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Speaker 1: Added Caryl Lone. She's a queen and talking a song.

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Speaker 1: You know, she's getting really not afraid to feel this

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Speaker 1: episode soul. Just let it flow. No one can do

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Speaker 1: we quiet. Cary Lone is sounding care.

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Speaker 2: Lound you ready, Hunter, I've never been more. I'm so ready.

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Speaker 2: Hunter Girl is in the house. Welcome to get real

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Speaker 2: Hunter Girls here. Everyone. I guest really like you.

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Speaker 3: Oh my gosh, I really like you.

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Speaker 2: I well, first off, you're fun. We were having a

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Speaker 2: lot of fun. Thanks for getting down with the content.

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Speaker 4: Oh hey, always it is so much fun.

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Speaker 2: You might as well have some fun with content.

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Speaker 4: I know, Like it's like, if you're gonna do it,

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Speaker 4: make it a good tom, just do it.

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Speaker 2: Yeah. But I really like you in general though, with

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Speaker 2: your music. Okay, So I am late to the party.

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Speaker 2: I did not even realize you were runner up on

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Speaker 2: American Idol. I just thought you were this awesome singer

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Speaker 2: name Hunter Girl, and I was like, what does a

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Speaker 2: hunter girl mean? But that was like, your name is Hunter, yes,

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Speaker 2: government name you actually are? Like you like to hunt?

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Speaker 4: Yeah, I like to hunt. But that's not like how

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Speaker 4: a Hunter girl came to be in a sense. My

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Speaker 4: last name is Walkin' Awski walking Alski. Yeah, eleven letters.

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Speaker 4: Kindergarten sucked when they're like spell your name and I'm like,

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Speaker 4: I got eleven, people, I got eleven give me a break.

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Speaker 2: Yes, that's good.

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Speaker 4: And so nobody can ever pronounce it. And the lady

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Speaker 4: at the front office when I was in elementary school,

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Speaker 4: she was like Hunter Walm there was like a guy

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Speaker 4: named Hunter in my clas. She's like, the girl Hunter,

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Speaker 4: Hunter girl. Can you come to the office.

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Speaker 2: And just stuck everybody kindergarten?

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Speaker 4: Yeah, So just like they called me hunter girl.

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Speaker 2: Your whole life, you've just been called hunter girl.

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Speaker 4: That's what my Paul calls me. He'll be like, hey,

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Speaker 4: I'm a little hunter girl.

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Speaker 3: What you doing? And I'm like, I don't know.

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Speaker 2: Is that the one you wrote club words about?

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Speaker 4: Uh No, that's my grandfather. My paw is still alive

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Speaker 4: as your other grandfather. That's my on my mom's side, yes, okay,

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Speaker 4: but on my grandfather on my dad's side, he passed away.

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Speaker 2: Your song clockworks like, literally, just me down because that

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Speaker 2: is so sweet about you grandfather and about getting al

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Speaker 2: Thimer's right.

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Speaker 4: Yes, it was a really, really hard time and he

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Speaker 4: was just the sweetest person. Ever the best cook, like

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Speaker 4: the best best spaghetti you have ever had in your

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Speaker 4: entire life. But he was just such a sweet person

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Speaker 4: and and he got dementia and it was just really

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Speaker 4: everybody always wants to go back in time, and there's

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Speaker 4: like I'm like, I wish I'd ask him so many

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Speaker 4: different questions, and you always think about looking back in

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Speaker 4: the past and things that you wish you would have done,

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Speaker 4: and that was one of the things. It was just

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Speaker 4: I was like, I wish I could eat Grandpa's spaghetti

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Speaker 4: was one more time, or get to talk to him

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Speaker 2: It is so crazy because I have now lost all

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Speaker 4: I'm so sorry long time though.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, like I got to have a really great personal,

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Speaker 4: Yeah. It just feels like there's just this whole left,

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Speaker 4: you know, because they because like my grandparents bring me

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Speaker 4: so much peace. Yeah, you know, so much peace and

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Speaker 4: so much perspective. Yeah, you know, like I think about

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Speaker 4: It all turns it's so fine, And you know, it's

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Speaker 4: And they're in their eighties and just it feels like

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Speaker 2: The thing I really really admire about your songwriting, and

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Speaker 2: I think America does too. And obviously this is why

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Speaker 2: you got like a golden ticket right where you got

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Speaker 2: like oh, originally you got pat only four people get one.

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Speaker 4: I got the golden ticket, and then I got the

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Speaker 4: platinum ticket my year, which was crazy. I did not

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Speaker 2: Okay, explain that's what that means.

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Speaker 4: So it was the twentieth season of American Idol.

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Speaker 4: Oh my gosh, it twenty twenty two. Okay, I think

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Speaker 4: I'm looking at the camera like they know, like twenty

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Speaker 4: twenty two. Fact check me, please let us know. Yeah,

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Speaker 4: put in the comments. But yeah, So they had platinum

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Speaker 4: I was scared to death. I was about to have

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Speaker 4: I don't even know. I think I was so stressed out,

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Speaker 4: they're like, Hunter, it's your turn going to the audition room,

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Speaker 4: and I'm like and I looked like, look like a

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Speaker 2: Like, hey, Katie, hey, lou kay little who were you

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Speaker 4: And when I walked into the room, because they just

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Speaker 2: To make it through a lot of rounds of before you.

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Speaker 2: Oh not, if you get the golden ticket, you just

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Speaker 4: Well, so they have like auditions before because this was

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Speaker 2: And that means you get to go to Hollywood.

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Speaker 4: I get to go to Hollywood. And then they were saying, oh,

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Speaker 4: that sounds fun. And so I show up to Luke's

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Speaker 4: And luckily I was like I was like, hey, guys, like,

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Speaker 2: You're not playing those songs out ahead of time?

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Speaker 4: Oh?

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Speaker 2: No, like I'm throwing you to the wolf.

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Speaker 4: I was like, let's go. And they were like, we

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Speaker 2: Random ers.

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Speaker 4: I was like, I was like, I don't know who

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Speaker 4: And that's when they gave me the platinum ticket, which

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Speaker 3: Stop so in the whole course.

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Speaker 4: In the whole course of the season.

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Speaker 2: And does that what is that? What do you what

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Speaker 4: It was like whenever we were in Hollywood Week, it

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Speaker 4: I was like because whenever I had it, I was

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Speaker 4: that was such a crazy experience because you're running off

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Speaker 4: it's only a week. And then we figure out who's

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Speaker 4: I could have got eliminated?

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Speaker 2: Okay, okay, yeah, So so was that nerve wracking with

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Speaker 4: Yeah? There there were so many great people that didn't

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Speaker 4: And because there's so many amazing artists on that season

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Speaker 4: And so the whole time I was just thinking, I'm

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Speaker 4: going and just kind of keeping my head down. I'm like,

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Speaker 4: I'm just gonna figure it out step by step. And

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Speaker 4: learn the lyrics of these songs and just like blackout

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Speaker 4: when I'm on stage and hopefully it all comes out right.

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Speaker 2: You know, Holy cow Nde was wild. That's wild, didn't it? Okay?

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Speaker 2: So before then, were you feeling a little lost because

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Speaker 2: you wrote by yourself and not about you?

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Speaker 4: I was like, okay, God, I got my sign.

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Speaker 2: Does that feel like when all of a sudden all

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Speaker 2: So what was it like when you're performing live? Did

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Speaker 4: That was crazy.

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Speaker 2: That's next level? Is it? Is it defeating that you

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Speaker 4: Oh, I was just so happy I was there. You know.

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Speaker 4: And I look over and I see my Nana and

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Speaker 3: She's like, hey, like what's going on?

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Speaker 2: She was having the best day of.

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Speaker 4: Her funny and they got a picture together and everything.

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Speaker 4: It was so sweet. But I cried during that, and

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Speaker 4: I cried whenever I sang Redbird and I got off

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Speaker 2: And you wrote that song.

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Speaker 4: I wrote that song. Yeah, so cool.

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Speaker 2: You got to sing a rich songs. They let people

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Speaker 4: It was really special because the first original I sang

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Speaker 4: You know, I'm just trying to get better. And she

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Speaker 2: The thing I love about your music is, like I said,

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Speaker 2: than every little girl needs to hear that Oh my god.

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Speaker 2: I like every song you're singing, I know, is like

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Speaker 2: I like, I'm like feeling every single bit of it.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, I feel like whenever I was little, like I

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Speaker 2: But like that song made me cry when I saw

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Speaker 2: The music video. The music video is shocking.

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Speaker 2: I'm like, that is that is the messaging we need.

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Speaker 4: It was just so special, and you know, like I

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Speaker 2: That's what we want, and that's why, Like I'm like

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Speaker 2: How she's so good to be such a new art.

440
00:17:52,160 --> 00:17:54,800
Speaker 2: You've been doing this a long time. So tell me

441
00:17:54,800 --> 00:17:56,960
Speaker 2: about your upbringing. You grew up in the country, and

442
00:17:56,960 --> 00:17:59,080
Speaker 2: that's where somewhere where I was coming from. Because did

443
00:17:59,119 --> 00:18:00,879
Speaker 2: you get lost last year? Said you had a big

444
00:18:01,200 --> 00:18:04,080
Speaker 2: finding yourself here last Yeah, definitely tell me about all

445
00:18:04,080 --> 00:18:06,119
Speaker 2: that and getting back to the country and your roots.

446
00:18:06,280 --> 00:18:08,920
Speaker 4: Yeah, so get lost not like actually last time I

447
00:18:09,000 --> 00:18:12,879
Speaker 4: was lost for like three months, like in the woods, No,

448
00:18:13,760 --> 00:18:16,560
Speaker 4: somewhere wild kind of came from this time where you know,

449
00:18:16,640 --> 00:18:19,520
Speaker 4: it's like everybody's like, what's next, what's next.

450
00:18:19,600 --> 00:18:21,600
Speaker 2: And they're trying to be encouraging, but it's also like,

451
00:18:22,000 --> 00:18:23,560
Speaker 2: oh my god, I don't know what's next.

452
00:18:23,720 --> 00:18:25,439
Speaker 3: I don't know, I have no idea.

453
00:18:26,040 --> 00:18:27,639
Speaker 4: So I'm just like smiling a wave and like the

454
00:18:27,680 --> 00:18:30,520
Speaker 4: penguins from out of Gascar, like I'm like, yeah, everything's great,

455
00:18:30,640 --> 00:18:32,600
Speaker 4: you know, And I'm like, I don't know what's next.

456
00:18:33,240 --> 00:18:36,200
Speaker 4: And I really wanted to find my sound and kind

457
00:18:36,200 --> 00:18:38,560
Speaker 4: of get back to myself in a way, like like

458
00:18:38,640 --> 00:18:40,800
Speaker 4: the country roots that I've always had, like growing up

459
00:18:40,960 --> 00:18:44,840
Speaker 4: in Southeast Tennessee, Winchester and somewhere Wild was kind of

460
00:18:44,840 --> 00:18:47,960
Speaker 4: that finding myself song, and it kind of started at

461
00:18:48,000 --> 00:18:49,960
Speaker 4: the top of the last year when I was like, Okay,

462
00:18:49,960 --> 00:18:52,160
Speaker 4: what's next And I was like, I don't.

463
00:18:51,960 --> 00:18:53,160
Speaker 2: Know, Like everyone feels stressed.

464
00:18:53,280 --> 00:18:55,560
Speaker 4: Yeah, I was like everything's so unknown all the time.

465
00:18:56,480 --> 00:18:59,760
Speaker 2: And did you go from American Idol huge burst of energy?

466
00:18:59,840 --> 00:19:00,000
Speaker 3: Yeah?

467
00:19:00,240 --> 00:19:02,639
Speaker 2: Record, now you're signed a Broken Bow right, Yes, and

468
00:19:02,680 --> 00:19:04,720
Speaker 2: now you're putting out singles, You're going on tour with

469
00:19:04,800 --> 00:19:07,400
Speaker 2: Luke Bryan, Yes, went on toward Luke Bryann so whirlwind.

470
00:19:07,480 --> 00:19:08,800
Speaker 4: Yeah, it's been so much.

471
00:19:08,640 --> 00:19:11,080
Speaker 2: Fun and then sometimes the whirlwind just kind of stops,

472
00:19:11,119 --> 00:19:13,840
Speaker 2: not that it's stopping, but it's like huge, huge force.

473
00:19:13,880 --> 00:19:14,639
Speaker 2: And then it's like.

474
00:19:14,560 --> 00:19:16,520
Speaker 4: It's in those breaks, those breaks.

475
00:19:16,280 --> 00:19:17,720
Speaker 2: It's like who am I now? Like what am I

476
00:19:17,760 --> 00:19:18,280
Speaker 2: supposed to do?

477
00:19:18,359 --> 00:19:18,560
Speaker 4: Yeah?

478
00:19:18,680 --> 00:19:19,320
Speaker 2: Very confusing.

479
00:19:19,400 --> 00:19:21,679
Speaker 4: Yeah, you're just like I don't know what's next. And

480
00:19:22,280 --> 00:19:24,600
Speaker 4: so there's this place by my Pau's house and he

481
00:19:24,680 --> 00:19:27,000
Speaker 4: called it the wilderness. Whenever I was a little kid.

482
00:19:27,000 --> 00:19:28,639
Speaker 4: It was right beside the creek, and he made it

483
00:19:28,640 --> 00:19:30,720
Speaker 4: this little magical place and he was like, oh, love

484
00:19:30,720 --> 00:19:32,960
Speaker 4: your family, Oh my gosh, like you had like you

485
00:19:33,000 --> 00:19:37,359
Speaker 4: need to meet them. There's the sweetest people. But Pau said, like,

486
00:19:37,440 --> 00:19:39,560
Speaker 4: say the wilderness three times, and when you run into

487
00:19:39,560 --> 00:19:41,240
Speaker 4: the woods, anything can happen.

488
00:19:41,359 --> 00:19:43,760
Speaker 2: No, he did not. He said, say the wilderness three times,

489
00:19:43,920 --> 00:19:45,119
Speaker 2: the wilderness.

490
00:19:44,600 --> 00:19:48,000
Speaker 4: Wilderness, the wilderness, the wilderness. My sister and my cousin

491
00:19:48,040 --> 00:19:48,360
Speaker 4: were like.

492
00:19:49,040 --> 00:19:50,840
Speaker 2: And then you run in, they're charging in.

493
00:19:51,000 --> 00:19:55,200
Speaker 4: Yeah, And it was like I felt that feeling but like.

494
00:19:55,240 --> 00:19:56,000
Speaker 2: Broke through the veil.

495
00:19:56,119 --> 00:19:58,160
Speaker 4: Yeah, it's like i'most like, oh my gosh, where the fairies?

496
00:19:58,280 --> 00:20:01,679
Speaker 4: You know, but that feeling like anything could happen, Like

497
00:20:01,680 --> 00:20:03,600
Speaker 4: whenever you get older, it's like, oh my gosh, anything

498
00:20:03,600 --> 00:20:06,520
Speaker 4: could happen, and you take it like negatively. And I

499
00:20:06,560 --> 00:20:08,160
Speaker 4: was like, I want to get back to like being

500
00:20:08,200 --> 00:20:10,760
Speaker 4: in the wilderness where anything could happen and it's a

501
00:20:10,800 --> 00:20:14,040
Speaker 4: good thing, and like go back to that positive spin

502
00:20:14,119 --> 00:20:17,040
Speaker 4: on that saying. And I felt like Somewhere Wild was

503
00:20:17,080 --> 00:20:19,520
Speaker 4: like this growing song for me. I didn't mean to

504
00:20:19,600 --> 00:20:22,200
Speaker 4: rot it when I walked into the room. You didn't no,

505
00:20:22,320 --> 00:20:25,320
Speaker 4: I didn't have the idea or anything. And I read

506
00:20:25,359 --> 00:20:26,760
Speaker 4: it with Jeff Garrison and Bob Depiro.

507
00:20:27,200 --> 00:20:29,159
Speaker 2: I love Bob de Pierro so.

508
00:20:29,119 --> 00:20:30,359
Speaker 3: The sweetest little human.

509
00:20:30,560 --> 00:20:32,040
Speaker 2: Do you know what Bob Dapiro told me that I

510
00:20:32,080 --> 00:20:34,280
Speaker 2: will never forget what he said. I interviewed him, and

511
00:20:34,320 --> 00:20:35,879
Speaker 2: I just have loved him. He's a friend for a

512
00:20:35,880 --> 00:20:38,800
Speaker 2: long time. He said, fear is a hundred feet wide

513
00:20:38,840 --> 00:20:41,199
Speaker 2: and a hundred feet tall, but it's paper thin. He's like,

514
00:20:41,240 --> 00:20:43,199
Speaker 2: you just have to walk through it. Chills, I know.

515
00:20:43,320 --> 00:20:45,000
Speaker 2: He's like, it's all you can see, it's a hundred

516
00:20:45,000 --> 00:20:46,679
Speaker 2: feet wide one hundred feet tall, but it's paper thin.

517
00:20:46,760 --> 00:20:48,640
Speaker 2: If you walk through it, it's over.

518
00:20:48,800 --> 00:20:51,680
Speaker 4: Oh my god, damn, Bob, oh, you should be a

519
00:20:52,280 --> 00:20:56,040
Speaker 4: song that's crazy.

520
00:20:56,080 --> 00:20:59,679
Speaker 2: He's just dropping that, He's just dropping wisdom all over. No,

521
00:21:00,040 --> 00:21:01,040
Speaker 2: he's just like a sage.

522
00:21:01,080 --> 00:21:01,919
Speaker 3: He really is.

523
00:21:02,560 --> 00:21:03,919
Speaker 4: I'm like like a little wizard.

524
00:21:04,160 --> 00:21:04,359
Speaker 3: I know.

525
00:21:04,560 --> 00:21:05,600
Speaker 2: Yeah, he's so nice.

526
00:21:05,720 --> 00:21:08,560
Speaker 4: I know, he's just so happy, and I know every

527
00:21:08,600 --> 00:21:09,720
Speaker 4: time I see him, I was like, I was gonna

528
00:21:09,760 --> 00:21:10,160
Speaker 4: hug you.

529
00:21:10,200 --> 00:21:11,040
Speaker 3: I know me too.

530
00:21:11,800 --> 00:21:13,679
Speaker 2: We love you, Bob, We love you Bob.

531
00:21:13,720 --> 00:21:17,200
Speaker 4: And like he was so encouraging in the room and

532
00:21:17,480 --> 00:21:19,040
Speaker 4: Jess started playing this track and I was like, I've

533
00:21:19,080 --> 00:21:19,960
Speaker 4: never written anything like that.

534
00:21:20,320 --> 00:21:20,800
Speaker 3: That's cool.

535
00:21:20,880 --> 00:21:23,320
Speaker 4: It's like very like where is she? And I'm like

536
00:21:23,680 --> 00:21:25,240
Speaker 4: I don't know because I don't know where I'm going.

537
00:21:25,680 --> 00:21:29,480
Speaker 4: And I just kept hearing somewhere wild, and so Bob's like,

538
00:21:29,560 --> 00:21:32,480
Speaker 4: let's run with it. And we wrote that song in

539
00:21:32,560 --> 00:21:34,320
Speaker 4: like an hour and a half and it was so

540
00:21:34,400 --> 00:21:36,720
Speaker 4: easy and it was like another like felt like a

541
00:21:36,800 --> 00:21:38,679
Speaker 4: stamp of like a tom stamp of my life. And

542
00:21:38,720 --> 00:21:40,200
Speaker 4: I was like, I feel like I know where I'm heading.

543
00:21:40,680 --> 00:21:43,280
Speaker 4: And then Trent Willman ended up producing it. Love Trent

544
00:21:43,320 --> 00:21:44,680
Speaker 4: Willman and I love him.

545
00:21:45,480 --> 00:21:46,440
Speaker 2: He's a Texas guy.

546
00:21:46,640 --> 00:21:47,560
Speaker 3: Yes, yeah, hey.

547
00:21:47,560 --> 00:21:50,320
Speaker 2: I used to sing with him at Judge Being's barbecue

548
00:21:50,320 --> 00:21:52,640
Speaker 2: back in the day, giving way Hey, I've been around

549
00:21:52,680 --> 00:21:54,240
Speaker 2: for so long. I have like so many lives with

550
00:21:54,280 --> 00:21:56,440
Speaker 2: so many people. But Trent Willman, I'm like, hey, yeah,

551
00:21:56,440 --> 00:21:58,360
Speaker 2: he's getting his big moment because he had an artist moment,

552
00:21:58,400 --> 00:22:00,120
Speaker 2: but now he's getting his big producer moment.

553
00:22:00,080 --> 00:22:02,520
Speaker 4: Out like he's so amazing, and like being in the

554
00:22:02,560 --> 00:22:05,359
Speaker 4: studio with him and the band and it was just

555
00:22:05,400 --> 00:22:07,479
Speaker 4: so much fun. It felt like everybody just known each

556
00:22:07,520 --> 00:22:09,440
Speaker 4: other forever and we were just all hanging out and

557
00:22:09,480 --> 00:22:10,760
Speaker 4: like creating music and.

558
00:22:10,680 --> 00:22:13,040
Speaker 2: How'd you link up? But Trent Williams Willman.

559
00:22:12,880 --> 00:22:15,399
Speaker 4: Well, I met him at the CMT Next Woman a

560
00:22:15,440 --> 00:22:18,240
Speaker 4: Country uh thing because I was a part of that

561
00:22:18,280 --> 00:22:20,119
Speaker 4: class and he has the audience, and I was like,

562
00:22:20,119 --> 00:22:22,359
Speaker 4: oh my gosh, I'm so excited because I was Cody Johnson, right,

563
00:22:22,760 --> 00:22:26,119
Speaker 4: Tody Johnson, Yeah, Cody Johnson. And and so I met

564
00:22:26,200 --> 00:22:29,439
Speaker 4: him there and ended sending him my music and he

565
00:22:29,560 --> 00:22:31,440
Speaker 4: was like, let's do it, and I was.

566
00:22:31,400 --> 00:22:34,320
Speaker 3: Like okay, yay.

567
00:22:34,400 --> 00:22:36,120
Speaker 4: And so we cut three songs.

568
00:22:36,320 --> 00:22:37,160
Speaker 2: Which ones did you cut?

569
00:22:37,200 --> 00:22:37,440
Speaker 4: First?

570
00:22:37,720 --> 00:22:39,880
Speaker 2: Dirt was first, which Dirt is so good?

571
00:22:40,280 --> 00:22:40,760
Speaker 4: Thank you?

572
00:22:40,840 --> 00:22:42,280
Speaker 2: I love that song, thank You.

573
00:22:42,560 --> 00:22:46,040
Speaker 4: That was fall Somewhere Wild, and then the baby Something

574
00:22:46,080 --> 00:22:48,919
Speaker 4: Coming Soon. Oh she's so mysterious.

575
00:22:48,960 --> 00:22:52,120
Speaker 2: Okay, it's got a past, she's crazy. I love this

576
00:22:52,160 --> 00:22:56,320
Speaker 2: for us. So there's a new there's a there's one

577
00:22:56,359 --> 00:22:56,760
Speaker 2: in the bank.

578
00:22:56,800 --> 00:22:57,720
Speaker 4: There's one in the bank.

579
00:22:57,920 --> 00:23:01,119
Speaker 2: Okay, we don't know, uh when she's gonna be to

580
00:23:01,200 --> 00:23:03,439
Speaker 2: be continued, Okay, I know I love that. Right now,

581
00:23:03,480 --> 00:23:04,800
Speaker 2: we're just doing somewhere Wild.

582
00:23:04,880 --> 00:23:08,040
Speaker 4: Yeah, somewhere Wild right now. But yeah, I'm really really

583
00:23:08,040 --> 00:23:10,760
Speaker 4: excited for that song. And it feels different than uh

584
00:23:11,000 --> 00:23:12,240
Speaker 4: like stuff that I've done in the past.

585
00:23:12,760 --> 00:23:14,880
Speaker 2: So when did you start releasing music? Did you release

586
00:23:14,920 --> 00:23:15,440
Speaker 2: on your own?

587
00:23:16,320 --> 00:23:18,680
Speaker 4: Yes, So, I the first time that I was in

588
00:23:18,680 --> 00:23:20,520
Speaker 4: a studio, I think I was like fifteen.

589
00:23:20,240 --> 00:23:22,880
Speaker 2: Or you've literally been at this for so long, for.

590
00:23:22,800 --> 00:23:25,320
Speaker 4: So long, and kind of like a little bit of

591
00:23:25,359 --> 00:23:29,320
Speaker 4: like baby Hunter, Like nobody in my family played music.

592
00:23:29,400 --> 00:23:31,760
Speaker 2: Nobody, nobody, no, and.

593
00:23:31,640 --> 00:23:34,879
Speaker 4: So they were just all like, whatever you want to do,

594
00:23:35,000 --> 00:23:37,600
Speaker 4: just go after it. And I'm like okay, and so

595
00:23:37,800 --> 00:23:40,840
Speaker 4: like I'd go to talent shows like county fairs, any

596
00:23:40,880 --> 00:23:43,199
Speaker 4: place that anybody would let me sing. And when I

597
00:23:43,240 --> 00:23:46,000
Speaker 4: was like fourteen fifteen, I started I played bass first.

598
00:23:46,040 --> 00:23:48,080
Speaker 4: I was playing bass in the babe, Oh my god,

599
00:23:48,240 --> 00:23:50,159
Speaker 4: thank you. Yes, I can't like I need to practice

600
00:23:50,200 --> 00:23:51,680
Speaker 4: bass so like I can live up to it.

601
00:23:52,400 --> 00:23:53,480
Speaker 2: Did you like Rodeo two?

602
00:23:54,359 --> 00:23:58,240
Speaker 4: I didn't get too much into radio. Yes, yeah, and

603
00:23:58,359 --> 00:24:01,560
Speaker 4: so uh, but like started playing guitar, and so I

604
00:24:01,600 --> 00:24:04,560
Speaker 4: start walking into bars and like coffee shops, and my

605
00:24:04,600 --> 00:24:06,359
Speaker 4: mom and dad would drive me and be like, just

606
00:24:06,359 --> 00:24:07,960
Speaker 4: like waiting in the corner because my mom and dad

607
00:24:08,000 --> 00:24:09,400
Speaker 4: just like just wait in the corner. I'm just gonna

608
00:24:09,400 --> 00:24:10,440
Speaker 4: ask and see if they'll let me sing.

609
00:24:10,560 --> 00:24:13,440
Speaker 2: You would go ask yourself at like fourteen fifteen you

610
00:24:13,520 --> 00:24:15,880
Speaker 2: were here, you should drop you off and they would

611
00:24:15,880 --> 00:24:17,840
Speaker 2: wait while you wouldn't ask the head. If you could

612
00:24:17,840 --> 00:24:18,760
Speaker 2: see they would come.

613
00:24:18,600 --> 00:24:19,800
Speaker 4: In the door with me and then they would stand

614
00:24:19,800 --> 00:24:21,560
Speaker 4: in the corner and be like no, mom, like come on,

615
00:24:21,760 --> 00:24:23,879
Speaker 4: you were so confident it was crazy.

616
00:24:24,000 --> 00:24:26,840
Speaker 2: Who is this girl? No, I don't know walk up

617
00:24:26,840 --> 00:24:28,600
Speaker 2: to like the vanager of the bar and say, hey,

618
00:24:28,840 --> 00:24:30,520
Speaker 2: I'm hunter girl and I want to sing here.

619
00:24:30,960 --> 00:24:32,280
Speaker 4: I would be like, hey, like do you care if

620
00:24:32,320 --> 00:24:34,159
Speaker 4: I sing a couple songs because there would be a stage,

621
00:24:34,640 --> 00:24:35,920
Speaker 4: And I was like, and if you like it, maybe

622
00:24:36,000 --> 00:24:37,040
Speaker 4: like I could play longer.

623
00:24:37,560 --> 00:24:38,200
Speaker 2: No, you did not.

624
00:24:38,600 --> 00:24:42,120
Speaker 4: If you'd like to hire me and so fourteen years old,

625
00:24:42,160 --> 00:24:43,240
Speaker 4: fourteen fifteen, it.

626
00:24:43,240 --> 00:24:45,760
Speaker 2: Was crazy god, And so that's how.

627
00:24:45,640 --> 00:24:47,679
Speaker 4: I got gigs. And then I started stalking people on

628
00:24:47,720 --> 00:24:49,000
Speaker 4: Facebook that had venues.

629
00:24:49,200 --> 00:24:50,639
Speaker 2: So you were like focused.

630
00:24:50,960 --> 00:24:51,639
Speaker 4: I was locked in.

631
00:24:51,680 --> 00:24:54,560
Speaker 2: You're not scared to ask, like scared.

632
00:24:54,240 --> 00:24:55,880
Speaker 4: But I was like I want it so bad. I'm

633
00:24:55,920 --> 00:24:57,359
Speaker 4: just gonna do it, like I don't care, and that's

634
00:24:57,400 --> 00:24:59,680
Speaker 4: what it takes. And so I was like highly impressed.

635
00:24:59,720 --> 00:25:02,359
Speaker 4: Like probably like junior and senior year, I was playing

636
00:25:02,400 --> 00:25:03,760
Speaker 4: like fifty shows a summer.

637
00:25:03,760 --> 00:25:05,000
Speaker 2: And you just went and got them yourself.

638
00:25:05,080 --> 00:25:06,800
Speaker 4: Yeah. I would just be like hey, like can I play?

639
00:25:07,000 --> 00:25:08,680
Speaker 2: And you're your own book and agent. Were you making money?

640
00:25:09,119 --> 00:25:11,120
Speaker 4: I was like I was making okay money.

641
00:25:10,800 --> 00:25:12,240
Speaker 2: Like at fourteen playing gigs.

642
00:25:12,320 --> 00:25:14,640
Speaker 4: Yeah, I was like this rocks. And so I didn't

643
00:25:14,680 --> 00:25:17,320
Speaker 4: have a band, and there was like this vineyard like oh,

644
00:25:17,480 --> 00:25:18,640
Speaker 4: like you have to have a band to play here.

645
00:25:19,119 --> 00:25:20,680
Speaker 4: And I was like okay, what do I do now?

646
00:25:21,040 --> 00:25:22,879
Speaker 4: And so I was a part of the church band

647
00:25:23,000 --> 00:25:25,040
Speaker 4: and so there's like these guys in their fifties and

648
00:25:25,080 --> 00:25:27,320
Speaker 4: I was like hey. I was like hey, and I

649
00:25:27,359 --> 00:25:28,960
Speaker 4: went to school with the like I went to school

650
00:25:29,000 --> 00:25:30,680
Speaker 4: with their kids and they were in the band with

651
00:25:30,920 --> 00:25:31,560
Speaker 4: fifty year.

652
00:25:31,400 --> 00:25:32,040
Speaker 3: Old dude you know.

653
00:25:32,040 --> 00:25:33,199
Speaker 4: And I was like, Hey, do you want to be

654
00:25:33,240 --> 00:25:33,720
Speaker 4: my band?

655
00:25:34,200 --> 00:25:36,960
Speaker 2: I was like, I loved it though we had a blest.

656
00:25:36,840 --> 00:25:39,360
Speaker 4: And like it was so special because when I came

657
00:25:39,400 --> 00:25:42,119
Speaker 4: back for idol from my hometown show, I paid with

658
00:25:42,160 --> 00:25:43,960
Speaker 4: your dudes. I brought them back.

659
00:25:45,560 --> 00:25:47,120
Speaker 2: And dead meet right now.

660
00:25:47,200 --> 00:25:50,600
Speaker 4: They're just the best people in the world. I love them,

661
00:25:50,880 --> 00:25:52,760
Speaker 4: And so they played gigs with me while I was

662
00:25:52,800 --> 00:25:53,399
Speaker 4: in high school.

663
00:25:53,440 --> 00:25:56,920
Speaker 2: You were just making it happen. Hunter, I love about

664
00:25:56,920 --> 00:25:58,960
Speaker 2: you so much. So it's like you're just like, Okay,

665
00:25:58,960 --> 00:26:00,639
Speaker 2: what do I have? What am I working with? I'm

666
00:26:00,680 --> 00:26:02,240
Speaker 2: going to just work with what I'm working with and

667
00:26:02,320 --> 00:26:04,119
Speaker 2: yet done. And that's what it takes.

668
00:26:04,600 --> 00:26:04,919
Speaker 4: Thank you.

669
00:26:05,200 --> 00:26:06,879
Speaker 2: Literally, You're just like, Okay, I need a band. Where's

670
00:26:06,920 --> 00:26:09,119
Speaker 2: my band? Okay, Church, Church guys.

671
00:26:08,840 --> 00:26:09,920
Speaker 3: Hey, guys, let's do it.

672
00:26:10,560 --> 00:26:13,680
Speaker 2: That's amazing, just fearless okay. And so then you just

673
00:26:13,680 --> 00:26:16,440
Speaker 2: started playing gigs. And then I'm guessing you skipped college

674
00:26:16,440 --> 00:26:17,440
Speaker 2: and came straight straight to National.

675
00:26:18,080 --> 00:26:21,480
Speaker 4: You went, Yes, went MTSU, and so I got a

676
00:26:21,520 --> 00:26:24,080
Speaker 4: music business degree there. I finished college.

677
00:26:24,080 --> 00:26:25,040
Speaker 2: That's impressed. COVID.

678
00:26:25,880 --> 00:26:28,320
Speaker 4: My senior year was during COVID how like that. It

679
00:26:28,440 --> 00:26:31,600
Speaker 4: was hard, you know, because like senior year, you.

680
00:26:31,520 --> 00:26:33,560
Speaker 2: Know, whole college year in COVID or did COVID start.

681
00:26:33,640 --> 00:26:36,480
Speaker 4: It was like like my last semester of college was

682
00:26:36,760 --> 00:26:40,080
Speaker 4: when COVID started. It was like that spring semester, and

683
00:26:40,280 --> 00:26:42,919
Speaker 4: so like I was starting to meet with publishers and

684
00:26:42,960 --> 00:26:44,840
Speaker 4: I was like, Oh my gosh, everything's going great. I

685
00:26:44,880 --> 00:26:47,359
Speaker 4: was like, maybe I'll have a job, you know. I

686
00:26:47,400 --> 00:26:49,600
Speaker 4: was like so excited. And I was still playing Broadway

687
00:26:49,720 --> 00:26:52,640
Speaker 4: and playing different shows and stuff. And then the world

688
00:26:52,680 --> 00:26:55,480
Speaker 4: shut down, and it was like what.

689
00:26:55,400 --> 00:26:55,800
Speaker 3: Do I do?

690
00:26:55,880 --> 00:26:57,199
Speaker 2: Now? What did you do?

691
00:26:57,400 --> 00:27:01,040
Speaker 4: And I moved back home for about I guess like

692
00:27:01,080 --> 00:27:04,320
Speaker 4: six months during COVID because my lease went up that February,

693
00:27:04,359 --> 00:27:07,199
Speaker 4: and then COVID happened that March, and so I went

694
00:27:07,240 --> 00:27:09,959
Speaker 4: back home for like six months during COVID and then

695
00:27:10,080 --> 00:27:12,919
Speaker 4: came back to Nashville and moved in with my best friend.

696
00:27:13,440 --> 00:27:16,800
Speaker 4: And it's like just started trying to figure it out again.

697
00:27:17,520 --> 00:27:19,920
Speaker 4: And I'd been working with veterans since I was about

698
00:27:19,960 --> 00:27:22,160
Speaker 4: seventeen and written songs with them.

699
00:27:22,960 --> 00:27:25,480
Speaker 2: Talk to me about that. That is so moving, VICKI

700
00:27:25,800 --> 00:27:27,639
Speaker 2: I heard I saw how you talking about Vicky?

701
00:27:27,880 --> 00:27:30,520
Speaker 4: She was the sweetest lady. But I started an all

702
00:27:30,520 --> 00:27:34,119
Speaker 4: female veteran class with Freedom Sings during twenty twenty, So

703
00:27:34,160 --> 00:27:35,639
Speaker 4: that's what I was doing throughout twenty twenty. I was

704
00:27:35,640 --> 00:27:36,600
Speaker 4: writing songs online.

705
00:27:36,640 --> 00:27:39,359
Speaker 2: Basically, you're going and helping these veterans get their story

706
00:27:39,359 --> 00:27:42,400
Speaker 2: out through songwriting. Yes, that is so Radney Foster does

707
00:27:42,440 --> 00:27:45,760
Speaker 2: that too, Yes, yeah, that is so powerful. And I'm

708
00:27:45,800 --> 00:27:48,119
Speaker 2: sure like the stories that you heard, did you was

709
00:27:48,119 --> 00:27:50,199
Speaker 2: it moving for so many these people who couldn't express

710
00:27:50,200 --> 00:27:50,959
Speaker 2: how they were feeling.

711
00:27:51,200 --> 00:27:54,320
Speaker 4: Yeah, because I started singing like the songs for the

712
00:27:54,320 --> 00:27:55,560
Speaker 4: people that would write them.

713
00:27:55,400 --> 00:27:57,280
Speaker 2: And I and you would sing them.

714
00:27:57,359 --> 00:28:00,359
Speaker 4: Yes, And so then like when I was like, I

715
00:28:00,400 --> 00:28:02,960
Speaker 4: think my first camp was when I was nineteen and

716
00:28:03,080 --> 00:28:04,440
Speaker 4: I wrote with a gold Star child.

717
00:28:04,800 --> 00:28:05,400
Speaker 3: What does that mean?

718
00:28:05,960 --> 00:28:09,520
Speaker 4: It's like one of their family members has passed away

719
00:28:09,760 --> 00:28:13,359
Speaker 4: while they were serving. And that was my first drot

720
00:28:13,840 --> 00:28:16,879
Speaker 4: And she was the sweetest little girl in the world, Shanna,

721
00:28:16,960 --> 00:28:20,199
Speaker 4: I love you if you're watching. And I think I

722
00:28:20,200 --> 00:28:21,800
Speaker 4: think she was around nine ten.

723
00:28:22,600 --> 00:28:24,080
Speaker 2: No, her parents had passed away.

724
00:28:24,840 --> 00:28:30,240
Speaker 4: Oh no, yeah, it was. It was so so hard.

725
00:28:30,200 --> 00:28:34,040
Speaker 2: And you helped her write I know, yeah, her story.

726
00:28:34,160 --> 00:28:38,560
Speaker 4: Yeah, So I wrote me and Steve Dean and Dawn Goodman.

727
00:28:38,760 --> 00:28:43,320
Speaker 4: We wrote her song, and we wrote two songs that weekend,

728
00:28:43,560 --> 00:28:49,640
Speaker 4: and this was I mean it's called Daddy's Daughter and

729
00:28:50,240 --> 00:28:53,800
Speaker 4: it was just like I remember like her running off

730
00:28:54,000 --> 00:28:55,360
Speaker 4: for a little bit and I was like, if you'd

731
00:28:55,400 --> 00:28:57,360
Speaker 4: like just like take as many breaks as you want to,

732
00:28:58,200 --> 00:29:01,760
Speaker 4: and I remember her in the bathroom and everything. I

733
00:29:01,760 --> 00:29:04,440
Speaker 4: was like, hey, are you okay? And I went and

734
00:29:04,480 --> 00:29:07,120
Speaker 4: bought like Snickers bars and I started sliding them under

735
00:29:07,120 --> 00:29:10,400
Speaker 4: the door. Oh, and I was like, hey, like, you know,

736
00:29:10,400 --> 00:29:12,240
Speaker 4: whenever you're ready, and she's like I think I am.

737
00:29:12,280 --> 00:29:13,840
Speaker 4: And so me and her just like sitting there eating

738
00:29:13,840 --> 00:29:16,520
Speaker 4: Snickers bars and we finished the song.

739
00:29:18,320 --> 00:29:24,840
Speaker 2: But so yeah, painful and powerful and like what what

740
00:29:24,920 --> 00:29:27,440
Speaker 2: an outlet to be able to like for her to

741
00:29:27,480 --> 00:29:28,720
Speaker 2: get her feelings out, you know?

742
00:29:29,160 --> 00:29:33,240
Speaker 4: Yeah, and yeah, the line of the song is like

743
00:29:33,240 --> 00:29:35,320
Speaker 4: like he made little old me to with stand anything,

744
00:29:36,000 --> 00:29:40,280
Speaker 4: uh stand like never stand down, mess with me, You're

745
00:29:40,280 --> 00:29:43,640
Speaker 4: a goner because I'm my daddy's daughter. And it was

746
00:29:43,720 --> 00:29:46,600
Speaker 4: just having that moment with her was so special. And

747
00:29:46,600 --> 00:29:48,200
Speaker 4: that was my first dRIT and I've rent with a

748
00:29:48,240 --> 00:29:52,920
Speaker 4: lot of gold star moms and spouses and this is

749
00:29:52,960 --> 00:29:55,320
Speaker 4: a calling, and so I've been doing it for a

750
00:29:55,360 --> 00:29:59,000
Speaker 4: long time. And the one that I had in December

751
00:29:59,120 --> 00:30:02,280
Speaker 4: was with miss Vicky. They called me like, hey, like

752
00:30:02,320 --> 00:30:04,200
Speaker 4: we don't know what you're doing, but we just got

753
00:30:04,200 --> 00:30:07,120
Speaker 4: a female veteran added to the workshop and like could

754
00:30:07,160 --> 00:30:10,680
Speaker 4: you come to Chattanooga And I was like, Okay, I can.

755
00:30:11,240 --> 00:30:13,080
Speaker 4: I was like, yeah, I'll be there. And so I

756
00:30:13,080 --> 00:30:17,800
Speaker 4: got up at like five am and drove because I

757
00:30:17,840 --> 00:30:21,680
Speaker 4: drove the night after me because I had like something that night,

758
00:30:21,720 --> 00:30:23,200
Speaker 4: and so I drove to my nant and Pau's house

759
00:30:23,200 --> 00:30:26,000
Speaker 4: because they're closer to Chattanooga and went down and wrote

760
00:30:26,000 --> 00:30:30,040
Speaker 4: her song and and so I was just getting to

761
00:30:30,040 --> 00:30:31,840
Speaker 4: write with her. It was so special. And what did

762
00:30:31,920 --> 00:30:32,680
Speaker 4: Vicky read about?

763
00:30:33,000 --> 00:30:33,160
Speaker 2: Uh?

764
00:30:33,160 --> 00:30:37,640
Speaker 4: It was it was called my Heart And it was

765
00:30:38,480 --> 00:30:40,280
Speaker 4: so special. I was because I asked her because she's

766
00:30:40,360 --> 00:30:42,440
Speaker 4: so nice and she was telling me your story and

767
00:30:42,960 --> 00:30:45,000
Speaker 4: I was like, like, where'd you get that heart from?

768
00:30:46,240 --> 00:30:48,120
Speaker 4: And because all the things that have happened in her

769
00:30:48,160 --> 00:30:51,120
Speaker 4: life and got a beautiful heart, She's got a beautiful heart.

770
00:30:51,720 --> 00:30:54,840
Speaker 4: And like so many songs that have come through, like

771
00:30:54,920 --> 00:30:58,160
Speaker 4: Secondary PTSD is a song that I wrote, Like all

772
00:30:58,200 --> 00:31:00,680
Speaker 4: the stories that I've gotten to tell I'm really privileged

773
00:31:00,720 --> 00:31:03,080
Speaker 4: to get to do it because like I'm lucky. I

774
00:31:03,320 --> 00:31:06,080
Speaker 4: get to write songs every day. Like that's so cool.

775
00:31:06,800 --> 00:31:07,720
Speaker 2: That is so cool.

776
00:31:08,040 --> 00:31:12,160
Speaker 4: But like seeing them get to experience that for the

777
00:31:12,200 --> 00:31:16,120
Speaker 4: first time and getting like to tell their stories, it's

778
00:31:16,160 --> 00:31:21,200
Speaker 4: just the best. And like, yeah, it's really powerful.

779
00:31:21,840 --> 00:31:24,520
Speaker 2: I mean that. Like you said, music is for what

780
00:31:24,560 --> 00:31:27,240
Speaker 2: do you say? You quote it? Music is for other people.

781
00:31:27,240 --> 00:31:29,520
Speaker 2: It's supposed to move people, it's supposed to can feel something,

782
00:31:29,840 --> 00:31:33,400
Speaker 2: it's supposed to like help people heal. Yeah, and you're

783
00:31:33,440 --> 00:31:36,240
Speaker 2: really doing that with it, thank you.

784
00:31:36,360 --> 00:31:39,200
Speaker 4: Yeah. But just getting to work with them is just amazing.

785
00:31:39,280 --> 00:31:41,600
Speaker 4: And having the all female veteran class in twenty twenty,

786
00:31:41,680 --> 00:31:44,640
Speaker 4: like they we called it girls not We'd all hang

787
00:31:44,680 --> 00:31:47,440
Speaker 4: out and we had like four female vets and then

788
00:31:47,480 --> 00:31:48,760
Speaker 4: by the end we had around thirty.

789
00:31:49,440 --> 00:31:55,400
Speaker 5: Yeah, you know, we have cried, but well I'm glad

790
00:31:55,480 --> 00:31:57,920
Speaker 5: you like to cry because I am waterworks And oh

791
00:31:57,960 --> 00:31:59,440
Speaker 5: my gosh, do you want to Yeah?

792
00:31:59,480 --> 00:32:00,640
Speaker 2: Maybe? Thanks?

793
00:32:02,200 --> 00:32:05,480
Speaker 4: Yeah, Like and during IDOL, I don't know if I've

794
00:32:05,480 --> 00:32:09,080
Speaker 4: talked about it, but my audition was on Veterans Day

795
00:32:09,400 --> 00:32:12,400
Speaker 4: really and so like they brought my veterans and Oh, your.

796
00:32:12,320 --> 00:32:14,680
Speaker 2: Grandfa was a veteran. Yes, And that's why it's so

797
00:32:14,720 --> 00:32:15,680
Speaker 2: close to you. That's why it.

798
00:32:15,600 --> 00:32:19,760
Speaker 4: Started, right, Like big military family, six of my great uncles,

799
00:32:20,080 --> 00:32:24,560
Speaker 4: my grandfather, my great grandfather and so uh, like it's

800
00:32:24,600 --> 00:32:26,360
Speaker 4: all like the military has always been a really big

801
00:32:26,400 --> 00:32:29,040
Speaker 4: thing in my life and supporting them and like them

802
00:32:29,080 --> 00:32:32,800
Speaker 4: coming back home and you know, just like searching for

803
00:32:32,840 --> 00:32:35,520
Speaker 4: that family again because that's what I love to see

804
00:32:35,600 --> 00:32:37,920
Speaker 4: during these classes that we do, is like them getting

805
00:32:37,960 --> 00:32:39,800
Speaker 4: to connect with each other and somebody like oh, like

806
00:32:39,840 --> 00:32:41,320
Speaker 4: I was over here and like, oh I was over here,

807
00:32:41,360 --> 00:32:43,120
Speaker 4: do you know this person? Or like this happened? And

808
00:32:43,840 --> 00:32:48,720
Speaker 4: like giving them that family and like just watching like

809
00:32:48,760 --> 00:32:51,040
Speaker 4: through the years. It's like it doesn't stop with a song.

810
00:32:51,120 --> 00:32:53,760
Speaker 4: It's it's a community and it's people that care about

811
00:32:53,760 --> 00:32:56,920
Speaker 4: each other. And I'm just happy that I get to

812
00:32:56,920 --> 00:33:01,640
Speaker 4: tell her story. Yeah, please don't get me snotting on.

813
00:33:04,200 --> 00:33:10,640
Speaker 2: Get it delicious, but oh oh I kind of want

814
00:33:10,840 --> 00:33:24,320
Speaker 2: this is my favorite part really man. Yeah, Hunter, Oh

815
00:33:24,440 --> 00:33:26,120
Speaker 2: do you want people to call you hunter girl or hunter?

816
00:33:26,280 --> 00:33:28,560
Speaker 2: Hunter girl? Hunter? But people call you hunter girl too.

817
00:33:28,600 --> 00:33:31,040
Speaker 4: People call me hunter girl, people call me hunter. Okay,

818
00:33:31,200 --> 00:33:34,480
Speaker 4: my friends call me hunter call me hunter kind of

819
00:33:34,600 --> 00:33:35,040
Speaker 4: your friends.

820
00:33:35,160 --> 00:33:36,720
Speaker 2: Yeah, oh, show.

821
00:33:36,800 --> 00:33:38,320
Speaker 4: Be my friendship bracelet seven.

822
00:33:38,520 --> 00:33:40,720
Speaker 2: Oh man, please, my daughter is six and I have

823
00:33:40,800 --> 00:33:42,960
Speaker 2: so many friendship bracelets, all of it. That's what I'm

824
00:33:42,960 --> 00:33:44,840
Speaker 2: telling you. Like you as a female artist, and these

825
00:33:44,840 --> 00:33:47,760
Speaker 2: songs you're putting out, I'm like, I really couldn't wait

826
00:33:47,800 --> 00:33:51,440
Speaker 2: to play Ain't About You for Sonny and uh pretty much.

827
00:33:51,480 --> 00:33:53,240
Speaker 2: I'm like, I want her to hear these songs because

828
00:33:53,240 --> 00:33:55,360
Speaker 2: I want her to grow up knowing that, like you

829
00:33:55,400 --> 00:33:57,760
Speaker 2: can be a beautiful, powerful woman and you don't have

830
00:33:57,840 --> 00:34:00,520
Speaker 2: to just like fall into the It's so hard. Being

831
00:34:00,520 --> 00:34:02,720
Speaker 2: a woman is so hard. It's so amazing, but it's

832
00:34:02,760 --> 00:34:05,440
Speaker 2: so hard. There's so much pressure. Yeah, and to see

833
00:34:05,480 --> 00:34:07,920
Speaker 2: someone stand like you stand up there and say like listen,

834
00:34:07,960 --> 00:34:11,239
Speaker 2: we all struggle, but like it's I love myself. I'm

835
00:34:11,239 --> 00:34:13,279
Speaker 2: gonna like love myself for who I am and it's

836
00:34:13,480 --> 00:34:16,279
Speaker 2: bigger than me. And that's just like you want the

837
00:34:16,320 --> 00:34:19,279
Speaker 2: young girls to know that. And the older girls need

838
00:34:19,360 --> 00:34:20,759
Speaker 2: to hear a child like you all need to hear it,

839
00:34:20,880 --> 00:34:21,440
Speaker 2: Like we all.

840
00:34:21,320 --> 00:34:21,799
Speaker 3: Need to heal.

841
00:34:22,000 --> 00:34:23,840
Speaker 2: We all need to go and help us. You know,

842
00:34:24,120 --> 00:34:25,959
Speaker 2: I feel like I've been healing for so long.

843
00:34:27,880 --> 00:34:29,040
Speaker 4: You never stop.

844
00:34:30,480 --> 00:34:30,960
Speaker 2: Done healing.

845
00:34:31,400 --> 00:34:33,759
Speaker 4: Yeah, because like it's like it's a daily battle where

846
00:34:33,760 --> 00:34:36,560
Speaker 4: you're like like some days you're like, whoa, I'm feeling

847
00:34:37,880 --> 00:34:38,920
Speaker 4: so happy.

848
00:34:38,800 --> 00:34:42,600
Speaker 2: Like let's crush it. I've graduated from all this trauma.

849
00:34:42,280 --> 00:34:45,520
Speaker 4: Sorrow, so happy, and then the next day you're like,

850
00:34:45,880 --> 00:34:47,560
Speaker 4: oh my gosh, I'm a loser.

851
00:34:48,680 --> 00:34:53,120
Speaker 2: Oh for sure, yes, I know. Literally it can switch.

852
00:34:53,480 --> 00:34:56,959
Speaker 4: Switches on a dom and you're just like okay, just

853
00:34:57,200 --> 00:35:00,000
Speaker 4: trying to like every day be like okay, like everything

854
00:35:00,000 --> 00:35:03,560
Speaker 4: it's gonna be fine. Everything's good, We're all happy, and

855
00:35:04,080 --> 00:35:06,399
Speaker 4: like choosing to love yourself every day and you don't

856
00:35:07,239 --> 00:35:07,600
Speaker 4: do that.

857
00:35:07,719 --> 00:35:12,240
Speaker 2: Oh I think like how you look in a mirror

858
00:35:12,239 --> 00:35:13,840
Speaker 2: and say like I love you, because that's hard to

859
00:35:13,840 --> 00:35:14,360
Speaker 2: look at yourself.

860
00:35:14,480 --> 00:35:17,480
Speaker 4: Yeah, Like I like I couldn't imagine just like like

861
00:35:17,960 --> 00:35:19,560
Speaker 4: looking at myself and be like I love you. But

862
00:35:19,640 --> 00:35:22,400
Speaker 4: I'd like I tell myself every day I'm like like

863
00:35:22,880 --> 00:35:26,000
Speaker 4: everything's good, Like like, oh you look happy, like whenever

864
00:35:26,040 --> 00:35:28,600
Speaker 4: I've changed my clothes like five hundred times, and I'm like,

865
00:35:28,680 --> 00:35:31,000
Speaker 4: oh my gosh, Like I'm like, let's take a let's

866
00:35:31,040 --> 00:35:34,080
Speaker 4: take a minute, let's take a big girlfriend, and like

867
00:35:35,400 --> 00:35:36,680
Speaker 4: it doesn't it doesn't matter.

868
00:35:36,840 --> 00:35:37,120
Speaker 2: I know.

869
00:35:37,440 --> 00:35:41,960
Speaker 4: I'm like, you look fine, You're like beautiful, You're you're good.

870
00:35:42,320 --> 00:35:45,680
Speaker 4: It's all gonna be okay, Like whatever you wear, like

871
00:35:46,239 --> 00:35:50,840
Speaker 4: it's gonna be okay. And telling myself that like like

872
00:35:50,920 --> 00:35:53,440
Speaker 4: choosing to love myself and every single day and like

873
00:35:53,440 --> 00:35:56,560
Speaker 4: there's things that I love about myself where I'm like like, oh,

874
00:35:56,719 --> 00:35:58,400
Speaker 4: like I love how my hair looks, or like I

875
00:35:58,480 --> 00:36:00,279
Speaker 4: like my eyeballs, you know, like I like I like

876
00:36:00,320 --> 00:36:03,960
Speaker 4: my eyes. I like my eyeballs. I'm like, I'm like, girl,

877
00:36:04,040 --> 00:36:06,400
Speaker 4: you got some good eyes, you know. Like so that

878
00:36:06,520 --> 00:36:09,960
Speaker 4: like things that you remind yourself of. But it's hard.

879
00:36:10,040 --> 00:36:12,719
Speaker 4: It's so hard, but I think I've gotten a lot

880
00:36:12,760 --> 00:36:13,319
Speaker 4: better at it.

881
00:36:13,360 --> 00:36:15,600
Speaker 2: How have you have you intentionally just like worked on this.

882
00:36:15,960 --> 00:36:19,280
Speaker 4: Yeah, because just like I intentionally every day I'm like

883
00:36:19,280 --> 00:36:20,560
Speaker 4: like I want to go for a walk, Like I

884
00:36:20,560 --> 00:36:23,120
Speaker 4: want to go for a walk outside, and like like

885
00:36:23,200 --> 00:36:25,279
Speaker 4: I like love going to the gym now because I

886
00:36:25,320 --> 00:36:27,600
Speaker 4: think I used to look at exercises like a punishment,

887
00:36:28,200 --> 00:36:29,560
Speaker 4: you know, it's like, oh, I did this, so I

888
00:36:29,600 --> 00:36:31,600
Speaker 4: need to go work out. It's like no, I want

889
00:36:31,640 --> 00:36:33,719
Speaker 4: to work out because it makes me feel good. I'm

890
00:36:33,719 --> 00:36:35,200
Speaker 4: like I get to go look at birds in the

891
00:36:35,239 --> 00:36:37,719
Speaker 4: wild when I walk down the street, Like I get

892
00:36:37,719 --> 00:36:39,600
Speaker 4: to go run, like I get to lift weights, I

893
00:36:39,640 --> 00:36:42,800
Speaker 4: get to do these things working. Yeah, and like seeing

894
00:36:42,840 --> 00:36:45,279
Speaker 4: my grandparents and like they're like, oh my gosh, like

895
00:36:45,320 --> 00:36:48,120
Speaker 4: do this while you can. And so I think that

896
00:36:48,280 --> 00:36:50,160
Speaker 4: changed my perspective a lot, is like I get to

897
00:36:50,200 --> 00:36:53,680
Speaker 4: do these things instead of like I should do these

898
00:36:53,719 --> 00:36:56,760
Speaker 4: things because I'm trying to be mean to myself.

899
00:36:56,400 --> 00:36:58,200
Speaker 2: And I'm trying to look a certain way, to look

900
00:36:58,200 --> 00:37:00,440
Speaker 2: a certain way. Please these people who do even know.

901
00:37:00,840 --> 00:37:03,360
Speaker 4: Yeah, who don't even notice because they're worried about themselves exactly.

902
00:37:03,440 --> 00:37:04,800
Speaker 2: Everyone's only concerned with themselves.

903
00:37:04,840 --> 00:37:07,360
Speaker 4: Yeah, because everybody's in their head. They're like because like

904
00:37:07,400 --> 00:37:08,920
Speaker 4: I could look at someone and be like, oh, I'll

905
00:37:08,920 --> 00:37:11,720
Speaker 4: be like you're so beautiful, but like internally or somebody

906
00:37:11,760 --> 00:37:13,640
Speaker 4: told me that, I'd be like, oh my gosh, like

907
00:37:13,760 --> 00:37:16,160
Speaker 4: my looks crazy or this shirt sucks, you know. But

908
00:37:16,239 --> 00:37:18,640
Speaker 4: like so everybody's feeling that way, and I feel like

909
00:37:18,640 --> 00:37:20,440
Speaker 4: if we were a lot more honest about that, like

910
00:37:20,480 --> 00:37:21,919
Speaker 4: we wouldn't have to try so hard.

911
00:37:22,120 --> 00:37:26,440
Speaker 2: Totally. Yeah, I love that so much. Tell me what

912
00:37:26,480 --> 00:37:28,520
Speaker 2: you did this past year, because you said twenty five

913
00:37:28,560 --> 00:37:30,560
Speaker 2: was a big healing year. Yes, what did you do

914
00:37:30,640 --> 00:37:31,880
Speaker 2: to go on that healing journey?

915
00:37:32,200 --> 00:37:35,440
Speaker 4: I think like definitely with like the loving myself went

916
00:37:35,480 --> 00:37:35,920
Speaker 4: to therapy.

917
00:37:35,960 --> 00:37:36,959
Speaker 2: Did you have a breaking point?

918
00:37:37,239 --> 00:37:39,600
Speaker 4: Yeah, well not like like not like a fool like breakdown,

919
00:37:39,640 --> 00:37:40,960
Speaker 4: but yeah, yeah I had a breakdown.

920
00:37:41,120 --> 00:37:43,040
Speaker 2: Did Don't worry, I've had so many breakdowns.

921
00:37:43,080 --> 00:37:43,319
Speaker 3: Yeah.

922
00:37:43,440 --> 00:37:45,200
Speaker 4: I was like, something needs to change?

923
00:37:45,400 --> 00:37:47,879
Speaker 2: Okay, tell me why? What how you knew that? Well?

924
00:37:48,000 --> 00:37:51,040
Speaker 4: I just felt like I just felt sad and like empty,

925
00:37:51,080 --> 00:37:52,480
Speaker 4: and I was like I want to love myself, like

926
00:37:52,520 --> 00:37:55,319
Speaker 4: I want to love everything that I'm doing, Like I

927
00:37:55,440 --> 00:37:59,640
Speaker 4: just want like something inside needs to change, and like

928
00:37:59,640 --> 00:38:01,120
Speaker 4: like that's like the line of the song, like I

929
00:38:01,120 --> 00:38:02,880
Speaker 4: need to get back to what I had, you know,

930
00:38:02,960 --> 00:38:06,400
Speaker 4: like little hunter that's walking into these bars and coffee

931
00:38:06,400 --> 00:38:07,040
Speaker 4: shop in.

932
00:38:07,080 --> 00:38:10,080
Speaker 2: The shop, I'm like, girl, like get her back.

933
00:38:09,880 --> 00:38:10,800
Speaker 3: Where she at?

934
00:38:10,840 --> 00:38:12,200
Speaker 2: Where is she?

935
00:38:12,520 --> 00:38:13,560
Speaker 4: Fite me right now?

936
00:38:13,760 --> 00:38:13,960
Speaker 3: You know?

937
00:38:14,360 --> 00:38:15,960
Speaker 2: Like, but she would also be so proud. She'd be

938
00:38:16,040 --> 00:38:18,760
Speaker 2: so proud because you've gone so far. She'd be like, girl,

939
00:38:19,080 --> 00:38:19,600
Speaker 2: like wake.

940
00:38:19,480 --> 00:38:20,239
Speaker 4: Up, what are you doing?

941
00:38:20,480 --> 00:38:20,920
Speaker 3: Yes?

942
00:38:21,040 --> 00:38:24,120
Speaker 2: And like but how awesome though, I mean, this is

943
00:38:24,160 --> 00:38:25,920
Speaker 2: an awesome thing because so many people have to go

944
00:38:25,960 --> 00:38:28,879
Speaker 2: back to their childhood and feel their little girl. How

945
00:38:28,960 --> 00:38:31,680
Speaker 2: awesome that you want to go back and like say, like, look,

946
00:38:31,719 --> 00:38:33,640
Speaker 2: I'm still making you proud because like you love that

947
00:38:33,640 --> 00:38:36,759
Speaker 2: little girl, Like how awesome that she started off so

948
00:38:36,800 --> 00:38:38,840
Speaker 2: strong and then the world will take us down, but

949
00:38:38,920 --> 00:38:40,439
Speaker 2: like you're like, no, this is who I am.

950
00:38:40,560 --> 00:38:42,520
Speaker 4: Yeah, Like I want to get back to that and

951
00:38:42,719 --> 00:38:46,680
Speaker 4: like healing. Uh, Like with like the pretty much that song,

952
00:38:46,719 --> 00:38:48,279
Speaker 4: it was kind of like the start of that. That

953
00:38:48,360 --> 00:38:49,960
Speaker 4: was probably a vulnerable song to put out. That was

954
00:38:49,960 --> 00:38:52,680
Speaker 4: such a vulnerable song to put out, and because.

955
00:38:52,400 --> 00:38:55,040
Speaker 2: You're like speaking vulnerable words that we all feel, but

956
00:38:55,080 --> 00:38:57,400
Speaker 2: you're speaking, and I was super stressed.

957
00:38:57,480 --> 00:39:00,000
Speaker 4: I was super stressed, I bet, but like seeing how

958
00:39:00,280 --> 00:39:04,120
Speaker 4: it affected the other women in the crowd, Like the

959
00:39:04,120 --> 00:39:06,480
Speaker 4: first time I sang it live, it was like every

960
00:39:06,480 --> 00:39:07,759
Speaker 4: girl like understood that.

961
00:39:07,880 --> 00:39:10,360
Speaker 2: Oh yes, you're like speaking, You're it's an anthem for

962
00:39:10,440 --> 00:39:10,759
Speaker 2: us all.

963
00:39:10,920 --> 00:39:13,480
Speaker 4: Yeah, like during that moment, And so I think that

964
00:39:13,520 --> 00:39:15,279
Speaker 4: was the start of that. Like I'm getting pretty good

965
00:39:15,280 --> 00:39:17,880
Speaker 4: and not thinking about pretty much, but so that was

966
00:39:17,920 --> 00:39:20,040
Speaker 4: the start. And I feel like last year was like like.

967
00:39:20,040 --> 00:39:22,279
Speaker 2: You're so clever with yours. I'm getting pretty good and

968
00:39:22,320 --> 00:39:24,759
Speaker 2: not thinking about pretty thank you. I mean that is

969
00:39:24,800 --> 00:39:26,400
Speaker 2: just such a great line.

970
00:39:26,880 --> 00:39:28,520
Speaker 4: Yeah, so I think that was the start. But I

971
00:39:28,560 --> 00:39:30,640
Speaker 4: was like, I need to like actually enact that, you know,

972
00:39:30,719 --> 00:39:33,880
Speaker 4: like focus on it every day with like healing myself,

973
00:39:34,000 --> 00:39:37,359
Speaker 4: like like reading my Bible, like going to therapy and like,

974
00:39:37,760 --> 00:39:39,640
Speaker 4: you know, because some people are like like like go

975
00:39:39,840 --> 00:39:41,879
Speaker 4: like go straight to Jesus and like I do every

976
00:39:41,920 --> 00:39:44,200
Speaker 4: single day. I'm like, but I'm crazy enough where I

977
00:39:44,200 --> 00:39:46,520
Speaker 4: need Jesus and I need therapy, like I need both,

978
00:39:46,600 --> 00:39:47,720
Speaker 4: I need a double dose.

979
00:39:47,800 --> 00:39:48,839
Speaker 2: I need so much.

980
00:39:48,920 --> 00:39:50,080
Speaker 4: I need all of it, I know.

981
00:39:50,480 --> 00:39:52,440
Speaker 2: But uh, good for you though.

982
00:39:52,520 --> 00:39:55,480
Speaker 4: Yeah, And so reading my Bible, like hanging out with

983
00:39:55,520 --> 00:39:57,600
Speaker 4: my family, going to like hanging out with my friends,

984
00:39:57,640 --> 00:40:01,520
Speaker 4: like and recentering that part of myself for a couple

985
00:40:01,520 --> 00:40:03,279
Speaker 4: of months, and I felt like a new person.

986
00:40:03,280 --> 00:40:04,440
Speaker 2: And that's where Somewhere Wild came from.

987
00:40:04,480 --> 00:40:05,760
Speaker 4: That's where Somewhere Wild came from.

988
00:40:05,840 --> 00:40:09,480
Speaker 2: Do you think the whole American idol instant fame had

989
00:40:09,520 --> 00:40:12,960
Speaker 2: something to do with like the the like the holy

990
00:40:13,000 --> 00:40:15,640
Speaker 2: Cow like nerve racking. Everyone's looking at me now, I

991
00:40:15,640 --> 00:40:17,040
Speaker 2: need to like critique myself harder.

992
00:40:17,360 --> 00:40:19,279
Speaker 4: Oh, Like I think I had a little of that

993
00:40:19,360 --> 00:40:22,400
Speaker 4: whenever I was younger, you know, just like like whenever

994
00:40:22,640 --> 00:40:24,919
Speaker 4: I was like twelve thirteen, where you just like put

995
00:40:24,920 --> 00:40:26,879
Speaker 4: all that pressure on yourself to look a certain way.

996
00:40:27,440 --> 00:40:29,919
Speaker 4: But I think being on American Idol and like how

997
00:40:29,960 --> 00:40:33,320
Speaker 4: awesome that was, like coming off of the show and

998
00:40:33,680 --> 00:40:35,360
Speaker 4: like because it was crazy. Right before I went on

999
00:40:35,440 --> 00:40:38,120
Speaker 4: Idol and I was living with my grandma and like

1000
00:40:38,160 --> 00:40:41,080
Speaker 4: I remember flying home from New York and it was

1001
00:40:41,080 --> 00:40:43,319
Speaker 4: my birthday and I'm still intting my whole get up

1002
00:40:43,320 --> 00:40:45,480
Speaker 4: and I'm wearing my like like the shoot the boots

1003
00:40:45,560 --> 00:40:48,080
Speaker 4: up to hear all kinds of crazy stuff. And I

1004
00:40:48,080 --> 00:40:51,160
Speaker 4: remember walking through the airport and people tell me Happy Birthday,

1005
00:40:51,680 --> 00:40:54,120
Speaker 4: and I was like, oh my gosh. It was like

1006
00:40:54,120 --> 00:40:55,400
Speaker 4: people know who I am because I've been in this

1007
00:40:55,400 --> 00:40:57,920
Speaker 4: bubble for so long. I was so excited. I was

1008
00:40:57,960 --> 00:40:59,440
Speaker 4: freaking out. I was like, oh my gosh, people know

1009
00:40:59,560 --> 00:41:03,000
Speaker 4: me and I couldn't believe it. And I get I

1010
00:41:03,040 --> 00:41:05,600
Speaker 4: get back home and like I'm like, like I go

1011
00:41:05,640 --> 00:41:08,319
Speaker 4: to Grandma's house, like we're watching the Great British Bake Off,

1012
00:41:08,360 --> 00:41:10,680
Speaker 4: like we're living our best lives, you know, and it's

1013
00:41:10,680 --> 00:41:13,600
Speaker 4: so crazy, you know, like being in California, in LA

1014
00:41:13,760 --> 00:41:15,640
Speaker 4: and like going to New York and all these things,

1015
00:41:16,000 --> 00:41:18,480
Speaker 4: and like coming back home and like kind of like

1016
00:41:19,239 --> 00:41:22,560
Speaker 4: kind of recentering your heart and your nervous system to

1017
00:41:22,640 --> 00:41:24,480
Speaker 4: all that too, and.

1018
00:41:24,640 --> 00:41:25,600
Speaker 2: Just integrate it all.

1019
00:41:25,719 --> 00:41:27,680
Speaker 4: Yeah, because it was like such a shock coming back

1020
00:41:27,680 --> 00:41:29,200
Speaker 4: because I've been gone for five months.

1021
00:41:29,320 --> 00:41:31,440
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, was it kind of okay? So I did

1022
00:41:31,480 --> 00:41:33,960
Speaker 2: the Amazing Race two times, and when I came off

1023
00:41:33,960 --> 00:41:36,200
Speaker 2: of it, I had a cause like you're in like

1024
00:41:36,239 --> 00:41:38,279
Speaker 2: kind of the same thing, like, yeah, the American Idol

1025
00:41:38,680 --> 00:41:41,040
Speaker 2: not the same thing, but you're in this alternate universe

1026
00:41:41,120 --> 00:41:44,479
Speaker 2: with these only these people. Yeah, and you're doing this

1027
00:41:44,760 --> 00:41:47,200
Speaker 2: event and challenge. Yeah, you're like in your own world

1028
00:41:47,280 --> 00:41:50,240
Speaker 2: and like it's literally that's all that's happening. I remember

1029
00:41:50,280 --> 00:41:52,200
Speaker 2: coming off of it though, and having like a big letdown, like,

1030
00:41:52,280 --> 00:41:55,320
Speaker 2: oh my gosh, like I'm never gonna get that high again.

1031
00:41:55,360 --> 00:41:56,839
Speaker 2: Did you feel that? Like I was like, how will

1032
00:41:56,880 --> 00:42:00,319
Speaker 2: I ever get that extremeness? Like, yeah, you can't. Just

1033
00:42:00,480 --> 00:42:01,480
Speaker 2: it's not everyday life.

1034
00:42:01,600 --> 00:42:03,759
Speaker 4: Yeah. It was definitely like an adrenaline dump. It's like

1035
00:42:03,760 --> 00:42:06,200
Speaker 4: an adrenaline And they warned us, like they warned me

1036
00:42:06,239 --> 00:42:08,000
Speaker 4: whenever I left there, like hey, like we want to

1037
00:42:08,040 --> 00:42:10,439
Speaker 4: give you a heads up, like they're like, you're gonna

1038
00:42:10,440 --> 00:42:12,400
Speaker 4: have like a big adrenaline dump, like it's gonna be

1039
00:42:12,400 --> 00:42:14,239
Speaker 4: a lot, and I'm like okay. Like so I was

1040
00:42:14,239 --> 00:42:17,680
Speaker 4: already kind of prepared for it, and so cause it

1041
00:42:17,719 --> 00:42:20,080
Speaker 4: was crazy, like people knowing who I was at that point,

1042
00:42:20,400 --> 00:42:23,520
Speaker 4: and like cause I just it just didn't register. And

1043
00:42:23,600 --> 00:42:25,360
Speaker 4: this is the time that it registered. It was like

1044
00:42:25,400 --> 00:42:28,200
Speaker 4: a few days after and I went to Target and

1045
00:42:28,480 --> 00:42:30,759
Speaker 4: in your hometown, uh no, like it was. I think

1046
00:42:30,760 --> 00:42:33,000
Speaker 4: it was like in Nashville somewhere. And I went to

1047
00:42:33,000 --> 00:42:34,560
Speaker 4: the gym, and you know, like when I get out

1048
00:42:34,560 --> 00:42:36,880
Speaker 4: of the gym, I'm like looking rough, like I'm I'm sweaty,

1049
00:42:37,160 --> 00:42:39,040
Speaker 4: and I'm like living my best life. I'm like, oh

1050
00:42:39,040 --> 00:42:42,239
Speaker 4: my god, I'm crazy. And and so then I just

1051
00:42:42,280 --> 00:42:44,279
Speaker 4: go to Target after I'm not thinking anything of it,

1052
00:42:44,440 --> 00:42:46,680
Speaker 4: you know, like I'm not thinking anything of it, and

1053
00:42:46,719 --> 00:42:48,680
Speaker 4: then people know who I am. I'm like, oh my god,

1054
00:42:48,719 --> 00:42:49,319
Speaker 4: people know me.

1055
00:42:49,320 --> 00:42:49,920
Speaker 2: What the freak?

1056
00:42:50,280 --> 00:42:51,680
Speaker 4: And so I'm like I have all these pictures and

1057
00:42:51,719 --> 00:42:54,400
Speaker 4: I remember my mama called me. She's like, Hunter, I

1058
00:42:54,440 --> 00:42:55,719
Speaker 4: saw a picture of you on Facebook.

1059
00:42:55,880 --> 00:42:57,120
Speaker 3: I was like, oh, what was it?

1060
00:42:57,640 --> 00:43:00,720
Speaker 4: You know, And she's like she's like, oh, oh my gosh.

1061
00:43:00,880 --> 00:43:03,480
Speaker 4: She's like, you look crazy right now. She's like, I'm

1062
00:43:03,480 --> 00:43:05,000
Speaker 4: going to send you some grass shampoo.

1063
00:43:05,120 --> 00:43:06,080
Speaker 3: Girl, what you're doing?

1064
00:43:06,520 --> 00:43:08,560
Speaker 2: And I'm like, mom, I just got back from the gym.

1065
00:43:08,960 --> 00:43:12,319
Speaker 4: She's like, you were so crazy. You're so crazy, and

1066
00:43:12,800 --> 00:43:16,480
Speaker 4: like it's like getting reminded that things were different and

1067
00:43:16,520 --> 00:43:19,520
Speaker 4: I was so grateful for it. But yeah, it was

1068
00:43:19,560 --> 00:43:22,799
Speaker 4: definitely like a switch up where like things changed and

1069
00:43:22,880 --> 00:43:25,360
Speaker 4: like trying to figure out where like all lined and

1070
00:43:25,400 --> 00:43:25,640
Speaker 4: all that.

1071
00:43:26,360 --> 00:43:28,279
Speaker 2: So how do you feel about it all now? Now

1072
00:43:28,280 --> 00:43:30,000
Speaker 2: that you've had a few years off the show, You've

1073
00:43:30,040 --> 00:43:33,840
Speaker 2: had some huge moments touring, You've had some singles released,

1074
00:43:34,080 --> 00:43:36,400
Speaker 2: like you've had like you know, the big push, and

1075
00:43:36,480 --> 00:43:38,560
Speaker 2: now you're kind of like living in this new existence.

1076
00:43:38,600 --> 00:43:41,280
Speaker 2: How how do you balance the two? Some were wild

1077
00:43:41,480 --> 00:43:43,720
Speaker 2: like figuring out who our roots are and then American

1078
00:43:43,760 --> 00:43:47,239
Speaker 2: Idol like crushing, Yeah, crushing the game and you know,

1079
00:43:47,320 --> 00:43:49,440
Speaker 2: coming in second and having people know your birthday, Oh

1080
00:43:49,480 --> 00:43:50,719
Speaker 2: my god, how do we line up?

1081
00:43:50,760 --> 00:43:50,920
Speaker 3: Now?

1082
00:43:50,960 --> 00:43:51,719
Speaker 2: Where have you sent her?

1083
00:43:51,840 --> 00:43:54,600
Speaker 4: Yeah? I feel like I finally like I finally figured

1084
00:43:54,600 --> 00:43:55,759
Speaker 4: it out, Like what is it?

1085
00:43:55,800 --> 00:43:56,040
Speaker 3: Well?

1086
00:43:56,320 --> 00:43:58,920
Speaker 4: Just like kind of the balance because like coming off

1087
00:43:58,960 --> 00:44:01,920
Speaker 4: IDOL and like then playing all these shows and it

1088
00:44:02,000 --> 00:44:04,439
Speaker 4: was so cool, you know because when you're did.

1089
00:44:04,320 --> 00:44:05,480
Speaker 2: You go on the Was there a tour or was

1090
00:44:05,480 --> 00:44:07,600
Speaker 2: it no tour because of COVID there's no there was

1091
00:44:07,640 --> 00:44:08,040
Speaker 2: no tour.

1092
00:44:08,120 --> 00:44:09,960
Speaker 4: Well there was like shows by this point because it

1093
00:44:10,040 --> 00:44:13,279
Speaker 4: was like end of twenty twenty two tour.

1094
00:44:13,400 --> 00:44:15,040
Speaker 2: Though to me, they don't.

1095
00:44:14,880 --> 00:44:17,799
Speaker 4: Do those anymore. But like like I was immediately like

1096
00:44:17,840 --> 00:44:21,040
Speaker 4: playing shows and like all these things kept happening. I

1097
00:44:21,080 --> 00:44:24,080
Speaker 4: was so excited and like learning how to like balance

1098
00:44:24,120 --> 00:44:27,000
Speaker 4: it all, you know, and like sleep and like eating

1099
00:44:27,040 --> 00:44:31,560
Speaker 4: and all these things. But I feel like like the

1100
00:44:31,680 --> 00:44:36,479
Speaker 4: music and like me now, I feel like it all

1101
00:44:37,040 --> 00:44:40,560
Speaker 4: feels aligned. That's awesome and it feels good. And I think,

1102
00:44:40,920 --> 00:44:43,600
Speaker 4: like last year, like during that those few months, I

1103
00:44:43,640 --> 00:44:46,319
Speaker 4: was like I really needed that. I really needed to

1104
00:44:46,360 --> 00:44:49,160
Speaker 4: recenter and figure out where I wanted to go because

1105
00:44:49,160 --> 00:44:51,239
Speaker 4: like when things are going so quickly, it's like you

1106
00:44:51,280 --> 00:44:54,000
Speaker 4: can't always look at the destination, like because things are moving,

1107
00:44:54,040 --> 00:44:56,200
Speaker 4: it's like this is next, but like looking at big

1108
00:44:56,239 --> 00:44:58,040
Speaker 4: picture and I'm like I want the songs to sound

1109
00:44:58,120 --> 00:45:00,120
Speaker 4: like this, like I want to feel like this, like

1110
00:45:00,680 --> 00:45:03,279
Speaker 4: I want to like wake up every day and like

1111
00:45:04,040 --> 00:45:06,080
Speaker 4: be proud of like what I put out into the

1112
00:45:06,120 --> 00:45:08,600
Speaker 4: world and like who I am as a person and

1113
00:45:09,320 --> 00:45:11,239
Speaker 4: all those things. And I feel like I'm really really

1114
00:45:11,280 --> 00:45:13,239
Speaker 4: excited for like this next chapter and I feel like

1115
00:45:13,239 --> 00:45:14,279
Speaker 4: it's gonna be the best one yet.

1116
00:45:15,080 --> 00:45:16,279
Speaker 2: I love that, so.

1117
00:45:17,800 --> 00:45:18,279
Speaker 3: Thank you.

1118
00:45:18,880 --> 00:45:20,239
Speaker 2: So what can you tell us about the future? Not

1119
00:45:20,280 --> 00:45:22,560
Speaker 2: to put pressure on You're like, what's next? What's next?

1120
00:45:23,520 --> 00:45:24,080
Speaker 3: Concrete?

1121
00:45:27,760 --> 00:45:31,080
Speaker 2: Last exactly what are you looking forward to? You though?

1122
00:45:31,440 --> 00:45:34,040
Speaker 4: Looking forward to the new music coming.

1123
00:45:33,840 --> 00:45:36,560
Speaker 2: Up somewhere while it's the kickoff of that right somewhere.

1124
00:45:36,280 --> 00:45:39,799
Speaker 4: While I's kicking it off, So very very excited about that,

1125
00:45:40,239 --> 00:45:43,120
Speaker 4: and like shows coming up. But yeah, I'm just very

1126
00:45:43,160 --> 00:45:45,960
Speaker 4: excited for all the things in the future and figuring

1127
00:45:46,000 --> 00:45:48,600
Speaker 4: it out one step out of time, you know what.

1128
00:45:48,760 --> 00:45:50,640
Speaker 2: As we all are, I'm forty two years old and

1129
00:45:50,680 --> 00:45:52,719
Speaker 2: I moved to Nashville. I was nineteen years old. Oh

1130
00:45:52,800 --> 00:45:55,640
Speaker 2: my god, no idea what I was doing. I still

1131
00:45:55,760 --> 00:45:57,239
Speaker 2: have no idea what I'm doing.

1132
00:45:57,960 --> 00:45:59,799
Speaker 4: Truly, you were doing fantastic.

1133
00:46:00,200 --> 00:46:01,960
Speaker 2: Have been winging it the whole time. Like some people

1134
00:46:01,960 --> 00:46:04,080
Speaker 2: have like perfect ideas of how their life wants to go,

1135
00:46:04,160 --> 00:46:07,120
Speaker 2: and like basically a spreadsheet and David, and I'm like, nope,

1136
00:46:07,160 --> 00:46:10,360
Speaker 2: no clue. I literally just follow the next open door,

1137
00:46:10,520 --> 00:46:12,880
Speaker 2: follow the gifts that God has given me, follow what

1138
00:46:13,000 --> 00:46:15,520
Speaker 2: my soul is like guided towards. And I feel like

1139
00:46:15,560 --> 00:46:19,400
Speaker 2: if you do that, it's very scary, it feels very risky,

1140
00:46:19,480 --> 00:46:21,520
Speaker 2: but ultimately it leads you where you're supposed to go.

1141
00:46:21,680 --> 00:46:24,040
Speaker 4: Yeah, and like, I love that following the next open door,

1142
00:46:24,440 --> 00:46:26,759
Speaker 4: you know, the door that God opens for you.

1143
00:46:26,560 --> 00:46:28,080
Speaker 2: You have that in a song too, like when the

1144
00:46:28,080 --> 00:46:29,480
Speaker 2: door's closed that you found a window?

1145
00:46:30,320 --> 00:46:32,439
Speaker 4: Yes, what song is that? In think it's some more wild.

1146
00:46:32,640 --> 00:46:33,279
Speaker 2: I think it is too.

1147
00:46:33,320 --> 00:46:33,920
Speaker 4: I think it is.

1148
00:46:33,880 --> 00:46:36,680
Speaker 2: Because I'm like, yes, Queen, I feel that, But yeah,

1149
00:46:36,760 --> 00:46:38,719
Speaker 2: like find that cracked window, where's that through?

1150
00:46:38,960 --> 00:46:40,080
Speaker 4: You're a bird fly.

1151
00:46:40,360 --> 00:46:41,040
Speaker 2: You could do this.

1152
00:46:41,160 --> 00:46:41,839
Speaker 3: You can do it.

1153
00:46:41,680 --> 00:46:43,839
Speaker 2: It feels insane, but you're gonna make it.

1154
00:46:43,880 --> 00:46:45,560
Speaker 4: But no, Like I love that, and like, you have

1155
00:46:45,600 --> 00:46:47,520
Speaker 4: so much lot in you and it's like all this

1156
00:46:47,680 --> 00:46:48,320
Speaker 4: good innes.

1157
00:46:48,440 --> 00:46:50,560
Speaker 2: Always I have had moments. I mean I've always had

1158
00:46:50,680 --> 00:46:52,480
Speaker 2: like me, but I've had moments like the past five

1159
00:46:52,560 --> 00:46:53,960
Speaker 2: years I feel like I'm actually coming out of it.

1160
00:46:54,000 --> 00:46:56,840
Speaker 2: Have been so hard. Yeah, literally just took me down

1161
00:46:56,920 --> 00:46:59,359
Speaker 2: and I was like Okay, God, I know that you

1162
00:46:59,400 --> 00:47:01,239
Speaker 2: are working on me and like that this is for

1163
00:47:01,280 --> 00:47:04,000
Speaker 2: a bigger purpose, but holy cow, can we give it

1164
00:47:04,040 --> 00:47:04,520
Speaker 2: a rest?

1165
00:47:04,680 --> 00:47:05,080
Speaker 4: Yeah?

1166
00:47:05,120 --> 00:47:08,040
Speaker 2: Like I need a break, like girl needs a minute.

1167
00:47:08,120 --> 00:47:10,279
Speaker 2: But I feel like something must feel that way. So

1168
00:47:10,440 --> 00:47:12,719
Speaker 2: you got to trek on through. When you're in those

1169
00:47:12,800 --> 00:47:15,160
Speaker 2: valleys you feel like you're stuck in the mud, just

1170
00:47:15,280 --> 00:47:17,680
Speaker 2: keep moving. It's so hard and it feels like you're

1171
00:47:17,680 --> 00:47:19,320
Speaker 2: never gonna get a break and there's never gonna be

1172
00:47:19,360 --> 00:47:20,040
Speaker 2: an open window.

1173
00:47:20,360 --> 00:47:22,560
Speaker 4: But they do come, they do come, they do come,

1174
00:47:22,880 --> 00:47:24,959
Speaker 4: And it's I think it's like in those moments where

1175
00:47:24,960 --> 00:47:27,720
Speaker 4: like trusting God is like the way.

1176
00:47:29,400 --> 00:47:30,240
Speaker 2: We need action.

1177
00:47:30,440 --> 00:47:31,560
Speaker 4: Yeah, like we're in it together.

1178
00:47:32,320 --> 00:47:33,920
Speaker 2: And you know what I realized too, It's like it

1179
00:47:34,000 --> 00:47:36,040
Speaker 2: is so easy to have faith in God when like

1180
00:47:36,080 --> 00:47:38,680
Speaker 2: things are going according to plants. Yeah, But when things

1181
00:47:38,680 --> 00:47:41,080
Speaker 2: are not, that's like really when God's saying, hey, do

1182
00:47:41,120 --> 00:47:43,920
Speaker 2: you really trust me? Like do you? Because I need

1183
00:47:43,920 --> 00:47:44,439
Speaker 2: to find out?

1184
00:47:44,719 --> 00:47:48,040
Speaker 4: Yeah, Like, hey, we're gonna find out. We're gonna find out.

1185
00:47:48,360 --> 00:47:50,480
Speaker 4: And like in those seasons where things are like that,

1186
00:47:50,560 --> 00:47:53,480
Speaker 4: where it's like everything's going wrong everything everything.

1187
00:47:53,120 --> 00:47:57,319
Speaker 2: You're like, how can this be? Things get wrong? I'm

1188
00:47:57,320 --> 00:47:59,120
Speaker 2: trying to be a good person. God, Like, why are

1189
00:47:59,160 --> 00:48:03,279
Speaker 2: you punishing? But it's not punishment because truly, don't you

1190
00:48:03,360 --> 00:48:05,840
Speaker 2: feel like you've grown the most in those d.

1191
00:48:06,000 --> 00:48:08,839
Speaker 4: Yeah, Yeah, definitely, Like I feel like I've grown when

1192
00:48:08,840 --> 00:48:11,759
Speaker 4: everything's gone wrong, Yeah, and like I've come out on

1193
00:48:11,760 --> 00:48:13,719
Speaker 4: the other side of it better totally, you know.

1194
00:48:14,040 --> 00:48:15,759
Speaker 2: And then you have grace for people and you have

1195
00:48:15,760 --> 00:48:17,520
Speaker 2: grace for yourself and it's not as scary when the

1196
00:48:17,520 --> 00:48:19,320
Speaker 2: next rough past patch hits.

1197
00:48:19,440 --> 00:48:22,360
Speaker 4: No, and it also gives you perspective. Yeah, like you know,

1198
00:48:22,400 --> 00:48:24,759
Speaker 4: with like other people going through hard things, like being

1199
00:48:24,800 --> 00:48:26,840
Speaker 4: able to be there for them and understand like what

1200
00:48:26,880 --> 00:48:29,200
Speaker 4: they're going through. I feel like some of this, like

1201
00:48:29,400 --> 00:48:31,359
Speaker 4: the things that I've went through, it's like really dark

1202
00:48:31,400 --> 00:48:33,160
Speaker 4: times in my life. I'm like I feel like I'm

1203
00:48:33,200 --> 00:48:35,560
Speaker 4: able to show up better for other people because of

1204
00:48:35,600 --> 00:48:37,520
Speaker 4: that because I understand what somebody else might need.

1205
00:48:38,120 --> 00:48:41,040
Speaker 2: I love that, honey, girl. I just I loved you

1206
00:48:41,080 --> 00:48:43,279
Speaker 2: the second I found like found out who you were

1207
00:48:43,320 --> 00:48:45,880
Speaker 2: and into your music and dove into you. You're so authentic,

1208
00:48:45,920 --> 00:48:49,239
Speaker 2: You're such a real You're just such a real light.

1209
00:48:49,400 --> 00:48:52,920
Speaker 2: Like what you're doing is authentically who you are called

1210
00:48:52,960 --> 00:48:54,560
Speaker 2: to be. I can feel that in your soul. I

1211
00:48:54,600 --> 00:48:56,839
Speaker 2: can feel that in your music. I know God has

1212
00:48:56,840 --> 00:48:59,239
Speaker 2: a big plan for you. He's gonna continue to open

1213
00:48:59,280 --> 00:49:02,080
Speaker 2: doors for you. And because your messaging is so important

1214
00:49:02,120 --> 00:49:04,000
Speaker 2: for people to hear, and I just want to say

1215
00:49:04,000 --> 00:49:05,600
Speaker 2: thank you for being brave enough to put all these

1216
00:49:05,640 --> 00:49:08,600
Speaker 2: like real honest songs out because they hit me, they

1217
00:49:08,640 --> 00:49:10,839
Speaker 2: really affected me, and so I know they're obviously they

1218
00:49:10,840 --> 00:49:13,239
Speaker 2: affected the world. You got second on American Idol, But

1219
00:49:13,560 --> 00:49:16,120
Speaker 2: I just want to applaud you for your truth and

1220
00:49:16,120 --> 00:49:18,640
Speaker 2: your honesty and following the gifts that God gave you.

1221
00:49:19,120 --> 00:49:20,840
Speaker 4: Thank you, I love you, I love you.

1222
00:49:21,560 --> 00:49:22,120
Speaker 3: We did it.

1223
00:49:22,200 --> 00:49:24,920
Speaker 2: I always wrap up with leave your Light, and it's

1224
00:49:25,000 --> 00:49:28,239
Speaker 2: super open ended, but it's basically, what do you want

1225
00:49:28,239 --> 00:49:29,880
Speaker 2: people to know? Just drop some inspiration?

1226
00:49:30,160 --> 00:49:32,480
Speaker 4: Oh my gosh, Like what do you want people to know?

1227
00:49:32,480 --> 00:49:33,560
Speaker 2: It? Just like, what do you want to tell people?

1228
00:49:33,640 --> 00:49:35,799
Speaker 2: Just drop them some inspo? If you're sitting in that

1229
00:49:35,880 --> 00:49:39,359
Speaker 2: theater of all those girls singing your song pretty much wait,

1230
00:49:39,360 --> 00:49:39,879
Speaker 2: pretty much?

1231
00:49:39,920 --> 00:49:42,200
Speaker 4: Right? Yeah, what do you want to tell those girls?

1232
00:49:43,120 --> 00:49:44,920
Speaker 4: That God has greater plans for you than you have

1233
00:49:45,000 --> 00:49:45,600
Speaker 4: for yourself.

1234
00:49:47,200 --> 00:49:50,319
Speaker 2: I love that so much, Hunter girl. Okay, tell everyone Moere.

1235
00:49:50,320 --> 00:49:52,399
Speaker 2: We can find you. You got to keep up with you.

1236
00:49:52,200 --> 00:49:54,760
Speaker 4: You can find me at hunter Girl Music on all

1237
00:49:54,760 --> 00:49:57,640
Speaker 4: social platforms, and you can find me at hunter Girl

1238
00:49:57,800 --> 00:50:01,440
Speaker 4: All one Word on every streaming platform in somewhere. Wild's

1239
00:50:01,480 --> 00:50:01,880
Speaker 4: out now.

1240
00:50:02,640 --> 00:50:04,800
Speaker 2: I love it. I love it so much. Can you

1241
00:50:04,840 --> 00:50:07,680
Speaker 2: stick around for a quick, little say less session session. Yeah,

1242
00:50:07,680 --> 00:50:09,480
Speaker 2: we're gonna draw some cards and we're just gonna get

1243
00:50:09,480 --> 00:50:10,200
Speaker 2: straight down to the point.

1244
00:50:10,280 --> 00:50:11,080
Speaker 4: Dude, let's get crazy.

1245
00:50:11,160 --> 00:50:12,600
Speaker 2: Okay, honey girl, you're the best.

1246
00:50:12,640 --> 00:50:13,560
Speaker 3: This is so much fun.

1247
00:50:13,600 --> 00:50:14,600
Speaker 2: I'm glad we got to cry too.

1248
00:50:14,680 --> 00:50:15,640
Speaker 4: Yeah, I know, we cried a lot.

1249
00:50:16,400 --> 00:50:16,799
Speaker 3: Hey, Mike,