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Be sure 0:00:57.080 --> 0:01:01.800 to tell them that Bobby Bones told you all about them, 0:01:01.800 --> 0:01:05.440 all right, Welcome to episode thirty one of the Bobby Cast. 0:01:06.080 --> 0:01:08.000 And then this the first one, first second one of 0:01:08.000 --> 0:01:12.320 the year, right, second of year. Marion Morris is here. Hi, 0:01:12.400 --> 0:01:16.080 May finally, good to have you at the house, beautiful house. 0:01:16.160 --> 0:01:18.200 Oh thanks. I put you off for a while because 0:01:19.600 --> 0:01:22.440 you're too good to come in for a while. I 0:01:22.520 --> 0:01:25.039 felt like, I don't know about interview, Stal, but I thought, 0:01:25.080 --> 0:01:26.800 you know, I want to hold off because it was 0:01:26.880 --> 0:01:29.600 right when you were blowing up and this last year, 0:01:29.640 --> 0:01:31.399 and it's weird because I want to go back for 0:01:31.440 --> 0:01:33.080 a second. But this last year feels like it has 0:01:33.120 --> 0:01:37.560 been a tornado of just the tornado of Marion. Does 0:01:37.600 --> 0:01:40.399 it feel like that to you as well? Yeah? It does. 0:01:40.480 --> 0:01:45.479 And I'm still processing, even after the holidays, still processing 0:01:45.520 --> 0:01:49.400 everything that had happened last year because it is too 0:01:49.400 --> 0:01:53.080 many things I think to be in one window of time. 0:01:53.160 --> 0:01:57.120 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 0:01:59.240 --> 0:02:02.200 feel like so much crazy stuff happened. If we were 0:02:02.200 --> 0:02:05.720 sitting in these chairs a year ago today, so January 0:02:05.760 --> 0:02:09.119 of and I would say, hey, what is your goal 0:02:09.280 --> 0:02:11.760 this year? Like a year ago, what would you have 0:02:11.760 --> 0:02:16.200 said your goal was a year ago? Well, a year ago, Um, 0:02:16.320 --> 0:02:18.280 I just put Church out like it had just gone 0:02:18.280 --> 0:02:21.720 to radio. So that's just like a crazy concept. But 0:02:22.000 --> 0:02:25.000 I guess my hope a year ago was I hope 0:02:25.000 --> 0:02:28.800 people like my music enough for me to put this 0:02:28.880 --> 0:02:32.600 record out, because it's all really contingent on that um. 0:02:32.880 --> 0:02:36.320 And luckily, you know, people really responded to my Church, 0:02:36.360 --> 0:02:40.320 and I had Hero already waiting in the wings, and 0:02:40.400 --> 0:02:43.520 once it started to pick up traction, Um, we got 0:02:43.600 --> 0:02:51.519 an album at date and that was just an album. Yea. 0:02:51.880 --> 0:02:53.800 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 0:02:56.919 --> 0:02:59.680 or five songs kind of and you did that, but yeah, um, 0:03:00.080 --> 0:03:01.959 but to get an album, that's a big deal because 0:03:01.960 --> 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 --> 0:03:09.200 many friends in this town that have had record deals 0:03:09.280 --> 0:03:12.480 where they're so good and they've made these full records, 0:03:12.520 --> 0:03:14.480 but then they get shelved and they never come out 0:03:14.560 --> 0:03:16.480 or see the light of day. So there's always that 0:03:16.880 --> 0:03:20.480 fear that like, oh, of this doesn't get bought enough 0:03:20.639 --> 0:03:23.160 or spun enough on the radio, I won't get to 0:03:23.240 --> 0:03:27.920 share the larger story, the whole story with everyone. And 0:03:28.040 --> 0:03:31.799 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 --> 0:03:43.200 signed my label deal, so it was sitting for a 0:03:43.240 --> 0:03:45.840 while and I was just like, Okay, my church is 0:03:45.880 --> 0:03:48.840 going to be the first hello to the universe, I think. 0:03:48.880 --> 0:03:51.320 And then, um was that part of the deal when 0:03:51.360 --> 0:03:54.160 you signed with the label, like I'm coming and I 0:03:54.200 --> 0:03:56.000 want this to be the first song because you have 0:03:56.040 --> 0:03:58.240 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 --> 0:04:05.960 you don't have to be developed or anything. A lot 0:04:06.000 --> 0:04:09.000 of baby artists they have to they're signed, and they 0:04:09.000 --> 0:04:11.080 don't do these deals so much anymore because it's just not, 0:04:11.640 --> 0:04:15.720 um financially great for the label anymore. But um yeah, 0:04:15.880 --> 0:04:19.000 if you are already developed and you have like a 0:04:19.080 --> 0:04:22.240 concept and you're just really solid in your artist rye, 0:04:22.320 --> 0:04:23.800 you don't need to be told what to do or 0:04:23.839 --> 0:04:26.560 what to where, or how to speak or how to sound. 0:04:26.880 --> 0:04:32.320 Um yeah, it's a much less riskier um investment for them. 0:04:32.520 --> 0:04:34.440 So my Church was going to be your first single 0:04:34.520 --> 0:04:38.040 before you signed with anyone in your mind? Yeah, yeah, 0:04:38.320 --> 0:04:39.840 Like the day I wrote it, I kind of knew 0:04:39.880 --> 0:04:42.640 that was the one. So what if you would have said, Okay, 0:04:42.640 --> 0:04:44.280 we're here and they're like, you know, we're gonna hold off, 0:04:44.800 --> 0:04:47.599 We're gonna go with drunk girls, don't cry, or they did. 0:04:47.920 --> 0:04:51.720 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 --> 0:04:58.600 on My Church. Um, I think it was so long ago. 0:04:58.760 --> 0:05:00.600 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 0:05:06.760 --> 0:05:09.400 later and just get the like the party song out 0:05:09.400 --> 0:05:11.800 of the way. You know a lot of artists, like 0:05:11.880 --> 0:05:14.799 their labels do that where they'll put the the fun, 0:05:14.880 --> 0:05:18.200 good time song out and then okay, now people know 0:05:18.279 --> 0:05:20.600 who you are, Now we can show them how credible 0:05:20.640 --> 0:05:23.799 you are with this song. And um, I just didn't 0:05:23.800 --> 0:05:26.400 really feel like I wanted to go that route because 0:05:26.920 --> 0:05:29.400 it didn't make sense to me. I was like, if 0:05:29.480 --> 0:05:32.600 honestly the odds are against me, I'm a new artist 0:05:32.680 --> 0:05:35.040 and I'm a girl. So if I'm going to come 0:05:35.040 --> 0:05:38.520 out with one and one only because this could very 0:05:38.560 --> 0:05:41.920 easily die, Um, I'm going to do the song that 0:05:42.640 --> 0:05:46.280 means the most to me and says all I want 0:05:46.320 --> 0:05:48.520 to say if I only got one shot with a song. 0:05:49.160 --> 0:05:51.080 So a year ago, I say, Okay, what's your goal 0:05:51.200 --> 0:05:59.200 this year? Um? I think what we're here one year 0:05:59.240 --> 0:06:01.240 ago right now, Mary, and what's your goal this year? 0:06:01.279 --> 0:06:03.440 You're you're a brand new Warters, you get nothing. Song 0:06:03.520 --> 0:06:05.760 just came out, like, what's your goal this year? I 0:06:05.800 --> 0:06:13.279 think my goal was just for people to understand my 0:06:13.360 --> 0:06:18.839 perspective because I don't know. I that sounds very vague, 0:06:18.960 --> 0:06:24.320 but I just wanted to, I guess, test the waters 0:06:24.360 --> 0:06:27.200 and see if you know, just being an artist was 0:06:27.240 --> 0:06:30.320 even going to be working for anyone outside of my 0:06:30.320 --> 0:06:33.800 own head. It's like, ah, and I hate to, you know, 0:06:33.839 --> 0:06:36.120 put so much stock into what others think, but it's 0:06:36.160 --> 0:06:39.279 like that that's what you do. It's like your music, 0:06:39.400 --> 0:06:42.919 but the reason you write it is so other people 0:06:42.960 --> 0:06:46.680 can relate to it and have that experience with you 0:06:46.800 --> 0:06:49.080 and as a human being. And so I just hoped 0:06:49.120 --> 0:06:52.880 a year ago, God, I I hope someone likes this. 0:06:53.960 --> 0:06:56.520 I like it, but I hope someone else gets it too. 0:06:56.800 --> 0:06:58.760 What was your perspective if you say you wanted your 0:06:58.800 --> 0:07:02.040 perspective out there, I don't know. I mean I think 0:07:02.360 --> 0:07:05.159 what I was missing from music, especially like from the 0:07:05.200 --> 0:07:12.280 female outlook, was just um an independence. And I I'm 0:07:12.320 --> 0:07:15.000 not trying to be like a dude basher by any means. 0:07:15.080 --> 0:07:19.000 I adore love songs and I've written hundreds of them, 0:07:19.040 --> 0:07:21.600 but I was just at the time of this record 0:07:21.640 --> 0:07:24.559 being written, I wasn't really in love. I was coming 0:07:24.560 --> 0:07:29.360 out of a really bad relationship, and um, I think 0:07:29.840 --> 0:07:32.280 as a woman, I just wanted to be inspired when 0:07:32.280 --> 0:07:34.360 I turned the radio on and here like a woman 0:07:34.440 --> 0:07:37.880 singing back to me, not about a relationship for once. 0:07:38.000 --> 0:07:40.920 You know it's and that's fine if they are, but 0:07:40.960 --> 0:07:43.760 I feel like the diversity is sort of lacking where 0:07:43.800 --> 0:07:45.600 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 0:07:48.840 --> 0:07:51.960 about getting drunk or or a fight you had with 0:07:52.000 --> 0:07:54.119 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. And I just, um, 0:07:59.800 --> 0:08:02.160 I I was obviously was like very bitter back then 0:08:02.280 --> 0:08:04.760 thinking that, but I still think that today, and I'm 0:08:04.760 --> 0:08:07.400 in a relationship with someone I really love and gets 0:08:07.440 --> 0:08:11.679 what I'm doing and isn't threatened by a powerful women 0:08:11.800 --> 0:08:17.200 or strength or success. I still crave that perspective from 0:08:17.200 --> 0:08:20.720 a female, um, where it's just not about love, it 0:08:20.800 --> 0:08:24.800 could be about anything. Um yeah, I think that's the 0:08:24.840 --> 0:08:29.920 perspective I wanted to bring to the table is um, 0:08:29.960 --> 0:08:32.480 you know, I'm not like I don't have my sight 0:08:32.559 --> 0:08:34.920 set on marriage or like having a baby right now. 0:08:35.000 --> 0:08:37.440 It's like I'm in my mid twenties and that's a 0:08:37.480 --> 0:08:42.600 really special time because uh the generational pull from like, 0:08:42.760 --> 0:08:45.080 you know, when my mom was my age, she when 0:08:45.080 --> 0:08:46.840 she was my age now she already had a five 0:08:46.920 --> 0:08:50.280 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 0:08:53.679 --> 0:08:56.800 like I'm rambling. I I just want to do all 0:08:56.840 --> 0:09:04.079 you want of Um yeah, I just I forget where 0:09:04.080 --> 0:09:05.480 I was going. I feel like I led myself down 0:09:05.480 --> 0:09:08.800 a rabbit trail. But um yeah, I just I feel 0:09:08.840 --> 0:09:11.720 like that's the perspective I was craving and the perspective 0:09:11.760 --> 0:09:14.440 I thought I was bringing at the table. You're getting 0:09:14.480 --> 0:09:16.360 a lot of you, and you are getting it now 0:09:16.400 --> 0:09:19.360 a lot of females, even mails that are going to 0:09:19.480 --> 0:09:23.679 use you as something in their life to aim toward 0:09:24.640 --> 0:09:28.120 or to have you as a peer. Who for you 0:09:28.120 --> 0:09:30.880 are those important peers that have kind of put you 0:09:30.920 --> 0:09:33.560 in the place where you are now. Yeah, Um, I 0:09:33.600 --> 0:09:36.400 have so many, but to sort of like rattle off 0:09:37.080 --> 0:09:40.760 some like current ones that I'm like very inspired by 0:09:40.880 --> 0:09:44.160 right now. I mean Miranda Lambert. She put out a 0:09:44.280 --> 0:09:46.520 weight of these Wings and I think it's incredible. And 0:09:46.679 --> 0:09:49.680 I have always really, in I guess, looked up to 0:09:49.679 --> 0:09:51.360 her in a way because you know, she's like a 0:09:51.360 --> 0:09:55.480 fellow Texan and she's just a badass, and she is 0:09:55.640 --> 0:09:57.959 an amazing songwriter, and I feel like she's a very 0:09:58.360 --> 0:10:01.760 powerful woman. But she's also not afraid to be vulnerable 0:10:01.920 --> 0:10:07.600 or sensitive, um and wrong. I really like her her 0:10:07.600 --> 0:10:11.680 writing style. And I love Chris Stapleton, I love Thomas 0:10:11.760 --> 0:10:14.120 rhet I just like I really and Sam Hunt. I 0:10:14.160 --> 0:10:17.480 like people that are not afraid to be different. And 0:10:17.920 --> 0:10:22.400 whether that's um, you know, being the bad guy in 0:10:22.440 --> 0:10:26.120 the song, or paying tribute to traditions of the past 0:10:26.200 --> 0:10:30.360 sounds in country, or paving the way for the new 0:10:30.480 --> 0:10:34.240 sound because it's ever changing I'm inspired by artists that 0:10:35.080 --> 0:10:37.400 are not copies of other people. Don you ever get 0:10:37.440 --> 0:10:39.040 into a room and write with someone and you're like, 0:10:39.840 --> 0:10:42.040 I can't believe I'm writing with this person, Like this 0:10:42.080 --> 0:10:45.559 is what what planted am I on? Yeah, I've had 0:10:45.600 --> 0:10:48.440 a bunch of those experiences, just as a songwriter who 0:10:48.480 --> 0:10:51.760 a young songwriter, because I had never really had any 0:10:51.880 --> 0:10:55.680 radio success as a songwriter until my Church and that 0:10:55.800 --> 0:11:00.120 was obviously my own song. But um, I got into room, 0:11:00.120 --> 0:11:04.319 was 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 0:11:07.720 --> 0:11:10.240 Carrie Underwood and that was like two and a half 0:11:10.280 --> 0:11:12.960 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 0:11:15.000 --> 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 --> 0:11:27.240 to her writing cabin, and I was so scared because 0:11:27.520 --> 0:11:31.720 I I had never written with an artist that gigantic before, 0:11:32.280 --> 0:11:34.640 and I was just like, I don't even know the drill, honestly, 0:11:34.679 --> 0:11:37.520 Like I've written a ton of songs, but I don't. 0:11:37.600 --> 0:11:40.040 I don't, and I've listened to her music, so I 0:11:40.080 --> 0:11:43.000 feel like I have a gist on you know, what 0:11:43.160 --> 0:11:47.040 she what she wants to say. But I I definitely 0:11:47.240 --> 0:11:50.920 was a sweaty palm to meeting her because that was 0:11:50.920 --> 0:11:52.760 the first time I met her was to write she's 0:11:52.800 --> 0:11:55.679 pretty disarming though, Yeah, and I'm doing a chance to 0:11:55.679 --> 0:11:57.800 get to create pretty well over the last if first 0:11:58.280 --> 0:12:01.160 kind of she's intimidating because she's very cool Wyatt. Yeah, 0:12:01.240 --> 0:12:03.319 and you're like, oh, she met does she not like me? 0:12:04.480 --> 0:12:07.679 But then you realize she's just soft until she's not, 0:12:07.840 --> 0:12:10.960 and then she's just awesome. Yeah, but she can be 0:12:11.000 --> 0:12:14.560 intimidating for a second. Well, yeah, it's intimidating because I 0:12:14.559 --> 0:12:18.440 mean she's I feel like she's always been famous and 0:12:18.600 --> 0:12:22.240 it's like from American Idol to Jesus take the Wheel 0:12:22.559 --> 0:12:26.520 to now there's really she's never had a down swing 0:12:26.600 --> 0:12:29.640 in her career. Really. Um So yeah, you walk in 0:12:29.679 --> 0:12:31.240 and you're like, oh my gosh, this is like the 0:12:31.400 --> 0:12:34.680 carry Underwood. And I had been around so many artists 0:12:34.720 --> 0:12:37.120 as a writer, but you still get like sort of 0:12:37.480 --> 0:12:41.120 jarred when you see people in person. But like after 0:12:41.160 --> 0:12:43.440 a few seconds, you know she like the ice was 0:12:43.520 --> 0:12:46.320 broken and she had a ton of great titles and 0:12:46.400 --> 0:12:50.719 ideas and we wrote two songs that day, and um yeah, 0:12:50.720 --> 0:12:52.840 that was one of the first Like whoa, I'm like 0:12:52.880 --> 0:12:56.320 in the room with this person. Were you eating off 0:12:56.360 --> 0:12:59.640 of songwriting at that point? Like you're paying your bills 0:12:59.720 --> 0:13:03.160 and groceries because you're writing songs. Yeah, Um that was 0:13:04.080 --> 0:13:06.439 I'm still in my first publishing deal. This is my 0:13:06.559 --> 0:13:10.200 last year before that option, but um yeah, that was 0:13:10.240 --> 0:13:12.400 like the first year I had my publishing deals, so 0:13:12.440 --> 0:13:16.319 I was like, you know, not banking by any means, 0:13:16.360 --> 0:13:21.160 but definitely living off of the songwriter draw. I have 0:13:21.160 --> 0:13:22.719 a lot of songwriters that come to the house too 0:13:22.720 --> 0:13:25.839 and we talk and uh leey. Thomas Miller, who was 0:13:25.840 --> 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 0:13:29.080 --> 0:13:32.040 to him and Chris Stapleton every other Wednesday for three 0:13:32.120 --> 0:13:35.240 years wrote together for three years. Every other Wednesday, they 0:13:35.280 --> 0:13:37.800 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 --> 0:13:43.040 right with on a regular basis that you're like, hey, 0:13:43.040 --> 0:13:45.079 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 0:13:47.280 --> 0:13:49.240 you call and you're like, I have something. You know, 0:13:49.280 --> 0:13:51.840 you're kind of my partner in writing. Yeah, I have 0:13:51.880 --> 0:13:55.240 a few people like that because, um, I don't know, 0:13:55.280 --> 0:13:57.800 I feel like Nashville is so rich in that way. 0:13:57.840 --> 0:14:00.760 I mean, you can have a writing partner, but in Nashville, 0:14:00.800 --> 0:14:04.760 it's so collaborative that you you really do right with 0:14:05.000 --> 0:14:08.720 so many people that are your favorites. So, um, Buzzby 0:14:08.960 --> 0:14:12.439 is a big one for me. He uh really just 0:14:12.559 --> 0:14:15.040 pulled something out of me that I didn't even know 0:14:15.240 --> 0:14:18.440 was there when we started writing for Hero you know, 0:14:18.480 --> 0:14:20.200 back then, I didn't realize we were writing for my 0:14:20.320 --> 0:14:24.760 future record. But um, yeah, he's incredible because he's just 0:14:24.800 --> 0:14:26.840 like a freak of nature when it comes to music. 0:14:26.920 --> 0:14:32.000 And uh he's an incredible like soulful singer and piano 0:14:32.080 --> 0:14:36.320 player and um yeah, so he and he's just the best. 0:14:36.400 --> 0:14:38.960 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 0:14:41.360 --> 0:14:44.200 of us and we'll like start something and we won't 0:14:44.280 --> 0:14:47.200 talk for the next three or four hours. He'll start 0:14:47.240 --> 0:14:50.920 working on some like beat or track and building that, 0:14:51.040 --> 0:14:53.240 and then I'll be working on the lyric and melody 0:14:53.240 --> 0:14:55.160 in my head, you know, with my laptop in the 0:14:55.200 --> 0:14:57.920 corner and then like three hours later he'll turn around 0:14:57.920 --> 0:14:59.840 from his console and be like, are you ready to 0:14:59.840 --> 0:15:02.560 say ing? And I'd be like, I guess, I go 0:15:02.640 --> 0:15:06.000 up to the microphone. And then you know eighties Mercedes 0:15:06.240 --> 0:15:08.720 and that's so that's a song from YouTube that where 0:15:08.760 --> 0:15:11.600 that happened where you guys sat and it kind of 0:15:11.600 --> 0:15:14.600 came together that way. Yeah, And doesn't he have like 0:15:14.640 --> 0:15:18.640 a weird like back shed like Buzzby, like where you 0:15:18.680 --> 0:15:20.960 work out of it and it's kind of his little space. Yeah, 0:15:21.080 --> 0:15:23.480 you walk out through his backyard and it's very quaint 0:15:23.520 --> 0:15:25.920 and it's just like a little shed. And that's where 0:15:25.920 --> 0:15:29.120 he wrote eighties Um. And then he is based in 0:15:29.280 --> 0:15:31.000 l A. So he has a Nashville and in l 0:15:31.040 --> 0:15:34.440 A house. But we wrote My Church and how It's 0:15:34.520 --> 0:15:38.240 Done and once for the record out in l A. 0:15:38.720 --> 0:15:41.680 He worked with Keith a lot too, which all my 0:15:41.720 --> 0:15:44.520 world's collide because Keith's actually a friend of mine. And 0:15:44.520 --> 0:15:46.560 and you went on tour with Keith and I guess 0:15:46.560 --> 0:15:48.720 I was watching your snapchat and ended up getting picked 0:15:48.760 --> 0:15:51.080 up by the blogs. But it looked like a batmobile 0:15:51.160 --> 0:15:53.400 that he sent you. Yeah, I don't know that it 0:15:53.400 --> 0:15:55.760 was actually a batmobile, but just like a crazy car 0:15:55.960 --> 0:16:00.360 as a what was that's an auto cycle? Um it, yeah, 0:16:00.400 --> 0:16:02.960 you're telling me. I didn't know what it was either, 0:16:03.040 --> 0:16:07.040 because I thought he was kidding. Um it's a polarist 0:16:07.560 --> 0:16:09.840 sling shot. What are you supposed to park that? That's 0:16:09.840 --> 0:16:13.240 like you must want a dog. Like, here's your gift. 0:16:13.520 --> 0:16:15.560 There's a Dalmatian. You're like, well, it's really cool about 0:16:15.560 --> 0:16:17.760 what I do with it? Yeah exactly. It was one 0:16:17.800 --> 0:16:23.480 of those like and just insanely generous gifts where you're like, 0:16:23.600 --> 0:16:26.760 oh crap, like I don't have a compound to put 0:16:26.760 --> 0:16:30.560 this on im, Like I don't have, um a garage, 0:16:30.680 --> 0:16:33.960 like I live in East Nashville, like Inglewood. So I 0:16:34.040 --> 0:16:37.720 was trying to picture that parked in the driveway there. 0:16:38.320 --> 0:16:43.360 But then everyone knows where you live too, becauseile exactly. Yeah, 0:16:43.440 --> 0:16:45.640 you want to go see where man lives, just check 0:16:45.680 --> 0:16:49.760 out the three yor old motorcycle in the driveway. Um. Yeah. 0:16:49.800 --> 0:16:52.360 It was so funny the way he presented it too. 0:16:52.440 --> 0:16:54.880 He like handed me this rolled up piece of paper 0:16:55.520 --> 0:16:58.320 and a really sweet note on the last day of 0:16:58.360 --> 0:17:01.160 the tour, which we were in Brooklyn, and he was like, 0:17:01.200 --> 0:17:05.200 thank you, so much for being out here, and he's 0:17:05.240 --> 0:17:09.320 just like the nicest guy. And he like had this 0:17:09.480 --> 0:17:11.000 rolled up piece of paper and it had like a 0:17:11.080 --> 0:17:12.879 ribbon around it, and I took the ribbon off and 0:17:12.880 --> 0:17:15.240 like unrolled it and it's a picture of this sling 0:17:15.280 --> 0:17:20.720 shot car thing. And UM, I was really confused because 0:17:20.760 --> 0:17:22.480 I was like, oh, maybe he got me like a 0:17:22.600 --> 0:17:27.000 ride in this thing, like I go to a yeah, 0:17:27.400 --> 0:17:31.639 take this sling shot tour around Nashville. Um, And he's like, 0:17:31.680 --> 0:17:34.360 have you ever been in a sling shot? I can't 0:17:34.359 --> 0:17:38.720 do an Australian accent, but I was like what He's like, 0:17:38.760 --> 0:17:40.639 have you ever ridden in one of these things? And 0:17:40.680 --> 0:17:44.680 I was like no, why how would I? Why would I? UM? 0:17:45.160 --> 0:17:47.320 And I was like, wait, you're giving this to me. 0:17:47.880 --> 0:17:50.720 He's like, yeah, I got you in brett One And 0:17:51.160 --> 0:17:54.440 I was just in shock, like I've never gotten anything 0:17:55.240 --> 0:17:58.399 um at that magnitude. I mean, it's just insane and 0:17:58.520 --> 0:18:02.400 so generous. And we definitely had a ball with it 0:18:03.000 --> 0:18:05.600 or on Christmas Day with my my family. Where is 0:18:05.640 --> 0:18:09.199 it now? It's in Texas so Yans room. It's like 0:18:09.200 --> 0:18:12.240 the dog, you gave it a field to run in, right, Yeah? Exactly? 0:18:13.000 --> 0:18:16.359 Ryan and I hold it down to Texas for Christmas, 0:18:16.560 --> 0:18:21.640 and um my dad is basically helping store it, slash 0:18:21.840 --> 0:18:25.439 using it. Um, yeah, he was freaking out that he 0:18:25.480 --> 0:18:28.760 gets to take care of that thing. Just a sidebar 0:18:28.800 --> 0:18:32.960 on Keith, like, really and this is a show Bears 0:18:33.040 --> 0:18:35.720 town as much as Los Angeles is. I mean, it 0:18:35.720 --> 0:18:38.000 really is the show Bears town. But Keith is as 0:18:38.080 --> 0:18:42.240 nice and as genuine, even more so than he seems 0:18:42.640 --> 0:18:45.760 on TV or radio or anywhere else. Yeah, he is. 0:18:46.800 --> 0:18:48.840 And he is another one of those people that's like 0:18:48.920 --> 0:18:52.600 really jarring to meet in person because you know, I've 0:18:52.640 --> 0:18:56.159 been listening to Keith's records, you know, since you know, 0:18:56.920 --> 0:18:59.880 Golden Road, since before that album actually like black Top 0:19:00.040 --> 0:19:03.359 and that kind of stuff. And so when he called 0:19:03.359 --> 0:19:06.439 me about the tour and then I met him to 0:19:06.480 --> 0:19:11.280 announce the tour with Brett, and yeah, it's just insane 0:19:11.320 --> 0:19:15.680 how authentic he is and that famous and then the 0:19:16.160 --> 0:19:19.520 weird famous, and then there's like that kind of famous 0:19:19.640 --> 0:19:25.080 where you are known by most of the world. We 0:19:25.280 --> 0:19:28.359 were in my girlfriend I went to Australia and I 0:19:28.520 --> 0:19:29.760 was never going to tell the story, and then he 0:19:29.840 --> 0:19:32.640 kind of busted my balls for not telling it because 0:19:32.640 --> 0:19:34.040 I was given. I was kind of making fun of 0:19:34.080 --> 0:19:38.040 Sydney a bit. And we were in Sydney this last 0:19:38.119 --> 0:19:40.840 vacation and we went for Christmas and I've never been 0:19:40.840 --> 0:19:43.760 to Australia and so we go and he was in Sydney. 0:19:43.760 --> 0:19:45.320 He texted me, goes, hey are you here? And I 0:19:45.359 --> 0:19:46.480 was like, Hey, saw you come over to the house. 0:19:46.480 --> 0:19:48.720 We're having a Christmas party. And I want to go 0:19:48.840 --> 0:19:51.560 over to someone's house on Christmas. I'm just not someone 0:19:51.600 --> 0:19:54.760 who goes into people's space anyway. I like to stay out. 0:19:54.800 --> 0:19:57.040 I just don't like to impose more than anything. And 0:19:57.119 --> 0:19:59.720 I'm like, I really appreciate it, but I'm not. And 0:19:59.800 --> 0:20:02.040 I know he's genuine because he's just a good dude. 0:20:02.400 --> 0:20:03.800 The next day texted me again, he goes, hey, you 0:20:03.880 --> 0:20:05.399 have to come over having Nicole and I having a 0:20:05.440 --> 0:20:08.600 Christmas party. Come over to the house. And so we're 0:20:08.640 --> 0:20:12.159 in Australia. Keith Urban has Lindsay and myself and we 0:20:12.280 --> 0:20:14.760 go over and there's a big his dinner and it's 0:20:14.800 --> 0:20:17.800 like Nicole's mom and his mom and family. And I'm 0:20:17.840 --> 0:20:20.000 telling you, we could have been a cousin or something. 0:20:20.480 --> 0:20:22.760 He just sit down with us and we just all 0:20:22.840 --> 0:20:24.720 talked for like an hour and it was just like 0:20:24.840 --> 0:20:28.119 the most and I'm not normal because I'm just kind 0:20:28.119 --> 0:20:30.800 of a peculiar guy. It was just like a real 0:20:31.040 --> 0:20:34.760 nice human thing that I don't think people I think rich, 0:20:34.960 --> 0:20:40.440 famous people are anymore and he is I think, um 0:20:41.720 --> 0:20:45.360 like being like a family man and just his connection 0:20:45.440 --> 0:20:48.320 with his fans, and I don't know, I sort of 0:20:48.359 --> 0:20:50.320 saw behind the scenes, like the way he takes care 0:20:50.359 --> 0:20:55.280 of his crew, and he like got his production manager 0:20:55.400 --> 0:20:59.600 with Baja is his nickname, and he's like seventy years old, 0:20:59.680 --> 0:21:02.800 and he's loud and hilarious and always took care of us. 0:21:02.960 --> 0:21:05.960 Keith got him like the segue five years ago, and 0:21:06.040 --> 0:21:08.960 he would always just like drive it around. And you 0:21:09.080 --> 0:21:12.480 see like what he does for his crew that have 0:21:12.600 --> 0:21:15.080 been with him and are loyal to him, and there's 0:21:15.160 --> 0:21:19.159 just like this unspoken bond between everybody that that respects him, 0:21:19.560 --> 0:21:23.400 and uh yeah, it's just like it sounds like he's 0:21:23.440 --> 0:21:25.320