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Speaker 1: which is really cool over the years. This is from

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Speaker 1: So this is Kimberly Schlapman. She has the blonde here,

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Speaker 1: she talks about her love for cooking, which she came

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Speaker 1: and I was living in a different house at the time,

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Speaker 1: but she brought over with cookies. Remember that only a

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Speaker 1: few people have ever brought gifts, and that they're almost

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Speaker 1: But if someone comes and it's like a guest at

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Speaker 1: the TV show her faith Wardrobe family. She shares her

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Speaker 1: before their first big hit with Boondocks. This is another

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Speaker 1: version of a little Big town story that's all the same,

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Speaker 1: just from a different set of eyeballs from Here's our

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Speaker 1: Bobby Cast with Kimberly Schlapman from a Little Big Town,

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Speaker 1: Little Big Town Week on the Bobby Cast. I welcome

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Speaker 1: to another episode of the Bobby Cast. This is the

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Speaker 1: much shorter than I'm remember sitting this close to anyone. No,

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Speaker 1: other high byes. Mike do So, how are you good?

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Speaker 1: I'm great. I'm so happy to do this. I've been

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Speaker 1: looking for You've been trying to work this out for

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Speaker 1: to traveling fiends. Yeah. You guys go hard. We go hard.

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Speaker 1: When do you not go hard? Because you guys, you

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Speaker 1: never collectively, he thought that, or at least we never

427
00:22:01,960 --> 00:22:06,399
Speaker 1: collectively said it out loud. Um, I feel like we

428
00:22:07,160 --> 00:22:10,240
Speaker 1: we had a few very very low points. One was

429
00:22:10,520 --> 00:22:13,879
Speaker 1: after we lost our second record deal from Sony, and

430
00:22:14,040 --> 00:22:16,760
Speaker 1: then one was when my husband died and and nothing

431
00:22:16,880 --> 00:22:18,960
Speaker 1: was going well for us. At that point, we had

432
00:22:19,040 --> 00:22:22,040
Speaker 1: written and recorded Boondocks, and so we had that in

433
00:22:22,119 --> 00:22:24,879
Speaker 1: our back pocket and it and it was it was

434
00:22:24,960 --> 00:22:27,960
Speaker 1: actually about to come out right around the time that

435
00:22:28,040 --> 00:22:32,119
Speaker 1: he died. Um, And we were already signed to Equity Records,

436
00:22:32,160 --> 00:22:35,520
Speaker 1: which was that little independent label that sold over a

437
00:22:35,600 --> 00:22:39,000
Speaker 1: million records for US. UM. But that was a very

438
00:22:39,119 --> 00:22:43,200
Speaker 1: low moment. Karen told me much much later that she

439
00:22:43,359 --> 00:22:46,359
Speaker 1: thought the band was probably over at that point, not

440
00:22:46,480 --> 00:22:48,440
Speaker 1: that anybody wanted it to be, but they didn't know

441
00:22:48,560 --> 00:22:54,080
Speaker 1: that I would want to continue. Um, So we never

442
00:22:54,240 --> 00:22:59,119
Speaker 1: ever said this isn't gonna work together, at least in

443
00:22:59,280 --> 00:23:02,120
Speaker 1: my head. After or He died, I was just so numb.

444
00:23:02,200 --> 00:23:08,520
Speaker 1: I didn't want to really do anything, but I showed up.

445
00:23:09,280 --> 00:23:11,440
Speaker 1: You know. We went on the road a few weeks later,

446
00:23:11,880 --> 00:23:16,720
Speaker 1: on the radio tour four Boondocks. Do you remember that.

447
00:23:17,760 --> 00:23:20,679
Speaker 1: I remember moments of that. I remember really really super

448
00:23:20,800 --> 00:23:23,720
Speaker 1: sad moments of that, and then I remember a couple

449
00:23:23,800 --> 00:23:26,560
Speaker 1: of highs. You know. I remember the first time we

450
00:23:26,640 --> 00:23:29,840
Speaker 1: heard on the radio. That was really super cool because

451
00:23:30,240 --> 00:23:33,360
Speaker 1: we've been struggling for at that point six years. We've

452
00:23:33,400 --> 00:23:36,600
Speaker 1: been a banded six years and so many struggles, and

453
00:23:36,720 --> 00:23:38,440
Speaker 1: so when we heard it live for the first time,

454
00:23:38,480 --> 00:23:42,000
Speaker 1: that was just amazing. Yeah, do you think all four

455
00:23:42,040 --> 00:23:44,320
Speaker 1: of you guys remember that hearing it for the first time.

456
00:23:44,760 --> 00:23:47,040
Speaker 1: We were in a car together, and that was after

457
00:23:47,119 --> 00:23:51,920
Speaker 1: Steve had died, and we heard that and we just, oh,

458
00:23:53,359 --> 00:23:57,000
Speaker 1: we celebrated. That's probably the first celebration or a moment

459
00:23:57,119 --> 00:24:01,119
Speaker 1: that we had to celebrate after his death. You know,

460
00:24:01,440 --> 00:24:05,800
Speaker 1: that was the first happy moment together. How high did

461
00:24:05,880 --> 00:24:09,640
Speaker 1: this song elevate you guys as a band? Meaning did

462
00:24:09,680 --> 00:24:12,840
Speaker 1: your guarantees go up? Did you make more money? Were

463
00:24:12,880 --> 00:24:15,760
Speaker 1: you starting to get award show bookings because of the song.

464
00:24:16,080 --> 00:24:19,120
Speaker 1: We started making money, period. And when this song came out, Yeah,

465
00:24:19,359 --> 00:24:22,240
Speaker 1: we had prior to that, we had told Cia to

466
00:24:22,400 --> 00:24:25,680
Speaker 1: just book us for enough money to rent a van

467
00:24:25,920 --> 00:24:28,360
Speaker 1: and pay for the gas and stop at McDonald's. That's

468
00:24:28,359 --> 00:24:31,399
Speaker 1: all we needed. So there was no money coming in

469
00:24:31,640 --> 00:24:33,960
Speaker 1: because well, anything that did come in went back out

470
00:24:34,040 --> 00:24:37,200
Speaker 1: because of the expenses. It's very expensive to tour, whether

471
00:24:37,280 --> 00:24:40,280
Speaker 1: you're in a minivan or you're in ten buses. You know,

472
00:24:40,400 --> 00:24:43,840
Speaker 1: it's super expensive. It's all relative. But um, at that point,

473
00:24:44,280 --> 00:24:47,119
Speaker 1: we were just barely sometimes we make five and that

474
00:24:47,240 --> 00:24:50,360
Speaker 1: was enough to rent a van and gas and food. Um.

475
00:24:50,760 --> 00:24:55,560
Speaker 1: So yes, after Boondocks hit, you know, the money went

476
00:24:55,640 --> 00:24:58,920
Speaker 1: up a little bit, the invites went up a lot

477
00:24:59,680 --> 00:25:03,720
Speaker 1: and and the credibility went up a lot um because

478
00:25:03,800 --> 00:25:07,000
Speaker 1: people they just so connected with that song and it

479
00:25:07,080 --> 00:25:13,560
Speaker 1: became their anthem and it changed everything for us. What

480
00:25:13,720 --> 00:25:19,600
Speaker 1: was the quickest thing that it changed. Um, probably our spirits, Yes,

481
00:25:19,800 --> 00:25:23,520
Speaker 1: our spirits were kind of broken and wounded. And yeah,

482
00:25:24,040 --> 00:25:26,919
Speaker 1: now we had something that people actually believed in us.

483
00:25:27,600 --> 00:25:29,639
Speaker 1: And you know how that is. That's that's worth more

484
00:25:29,720 --> 00:25:33,680
Speaker 1: than anything, when someone believes in you and invites you

485
00:25:33,840 --> 00:25:36,359
Speaker 1: to come do shows. I'll tell you this is so funny.

486
00:25:36,720 --> 00:25:38,840
Speaker 1: We pulled up in a parking lot in I think

487
00:25:38,880 --> 00:25:42,000
Speaker 1: it was Lexington, Kentucky. We pulled up in a parking

488
00:25:42,080 --> 00:25:44,160
Speaker 1: like one lot to sing. This was right when Boondocks

489
00:25:44,200 --> 00:25:47,240
Speaker 1: had come out, and the parking lot was crammed full

490
00:25:47,320 --> 00:25:49,199
Speaker 1: of people and it was just the four of us

491
00:25:49,240 --> 00:25:51,399
Speaker 1: in this van, and we looked around, like, who are

492
00:25:51,440 --> 00:25:54,399
Speaker 1: we opening up for? Who is this? Who's here tonight?

493
00:25:54,520 --> 00:25:57,520
Speaker 1: We we genuinely wondered who was here that we were

494
00:25:57,560 --> 00:26:00,159
Speaker 1: opening up for, and we found it It was for us, us,

495
00:26:00,560 --> 00:26:03,720
Speaker 1: And that moment was like, Holy yell, these people came

496
00:26:03,800 --> 00:26:07,359
Speaker 1: to see us. This is amazing, um, and that not

497
00:26:08,760 --> 00:26:11,119
Speaker 1: They asked for an encore, so we played all the

498
00:26:11,200 --> 00:26:13,560
Speaker 1: songs we knew and they wanted an encore, so we

499
00:26:13,640 --> 00:26:16,000
Speaker 1: played Boondocks again because we didn't have any more song.

500
00:26:17,119 --> 00:26:23,159
Speaker 1: That's funny and loved it. I love the end of

501
00:26:23,200 --> 00:26:28,000
Speaker 1: the song, like my favorite parts, and so are all

502
00:26:28,080 --> 00:26:31,000
Speaker 1: four of you guys on that and all going over

503
00:26:31,080 --> 00:26:33,800
Speaker 1: the top? What do you call? It starts around around Phil,

504
00:26:33,840 --> 00:26:36,520
Speaker 1: it starts it then Jimmy, then Karen than me. Yeah,

505
00:26:37,200 --> 00:26:39,640
Speaker 1: because I was working in pop at the time, still

506
00:26:39,720 --> 00:26:41,560
Speaker 1: listening to country, but not as much because I was

507
00:26:41,840 --> 00:26:45,000
Speaker 1: totally in pop, trying to build my own syndication. I

508
00:26:45,119 --> 00:26:46,920
Speaker 1: was talking for the most part, but still all that

509
00:26:46,960 --> 00:26:49,000
Speaker 1: have was pop music around me. But I remember that

510
00:26:49,119 --> 00:26:51,400
Speaker 1: song because I plup over the country station and out

511
00:26:51,440 --> 00:26:54,280
Speaker 1: here you get on We'll go fishing, and I was like, oh,

512
00:26:54,280 --> 00:26:57,520
Speaker 1: I love that song, but you know five cop poker,

513
00:26:57,840 --> 00:26:59,399
Speaker 1: that was that song. I don't sing it back to

514
00:26:59,440 --> 00:27:01,200
Speaker 1: you because you have Oh I love it, And that's

515
00:27:01,240 --> 00:27:05,520
Speaker 1: my favorite part of every single show that yes, because

516
00:27:05,600 --> 00:27:08,159
Speaker 1: the crowd, well, the crowd sings that whole song. But

517
00:27:08,240 --> 00:27:10,440
Speaker 1: at the end of that song usually that means the

518
00:27:10,480 --> 00:27:13,199
Speaker 1: shows are just about over and the crowd they'll pick

519
00:27:13,280 --> 00:27:15,920
Speaker 1: their parts and they'll sing it. It's so much fun.

520
00:27:16,320 --> 00:27:18,760
Speaker 1: You put that at the end of the show. Mostly, yeah,

521
00:27:18,880 --> 00:27:20,680
Speaker 1: And we've tried not putting it at the end of

522
00:27:20,720 --> 00:27:22,520
Speaker 1: the shows. We've tried to put it up farther in

523
00:27:22,560 --> 00:27:23,920
Speaker 1: the show, and then we get to the end of

524
00:27:24,040 --> 00:27:27,000
Speaker 1: whatever you know we're we end with and it's like, oh, nope,

525
00:27:27,320 --> 00:27:29,359
Speaker 1: we needed to end with the knocks. Every time we

526
00:27:29,480 --> 00:27:33,320
Speaker 1: experiment on something else, Nope. Whenever you guys get your

527
00:27:33,400 --> 00:27:36,760
Speaker 1: clothes because you and Karen dressed so well, thank you defferently,

528
00:27:36,840 --> 00:27:39,240
Speaker 1: but so well, thank you? Did they loan you this?

529
00:27:39,359 --> 00:27:43,920
Speaker 1: Are you buying all that stuff both? Because holy I know, listen,

530
00:27:44,080 --> 00:27:46,919
Speaker 1: Karen has a shopping problem. Everyone knows that. But it's

531
00:27:46,960 --> 00:27:48,760
Speaker 1: working out really well for me and the rest of

532
00:27:48,800 --> 00:27:52,800
Speaker 1: the van. She um, She's got such a gift at

533
00:27:52,880 --> 00:27:56,520
Speaker 1: fashion and putting things together, so we have it. We

534
00:27:56,680 --> 00:27:59,960
Speaker 1: do things a couple of different ways when we're on television,

535
00:28:00,040 --> 00:28:02,680
Speaker 1: and usually we have a stylus out in l a

536
00:28:02,800 --> 00:28:06,000
Speaker 1: named Carla Welch, and she's amazing and she'll put looks

537
00:28:06,080 --> 00:28:09,000
Speaker 1: for us together for all that, but then for tours

538
00:28:09,760 --> 00:28:15,240
Speaker 1: and other things, Karen shops and pulls just incredible clothes

539
00:28:15,359 --> 00:28:18,800
Speaker 1: and then we just kind of, I mean, we also

540
00:28:19,720 --> 00:28:22,640
Speaker 1: buy for ourselves. She doesn't buy everything, but she buys

541
00:28:22,720 --> 00:28:25,600
Speaker 1: a lot. Like last night. I remember at the last show,

542
00:28:26,000 --> 00:28:27,639
Speaker 1: I was like, Okay, from head to toe. I am

543
00:28:27,720 --> 00:28:30,959
Speaker 1: Karen Fairchild because she bought everything I have on But um,

544
00:28:31,040 --> 00:28:32,560
Speaker 1: I love it when she shops from me. She'll go

545
00:28:32,640 --> 00:28:34,479
Speaker 1: out shopping and she'll be like, I bought you something.

546
00:28:34,600 --> 00:28:37,359
Speaker 1: I was like, whoa, I love that. I love that. Um.

547
00:28:37,800 --> 00:28:41,240
Speaker 1: And so you know, every night when we get ready

548
00:28:41,280 --> 00:28:44,840
Speaker 1: for the show, we have these incredible wardrobe cases, which

549
00:28:44,920 --> 00:28:46,400
Speaker 1: we used to not have and now we do, and

550
00:28:46,400 --> 00:28:48,920
Speaker 1: they're just so amazing. So we keep all our tour

551
00:28:49,000 --> 00:28:51,600
Speaker 1: clothes in them, and you know, we just all pick

552
00:28:51,640 --> 00:28:53,280
Speaker 1: out what we want to wear. And sometimes Jim, you'll

553
00:28:53,280 --> 00:28:54,680
Speaker 1: come in our room and I'll go, what color are

554
00:28:54,720 --> 00:28:56,800
Speaker 1: you all wearing tonight? And so we'll try to coordinate

555
00:28:56,800 --> 00:28:59,440
Speaker 1: and look like we're going to the same party. But um,

556
00:28:59,680 --> 00:29:01,480
Speaker 1: Karen pulls a lot of that for us. She picks

557
00:29:01,480 --> 00:29:02,920
Speaker 1: a lot of that out for us. I have so

558
00:29:03,080 --> 00:29:05,000
Speaker 1: intrigued because you guys dressed so well. But I wonder

559
00:29:05,720 --> 00:29:07,720
Speaker 1: if it's on Instagram, do you wear it again or

560
00:29:07,800 --> 00:29:09,840
Speaker 1: is it dead? I wear it again, yeah, yeah, just

561
00:29:09,920 --> 00:29:11,920
Speaker 1: because that's how I was raised. I just I just

562
00:29:12,080 --> 00:29:14,400
Speaker 1: I don't have a problem wearing again. Sometimes karens like, okay,

563
00:29:14,400 --> 00:29:18,560
Speaker 1: you need to retire that so yeah, I'll wear it again.

564
00:29:18,720 --> 00:29:22,720
Speaker 1: What's been the biggest surprise in the little big town life?

565
00:29:23,160 --> 00:29:25,400
Speaker 1: Like the whole the thing you really didn't think was

566
00:29:25,440 --> 00:29:28,240
Speaker 1: going to work out that ended up going Wow? Why?

567
00:29:28,440 --> 00:29:30,920
Speaker 1: Because you were working hard, obviously and grinding towards that

568
00:29:30,960 --> 00:29:34,160
Speaker 1: first single. Obviously you expected something a paper you wouldn't

569
00:29:34,200 --> 00:29:36,520
Speaker 1: have continued to do it. What was the big one

570
00:29:36,560 --> 00:29:42,440
Speaker 1: were you that was unexpected? Um? Maybe the for Rell

571
00:29:42,560 --> 00:29:45,240
Speaker 1: record that we did. Yeah, we got a phone call

572
00:29:45,360 --> 00:29:49,080
Speaker 1: and thank you, thank you. That was such a treat

573
00:29:49,160 --> 00:29:52,120
Speaker 1: to make. What a genius he is. We adore him.

574
00:29:52,680 --> 00:29:54,680
Speaker 1: We got a phone call and they said, do you

575
00:29:54,760 --> 00:29:57,720
Speaker 1: want to Forrell wants to write with you? Like what for?

576
00:29:57,960 --> 00:30:01,880
Speaker 1: Wait for real? Yeah? Yeah, So we booked a day

577
00:30:01,920 --> 00:30:04,240
Speaker 1: with him and it was a day in Nashville. He

578
00:30:04,360 --> 00:30:05,800
Speaker 1: came here. It was a day in Nashville where we

579
00:30:05,840 --> 00:30:07,840
Speaker 1: had a little snow storm storm and you know how

580
00:30:07,920 --> 00:30:11,080
Speaker 1: that that goes here, so it's everything down. We all

581
00:30:11,200 --> 00:30:14,480
Speaker 1: made it to the studio and we started rotting. We

582
00:30:14,560 --> 00:30:17,400
Speaker 1: wrote two songs that day and he said, let's come

583
00:30:17,400 --> 00:30:19,160
Speaker 1: back tomorrow. So we said, of course. We came back

584
00:30:19,200 --> 00:30:20,920
Speaker 1: to oor. I wrote another song. You wrote two songs

585
00:30:21,000 --> 00:30:24,160
Speaker 1: the same day a lot of songs. And with him

586
00:30:24,440 --> 00:30:27,120
Speaker 1: and pop pop music, I guess this is pretty common.

587
00:30:28,040 --> 00:30:30,560
Speaker 1: They write a song, but as they write it, they

588
00:30:30,600 --> 00:30:33,080
Speaker 1: go ahead and record it. They start tracking it and

589
00:30:33,200 --> 00:30:36,080
Speaker 1: go ahead and get it down, which we had never

590
00:30:36,240 --> 00:30:38,880
Speaker 1: done before. And it was so much fun. So at

591
00:30:38,920 --> 00:30:40,880
Speaker 1: the end of two days we had three songs written

592
00:30:41,040 --> 00:30:45,320
Speaker 1: and recorded, and so he said, let's just do this again,

593
00:30:46,000 --> 00:30:50,160
Speaker 1: and so we said, well sure, So we started just

594
00:30:50,400 --> 00:30:52,640
Speaker 1: rotting more and more, and every time we wrote we

595
00:30:52,680 --> 00:30:55,400
Speaker 1: would get it cut. You know, I want to say,

596
00:30:55,400 --> 00:30:57,120
Speaker 1: get it on tape, but you know how that goes.

597
00:30:57,200 --> 00:31:00,440
Speaker 1: Now that's comes that sounds like I'm really old. But

598
00:31:01,200 --> 00:31:03,280
Speaker 1: before we knew it, we had eight songs written and

599
00:31:03,360 --> 00:31:05,680
Speaker 1: recorded and we weren't going to do anything with it.

600
00:31:05,800 --> 00:31:07,560
Speaker 1: But then when we ended up with that many that

601
00:31:07,680 --> 00:31:10,200
Speaker 1: we loved so much, we thought, wow, wouldn't we put

602
00:31:10,240 --> 00:31:12,280
Speaker 1: it out? So let's just put it out. And you know,

603
00:31:12,400 --> 00:31:14,680
Speaker 1: we weren't like trying to make a statement of that

604
00:31:14,800 --> 00:31:18,280
Speaker 1: we're switching teams or anything like that. We just had

605
00:31:18,320 --> 00:31:21,760
Speaker 1: a ball and he's so musical and we learned so

606
00:31:22,120 --> 00:31:26,200
Speaker 1: much from him and ended up making a record. I

607
00:31:26,280 --> 00:31:27,880
Speaker 1: enjoyed the record and I because you guys did a

608
00:31:27,920 --> 00:31:30,520
Speaker 1: press store two and Farrell came by the studio, yes,

609
00:31:31,400 --> 00:31:33,560
Speaker 1: And I loved it because I'm a big Farrell fan.

610
00:31:33,840 --> 00:31:36,840
Speaker 1: I'm for all. It's got three different versions of Farrell,

611
00:31:37,280 --> 00:31:40,160
Speaker 1: you know, his big band, his little band, just him,

612
00:31:40,720 --> 00:31:42,520
Speaker 1: and so that was really cool for me. What was

613
00:31:42,560 --> 00:31:45,440
Speaker 1: frustrating a bit, though, was some of the Nashville old

614
00:31:45,480 --> 00:31:47,480
Speaker 1: school country people were like, what's happening? How is a

615
00:31:47,520 --> 00:31:50,680
Speaker 1: little big town with Farrell? That's got to be a

616
00:31:50,800 --> 00:31:53,920
Speaker 1: little bit unnerving, right. It's a little almost a little

617
00:31:54,000 --> 00:31:58,840
Speaker 1: hurtful because we are to our bones country and we

618
00:31:59,480 --> 00:32:03,200
Speaker 1: country Usic is our music, but we love all music

619
00:32:03,320 --> 00:32:05,200
Speaker 1: and we the four of us is such a melting

620
00:32:05,280 --> 00:32:09,000
Speaker 1: pot of influences, and when we were approached by someone

621
00:32:09,080 --> 00:32:11,760
Speaker 1: as genius as Pharrell, we could not turn that down.

622
00:32:12,120 --> 00:32:14,640
Speaker 1: And we were just having fun. We weren't taking ourselves

623
00:32:14,680 --> 00:32:17,320
Speaker 1: too seriously. We weren't trying to, like I said before,

624
00:32:18,000 --> 00:32:20,440
Speaker 1: go pop or change teams. We were just having a

625
00:32:20,520 --> 00:32:23,800
Speaker 1: ball in the studio and that's all that was. When

626
00:32:23,840 --> 00:32:26,239
Speaker 1: you write, are you a melody writer first? Or are

627
00:32:26,320 --> 00:32:29,480
Speaker 1: you a lyric writer? Because it just for those listening.

628
00:32:29,520 --> 00:32:31,440
Speaker 1: I have friends that are both, and some will sit

629
00:32:31,520 --> 00:32:33,480
Speaker 1: with the guitar and just do that's a bud and

630
00:32:33,520 --> 00:32:35,720
Speaker 1: then insert the words over the melody that's written. And

631
00:32:35,800 --> 00:32:39,120
Speaker 1: some will write the words and then assign the melody

632
00:32:39,240 --> 00:32:42,800
Speaker 1: to the lyrics. How do you write? Usually to me personally,

633
00:32:42,880 --> 00:32:46,560
Speaker 1: it's words that come first, and um, I'll make some notes,

634
00:32:46,720 --> 00:32:48,760
Speaker 1: you know, something will come to me and I'll I'll

635
00:32:48,800 --> 00:32:50,160
Speaker 1: be like, oh, I gotta write that down before I

636
00:32:50,240 --> 00:32:52,600
Speaker 1: forget it, and then maybe later I'll work on some

637
00:32:52,720 --> 00:32:54,600
Speaker 1: more a lyric to go with it. And so so

638
00:32:54,680 --> 00:32:57,680
Speaker 1: it's usually that that comes first. In the early days

639
00:32:57,760 --> 00:32:59,360
Speaker 1: that all you guys just sit around write songs all

640
00:32:59,360 --> 00:33:03,880
Speaker 1: the time. Is what you did every day, almost almost

641
00:33:03,920 --> 00:33:06,320
Speaker 1: every day the first couple of years we were together. Yeah,

642
00:33:06,840 --> 00:33:09,680
Speaker 1: so he sat around. Not many of them were very good,

643
00:33:10,160 --> 00:33:12,680
Speaker 1: well early on they probably weren't. Yeah, I mean that's

644
00:33:12,840 --> 00:33:15,800
Speaker 1: the story. I was talking to Ryan Herd, who's a

645
00:33:15,920 --> 00:33:20,960
Speaker 1: songwriter artist and he's married to Maran now, but he's like,

646
00:33:21,040 --> 00:33:23,320
Speaker 1: man I rose in terrible songs were on my songwriter.

647
00:33:23,360 --> 00:33:25,920
Speaker 1: I'm such a fan of songwriters, and he's a man

648
00:33:26,040 --> 00:33:27,960
Speaker 1: I moved to town because he graduated with like a

649
00:33:28,040 --> 00:33:31,440
Speaker 1: sociology degree, really wasn't gonna do music. Wow. Yeah. And

650
00:33:31,520 --> 00:33:33,120
Speaker 1: he's like, you know, I started writing songs and they

651
00:33:33,160 --> 00:33:35,320
Speaker 1: were really bad, but I thought I can improve at it.

652
00:33:35,760 --> 00:33:37,880
Speaker 1: He's like, man, they were so bad at the beginning. Yeah,

653
00:33:38,040 --> 00:33:41,000
Speaker 1: some of ours were too, some of ours were doozies.

654
00:33:41,160 --> 00:33:44,920
Speaker 1: Do you ever keep any of those? Oh yeah, yeah, yeah,

655
00:33:45,680 --> 00:33:49,080
Speaker 1: it feels like not long ago. It's usually Philip that

656
00:33:49,160 --> 00:33:51,640
Speaker 1: pulls out the old songs. He remembers every word, every

657
00:33:51,840 --> 00:33:54,000
Speaker 1: every melody. Has there ever been a time with all

658
00:33:54,000 --> 00:33:55,280
Speaker 1: four of you guys were someone saying, hey, I want

659
00:33:55,320 --> 00:33:58,000
Speaker 1: to step out and do something about myself. That never

660
00:33:58,080 --> 00:34:01,120
Speaker 1: been a conversation, not even as a like a fun

661
00:34:01,280 --> 00:34:05,520
Speaker 1: one song anything. No, Now Karen and Philip and Jimmy

662
00:34:05,800 --> 00:34:08,640
Speaker 1: have um that's that makes that kind of hurts my feelings.

663
00:34:09,040 --> 00:34:11,960
Speaker 1: But the three of them have been, you know, on

664
00:34:12,480 --> 00:34:15,600
Speaker 1: other like duet, on other projects like Karen and Luke

665
00:34:15,640 --> 00:34:21,279
Speaker 1: and single. We've never ever even talked about it. I've

666
00:34:21,320 --> 00:34:23,680
Speaker 1: actually never even thought about that until right now. Look,

667
00:34:23,719 --> 00:34:26,799
Speaker 1: look what happened. But how do we got to start thinking? Now?

668
00:34:29,040 --> 00:34:33,720
Speaker 1: Little Big Town Week on the Bobby Cast. It's Little

669
00:34:33,760 --> 00:34:36,200
Speaker 1: Big Town Week on the Bobby Cast. When did you

670
00:34:36,239 --> 00:34:37,480
Speaker 1: think that you were able to get you're gonna be

671
00:34:37,520 --> 00:34:40,080
Speaker 1: able to turn food into oh wait for you to

672
00:34:40,239 --> 00:34:45,239
Speaker 1: actually take your passion and make a living at it. Well,

673
00:34:45,760 --> 00:34:48,120
Speaker 1: when I was a little tiny girl, I used to

674
00:34:48,200 --> 00:34:51,040
Speaker 1: pretend like I had a cooking show. Yeah, I would

675
00:34:51,040 --> 00:34:53,040
Speaker 1: stand on a stool in the kitchen with a bowl

676
00:34:53,080 --> 00:34:55,680
Speaker 1: and a wooden spoon and I would just pretend and

677
00:34:55,760 --> 00:34:57,840
Speaker 1: I've just talked to nobody and just pretend like I

678
00:34:57,960 --> 00:35:00,279
Speaker 1: was cooking. And I had this really silly voy that

679
00:35:00,360 --> 00:35:04,600
Speaker 1: I used, and I was a chef on a TV show. Um,

680
00:35:05,120 --> 00:35:07,440
Speaker 1: I don't I don't know where that came from, but

681
00:35:07,719 --> 00:35:10,880
Speaker 1: I did it all the time. And then you know,

682
00:35:11,080 --> 00:35:14,799
Speaker 1: that kind of went on the back burner. I never

683
00:35:14,960 --> 00:35:18,440
Speaker 1: even thought about it again until Jason, my manager, called me, Um,

684
00:35:19,360 --> 00:35:21,160
Speaker 1: I don't know, several years ago, and said, are you

685
00:35:21,239 --> 00:35:24,880
Speaker 1: sitting down? And I said no, but I will, And

686
00:35:25,040 --> 00:35:27,359
Speaker 1: he said, how do you feel about doing a cooking show?

687
00:35:27,800 --> 00:35:30,160
Speaker 1: And I was like, holy, yeah, that would be amazing.

688
00:35:30,480 --> 00:35:32,399
Speaker 1: I mean it, it had become a dream of mine

689
00:35:32,440 --> 00:35:35,040
Speaker 1: again because I love to cook, and I you know,

690
00:35:35,120 --> 00:35:39,400
Speaker 1: I cook for people a lot, and um, I love it.

691
00:35:39,600 --> 00:35:42,480
Speaker 1: It's definitely a passion of mine as a young girl,

692
00:35:42,560 --> 00:35:44,920
Speaker 1: would you have rather been a singer or a chef?

693
00:35:45,480 --> 00:35:50,000
Speaker 1: At ten years old? At ten years old, I started

694
00:35:50,040 --> 00:35:52,719
Speaker 1: getting the singing bug because I had sung a little

695
00:35:52,760 --> 00:35:56,600
Speaker 1: bit in church and then probably eleven I was probably

696
00:35:56,719 --> 00:36:00,239
Speaker 1: my first talent show at eleven um and then I

697
00:36:00,360 --> 00:36:03,640
Speaker 1: really caught the bug. But I always still cooked, but cooked,

698
00:36:03,840 --> 00:36:05,600
Speaker 1: But then I didn't think about cooking as a as

699
00:36:05,640 --> 00:36:07,719
Speaker 1: a career at that point. When you say you caught

700
00:36:07,760 --> 00:36:10,080
Speaker 1: the bug, was it because you were looking? Because for me,

701
00:36:10,200 --> 00:36:12,600
Speaker 1: performing and doing stand up or being on the radio,

702
00:36:13,000 --> 00:36:14,799
Speaker 1: I feel like it's a search for some kind of love,

703
00:36:15,280 --> 00:36:17,759
Speaker 1: Like I really is, Like that's that's I'm terrible at

704
00:36:17,760 --> 00:36:19,560
Speaker 1: accepting it, and so I go on, I try to

705
00:36:19,600 --> 00:36:21,680
Speaker 1: get it from strangers. It's back to your therapy part

706
00:36:21,719 --> 00:36:26,279
Speaker 1: for sure. Absolutely and so and that's not funny. I'm

707
00:36:26,320 --> 00:36:29,040
Speaker 1: not laughing at that, but I think it's so self

708
00:36:29,120 --> 00:36:31,920
Speaker 1: aware of it and I work on it. And but

709
00:36:32,160 --> 00:36:34,040
Speaker 1: for me, that's where the performance comes in and I'm

710
00:36:34,080 --> 00:36:38,080
Speaker 1: searching for some sort of validation or so, why you

711
00:36:38,520 --> 00:36:40,960
Speaker 1: why did you start with singing? Were you just so

712
00:36:41,120 --> 00:36:42,879
Speaker 1: good at it? Did you enjoy it? Were you looking

713
00:36:42,920 --> 00:36:46,439
Speaker 1: for love? Uh? No, I felt very loved. I wasn't

714
00:36:46,480 --> 00:36:50,080
Speaker 1: looking for love. I enjoyed it, and I did. I

715
00:36:50,160 --> 00:36:53,680
Speaker 1: did enjoy the the accolade, you know in the applause,

716
00:36:53,719 --> 00:36:58,440
Speaker 1: You're really good. I've had a talent, but I wouldn't

717
00:36:58,480 --> 00:37:01,320
Speaker 1: like Taylor Swift good, you know when I was a

718
00:37:01,320 --> 00:37:05,560
Speaker 1: little but um yeah, everybody around me I thought that

719
00:37:05,640 --> 00:37:08,719
Speaker 1: I was talented, which now that probably encouraged me to

720
00:37:08,960 --> 00:37:11,239
Speaker 1: do another talent show and another talent show and then

721
00:37:11,640 --> 00:37:15,120
Speaker 1: sing started singing for the Rotary Club or whoever would

722
00:37:15,160 --> 00:37:17,239
Speaker 1: have me and my daddy would drive me, you know,

723
00:37:17,480 --> 00:37:19,719
Speaker 1: all over the state of Georgia, whoever would listen to

724
00:37:19,800 --> 00:37:23,600
Speaker 1: me sing for whatever function it was. And um, probably

725
00:37:23,640 --> 00:37:30,680
Speaker 1: the encouragement of that grooma desire. And you were good.

726
00:37:30,840 --> 00:37:33,400
Speaker 1: You had a god given talent too. Yeah. Did you

727
00:37:33,440 --> 00:37:36,080
Speaker 1: take less? You work on it? Did you? Um? Not?

728
00:37:36,280 --> 00:37:38,719
Speaker 1: At first? My daddy is a singer and my sister

729
00:37:38,880 --> 00:37:41,320
Speaker 1: is a singer. Um, so it was always we always

730
00:37:41,440 --> 00:37:46,480
Speaker 1: did it. But I started taking voice lessens uh late

731
00:37:46,600 --> 00:37:49,960
Speaker 1: in high school and then in college. Is it a

732
00:37:50,040 --> 00:37:51,520
Speaker 1: thing where what if one of you guys get sick,

733
00:37:51,600 --> 00:37:53,600
Speaker 1: we ever fake it like one of you four and

734
00:37:53,719 --> 00:37:56,800
Speaker 1: just move your mouth because it's such a full group,

735
00:37:57,200 --> 00:38:00,759
Speaker 1: but you're probably so strong that maybe you don't have

736
00:38:00,880 --> 00:38:02,560
Speaker 1: to sing that hard if one of you go down.

737
00:38:02,680 --> 00:38:04,200
Speaker 1: Have you ever had to do that? Oh, yeah, we've

738
00:38:04,280 --> 00:38:06,600
Speaker 1: We've had We've had each of us go down at

739
00:38:06,680 --> 00:38:10,640
Speaker 1: some point. And we normally have so much fun in

740
00:38:10,680 --> 00:38:12,279
Speaker 1: a show. We can't wait for the show. It's just

741
00:38:12,360 --> 00:38:14,279
Speaker 1: the best part of the day. We can't wait to

742
00:38:14,320 --> 00:38:17,480
Speaker 1: get out there and do it. But except for the

743
00:38:17,640 --> 00:38:21,560
Speaker 1: days when somebody's down, because then we're each going, Okay,

744
00:38:21,640 --> 00:38:23,640
Speaker 1: if it's Karen, then I got to cover her part

745
00:38:23,680 --> 00:38:26,120
Speaker 1: on this, this, and this. If it's me, then Karen's

746
00:38:26,120 --> 00:38:27,920
Speaker 1: got to cover my part. If it's Jimmy, you know,

747
00:38:28,160 --> 00:38:31,200
Speaker 1: and we're all we're not able to just put it

748
00:38:31,239 --> 00:38:33,560
Speaker 1: on copilot and do our thing. We're having to think

749
00:38:33,719 --> 00:38:35,759
Speaker 1: super hard about Oh I gotta cover that part. I

750
00:38:35,800 --> 00:38:38,680
Speaker 1: gotta cover that part. Yeah, we've We've had to do

751
00:38:38,760 --> 00:38:41,080
Speaker 1: it plenty of times. Is there a single text thread

752
00:38:41,120 --> 00:38:43,920
Speaker 1: that just you four keep, like one text, one group text?

753
00:38:44,520 --> 00:38:47,719
Speaker 1: That is it? Is it labeled anything like us just

754
00:38:48,000 --> 00:38:49,920
Speaker 1: it's just it's just it's just the four of us.

755
00:38:50,680 --> 00:38:54,560
Speaker 1: At this point, what do you for talk about? Let

756
00:38:54,680 --> 00:38:59,240
Speaker 1: me thinking about the last one. Um, oh goodness, because

757
00:38:59,239 --> 00:39:01,640
Speaker 1: I'm sure there are many one on one conversations. Yeah,

758
00:39:01,719 --> 00:39:03,320
Speaker 1: all the time. And and Karen and I have the

759
00:39:03,360 --> 00:39:05,239
Speaker 1: best ones because we get ready together in the same

760
00:39:05,320 --> 00:39:10,480
Speaker 1: dressing room every night, so those are friends. Yeah, that's

761
00:39:10,680 --> 00:39:13,400
Speaker 1: that's so rare and awesome. It's really special. And I

762
00:39:13,440 --> 00:39:14,879
Speaker 1: know you're telling I'm acting only bit like I don't

763
00:39:14,960 --> 00:39:17,320
Speaker 1: know that, but I know you're telling the truth because

764
00:39:17,600 --> 00:39:20,040
Speaker 1: I'll see you guys back in the back and you're

765
00:39:20,080 --> 00:39:22,040
Speaker 1: in the same dressing right. You're about big stars. You

766
00:39:22,080 --> 00:39:26,840
Speaker 1: can have your own rooms, have your own buildings. We

767
00:39:27,000 --> 00:39:28,799
Speaker 1: know what we did get this year, which has been

768
00:39:28,960 --> 00:39:32,160
Speaker 1: such a treat and um, we've never ever had this before.

769
00:39:32,640 --> 00:39:34,880
Speaker 1: We each have our own bus now and it's been

770
00:39:34,960 --> 00:39:37,719
Speaker 1: really special. Um, the Westbrooks have a family bus. I

771
00:39:37,840 --> 00:39:40,359
Speaker 1: have one and Philip. Now each of us also has

772
00:39:40,400 --> 00:39:43,440
Speaker 1: a crew person um also on our bus. So it's

773
00:39:43,440 --> 00:39:47,880
Speaker 1: not just our families. But that's been really really cool

774
00:39:48,200 --> 00:39:53,359
Speaker 1: and special for our families, you know. But we still

775
00:39:53,680 --> 00:39:57,000
Speaker 1: spend all the time together and get ready together and

776
00:39:57,080 --> 00:39:59,200
Speaker 1: spend the whole day together. We park our buses in

777
00:39:59,280 --> 00:40:01,799
Speaker 1: a little square so that we can all get out

778
00:40:01,840 --> 00:40:03,719
Speaker 1: there in the mornings and the lounge chairs and watch

779
00:40:03,760 --> 00:40:07,160
Speaker 1: the babies run around, and um, we're always together. Look

780
00:40:07,200 --> 00:40:10,120
Speaker 1: at you guys, still liking each other. Yeah, Like I

781
00:40:10,200 --> 00:40:14,480
Speaker 1: have a staff of eight, and you know, everybody that

782
00:40:14,480 --> 00:40:17,040
Speaker 1: I've hired has been a friend. You know. I've been

783
00:40:17,239 --> 00:40:19,160
Speaker 1: lucky that we did things a weird way as a

784
00:40:19,239 --> 00:40:22,680
Speaker 1: radio show. Then we have any money, So I just

785
00:40:22,800 --> 00:40:25,319
Speaker 1: brought my friends on. And we still like each other.

786
00:40:25,680 --> 00:40:27,200
Speaker 1: You know. So as you talk about this, it's crazy

787
00:40:27,239 --> 00:40:28,680
Speaker 1: for me to hear this, but I put the mirror

788
00:40:28,800 --> 00:40:30,480
Speaker 1: up and I go but you know, but you know, Amy,

789
00:40:30,520 --> 00:40:33,720
Speaker 1: I have it together almost fifteen years. Yeah, it can happen.

790
00:40:34,560 --> 00:40:37,239
Speaker 1: There are still times like with Amy, and we have

791
00:40:37,320 --> 00:40:39,920
Speaker 1: this white board we keep up because Amy and I

792
00:40:39,920 --> 00:40:42,120
Speaker 1: are together more than anybody else. So we end up

793
00:40:42,160 --> 00:40:44,320
Speaker 1: my office. There's a white board and we walk in

794
00:40:44,560 --> 00:40:46,960
Speaker 1: right now, what number we feel like we are that day?

795
00:40:47,040 --> 00:40:50,320
Speaker 1: One through ten? Like tin is great means I'm fantastic,

796
00:40:50,400 --> 00:40:52,680
Speaker 1: I'm in a great mood. If you're down below four,

797
00:40:53,239 --> 00:40:55,000
Speaker 1: it's like, give me a little space, And so we

798
00:40:55,080 --> 00:40:57,120
Speaker 1: write this number down, so we have to fill each

799
00:40:57,120 --> 00:40:59,280
Speaker 1: other out. It's just like, got it your fourth today?

800
00:40:59,520 --> 00:41:01,879
Speaker 1: I know, what something I didn't get any sleep. Maybe

801
00:41:01,920 --> 00:41:05,240
Speaker 1: it's you know that is so smart. That's so smart,

802
00:41:05,760 --> 00:41:08,640
Speaker 1: and it saves us any sort of you know, step

803
00:41:08,719 --> 00:41:10,439
Speaker 1: each other's toes a bit because you get really close

804
00:41:10,440 --> 00:41:13,759
Speaker 1: when you spend that much time together just fights. That's

805
00:41:13,880 --> 00:41:16,719
Speaker 1: really cool. Karen and I can read each other's mind.

806
00:41:16,960 --> 00:41:18,759
Speaker 1: I know when she's a four and when she's a tin,

807
00:41:19,120 --> 00:41:21,640
Speaker 1: just pretty much by spinning about three minutes with her

808
00:41:21,680 --> 00:41:23,800
Speaker 1: in the morning, and she knows the same about me.

809
00:41:24,520 --> 00:41:27,840
Speaker 1: Um ever a tin. Oh yeah, like tin is a

810
00:41:27,840 --> 00:41:31,400
Speaker 1: great right, ye a lot. You seem like a super positive.

811
00:41:31,440 --> 00:41:34,040
Speaker 1: I'm a tin a lot. I have my moments, you know,

812
00:41:34,360 --> 00:41:37,799
Speaker 1: I'm real and normal and yeah I was with your

813
00:41:38,520 --> 00:41:40,919
Speaker 1: I was one seat back behind your husband and your daughter.

814
00:41:40,960 --> 00:41:45,680
Speaker 1: We're flying Southwest, and they're like you, they're so not

815
00:41:45,880 --> 00:41:49,800
Speaker 1: Usually there's a yang. Usually there's because I feel like,

816
00:41:49,840 --> 00:41:51,080
Speaker 1: if I ever get married, if I ever get a

817
00:41:51,080 --> 00:41:53,360
Speaker 1: girlfriend like she has to, I don't have much to

818
00:41:53,360 --> 00:41:55,280
Speaker 1: say I want. When I'm not doing this, I'm very quiet,

819
00:41:55,760 --> 00:42:00,120
Speaker 1: kind of solitude, and I feel like any time I've

820
00:42:00,120 --> 00:42:02,040
Speaker 1: ever been with anyone, their big personality have to be

821
00:42:02,120 --> 00:42:03,200
Speaker 1: to kind of make up for the fact that I'm

822
00:42:03,239 --> 00:42:05,360
Speaker 1: not dudly, I'm not you know. I do my my

823
00:42:05,400 --> 00:42:07,080
Speaker 1: little song and dance and then I shut it down.

824
00:42:08,160 --> 00:42:09,520
Speaker 1: And so you would think you would be with like.

825
00:42:11,000 --> 00:42:16,600
Speaker 1: But he's the sweetest guy, sweetheart. No, he yeah, he's

826
00:42:18,280 --> 00:42:22,160
Speaker 1: is there too much sweetness? Now? Now he's a tough

827
00:42:22,320 --> 00:42:25,560
Speaker 1: he's a tough dude. Yeah, I mean he's not. He

828
00:42:26,520 --> 00:42:32,760
Speaker 1: and he's he's a he's strong, but he's beautifully strong,

829
00:42:33,120 --> 00:42:36,800
Speaker 1: you know. He. Oh my goodness, he's the best to me.

830
00:42:36,920 --> 00:42:40,440
Speaker 1: He picked me out out of the darkest, deepest hole

831
00:42:40,560 --> 00:42:45,080
Speaker 1: that I never thought I would escape from and fixed

832
00:42:45,200 --> 00:42:50,560
Speaker 1: me and is such a beautiful soul inside and out.

833
00:42:50,719 --> 00:42:53,839
Speaker 1: I mean, he is an incredible man and now an

834
00:42:53,880 --> 00:42:57,560
Speaker 1: incredible daddy. You know you talk about your kids. Didn't

835
00:42:57,640 --> 00:43:02,000
Speaker 1: you have your baby right after a show? Now that

836
00:43:02,040 --> 00:43:04,879
Speaker 1: I think about it, Yeah, you guys were playing a show. Yes.

837
00:43:05,160 --> 00:43:08,279
Speaker 1: So we were on the Martina McBride tour back in

838
00:43:08,320 --> 00:43:12,120
Speaker 1: two thousand seven, and the tour had two more weeks left,

839
00:43:12,560 --> 00:43:15,360
Speaker 1: and I had three more weeks left of my pregnancy.

840
00:43:15,760 --> 00:43:18,520
Speaker 1: So you're nine months pregnant and you're still up there

841
00:43:18,640 --> 00:43:21,400
Speaker 1: singing there, singing and dancing. I was the happy I

842
00:43:21,480 --> 00:43:23,400
Speaker 1: wanted to baby my whole life. I wanted to be

843
00:43:23,440 --> 00:43:26,400
Speaker 1: a mommy. So I was happy as a lark. I

844
00:43:26,600 --> 00:43:29,920
Speaker 1: loved it. I was huge and happy. And I have

845
00:43:30,040 --> 00:43:32,560
Speaker 1: a picture of the night that I went into labor

846
00:43:32,719 --> 00:43:36,480
Speaker 1: and I was in six or seven inch wedge shoes.

847
00:43:37,120 --> 00:43:43,160
Speaker 1: I still have nine months pregnant. So so we the

848
00:43:43,280 --> 00:43:46,360
Speaker 1: plan was, we'll finish up the Martina McBride tour in

849
00:43:46,440 --> 00:43:48,440
Speaker 1: the next two weeks and I'll have one week to

850
00:43:48,480 --> 00:43:50,640
Speaker 1: get my house all perfect and ready and pack my

851
00:43:50,719 --> 00:43:53,640
Speaker 1: bag for the hospital, and I'll have a baby. But

852
00:43:54,840 --> 00:43:59,239
Speaker 1: the good Lord had a different story. So um, we

853
00:44:00,400 --> 00:44:04,600
Speaker 1: finished up a show on the Martine of tour in Phoenix.

854
00:44:04,880 --> 00:44:06,880
Speaker 1: I wasn't feeling very good that day, but I had

855
00:44:06,880 --> 00:44:08,840
Speaker 1: a bad cold, so I thought, you know, it's just

856
00:44:09,120 --> 00:44:13,319
Speaker 1: I'm just not I'm just tired and very pregnant. So um,

857
00:44:13,880 --> 00:44:18,000
Speaker 1: I went and got my bunk after the show. Something

858
00:44:18,040 --> 00:44:22,120
Speaker 1: woke me up two hours later, like a like a cramp,

859
00:44:23,120 --> 00:44:28,279
Speaker 1: you could say. So you're in a bunk to a

860
00:44:28,360 --> 00:44:30,560
Speaker 1: nine months pregnant. It was in a bunk, a special bunk.

861
00:44:30,680 --> 00:44:32,719
Speaker 1: Oh no, it was it was the you know the

862
00:44:32,760 --> 00:44:35,680
Speaker 1: difference in the bunks. There's the bunks that are like coffins,

863
00:44:35,960 --> 00:44:38,439
Speaker 1: are stacked three hat and then then the condo bunks

864
00:44:38,480 --> 00:44:41,399
Speaker 1: which are real fancy and they're amazing. But we were

865
00:44:41,680 --> 00:44:44,320
Speaker 1: there was twelve of us still on this bus. So

866
00:44:44,520 --> 00:44:46,680
Speaker 1: I was rolling in and out of the bottom bunk,

867
00:44:47,040 --> 00:44:49,600
Speaker 1: not able to sit up, hardly able to get my belly.

868
00:44:49,760 --> 00:44:53,360
Speaker 1: And I was pregnant, yeah, and I was on the

869
00:44:53,360 --> 00:44:56,000
Speaker 1: bottom bottom of the you know, the three stacks, So

870
00:44:56,080 --> 00:44:58,640
Speaker 1: I'll just roll in and roll out. And so your

871
00:44:58,680 --> 00:45:04,160
Speaker 1: water breaks on the bus yep, And um so it

872
00:45:04,480 --> 00:45:06,919
Speaker 1: shocked me. I mean, it wasn't like the pickle jars

873
00:45:06,960 --> 00:45:09,920
Speaker 1: in the grocery store. It wasn't that dramatic. But um

874
00:45:10,440 --> 00:45:12,120
Speaker 1: so I got up and I went to the bathroom

875
00:45:12,920 --> 00:45:16,920
Speaker 1: and I'm on the bathroom and I'm freaking out in

876
00:45:17,040 --> 00:45:19,759
Speaker 1: the bathroom. And then my husband, who was doing merch

877
00:45:19,840 --> 00:45:22,400
Speaker 1: for us at the time, comes on the bus. Everybody

878
00:45:22,440 --> 00:45:24,880
Speaker 1: else is asleep. He comes on the bus because he

879
00:45:24,920 --> 00:45:28,360
Speaker 1: had just finished the merch merchandise, and he walked on

880
00:45:28,480 --> 00:45:30,760
Speaker 1: with one of Martina's guys. Well, I'm in the bathroom.

881
00:45:30,800 --> 00:45:34,680
Speaker 1: He didn't know that. And Martine's guy says, you really

882
00:45:34,760 --> 00:45:37,319
Speaker 1: think Kimberly is gonna last for another two weeks till

883
00:45:37,360 --> 00:45:39,879
Speaker 1: this tour is over. And Schlap was like, oh, yeah,

884
00:45:40,040 --> 00:45:42,120
Speaker 1: she's gonna be fine. She's gonna be fine. She's gonna

885
00:45:42,160 --> 00:45:45,080
Speaker 1: make him. So that guy leaves the bus and I

886
00:45:45,280 --> 00:45:49,680
Speaker 1: slammed over from the bathroom were and I'm like happening.

887
00:45:50,440 --> 00:45:54,279
Speaker 1: I'm freaking out. My whole body is shaken. My chance

888
00:45:54,360 --> 00:45:56,880
Speaker 1: is going la la la la la. I could hardly

889
00:45:56,920 --> 00:46:00,839
Speaker 1: even speak, and he's like, okay, okay, let's call your nurse.

890
00:46:01,320 --> 00:46:04,200
Speaker 1: So he called my nurse, and she who did not

891
00:46:04,320 --> 00:46:05,759
Speaker 1: want me to have this baby out of town. She

892
00:46:05,800 --> 00:46:07,520
Speaker 1: wanted me to get back to Nashville because she wasn't

893
00:46:07,560 --> 00:46:10,600
Speaker 1: with you know, she's here in Nashville. I'm in Phoenix.

894
00:46:11,239 --> 00:46:14,799
Speaker 1: And she's like, okay, maybe it's just maybe it was just, uh,

895
00:46:15,000 --> 00:46:17,160
Speaker 1: you coughed too hard because of your bad cold, and

896
00:46:17,600 --> 00:46:21,160
Speaker 1: you know, you know, just a little link it's your

897
00:46:21,239 --> 00:46:25,240
Speaker 1: something from their bladder. That's just t m I. But anyway,

898
00:46:25,360 --> 00:46:27,480
Speaker 1: so she said, but you should go to the hospital

899
00:46:27,560 --> 00:46:30,000
Speaker 1: and get checked out. So everybody's still asleep in the

900
00:46:30,040 --> 00:46:33,080
Speaker 1: back of the bus. So Schlap tells the driver, don't

901
00:46:33,160 --> 00:46:35,840
Speaker 1: tell us Soul this, but find us the closest hospital

902
00:46:35,960 --> 00:46:38,640
Speaker 1: and we're gonna need to go get checked out. So

903
00:46:38,880 --> 00:46:40,360
Speaker 1: he went back in the venue and he asked for

904
00:46:40,400 --> 00:46:42,279
Speaker 1: the best hospital and they sent him just down the

905
00:46:42,400 --> 00:46:45,960
Speaker 1: road to this incredible hospital called ban Or Australia Hospital

906
00:46:46,040 --> 00:46:49,480
Speaker 1: in Phoenix, Arizona. And I went in and they took

907
00:46:49,520 --> 00:46:52,160
Speaker 1: me right in in the emergency room, and I said

908
00:46:52,200 --> 00:46:55,080
Speaker 1: to the lady, we just want to get checked out

909
00:46:55,320 --> 00:46:57,680
Speaker 1: because we're going to go back on tour and we

910
00:46:57,760 --> 00:46:59,759
Speaker 1: have to be in Las Vegas in the morning, so

911
00:47:00,160 --> 00:47:01,680
Speaker 1: I just want to get checked out and then we're

912
00:47:01,680 --> 00:47:04,239
Speaker 1: going to go. And she goes, oh, honey, you're not

913
00:47:04,320 --> 00:47:08,840
Speaker 1: going anywhere. You are in labor, and so oh jeez.

914
00:47:09,120 --> 00:47:11,040
Speaker 1: And then I really freaked out. I'm like, what a minute,

915
00:47:11,040 --> 00:47:13,080
Speaker 1: I have nine more shows to do, I can't have

916
00:47:13,160 --> 00:47:16,000
Speaker 1: a baby yet, and my mom is not here. Most

917
00:47:16,080 --> 00:47:20,000
Speaker 1: of all, my mother is across the country in Georgia. So, um,

918
00:47:21,000 --> 00:47:29,080
Speaker 1: yeah it happened. How long was your labors? Did your

919
00:47:29,160 --> 00:47:33,360
Speaker 1: nurse end up coming from Nashville? Oh? No, so just

920
00:47:33,480 --> 00:47:38,040
Speaker 1: so you just went and in Phoenix in Phoenix at hospital. Yes,

921
00:47:39,040 --> 00:47:44,000
Speaker 1: and um Schlap sister who lives in Ventura, California, so sweet,

922
00:47:44,160 --> 00:47:45,960
Speaker 1: She flew in so that she could be there. So

923
00:47:46,400 --> 00:47:49,040
Speaker 1: when I did deliver, Slap walked out and he was

924
00:47:49,120 --> 00:47:52,400
Speaker 1: able to say to someone, it's a girl. You know.

925
00:47:52,560 --> 00:47:55,280
Speaker 1: Otherwise there would have been nobody but um, the band.

926
00:47:55,719 --> 00:47:58,000
Speaker 1: So I labored all night. The band came in about

927
00:47:58,040 --> 00:48:01,960
Speaker 1: ten o'clock the next morning and and Um, you know,

928
00:48:02,280 --> 00:48:04,600
Speaker 1: hung out with me for a while, and then they

929
00:48:04,680 --> 00:48:06,320
Speaker 1: had to go because the show must go on, so

930
00:48:06,400 --> 00:48:08,880
Speaker 1: they had to drop to face the while you had

931
00:48:08,880 --> 00:48:10,839
Speaker 1: a baby. They did nine they had to do nine

932
00:48:10,880 --> 00:48:14,680
Speaker 1: shows without me those last two weeks. And they finished

933
00:48:14,719 --> 00:48:18,400
Speaker 1: the tour, Martina Tour, and we stayed in Phoenix for

934
00:48:18,520 --> 00:48:22,520
Speaker 1: four days and then though the most precious gift, this

935
00:48:22,680 --> 00:48:26,040
Speaker 1: is my husband, the most precious gift. We're packing up

936
00:48:26,840 --> 00:48:29,440
Speaker 1: and we and the doctor didn't want us flying with Daisy,

937
00:48:29,680 --> 00:48:32,400
Speaker 1: so we had to bring a bus out. So we

938
00:48:32,440 --> 00:48:34,720
Speaker 1: were going to ride the bus home thirty three hours

939
00:48:35,320 --> 00:48:38,560
Speaker 1: with a brand new baby. So we were packing up stuff.

940
00:48:38,600 --> 00:48:40,800
Speaker 1: I was kind of nervous about that, but still so

941
00:48:40,920 --> 00:48:43,560
Speaker 1: excited just to be a mama. And Um, as I'm

942
00:48:43,600 --> 00:48:45,520
Speaker 1: packing up my stuff getting ready to go, I turned

943
00:48:45,560 --> 00:48:49,480
Speaker 1: around and into the room walks my mother. Slap had

944
00:48:49,760 --> 00:48:51,879
Speaker 1: flown her out to surprise me and ride the bus

945
00:48:51,960 --> 00:48:57,200
Speaker 1: home with us. I was a mass I've lost it

946
00:48:57,320 --> 00:49:00,200
Speaker 1: and she lost it and oh it's just this eat

947
00:49:00,280 --> 00:49:02,440
Speaker 1: is It turned out to be just the most beautiful

948
00:49:02,560 --> 00:49:05,600
Speaker 1: four days, first slapping me in little Daisy and then

949
00:49:05,680 --> 00:49:08,120
Speaker 1: my mama all the way home in thirty three hours

950
00:49:08,200 --> 00:49:11,680
Speaker 1: back the Star room. At least are you still on

951
00:49:11,719 --> 00:49:13,799
Speaker 1: the are you still on the coffin ball? We were

952
00:49:13,800 --> 00:49:15,160
Speaker 1: in there, we got the I think we had the

953
00:49:15,239 --> 00:49:17,919
Speaker 1: condo bunks on that bus. Yeah, yeah, that's crazy, Yeah

954
00:49:17,920 --> 00:49:19,800
Speaker 1: a little bit. But Schlap pulled out one of the

955
00:49:20,320 --> 00:49:22,439
Speaker 1: drawers in the front of the bus and padded it out,

956
00:49:22,560 --> 00:49:26,120
Speaker 1: and that was Daisy's baby bed, a little drawer. That's cool.

957
00:49:26,520 --> 00:49:29,520
Speaker 1: I want a good story. Little big town week on

958
00:49:29,640 --> 00:49:34,160
Speaker 1: the Bobby Cast. It's little big Town Week on the

959
00:49:34,239 --> 00:49:39,319
Speaker 1: Bobby Cast. So that's a really good story that I'm

960
00:49:39,320 --> 00:49:41,960
Speaker 1: glad you did. I love that story. Whenever I think

961
00:49:42,000 --> 00:49:43,799
Speaker 1: about you guys in the past five or six years

962
00:49:43,840 --> 00:49:45,879
Speaker 1: that I've been here, like, I just know you guys

963
00:49:46,000 --> 00:49:49,320
Speaker 1: is the big big big little big town, you know,

964
00:49:49,360 --> 00:49:52,120
Speaker 1: because you guys have really stepped up to that next

965
00:49:52,200 --> 00:49:54,160
Speaker 1: level where you wanted all the Awards. By the way,

966
00:49:54,160 --> 00:49:56,000
Speaker 1: I remember when you said my name at the what

967
00:49:56,239 --> 00:49:58,279
Speaker 1: was the c M as RA c MS. I don't

968
00:49:58,280 --> 00:50:00,480
Speaker 1: remeber which one it was now I'm just thinking thinking

969
00:50:00,520 --> 00:50:05,160
Speaker 1: out loud here, I can't remember which the pre uh show.

970
00:50:05,560 --> 00:50:06,759
Speaker 1: And I've been on the radio. I don't know what

971
00:50:06,760 --> 00:50:08,320
Speaker 1: I was doing. I was nuts. Who knows what I

972
00:50:08,400 --> 00:50:11,480
Speaker 1: was doing early on and you said someone said thank

973
00:50:11,520 --> 00:50:13,839
Speaker 1: you Jesus and said thank you Bobby Bond. Yeah, because

974
00:50:13,840 --> 00:50:16,680
Speaker 1: I told you we would. Yeah. So, And I remember, like,

975
00:50:16,760 --> 00:50:18,680
Speaker 1: I owe you one. I still remember that in my heart,

976
00:50:18,760 --> 00:50:21,000
Speaker 1: like someday I'm gonna get you back, and I'm gonna

977
00:50:21,440 --> 00:50:23,319
Speaker 1: something's gonna happen that people are gonna think I'm cool.

978
00:50:23,400 --> 00:50:25,920
Speaker 1: One day I'm gonna be able to put it back

979
00:50:25,920 --> 00:50:27,359
Speaker 1: around you guys. But that was that was really cool.

980
00:50:27,400 --> 00:50:29,120
Speaker 1: I was like, man, these people, the nice this is

981
00:50:29,160 --> 00:50:31,680
Speaker 1: someone name on National TV. We told you we would.

982
00:50:31,800 --> 00:50:34,040
Speaker 1: That's true, you did? I forgot all about that at all?

983
00:50:34,080 --> 00:50:38,200
Speaker 1: The what's up? Wow? How about that? How about that?

984
00:50:38,239 --> 00:50:39,239
Speaker 1: Do you do you would know who the cash me

985
00:50:39,280 --> 00:50:41,080
Speaker 1: outside girl is? Do you know who that is? Oh?

986
00:50:41,239 --> 00:50:43,759
Speaker 1: Never mind, I don't know. Never look her up. Don't

987
00:50:44,360 --> 00:50:48,800
Speaker 1: get me in trouble and if pad afterwards, she's the

988
00:50:48,880 --> 00:50:51,799
Speaker 1: girl that goes cash me outside. How about that? See

989
00:50:52,239 --> 00:50:54,680
Speaker 1: I'm listening to Elmo and says me straight right now.

990
00:50:54,760 --> 00:50:56,600
Speaker 1: So I don't know the cash me hot girl? How

991
00:50:56,680 --> 00:50:59,960
Speaker 1: how long ago she Mike? How long goes cash me

992
00:51:00,000 --> 00:51:03,880
Speaker 1: outside girl? It was like two years ago. She's not

993
00:51:04,040 --> 00:51:07,680
Speaker 1: someone to look up to. Uh. The I felt like

994
00:51:07,719 --> 00:51:13,319
Speaker 1: Happy People got a raw deal. Oh me too, me too,

995
00:51:13,480 --> 00:51:16,000
Speaker 1: all of you guys as songs. I really felt like

996
00:51:16,040 --> 00:51:19,440
Speaker 1: Happy People was the one. Oh there, it is right there,

997
00:51:20,480 --> 00:51:23,120
Speaker 1: this song was. I was disappointed, Like my my gud,

998
00:51:23,360 --> 00:51:25,239
Speaker 1: thank you and thank you for everything you did on

999
00:51:25,320 --> 00:51:27,040
Speaker 1: air to try to make this a hit for us.

1000
00:51:27,440 --> 00:51:31,240
Speaker 1: I mean you were the you were waving the flag.

1001
00:51:31,400 --> 00:51:34,680
Speaker 1: I just didn't understand, Like I really didn't understand how

1002
00:51:34,719 --> 00:51:37,080
Speaker 1: it wasn't. I don't either. I don't understand. I will

1003
00:51:37,160 --> 00:51:38,840
Speaker 1: tell you in our live show. It's one of the

1004
00:51:38,880 --> 00:51:42,000
Speaker 1: sweetest moments because we made a video that I'm so

1005
00:51:42,200 --> 00:51:44,200
Speaker 1: proud of and it's just a whole bunch of different

1006
00:51:44,280 --> 00:51:47,520
Speaker 1: people with happy smiles on their faces or they're dancing

1007
00:51:47,600 --> 00:51:49,480
Speaker 1: or their giggling, and our kids are in it, and

1008
00:51:50,040 --> 00:51:52,960
Speaker 1: it's so special and at our shows. UM on the

1009
00:51:53,040 --> 00:51:56,560
Speaker 1: Breakers tour which just ended, we UM have this video

1010
00:51:56,680 --> 00:51:59,440
Speaker 1: on the huge screens behind us, and every night I

1011
00:51:59,480 --> 00:52:01,120
Speaker 1: have to just turn around and watch. It just makes

1012
00:52:01,160 --> 00:52:04,080
Speaker 1: me happy and and that that that song means a

1013
00:52:04,160 --> 00:52:07,359
Speaker 1: lot to people in the shows, in our audience. When

1014
00:52:07,400 --> 00:52:08,920
Speaker 1: I just think about you, guys, I think about that

1015
00:52:09,040 --> 00:52:11,319
Speaker 1: song like one of the At first I think about

1016
00:52:11,360 --> 00:52:13,480
Speaker 1: Girl Crushed first, but this song probably second of all

1017
00:52:13,520 --> 00:52:18,440
Speaker 1: your songs, because again I was so irritated at whatever

1018
00:52:18,600 --> 00:52:21,400
Speaker 1: country radio or country whatever that is. I don't even

1019
00:52:21,440 --> 00:52:23,320
Speaker 1: understand it anymore, but whatever they is, I was so

1020
00:52:23,840 --> 00:52:28,399
Speaker 1: disappointed in it. Thank you guys got such a raw deal.

1021
00:52:28,440 --> 00:52:30,439
Speaker 1: Do you know why? What was? What were they telling

1022
00:52:30,480 --> 00:52:33,120
Speaker 1: you guys? I don't know. I just couldn't get played.

1023
00:52:33,239 --> 00:52:37,560
Speaker 1: Great message was upbeat, everything that's supposed to that people

1024
00:52:37,600 --> 00:52:40,920
Speaker 1: say it's supposed to be. It was precious. Lori McKinnon

1025
00:52:40,960 --> 00:52:44,959
Speaker 1: wrote that in Haley Winters and oh yeah, I thought

1026
00:52:45,600 --> 00:52:47,440
Speaker 1: I thought it was going to be a big song.

1027
00:52:47,520 --> 00:52:50,920
Speaker 1: When you put the last record out the Breakers, critics

1028
00:52:51,080 --> 00:52:54,400
Speaker 1: loved it, like loved it. It wasn't even when you

1029
00:52:54,440 --> 00:53:00,800
Speaker 1: had to struggle, it was Was that a normal for

1030
00:53:00,880 --> 00:53:04,320
Speaker 1: the critics to just love a record is rare for

1031
00:53:04,440 --> 00:53:07,319
Speaker 1: someone that's big like you guys. Yeah, that was rare.

1032
00:53:07,760 --> 00:53:10,120
Speaker 1: It is my favorite record we've ever done. I'm super

1033
00:53:10,160 --> 00:53:12,680
Speaker 1: I'm proud of everything we've done, but that record really

1034
00:53:12,760 --> 00:53:16,960
Speaker 1: meant a lot to me. Um. Yeah, the critical acclaim

1035
00:53:17,120 --> 00:53:19,640
Speaker 1: was really cool and the best we had ever had.

1036
00:53:19,960 --> 00:53:21,920
Speaker 1: And not because your other stuff isn't good, but you

1037
00:53:22,000 --> 00:53:24,640
Speaker 1: guys had achieved that point of you. You're kind of

1038
00:53:24,680 --> 00:53:26,320
Speaker 1: a big deal now, and usually when you get to

1039
00:53:26,320 --> 00:53:28,560
Speaker 1: be a big deal, you're not as critically love because

1040
00:53:28,560 --> 00:53:31,160
Speaker 1: the critical well, they're already a big deal. I'll get

1041
00:53:31,239 --> 00:53:34,040
Speaker 1: more clicks by taking a shot, yes, right then, I

1042
00:53:34,160 --> 00:53:37,759
Speaker 1: will by saying something is good. And even with that,

1043
00:53:37,880 --> 00:53:39,759
Speaker 1: that's how you know the record was fantastic because even

1044
00:53:39,840 --> 00:53:42,080
Speaker 1: with that, you guys were getting loved in all the

1045
00:53:42,280 --> 00:53:45,239
Speaker 1: award nominations even while being a big deal. Congratulations on

1046
00:53:45,280 --> 00:53:48,000
Speaker 1: that that. I thought it was really cool. Anyway, UM,

1047
00:53:48,200 --> 00:53:51,520
Speaker 1: tell me about your cookbook. My cookbook, UM is a

1048
00:53:51,560 --> 00:53:54,279
Speaker 1: collection of recipes that have been handed down to me

1049
00:53:54,520 --> 00:53:56,400
Speaker 1: or that I came up with along the way. Some

1050
00:53:56,520 --> 00:53:59,120
Speaker 1: of them are from my cooking show, and um it's

1051
00:53:59,239 --> 00:54:04,120
Speaker 1: that and then pretty much my life story because the publisher, HarperCollins,

1052
00:54:04,239 --> 00:54:10,200
Speaker 1: let me like them. They really Lett gave me a

1053
00:54:10,280 --> 00:54:11,880
Speaker 1: lot of leeway on the book to tell a lot

1054
00:54:11,960 --> 00:54:14,640
Speaker 1: of my life story, which I love, you know. I'm

1055
00:54:15,239 --> 00:54:17,239
Speaker 1: mostly I'm glad I have that book for Daisy and

1056
00:54:17,360 --> 00:54:19,640
Speaker 1: Dolly because it has so much history of my life

1057
00:54:19,680 --> 00:54:21,719
Speaker 1: and my family and how my parents got together and

1058
00:54:21,800 --> 00:54:25,640
Speaker 1: my grandparents got together, and just sweet stories about recipes

1059
00:54:25,760 --> 00:54:29,040
Speaker 1: and um. So it's it's both. It's a memoir and

1060
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Speaker 1: a cookbook. That's cool. It's cool that you're able to

1061
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Speaker 1: do what you love and then also do what you

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Speaker 1: love while doing it with people you love. Let me

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Speaker 1: have any note, I know, I haven't even been to

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Speaker 1: them yet. Let me see I have anything. How do

1065
00:54:40,680 --> 00:54:43,560
Speaker 1: I open this thing up? Mike? So you're born in Cornelia, Georgia,

1066
00:54:43,840 --> 00:54:46,480
Speaker 1: my little hometown. Oh Gussie on Twitter? I know this,

1067
00:54:46,560 --> 00:54:49,520
Speaker 1: But that's an expression that's like a Southern expression. I'm

1068
00:54:49,600 --> 00:54:51,560
Speaker 1: right about that, right, oh Gussie. Yeah? And it can

1069
00:54:51,600 --> 00:54:53,719
Speaker 1: mean so many things. It can mean that you're happy.

1070
00:54:53,800 --> 00:54:56,040
Speaker 1: It can mean you that you're mad. You can mean

1071
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Speaker 1: that you're excited. You have I didn't know this if

1072
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Speaker 1: a kid in line loving Daisies, so people can buy

1073
00:55:02,760 --> 00:55:04,359
Speaker 1: it right now? Is that a Is that a TV

1074
00:55:04,440 --> 00:55:07,480
Speaker 1: thing where you're on TV the Home Shopping Network that

1075
00:55:07,600 --> 00:55:09,520
Speaker 1: Loving Daisy is at at the Home Shopping Network and

1076
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Speaker 1: it's really some really beautiful kitchen things. And then at

1077
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Speaker 1: Cracker Barrel, I also have a line of things that

1078
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Speaker 1: I've had for several years at Cracker Barrel. The coffee

1079
00:55:17,480 --> 00:55:20,840
Speaker 1: mag I brought used from Cracker Barrel. And um, my

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Speaker 1: daddy makes pottery and he's a beautiful potter. Some of

1081
00:55:25,200 --> 00:55:28,239
Speaker 1: my greatest treasures are his pieces of pottery. And we

1082
00:55:28,440 --> 00:55:30,920
Speaker 1: have a line at Cracker Barrel called Paul Paul Pottery

1083
00:55:31,000 --> 00:55:33,480
Speaker 1: because we call him Paul Fall. So, um, pap Paul

1084
00:55:33,480 --> 00:55:36,960
Speaker 1: Pottery is at Cracker Barrel. That's cool. Well, well, well,

1085
00:55:37,080 --> 00:55:39,920
Speaker 1: and the name of your book, oh come, you have

1086
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Speaker 1: to tell me now if it was prepared, it's called

1087
00:55:42,520 --> 00:55:48,160
Speaker 1: Gussie and then it's something like Childhood in Kimberly Schlapping

1088
00:55:48,200 --> 00:55:50,320
Speaker 1: this kitchen or something unprepared. I thought I would just

1089
00:55:50,440 --> 00:55:53,120
Speaker 1: know that. Please don't think you're unprepared. I didn't even

1090
00:55:53,160 --> 00:55:55,880
Speaker 1: know you weren't dating anymore. Yeah, but you're not supposed

1091
00:55:55,880 --> 00:55:58,319
Speaker 1: be prepared. You just came over to the house. Listen.

1092
00:55:58,480 --> 00:56:01,000
Speaker 1: I really appreciate you coming to her. You're so welcome.

1093
00:56:01,040 --> 00:56:02,800
Speaker 1: You guys are my favorite people. You're one of my

1094
00:56:02,840 --> 00:56:04,800
Speaker 1: favorite people. You're so kind. I was standing on the

1095
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Speaker 1: side of the road one day. I don't know if

1096
00:56:05,880 --> 00:56:07,640
Speaker 1: you remember this. I was staying. I was down by

1097
00:56:07,719 --> 00:56:09,879
Speaker 1: church tree. I was getting my haircut, and you were

1098
00:56:10,000 --> 00:56:12,640
Speaker 1: driving and I was walking and you stopped the card.

1099
00:56:12,640 --> 00:56:15,080
Speaker 1: Do you remember see me? And we looked at each

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Speaker 1: other and we're like, yeah, we know each other and

1101
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Speaker 1: give it a thumbs up, and like, h that was cool.

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Speaker 1: I should ask you if you needed a rod. No, yeah,

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Speaker 1: I would have. Never, I mean maybe I would have.

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00:56:25,320 --> 00:56:29,080
Speaker 1: You're safe stranger danger though, yeah, range danger Um. Well,

1105
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Speaker 1: thank you very much, welcome. Thanks for breaking in the studio.

1106
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Speaker 1: This person I've ever done, and I'm so happy that

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Speaker 1: I was able to. Thanks for having and I have

1108
00:56:36,040 --> 00:56:40,560
Speaker 1: some slap happy bars. I know that's I can't keep

1109
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Speaker 1: anything in the house because I'll eat it. Well, just

1110
00:56:42,600 --> 00:56:44,719
Speaker 1: eat that, I'll eat eat one and pass them out.

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00:56:44,840 --> 00:56:46,279
Speaker 1: I'll take them to work tomor take them to work.

1112
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Speaker 1: All right, thank you very much. All right, We'll see

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Speaker 1: you next time on the Boby Cast. Everybody be sure

1114
00:56:50,120 --> 00:56:51,759
Speaker 1: to download all little bit times of music about all

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Speaker 1: the stuff that Kim really talking about. By it all

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Speaker 1: by three of them, by one for you and one

1117
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Speaker 1: for your cousin, and then one for her friend. All right,

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Speaker 1: thanks guys, a little big town week on the Bobby Cast.

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