Speaker 1: Caral. She's a queen of talking. He was She's on
Speaker 1: the inside. She got the scoop on No one can
Speaker 1: do win, Caral, Caral, No one can do win Quiet, Caral, Carol.
Speaker 1: This episode of Get Real Podcast with Caroline Brian is
Speaker 1: so much fun. I love Caroline. I recently discovered her
Speaker 1: Instagram page early last year and I've been hooked. She
Speaker 1: is so stundenly beautiful. But more than that, she's a
Speaker 1: prankster and she pranks her entire family. She does the
Speaker 1: wildest things, from stuffing herself in a life size Teddy bear,
Speaker 1: putting snakes and refrigerators, jumping on hucks Is, putting Figurenai
Speaker 1: polish on a bar of soap and watching Luke lather
Speaker 1: up on with it and wondering what's going on. She
Speaker 1: puts it all on Instagram and hysterical. Also, Luke's mom, Leclaire,
Speaker 1: is a huge character in all of caroline stories. Leclaire
Speaker 1: straight out of a movie. She is so hysterical, her
Speaker 1: dance moves, just her whole personality. You have to follow
Speaker 1: along because it's sheer joy. We also talk all about
Speaker 1: Caroline and Luke's love story. It's so sweet. Luke was
Speaker 1: the second guy Caroline's ever kissed, and hearing their journey
Speaker 1: is incredible. And beyond that, we talked about how Caroline
Speaker 1: and Luke have dealt with some serious tragedy. Both of
Speaker 1: Luke's siblings passed away. Caroline and Luke stepped in and
Speaker 1: are helping to raise and support his sister's children who
Speaker 1: are in high school and college, as well as raising
Speaker 1: their own two young boys. Caroline's brother also lost his
Speaker 1: daughter at a really young age. Her name was Brett,
Speaker 1: and in honor of Brett, Caroline had promised her a
Speaker 1: pony when she was one years old. So Caroline and
Speaker 1: her family started Brett's Barn, which is a barn that
Speaker 1: has all sorts of animals where kids with disabilities and
Speaker 1: sickness can come and pet the animals and feel happiness
Speaker 1: and joy. And it's also so Brett's legacy and memory
Speaker 1: will never die and it will live on forever. The
Speaker 1: way that Caroline and Luke have navigated their life and
Speaker 1: gone through such hard times and still found joy and
Speaker 1: love and humor and fun, it's just nothing short of inspiring.
Speaker 1: I'm telling you, Caroline's faith in God is so inspiring.
Speaker 1: This episode touched my heart so much it maybe laugh.
Speaker 1: It made me feel everything. And I'm just so happy
Speaker 1: and thankful to know Caroline and Brian because what an
Speaker 1: incredible person she is. You guys are gonna love this podcast.
Speaker 1: Here she is Caroline, Brian and the Hissy. Hey, hey,
Speaker 1: that's all right. How you doing awesome? You're coming fresh
Speaker 1: off a tennis match? Yes, yes, it was good. So sorry,
Speaker 1: I was a little like, you look great to become
Speaker 1: You got your like cute spank shiny pants on. Oh
Speaker 1: well I did. I brushed my hair in the car
Speaker 1: and I put on some gloves. But I suppose as
Speaker 1: good as it kids these days. Sorry, it's looking good.
Speaker 1: Look like I've been a street fight and I got
Speaker 1: my ask kicks. Sorry, but you actually were the champion
Speaker 1: of the tennis match. We did win? Yes, was it
Speaker 1: a close match or like? It was? So that's why
Speaker 1: it took a lot long time. But it was good.
Speaker 1: It was fun. It's my outlet, so I get to
Speaker 1: hit a ball instead of hitting instead of hitting a
Speaker 1: child or luke. I like when I walk in, you
Speaker 1: asked you where are the kids? And he's like half
Speaker 1: of them are on the snowpile, and where's the other half.
Speaker 1: The other half upstairs, I don't know snowpile. Okay, so
Speaker 1: this is I'm not lying. So my children are obsessed
Speaker 1: with snow because we loved to ski and which I
Speaker 1: saw you had a trip up there for day we did.
Speaker 1: We had it was the best trip I think we've
Speaker 1: ever had as a family because the kids are finally
Speaker 1: our kids are well, our kids and our nieces so
Speaker 1: everybody is seventeen, ten and eight. So I feel like
Speaker 1: we've made it through the really hard part, which is
Speaker 1: having a baby and infant and all that stuff. So
Speaker 1: now they're like they can kind of function, so I
Speaker 1: can tell them to go put their ski clothes on,
Speaker 1: because if you ever put ski clothes on a baby
Speaker 1: or a child? Did you attempt skiing with babies? So
Speaker 1: we did it? Did you like strapping? What do you
Speaker 1: and go skiing? Loose people? Luke put a halter on
Speaker 1: him and went down the mountain. See that's how they
Speaker 1: learned how to skip. But what if he would have fallen.
Speaker 1: He's not going to fall. He's a great scare. He
Speaker 1: just knows he's not gonna fall. So I would just
Speaker 1: stay behind Luke and I would just panic the whole
Speaker 1: time because thinking they're gonna fall, but we go do
Speaker 1: like blacks and stuff. What's not not when he was
Speaker 1: teaching them. But now my eight year old can do
Speaker 1: blacks and my ten year old can do black. So
Speaker 1: I do blacks with my ten year old. See, to me,
Speaker 1: I never really seed growing up. So I've ski maybe
Speaker 1: like four or five times, and I can do like
Speaker 1: blues in a constant snowplow. But every time I'm doing it,
Speaker 1: I'm like, this is a suicide mission, Like this is
Speaker 1: how people? How is this something that the world raises?
Speaker 1: Because this, to me is so you just have to go.
Speaker 1: I just tell them to go side to side, just go,
Speaker 1: just go side to side. But they can fly because
Speaker 1: they're so they're small. So if you have you seen
Speaker 1: the kids who do it and they're so tiny and
Speaker 1: they can just fly because they're so small, they can
Speaker 1: handle it. But we're not working. Hey, what's up? So
Speaker 1: here's my come here's siventeen it year old? Till did
Speaker 1: you go skiing? Also? Can you say, hey, come tell?
Speaker 1: How are you one of those uh skiers that goes
Speaker 1: like he's ridiculous? Yes, yeah, yeah, you know he can
Speaker 1: say hi on this, Till doesn't so well till Till's here. Now,
Speaker 1: till Till does jumps, and so I'll just stand there
Speaker 1: and I'll just be nervous as hell. But he does jumps,
Speaker 1: and you're never worried that you're going to fall and
Speaker 1: hurt yourself. Well, you're young. You have to start when
Speaker 1: you're young, because if you don't start with you're young,
Speaker 1: if you start like me when you're old, it just
Speaker 1: feels like every single time I'm on the slope and
Speaker 1: how this is crazy that people do this, and they
Speaker 1: do it and he's great, but Till's also people don't
Speaker 1: know till seventeen and six four. So if he falls,
Speaker 1: it's a long way to fall, a long way. Taitan
Speaker 1: bow were a little bit smaller. But Till he'll just
Speaker 1: fly and it's it's scary, but he's a great skier.
Speaker 1: So have you always ski too? No? I never skied, okay, bye, tail,
Speaker 1: I never skied. I never skid, Oh my gosh, until
Speaker 1: I was good. Lord, I guess I've been skiing for
Speaker 1: about we go every year, and that's y'all saying, I
Speaker 1: guess it's been like but ten years now. I guess
Speaker 1: maybe eight ten years and Tait and both start to
Speaker 1: skiing when they were both about three and they just
Speaker 1: they love it. So we just we go here every year.
Speaker 1: So why was this the best family trip ever? Because
Speaker 1: they're finally at the age where I don't have to
Speaker 1: dress them. So to all the moms out out there,
Speaker 1: when if you have small children, if it's your first
Speaker 1: skate trip, do not put ski clothes on. Okay, before
Speaker 1: you dress your child. You will die. You don't put
Speaker 1: your own skis. Don't It's like being an asana, because
Speaker 1: then you will not work out ahead of time. You
Speaker 1: will die. I learned that the hard way. And so
Speaker 1: but once everybody, and then once you're trying to teach
Speaker 1: your children how to ski, you kind of have to
Speaker 1: stand there and pick them up as they fall down.
Speaker 1: You gotta pick them up and they fall down, so
Speaker 1: you can't really ski. But now my kids are great skiers.
Speaker 1: So we just go and we just ski all day
Speaker 1: and the kids fall maybe once and that's it. And
Speaker 1: then we go get in a hot tub and have
Speaker 1: a drink, and then kids hopping the pool. And I
Speaker 1: saw you having some drinks on the way up to
Speaker 1: the ski slopes. We did we did. We did. I
Speaker 1: actually think it's smart because it keeps a little bit
Speaker 1: loose loosen. Yeah, and so but what I Okay, so
Speaker 1: I was telling Caroline this earlier. I the best thing
Speaker 1: that's ever happened to me is discovering your Instagram page.
Speaker 1: Because I always like, would see you at award shows
Speaker 1: and see you on red carpets and a You're just
Speaker 1: a bombshell and you are like a knockout, and so
Speaker 1: you're kind of like so beautiful that you're intimidating because
Speaker 1: you're so beautiful and you're just like a perfect looking person.
Speaker 1: But then I discovered your Instagram and I was like,
Speaker 1: oh m G, you're the funniest person that I have
Speaker 1: ever seen. You're twelve days of pranks, Like you have
Speaker 1: to talk to the people about how you started this.
Speaker 1: I found these and like I showed them to all
Speaker 1: my band family. One night, Michael and I drank like
Speaker 1: two bottles of wine and watched the Instagram age and
Speaker 1: the pranks and cried laughing because it was so funny.
Speaker 1: I've never seen someone who pranks so hard. Well, okay, well,
Speaker 1: so here's the honest truth. So my family, we we've
Speaker 1: always done we've always done. Your dad, I did it.
Speaker 1: I would have called. He had no clue, he didn't
Speaker 1: know where it came from. I think you thought it
Speaker 1: was my brother's son who did it, because that's who
Speaker 1: he was holding. He was holding my brother and my
Speaker 1: sister in law's child, who was at the time was
Speaker 1: three months. But okay, so my family, like we we've
Speaker 1: if if people could see the footage I have it
Speaker 1: is there's Oh my god, I could sell it for
Speaker 1: there's there's no telling. So y'all grow up pranking and
Speaker 1: we've always done that. I've always done it um our
Speaker 1: family here like we just do the craziest stuff. But
Speaker 1: it's not anyway. So my niece, who's the oldest Jordan's
Speaker 1: she told me a while back, because I'm still new
Speaker 1: to like social media, I'm still new, and I just
Speaker 1: I don't post a lot because I just don't. I
Speaker 1: don't know. I got the one with Luke with the
Speaker 1: soap because it won't lather. So they stand in the
Speaker 1: shower and they're trying to get it to ladder won't
Speaker 1: so with clear fear not all you have to do.
Speaker 1: And then Luke's over there the shower going o don't
Speaker 1: I think this is maybe what's wrong? Does it smell funny?
Speaker 1: And then he came out, he goes, are you joking
Speaker 1: on me? And I had to cut the camera because
Speaker 1: I knew he was about to walk out, which a
Speaker 1: lot of girls have asked me for footage of that
Speaker 1: and I cannot give them that. But my niece goes
Speaker 1: and Caroline, your instagram is lame. No, damn, Jordan, I'm sorry.
Speaker 1: She goes, just just be you. Put put more out
Speaker 1: there because I started. I took the Instagram public because
Speaker 1: to bring awareness to our charity. So that's why I
Speaker 1: did so, that's why I at it. But so she
Speaker 1: told me, she goes, just be you, who cares about
Speaker 1: what anybody thinks? And so I was like, okay. So
Speaker 1: I was home on a Friday. Luke was in the
Speaker 1: bar where we're sitting there, Literally I have seen an airhorn.
Speaker 1: I was like, he was here on the phone. Yeah,
Speaker 1: he got he thought it was a kid that did it.
Speaker 1: What is that? Whatever the hell? He said, I don't
Speaker 1: know it. So that's where it started. But then I
Speaker 1: was like, okay, well I'll just do so then you
Speaker 1: did like a whole series of air horns and you
Speaker 1: did you air horns everyone in your family and and
Speaker 1: friends and their reactions were insane. Know they hated me.
Speaker 1: Another favorite character I have in y'all's family is Luke's
Speaker 1: mom Leclair. Yes, how is like? How about that name?
Speaker 1: To be true? She is? Does she know how funny
Speaker 1: she is? She does, and she owns it. So do
Speaker 1: you remember the um she might be? The I started
Speaker 1: following her, She's a mess. What she do like a
Speaker 1: weekly video, like to give us a weekly dose of her,
Speaker 1: and she typically makes us do something because she's around.
Speaker 1: She's like, I don't know how to post, like, yes
Speaker 1: you do, but like she's like me, she just didn't
Speaker 1: think about it a lot. But she knows she's funny.
Speaker 1: But do you remember the character for them from the
Speaker 1: Palmark card? Maxine? She was the old lady sitting on
Speaker 1: smoking a cigarette, drinking her coffee. I call her Maxine.
Speaker 1: She's Maccine because she's just she says, there is no filter, none,
Speaker 1: there is no filter. She says whatever she thinks. Dancing.
Speaker 1: I feel like she's got a good cocktail in her
Speaker 1: hand a lot of times. I mean maybe not just beer,
Speaker 1: just beer. I saw one post and she had like,
Speaker 1: I mean, I've stopped he page so hard because it
Speaker 1: made me laugh. So she was just so in that post,
Speaker 1: she's like four cases of and your son in the car.
Speaker 1: Oh god, yes, no bud light which if hey if
Speaker 1: but almost a sponsor her, she'll take it. Leclaire is
Speaker 1: open for business. She'll be the happiest person ever. But
Speaker 1: so she just so she drinks only but like so
Speaker 1: she was joking with Luke, okay, trying to make him
Speaker 1: think she was drunk, and so she so it was
Speaker 1: a joke, but so she had on like a somebro
Speaker 1: and yeah, and he goes, what are you doing? And
Speaker 1: that's when she went and just trying to have fun
Speaker 1: and he bought it, which I'm like, you should know
Speaker 1: your mom better than that, because but he seriously thought
Speaker 1: his mom was drunk. So do y'all team up together
Speaker 1: like you and Leclair and go after people or is it?
Speaker 1: I feel like it could be just deadly in this
Speaker 1: house with the humor. Who's who's the one that's instigated
Speaker 1: than most? Is it you? Yes? Unfortunately, like one of
Speaker 1: your pranks, you got in a huge teddy bear that
Speaker 1: was me and then people would walk by and you
Speaker 1: would jump out and scare him, like, how do you
Speaker 1: even think of this stuff? Don't know. I guess I've
Speaker 1: just we've always done crazy stuff. And I don't know.
Speaker 1: I think I was. I think I was scrolling through
Speaker 1: Amazon one not and I saw this life size Teddy Bear.
Speaker 1: I'm like, this would be I'm going to buy that
Speaker 1: and I'm going to jump out of it. I don't know.
Speaker 1: It's probably after three glasses of wine, so a little
Speaker 1: bit weird, But I don't know. I mean, I just
Speaker 1: have to say that I appreciate it, and I know
Speaker 1: everyone else that's too because it is so hysterical. And
Speaker 1: the snake one another one where you put snakes in
Speaker 1: the fridge, Yes, and that back that that backfired on me.
Speaker 1: I am petrified of snakes, like petrified of snakes. I
Speaker 1: don't want to see a dead one. I don't I
Speaker 1: don't want to see one that's a rubber. I don't
Speaker 1: want to see it. And Luke he pranked me once
Speaker 1: he bought a snake in the house and I think
Speaker 1: I put it on Instagram and I it was a
Speaker 1: lot I have snake and I just yes, oh my gosh, yes,
Speaker 1: it was like a king snake or something. But I
Speaker 1: don't care what it is. I don't want it around me.
Speaker 1: And he he bought it in the house. He was
Speaker 1: holding it, so I guess that was your seeing quickly.
Speaker 1: He did that first. This was last spring, so he
Speaker 1: did it first. So that's when you know, I got
Speaker 1: a paying back. So is this house just like a
Speaker 1: fun house all the time? Are there just tons of
Speaker 1: people in here constantly? Yes, there are always people in
Speaker 1: here with Um we have three boys in the house,
Speaker 1: so they always have friends over you till your nephew
Speaker 1: who just walked in. He's a seventeen year old, sevente
Speaker 1: he's a junior high school. He is on the dating scene,
Speaker 1: he is. How's that going? It's good, I mean, because
Speaker 1: he's so cute steels, so he's I mean, my god,
Speaker 1: he's seventeen six four, he's so cute. Um, it's good.
Speaker 1: But I mean, you know, he's he's never been like
Speaker 1: he's he's never juggled like a bunch of girls at once.
Speaker 1: He didn't do that. Um, he's just he's sweet. And
Speaker 1: I don't know, but usually it's more full of boys
Speaker 1: than it is girls. So thank god, I'm not sure
Speaker 1: how I would handle the other way around. There was
Speaker 1: one time that I didn't handle it well. Some girls
Speaker 1: showed up at the door, like at night, Oh my gosh,
Speaker 1: and I was in my robe and I was like, no,
Speaker 1: thank you. I know what to say for business, like
Speaker 1: I'm not gonna happen. Thanks by. I did well, No,
Speaker 1: actually I didn't. I'll let Till and his buddy come
Speaker 1: downstairs and tell them, you know whatever I see till
Speaker 1: Till Till stalking me right right, This was like two
Speaker 1: years ago, Till, so it wasn't last week. Two girls
Speaker 1: came to the door like ninety five at night and
Speaker 1: cheer leading outfits and cheerleading outfits, no it doesn't matter,
Speaker 1: and a cheer they were prepared. Yeah I know, I know.
Speaker 1: So yeah, but no, he's he's a gen hard because
Speaker 1: I threatened him, right, that's right. You need to be healthy,
Speaker 1: a little healthy level of threat. Yes, oh yeah, on
Speaker 1: fighter over later. Yes. So do you have a girlfriend? Okay,
Speaker 1: so are we serious business here? Nice? I never had
Speaker 1: a girl a boyfriend in high school? I did? You did?
Speaker 1: I just had one? Yeah, I had one author high school.
Speaker 1: That's probably good to have author high school. And then
Speaker 1: we broke up. When I'm at Luke in college. So
Speaker 1: you and Luke were ding were college? Sweetheart? When did
Speaker 1: y'all meet? My first week in college? What like, right
Speaker 1: off the bat Thursday night, I went to y'all take
Speaker 1: a four year break, tills like the narrator here here
Speaker 1: giving us the inside. There wasn't even born yet. Yeah
Speaker 1: you don't. You weren't even around yet. Hey, but you
Speaker 1: got all the scoop. I'm gonna take it from util.
Speaker 1: So we had a four year break. Okay, we did.
Speaker 1: Yirst week of college? You met? Did y'all's humor draw
Speaker 1: you to each other? Because I feel like he has, yes,
Speaker 1: the same humor, I thought, because looks you know his
Speaker 1: his his like personality is so big that um it's first.
Speaker 1: So I met him at a bar called Dinghis. And
Speaker 1: y'all are both from Georgia. Yes, both from from Georgia.
Speaker 1: And you're at the University of Georgia Southern Georgia States
Speaker 1: for um. So he and I were at Dinghis and
Speaker 1: we're just hanging out. I was a freshman. I didn't
Speaker 1: love at first sect Um for me, No, I was terrified.
Speaker 1: I didn't know what the hell was happening. I mean,
Speaker 1: I just it was like my first time in a
Speaker 1: bar like I didn't. I was so sheltered growing up.
Speaker 1: I grew up in a small town. Where'd you grow up? Sandersville, Georgia,
Speaker 1: very small town. It's the Kaolan capital of the world,
Speaker 1: the wet capital of Kaol and chalk chalk like so
Speaker 1: everything's white, like just for chalkboards. Well, so it's like
Speaker 1: a chalk mine. So it goes in everything like medicine,
Speaker 1: in the air, chalk everywhere. It can be. Yeah, it's
Speaker 1: not typically no, but it can be. But no, it's
Speaker 1: it's not bad. But um, very small town. I went
Speaker 1: to a small private school, had the same boyfriend. I
Speaker 1: had the same the same buck guy. Yeah that you know.
Speaker 1: He came from a great family and we still we're
Speaker 1: still friends and he's married to the sweetest girl ever.
Speaker 1: So um. So I go off to college and he
Speaker 1: and I had datus since we were in the eighth grade.
Speaker 1: Oh my god. So um we all decided to break out.
Speaker 1: We agreed to go our separate ways and just see
Speaker 1: what what was out there. That's terrifying and so yeah,
Speaker 1: so I didn't know. Luke was the second guy I'd
Speaker 1: ever kissed in my life. Ever, yeah. So I meet
Speaker 1: Luke in a bar and he's like and he such
Speaker 1: a big like personality. I was staring at him, like
Speaker 1: is this guy for real? Because he acts, he is
Speaker 1: how he is, like even back in the day, he's
Speaker 1: he's never been different. Well, now that I know Leclair,
Speaker 1: I do not doubt that's where he that's where he
Speaker 1: gets his stuff. I'm like, Cam, it is not fake.
Speaker 1: It is real. It is totally real. But he's um
Speaker 1: so he but he was so sweet. So he and
Speaker 1: I tried to be friends for a couple of weeks.
Speaker 1: That didn't last. Song we you know, we kissed and
Speaker 1: so did you start falling after the initial like I
Speaker 1: did him and you know, just I knew liked him,
Speaker 1: but we're like, let's just I was like, Okay, he
Speaker 1: can be a guy friend because that's the last thing
Speaker 1: I was trying to find was to date something that
Speaker 1: just broke up with your boyfriend, Like it was weird,
Speaker 1: and it was weird. So he not dated for like
Speaker 1: a year and a half and then I get I
Speaker 1: got freaked out because he was talking about marriage and
Speaker 1: so he was ready. Yeah, and I was like, I
Speaker 1: cannot go my entire life and not be single. I've
Speaker 1: got to and so we we separated for over four years.
Speaker 1: How is that it was us? Breaking up? Was horrible?
Speaker 1: Hephomore when I was, I was a sophomore. It was
Speaker 1: Christmas of my sophomore year, and no, he was he
Speaker 1: was graduating, so he was leaving school. Okay, so he
Speaker 1: was out of there and you were. So you finished
Speaker 1: off college single? How were those single years? They were fine?
Speaker 1: You know, I dated to to other guys, Like I
Speaker 1: called two other boys a boyfriend, but I had tons
Speaker 1: of like you know, dates and like first dates, but
Speaker 1: nobody compared. No, I mean, he was always these I
Speaker 1: always knew Luke was the sweetest and the best I
Speaker 1: always hands down. I always knew it. But at the
Speaker 1: time when we were a part, you know, I was,
Speaker 1: I just wasn't ready for that. I just I wasn't
Speaker 1: ready to be like in love yeah and forever. And
Speaker 1: then we met spontaneously after college. He was playing at
Speaker 1: a bar that I was at. Had no clue he
Speaker 1: was playing there, So y'all weren't even planning on trying
Speaker 1: to get back together. Like it was a break and
Speaker 1: over and done and like everyone's moving on. You're not
Speaker 1: really talking we talked a little bit through email or
Speaker 1: if he would come play at college. We talked a
Speaker 1: little bit, but he always take in touch with my brother,
Speaker 1: so hit an inside. So I always knew like where
Speaker 1: he was, what he was doing. And it was funny.
Speaker 1: He had the nerve once in college to bring a
Speaker 1: girl that he was dating to my house in college
Speaker 1: for a pre party. So you were having a pre
Speaker 1: party and he now was called pre game or something?
Speaker 1: Is it called pre game? Yeah, I'm not I don't know, folks,
Speaker 1: I don't know, but we called it a pre party.
Speaker 1: He walked in my house with a girl he was dating. Well, well,
Speaker 1: well I got pissed and I left your own house
Speaker 1: and party. I did. I love it at else I did.
Speaker 1: I left. I was like the hell, I'm not even
Speaker 1: sure what girl it was, but I guess the message
Speaker 1: was sent. It means the feelings were still there. I guess.
Speaker 1: See I left. I was like, I'm not gonna hang around.
Speaker 1: Was like, I was like, I hope this bitch goes
Speaker 1: in my room and sees pictures because I think I
Speaker 1: saw a picture up at Luke. I don't even know,
Speaker 1: but um, yeah, but after that, but yeah, but he
Speaker 1: and I met he was playing at a bar that
Speaker 1: I was because I was in town working and he
Speaker 1: was playing the bar. And where are you living at
Speaker 1: this point? I was living in Making, Georgia. Okay, so
Speaker 1: that is not the same place with But I went
Speaker 1: to Statesboro, which our college town, because I worked there.
Speaker 1: I was a drugger up and my brother was still
Speaker 1: in college, and so I was just gonna stay there
Speaker 1: overnight because I had to get up early and worked there.
Speaker 1: So um, and he goes, well, guess who's playing in town?
Speaker 1: And I said, okay, well I'll go for like an hour.
Speaker 1: And then I saw him playing and something was different. Okay,
Speaker 1: what was it? What was different? I don't know. I
Speaker 1: think he and I had just we were older, you know,
Speaker 1: I'd gotten you know, I don't know. It was just
Speaker 1: something was different. And I think those breaks are crucial.
Speaker 1: My husband and I took a two year break. Happened
Speaker 1: like if we wouldn't have gotten, if we wouldn't have
Speaker 1: broken up, we wouldn't be happily married. I know we
Speaker 1: wouldn't just because we weren't grown up enough yet. We
Speaker 1: hadn't lived enough. I hadn't found myself as something I'm
Speaker 1: still obviously finding it that he hadn't either, and it's
Speaker 1: like you got to know that you it's not that
Speaker 1: you needed to like see what was out there, but
Speaker 1: I just needed to find myself and to know that
Speaker 1: I'm not just like rushing into something. That's a cool story.
Speaker 1: I didn't know that about you all. That's awesome. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it's like it's the four years, broke up two and
Speaker 1: then eloped, you dated four years. Oh wow, I didn't
Speaker 1: know that. And then we broke up for two years
Speaker 1: and I moved away and like it was over, but
Speaker 1: we still kind of kept in touch, and then one
Speaker 1: kind of same thing, we just randomly ran into each
Speaker 1: other again, and I was like, it's always, it's always
Speaker 1: it's like that. Yeah, yeah, that's that's how he and
Speaker 1: I were. Because so I saw him at this bar
Speaker 1: and he was singing and we made eye contact and
Speaker 1: now I was like and I was like so happy
Speaker 1: work clothes and I'm like he he had no idea
Speaker 1: you're there. No, I know he was gonna be there
Speaker 1: until my brother told him. I was like, well, I'll
Speaker 1: go for like an hour, but I'm in my work clothes,
Speaker 1: which is not going out clothes like a grandma. You
Speaker 1: could never look like a grandma like in college, but
Speaker 1: we still college. Boat talks. It helps. I love is
Speaker 1: a boat talk? Hell yeah it helps. Yeah. I would
Speaker 1: have so many wrinkles these kids, but Luke God, Yeah,
Speaker 1: his job, his family, his mother. Yeah, they all give
Speaker 1: me wrinkles. You gotta have the talks as long as
Speaker 1: you have hair dye and talkin. Yeah, that does. So
Speaker 1: that's kept me out of jail many times, be in
Speaker 1: jail for murder't have that. But it's fun. So y'all
Speaker 1: locked eye. We we did. And then um, he he
Speaker 1: took a break and I didn't see him for a while,
Speaker 1: and I thought he was trying to avoid me. So
Speaker 1: I left. I just went and I was like, I've
Speaker 1: got to be up at like six am, So I left. Well,
Speaker 1: he called me three am. He didn't call me, so
Speaker 1: I'm sorry. He called my brothers. I was because he
Speaker 1: had my brother's brother is his inn? Yeah, and so
Speaker 1: Bo helped him out. Um, that's my brother's name. So
Speaker 1: he called my brother's house at three am, and for
Speaker 1: some reason, I answered, I never answered a phone at
Speaker 1: three am. Well back then I didn't. Now I'm concerned.
Speaker 1: It's a it's want to tell sisters in college. But um,
Speaker 1: and he was like, where did you go? I said,
Speaker 1: I said, I'm sorry, I had to leave, you know,
Speaker 1: I thought that you didn't want to see me and
Speaker 1: I gotta be up at six. And anyway, after that,
Speaker 1: he and I started texting and we saw each other
Speaker 1: at Christmas and we've been together since stop. Oh yeah,
Speaker 1: so it was good. It was that he and I
Speaker 1: would have never, ever, ever lasted if we didn't have
Speaker 1: a break. Yeah, same as she's too young because but yeah,
Speaker 1: you're like, well, I've tried other ones and yeah, I
Speaker 1: was like I tried all the flavors and I was like,
Speaker 1: I don't like it. I'm glad allergic to the other one.
Speaker 1: You gave me a rash, but not that kind of rash.
Speaker 1: Not that kind of rash, thank god. Exactly. I don't
Speaker 1: need cillin for that or for whatever. Does penicillin even
Speaker 1: do people to take that anymore? I don't know. Yes,
Speaker 1: well I'm glad I'll have to find out that kind
Speaker 1: of rash. Let me clarify, like, yeah, you know, like
Speaker 1: we didn't get an st T. Thanks, yes, oh my god. Okay,
Speaker 1: So then marriage life was lu GARDI touring, Like, did
Speaker 1: you go straight to road life? Like? Was that an adjustment?
Speaker 1: How did that all flight happen? He had just gotten signed?
Speaker 1: Were you ready for this life on the road? Well,
Speaker 1: you know what, in college when he not dated, he
Speaker 1: was always singing, So on a Friday and Saturday, he
Speaker 1: would go to like other colleges and play, and so
Speaker 1: I was used to him not being around on a
Speaker 1: Friday and Saturday, and so or either I traveled to
Speaker 1: go see where he was playing, and so I was
Speaker 1: used to all that. So that's all I've kind of
Speaker 1: ever known, you know, is that he he was a singer,
Speaker 1: and I'd be dancing alone, you know, out you know,
Speaker 1: out there, and he'd be on stage singing. So I
Speaker 1: don't really know what it's like to listen to a
Speaker 1: band and have him dance with me, because I just
Speaker 1: we just never knew that. But so I'm so used
Speaker 1: to it. It was never like a transitional thing. You're
Speaker 1: just fine where they're ready to go. Did you get
Speaker 1: on the tour bus right away or did just split time?
Speaker 1: Or how did y'all see each other? Well? I worked
Speaker 1: for because you know, he played. I mean, as you know,
Speaker 1: when aurist starts out you play for for free all
Speaker 1: time and they're always gone and you don't make any money.
Speaker 1: So I had a great job, thank thank God. And
Speaker 1: so that you know, for oh my god, I guess
Speaker 1: four years or so, you know, my my income paid
Speaker 1: our bills. But I would still, you know, make time
Speaker 1: to go out and see him. And you know, when
Speaker 1: Bo was born, he was a surprise. I got pregnant
Speaker 1: when we were married for six months. I was not
Speaker 1: expecting that at all, but um, and then we had
Speaker 1: a miscarriage. And I love that you talked about that
Speaker 1: because I also had one and I did a podcast
Speaker 1: about it. And it's like a conversation that a lot
Speaker 1: of people don't talk about, but a lot of women
Speaker 1: go through it. Everybody I know has had one. So
Speaker 1: every once I've said we had a miscarriage, like everybody
Speaker 1: I know has had one. Why is it so not
Speaker 1: talked about? I wonder. I don't know. I mean, I
Speaker 1: guess girls don't want to, you know, I don't know,
Speaker 1: because I knew that it wasn't my fault or something
Speaker 1: that I did. I guess girls just don't. You know.
Speaker 1: I don't know, that's odd because I guess it's not
Speaker 1: like a good topic to go, Hey, guess what, I
Speaker 1: had a miscarriage, because I think there's almost like it's
Speaker 1: not shame around it or something, but it's like I
Speaker 1: wanted to like say something about it because like, when
Speaker 1: I was going through it, I felt so sad and
Speaker 1: then I felt so like, I don't know, I just
Speaker 1: like I needed to say it out loud, you know,
Speaker 1: And I wanted to like say I've had this, because
Speaker 1: it is such a when you're in it, you're looking
Speaker 1: for support too, you know. And what's sad is that,
Speaker 1: you know, girls who have had one, girls take your
Speaker 1: harder than a guy does because it's not really as real.
Speaker 1: They didn't know really how to comfort me because you know,
Speaker 1: he just he didn't get it. But as girls, when
Speaker 1: you go through it and you lose it, you just
Speaker 1: there there is a loss. There is a loss, and
Speaker 1: it sucks and it hurts and you're physically hurt and
Speaker 1: you're in oh, well it's it's awful physically, um, but
Speaker 1: it does hurt and it is a loss. But gods,
Speaker 1: I don't think they know because they didn't, like they
Speaker 1: haven't felt it or seen it. Every day of course
Speaker 1: you're checking in on it, but like it's just different. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: and you and you feel like you know, I don't know,
Speaker 1: it's just but for girls it's a true laws and guys,
Speaker 1: I don't know if it's a true laws. But but
Speaker 1: almost every girl I know has had one. I can't
Speaker 1: even tell you the same thing. Like every everyone I
Speaker 1: talked to has one or has been has a friend
Speaker 1: or family member super affected by it. So were you
Speaker 1: scared to try to get pregnant again? Um? No? And
Speaker 1: what's funny is I didn't try to get pregnant the
Speaker 1: second time. It just happened. That's the way to do it.
Speaker 1: Oh my god, are you kidding me? Like, like when
Speaker 1: I tell people like sometimes I'm kidding, but I'll tell
Speaker 1: people like he and I that's the one easy part
Speaker 1: of our life if we want to get pregnant. I
Speaker 1: got pregnant instantly, And I'm like, I'm we're so fertile.
Speaker 1: I'll wash her under a separately. But I don't. But
Speaker 1: that's just what I tell us, Like, no, I gotta
Speaker 1: wash my own separately. We're I'll get pregnant, but um,
Speaker 1: but no, say he and I get pregnant very easily.
Speaker 1: But and I've I've only lost one, but it it does.
Speaker 1: It just sucks because you just it just hurts, as
Speaker 1: as as as a as a lady. It just hurts.
Speaker 1: But so here it comes now. But Bo was first,
Speaker 1: Bow was first. And now how did it happen to
Speaker 1: baby rock your world? Oh my god? Yeah, because you
Speaker 1: think you go from you think you're tired when you're alone,
Speaker 1: and then when you have a baby. And then Luke
Speaker 1: was touring and I remember so well, oh my god,
Speaker 1: I'm like, how did I do this? So Luke was
Speaker 1: touring and I was off work for like four months.
Speaker 1: Well we decided to go on the road with Luke.
Speaker 1: Well yeah, so for the first year. And I'm not
Speaker 1: making this up, I swear to god. So when this
Speaker 1: was when Luke was still brand new and and the
Speaker 1: whole band and Luke was sharing a tour bus, well
Speaker 1: there was no room you know for Caroline and a baby.
Speaker 1: Because when it was just me, I just I would
Speaker 1: sleep in the bunk with Luke, which is not easy
Speaker 1: as you know, double bunkey, especially with a big, tall guy.
Speaker 1: Because Michael, I'm like, oh my god, so you just
Speaker 1: well we all three oh god. Note, so I knew
Speaker 1: that Luke would need which which you know. This is
Speaker 1: where I think I'm a very sweet person. I was like,
Speaker 1: I was like, Okay, Luke has to sleep more because
Speaker 1: he has to sink. If he has to sink, if
Speaker 1: he gets sick, we're screwed. I would make a bed
Speaker 1: in the back of the bus, off of suitcases. Stop
Speaker 1: we I would make a bed in the back of
Speaker 1: the bus off of all the all the band guys suitcases,
Speaker 1: and hours with and I would sleep with bo and
Speaker 1: get up, oh my gout twelve times a night. And
Speaker 1: the poor band they were so awesome because I know
Speaker 1: that they heard a baby cry and half the night,
Speaker 1: but they never complained. They never said a word. They
Speaker 1: were just But yeah, we slept on suitcases, so we
Speaker 1: can both sleep anywhere. Now, any noise any place, he's
Speaker 1: probably just he's fine. Oh my gosh, Caroline. We made
Speaker 1: a palette on suitcases, so we'd pile like all the
Speaker 1: suitcases up. And there's no telling how how old his
Speaker 1: first tour bust was. It wasn't probably got it was old.
Speaker 1: But we made a palette office suitcases and put like
Speaker 1: blankets down and stuff and pillows, and that's how we
Speaker 1: slept could you ever do that again? Oh my god,
Speaker 1: I would die. I'd want those days. You can't go back. Now.
Speaker 1: I have a timper peta pillow. I just didn't a
Speaker 1: timper bed. Oh my gosh. You'll have a timper pere
Speaker 1: like I have. The one that can sit up like
Speaker 1: ours is flat, but it is game the best. Yes,
Speaker 1: I never knew. I never knew how great it was. No,
Speaker 1: it's and now you cannot go back because it molds
Speaker 1: to your body. You're in a hotel, you're in hell,
Speaker 1: You're you're like, oh, yes, with a back ache. Pillow too,
Speaker 1: Oh my god, Yes, mine's curved. I take it everywhere,
Speaker 1: like I can't sleep on anything else. No, see, you
Speaker 1: got that out of your system early on. Yeah, so
Speaker 1: so now I'm like, I did, I did it. We've
Speaker 1: heard it. I've heard this pillow and I can't sleep
Speaker 1: on anything else because I have a neck issue. Because
Speaker 1: I went on a girl's trip this past August. And
Speaker 1: you look too much working. I know, I'm horrible at working. Uh,
Speaker 1: like I'm having a seizure. But we so some friends
Speaker 1: and our so so a bunch of girls go on
Speaker 1: on this trip and you know, if you well once
Speaker 1: you have a child. If you get to get out
Speaker 1: of the house, you get to really excited. You maybe
Speaker 1: drink too much the first time. You gotta go hard,
Speaker 1: and I did. I was so excited to be at
Speaker 1: the house. When was this girl's trip? It was? Was
Speaker 1: it step September August? It was? It was for the
Speaker 1: US Open in New York. And I'm a big tennis fan,
Speaker 1: big time, so I went with my tennis team. We
Speaker 1: drank a lot because it was our first time out
Speaker 1: of the house away from all of our kids. For
Speaker 1: some reason, I'm wearing high heels. For some reason, I
Speaker 1: decided to start doing I started. I think I can
Speaker 1: tumble again. Granted I'm thirty nine, I'm not sixty. Well,
Speaker 1: I took them all for a couple of movies, for
Speaker 1: a couple of movies. The last one, no, no, no.
Speaker 1: I took gymnastics for like two years, but I mean
Speaker 1: I could do like backhand springs and stuff. So I
Speaker 1: do a backflip on a bed. I landed, thinking okay,
Speaker 1: I still got it. I go on the in the
Speaker 1: hallway and start doing like you know, round dolphs and
Speaker 1: what oh? I slipped on the last one, land on
Speaker 1: my neck. It's still really messed up. Oh no, are
Speaker 1: you like going to anyone like a chiropractor or anything. Yes,
Speaker 1: I'm still in physical therapy, but Caroline, but so that's
Speaker 1: why I have to have this certain pillow. I'm like, no,
Speaker 1: I'm not going to headaches all the time. No, I don't.
Speaker 1: It's just like, can you only turn so far? Yeah? No,
Speaker 1: I didn't ruin the rest of your trip. Oh hell no,
Speaker 1: I just I just went with it. I took Adville
Speaker 1: and I kept going, like, listen, I was going to
Speaker 1: see Roger play. Damn it. I was not gonna, you know,
Speaker 1: a spinal cord injury. I can barely walk up and
Speaker 1: put it on a neck brace. But I'm gonna have
Speaker 1: my I had a neck brace. I didn't. I swear.
Speaker 1: It's the worst picture ever. Give my walker my shard, nay,
Speaker 1: and I'm gonna be fine. I looked like mac Doe
Speaker 1: walking around with this cheated jacket and a neck brace. Okay,
Speaker 1: nobody slowed not you're a good time. But I had
Speaker 1: a glass of wine, so I was okay. And Adville
Speaker 1: so and then you're ready to rock, I guess it's true.
Speaker 1: Oh well, okay, So then bo came first. Then second, TAKEO,
Speaker 1: what great names Bow and Tate. I know, Bow's named
Speaker 1: after my my so bow has always been a name
Speaker 1: in my family. A boy Er is my maiden name,
Speaker 1: and so bow has always been a name in my family.
Speaker 1: And Tate is named after Luke's sister's best friend when
Speaker 1: she was young. I love that. So that's so when
Speaker 1: did then, when did the cousins come live with you guys?
Speaker 1: So Um Luke's sister Unfortunately, I guess May will be
Speaker 1: thirteen years his sister passed away unexpected. I mean just
Speaker 1: it was like the worst day of my life, Um,
Speaker 1: of of of all of our lives. She was healthy, beautiful,
Speaker 1: the funny, she's like the best mom to ever walk
Speaker 1: this earth. It's just the best thing ever. She's just
Speaker 1: she was just taken from us with and there's and
Speaker 1: we never found any reason, but she was just the
Speaker 1: most awesome person ever. Um. And then I guess it's
Speaker 1: been four and a half years. Their their dad a Lee,
Speaker 1: who was one of my best friends. He had a
Speaker 1: massive heart attack in front of me until um and
Speaker 1: he was gone. So that day kind of that that
Speaker 1: was the other equally worst day of our life. But um,
Speaker 1: so after that, that's so Till he moved in with
Speaker 1: us immediately. And the girls, um, the oldest, so the
Speaker 1: oldest was in college in Athens, Georgia, and so she
Speaker 1: she moved home to be with her sister who was
Speaker 1: a junior in high school. And her sister wanted to
Speaker 1: finish out high school with her friends totally, and we
Speaker 1: understood that. So she lived with some um friends of
Speaker 1: ours there. And so the girls, you know, they're back
Speaker 1: and forth constantly because they're still in college, but they're
Speaker 1: back and forth constantly. But Till has been with us
Speaker 1: full time ever since him. Okay, yeah, well gosh, so
Speaker 1: have y'all dealt with tragedies that? Do you think that's
Speaker 1: why humor has a big part of your life Because
Speaker 1: I feel like you have to, y'all when I look
Speaker 1: at us failing, y'all brace it with so much love
Speaker 1: in like living in the moment what you have to.
Speaker 1: Because we've lost Luke's brother, who I never met because
Speaker 1: he was killing a car crush and not ninety six. Um,
Speaker 1: you know, Luke, he lost his brother, we lost his sister,
Speaker 1: we lost our brother in law, and then we lost
Speaker 1: our niece Brett, who was seven months and so who
Speaker 1: did Brett belonged to? My brother and my sister in law? Okay,
Speaker 1: so Bo your brother. Yeah, and that's where you started
Speaker 1: Brett's bomb. Okay, now what how did what was her?
Speaker 1: She had a rare illness? Um, well she didn't. It
Speaker 1: wasn't rare. So my brother and Ellen, who's Brett's mom. Um,
Speaker 1: she's the coolest person ever, like truly, like the coolest person.
Speaker 1: Like God couldn't have given me a better sister in law. Um,
Speaker 1: they tried for years to get pregnant and they just
Speaker 1: couldn't do it. And but we don't know why. Um,
Speaker 1: they did I v F and got pregnant with Brett. Well,
Speaker 1: they found out that Brett was gonna, you know, be
Speaker 1: a Downs baby, and so we wrapped her head around that.
Speaker 1: We didn't care. We just wanted her here. And then
Speaker 1: we found out that Brett had a heart condition that
Speaker 1: would require surgery. And so Brett, you know, we knew
Speaker 1: that it was going to be surgery, but it was
Speaker 1: supposed to be easily fixed. So Brett had surgery when
Speaker 1: she was I guess, Oh my gosh, she was super young.
Speaker 1: Well she I guess was Brett three months. I think
Speaker 1: she was three months when you had her heart surgery.
Speaker 1: Something about Brett's body, they just it just didn't take.
Speaker 1: So she stayed in the hospital, Ellen and bow In
Speaker 1: Hospital for over a hundred days, and I'd go up
Speaker 1: there almost every day just to see them and just
Speaker 1: hold Brett's hand and sing to her, which I have
Speaker 1: a horrible singing voice, and she stared at me like, please,
Speaker 1: for love of God, stop, just hold my hand. But
Speaker 1: um a't seven months she was taken. M How did
Speaker 1: you all, how did you guys decide to do the foundation? Well,
Speaker 1: you know when um I did so. I never met
Speaker 1: Luke's brother who was killed in a car accident, and
Speaker 1: he was everybody tells me he's just like my brother Bo. Well,
Speaker 1: when Kelly and Lee passed, we were so directly involved
Speaker 1: with like with the kids and helping with the family,
Speaker 1: that we didn't have time. I mean like, like you're
Speaker 1: you're so involved with the is that that's your whole focus. Well,
Speaker 1: when Brett passed away, all I was doing was watching
Speaker 1: my my brother and my sister in law suffer and
Speaker 1: I couldn't help, and so um the way of coping,
Speaker 1: I was like, Okay, Well, I promised Brett when she
Speaker 1: was about a month old. I promised her a white
Speaker 1: pony because I was like, she was the first girl
Speaker 1: in her family. I was like, I said, I won't
Speaker 1: buy you what everyone, I won't buy you a white pony.
Speaker 1: So I decided that I was gonna follow up with
Speaker 1: that and I was gonna get her. I was like,
Speaker 1: damn it, I'm buying her a white pony. So a
Speaker 1: white pony which I adopted, which ironically, this white pony
Speaker 1: comes from a rescue place in Jackson, Tennessee. Oh my gosh,
Speaker 1: So I found this pony. I'm like, I mean, that's Jesus,
Speaker 1: come on if that's so. One pony turned into about
Speaker 1: twenty three animals, and so now we have Brett Sparntarn.
Speaker 1: It's it's the most it's just awesome. So it's it's
Speaker 1: full of small animals where you know kids with special
Speaker 1: needs or Saint Jude or sick children, they come out
Speaker 1: and they and they played play with them and they
Speaker 1: get to come hang and so that's that's just re
Speaker 1: enjoy animals being out there in nature with them. How
Speaker 1: has that blessed your life? Like, what has that what
Speaker 1: has that experience been like having Brett's barking. Oh my god.
Speaker 1: I love it because, you know, I get to be
Speaker 1: like here, like in the city. But then when I
Speaker 1: go out to her barn, I'm in boots and I'm
Speaker 1: in I'm throwing hay out and I'm feeding the animals
Speaker 1: and I'm brushing them and I'm getting I'm getting literally
Speaker 1: shipped all over me. But they animals, I think, have
Speaker 1: done more for our family than we will ever do
Speaker 1: for Housel. For them, well, I mean, they've just they've
Speaker 1: helped to heal so many people. And they're so funny,
Speaker 1: like each animal has their own personality and I know
Speaker 1: each one like how they're different. But can you feel
Speaker 1: the healing happening out there? Oh yeah yeah. And my
Speaker 1: kids act like when they get out there, Oh, they
Speaker 1: love it because the animals are so tame and sweet
Speaker 1: and they love it. And and the favorite are Margot
Speaker 1: and Todd are kangaroos. That's their favorite because they're like
Speaker 1: because how many kids get to go pettit and feed
Speaker 1: up a kangaroo? Truly, you know, And they're and they're awesome.
Speaker 1: But and my ultimate goal is to someday build a
Speaker 1: public breat Brett Sparren because it's it's on her farm,
Speaker 1: so we do have to be careful about who comes
Speaker 1: out here. But it's it's I don't know, I just
Speaker 1: I love it. It's just everything about it is peaceful.
Speaker 1: Has it helped your brother and sister in law. Yeah,
Speaker 1: just being able to pour into something so special in
Speaker 1: her memory, to help other people and to see her
Speaker 1: name because we promised Brett that she would never be
Speaker 1: forgotten and that we'd always talk about her and that
Speaker 1: we we're gonna do some big things and we are.
Speaker 1: We're working, We're I mean SERI is like we work
Speaker 1: our ass off to make to not let a family
Speaker 1: lose a child when they don't have to. Yes, I
Speaker 1: feel like you have this amazing balance of like knowing
Speaker 1: how to have so much humor and then you're so
Speaker 1: deep and so real too. But it's like you just
Speaker 1: like straddle this line of like handling life so well.
Speaker 1: Oh trust me, there are times when I just lose
Speaker 1: my ship and I'm just I just go sit like
Speaker 1: in the shower and cry, because I mean, everybut everybody's human,
Speaker 1: I mean everybody. You know. I struggle with Luke being
Speaker 1: gone all the time and kids everywhere, and you know
Speaker 1: how to make everybody happy, and you know how to
Speaker 1: make how to make this charity go well. And I mean,
Speaker 1: you know, I mean it's it's hard to be a
Speaker 1: long a lot oh, but I just look at you
Speaker 1: and I'm just like, used me our goals because it's
Speaker 1: it's the way that you embrace your journey and the
Speaker 1: way that you have embraced all of your journey. It's
Speaker 1: so inspiring to see because you have so much joy
Speaker 1: that comes out of you even when you've had to
Speaker 1: deal with like really tough situations. From what it appears
Speaker 1: to me, it's like you always find a way to
Speaker 1: make it fun and to find the joy and then
Speaker 1: to make something beautiful out of something sad. Well, you
Speaker 1: have to because like our family thing is, you can
Speaker 1: take two pazz in life, one of being bitter and
Speaker 1: angry or one of like, you know what, I'm gonna
Speaker 1: We're gonna make this. I'm gonna find the happiness in this,
Speaker 1: and we're gonna because we have to because we're living
Speaker 1: for five kids, three of which have lost a mom
Speaker 1: and a dad, and we're like, you know what, now
Speaker 1: we're gonna make or try to make everybody happy and
Speaker 1: you know, just make the best of something that's horrible.
Speaker 1: But that's that's that's our goal. And it's not perfect.
Speaker 1: Trust me. He and I, me and Luke can fight
Speaker 1: like you can't even believe that we always, but we
Speaker 1: make up very well. We do. So everybody's human. So
Speaker 1: you said something, you said, he's to a happy marriage something,
Speaker 1: laugh a lot and selective hearing. Yes, god, well he's
Speaker 1: got that. I'll laugh a lot, and he has selective hearing.
Speaker 1: I feel like all men have selective and I'm like,
Speaker 1: are you not listening? I'm like, how can I do
Speaker 1: that to Michael? Like he completely blocks out things that
Speaker 1: I say. I think it's also like an artist thing
Speaker 1: in them too, or that's what they say. The artsy
Speaker 1: ones are very like, oh, come on, your dude, come on,
Speaker 1: you just don't want to hear me. You're just gonna
Speaker 1: act you didn't hear it, and then you can play dubs.
Speaker 1: So then it's all fine, and then I'll end up
Speaker 1: doing whatever I need to talk about anyway, I'll just
Speaker 1: take care of it. But if you throw a plate
Speaker 1: at them, they'll they'll listen real quick. That's that because
Speaker 1: they're digital. Sorry that Ron pan just slipped out of
Speaker 1: my hand. I'm gonna try that, but you gotta be
Speaker 1: subtle about it. A gu goes in accident, don't do
Speaker 1: a cast iron because that really hurts. Kidding. I've never
Speaker 1: thrown a cast iron at him, not yet. It's bound
Speaker 1: to happen at some point. So what are your favorite
Speaker 1: things to do? Like hobbies, tennis? I do love tennis, um,
Speaker 1: but else the favorite thing to do as a family.
Speaker 1: Oh my gosh, I was a family. Oh lord, we'll
Speaker 1: go Lord, we watch movies, we play games. Um Like
Speaker 1: I'm always loving costumes, like all things that could have
Speaker 1: a costume. Holidays, y'all are in them. Yes, if it's Christmas,
Speaker 1: you're gonna be in the most pimped out, degraded Onesie Halloween,
Speaker 1: you're gonna be have like a blow up dinosaur costume.
Speaker 1: Well this thing about Halloween, like I never did the
Speaker 1: you know how some people are like Halloween. Let's let's
Speaker 1: be slutty. Yeah, I want to look completely stupid. I
Speaker 1: feel like, were you in like a giant cow thing
Speaker 1: that like you almost can walk in the room because
Speaker 1: it was so big. I've done all that and then
Speaker 1: I actually had I did where as a joke once
Speaker 1: and it's not on Instagram, it's not anywhere I do
Speaker 1: have pictures, but I don't like an inflatable penis. It
Speaker 1: was great because it was so funny, but I couldn't.
Speaker 1: You know, there's certain things that you can't put out
Speaker 1: there because you'll get a lot of flag back. Have
Speaker 1: you got some flack every everybody does? What do they
Speaker 1: give you? Flag four? To me? Like, I just live
Speaker 1: for your videos, especially when as you pranking or you
Speaker 1: and Leclair, like, I just cannot wait for those to
Speaker 1: show up. Oh my god. Um, I don't care who
Speaker 1: you are, You're gonna get somebody's gonna hate on you.
Speaker 1: That's just how it is. Um, do you just let
Speaker 1: that ride off you or does it get It gets
Speaker 1: to me because it sucks because when you know that
Speaker 1: you're trying to be nice and a good person or
Speaker 1: just and somebody wants to say, like a girl wants.
Speaker 1: I'm guessing it was a girl, but um um, I
Speaker 1: don't address wants and somebody commented which and that's what sucks.
Speaker 1: Like it's like where people have the assholes but say
Speaker 1: something and they so I had on this this um
Speaker 1: dress wants and it was it was short and this
Speaker 1: whoever comment has said, um, quit wearing short dresses. Your
Speaker 1: your knees, tell your age. I'm like, and so then
Speaker 1: you started staring at your knees and you're like, well
Speaker 1: they are not a little bit wrinkly. But I'm like,
Speaker 1: oh my gosh. Yeah, she told me I was too
Speaker 1: old to be wearing this dress because my knee is
Speaker 1: still my age. I'm like, well, thanks, halfer, oh my gosh.
Speaker 1: And it's just thanks Tina whatever her name was. I
Speaker 1: feel I hate to hate, but I'm always like, Okay,
Speaker 1: if someone is going to spend the time to write
Speaker 1: a hateful message, how sad is their life? And then
Speaker 1: I feel sad for them, and I'm like, I feel
Speaker 1: bad that they are living in such a miserable place
Speaker 1: that they want to spread hate because it has to be.
Speaker 1: It happens all the time, it happens to everybody. Or
Speaker 1: they'll ask you, oh my god, are you pregnant? Like
Speaker 1: if you're not, no girl, there are few girls in
Speaker 1: this world who are completely flat. Come on, and a
Speaker 1: couple of girls like once goes, oh my, are you pregnant?
Speaker 1: I see a bulge? And my in my response was no,
Speaker 1: I just truly love ice cream and French fries. It
Speaker 1: wasn't even a big if it wasn't even a big bump,
Speaker 1: I'm like, damn. I'm like Caroline, if someone thinks you're pregnant,
Speaker 1: and what's gonna have the rest of us? You were
Speaker 1: in you have to everybody. I'm like, what the why
Speaker 1: the hell do do people have to be so hard
Speaker 1: on I don't know. I have never once, ever, ever, ever,
Speaker 1: ever ever posted anything just mean like, oh my god,
Speaker 1: are you pregnant? No, well, it's look old. It's that
Speaker 1: old thing I heard it in church, but it's true.
Speaker 1: It's like hurt people hurt people. You know, we're not
Speaker 1: all hurt people who are like suffering, and but you
Speaker 1: don't have to be an assid or they want to
Speaker 1: make other misery loves company. Yeah, well I don't want
Speaker 1: to do it around here. So I love that. I
Speaker 1: love that you're just bright and light and fun and
Speaker 1: joy and laughs and all that. So were you? I? Well,
Speaker 1: thank you. I get emotional. I'm like, I'm an emotional mess,
Speaker 1: Like have you ever done the angiogram? Oh my god,
Speaker 1: somebody told me about that last week. You've got to
Speaker 1: say I've got it. It isn't like a hundred and
Speaker 1: fifty questions or something, and it tells you and you
Speaker 1: and Luke shuld but actually your whole family should take it,
Speaker 1: and it tells you so much about your personality. Well,
Speaker 1: I'm four, which is a romantic and so like I
Speaker 1: love love and like I love a great story and passion.
Speaker 1: But I can just fall to the bottom of a
Speaker 1: whole emotional hole and just be caught up in my feelings.
Speaker 1: And luckily, Michael, the seven and sevens are like what's
Speaker 1: the seven happy? They always kind of avoid pain. They're
Speaker 1: always finding the good time. That sounds like Luke, yeah,
Speaker 1: probably always like having a good time, never let anything
Speaker 1: get too sad, like always because Michael Doult wasn't tragedy
Speaker 1: to his brother died of cancer and was really young,
Speaker 1: and then his family ended up not surviving it, like
Speaker 1: with a divorce and everything. So like he at a
Speaker 1: young age learned how to cope with a lot of pain,
Speaker 1: and is has always been like finding the joy. Finding
Speaker 1: well that's a healthy outlet, because I mean it can
Speaker 1: go the other way. And so that's why we try to,
Speaker 1: you know, you try to find the fun and happiness
Speaker 1: because it can go the other way really quickly, and
Speaker 1: you got to realize, like you're here, life is happening,
Speaker 1: and so in honor of your family or your loved
Speaker 1: when it's like you don't want to live for them too,
Speaker 1: you know, and you have to because life we know
Speaker 1: ulto well, life does not stop. It doesn't matter what's happened.
Speaker 1: Life doesn't stop. And you have to. You gotta pick
Speaker 1: yourself up and no matter how horrible it is, you
Speaker 1: have to keep going. And and that's what sucks, is like,
Speaker 1: but it is also okay to have a bad day,
Speaker 1: to feel it and to go, you know, I just
Speaker 1: don't feel like dealing with this today, yes, and then
Speaker 1: all the way down and that's okay. I have to
Speaker 1: let myself do that, Like if I'm feeling something like
Speaker 1: really emotional, like with the miscarriage and like actually randomly
Speaker 1: my dad almost died this Christmas. He had a heart
Speaker 1: attack and like we almost lost someone. Was very very traumatic,
Speaker 1: but it came out of it. But it's like I
Speaker 1: have to let myself break all the way down, like
Speaker 1: I can't. I can't get back to myself until I
Speaker 1: and that's and that's fine, I think that's healthy. I
Speaker 1: think that's fine. I mean, like it's okay to hurt
Speaker 1: because everybody everybody does. I don't care who you are.
Speaker 1: Everybody has something and it's okay. What's your secret for
Speaker 1: running a big household like this and keeping everybody in
Speaker 1: line and keeping it all going? Oh God, I don't
Speaker 1: have a secret. Prayer, Jesus and wine. That's about it.
Speaker 1: I don't know. I do have help, though, when I
Speaker 1: have some of the most awesome help ever. But um,
Speaker 1: there there is no secret. Every day is different. Because
Speaker 1: every day is different. You don't know what you're gonna get,
Speaker 1: especially when kids are involved. You just do it. You
Speaker 1: just get up and do it. I love it. I
Speaker 1: could talk to you all day, but I'm gonna wrap
Speaker 1: up because I know you have a million things to do,
Speaker 1: and I mean, obviously you gotta get um. I always
Speaker 1: like to leave. I enjoyed it. You're amazing, You're just
Speaker 1: so credible. I'm so glad that's like talking to I've
Speaker 1: honestly been in all of you for a long time.
Speaker 1: Please don't know, there's nothing to be at all of it,
Speaker 1: but that makes it even better because you're so real
Speaker 1: and like honest and hilarious your humor. I was like,
Speaker 1: I gotta I told Michael's like, I gotta work on
Speaker 1: my humor and I want to be more funny, Like
Speaker 1: I want to, I's gonna do some pranks. I love
Speaker 1: one of my band wives who's married to the bass
Speaker 1: player in A Thousand Horses. She's hilarious like you like,
Speaker 1: and she pranks everyone. She has a file on her
Speaker 1: phone she has pictures of all of us, and that's
Speaker 1: terrible pictures you could ever imagine. And she'll just like
Speaker 1: post them out every now and then. See that's so
Speaker 1: fun because you know therest pictures you could ever image.
Speaker 1: What's funny is like everybody. I don't care how pretty
Speaker 1: anybody is. Everybody can be ugly. And that one's so funny.
Speaker 1: You're like, oh damn, this picture for a laugh. She'll
Speaker 1: do anything for a laugh at anybody's expense. I love
Speaker 1: that she that yeah, she's not gonna yeah, but I
Speaker 1: just love that. And I'm just like, oh my god,
Speaker 1: if I could be one thing, I wish I could
Speaker 1: be funnier, But I can appreciate funny people. So that's
Speaker 1: why finding I'm a good funny sidekick, because like the
Speaker 1: person who's funny. Like I'll be there like egging it
Speaker 1: on the la, but I'm not really the one who's
Speaker 1: able to instigate it. I just don't have that. Oh
Speaker 1: I can. I love to be in the room and
Speaker 1: a part of it and laughing because I just it's
Speaker 1: to me, humor is the greatest medicine. It is. It's
Speaker 1: laugh until you cry. You can laugh until you cry
Speaker 1: into your laugh and I'm when she's laughing until you cry.
Speaker 1: Ere laughing. But hey, if you're wont to prank anybody,
Speaker 1: call me. Okay, I'm already I really do. Oh my god. Okay.
Speaker 1: So I like to leave every interview with leave your Light.
Speaker 1: So obviously your whole life is inspiring, and everything you've
Speaker 1: talked about it has been inspirational, But just what's a
Speaker 1: message you want to send to people? Like, just to
Speaker 1: inspire people listening to this, if you had like a
Speaker 1: piece of advice or something you wanted to pass on
Speaker 1: to someone maybe who's you know in a hard spot
Speaker 1: or something like what what's your word of encouragement that
Speaker 1: you want to give somebodey Um. There are a couple
Speaker 1: of things that I I'm trying to think there are
Speaker 1: a couple of things that I tell my kids every day. Um,
Speaker 1: I tell them to always go and make a person
Speaker 1: smile every day. Be nice, Go make a person smile.
Speaker 1: And then the ultimate advice, some of the best advice
Speaker 1: that I ever got, was it's not I guess okay,
Speaker 1: well this yeah, anyway, it's it's not our our job
Speaker 1: to understand why God does what he does. It's our
Speaker 1: job to accept it and make the best out of it. Wow.
Speaker 1: And just that's what you have to do. Someday we'll
Speaker 1: we'll understand everything, but we're not. I mean, he's not
Speaker 1: going to let's understand everything or right right right now
Speaker 1: in this life. So just take what he gives you,
Speaker 1: as hard as it is, and it's sometimes it's great
Speaker 1: and sometimes sucks so bad, but she gotta take it
Speaker 1: and try to make the best out of it. That's
Speaker 1: truly inspiring. I love that. Thank you. I don't know,
Speaker 1: I'm not very deep, but as deep as I get, Caroline,
Speaker 1: I'm so shallow, No'm kidding whatever, you are so deep
Speaker 1: and you and you also though like you know how
Speaker 1: to make joy out of painful things, which is a
Speaker 1: true gift, truly. Oh, thank you, Thank you so much
Speaker 1: for joining, Thank you for coming, Thank you, I appreciate
Speaker 1: this is fine. And we got the same name, so
Speaker 1: obviously we're Caroline's are a handful. My best brand growing up,
Speaker 1: her name was Caroline too. We were always the Caroline.
Speaker 1: See I never knew I knew one of other Caroline ever.
Speaker 1: But hey, Caroline, are you handful? But they're good people?
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, oh yeah, we're the best. Okay, thank you.
Speaker 1: I know you loved that episode. Was it not incredible?
Speaker 1: How inspiring is Caroline? She is a true earth angel.
Speaker 1: I love her her to pieces and I'm so glad
Speaker 1: to know her, and I'm so thankful that she shared
Speaker 1: her story just to uplift everyone who heard it, because
Speaker 1: I know you heard that and felt moved in your soul.
Speaker 1: There's no way you couldn't. Next week, I have Cassie Kelly,
Speaker 1: who is the wife of Charles Kelly from Lady Antebellum.
Speaker 1: Cassie is an incredible soul. She is beautiful, she's a fashionista.
Speaker 1: She has incredible style. She also has the hugest heart.
Speaker 1: We talked all about her relationship with Charles, their journey
Speaker 1: to their sweet son Ward, her business that she started,
Speaker 1: Woman easta and how it turned into a huge business
Speaker 1: that she ended up selling all about her life. It's
Speaker 1: so incredible. She's such an uplifting person. So get excited
Speaker 1: for Cassie Kelly next week. We'll see you then