think I had 0:21:07.320 --> 0:21:12.640 all but one. What are some of them? A life, brand, 0:21:12.680 --> 0:21:15.160 new move, a new child, you know, a new job, 0:21:15.280 --> 0:21:17.240 blah blah blah. It just goes on and on and on. 0:21:18.359 --> 0:21:21.520 But I was doing a signing in New York after 0:21:21.600 --> 0:21:24.200 I wrote that book, and this couple a lot of 0:21:24.240 --> 0:21:27.040 beautiful stories. But this couple came up to me and 0:21:27.320 --> 0:21:30.240 she was crying and she said, thank you for making 0:21:30.400 --> 0:21:35.840 people aware that these people that struggle, it's real. And 0:21:35.960 --> 0:21:37.639 I said, we are very kind. She goes, No, I 0:21:37.680 --> 0:21:39.320 wish you would have written this a year ago because 0:21:39.359 --> 0:21:42.560