Speaker 1: Carola, She's the queen of talking. He was sown your man.
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Speaker 1: welcome to Hyper Caroline Hobby. I am your host, Caroline Hobby.
Speaker 1: I know music, I know people, and I know the
Speaker 1: questions do you want to ask? So let's get Hyper
Speaker 1: heads up. These are adults having adult conversations, so there
Speaker 1: could be adult content. This episode is so fun because
Speaker 1: I have Kelly Pickler in the house. What I freaking
Speaker 1: love Kelly Pickler. Who doesn't love Kelly Pickler? Oh wait,
Speaker 1: that's why there should be a show on CNT called
Speaker 1: I Love Kelly Pickler. And it's happening now. We're on
Speaker 1: season two. It's airing every Thursday, and it's so fun.
Speaker 1: I'm on the cast with her, and we've gotten into
Speaker 1: some crazy adventures like family feud with Steve Harvey, finding
Speaker 1: Jennifer Wayne a date, Kyle and Ken go to the
Speaker 1: dog park and find her a man, and just stuff
Speaker 1: that we've gotten into already has been crazy, and there's
Speaker 1: so much more to come. So Kelly is here and
Speaker 1: we're going to talk about what to expect. And I
Speaker 1: love Kelly Pickler and and Kelly Pickler's world in general.
Speaker 1: Here she is. We have two cheers, or as we
Speaker 1: say in Japan, because I learned a little bit of
Speaker 1: Japanese while I was over there, because you went to
Speaker 1: Japan for I Love Kelly Pickler, we did. I got
Speaker 1: to hear all about it. It was amazing. The most
Speaker 1: important Japanese word that I learned was come pie. Tell
Speaker 1: me about come high. Comepi means cheers, come pile, come
Speaker 1: come fie, come f come fie, and that means cheers.
Speaker 1: So tell me about Japan. What is the traditions of Japan?
Speaker 1: Because you go there for the season finale of I
Speaker 1: Love Kelly Picker, which season two started airing, we're gonna
Speaker 1: be three episodes in by the time this podcast airs. Yes,
Speaker 1: we're gonna do a little recap right now. We'll talk
Speaker 1: about the future. You wright the whole thing up by
Speaker 1: going to jumpan Well, we don't know if they're gonna
Speaker 1: make it the season finale or if it's going to
Speaker 1: be earlier in the show yet, because we can't wait
Speaker 1: to see it. We can't well, we can't wait, we
Speaker 1: can't wait. We had the best time, so Colin I
Speaker 1: we packed up her suitcases, flew off to Asia, first
Speaker 1: time to Asia. Yes, to Japan, Tokyo, and it was incredible.
Speaker 1: It was so wonderful. What is it like over there?
Speaker 1: It is, well, Tokyo. We went to the observatory and
Speaker 1: it made New York City look like our hometowns. Really
Speaker 1: like Waco and album Marble Wake I Texas. We're on
Speaker 1: with Carolina seriously made crazy. It's so big. There's just
Speaker 1: buildings and buildings and buildings. It's like a sea of cement,
Speaker 1: cement jungle, it is. But it's so wonderful that people
Speaker 1: are so great, And what if people like in Japan.
Speaker 1: And by the way, if you'all hear big country music fans,
Speaker 1: if y'all hear lawnmowers, someone's filling your lawn next door,
Speaker 1: we just like to give you some flavor. It's a
Speaker 1: background noise, yes, put our background music. It's a weed
Speaker 1: whacker over there, a weed whacker. This is country. This
Speaker 1: is country podcast, Country Podcast, Country Carolina. Hey, yeah, okay,
Speaker 1: so people love country music in Japan, yeah, really like
Speaker 1: they love traditional country music. They love the pop and
Speaker 1: what's going on now, but there's big like country music traditionalists.
Speaker 1: They're like Dolly Tammy, they know all the classics. So
Speaker 1: it really we had a ball. We had a blast.
Speaker 1: So tell me what inspired you to go to Japan for?
Speaker 1: To wrap up the show? I love Kelly Pickler season two. Well,
Speaker 1: you know, I, Um, I'm an adventure you love it.
Speaker 1: I live out of a suitcase. You live out of
Speaker 1: a suitcase too. But you need to travel absolutely. I've
Speaker 1: always said that regardless of what um job I have
Speaker 1: as a you know, my profession, whatever it is, it
Speaker 1: has to enable me to travel. You want to see
Speaker 1: the world made as many people as I can, different
Speaker 1: types of people, study the culture. Um, soak up the
Speaker 1: atmosphere and I don't know, it was amazing, so wonderful.
Speaker 1: Where does that love of people and culture and traveling
Speaker 1: come from? Like? What do you what does I like
Speaker 1: to talk about souls? What is your soul wanting? Are
Speaker 1: you just wanting to know people experience things like what
Speaker 1: is that that drives that? You know? I think? Um,
Speaker 1: I mean I don't know, you know, off the bat,
Speaker 1: but I feel in my soul if we're talking soul sister.
Speaker 1: You know, conversation here Um, growing up in such a
Speaker 1: tiny little town where you know, you know what you
Speaker 1: know and you don't know what you don't know. And
Speaker 1: I've always been that person, that little curious George, little
Speaker 1: explorer that wanted to push the boundaries and go you
Speaker 1: don't want me to go over here? Why what's over there?
Speaker 1: What's over there? For myself? And make your own absolutely
Speaker 1: so you know, for me, Um, I just from the
Speaker 1: time as as far back as I can remember, I've
Speaker 1: always wanted to, like I said, live out of a
Speaker 1: suitcase and see the world, meet as many different kinds
Speaker 1: of people that I can. Why do you believe what
Speaker 1: you believe? Tell me? You know, like I'm so curious
Speaker 1: about um human just the human race, and UM what
Speaker 1: makes you you? So you're not one of those people
Speaker 1: that's like, well, this is the way I was raised,
Speaker 1: and this is how I was taught, and this is
Speaker 1: the way it is. I will not form my opinion
Speaker 1: based on yours. I will form my own opinion based
Speaker 1: on my own experience. So you need to get out
Speaker 1: there and experience. They have to see the world, and well,
Speaker 1: I mean it goes hand in hand It's like, there's
Speaker 1: always gonna be people that love you, there's gonna be
Speaker 1: people that don't really care for you. Um, I would
Speaker 1: never want someone that has never met me, that doesn't
Speaker 1: know me, to form an opinion on me based on
Speaker 1: what they've heard. Okay, you know, so I want to
Speaker 1: do the same for anyone else. You want to give
Speaker 1: everyone a shot, Absolutely to them, I'm not going to
Speaker 1: form an opinion based on anything other than what I
Speaker 1: witnessed with my own eyes or get that with you know,
Speaker 1: where do you get that mentality? I don't know. I
Speaker 1: mean that's just how I my are you though, after
Speaker 1: knowing you now, like we've got the chance to become
Speaker 1: good friends over these past few years, which I really
Speaker 1: have loved you. Really you have a good guiding compass
Speaker 1: inside of you, like your moral code. You know, some
Speaker 1: people don't necessarily know right or wrong or know what's
Speaker 1: right for them or I don't know, you have a
Speaker 1: guiding compass in you that knows the way and knows
Speaker 1: the right way, Like after hearing you talk about because
Speaker 1: you've talked to me about a lot of stuff and
Speaker 1: you've given me a great advice and you're a great friend,
Speaker 1: but like your compass is just it's it's really knows
Speaker 1: what to do? How do you know that I'm and
Speaker 1: I don't always know what to do? Um, but I
Speaker 1: feel that you know, as a human being, we all
Speaker 1: know what feels good right and what feels bad. And
Speaker 1: a lot of times we can be pulled in that
Speaker 1: feel bad direction because it's kind of glamorous. Sometimes it
Speaker 1: can be. It can be and sexy, but you have
Speaker 1: to go back to what's the motive of your heart?
Speaker 1: And you know it's I don't know. For me, it's
Speaker 1: it was always growing up where I wanted to. I'm
Speaker 1: not going to become a product of my environment. You
Speaker 1: knew that from a young age. I did. Um. I've
Speaker 1: always been very independent, somewhat of a loner. Which people
Speaker 1: would be surprised to know or hear about me, is
Speaker 1: that I'm very much a loner. I I enjoy me
Speaker 1: time to recharge, absolutely that and to just reflect. And um,
Speaker 1: I don't know, um, you know right from wrong? There's
Speaker 1: that little it doesn't matter. We don't get to choose
Speaker 1: the place the day that we're born, but we choose
Speaker 1: what we do with our life. It's like we're not
Speaker 1: the dealer. We don't deal the cards. Sometimes we never
Speaker 1: meet the dealer. We wake up and these are the
Speaker 1: cards that are laid. Sometimes are not fair. You're brought
Speaker 1: into the world, Like I said, you don't choose the
Speaker 1: place the day that you're born. So we come into
Speaker 1: the world. We're dealt this hand of cards, and we
Speaker 1: don't And I've said this before. We talked about this
Speaker 1: many times where we were not the dealer. We don't
Speaker 1: choose the hand that we're dealt, but we choose how
Speaker 1: we play the game. And the motive of your heart
Speaker 1: UM guides you and you you learn that the community,
Speaker 1: the people that you surround yourself by UM very much
Speaker 1: make those desires or help make those desires become a reality.
Speaker 1: M So, if you surround yourself by yes people, I
Speaker 1: call them yes people's UM, it's easy to stray, get sidetracked,
Speaker 1: and UM you don't look back on a life that
Speaker 1: you're proud of. You have to surround yourself by people
Speaker 1: that I love you enough to tell you when you're wrong.
Speaker 1: More important, but you are the kind. But you also
Speaker 1: got to realize a lot of people who get to
Speaker 1: these positions where they do have a team around them
Speaker 1: They don't want people to tell them if they're wrong,
Speaker 1: you know, and and they have to live with those
Speaker 1: choices and there's no judgment there. That is. What you
Speaker 1: do with your life is your business, and we should
Speaker 1: all be able to break bread. So UM, I don't know.
Speaker 1: I just you want to be the best version of yourself. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean, I think that's all we can hope to be,
Speaker 1: is the best version of ourselves possible, you know. And
Speaker 1: we're gonna hit speed momps or climbed mountains in the process.
Speaker 1: But you just you live and learn and love and
Speaker 1: hope that you will come out brighter then, you know.
Speaker 1: So before So what drives you? Everyone's driven by something?
Speaker 1: What is your drive when you wake up every day?
Speaker 1: Of course you want to be successful, and of course
Speaker 1: you want to fulfill your talent, But what is your drive?
Speaker 1: What's your goal? I don't know if the thing that
Speaker 1: drives me um per se is uh wanting to Uh?
Speaker 1: I can't. I can't just put it on one thing.
Speaker 1: It's many things. One thing being UM, I never wanted
Speaker 1: to become a product of my environment, right, So there's
Speaker 1: that there is this um love and light that I
Speaker 1: see in the people closest to you know me, whether
Speaker 1: it's my husband, our friends, our community, um my sister.
Speaker 1: There's this fire that the people that I love and
Speaker 1: hold so dearly, they just light in me and they
Speaker 1: just ignite this flame. And it's like, man, I have
Speaker 1: to do great, not just for myself, but I have
Speaker 1: to do great for them. Does that make sense? You
Speaker 1: care about your people, It's well, I mean, you care
Speaker 1: about yourself and your people. You care about yourself. You
Speaker 1: have to love yourself. You have to get to a
Speaker 1: place where you do love yourself. There's gonna be times
Speaker 1: where you're disappointed in yourself, for sure, but you know
Speaker 1: there's gonna be times you got funk. I shouldn't have
Speaker 1: said that. I shouldn't have said fuck whatever. But you know, man,
Speaker 1: I shouldn't have done that. But we are, like you said,
Speaker 1: we're human and we have to learn from you know,
Speaker 1: those doings and whatnot. And and we're human. We're gonna
Speaker 1: we're gonna sunk up, We're gonna do things that we're
Speaker 1: not proud of. We learn from it, we move on.
Speaker 1: But you surround yourself with people that you admire and
Speaker 1: that um are a sanctuary for you and hopefully you
Speaker 1: are a sanctuary for them as well, and they drive you,
Speaker 1: they push you, they motivate you to be the best
Speaker 1: version of yourself that you can be. You know, you
Speaker 1: have those friends that you call or come to their
Speaker 1: house and you talk about whatever is going on in
Speaker 1: your personal life that you know nobody else needs to
Speaker 1: know about. You just need to vent. You need a
Speaker 1: sanctuary and absolutely advice, but you want good advice. Yeah,
Speaker 1: you want to be Um, you need clarity because you're in,
Speaker 1: You're in, it's cloudy, so you need clarity. Um. And
Speaker 1: I don't know if it's the people that I've been
Speaker 1: so blessed to surround my self by, my husband, my friends.
Speaker 1: You're one of them. Um my sister, I always say,
Speaker 1: my sister, she's the strongest woman I know. UM, I
Speaker 1: don't know that community that pushes you and gives you
Speaker 1: that job to be the best version of yourself that
Speaker 1: you can be, and and that motivates you. If that
Speaker 1: makes sense, it makes sense. Okay, I want to start
Speaker 1: off with a little rapid fire. We'll not start off now.
Speaker 1: We're like ten minutes in. Say the first word that
Speaker 1: comes to mind when I say we can blue bloop
Speaker 1: and bleep. Okay, excited excited? What makes you excited? Don't
Speaker 1: think about it excited, Um, comics make excited. You guys
Speaker 1: have the best relationship. He's so wonderful. He does excite me.
Speaker 1: So okay, Kyle, Okay, what's a must for you? We
Speaker 1: put that mike up to your mouth? Put that yes, girl,
Speaker 1: you know, get it all in, make love to that,
Speaker 1: make love to it. Yeah, there you go. Sorry, Okay, um,
Speaker 1: what was the question? A must? What is a must
Speaker 1: for you? A must? Yeah? Fried okra? Yes, I love
Speaker 1: fried okra best. I just got the best fried okra
Speaker 1: at ed least have you got it there yet? I
Speaker 1: don't think so. It is so good. Yes, I have
Speaker 1: to love fried ok like country cooking, then fried ocras
Speaker 1: where it's at, but least at least barbecue. Okay, I'll
Speaker 1: do that. I'll take you there. Okay, that's so good. Okay,
Speaker 1: forward to it. We m Okay, what do you try
Speaker 1: to avoid? I try to avoid um assholes. I don't know, like,
Speaker 1: I just um you know me, like I'm a big
Speaker 1: energy person. So when I feel that I'm in a
Speaker 1: dark presence, I just like detour. I didn't even need
Speaker 1: to talk about what's going out over going on over there?
Speaker 1: I just want to get out of there, So to
Speaker 1: the door and get out. I don't like um, I
Speaker 1: don't know, I'm I get really overwhelmed with people's energies,
Speaker 1: which people would probably be surprised by. When you said
Speaker 1: something to which I agree with you. You can see
Speaker 1: everything you need to see about someone in their eyes generally,
Speaker 1: do I have good eyes? Do you see good stuff? God?
Speaker 1: Lucif Linda Blair when the next or says, I'm right now, No,
Speaker 1: you're beautiful. But you look at people's eyes. The eyes
Speaker 1: are the window to the well they are. But even
Speaker 1: if you were if you were blind, like there's this energy,
Speaker 1: Like have you ever been in the room with someone
Speaker 1: and you didn't even see them walk in, but you
Speaker 1: felt the presence and all of a sudden you're like, wow,
Speaker 1: this is really heavy. I just I feel like we
Speaker 1: are we we can feed off of each other's energies.
Speaker 1: And when people it's like if you're in a at
Speaker 1: a dinner with friends and everybody's happy and laughing and
Speaker 1: joking around and it's lighthearted and whatever, and everybody's just
Speaker 1: having a good time, and then someone walks into the
Speaker 1: room and you don't even see them. You feel them
Speaker 1: before they you know, before you make eye contact. I
Speaker 1: don't know. I just I'm an energy person. I love weird,
Speaker 1: so I try to detour I beline like out of there.
Speaker 1: If I feel not a good bad energy, Bye bad energy,
Speaker 1: Bye bye bye bye blae bye vibebe. Speaking of Lance Bass,
Speaker 1: who we played beautiful, You're not amazing, He's amazing, amazing, amazing. Yes,
Speaker 1: we got to talk about him because that is episode
Speaker 1: two of I Love Kelly Pickler, when we went to
Speaker 1: family Feud, which we're gonna get to Lance Bassy. What's
Speaker 1: your vision board, vision board? Where do you see yourself?
Speaker 1: What's your vision head? Yeah, what's your vision board? In life?
Speaker 1: In life? Um, I just want to all in all,
Speaker 1: I guess, long story longer. UM. I just want to
Speaker 1: be a bright light in the world. I just wanted
Speaker 1: to make people happy, and I want to be happy.
Speaker 1: I am. I'm blessed. We have a beautiful life, beautiful
Speaker 1: people in our lives with great hearts and great motives,
Speaker 1: and we're all, I don't know, just trying to get
Speaker 1: through this world and make it. Um. I just want
Speaker 1: to be in good company and I want people to
Speaker 1: I don't know. There's this My Angelo quote that I
Speaker 1: love so much and I'm probably going to butcher it,
Speaker 1: but um, it is something along the lines of, you know,
Speaker 1: people will forget what you said, and people forget what
Speaker 1: you said, I forget what you do, remember how you
Speaker 1: made them feel feel. Yes, people will never forget how
Speaker 1: you made them feel. And I just want to make
Speaker 1: people feel like they matter. I love that. Does it
Speaker 1: make sense? It really has nothing to do with your job,
Speaker 1: your profession, what you do for a living. Um. You know,
Speaker 1: you can do anything as an occupation and still make
Speaker 1: eye contact with people and make them know, not just feel,
Speaker 1: but know that they're important. Yeah, that they matter, or
Speaker 1: that you know, we are a human race. You know
Speaker 1: where does that drive come from to make people feel
Speaker 1: like they matter? Um, it's it's just human decency. But
Speaker 1: not everyone has that. Not everyone has that motive of
Speaker 1: their heart. It just I don't know, it's how I'm wired.
Speaker 1: You want to make people feel special? I do, um,
Speaker 1: because we all need to feel loved. And there are
Speaker 1: so many people that come from broken homes where they
Speaker 1: never felt that they had purpose a reason for living.
Speaker 1: And you know, I mean we've talked. You know, I've
Speaker 1: been there. You know, I've been that person that felt
Speaker 1: you know, that way, and it's so dark and it's
Speaker 1: so scary. Um, I would never want anyone to feel
Speaker 1: that there. Um, I don't know. The breath, the air
Speaker 1: and their lungs does not serve for a greater purpose.
Speaker 1: It makes sense, yes, Um, totally makes sense. So I
Speaker 1: don't know where that comes from. It's just humans, Like
Speaker 1: we're people. Well maybe you have, like you said, you
Speaker 1: came from a little bit of of of that broken background,
Speaker 1: and like you don't want people to feel that way.
Speaker 1: Absolutely not, and you know the we're in this really
Speaker 1: deep moment and go to town. Yeah, whack it off, ship,
Speaker 1: But no, I mean we we have to realize that
Speaker 1: this is, you know, one world and we all share
Speaker 1: the same planet, and we have to we have to
Speaker 1: love and take care of each other and and how
Speaker 1: grace and compassion and and just have a heart, you know,
Speaker 1: and never let people make our minds up for us.
Speaker 1: Other people dictate why you feel the way you feel.
Speaker 1: Make sure that this is exactly how you feel and
Speaker 1: not what someone else told you or so be your
Speaker 1: own person. Um, you don't have to become a product
Speaker 1: of your environment. No matter where you come from, you
Speaker 1: can go out into the world and build your own life.
Speaker 1: And you know, we live in America. We're so blessed.
Speaker 1: We didn't get to choose this country that we were
Speaker 1: born into. Where we can be women born into this
Speaker 1: generation that can have careers and have lives, and we
Speaker 1: can be a wife, we can be a homemaker, and
Speaker 1: we can also go and do things. Absolutely, we can
Speaker 1: do whatever we want with our lives. And that is
Speaker 1: a that is a blessing. And and UM did not come,
Speaker 1: you know, to our doorstep without sacrifice. So you know,
Speaker 1: you honor the people and and um shine a light
Speaker 1: on the people that enable you to live this beautiful
Speaker 1: life here that we have. And having been born in
Speaker 1: a place where we are so blessed, it's so important
Speaker 1: for us to go to other dark places and shine
Speaker 1: a light there and say it's okay, so you sell
Speaker 1: a calling with your life to shine light in dark places. Absolutely,
Speaker 1: but that's just you do. But you have I mean yes,
Speaker 1: But like at the same time, you have a platform
Speaker 1: that a lot of people could say, don't do this,
Speaker 1: don't do that, don't do this, but you say no,
Speaker 1: I'm gonna do what I want to do, which honestly
Speaker 1: lead you to your show. I love Kelly Pickler. I
Speaker 1: feel like the premise of that show is to be
Speaker 1: a bright light. Like you've it to me before, and
Speaker 1: you said it to the cast before we were filming.
Speaker 1: You're like, I want this to be something that brightens
Speaker 1: people's days. I want people to watch this and feel happy.
Speaker 1: There's so much toxic um, negative energy. There's so many
Speaker 1: bad things going on. There's these little, bad, evil seeds
Speaker 1: that are being planted all over the place every day.
Speaker 1: But there's also good seeds that are being planted as well.
Speaker 1: And I feel like if we nurture that, and if
Speaker 1: we surround ourselves by good farmers and when I say
Speaker 1: good farmers, I mean good people were the motives of
Speaker 1: their hearts in the in the right place. You surround
Speaker 1: yourself by good farmers and you nurture those beautiful, good seeds,
Speaker 1: and it will take over. It will grow, absolutely, absolutely so.
Speaker 1: But you're committed to putting it out there. Yeah, absolutely,
Speaker 1: why not? Why not? Why not? You can? Why wouldn't you?
Speaker 1: Why not? So? And you do every day, so you
Speaker 1: are very bright lights. That is one reason why. Many reasons,
Speaker 1: but one of the biggest reasons why Colin, I feel
Speaker 1: just drawn to hold you close. I feel drawn to you.
Speaker 1: You have always been someone who I have thought has
Speaker 1: just been so bright. Like when I think of you,
Speaker 1: I think of brightness. And I watched you in American Idol.
Speaker 1: I watched you come up through the rinks. You didn't
Speaker 1: have any He's been eleven years. Eleven years. It's not
Speaker 1: like someone handed you this perfect silver platter of like, oh,
Speaker 1: let me just make your life easy, and here's an
Speaker 1: entertainment career. You fought for it, you got it, You
Speaker 1: went out there and you overcame stuff. And I love
Speaker 1: that about you because everything in your life you've turned
Speaker 1: it into either a lesson or a stepping stone to positivity.
Speaker 1: And I think that is such an example. Thank you
Speaker 1: very much. Okay, so let's talk about I love Kelly
Speaker 1: Pickler because this show has been a riot in season two.
Speaker 1: Season two has been so fun. We've gotten after this
Speaker 1: air is it will be three episodes in yes, Oh
Speaker 1: my gosh, can you believe it? And we've shot for
Speaker 1: what three or four months? And now it's just like
Speaker 1: flying by. The whole show kicked off with Kyle coming
Speaker 1: to a bar, me and Jin. Jennifer Wayne was there
Speaker 1: and love her Kyle, what was his what y'all were like?
Speaker 1: The thing that I really like about this episode is
Speaker 1: you and Kyle, Kyle are letting us into your life
Speaker 1: a little bit and even like a little bit into
Speaker 1: your dating life. Like the first episode was all about
Speaker 1: setting up a date for each other, a little bit
Speaker 1: of role playing, like it's getting a little sexy about that.
Speaker 1: Sophia had a call my mom and apologize, like sorry
Speaker 1: putting all my sex life on national TV. You didn't.
Speaker 1: It was a very classy way. It was a very
Speaker 1: um whack of Yeah, and I love wacko though is
Speaker 1: that fun? I would tell everybody was from wacko. I
Speaker 1: am I am whacko in the head. So well that's
Speaker 1: are like kindred spirit have attracted or right? Yes? Okay,
Speaker 1: So how did you guys decide how what episode? How
Speaker 1: you wanted to kick off the episode? Because you guys
Speaker 1: started off like it was sexy starting off in a bar.
Speaker 1: We just wanted to um, keep it fun and energetic,
Speaker 1: and you know, with you and Jin, it was so
Speaker 1: wonderful just us having our girl time and then Kyle
Speaker 1: popping in and and he he can be one of
Speaker 1: the girls. He's gonna kill me for saying that I
Speaker 1: was such a good girlfriend because he's he care a
Speaker 1: brother for it. It means so much to me. I
Speaker 1: will tell you that the fact that the women closest
Speaker 1: to me, I love my husband, and my husband has
Speaker 1: this like brotherhood sister ship. Absolutely, Like Kyle is one
Speaker 1: of those people that all of my girlfriends if they
Speaker 1: have guy advice or dating or marriage advice or what
Speaker 1: do I do here, they call Kyle and he's like, dude,
Speaker 1: what can I do? How can I help? And I
Speaker 1: love that. I love that my husband is invested in
Speaker 1: my friendships and makes my friends a part of you know,
Speaker 1: his world? Yeah, so does it makes you feel important
Speaker 1: as a friend, like he totally cares. The first episode
Speaker 1: was hilarious to me though, because Kyle and Ken, which Knadice,
Speaker 1: Kyle's best friend, and he's a songwriter and he's married Andy,
Speaker 1: who's also your best friends. So it's like husbands are
Speaker 1: best friends, wives are best friends. So fun. And then
Speaker 1: Jen and I are like dating even though I'm married.
Speaker 1: It's like Jen and I have been working together for
Speaker 1: ten years. So we might as well be married. When
Speaker 1: Michael and I got married, it's like, okay, Michael, I
Speaker 1: mean if you can't married him both of us, Yeah, exactly.
Speaker 1: So Jin needed a date and Kyle is like, okay,
Speaker 1: I'm gonna step in, and this is really Everyone thinks
Speaker 1: all this stuff is like fabricated on reality TV, but
Speaker 1: for real, like Jin needed a date, like Kyle has
Speaker 1: to like he wants a blood simple. He wants you know,
Speaker 1: like he wants to know everything. He won't steer like
Speaker 1: background check. He want everything, everything, everything because he knows
Speaker 1: how important the women that are close to me. He
Speaker 1: knows how much they mean to me, and so I
Speaker 1: think that that makes those women's protective. Yeah, he's just
Speaker 1: protective and a sister or brotherly way. So he and
Speaker 1: so Jan has told me for ten years that I
Speaker 1: cannot find her date. I've been trying for ten years.
Speaker 1: I can't do it. So Kyle's like, okay, I'm stepping
Speaker 1: in and I'm bringing kid and we're going to the
Speaker 1: dog park because she's obsessed with dogs, right, I know.
Speaker 1: I told her. I was like, um, maybe we need
Speaker 1: to dial back the whole dogs Like everything on your
Speaker 1: page is like dogs, dogs, dogs, dogs, dogs. Yeah, it
Speaker 1: was just fun. Yeah, it's great dog but what else.
Speaker 1: So Kyle's like, okay, you know what, she's in love
Speaker 1: with dogs more than humans. We're gonna go to the
Speaker 1: dog park, bring her dogs and find her a man.
Speaker 1: So he obviously gets kinned because no guy can go
Speaker 1: pick up another guy without a wingman totally, So grab
Speaker 1: skin and they go to the dog park to pick
Speaker 1: up a dude. And I literally laughed so hard I
Speaker 1: peed in my pants, Like I literally couldn't handle it.
Speaker 1: Because they go and they start dating guys at the
Speaker 1: dog park, approaching dudes, having Alabama giving him the rundown,
Speaker 1: like white Alabama and Minnesota went to the dog park
Speaker 1: and hide. Yes, it's hilarious, but I thought it was
Speaker 1: funny and and um all in I don't know, it
Speaker 1: was lighthearted, and you know, they found her a date.
Speaker 1: We all went to do it. And he was lovely.
Speaker 1: He was wonderful, lovely, he was so he actually worked
Speaker 1: at a dog store, a groom dogs. It feels so
Speaker 1: weird because we shot that months and months ago, so
Speaker 1: it's so weird to see it, you know, six months later,
Speaker 1: it wasn't true love, and you said that, You're I
Speaker 1: don't know if it's gonna be true love, but they
Speaker 1: I just I knew, I just knew it. But he's wonderful.
Speaker 1: Obviously Jen is wonderful, and and I'm sure they will
Speaker 1: find true happiness. Kyle gave it his best shot. He did. God,
Speaker 1: I appreciate the attempt and kin they got in there, man,
Speaker 1: they did. I mean, they took him for the team
Speaker 1: for sure. Go boys go. I mean I can't when
Speaker 1: I saw that episode because they told us about what
Speaker 1: they filmed, but one I actually saw it being played out.
Speaker 1: It was too too funny for me, too funny. So
Speaker 1: then episode two, Family Few, Doggie Style, Kelly, what am
Speaker 1: I going to do with you? That was the most
Speaker 1: embarrassing day of my life? The best way, it was
Speaker 1: so great. Honestly though, I will say in your defense,
Speaker 1: you were okay, so set the whole thing up. You
Speaker 1: were at the very end of the lawn, and so
Speaker 1: you had like options, no options, Yes, exactly, and tell
Speaker 1: people what happened. The question was name something that your
Speaker 1: husband can do to only your man could do to
Speaker 1: your behind? Yeah, do to your behind? Who says that anyway?
Speaker 1: And so you think painch smack grab kiss it your
Speaker 1: sister kiss it, yeah, and um and then slack it out.
Speaker 1: Check it out. Brad said, check it out. And I
Speaker 1: mean that's pretty much everyone's left. You've touched it, you've
Speaker 1: looked at it. There's what else do you do? And
Speaker 1: you kind of got backed in a corner on that question.
Speaker 1: I think that Mr Harvey wanted you to say that,
Speaker 1: saying if you're married, if you're married. Yeah, that was
Speaker 1: the Texas coming out behind. It was hilarious, though, Yeah,
Speaker 1: it was. It was funny and his face was epic. Well, Steve,
Speaker 1: he's so crazy. He loves that stuff. It's hilarious. But
Speaker 1: you started off the whole show. You were so excited.
Speaker 1: We were playing lance bass. You were so excited and
Speaker 1: well and I did that and the dress rehearsal, remember
Speaker 1: I missed and I slapped the microphone instead. It was overwhelming.
Speaker 1: It's so interesting because you watched the show at home
Speaker 1: from the comfort of your own couch, and you're like,
Speaker 1: oh my god, what an idiot I would have said this.
Speaker 1: I was saying that's been there during that fast money
Speaker 1: around and You're like, oh my god, I got this.
Speaker 1: I'm like I was an idiot, you know, and he
Speaker 1: should have done this or she should have said that.
Speaker 1: You didn't even But then you get there and you're
Speaker 1: on the spot and you're going, oh my god, and
Speaker 1: then Steve Harvey's there and you have a live studio audience,
Speaker 1: and because there's money on the line for the USO
Speaker 1: and so there's all this pressure and you just get
Speaker 1: crazy because you didn't even finish your fast money around
Speaker 1: like you had one. I didn't. I did not finish
Speaker 1: did because you were so excited and it was so excited,
Speaker 1: so overwhelmed and jacked up on coffee and Jack Danielson.
Speaker 1: But then Cortney came through in the end and we
Speaker 1: still wont we did. She kicked but Corney and Brad
Speaker 1: crushed it, so crushed. The whole team was great. It
Speaker 1: was so great and you crushed. We did it, all
Speaker 1: of us cheers, Come Pie, Come Pie. So that was
Speaker 1: so fun and what a bucket list moment when you
Speaker 1: called and you said that we're all gonna have a
Speaker 1: competition to see who you can get to family feud. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and that was part of the episode. We all had
Speaker 1: what do you do to like study up for it? Well,
Speaker 1: they said it's gonna be who knows Kyle and Kelly
Speaker 1: the but the most because it's gonna be like the
Speaker 1: fifth family member. Yeah, so it's like a part of
Speaker 1: the family. So I was like, I got this. I
Speaker 1: know y'all because they weren't family feud wasn't gonna let
Speaker 1: us do it unless we had just five full family members,
Speaker 1: full blonde family members, like most of them are in jail,
Speaker 1: so can our friends come? And so it was great.
Speaker 1: There's one spot and a friend got to duke it out.
Speaker 1: So I mean I took it seriously. Did I think
Speaker 1: Andy maybe thought she had it in the bag or kid?
Speaker 1: Because they've known you longer than I have, or Dave,
Speaker 1: We've actually known each other longer because you and I met.
Speaker 1: You and Jen and I met when I first moved
Speaker 1: to Nashville, back when I lived at the Enclave. Like
Speaker 1: Hillary Williams and I were neighbors Hillary, and that's how
Speaker 1: we met. We were neighbors. And then you and Jin
Speaker 1: and I met shortly after, and then we did that
Speaker 1: dress to kill and New York to Shanka. Yeah, and
Speaker 1: so we actually had known each other a lot longer
Speaker 1: and then yeah, um, and then Andy and I you know,
Speaker 1: would met a few years ago and just built just
Speaker 1: this close relationship and she's so wonderful and we just
Speaker 1: love Ken. He's I feel like Ken is a brother
Speaker 1: and how can you have a better person? Just wonderful people,
Speaker 1: And that's what makes the show so great as the
Speaker 1: substance the people you jin. Dave Allison. Dave is a
Speaker 1: brother years for years, and his wife, Alison is a sister.
Speaker 1: And she about smart and so wise and so athletic.
Speaker 1: She's running fifty million marathon. Yeah, she has probably literally
Speaker 1: she was at Boston. She does that every year, she
Speaker 1: does the Nashville, she does all the marathons. She's so athletici.
Speaker 1: She is. I always tell everyone she's an astronaut. She's
Speaker 1: a data scientist, but nobody knows what the hell that is.
Speaker 1: So I just tell people that she's an astronaut, and
Speaker 1: people always ask her about space. I will say Andy
Speaker 1: asked her the first time I think they met. She
Speaker 1: asked because I told Andy that Allison was an astronaut,
Speaker 1: and so of course, and being from Canada, she well,
Speaker 1: I told her that the movie Gravity was actually inspired
Speaker 1: by Alison. Sandra Bulleck plays her in a movie, and well,
Speaker 1: I thought that when I said that, I thought she
Speaker 1: would know, because at this point it had been you know,
Speaker 1: a good eight months. Yeah she is, And I love
Speaker 1: it about her. She's oh my god, I can tell
Speaker 1: her anything, and she's going to believe it. Well not
Speaker 1: now she knows now, and trust me, she got even
Speaker 1: but or she's going to she had heard. Um. But
Speaker 1: so it's been like eight nine months that I've been
Speaker 1: telling Andy that Allison was an astronaut. And she finally
Speaker 1: one night we're over at the house and and um
Speaker 1: here and um, she's asking Alison what outer space is?
Speaker 1: Like Andy, God, bless her, I love and are you serious? Yeah,
Speaker 1: And so Alison is trying to make up some bullshit
Speaker 1: off the top of her head, you know, like, uh,
Speaker 1: well you see, um you know, dot it dot it
Speaker 1: on And it was so hilarious and and um, now
Speaker 1: Andy obviously knows that Alison is not an astronaut. And
Speaker 1: so but eight months or a year believing something. Yeah,
Speaker 1: so it's a pretty good job you're doing there. Is
Speaker 1: not for the Lord, is for Andy. She's gonna give me.
Speaker 1: But okay, so let's talk about the cast, because on
Speaker 1: the cast this season, we have, of course Kyle, your
Speaker 1: fabulous husband. I want you, in your own words to
Speaker 1: describe the cast a little bit. So tell me about
Speaker 1: Kyle your husband. Kyle is. I've said this many times.
Speaker 1: I said this earlier. Um, he's my sanctuary. Um, he's
Speaker 1: my best friend. He's my adventure life partner. And and
Speaker 1: I don't know the place that I run to when
Speaker 1: I need to celebrate something great or if I need
Speaker 1: to mourn something sad. Um, he is that safe rock.
Speaker 1: He is that sanctuary for me. So and we laugh.
Speaker 1: It's so funny. And and that is so important in
Speaker 1: a relationship, whether it's a marriage or a friendship or
Speaker 1: relative or whatever. To have that community that you can
Speaker 1: go to and experience joy and feel joy, to experience it,
Speaker 1: see it and feel it. Those are all different things,
Speaker 1: and to have someone that shun's a light on all
Speaker 1: of those is so wonderful. So he is. He's my life.
Speaker 1: He is my heartbeat. In the first episode, y'all had
Speaker 1: like the outdoing each other on the date night because
Speaker 1: you did this really sweet thing where you had a
Speaker 1: video of his grandfather's talking. Yeah, and then one of
Speaker 1: his grandfathers passed away right after that video, So what
Speaker 1: a treasure and what what was that? What did you
Speaker 1: say with video the grandfather? We didn't obviously we didn't.
Speaker 1: We weren't aware that his grandfather was going to pass
Speaker 1: um at that time, and so we didn't know until
Speaker 1: right before the episode aired that UM, you know, his
Speaker 1: grandpa had passed, and you know, we thought, what would
Speaker 1: be a sweet way to just tribute this to you know,
Speaker 1: his grandfather his honor and and um he was such
Speaker 1: an amazing man and a godly man and and um
Speaker 1: so wonderful and whatnot. But I don't know, it just
Speaker 1: it it worked out the way that it worked out,
Speaker 1: because that's the way that it was supposed to be,
Speaker 1: I suppose, UM. But each one of them advice or
Speaker 1: like some words of system, and just for I think
Speaker 1: it's so important, you know, for young it's it's important
Speaker 1: for children to have a mom and a father figure
Speaker 1: in their life. UM. I will speak for I don't
Speaker 1: like to speak for anyone, but I will say for Kyle,
Speaker 1: UM so great to have strong men in his family
Speaker 1: passed down. UM. There not necessarily their legacy, but there
Speaker 1: their hearts, their soul, and you leave that behind. You know.
Speaker 1: It is like the footprints in the sand, you know,
Speaker 1: and the waves will come up and wash those footprints away,
Speaker 1: but they're still in printed, They're still embedded on your soul.
Speaker 1: And and um, you know, I think for Kyle, he
Speaker 1: was very blessed to have strong men and women. You know,
Speaker 1: his mother is a strong woman, and so he was raised,
Speaker 1: um in a very beautiful home environment where he had
Speaker 1: those strong influences in a positive way, and um, whatnot.
Speaker 1: So that first episode, you know, it was very it
Speaker 1: was touching, it was it was tough too. It was touching,
Speaker 1: but it was tough too because when we shot that
Speaker 1: scene that was months earlier, you know, that was four
Speaker 1: months before the episode aired. And then his grandfather passed.
Speaker 1: And yeah, and and to have his mom come here
Speaker 1: and teach me her And I'm no cook, and you know,
Speaker 1: I can barely bowl water. I can barely turn the
Speaker 1: microwave one bowl water. But to have her just share
Speaker 1: her family recipe of her apple pine, which was a
Speaker 1: child memory and a favorite of Kyle's growing up, that
Speaker 1: was really precious. And I thought, yeah, they moved from Minnesota.
Speaker 1: They're so wonderful, They're so grazy, and they make it
Speaker 1: on an episode. You'll do some crazy how we did
Speaker 1: some fun stuff and and whatnot. But yeah, it's it's
Speaker 1: great to have that community. It is support you who
Speaker 1: are here for you. But yeah, that first episode was
Speaker 1: really special, not just because his parents and um, his
Speaker 1: grandparents were involved, but you know, to just honor his
Speaker 1: grandfather and his legacy, his legacy, but just his heart,
Speaker 1: you know what I mean. Okay, tell me about Andy.
Speaker 1: Andy is one of the most strong women I have
Speaker 1: ever known. She is such a bitfire pistol of a woman. UM,
Speaker 1: and I adore that in her. She is an amazing
Speaker 1: sing um friend. She's an amazing wife. She is a
Speaker 1: great mother, stepmother, and she um. She and I have
Speaker 1: experienced very similar um struggles in our adolescent years where
Speaker 1: we the moment that we met, we identified. We connected
Speaker 1: on this level. Um. That was so de Yeah, we
Speaker 1: just identified in a sense of Okay, this this woman
Speaker 1: is so special and when I'm weak, she is going
Speaker 1: to help me be strong. And when she's weak, I'm
Speaker 1: gonna be her strength in that sisterhood. Um. So yeah,
Speaker 1: it was just a beauty, a full friendship that blossomed
Speaker 1: quick destined. It was meant to be, like we garden,
Speaker 1: we do Um, but she's so wonderful and and she
Speaker 1: is someone that I consider to be one of the
Speaker 1: most crafty, artistic women that are just people in general,
Speaker 1: that I've ever met. She can turn nothing into something
Speaker 1: so beautiful. She just she just she just has this
Speaker 1: ability to she fins for, she can find for herself.
Speaker 1: Push her in a corner and she will push everybody.
Speaker 1: She can make it happen. She can make happen. But
Speaker 1: she's just she's so beautiful. Um only outside, but even
Speaker 1: more glorious on the inside. She's just so wonderful right there.
Speaker 1: To be able to say that about your best friend,
Speaker 1: so wonderful, so wonderful that Okay, tell me about Ken
Speaker 1: Johnson her husband. Ken, Oh my gosh, he is my
Speaker 1: southern brother from a mother mother and um, Ken is
Speaker 1: from Birmingham, Alabama. And we have this like I don't know,
Speaker 1: the moment that I met him, I knew that I
Speaker 1: had a big brother in him, and he does. He does.
Speaker 1: And I love when you meet a man and he
Speaker 1: cannot wait to tell you about his wife that makes
Speaker 1: you love him even more. You know, There's something about that,
Speaker 1: um and he just adores Andy and they just have
Speaker 1: this beautiful love. He's an incredible cook. He's an amazing cook.
Speaker 1: He's an amazing brother. He's a great husband, he's a
Speaker 1: great friend, he's a brother. He's a brother not just
Speaker 1: to myself but to my husband, which I um, I
Speaker 1: feel as a wife. Um, it's so important to know
Speaker 1: and have a relationship with the men that are closest
Speaker 1: to your husband. And um, he and Kyle have this
Speaker 1: um fellowship, this brotherhood that is so beautiful and so
Speaker 1: sacred that I just I love that, you know, we
Speaker 1: have that amongst us ladies. We have our sisterhood. You know,
Speaker 1: you and I were very much kindred spirits and and um,
Speaker 1: you know we have this safe place where it makes
Speaker 1: our husband's feel good good that their women have other
Speaker 1: women that they have a safe place totally with. And
Speaker 1: that's the same for us, Like we want to see
Speaker 1: our husbands absolutely and and um, you know Ken is
Speaker 1: like you said, he's an incredible cooker cup Bill Billy
Speaker 1: Supper Club. He um started all of that. He's an
Speaker 1: amazing cook. His parents are so wonderful. UM and the
Speaker 1: Lily their children's record. And we do a fun episode
Speaker 1: with the with Ryan Seacrest Um Studios at the Vanderbilt
Speaker 1: Children's Hospital. UM for the kids there, and I got
Speaker 1: pause was so wonderful. But they're just good people. I know.
Speaker 1: I just I can talk for days about both Kenn
Speaker 1: and Andy. You do something though, that I think is
Speaker 1: really cool, because on this show it is like so
Speaker 1: great and it is about like you know your life
Speaker 1: and Kyle's life, but you have made it a point
Speaker 1: every person on this show. You highlight what they're doing
Speaker 1: and you feature that, like you featured how can Lily
Speaker 1: on the show, and like you feature my podcast on
Speaker 1: the show, and like you take a moment and you
Speaker 1: feature like Dave is your guitar player and obviously he's
Speaker 1: a big part of your life. You brought him on
Speaker 1: the show like you want him in your life. And
Speaker 1: Allison and then Jen of course, like I love Jin,
Speaker 1: she's doing her music and dating. Like you make it
Speaker 1: a point to highlight each person, which I think is
Speaker 1: really cool because you didn't have to do that. Well.
Speaker 1: I mean, I just I feel so blessed to have
Speaker 1: And I don't like, like I said earlier, I don't
Speaker 1: like speaking for other people. I'll speak from a husband
Speaker 1: because we are one um, but we want to see
Speaker 1: good people do great things. And if we can make
Speaker 1: good people UM their dreams become a reality, if we
Speaker 1: can help UM blossom and fertilize that, then that's what
Speaker 1: we want to do. So whatever we can do to
Speaker 1: UM shine a light on good people and the great
Speaker 1: things that they're doing. I mean, we're so blessed. We
Speaker 1: wake up and you know, even shooting this show for CMT,
Speaker 1: we wake up and you know, we get to hang
Speaker 1: out with a crew and also in a production company
Speaker 1: that is so wonderful and so much fun, and and
Speaker 1: we get to mark off things on our bucket list
Speaker 1: and make memories together document those memories. And I always think, man, gosh,
Speaker 1: I mean, just season two, it's two thousand and sixteen,
Speaker 1: what are we gonna do like when we are eighty
Speaker 1: and we have these memories, these you know, beautiful memories
Speaker 1: that we've been able to document and we can reflect
Speaker 1: back on when we're eighty ninety years old, we can
Speaker 1: watch the show. I think it's so special to be
Speaker 1: able to document that with your friends and and UM,
Speaker 1: I don't know, I'm I guess I'm always kind of
Speaker 1: looking I am very much in the present moment, but
Speaker 1: I'm always looking at Um, just as much as I
Speaker 1: am in the present moment, I am always in that
Speaker 1: moment of what am I going to think fifty years
Speaker 1: from now looking back at this footage? Am I going
Speaker 1: to be proud of the woman I see? Am I
Speaker 1: going to be proud of that person um that I'm
Speaker 1: looking at? You know? And And the thing is is,
Speaker 1: at the same time, you can't beat yourself up over it.
Speaker 1: There's always room for improvement, There's always growth, There's always
Speaker 1: you know, when we're eighty and we look at season
Speaker 1: two of our when we're in season five hopefully who knows, Um,
Speaker 1: we want to look back and we want to go
Speaker 1: I'm so proud of what Caroline and what myself. We're
Speaker 1: so proud of the women that we were with what
Speaker 1: we knew and what we had. Speaking Maya Angelou, she
Speaker 1: says a quote, do the best you can and tell
Speaker 1: you know better than do better. And that is how
Speaker 1: I feel too. And I feel like you subscribe to
Speaker 1: that same philosophy. Do the very best that you can
Speaker 1: with what the knowledge that you have. But as soon
Speaker 1: as you get new knowledge, improve yourself. And it's so
Speaker 1: interesting with traveling. That's one reason I love to travel
Speaker 1: it's because once your brain, once your mind, your eyes
Speaker 1: see something new, you can never unsee what's been seeing.
Speaker 1: So your mind, your brain grows, it expands and you go,
Speaker 1: oh gosh. Once you've grown, it's like a flower. It's
Speaker 1: like these little flowers. There's probably four or five different
Speaker 1: plants in this little potter here. Those roots are growing
Speaker 1: in there. But if we take this, if I take
Speaker 1: this little, I think this is a katana or katana
Speaker 1: little and I'm horrible. But if we put this in
Speaker 1: the yard, these roots are going to grow even bigger
Speaker 1: and it's never going to unsee what be has come
Speaker 1: over in pollinating. It will never not be. It will
Speaker 1: never not be. But you, you just your mind is
Speaker 1: like a root and it will grow as far as
Speaker 1: you let it allow it to. Yeah, as you would
Speaker 1: like to grow your brain. That's exciting. Yeah. So my
Speaker 1: brain is like one big root, and I just want
Speaker 1: to be in the biggest field that I can be
Speaker 1: in so that my roots can. You just want to
Speaker 1: learn as much as you can. I love that about you, Kelly.
Speaker 1: But you're the same way. I think that's why I've
Speaker 1: drawn to you. I love how you do your life.
Speaker 1: I love how you do your marriage. I love how
Speaker 1: you do your life. I love how you do your friendships.
Speaker 1: I love your goals, Like you want to have success
Speaker 1: and you want to do your passion, but you also
Speaker 1: like you want to your life for a bright light
Speaker 1: and I love that because not everyone in your position
Speaker 1: does that, and I find that inspiring. Well, I think
Speaker 1: you're wonderful and I think you are very inspirational in
Speaker 1: your story what you have to share. Our private talks,
Speaker 1: um as well as our public talk. Yes and whiskey, um, cheers,
Speaker 1: con pie. But you're an amazing woman. So um. You
Speaker 1: know your vibe attracts your tribe, right a girl? Okay,
Speaker 1: So tell me about Dave Baker and Alison Baker. We
Speaker 1: talked a little bit about Austin. How fantastic she is.
Speaker 1: Allison is one of my dearest friends. I love her
Speaker 1: so much. Um, She's one of those women that you
Speaker 1: come across and she and I keep saying this, she's
Speaker 1: such a bright light she is. She motivates you to
Speaker 1: be the best version of yourself, that you can be
Speaker 1: healthy from the inside out because she does the work.
Speaker 1: I mean, she's a marathon runners out. She's so disciplined,
Speaker 1: her UM. The dedication that she has to UM, not
Speaker 1: only her marriage and her friends, but herself is so inspirational. UM.
Speaker 1: She probably out of most anyone I've ever met or
Speaker 1: known in my life, I would say she challenges me,
Speaker 1: and she probably doesn't know this, UM, but she challenges
Speaker 1: me to be the better version of myself than most
Speaker 1: anyone has ever challenged me. She lives by example. She
Speaker 1: is one of those people that you know. Her husband
Speaker 1: plays guitar in my band, Dave, and he is a brother.
Speaker 1: He's the one that I could you know. He can
Speaker 1: come over to the bus and us sit and talk
Speaker 1: and solve all the world's problems, and he's a sanctuary.
Speaker 1: He's a big brother to me. I never had a
Speaker 1: big brother. I'm the oldest in my family that I
Speaker 1: know of, UM, but I always wanted a big brother
Speaker 1: grows up. And I feel that both Ken and Dave
Speaker 1: are that for me. They are a safe place for
Speaker 1: not just myself, but for my husband. My husband loves
Speaker 1: them as though they are brothers, and so they are
Speaker 1: brothers to me as well. UM. But there's there's something
Speaker 1: about David Allison that I'm so drawn to, and Kylee
Speaker 1: is drawn to as well. She is, so she has
Speaker 1: this electricity. She's passionate, she is passionate, but she has
Speaker 1: this she has this electricity in her dosence that um,
Speaker 1: I don't know, draws you close to her. She's smart,
Speaker 1: she's beautiful, she looks like she just walked off America's
Speaker 1: next top model. But the beauty on the inside, which
Speaker 1: is so hard to beat on the outside because she's
Speaker 1: so stunning, But that heart of hers is so pure
Speaker 1: and so golden, and she's this crazy edge like she
Speaker 1: keeps me hip. I call it hippity hop because like
Speaker 1: she's she's a data scientist. You know, she's researching and
Speaker 1: finding helping to find cures and run you know, um numbers.
Speaker 1: I don't even know how to explain what she does.
Speaker 1: I just tell people she's an astronaut, because that's easier
Speaker 1: than explain what she does. Which the two have nothing
Speaker 1: in comment, but they might as well be the same thing,
Speaker 1: because I don't know anything about either one. Um as
Speaker 1: first work goes. But no, she's just so smart and
Speaker 1: so wise and so kind and so wonderful and and
Speaker 1: she is a great wife, a great friend, a great sister,
Speaker 1: and she's just an amazing woman, and Dave is such
Speaker 1: an amazing man, and and we're just so blessed to
Speaker 1: have that community a long time. Yes, they've been together
Speaker 1: for a long time and each other. You you see,
Speaker 1: you see UM couples like that, that that just you know,
Speaker 1: as you know, outsider, as you look, you go call.
Speaker 1: They just got it together. And so what's the secret?
Speaker 1: You know, we all have those talks, you know, off
Speaker 1: the record, off camera, So what's the secret. And they're
Speaker 1: just good people, and they're in love, and they take
Speaker 1: care of each other, and the same way Can and
Speaker 1: Andy take care of each other, and Michael take care
Speaker 1: of each other, and and Kyle and I we take
Speaker 1: care of each other. And that community that you build,
Speaker 1: that fellowship that you build with, that community of UM
Speaker 1: brothers and sisters, that is so beautiful and wonderful. It
Speaker 1: changes everything. It really doesn't. It's because it's so hard
Speaker 1: to not become a product of your environment. So the
Speaker 1: people that you spend the most time with when you
Speaker 1: clock out of work, it's so hard not to So
Speaker 1: if you surround yourself by people that you want to
Speaker 1: be like, nobody's perfect. Kyl and I were far from perfect.
Speaker 1: Nobody's perfect. But we want to when you and Michael
Speaker 1: are with us, we want y'all to go, oh, we
Speaker 1: want to be with them, and we in the same
Speaker 1: We want to be with y'all and we can pull
Speaker 1: and learn and grow from each other's experience, pances, and
Speaker 1: and just develop a beautiful fellowship together. So I don't know, Peina,
Speaker 1: are you ready for your interview? The dogs are out here, Peanut,
Speaker 1: come on, pop up, hop up, Come on, Peanut, So
Speaker 1: Kelly has these two precious dogs. Come on, Peanut and
Speaker 1: Pixie Pixie, come on right, don't be weird. Tell me
Speaker 1: about the dogs, Peanut Pixie, because they were in the
Speaker 1: first season they Dolly dog Lama came and talked to him. Yes,
Speaker 1: the dog I Llama and pretty much, I mean, long
Speaker 1: story short, Um, I guess I am there, bitch. Pretty
Speaker 1: much they own me? Yeah, they do they Sassin boss me.
Speaker 1: Look at that fat? Could you not be owned by Peanut? Though?
Speaker 1: I mean Pixie. I love Pixie, but she's a little
Speaker 1: more emo. What's Ema made emo? She's a little bit
Speaker 1: more like um, she's gonna She's not quite as like
Speaker 1: open as Peanut is. Peena's the life of the party.
Speaker 1: Pixie is very much to give me a reason to
Speaker 1: trust you, and I'll think about it. Peanuts like yeah,
Speaker 1: peanuts like you're welcome. You're welcome to be in my presence.
Speaker 1: I know I'm freaking cute. Yeah, and I got it
Speaker 1: going on and love on my Look at him. We're
Speaker 1: talking about him. Okay, so we gotta wrap up the cast.
Speaker 1: I'm not gonna make you talking about me because we've
Speaker 1: done this podcast and we know we love each other.
Speaker 1: I'm going to talk about it, but Jin tell me
Speaker 1: about Jen. Jen. I'm going to talk about both of y'all.
Speaker 1: You cannot say we're not gonna talking about me. You're
Speaker 1: not making me do anything. I'm speaking my own free will.
Speaker 1: It's not there's nobody standing here like gagging me. Um
Speaker 1: I UM. I feel so blessed to have met both
Speaker 1: of you. Um. I'll talk about Jin and then I'm
Speaker 1: going to talk about you. I love Jim so much.
Speaker 1: I will say that she is so obviously beautiful, like
Speaker 1: a supermodel, blonde beautiful, beautiful, but that sweetheart of hers
Speaker 1: makes her even more radiant. I totally agree. And um,
Speaker 1: you know I met both of you girls at the
Speaker 1: same time, and you're the same way you both are
Speaker 1: such a bright light and such um. I don't know,
Speaker 1: it's this feeling, you know, how some people come into
Speaker 1: your life and you go, we're gonna be We talked
Speaker 1: about this earlier in the kitchen. They're either going to
Speaker 1: be acquaintances. They may come in your life and go
Speaker 1: and all is well. But then there's these people that
Speaker 1: come into your life and they are like a lantern.
Speaker 1: There's such a light where it's like this lantern that
Speaker 1: you want to carry with you through the rest of
Speaker 1: your time here to just help lead the way. And
Speaker 1: both of you are very much like that. And I
Speaker 1: mean that you really are, both of you. I love
Speaker 1: gen she's so talented, an amazing songwriter and singer, and
Speaker 1: and just more importantly just a great person. And you're
Speaker 1: the same. You're the same, such a bright light. And
Speaker 1: I love being around other women that are in love
Speaker 1: with their significant other. And and you know, we can
Speaker 1: share this um sisterhood. We can call each other, come
Speaker 1: and vent in each other's kitchen and say, oh my gosh,
Speaker 1: Kyle did this or Michael did that or whatever. When
Speaker 1: you talk about it and and you just you move
Speaker 1: on because it's so tedious. It's so tiny over you know,
Speaker 1: out of the big picture. But you are such a beautiful, beautiful,
Speaker 1: bright light and so wonderful and I'm very, very very
Speaker 1: blessed to have you in my life. I'm blessed that
Speaker 1: my husband is able to call you a sister, and
Speaker 1: I'm blessed to call you a sister as well. And
Speaker 1: You're just amazing and and I'm so happy that our
Speaker 1: path have drawn us to each other even more, you know,
Speaker 1: I think it's such a blessing, and it happens so naturally,
Speaker 1: and it's just been fun to get to do so great,
Speaker 1: so great, and we have so many amazing memories to
Speaker 1: make together. I've ever who knows what the future holds.
Speaker 1: And I knew Kyle for a while because I was
Speaker 1: a song. You've known him longer than I've known him.
Speaker 1: I've known Kyle for years and years and years for
Speaker 1: probably what probably about I've been in town about twelve
Speaker 1: thirteen years the whole time. Yeah, yeah, so yeah, I mean,
Speaker 1: it's just it's so great when you you know, I
Speaker 1: mentioned earlier about when your friends love your partner makes
Speaker 1: the biggest difference, and when your partner is engaged and
Speaker 1: loves and wants to take care of your friends. You know,
Speaker 1: it's such a blessing. It's a great thing. And so
Speaker 1: that is the cast of your show. All these people
Speaker 1: who have such truly good hearts, good intentions, they're all
Speaker 1: passionate about what they're doing. We need to change the
Speaker 1: show title. It should not be I love me. It
Speaker 1: should be like, but I love Everybody's amazing. But I'll
Speaker 1: tell you why. I love telling Pickler such a great
Speaker 1: title because I like to throw it back to that
Speaker 1: show I Love Lucy, I love who doesn't I Love Lucy,
Speaker 1: And it's the same kind of concept. Although Lucy, I
Speaker 1: Love Lucy is the title. The whole show is fun,
Speaker 1: you know, it's a it's a there's spreads, yes, but
Speaker 1: the whole Rashy Ricardo. It's a whole positive vibe and
Speaker 1: I feel like this it's all in good fun. It's
Speaker 1: kind of the new I love Lucy, Oh God, bless you.
Speaker 1: I love that. I love her, I love you. I
Speaker 1: love everything you just said. But it's just love. It's
Speaker 1: just love, so short, a pin prick out of eternity,
Speaker 1: pin prick and your show, to me is all about
Speaker 1: love and fun and being real and inspiring people, and
Speaker 1: so the whole cast is of that same mindset and
Speaker 1: that's awesome, Thank you baby, and I love it. Okay.
Speaker 1: So I like to wrap up because I can talk
Speaker 1: to you forever. I can talk to you forever. I'm
Speaker 1: sure we'll wrap this up and then we'll talk for
Speaker 1: the next five hours. A right, like we have a
Speaker 1: whole bottle. We do bottle man, it's a mac Daddy
Speaker 1: bottle down. Um. I like to wrap up with, first off,
Speaker 1: tell me about the season, like what can we look
Speaker 1: forward to for the remaining episodes? And then I like
Speaker 1: to wrap up with leave your lights to leave inspiration. Okay.
Speaker 1: So as far as the rest of the season goes, um,
Speaker 1: I would say, it's an adrenaline pact crazy. It's crazy,
Speaker 1: it's fun. We go skydiving with the Golden Nights and
Speaker 1: we um go to Japan and we're just chasing dreams. Already,
Speaker 1: did family feud, family feud and obstacle course in the air, Yes,
Speaker 1: and and whatnot? So we are adrenaline, adrenaline junkie packed season,
Speaker 1: fun um, a lot of love at Lacker, a lot
Speaker 1: of hillbilly together. Yes, food food, food, can he's the
Speaker 1: cook kills it every time. Yes, yes, and it's so wonderful.
Speaker 1: He's so great, everybody's so wonderful. And I mean these
Speaker 1: are short, little thirty minute episodes. There's thirteen episodes, thirty minutes,
Speaker 1: and we just want to make people laugh, make him smile,
Speaker 1: make him think, and um, just I don't know a babe, right,
Speaker 1: light love it? Okay, So leave your lights, leave your life.
Speaker 1: Speaking of light, speaking a light, leave your light, leave
Speaker 1: your life. I guess as far as the light I
Speaker 1: would like to leave. Um that has peanuts. Peanut has
Speaker 1: some peanuts, Gonna tell you everything. Um, Yeah, I feel
Speaker 1: extremely blessed um, and I am blessed um for many reasons.
Speaker 1: I would like to help other people see and focus
Speaker 1: their energy on the blessings they do have. It's so
Speaker 1: easy to be pulled in the direction of what I
Speaker 1: don't have and just what I want and that negative Um,
Speaker 1: I guess path. So I think for me, I would
Speaker 1: want to and I tried to encourage others, and I
Speaker 1: struggle with this myself of putting my energy into things
Speaker 1: that truly matter and um, putting my energy into things
Speaker 1: that are and can be beautiful in the world. So
Speaker 1: I guess, leave your light. Leave your light. Shine your
Speaker 1: light on things that matter, and don't get wrapped up
Speaker 1: and tied down and sucked into that um world of negativity. UM.
Speaker 1: Life can be like quicksand, and it has the tendency
Speaker 1: to pull you under if you let it, if you
Speaker 1: submit to that quick sand, it will suck you under.
Speaker 1: So shine your light on the beautiful parts of the world. UM,
Speaker 1: good people, good company, good intentions. UM, and be positive.
Speaker 1: So shine a light on being positive. We all have
Speaker 1: our moments, but never let the darkness completely. I guess
Speaker 1: turn out the light. So, UM, I don't know, makes sense,
Speaker 1: It makes sense. And you're not just saying it. You're
Speaker 1: not just talking to talk, You're walking the walk. You're
Speaker 1: a doll baby. So cheers to you for being a
Speaker 1: bright light. Kelly Pickler, Come Pie, Come Pie Love See
Speaker 1: in Tokyo Man, When you'll tune in Kelly Pickler on
Speaker 1: Thursday in Caral Love, She's a queen of talking. He
Speaker 1: got the scoop no one can do with Caral Love. Carala.
Speaker 1: I hope that you guys loved hearing from Kelly Pickler.
Speaker 1: Make sure you tune in every Thursday on CMT and
Speaker 1: watch her show. I love Kelly Pickler. I'll be on
Speaker 1: it with her. It's so fun. Next week I have
Speaker 1: my dear friend Rachel Barbow joining us. She's delivered commentary
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Speaker 1: Heisman voter. She is like she was the first woman
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Speaker 1: It's incredible. Her story is incredible. And she also has
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