WEBVTT - Questlove Supreme: Brittany Howard 0:00:00.160 --> 0:00:03.000 Quest Love Supreme is a production of iHeartRadio. 0:00:09.840 --> 0:00:10.160 What's Up? 0:00:10.200 --> 0:00:12.719 What's up with up? Ladies and gentlemen. This is Quest 0:00:12.720 --> 0:00:18.440 Love Supreme. I'm your host Quest Love with Me Team Supreme. Like, yeah, hello, 0:00:18.600 --> 0:00:19.320 how are you? 0:00:19.480 --> 0:00:21.599 I am well excited. 0:00:21.040 --> 0:00:24.279 Frank, I know right, long time coming, long time coming. 0:00:24.720 --> 0:00:26.840 What's you up to? What's what's going on out there? 0:00:28.040 --> 0:00:29.800 Right now? It is not raining, So that's a good thing, 0:00:30.280 --> 0:00:31.200 and that's good. 0:00:31.800 --> 0:00:35.600 It's been raining since. I mean I was there for 0:00:36.120 --> 0:00:41.000 the noest flood of Grammy Knight. It's still been raining since. 0:00:41.280 --> 0:00:42.839 I guess, so I wasn't. I left and went to 0:00:42.840 --> 0:00:45.320 Brazils on Grammy Night. But I heard it has been 0:00:45.760 --> 0:00:47.240 You heard that Flaws you gotta you gotta drop it. 0:00:47.240 --> 0:00:49.400 I went to Salvador. I have a solid door. 0:00:49.479 --> 0:00:53.320 So you know you went to Brazil for carnival. 0:00:53.200 --> 0:00:57.440 For the best carnival? Yes, yes, flex is that? Yeah? 0:00:57.560 --> 0:01:00.319 What once year? 0:01:01.880 --> 0:01:02.279 What was it? 0:01:02.360 --> 0:01:02.480 Like? 0:01:02.600 --> 0:01:04.399 Give me your forty five second report? 0:01:04.640 --> 0:01:05.600 I mean Salvador. 0:01:05.680 --> 0:01:08.440 If anybody doesn't know about Salvador, Brazil is beautifully black. 0:01:08.520 --> 0:01:12.759 It's the second largest black populated place outside of the continent, 0:01:12.920 --> 0:01:15.240 so it has all the flavor in all of the 0:01:15.280 --> 0:01:16.639 ways and. 0:01:16.720 --> 0:01:18.120 Just a lot. It was just beautiful. 0:01:18.160 --> 0:01:20.760 It was beautiful and fun and the food takes that 0:01:20.920 --> 0:01:23.080 better there. Yeah, they say, just for you. So you 0:01:23.080 --> 0:01:25.920 know the three different cities. You party in Rio and 0:01:25.959 --> 0:01:27.800 the people in South Paolo work, so the people in 0:01:27.840 --> 0:01:28.479 Rio can party. 0:01:28.520 --> 0:01:30.039 And then yeah, the black folks are in Salvador. 0:01:31.040 --> 0:01:33.760 Okay, you didn't go to Rio or the other spots. 0:01:34.000 --> 0:01:35.840 No, I was where you really want to be. 0:01:36.240 --> 0:01:40.319 Literally, Amir, Salvador is the best place to go for carnival. 0:01:40.600 --> 0:01:42.039 I said, it's where the black people are. 0:01:42.520 --> 0:01:43.479 Who started it? 0:01:44.560 --> 0:01:47.520 Oh, hey, I didn't know. I'm a product of the 0:01:47.560 --> 0:01:49.560 Philadelphia High School public curriculum. 0:01:49.640 --> 0:01:51.400 So yeah, but you're a world traveler. 0:01:52.400 --> 0:01:54.440 I know. I just go to my hotel, eat my. 0:01:56.480 --> 0:01:59.640 Iron We got them all. I would love to take 0:01:59.640 --> 0:02:00.520 all your salad. 0:02:01.160 --> 0:02:03.240 Well, yeah, you gotta let us know next time you're going. 0:02:03.720 --> 0:02:05.440 You're right, you're right, you're right, you're right, you're right, 0:02:05.520 --> 0:02:06.240 you're right. 0:02:06.560 --> 0:02:08.760 We got to go there to do the Author Vericai episode. 0:02:08.840 --> 0:02:13.760 That's the Author Verkai. Yes, the Author Verica episode. 0:02:13.760 --> 0:02:14.440 That's what we're doing. 0:02:14.960 --> 0:02:17.440 By the way, how you know I didn't get the 0:02:17.480 --> 0:02:20.440 peap heids coyotes collaborative album with him. 0:02:20.480 --> 0:02:22.959 Is it? Have you heard it or haven't listened yet? 0:02:22.960 --> 0:02:24.000 I haven't listened yet either. 0:02:24.280 --> 0:02:28.600 Okay, what's up, Steve, what's going on? How's life great? 0:02:28.919 --> 0:02:36.840 I'm currently imagining a vacation with La to Salvador. I 0:02:36.919 --> 0:02:42.600 need it real bad. Everything's great, looking forward to this interview. 0:02:43.400 --> 0:02:45.639 Here here's the dumb question, Steve. I got to ask 0:02:45.680 --> 0:02:47.480 you a work question. Who's on the show today? 0:02:48.320 --> 0:02:54.200 Jennifer Lopez and uh Alan Richson and Gary Clark Jr. 0:02:54.560 --> 0:02:59.160 But we had a great musical guest yesterday. Who Brittany Howard? Oh? 0:02:59.760 --> 0:03:06.560 I was okay. I was not at work yesterday. You 0:03:06.560 --> 0:03:08.560 can't get mad at me, Brittany. I was not at 0:03:08.600 --> 0:03:12.000 work yesterday. I had to take a day off. Things 0:03:12.000 --> 0:03:14.600 were happening. Uh Fan Tickeola. What's what's good man? 0:03:14.919 --> 0:03:16.840 I'm good, Man, I'm good. I'm excited to have Brittany 0:03:16.840 --> 0:03:17.160 here today. 0:03:17.160 --> 0:03:17.280 Man. 0:03:17.280 --> 0:03:18.640 I can't wait to talk about this new album. 0:03:19.600 --> 0:03:22.959 Is hard Hard, got me sweating already. 0:03:23.040 --> 0:03:26.040 Wait are you in California, Bill Sherman, No, I'm in 0:03:26.040 --> 0:03:28.480 New Jersey. 0:03:29.360 --> 0:03:32.360 Yes, I mean you're usually in the basement. So I 0:03:32.400 --> 0:03:33.000 was thrown. 0:03:33.000 --> 0:03:36.280 Yeah, so I yeah, I'm not in Black Brazil. I 0:03:36.360 --> 0:03:38.720 have a house in New Jersey and this is what 0:03:38.760 --> 0:03:39.920 it looks like from the kitchen. 0:03:40.920 --> 0:03:42.960 I see, all right, that's that's what's up. 0:03:43.000 --> 0:03:44.800 We got to teach Bill about light. You're supposed to 0:03:44.840 --> 0:03:46.720 be in front of you. 0:03:47.280 --> 0:03:48.720 I like being the shadows. 0:03:49.120 --> 0:03:52.000 Bill's flexing of his windows structure actually made me think 0:03:52.000 --> 0:03:54.920 he was on vacation somewhere, so I didn't realize that 0:03:55.080 --> 0:04:00.280 was just Jersey ladies and gentlemen. Our guest today as 0:04:00.760 --> 0:04:03.840 well as everyone said pretty much, we've been waiting a 0:04:03.880 --> 0:04:06.840 long time for this one, and it's finally happened. She 0:04:07.000 --> 0:04:11.119 is a five time Grammy Award winner and she basically 0:04:11.160 --> 0:04:15.480 pours her entire life experience into her songwriting, her music, 0:04:15.480 --> 0:04:21.240 her production, and you know, she's just a starra within 0:04:21.360 --> 0:04:24.719 Ah at the end of the word star. She's practically 0:04:24.800 --> 0:04:28.239 worked with everyone named it, from Prince to Verrtine White 0:04:28.240 --> 0:04:32.360 to Lemonoel, Miranda John Legend. The list goes completely on 0:04:32.400 --> 0:04:36.000 and on and on. She has formed several successful bands, 0:04:36.440 --> 0:04:40.920 including one of my favorite Alabama Shakes. Not to mention 0:04:41.480 --> 0:04:44.440 she's here today to talk about her journey through life, 0:04:44.640 --> 0:04:48.719 her journey through love and music and we're celebrating the 0:04:48.760 --> 0:04:55.239 release of her sophomore album entitled What Now and Welcome 0:04:55.320 --> 0:04:56.120 Brittany Howard. 0:04:56.320 --> 0:04:58.320 Two quest lefsupre yes. 0:04:58.240 --> 0:05:04.440 Sir us for having me, how to do crystal bowls 0:05:05.320 --> 0:05:06.120 and Long. 0:05:05.920 --> 0:05:09.039 Last, Long Last. Hey, everybody, good to be here. 0:05:09.080 --> 0:05:09.839 At Long Last. 0:05:10.560 --> 0:05:13.160 Where are you right now, britt I'm in the city. 0:05:13.400 --> 0:05:16.960 I'm looking out the window Lower East Side. 0:05:17.760 --> 0:05:21.080 Obviously you're you're on the promotional run or you on 0:05:21.279 --> 0:05:23.800 a an actual tour for your album. 0:05:24.320 --> 0:05:26.279 I'm doing both at the same time. I'm on the 0:05:26.320 --> 0:05:30.160 promo run, I'm doing tour. Yeah, that's what we'm I 0:05:30.240 --> 0:05:30.680 here doing. 0:05:31.320 --> 0:05:35.880 As Fante said, congratulations on the record, Like it's it's 0:05:35.960 --> 0:05:40.640 really awesome to hear your artistic growth and and you know, 0:05:41.160 --> 0:05:45.160 just the risk that you're taking the album is incredible, 0:05:45.440 --> 0:05:47.960 and you know all the atholatues that you're getting on it. 0:05:48.320 --> 0:05:51.880 Congratulations are are in order. We we love this record. 0:05:52.240 --> 0:05:54.400 Yeah, I want to personally thank you for to be 0:05:54.480 --> 0:05:59.400 still like and like, thank you for that record. It 0:05:59.480 --> 0:06:00.000 is beautiful. 0:06:00.920 --> 0:06:04.159 Thank you, thank you, thank you. Yeah, I really appreciate it. 0:06:04.240 --> 0:06:07.520 Yeah, there's a level envy I have when a person 0:06:08.160 --> 0:06:13.960 releases a new record, maybe because I'm constipated ten years 0:06:14.000 --> 0:06:20.240 and holding my own record hostitch. That was like everyone like, 0:06:20.440 --> 0:06:24.560 you know, Gary Clark's records coming out, Fritz Records coming out, 0:06:24.640 --> 0:06:27.440 We just had Kareem Bailey Ray, Like all these albums 0:06:27.440 --> 0:06:29.840 are coming out and I'm like still holding my join hostage, 0:06:29.880 --> 0:06:32.960 and like, so, what is the feeling you feel when 0:06:33.080 --> 0:06:36.719 it's when it's over and you know it's ready? 0:06:37.320 --> 0:06:39.039 What do you mean like when it comes out? How's 0:06:39.080 --> 0:06:39.400 that foot? 0:06:39.440 --> 0:06:42.240 Well, yeah, when you're done, Because for me, like albums 0:06:42.279 --> 0:06:45.919 are almost like your kids, I hold this close to 0:06:45.920 --> 0:06:49.040 the chest. I don't play demos for people. I don't say, hey, 0:06:49.080 --> 0:06:51.640 you want to hear a bit of that, Like I'm 0:06:51.680 --> 0:06:55.400 so anxious feel on letting it go. And then there's 0:06:55.400 --> 0:06:59.680 a point where like whenever I always master a record, 0:06:59.760 --> 0:07:03.480 maybe be like two weeks before it's really supposed to 0:07:03.520 --> 0:07:06.120 be turned in because I almost have to have a 0:07:06.160 --> 0:07:07.920 morning process. 0:07:09.000 --> 0:07:11.720 In literally letting your kids go. 0:07:12.800 --> 0:07:14.360 And I want to know, do you go through that 0:07:14.520 --> 0:07:17.360 or is this just like, hey, here are my twelve 0:07:17.440 --> 0:07:19.240 thirteen songs and I'm ready. 0:07:20.240 --> 0:07:23.119 Yeah, I feel like I understand where you're coming from. 0:07:23.960 --> 0:07:26.000 But for me, it's kind of the opposite I'm like, 0:07:26.080 --> 0:07:28.000 I can't wait to get this out in the world, 0:07:28.400 --> 0:07:31.280 because you know how it isn't in this business. You 0:07:31.400 --> 0:07:33.680 have to do the whole album cycle. You do the touring, 0:07:34.280 --> 0:07:36.400 and you have to do the promo, and you do 0:07:36.480 --> 0:07:40.360 all of this for this album. And it's like, as 0:07:40.400 --> 0:07:43.480 soon as I finish the album, I can't wait to 0:07:43.560 --> 0:07:45.840 get it out. It's like a just station process and 0:07:45.840 --> 0:07:49.040 what I imagine a very pregnant woman feels like it's 0:07:49.040 --> 0:07:50.560 like I'm ready for this thing to get out of me, 0:07:51.240 --> 0:07:52.679 you know it, so I can move on with my life. 0:07:53.960 --> 0:07:55.520 And it's kind of what it's like. I'm very proud 0:07:55.560 --> 0:07:59.440 of this project, but I'm also very excited to start 0:07:59.440 --> 0:08:00.560 a new one as well. 0:08:01.360 --> 0:08:01.840 Already. 0:08:02.120 --> 0:08:05.000 Are you a song cycle person or you an album 0:08:05.040 --> 0:08:08.560 cycle person? Like do you just write enough songs for 0:08:08.720 --> 0:08:11.200 the album to come or is it even as the 0:08:11.240 --> 0:08:15.400 album is done, you already have songs in mustache or 0:08:15.880 --> 0:08:17.400 still writing, like. 0:08:17.360 --> 0:08:20.120 There's still something on the cutting room floor. I think 0:08:20.160 --> 0:08:22.240 I still have like six or seven that didn't make 0:08:22.240 --> 0:08:24.960 the album, and it was it was just because it 0:08:25.040 --> 0:08:27.280 was taken too long. Like I was like, all right, 0:08:27.320 --> 0:08:29.720 I got enough here. I don't really want to spend 0:08:29.720 --> 0:08:31.680 any more energy working these out. I'll do this later. 0:08:32.400 --> 0:08:36.720 And I'm definitely like an album cycle person like, as 0:08:36.720 --> 0:08:39.800 soon as it feels like it, it has the feel done. 0:08:39.840 --> 0:08:42.360 It has to feel cooked. And I feel like once 0:08:42.400 --> 0:08:44.760 I have that feeling, it's just like an intuition thing, 0:08:45.400 --> 0:08:47.560 then I'm like, Okay, hear this, this is it. Now 0:08:47.640 --> 0:08:48.480 let's do the sequence. 0:08:48.880 --> 0:08:51.920 Oh what was the period of time between knowing when 0:08:51.920 --> 0:08:53.920 it was done, like just knowing like that feeling you 0:08:53.960 --> 0:08:55.560 were talking about of like, Okay, I feel like this 0:08:55.600 --> 0:08:59.200 is complete, it's cooked. The time between that and it 0:08:59.240 --> 0:09:01.439 actually coming out out and being released. 0:09:01.880 --> 0:09:07.319 Sure, this time it was like ten months. Oh wow, 0:09:07.559 --> 0:09:11.440 that's a long long y yeah yeah yeah yeah. Well 0:09:12.040 --> 0:09:15.360 like post pandemic, things are still just taking a long 0:09:15.400 --> 0:09:18.640 time to create because we like final we liked the 0:09:18.679 --> 0:09:21.480 objects when listening to music, takes a long time to 0:09:21.480 --> 0:09:25.360 print those things. Everything's just slower. So it took a 0:09:25.360 --> 0:09:28.199 long time to get the whole shebang ready. 0:09:28.240 --> 0:09:31.400 Really, if this was like a meal, then how long 0:09:31.720 --> 0:09:34.360 was your meal prep and what was the preparation for 0:09:34.440 --> 0:09:36.120 this album? In a sense that this this album is 0:09:36.120 --> 0:09:37.840 going to say this, do you even do all of 0:09:37.840 --> 0:09:39.800 that in your head. 0:09:40.040 --> 0:09:41.840 No, I don't even think about that. It was just 0:09:43.080 --> 0:09:47.679 I started this in March of twenty twenty, so that's 0:09:47.720 --> 0:09:50.280 pretty much like shut down. And I didn't realize I 0:09:50.320 --> 0:09:52.080 was making an album. I was just going and just 0:09:52.160 --> 0:09:55.880 make like songs for fun because the world was terrifying 0:09:56.440 --> 0:09:59.440 and we were all scared. So there's really nowhere it 0:09:59.480 --> 0:10:02.160 turned to. So it's just like I used music as 0:10:02.200 --> 0:10:04.680 my outlet once again. And when I was making this 0:10:04.760 --> 0:10:07.040 album back in twenty twenty, I didn't know I was 0:10:07.040 --> 0:10:09.520 making it. I was just like, it's a journal entries, 0:10:09.600 --> 0:10:12.440 you know, And I told myself, I'm just going there 0:10:12.840 --> 0:10:14.880 no matter what happens. It's okay, doesn't matter what it 0:10:14.920 --> 0:10:18.000 sounds like, doesn't matter the quality of it. It's just 0:10:18.160 --> 0:10:21.520 something to do. And so it's been cooking for such 0:10:21.520 --> 0:10:24.760 a long time. The meal prep has been insane. I 0:10:24.800 --> 0:10:27.360 had walked into the kitchen, cut vegetables, walked back out. 0:10:27.240 --> 0:10:27.719 You know what I mean. 0:10:29.160 --> 0:10:34.040 Well, let me ask you, how close to March thirteenth, 0:10:34.240 --> 0:10:37.000 twenty twenty did you start the record. 0:10:37.679 --> 0:10:42.200 So I had just finished a London tour, I guess 0:10:42.240 --> 0:10:45.000 the UK tour flew from London, got to New York 0:10:45.080 --> 0:10:47.640 City and we had a fallon lined up, and we 0:10:47.679 --> 0:10:50.360 had different shows lined up we're going to do, and 0:10:50.400 --> 0:10:52.400 I was just looking at the state of things. I 0:10:52.440 --> 0:10:53.920 was like, I don't think, no, this is going to happen. 0:10:54.320 --> 0:10:57.160 So I actually flew home, what like on the twelfth 0:10:57.240 --> 0:10:59.760 or the thirteenth, like I got to Nashville and then 0:11:00.080 --> 0:11:04.160 things shut down, and I feel like I feel like 0:11:04.559 --> 0:11:07.800 I started tinkering with things maybe like a month later. 0:11:08.120 --> 0:11:10.480 I just know, like I finished Tiger King. As soon 0:11:10.520 --> 0:11:14.920 as I finished Tiger King around stuff to do, I 0:11:14.920 --> 0:11:16.800 guess I'll go make music because I'm a musician. 0:11:19.559 --> 0:11:22.360 What did you think of Joe exotic songs in Tiger King? 0:11:22.480 --> 0:11:23.960 Oh shit, I thought. 0:11:26.480 --> 0:11:31.800 That listen, But it wasn't even him right, It wasn't, 0:11:33.760 --> 0:11:40.000 which makes it Richard. He just wanted to act it out. 0:11:41.360 --> 0:11:44.480 What do I think about the songs honestly as a 0:11:44.520 --> 0:11:46.520 body of work. As a body of work, I'm go 0:11:46.679 --> 0:11:48.000 ahead and give it a six. 0:11:48.520 --> 0:11:51.000 Okay. 0:11:55.600 --> 0:11:59.000 A lot of these albums that I'm hearing sort of 0:11:59.000 --> 0:12:01.680 got their genesis or they're beginning in twenty twenty and 0:12:01.679 --> 0:12:04.560 they're just coming out now like four years later. I 0:12:04.559 --> 0:12:07.600 don't think it's a coincidence that for a lot of us, 0:12:07.640 --> 0:12:10.959 a lot of our art that we started creating in 0:12:11.040 --> 0:12:15.840 twenty twenty in sort of the midst of pannicing the 0:12:15.880 --> 0:12:18.199 Apocalypse air quotes the Apocalypse. 0:12:18.600 --> 0:12:20.760 I don't think it's a coincidence. So I guess I'll 0:12:20.800 --> 0:12:21.360 ask you. 0:12:22.120 --> 0:12:25.400 How hard was it or what was your relationship to 0:12:25.520 --> 0:12:30.360 creativity in the apocalypse, you know, because like people are 0:12:30.480 --> 0:12:34.360 dying in real time, family members are getting sick in 0:12:34.400 --> 0:12:38.440 real time, and like all these things are happening. But 0:12:38.520 --> 0:12:43.440 for you, like, were you like foxinging or like and 0:12:43.480 --> 0:12:46.160 I mean like more like July August when we don't 0:12:46.160 --> 0:12:47.160 know if we're coming or going. 0:12:48.160 --> 0:12:52.040 Yeah, I mean my relationship activity was definitely difficult. During 0:12:52.080 --> 0:12:55.800 that time. I was seeing like friends, especially on Instagram, 0:12:56.280 --> 0:12:58.960 just like having output output output output, and I couldn't 0:12:58.960 --> 0:13:02.079 believe it. I was like the last you know, kind 0:13:02.120 --> 0:13:03.480 of where I was, Like I said, I was going 0:13:03.520 --> 0:13:06.880 in and out of making little songs. And when I 0:13:06.880 --> 0:13:09.040 say little songs, I mean they're like thirty seconds. They're 0:13:09.040 --> 0:13:11.800 just little ideas. And I pushed myself to do that, 0:13:12.720 --> 0:13:17.000 but honestly, it was like doing anything creative was a 0:13:17.040 --> 0:13:20.640 survival mechanism for me, couldn't go anywhere, I couldn't see 0:13:20.640 --> 0:13:23.880 my friends, was always concerned about getting sick, was concerned 0:13:23.920 --> 0:13:26.360 what was going to happen next, because not only didn't 0:13:26.360 --> 0:13:28.640 we have the pandemic, but back in Nashville, we had 0:13:28.640 --> 0:13:31.440 just had a tornado that had kind of devastated the 0:13:31.520 --> 0:13:34.200 area where I was living. Oh, And it was like 0:13:34.280 --> 0:13:36.520 one thing after the other, and a lot of people 0:13:36.600 --> 0:13:38.400 like they didn't have roofs on their house, so people 0:13:38.440 --> 0:13:39.960 trying to help each other out at the same time. 0:13:40.240 --> 0:13:43.640 It's an extremely stressful kind of like position to be in. 0:13:44.520 --> 0:13:47.240 So to me, the creativity was my lifeline to any 0:13:47.280 --> 0:13:50.720 normalcy whatsoever. And it wasn't like I needed to have output, 0:13:51.120 --> 0:13:52.960 and it wasn't like I needed to make anything great. 0:13:53.440 --> 0:13:55.040 It was just I just needed to have any type 0:13:55.080 --> 0:13:56.240 of like control at all. 0:13:56.440 --> 0:14:01.920 Really, another commonality in the pandemic was a pivot. Did 0:14:01.960 --> 0:14:06.240 you discover another talent that you had in the pandemic? Uh, 0:14:06.320 --> 0:14:09.360 that you didn't realize you had? 0:14:10.000 --> 0:14:14.840 Man, I think you know, listen, I kind of rediscovered 0:14:14.880 --> 0:14:17.240 my love for fishing. Me and my dad used to fish. 0:14:17.280 --> 0:14:20.080 I was a little girl, and during that time, because 0:14:20.080 --> 0:14:22.040 I lived I lived in the country I could just 0:14:22.040 --> 0:14:25.880 go by myself and go fishing, and I kind of 0:14:25.920 --> 0:14:27.240 I kind of got good at that. I guess if 0:14:27.240 --> 0:14:28.720 you can if you can say you can get good 0:14:28.720 --> 0:14:32.640 at fishing, yeah, got good at standing there, and. 0:14:34.400 --> 0:14:37.720 She's got good patience. That's what that means, and a 0:14:37.760 --> 0:14:41.480 good fishing. 0:14:39.960 --> 0:14:45.480 Oh, Libra, Okay, Libra. Yeah, October October. 0:14:45.520 --> 0:14:46.160 Second. 0:14:46.600 --> 0:14:48.560 See, I was going, oh god, you're October. 0:14:49.360 --> 0:14:53.720 Uh, just like everybody you know, Wait a second. 0:14:53.600 --> 0:14:57.200 We can't be friends. I'm sorry, there's no room in 0:14:57.280 --> 0:15:01.720 the end. My life is sort of a arted with everyone. 0:15:01.760 --> 0:15:04.320 That's a result of post Valentine's Day. 0:15:06.680 --> 0:15:07.160 Good math. 0:15:08.960 --> 0:15:13.040 I you looked into that h every man drunk in 0:15:13.040 --> 0:15:19.560 the year's Valentine's Day early literally last of September, early October. 0:15:24.200 --> 0:15:25.160 Where were you born? 0:15:25.920 --> 0:15:30.240 I was born in Huntsville Hospital. That's Huntsville, Alabama. I 0:15:30.280 --> 0:15:31.880 was raised in Athens, Alabama. 0:15:32.440 --> 0:15:33.320 What's that town like? 0:15:33.680 --> 0:15:35.920 It's changed a lot now, but back on those littles, 0:15:35.920 --> 0:15:42.160 lots of fields, cows, pastures. It's pretty flat where I live. 0:15:42.560 --> 0:15:46.680 It's got tornadoes, lots of country people. We had good 0:15:46.760 --> 0:15:50.160 diversity though, good diversities, lots of rich people, poor people, 0:15:50.760 --> 0:15:53.600 black folks, white, folks, Mexican folks, all the folks. 0:15:53.760 --> 0:15:56.400 You grew up on a farm or like a city escape. 0:15:56.680 --> 0:15:59.160 I'm asking this because I have ties to Alabama, so 0:15:59.320 --> 0:16:02.400 I'm trying to learn other parts of You. 0:16:02.320 --> 0:16:04.880 Mentioned that to me before. Yeah, but where I'm from 0:16:04.960 --> 0:16:07.440 is rural. It's pretty rural. I live way back off 0:16:07.480 --> 0:16:09.320 the road in the woods, and I grew up like 0:16:09.360 --> 0:16:12.000 kind of like in a farm setting. But also my father, 0:16:12.480 --> 0:16:15.360 my father was he's a tow truck driver, and he 0:16:15.400 --> 0:16:17.640 had a junk yard, so I kind of grew up 0:16:17.680 --> 0:16:22.160 like amongst junk, like a junk yard aesthetic, and also 0:16:22.240 --> 0:16:24.240 had like this beautiful animals running around. 0:16:26.440 --> 0:16:29.040 So were you a learner or you know, did you 0:16:29.040 --> 0:16:30.440 have a community of friends or. 0:16:31.320 --> 0:16:35.080 So I just played with like there was like little boys, 0:16:35.160 --> 0:16:37.680 like the neighborhood little boys, because I lived way back 0:16:37.720 --> 0:16:40.680 in the country off the road, so they would literally 0:16:40.760 --> 0:16:42.560 just drive their little tractors down to my house and 0:16:42.600 --> 0:16:44.240 we would just play in the creek and stuff like that, 0:16:44.280 --> 0:16:45.560 Like it was like country country. 0:16:45.920 --> 0:16:46.000 Yo. 0:16:46.320 --> 0:16:46.880 Is it just me? 0:16:47.120 --> 0:16:48.760 I just had this conversation with somebody the other day. 0:16:48.760 --> 0:16:51.840 You just made me think of this tomboys. That's not 0:16:51.920 --> 0:16:53.760 a term that's used anymore. 0:16:55.360 --> 0:16:56.800 But than it was it was. 0:16:56.840 --> 0:16:57.680 I was a tomboy. 0:16:58.000 --> 0:17:00.600 I mean, yeah, but I don't even know it's politically 0:17:00.600 --> 0:17:01.400 correct anymore. 0:17:02.000 --> 0:17:02.280 I don't know. 0:17:02.280 --> 0:17:05.880 I haven't thought about it a long time. I don't know. 0:17:06.160 --> 0:17:10.080 But I definitely was one of those, you know, and 0:17:10.119 --> 0:17:12.359 like my you know, it's interesting like my upbringing, Like 0:17:12.400 --> 0:17:15.240 my dad. You know, he's a car salesman and he did, 0:17:15.440 --> 0:17:17.240 you know, the toe jobs and stuff like that, so 0:17:17.280 --> 0:17:19.440 he knew everybody in the community. So he would always 0:17:19.440 --> 0:17:20.919 do like what we call horse trading, which is just 0:17:20.920 --> 0:17:24.000 when you trade this for that. And I remember one 0:17:24.040 --> 0:17:26.560 time he brought me home a pony, and I remember 0:17:26.560 --> 0:17:28.560 being so excited about this pony. I was I only 0:17:28.600 --> 0:17:31.000 girl on the street that had a little pony. And 0:17:31.440 --> 0:17:33.600 the pony wasn't right in the head. So the pony 0:17:33.600 --> 0:17:35.520 would like try to attack us and chase us and 0:17:35.520 --> 0:17:39.960 bite us. It was eating meat. It was eating what 0:17:40.520 --> 0:17:42.240 he was eating meats, It was eating birds. 0:17:43.480 --> 0:17:46.679 Oh yeah, yeah, not your dream, my little pony. 0:17:47.240 --> 0:17:48.920 No, it was not a dream. But all the kids 0:17:48.960 --> 0:17:50.919 would come down and kind of check out the pony, 0:17:51.359 --> 0:17:53.879 you know. Yeah, So that was my claim to family. 0:17:53.960 --> 0:17:55.960 Now I'm going to ask you around the dumb questions 0:17:55.960 --> 0:17:59.359 that I never asked a person that was anything close 0:17:59.400 --> 0:18:03.680 to equestrian life, because I don't know that many people 0:18:03.680 --> 0:18:07.359 that have owned horses or ponies or any of those things. 0:18:08.240 --> 0:18:10.000 And I hear this all the time, where like one 0:18:10.080 --> 0:18:12.280 day I came home and my dad surprised me with 0:18:12.960 --> 0:18:13.840 and usually a pony. 0:18:14.560 --> 0:18:15.120 What is the. 0:18:15.200 --> 0:18:20.400 General like maintenance of owning one of those things? 0:18:20.560 --> 0:18:23.639 Like I have a farm, now do I plan on owning? 0:18:23.840 --> 0:18:26.800 And my farm actually comes with I have like a 0:18:26.840 --> 0:18:31.800 barnyard that's a stable that can hold six of them 0:18:31.880 --> 0:18:33.639 if I chose to own them right now? 0:18:33.640 --> 0:18:38.360 It's for storage. But what's what's the daily care routine 0:18:38.359 --> 0:18:38.560 for that? 0:18:40.240 --> 0:18:42.520 The daily I mean honestly, like when it comes to 0:18:42.600 --> 0:18:47.719 upkeep for a horse you're talking about, you gotta have 0:18:47.760 --> 0:18:51.600 your like regular vet visits. You gotta keep up with 0:18:51.640 --> 0:18:52.760 the vitamins. 0:18:53.440 --> 0:18:54.920 Definitely, they take vitamins. 0:18:55.280 --> 0:18:56.680 Yeah, well it goes in the feed. 0:19:00.480 --> 0:19:01.720 We all need nutrition. 0:19:02.520 --> 0:19:03.040 You knew this. 0:19:03.840 --> 0:19:05.280 I mean, I'm nturprised. 0:19:06.040 --> 0:19:08.600 I'm not I'm not looking at questrian person, you know 0:19:08.600 --> 0:19:08.920 what I'm saying. 0:19:08.960 --> 0:19:11.880 I didn't think I know either when he said, but. 0:19:11.840 --> 0:19:13.399 I remember what we used to do. You gotta take 0:19:13.440 --> 0:19:15.160 care of hooks, You gotta take your care to coat. 0:19:15.560 --> 0:19:17.679 When it's cold outside, you got to make sure that 0:19:17.960 --> 0:19:19.960 everything's right for them. It's hot outside, you got to 0:19:19.960 --> 0:19:22.040 make sure everything's right for them. Like I just did 0:19:22.040 --> 0:19:25.600 a pretty high maintenance really, And they're also expensive, expensive creatures. 0:19:25.280 --> 0:19:27.280 That you gotta buy it a trailer, a mere like, 0:19:27.280 --> 0:19:28.320 and you're gonna take it to the bet. 0:19:28.320 --> 0:19:30.000 You gotta take it to the bet. 0:19:30.320 --> 0:19:30.679 Okay. 0:19:30.840 --> 0:19:35.320 Yeah, I just never understood like the casualness of friends 0:19:35.320 --> 0:19:37.440 of mine's, like, yeah, I brought my kid a horse 0:19:37.520 --> 0:19:42.639 or whatever, but you know, I have anxiety trying to 0:19:42.680 --> 0:19:43.640 consider should I get. 0:19:43.560 --> 0:19:45.360 A dog or not, let alone. 0:19:47.200 --> 0:19:48.119 Very different things. 0:19:48.359 --> 0:19:49.760 Yeah, I start with a dog, for sure. 0:19:50.480 --> 0:19:52.720 I'm not even starting with it because I traveled too much. 0:19:52.920 --> 0:19:56.399 But you know, I just generally wanted to know. And 0:19:56.680 --> 0:19:59.480 the neighbors that I have on both sides of the 0:19:59.520 --> 0:20:01.960