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Be 0:00:56.880 --> 0:00:59.320 sure to tell them that Bobby Bones told you all 0:00:59.360 --> 0:01:04.480 about them all right, welcome too, episode thirty one of 0:01:04.600 --> 0:01:07.440 the Bobby Cast. And then this the first one, first 0:01:07.600 --> 0:01:11.919 second one of the year, right, second year Marion Morris 0:01:12.000 --> 0:01:14.200 is here, high Mary h Finally good to have you 0:01:14.200 --> 0:01:16.720 at the house, at the beautiful house. Oh thanks. I 0:01:16.800 --> 0:01:20.280 put you off for a while because you're too good 0:01:20.319 --> 0:01:22.920 to come in for a while. God, I felt like, 0:01:23.440 --> 0:01:25.240 I don't know about interview Stal, but I thought, you know, 0:01:25.319 --> 0:01:27.160 I want to hold off because it was right when 0:01:27.160 --> 0:01:29.880 you were blowing up. And this last year and it's 0:01:29.920 --> 0:01:31.800 weird because I want to go back for a second. 0:01:31.880 --> 0:01:33.360 But this last year feels like it has been a 0:01:33.400 --> 0:01:37.920 tornado of just the tornado of Maren. Does it feel 0:01:37.959 --> 0:01:40.600 like that to you as well? Yeah? It does. And 0:01:41.120 --> 0:01:45.920 I'm still processing even after the holidays, still processing everything 0:01:45.959 --> 0:01:49.680 that had happened last year because it is too many 0:01:49.760 --> 0:01:53.120 things I think to be in one window of time. 0:01:53.200 --> 0:01:57.160 But I, yeah, my my head is still getting wrapped 0:01:57.160 --> 0:01:59.240 around everything, especially towards the end of the year. I 0:01:59.280 --> 0:02:02.200 feel like so much crazy stuff happened. If we were 0:02:02.240 --> 0:02:05.680 sitting in these chairs a year ago today, so January 0:02:05.800 --> 0:02:09.160 of and I would say, hey, what is your goal 0:02:09.320 --> 0:02:11.800 this year, like a year ago, what would you have 0:02:11.800 --> 0:02:16.160 said your goal was a year ago? Well, a year ago, Um, 0:02:16.360 --> 0:02:18.320 I just put Church out like it had just gone 0:02:18.320 --> 0:02:21.720 to radio. So that's just like a crazy concept. But 0:02:22.040 --> 0:02:25.000 I guess my hope a year ago was I hope 0:02:25.040 --> 0:02:28.840 people like my music enough for me to put this 0:02:28.880 --> 0:02:32.640 record out, because it's all really contingent on that um. 0:02:32.919 --> 0:02:36.320 And luckily, you know, people really responded to my Church, 0:02:36.400 --> 0:02:40.320 and I had Hero already waiting in the wings, and 0:02:40.440 --> 0:02:43.560 once it started to pick up traction, Um, we got 0:02:43.639 --> 0:02:51.520 an album at date and that was just an album, yea. 0:02:51.880 --> 0:02:53.840 Even to get an album for a new artist in 0:02:53.840 --> 0:02:56.880 the land of EPs first where they'll put out four 0:02:56.960 --> 0:03:00.000 or five songs kind of and you did that. But um, 0:03:00.120 --> 0:03:02.000 but to get an album, that's a big deal because 0:03:02.000 --> 0:03:04.440 that's a commitment financially from a record label. It is. 0:03:04.520 --> 0:03:06.880 It's it's a very big deal. And I've had so 0:03:06.919 --> 0:03:09.240 many friends in this town that have had record deals 0:03:09.280 --> 0:03:12.520 where they're so good and they've made these full records, 0:03:12.520 --> 0:03:14.520 but then they get shelved and they never come out 0:03:14.600 --> 0:03:16.520 or see the light of day. So there's always that 0:03:16.919 --> 0:03:20.520 fear that like, oh, of this doesn't get bought enough 0:03:20.680 --> 0:03:23.200 or spun enough on the radio, I won't get to 0:03:23.280 --> 0:03:27.960 share the larger story, the whole story with everyone. And 0:03:28.080 --> 0:03:31.800 um yeah, I'm very lucky that that did not happen. 0:03:31.960 --> 0:03:35.840 But um yeah, I was just I had I had 0:03:35.840 --> 0:03:39.320 already basically had most of the album done before I 0:03:39.360 --> 0:03:43.240 signed my label deal, so it was sitting for a 0:03:43.240 --> 0:03:45.880 while and I was just like, Okay, my church is 0:03:45.920 --> 0:03:48.840 going to be the first hello to the universe, I think. 0:03:48.880 --> 0:03:51.360 And then, um was that part of the deal when 0:03:51.360 --> 0:03:54.200 you signed with the label, like I'm coming and I 0:03:54.200 --> 0:03:56.040 want this to be the first song, because you have 0:03:56.040 --> 0:03:58.280 a little bit of negotiating power if you're coming with 0:03:58.360 --> 0:04:02.920 music and uh success digitally like you had, Yeah, and 0:04:02.960 --> 0:04:06.000 you don't have to be developed or anything. A lot 0:04:06.040 --> 0:04:09.000 of baby artists they have to either signed, and they 0:04:09.040 --> 0:04:11.080 don't do these deals so much anymore because it's just not, 0:04:11.640 --> 0:04:15.760 um financially great for the label anymore. But um yeah, 0:04:15.920 --> 0:04:19.039 if you are already developed and you have like a 0:04:19.120 --> 0:04:22.280 concept and you're just really solid in your artists rye, 0:04:22.320 --> 0:04:23.839 you don't need to be told what to do or 0:04:23.839 --> 0:04:26.600 what to where, or how to speak or how to sound. 0:04:26.880 --> 0:04:32.360 Um yeah, it's a much less riskier um investment for them. 0:04:32.520 --> 0:04:34.479 So my Church was going to be your first single 0:04:34.560 --> 0:04:38.320 before you signed with anyone in your mind? Yeah yeah, 0:04:38.360 --> 0:04:39.839 Like the day I wrote it, I kind of knew 0:04:39.880 --> 0:04:42.679 that was the one. So what if you would have said, Okay, 0:04:42.680 --> 0:04:44.320 we're here and they're like, you know, we're gonna hold off, 0:04:44.720 --> 0:04:47.640 We're gonna go with drunk girls, don't cry, or they did. 0:04:47.920 --> 0:04:51.719 They actually not drunk roles. They wanted to lead with eighties. 0:04:52.240 --> 0:04:54.760 My label was like, I think we should hold off 0:04:54.760 --> 0:04:58.640 on My Church. Um, I think it was so long ago. 0:04:58.760 --> 0:05:00.640 It feels like it was so long ago. But their 0:05:00.640 --> 0:05:04.680 reason was they they felt like that was the ace 0:05:04.760 --> 0:05:06.680 up their sleeve and they wanted to throw it out 0:05:06.800 --> 0:05:09.400 later and just get the like the party song out 0:05:09.400 --> 0:05:11.839 of the way. You know a lot of artists, like 0:05:11.880 --> 0:05:14.839 their labels do that where they'll put the the fun 0:05:14.880 --> 0:05:18.240 good time song out and then Okay, now people know 0:05:18.279 --> 0:05:20.599 who you are, Now we can show them how credible 0:05:20.680 --> 0:05:23.800 you are with this song. And um, I just didn't 0:05:23.839 --> 0:05:26.440 really feel like I wanted to go that route because 0:05:26.960 --> 0:05:29.440 it didn't make sense to me. I was like, if 0:05:29.520 --> 0:05:32.680 honestly the odds are against me, I'm a new artist, 0:05:32.720 --> 0:05:35.040 and I'm a girl. So if I'm going to come 0:05:35.080 --> 0:05:38.560 out with one and one only because this could very 0:05:38.600 --> 0:05:41.960 easily die, Um, I'm going to do the song that 0:05:42.640 --> 0:05:46.320 means the most to me and says all I want 0:05:46.320 --> 0:05:48.560 to say if I only got one shot with a song. 0:05:49.160 --> 0:05:51.120 So a year ago, I say, Okay, what's your goal 0:05:51.200 --> 0:05:59.240 this year? Um? I think what we're here one year 0:05:59.240 --> 0:06:01.280 ago right now, Mary, and what's your goal this year? 0:06:01.279 --> 0:06:03.680 You're you're a brand new Warreters. You got song just 0:06:03.720 --> 0:06:06.200 came out, Like, what's your goal this year? I think 0:06:06.320 --> 0:06:14.039 my goal was just for people to understand my perspective 0:06:14.320 --> 0:06:19.120 because I don't know. I that sounds very vague, but 0:06:19.520 --> 0:06:24.520 I just wanted to, I guess, test the waters and 0:06:24.560 --> 0:06:27.479 see if you know, just being an artist was even 0:06:27.480 --> 0:06:30.760 going to be working for anyone outside of my own head. 0:06:30.800 --> 0:06:34.159 It's like, ah, and I hate to, you know, put 0:06:34.200 --> 0:06:36.279 so much stock into what others think, but it's like 0:06:36.360 --> 0:06:39.479 that that's what you do. It's like your music, but 0:06:39.640 --> 0:06:43.520 the reason you write it is so other people can 0:06:43.560 --> 0:06:46.880 relate to it and have that experience with you and 0:06:47.040 --> 0:06:49.160 as a human being. And so I just hoped a 0:06:49.240 --> 0:06:54.120 year ago, God, I I hope someone likes this. I 0:06:54.200 --> 0:06:56.520 like it, but I hope someone else gets it too. 0:06:56.800 --> 0:06:58.800 What was your perspective if you say you wanted your 0:06:58.800 --> 0:07:02.080 perspective out there, I don't know. I mean I think 0:07:02.360 --> 0:07:05.200 what I was missing from music, especially like from the 0:07:05.240 --> 0:07:12.280 female outlook, was just um an independence and I I'm 0:07:12.320 --> 0:07:15.040 not trying to be like a dude basher by any means. 0:07:15.120 --> 0:07:19.040 I adore love songs and I've written hundreds of them. 0:07:19.080 --> 0:07:21.640 But I was just at the time of this record 0:07:21.680 --> 0:07:24.560 being written, I wasn't really in love. I was coming 0:07:24.600 --> 0:07:29.400 out of a really bad relationship, and um, I think 0:07:29.880 --> 0:07:32.280 as a woman, I just wanted to be inspired when 0:07:32.320 --> 0:07:34.400 I turned the radio on and here like a woman 0:07:34.480 --> 0:07:37.880 singing back to me, not about a relationship for once. 0:07:38.040 --> 0:07:40.920 You know it's and that's fine if they are, but 0:07:41.000 --> 0:07:43.800 I feel like the diversity is sort of lacking where 0:07:43.800 --> 0:07:45.680 it's like, Okay, well we do have a little bit 0:07:45.680 --> 0:07:48.800 more to talk about here. I mean, dang, like talk 0:07:48.880 --> 0:07:52.000 about getting drunk or or a fight you had with 0:07:52.000 --> 0:07:54.160 your mom or something. It's just like a real life 0:07:54.160 --> 0:07:59.760 experience instead of always chasing the guy down. I just um, 0:07:59.800 --> 0:08:02.200 I I was obviously was like very bitter back then 0:08:02.320 --> 0:08:04.760 thinking that But I still think that today, and I'm 0:08:04.800 --> 0:08:07.440 in a relationship with someone I really love and gets 0:08:07.480 --> 0:08:11.679 what I'm doing and isn't threatened by a powerful women 0:08:11.840 --> 0:08:17.240 or strength or success. I still crave that perspective from 0:08:17.240 --> 0:08:20.760 a female, um where it's just not about love, it 0:08:20.800 --> 0:08:24.840 could be about anything. Um yeah, I think that's the 0:08:24.880 --> 0:08:29.960 perspective I wanted to bring to the table, is um 0:08:30.000 --> 0:08:32.520 you know, I'm not like I don't have my sight 0:08:32.600 --> 0:08:34.960 set on marriage or like having a baby right now. 0:08:35.040 --> 0:08:37.480 It's like I'm in my mid twenties and that's a 0:08:37.480 --> 0:08:42.640 really special time because, uh, the generational pull from like, 0:08:42.800 --> 0:08:45.120 you know, when my mom was my age, she when 0:08:45.120 --> 0:08:46.880 she was my age now she already had a five 0:08:46.960 --> 0:08:50.319 year old me and I it's bizarre to think about 0:08:50.320 --> 0:08:53.680 that now. But I just didn't. I didn't. I feel 0:08:53.720 --> 0:08:55.760 like I'm rambling. I I just wanted to be a 0:08:56.960 --> 0:09:03.600 want I talk about of Um yeah, I just I 0:09:03.640 --> 0:09:05.120 forget where I was going. I feel like I led 0:09:05.120 --> 0:09:08.160 myself down a rabbit trail. But um yeah, I just 0:09:08.480 --> 0:09:10.800 I feel like that's the perspective I was craving, and 0:09:11.080 --> 0:09:13.200 the perspective I thought I was bringing at the table. 0:09:13.920 --> 0:09:15.600 You know, you're getting a lot of you, and you 0:09:15.640 --> 0:09:18.520 are getting it now. A lot of females even mails 0:09:18.600 --> 0:09:22.040 that are going to use you as something in their 0:09:22.120 --> 0:09:26.920 life to aim toward or to have you as a peer. 0:09:27.640 --> 0:09:30.520 Who for you are those important peers that have kind 0:09:30.520 --> 0:09:33.440 of put you in the place where you are now. Yeah, Um, 0:09:33.520 --> 0:09:36.160 I have so many, but to sort of like rattle 0:09:36.200 --> 0:09:40.640 off some like current ones that I'm like very inspired 0:09:40.679 --> 0:09:44.120 by right now. I mean Miranda Lambert. She put out 0:09:44.120 --> 0:09:46.400 a weight of these Wings and I think it's incredible. 0:09:46.440 --> 0:09:49.600 And I have always really, in I guess, looked up 0:09:49.640 --> 0:09:51.280 to her in a way because you know, she's like 0:09:51.320 --> 0:09:54.840 a fellow Texan and she's just a badass, and she 0:09:55.440 --> 0:09:57.760 is an amazing songwriter, and I feel like she's a 0:09:57.840 --> 0:10:01.800 very powerful woman, but she's also afraid to be vulnerable 0:10:01.920 --> 0:10:07.600 or sensitive, um and wrong. I really like her her 0:10:07.640 --> 0:10:11.760 writing style. And I love Chris Stapleton, I love Thomas 0:10:11.800 --> 0:10:14.160 Rhett I just like I really and Sam Hunt. I 0:10:14.200 --> 0:10:17.520 like people that are not afraid to be different. And 0:10:17.920 --> 0:10:22.440 whether that's um, you know, being the bad guy in 0:10:22.480 --> 0:10:26.120 the song or paying tribute to traditions of the past 0:10:26.240 --> 0:10:30.400 sounds in country, or paving the way for the new 0:10:30.480 --> 0:10:34.280 sound because it's ever changing. I'm inspired by artists that 0:10:35.080 --> 0:10:37.440 are not copies of other people. Do you ever get 0:10:37.480 --> 0:10:39.080 into a room and write with someone and you're like, 0:10:39.880 --> 0:10:42.080 I can't believe I'm writing with this person, Like this 0:10:42.120 --> 0:10:45.600 is what what planted am I on? Yeah, I've had 0:10:45.640 --> 0:10:48.480 a bunch of those experiences, just as a songwriter who 0:10:48.520 --> 0:10:51.800 a young songwriter, because I had never really had any 0:10:51.920 --> 0:10:55.720 radio success as a songwriter until my Church and that 0:10:55.800 --> 0:10:59.720 was obviously my own song. But um, I've got into 0:11:00.240 --> 0:11:04.360 with like some really amazing people, and UM, I remember, 0:11:04.480 --> 0:11:07.640 like the biggest artist I got to write with was 0:11:07.760 --> 0:11:10.240 Carrie Underwood and that was like two and a half 0:11:10.320 --> 0:11:13.000 or three years ago, and I would be surprised if 0:11:13.000 --> 0:11:14.920 she even remembers it because it was so long ago 0:11:15.040 --> 0:11:19.000 and she was writing so much for that Storyteller album. Um, 0:11:19.040 --> 0:11:23.840 and then she ah, she invited me to come out 0:11:23.880 --> 0:11:27.320 to her writing cabin, and I was so scared because 0:11:27.559 --> 0:11:31.720 I I had never written with an artist that gigantic before, 0:11:32.280 --> 0:11:34.680 and I was just like, I don't even know the drill, honestly, 0:11:34.720 --> 0:11:37.559 Like I've written a ton of songs, but I don't. 0:11:37.640 --> 0:11:40.040 I don't And I've listened to her music so I 0:11:40.080 --> 0:11:43.040 feel like I have a gist on you know, what 0:11:43.200 --> 0:11:47.079 she what she wants to say. But I I definitely 0:11:47.280 --> 0:11:50.920 was a sweaty palm to meeting her because that was 0:11:50.960 --> 0:11:52.800 the first time I met her was to write she's 0:11:52.840 --> 0:11:55.719 pretty disarming though, Yeah, and I'm doing a chance to 0:11:55.720 --> 0:11:57.480 get to know creat pretty well over the last if 0:11:57.520 --> 0:12:01.000 first kind of she's intimidating because she's very cool Wyatt. Yeah, 0:12:01.280 --> 0:12:03.319 and you're like, oh, she met does she not like me? 0:12:04.520 --> 0:12:07.679 But then you realize she's just soft until she's not, 0:12:07.880 --> 0:12:11.000 and then she's just awesome. Yeah, but she can be 0:12:11.040 --> 0:12:14.560 intimidating for a second. Well, yeah, it's intimidating because I 0:12:14.600 --> 0:12:18.480 mean she's I feel like she's always been famous and 0:12:18.640 --> 0:12:22.559 it's like from American Idol to Jesus take the Wheel 0:12:22.600 --> 0:12:26.600 to now there's really she's never had a down swing 0:12:26.640 --> 0:12:29.679 in her career. Really. Um So yeah, you walk in 0:12:29.720 --> 0:12:31.280 and you're like, oh my gosh, this is like the 0:12:31.400 --> 0:12:34.720 carry Underwood and I had been around so many artists 0:12:34.760 --> 0:12:37.160 as a writer, but you still get like sort of 0:12:37.520 --> 0:12:41.120 jarred when you see people in person. But like after 0:12:41.200 --> 0:12:43.480 a few seconds, you know she like the ice was 0:12:43.520 --> 0:12:46.960 broken and she had a ton of great titles and ideas, 0:12:47.000 --> 0:12:50.840 and we wrote two songs that day, and yeah, that 0:12:50.920 --> 0:12:52.959 was one of the first Like whoa, I'm like in 0:12:53.000 --> 0:12:56.480 the room with this person. Were you eating off of 0:12:56.559 --> 0:12:59.800 songwriting at that point? Like you're paying your bills and 0:13:00.000 --> 0:13:03.160 in groceries because you're writing songs. Yeah, Um that was 0:13:04.120 --> 0:13:06.480 I'm still in my first publishing deal. This is my 0:13:06.600 --> 0:13:10.240 last year before that option, but um, yeah, that was 0:13:10.280 --> 0:13:12.400 like the first year I had my publishing deals. So 0:13:12.440 --> 0:13:16.360 I was like, you know, not banking by any means, 0:13:16.400 --> 0:13:21.160 but definitely living off of the songwriter draw. I have 0:13:21.200 --> 0:13:22.720 a lot of songwriters that come to the house too 0:13:22.720 --> 0:13:25.839 and we talk and uh Lee Thomas Miller, who was 0:13:25.880 --> 0:13:27.640 one of my dear friends, came and we talked for 0:13:27.679 --> 0:13:29.080 an hour and a half or so. When he said 0:13:29.120 --> 0:13:32.079 to him and Chris Stapleton, every other Wednesday for three 0:13:32.160 --> 0:13:35.280 years wrote together for three years. Every other Wednesday, they 0:13:35.280 --> 0:13:37.840 just went and wrote and that was just their thing. 0:13:38.880 --> 0:13:41.440 Do you have any friends partners like that that you're 0:13:41.480 --> 0:13:43.079 right with on a regular basis that you're like, hey, 0:13:43.080 --> 0:13:45.120 we we just have to stay and kind of get 0:13:45.120 --> 0:13:47.120 into a groove and and stay in the groove, or 0:13:47.320 --> 0:13:49.280 you call and you're like, I have something. You know, 0:13:49.320 --> 0:13:51.880 you're kind of my partner in writing. Yeah, I have 0:13:51.920 --> 0:13:55.240 a few people like that because, um, I don't know. 0:13:55.360 --> 0:13:57.840 I feel like Nashville is so rich in that way. 0:13:57.880 --> 0:14:00.840 I mean, you can have a writing partner, but in Nashville, 0:14:00.840 --> 0:14:04.760 it's so collaborative that you you really do right with 0:14:05.000 --> 0:14:08.920 so many people that are your favorites. So, um, Buzzby 0:14:09.000 --> 0:14:12.439 is a big one for me. He uh really just 0:14:12.600 --> 0:14:15.080 pulled something out of me that I didn't even know 0:14:15.280 --> 0:14:18.480 was there when we started writing for Hero. You know, 0:14:18.480 --> 0:14:20.240 back then I didn't realize we were writing for my 0:14:20.320 --> 0:14:24.800 future record. But um, yeah, he's incredible because he's just 0:14:24.840 --> 0:14:26.880 like a freak of nature when it comes to music. 0:14:26.960 --> 0:14:32.040 And uh he's an incredible like soulful singer and piano 0:14:32.080 --> 0:14:36.360 player and um yeah, so he and he's just the best. 0:14:36.440 --> 0:14:39.000 I feel like he we're sort of like an old 0:14:39.000 --> 0:14:41.320 married couple when we write, like it's just the two 0:14:41.400 --> 0:14:44.280 of us and we'll like start something and we won't 0:14:44.280 --> 0:14:46.920 talk for the next like three or four hours. He'll 0:14:46.960 --> 0:14:50.720 start working on some like beat or track and building 0:14:50.720 --> 0:14:52.640 that and then I'll be working on the lyric and 0:14:52.840 --> 0:14:55.080 melody in my head. You know, with my laptop in 0:14:55.120 --> 0:14:57.600 the corner, and then like three hours later he'll turn 0:14:57.640 --> 0:14:59.800 around from his console and be like, are you ready 0:14:59.800 --> 0:15:02.440 to say ing? And I'd be like, I guess, I 0:15:02.520 --> 0:15:05.440 go up to the microphone. And then you know eighties 0:15:05.440 --> 0:15:08.320 Mercedes and that's so that's a song from you too, 0:15:08.400 --> 0:15:11.280 that where that happened where you guys set and it 0:15:11.400 --> 0:15:14.400 kind of came together that way. Yeah, And doesn't he 0:15:14.440 --> 0:15:18.120 have like a weird like back shed like Buzby, like 0:15:18.320 --> 0:15:19.920 where you work out of it and it's kind of 0:15:19.920 --> 0:15:22.440 his little space. Yeah. You walk out through his backyard 0:15:22.480 --> 0:15:24.760 and it's very quaint and it's just like a little shed. 0:15:24.880 --> 0:15:28.320 And that's where he wrote eighties Um. And then he 0:15:28.560 --> 0:15:30.680 is based in l A. So he has a Nashville 0:15:30.680 --> 0:15:33.800 in l A house. But we wrote My Church and 0:15:34.040 --> 0:15:37.920 how It's Done and once for the record out in 0:15:38.080 --> 0:15:40.880 l A. He worked with Keith a lot too, which 0:15:41.360 --> 0:15:44.080 all my worlds collide because Keith's actually a friend of mine. 0:15:44.240 --> 0:15:46.320 And and you went on tour with Keith and I 0:15:46.360 --> 0:15:48.280 guess I was watching your snap chet and ended up 0:15:48.280 --> 0:15:50.360 getting picked up by the blogs. But it looked like 0:15:50.360 --> 0:15:53.200 a batmobile that he sent you. Yeah, I don't know 0:15:53.240 --> 0:15:54.960 that it was actually a batmobile, but just like a 0:15:55.000 --> 0:15:58.240 crazy car as a tour. What was That's an auto cycle? 0:15:58.720 --> 0:16:02.360 Um it, yeah, you're telling me. I didn't know what 0:16:02.400 --> 0:16:05.800 it was either, because I thought he was kidding. Um, 0:16:05.840 --> 0:16:09.280 it's a Polaris sling shot. What are you supposed to 0:16:09.320 --> 0:16:11.360 park that? That's like you must want a dog? Like, 0:16:12.520 --> 0:16:15.000 here's your gift. There's a Dalmatian. You're like, well, it's 0:16:15.000 --> 0:16:17.320 really cool about what I do with this? Yeah exactly. 0:16:17.400 --> 0:16:22.200 It was one of those like and just insanely generous 0:16:22.240 --> 0:16:25.000 gifts where you're like, oh crap, Like I don't have 0:16:25.040 --> 0:16:28.400 a compound to put this on. I might, I don't have, 0:16:28.800 --> 0:16:32.880 um a garage, Like I live in East Nashville, like Inglewood. 0:16:33.200 --> 0:16:36.400 So I was trying to picture that parked in the 0:16:36.960 --> 0:16:40.280 driveway there. But then everyone knows where you live too, 0:16:40.640 --> 0:16:44.040 because Babile exactly. Yeah, do you want to go see 0:16:44.080 --> 0:16:47.480 where man lives? Just check out the three World motorcycle 0:16:47.520 --> 0:16:50.720 in the driveway. Um. Yeah. It was so funny the 0:16:50.760 --> 0:16:53.760 way he presented it too. He like handed me this 0:16:53.840 --> 0:16:57.480 rolled up piece of paper and a really sweet note. 0:16:57.640 --> 0:16:59.320 On the last day of the tour, which we were 0:16:59.360 --> 0:17:01.960 in Brooklyn and he was like, thank you so much 0:17:02.040 --> 0:17:06.320 for being out here, and he's just like the nicest guy. 0:17:06.640 --> 0:17:10.439 And he like had this rolled up piece of paper 0:17:10.480 --> 0:17:12.000 and it had like a ribbon around it, and I 0:17:12.040 --> 0:17:13.840 took the ribbon off and like unrolled it and it's 0:17:13.880 --> 0:17:19.320 a picture of this sling shot car thing. And I 0:17:19.400 --> 0:17:21.840 was really confused because I was like, oh, maybe he 0:17:21.880 --> 0:17:24.359 got me like a ride in this thing, Like I 0:17:24.400 --> 0:17:31.200 go to a yeah, take this sling shot tour around Nashville. Um. 0:17:31.280 --> 0:17:33.160 And he's like, have you ever been in a sling shot? 0:17:34.080 --> 0:17:37.359 I can't do an Australian accent, but I was like 0:17:37.520 --> 0:17:39.720 what He's like, have you ever ridden in one of 0:17:39.720 --> 0:17:43.119 these things? And I was like no, why how would I? 0:17:43.280 --> 0:17:46.400 Why would I? UM? And I was like, wait, you're 0:17:46.440 --> 0:17:49.040 giving this to me. He's like, yeah, I got you 0:17:49.080 --> 0:17:52.919 in brett One. And I was just in shock, like 0:17:53.119 --> 0:17:57.520 I've never gotten anything um that magnitude. I mean, it's 0:17:57.520 --> 0:18:01.720 just insane and so generous. And we definitely had a 0:18:01.800 --> 0:18:05.240 ball with it or on Christmas Day with my family. 0:18:05.280 --> 0:18:08.920 Where is it now? It's in Texas so Y's room. 0:18:08.960 --> 0:18:10.320 It's like the dog, you gave it a field to 0:18:10.359 --> 0:18:14.560 run in right, Yeah, exactly, Ryan and I hauled it 0:18:14.600 --> 0:18:19.199 down to Texas for Christmas, and um my dad is 0:18:19.240 --> 0:18:24.280 basically helping store it, slash using it. Um yeah, he 0:18:24.359 --> 0:18:26.520 was freaking out that he gets to take care of 0:18:26.560 --> 0:18:31.280 that thing. Just a sidebar on Keith, like really and 0:18:32.040 --> 0:18:34.840 this is a show Bears town as much as Los 0:18:34.840 --> 0:18:36.680 Angeles is. I mean, it really is the show Bears town. 0:18:37.080 --> 0:18:40.320 But Keith is as nice and as genuine, even more 0:18:40.359 --> 0:18:45.240 so than he seems on TV or radio or anywhere else. Yeah, 0:18:45.359 --> 0:18:48.760 he is. And he's another one of those people that's 0:18:48.800 --> 0:18:52.480 like really jarring to meet in person because you know, 0:18:52.480 --> 0:18:56.159 I've been listening to Keith's records, you know, since you know, 0:18:56.960 --> 0:19:00.240 Golden Road, since before that album actually like Black Top Ends, 0:19:00.480 --> 0:19:03.520 that kind of stuff. And so when he called me 0:19:03.520 --> 0:19:06.960 about the tour and then I met him to announce 0:19:07.000 --> 0:19:11.800 the tour with Brett, and yeah, it's just insane how 0:19:12.400 --> 0:19:17.320 authentic he is and that famous and then the weird famous, 0:19:17.400 --> 0:19:21.199 and then there's like that kind of famous where you 0:19:21.280 --> 0:19:25.879 are known by most of the world. We were in 0:19:26.520 --> 0:19:28.800 my girlfriend, I went to Australia and I was never 0:19:28.800 --> 0:19:30.080 going to tell the story. And then he kind of 0:19:30.080 --> 0:19:33.040 busted my balls for not telling it because I was given. 0:19:33.160 --> 0:19:34.720 I was kind of making fun of Sydney a bit. 0:19:35.200 --> 0:19:39.520 And we were in Sydney this last vacation and we 0:19:39.560 --> 0:19:41.960 went for Christmas and I've never been to Australia and 0:19:42.040 --> 0:19:44.479 so we go and he was in Sydney. He texted me, goes, hey, 0:19:44.480 --> 0:19:45.960 are you here? And I was like, yeah, saw you 0:19:46.000 --> 0:19:47.880 come over to the house. We having a Christmas party. 0:19:48.280 --> 0:19:50.840 And I want to go over to someone's house on Christmas. 0:19:50.880 --> 0:19:53.280 I'm just not someone who goes into people's space anyway. 0:19:53.400 --> 0:19:55.359 I like to stay out. I just don't like to 0:19:55.400 --> 0:19:58.440 impose more than anything. And I'm like, I really appreciate it, 0:19:58.480 --> 0:20:01.440 but I'm not. And I no, he's genuine because he's 0:20:01.480 --> 0:20:03.440 just a good dude. The next day texted me again, 0:20:03.440 --> 0:20:05.080 he goes, hey, you have to come over having Nicole 0:20:05.119 --> 0:20:06.800 and I having a Christmas party. Come over to the house. 0:20:07.440 --> 0:20:11.560 And so we're in Australia. Keith Urban has Lindsay and 0:20:11.640 --> 0:20:13.919 myself and we go over and there's a big his 0:20:14.080 --> 0:20:17.560 dinner and it's like Nicole's mom and his mom and family. 0:20:17.600 --> 0:20:19.560 And I'm telling you, we could have been a cousin 0:20:19.680 --> 0:20:22.359 or something. He just sit down with us and we 0:20:22.480 --> 0:20:24.439 just all talked for like an hour and it was 0:20:24.520 --> 0:20:27.760 just like the most And I'm not normal because I'm 0:20:27.760 --> 0:20:30.040 just kind of a peculiar guy. It was just like 0:20:30.520 --> 0:20:33.520 a real nice human thing that I don't think people 0:20:33.960 --> 0:20:37.919 I think rich, famous people are anymore and he is 0:20:39.520 --> 0:20:43.800 I think, um like being like a family man and 0:20:44.560 --> 0:20:47.439 just his connection with his fans, and I don't know, 0:20:47.840 --> 0:20:49.760 I sort of saw behind the scenes, like the way 0:20:49.800 --> 0:20:54.080 he takes care of his crew and he like got 0:20:54.160 --> 0:20:57.600 his production manager, Baja is his nickname, and he's like 0:20:58.359 --> 0:21:02.240 seventy years old, and he's loud and hilarious and always 0:21:02.240 --> 0:21:04.680 took care of us. Keith got him like the segue 0:21:04.720 --> 0:21:07.160 five years ago, and he would always just like drive 0:21:07.200 --> 0:21:11.359 it around. And you see like what he does for 0:21:11.440 --> 0:21:13.960 his crew that have been with him and are loyal 0:21:14.000 --> 0:21:17.600 to him, and there's just like this unspoken bond between 0:21:17.640 --> 0:21:21.720 everybody and that respects him, and uh yeah, it's just 0:21:21.800 --> 0:21:24.480