Speaker 1: You're listening to Comedy Central coming to you from New
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Speaker 1: Daily Show Tonight, Britain's Prime Minister is in trouble, the
Speaker 1: end of Free Return, and Brandy Carlile, this is the
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Speaker 1: Show you saw us for tuning in, Thank you for
Speaker 1: coming out into people here thinking look at that. Let's
Speaker 1: looks amazing. Take a seat, looks to this everybody. Oh,
Speaker 1: I can feel that we're gonna have a great show.
Speaker 1: Tonight's slapping is going professional, the girl scouts a ball out,
Speaker 1: and England is having Buyer's Remorse. Plus here to talk
Speaker 1: about her new album. Brandy Carlile is joining us on
Speaker 1: the show at the Day. So let's through those people.
Speaker 1: Let's up straight into today's headlines. All right. Before we
Speaker 1: get into the big stories, let's catch up on a
Speaker 1: few other things going on in the world. Starting with
Speaker 1: big news coming out of the world of sports. The
Speaker 1: NFL has announced that, for the first time ever, the
Speaker 1: league will schedule a game on the day after Thanksgiving,
Speaker 1: a k A Black Friday. Yeah, and I'm surprised that
Speaker 1: they're doing this because I thought that the NFL would
Speaker 1: be busy on Black Friday scouting Walmart for new talents.
Speaker 1: You know that grandma would just tackle that kid. Let's
Speaker 1: get her a two year deal. Also, I love how
Speaker 1: the league made this big announcement, like it's a genius idea. Wow,
Speaker 1: football on a Friday. Yeah, football put on any day.
Speaker 1: It works. It's football. It's like oh Sex on a Tuesday. Yeah,
Speaker 1: brilliant idea. It's good whenever, don't overthink. It's In money news,
Speaker 1: the U S Mint is about to release new quarters
Speaker 1: featuring actress Anna May Wong, the first Asian American to
Speaker 1: ever appear. Yeah, which, which is great news for representation
Speaker 1: and great news for bad tippers. This is gonna be
Speaker 1: like you only took me a quarter. It's like, wow, Okay,
Speaker 1: I didn't know I was dealing with a racist. Which quarter.
Speaker 1: In international news, British Prime Minister Liz Truce is now
Speaker 1: officially the lowest polling prime minister in British history, and
Speaker 1: is now in danger of losing her job after only
Speaker 1: six weeks. Yeah. When asked for comments, she said, any
Speaker 1: woman can break the glass ceiling. I'm proud to have
Speaker 1: shot at the glass floor all right, Let's move on
Speaker 1: to some of the biggest stories of the day, starting
Speaker 1: with the Girl Scouts of the USA, you know, the
Speaker 1: Cineloa cartel of baked goods. Off the years of struggling
Speaker 1: with falling membership and sinking revenues, one Girl Scout has
Speaker 1: stepped in with the ultimate good deed. The Girl Scounts
Speaker 1: of the USA just received their largest donation ever by
Speaker 1: a single person. Billionaire philanthropist Mackenzie Scott just donated eighty
Speaker 1: four and a half million dollars to the organization. The
Speaker 1: Girl Scounts leadership says that the money will help them
Speaker 1: recover from the pandemic which drove down membership. Scott has
Speaker 1: donated some twelve billion dollars to charities since Wow Wow.
Speaker 1: Thanks to Mackenzie Scott, the Girl Scouts are now bawling
Speaker 1: out of control, which is great. It really is great
Speaker 1: because the Girl Scouts do an amazing job of training
Speaker 1: a new generation of leaders, providing a community. Although I
Speaker 1: will say they've got to be careful because this kind
Speaker 1: of money could easily change your vibe. Yeah. This year
Speaker 1: they're earning badges for computer coding and rock climbing. Next
Speaker 1: year it's going to be badges for crystal popping and
Speaker 1: tax evasion. Becauld be like Meredith for discovering that the
Speaker 1: Cayman Islands are superior to Panama. Where warn you this?
Speaker 1: Obviously I'm joking. I'm joking, all right, because it's gonna
Speaker 1: be selling cookies. This is gonna be doing it out
Speaker 1: of the back of a Bentley now, just like buy
Speaker 1: them or not, we don't carry the way you brought
Speaker 1: gast bit and ask for McKenzie starts. How can you
Speaker 1: not love this woman? Huh? Because she's exposing what billionaires
Speaker 1: don't want you to realize. That billionaire is always like,
Speaker 1: if you raise my taxes even a little bit, how
Speaker 1: will I have the money to feed all of my
Speaker 1: private jets? But think about the Mackenzie Scott has only
Speaker 1: been a billionaire for three years and she's already given
Speaker 1: away ten billion dollars more than her ex Jeff Bezos
Speaker 1: has given away to Tillie. And get this, and get this,
Speaker 1: she's still a billionaire. Don't forget that. Yeah, it just
Speaker 1: goes to show how much good you can do when
Speaker 1: your main priority isn't going to space in a giant
Speaker 1: metal penis. There are things you can do anyway, Let's
Speaker 1: move on. Let's move on to some big sports news.
Speaker 1: For decades, boxing dominated the world of price fighting. Then
Speaker 1: M M A came along with a roundhouse kick and
Speaker 1: became a worldwide phenomenon. And now we might be witnessing
Speaker 1: the birth of a new era slap fighting. It's become
Speaker 1: a viral sensation over the past few years, and now
Speaker 1: UFC President Danta White is starting a league. He got
Speaker 1: approval yesterday for it to be a licensed athletic competition
Speaker 1: in Nevada. His Power Slap League will be regulated by
Speaker 1: the Nevada State Athletic Commission, and as you can guess,
Speaker 1: slap fighting features two competitors across from one another, throwing
Speaker 1: slaps with open hands to each other's faces. The sport
Speaker 1: has been around for several years, but never regulated until now. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: that's right. Slapping is about to become an official sports
Speaker 1: and those big dudes might be the champs for now,
Speaker 1: but it's only amoutter of time before the sports is
Speaker 1: dominated by immigrant mom's feet on their couch fit on
Speaker 1: the couch. You know, I don't know about you. I
Speaker 1: don't know about you, but I am excited to see
Speaker 1: how the Nevada Athletic Commission plans to regulate the rules
Speaker 1: of the sport, like are you allowed to flinch? You know?
Speaker 1: Can I use my moods from school? Is Will Smith
Speaker 1: the reigning champ? Is that how it was? You know?
Speaker 1: You know what I would propose. I would propose to
Speaker 1: make the sport more exciting. You know, having wrestling they
Speaker 1: trash talk right to get people going, and then in
Speaker 1: boxing they do the way in where they challenge each
Speaker 1: other and they say things. What they should do for
Speaker 1: slap fighting is they should have each fighter say something
Speaker 1: first that warrants them getting slapped, you know, just like
Speaker 1: I never liked your mother's cooking. And by the way,
Speaker 1: by the way, I like that there are more and
Speaker 1: more sports that divorced men can excel at getting slapped
Speaker 1: eating hot dogs. You're basically two weeks away from there
Speaker 1: being a sport that's just sleeping on your friends. Put
Speaker 1: out a couch, right, just four days and he's still
Speaker 1: on the couch. People, This is why he's the goat.
Speaker 1: Can you say this and before you one of those
Speaker 1: people who's like, you know, this is a bizarre idea
Speaker 1: for a sport. Isn't really a sport. Every sport sounds
Speaker 1: ridiculous when you first hear about it. All right, every
Speaker 1: sport is not a real sport. Pick any sport, any
Speaker 1: sport like Nascar. Huh. Imagine that first conversation. So we're
Speaker 1: all gonna drive really fast in a big circle. Yeah yeah,
Speaker 1: but what if I lose control and crash into the wall. Well,
Speaker 1: that's what we're all hoping for. Right, And finally, everyone
Speaker 1: knows that the Internet has made shopping easier than ever.
Speaker 1: You know, sometimes I get packages without even ordering. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean sure, they accidentally put the boxes on my
Speaker 1: even stupid. It's free. I can't complain. But this year,
Speaker 1: this year, it looks like online shopping will be a
Speaker 1: little less easy than before. We As holiday shopping season approaches,
Speaker 1: you may find something a little bit different this year.
Speaker 1: Returning gifts may not be so easy or cheap anymore.
Speaker 1: Buyers beware. Free returns may soon be a thing of
Speaker 1: the past. The cost of returns is becoming so astronomical
Speaker 1: for retailers right now they have no choice but to
Speaker 1: pass that cost on to the consumer. One reason for
Speaker 1: the new return fees is an increase in what's called bracketing.
Speaker 1: That's when a consumer buys the same clothes in several
Speaker 1: different sizes and colors with plans to return what they
Speaker 1: no longer want. The National Retail Federation reports two eighteen
Speaker 1: billion dollars worth of online purchases were returned in That
Speaker 1: is more than double the amount in. As a result,
Speaker 1: some major retailers are now adjusting their return policy, including
Speaker 1: H and M, which is now testing a return fee
Speaker 1: in certain places. No, no, no, no, no no. How
Speaker 1: are you gonna charge people for returns? If I want
Speaker 1: to make a rash decision on a whim and then
Speaker 1: change my mind, I shouldn't have to pay a price
Speaker 1: for it. That's the whole point of America. I thought,
Speaker 1: this great nation is about you make decisions. I think
Speaker 1: i'd look good in the jacket, you know what. Never mind,
Speaker 1: I think i'd look good in Iraq, you know what.
Speaker 1: Never mind. And you know who I blame for this?
Speaker 1: I blame the Democrats. Yeah, they should have cutified the
Speaker 1: rights of free returns when they had a super majority.
Speaker 1: You could have done it, matching. I don't want to
Speaker 1: lose free internet returns because you realize what that means.
Speaker 1: That means we're gonna have to go back to the
Speaker 1: old way. You remember the old way. If you wanted
Speaker 1: to return to shirts, you'd have to drive all the
Speaker 1: way to the store to wait and lie and to
Speaker 1: look the cashier in the eye and try to convince
Speaker 1: them that the shirt was already burnt when you bought it.
Speaker 1: But letsie made it like this. Actually, you don't you
Speaker 1: know what. I blame the clothing stores for all these
Speaker 1: returns in the first place. Yeah, we wouldn't be forced
Speaker 1: to order all these different sizes if each clothing store
Speaker 1: didn't choose to have their own sizing system. In some stores,
Speaker 1: you're a medium, then you go to another store, Now
Speaker 1: you're a six. Then in some storts they're like, if
Speaker 1: you're usually a medium, you probably want to go to
Speaker 1: the large. Then you just call it a large. Hot
Speaker 1: sizes run small? Then why don't you make that a medium?
Speaker 1: What are you doing? Can you imagine if I owned
Speaker 1: a pizza store and you ordered a large pie and
Speaker 1: then I came out with one slice, and I was like, oh, yeah,
Speaker 1: I forgot to tell you our pies run small. I
Speaker 1: bet you now that conversation would end with a championship
Speaker 1: slap five. All right, that's it for the headlines. But
Speaker 1: before we go to break, let's check it on traffic
Speaker 1: with our very own Roy Would Jr. Everybody, Come on,
Speaker 1: get out of get out of that coup, Get out
Speaker 1: of that count there you go, there you go, Get
Speaker 1: up out of that, Get up out of that boy,
Speaker 1: get about of that. They go dip dog? Right, what
Speaker 1: are you? What are you doing? The traffic? That's some
Speaker 1: of the traffic devils. You don't know. I feel like
Speaker 1: you're watching a cow. Is that cow being chased by
Speaker 1: the costles happening? I don't know, but I'm rooting for him.
Speaker 1: You've been running what what? What? Do? What? Do the
Speaker 1: rest of the traffic. But before I get to the
Speaker 1: rest of the traffic ban, let's let's just talk a
Speaker 1: little bit about this whole giving the money to the
Speaker 1: girl Scouts. It's an amazing story. You're like McKenzie, eight
Speaker 1: six million dollars. Yes, it's good to give away eighty
Speaker 1: six million. But to the glass Scouts, they've ben making
Speaker 1: money pipping them cookies. They're good. You need to get
Speaker 1: them money to the boy Scouts. The boy Scouts the
Speaker 1: one need the money. They've been selling popcorn for decades
Speaker 1: and they still broke they broke. The boy Scouts need someone.
Speaker 1: They need some money for R and D. They didn't
Speaker 1: research some new ship to sell. Well, they can't make
Speaker 1: some money. You know what. The boy Scouts need to
Speaker 1: start selling them Eat cigarettes said that a big one
Speaker 1: if the old or or if the boy Scouts sold
Speaker 1: Eat six and Girl Scout cookie flavors. Bitch a dopey
Speaker 1: dot flavor June, Come on dollar, everybody love a thin minte.
Speaker 1: If you could smoke a thin man, you're telling me
Speaker 1: you wouldn't smoke a thin me. But you know that's cool.
Speaker 1: That's cool, Mackenzie. Mackenzie Scott. Want to get the money
Speaker 1: to the Girl Scouts, that's cool. They'll be giving money
Speaker 1: to all the little individual troops, millions of dollars. That's
Speaker 1: the new liqu I started me a Girl Scout troupe.
Speaker 1: Are you do you mean like you have one? Yeah,
Speaker 1: She's gonna give them ways on more money. And I'm
Speaker 1: gonna be right there ready, I'm gonna be Reggie. I
Speaker 1: did the paperwork already. Let me talk to a group
Speaker 1: which is just the camera. Um um, madam Mackenzie, Um,
Speaker 1: how you doing? I'm Roy Withood Jr. Girl Scout truthfully,
Speaker 1: the six two three j not my my venmo. My
Speaker 1: venmo is supposed to be at p if you see
Speaker 1: them did they added later I start for money on
Speaker 1: the show, man, I was, I'm gonna do the traffic,
Speaker 1: you know what? Man also shout out to anime wan,
Speaker 1: shout out the anime wan man Asian on the money.
Speaker 1: It's an Asian on the money, which is cool. That's
Speaker 1: a nice place to start. But why would you put
Speaker 1: him on the quarter to put them on a dollar bill?
Speaker 1: Put somebody on a dollar pit. Let let's be real.
Speaker 1: Let's be real about this ship. When the last time
Speaker 1: you use the quarter, well, let'st time to use the quarters,
Speaker 1: so the machine pay phone. The only time people use
Speaker 1: the quarter as a launder matter strip club. Everybody know
Speaker 1: that that's been Wait wait wait wait, I get the laundry.
Speaker 1: Why would you use don't don't ask me nothing about
Speaker 1: that on TV. What I'm saying is good for anime
Speaker 1: one because finally we got some more minority representation on
Speaker 1: American money, just in time for Apple pet I see
Speaker 1: what you did that? Yeah yeah, oh, speaking of money,
Speaker 1: speaking money, Also, this whole return fee nonsense for the
Speaker 1: clothes and all of that. Yeah, yeah, yeah, I don't
Speaker 1: think people should be having to pay these return fee
Speaker 1: take something back. The fees add up. I've been returning
Speaker 1: clothes for years. That's everything I performed in the TV.
Speaker 1: That's the chick. Go right back, like I'm not even
Speaker 1: lying to you right now. Like O two oh three,
Speaker 1: oh four, Bro, I was starving dog, I would do Conan.
Speaker 1: Every time I did Conan O'Brien, I would take that
Speaker 1: ship right back to Macy's and it was perfect. It
Speaker 1: was perfect. It's perfect too because like in l A,
Speaker 1: you can go to Macy's at ten o'clock in the morning,
Speaker 1: you get your outfit for Conan, Conan, rehearse at to
Speaker 1: they shoot at five, you're done by six, You're back
Speaker 1: at Macy's by seven thirty, return your ship. Then you're
Speaker 1: at the house watching yourself for falling and close. You
Speaker 1: don't even own no more. That's the move man. Because also,
Speaker 1: these return fees add up, and I don't think we
Speaker 1: understand like how unfair it is to charge some body
Speaker 1: money to get back some of their money. You can't
Speaker 1: do that to people. Circus City. Circus City used to
Speaker 1: do that ship to me back in the day. With
Speaker 1: cameras back in the day with Sucu City, because like
Speaker 1: I would buy a camera for fifty dollars, I keep
Speaker 1: it for a couple of days, using for a couple
Speaker 1: of shows, and then you go back and they want
Speaker 1: a fifty dollar restocking fee, which I didn't have because
Speaker 1: two of the shows canceled. So now I'm broke. So
Speaker 1: now I got to go out and donate plasts or
Speaker 1: four days in a row just to make back to
Speaker 1: fIF which is illegal, by the way. You're only supposed
Speaker 1: to donate plasts, but twice a week, supposed to take
Speaker 1: a day off in between drink fluids. But I ain't
Speaker 1: have time for this ship because I had to pay
Speaker 1: the restocking fee, So I would do all of that
Speaker 1: just to get the fifty dollars to return the camera.
Speaker 1: What you may wait, they've sold their body for money.
Speaker 1: They understand what I'm talking about. Why did you need
Speaker 1: a camera for so badly that you that you were
Speaker 1: willing to do all of that. I had to make
Speaker 1: the audition tape to get on Conan O'Brien. Okay, that
Speaker 1: seems dead. Are you Are you healthy now? Does that
Speaker 1: affect you? No? Man, I feel pretty good. For the
Speaker 1: most part. All right, well, let's let's get to the traffic. Okay,
Speaker 1: I mean I would get to the traffic, but I'm
Speaker 1: gonna be honest with your dog. I gotta get the
Speaker 1: macis right quick. I gotta get I gotta get a
Speaker 1: continuity saves for Junia. Everybody start to fall screen, I
Speaker 1: gotta go him back. I'll be talking to the legendary
Speaker 1: Brandy Carlile, so don't go away. Welcome back to the
Speaker 1: Day Show. My guest tonight is a Grammy Award winning singer,
Speaker 1: songwriter and musician. She easier to talk about her new
Speaker 1: deluxe album In the Canyon Hayes, which is available right now.
Speaker 1: Please welcome Brandy Carlisle. Welcome to the show. I thank
Speaker 1: you for having me. Wow. Look at this. Wow, look
Speaker 1: at this is us looking at you. That's what the
Speaker 1: wild look at this is because I never got to
Speaker 1: tell you this in person. You know, we we're all
Speaker 1: working at the Grammys, but you put on, hands down,
Speaker 1: one of the greatest live performances human beings have ever witnessed.
Speaker 1: It was phenomenal. I hope everybody told you this, just
Speaker 1: like everywhere you went. Thank you because because here's the thing.
Speaker 1: You're a legend. You You've been nominated for countless Grammys,
Speaker 1: you want tons of Grammys, but you are a consummate performer,
Speaker 1: and it feels like every performer wants to perform with
Speaker 1: you for that reason. You know, everybody from from Elton
Speaker 1: John all the way through to Joni Mitchell, Legends, go, Brandy, Carlile,
Speaker 1: lot to know what that feels like for you. Well,
Speaker 1: it all comes from them, you know it does. And
Speaker 1: they've sort of taught me through the years pretty much
Speaker 1: everything I know about performing. And the cool thing with
Speaker 1: the Grammys is that, you know, it didn't happen to
Speaker 1: me when I was so young that I wouldn't be
Speaker 1: able to really seize the moment. I felt really ready
Speaker 1: for that moment, and um, and I knew. I was like, man,
Speaker 1: I'm nearly forty, Like I just I've got I've got
Speaker 1: to do this right now. You know, I got to
Speaker 1: take this moment and make it means that in my
Speaker 1: life for me and my and my family. You know,
Speaker 1: you haven't had you have had a journey that many
Speaker 1: of your fans have said is long overdue. They've gone,
Speaker 1: Why isn't Brandy getting her credit? Why isn't she more successful?
Speaker 1: We love her so much. The industry is definitely caught up,
Speaker 1: you know, the world is definitely caught up. But you
Speaker 1: do talk about this how you achieved fame a little
Speaker 1: later than than some musicians will at sixteen, seventeen, whatever
Speaker 1: it may be. Do you feel like that prepared you
Speaker 1: better for the for the place that you're in now. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I do. I'm really grateful for that, you know. And
Speaker 1: it's funny. It's like, I mean, it literally is singing
Speaker 1: for a living, So it's probably the greatest job in
Speaker 1: the world at whatever level you're at, right And I
Speaker 1: think I always felt like I was making it and
Speaker 1: like I was making an impact. Um, But it's definitely
Speaker 1: taken a turn, you know. That's uh that I am
Speaker 1: emotionally prepared for because I'm old enough to like handle it.
Speaker 1: But it's happening for some of my heroes to Bonnie
Speaker 1: Rate's career is kind of that way, and she's like
Speaker 1: somebody I really look up to, just how she's conducted
Speaker 1: herself throughout her career in life. Yet when you when
Speaker 1: you when you blow up, you know, at a certain
Speaker 1: stage and art, there's there's always the balance between maintaining
Speaker 1: how your fans knew you and loved you, and then
Speaker 1: catering to the masses who now want to enjoy in
Speaker 1: the art that you're creating. Do you find that you've
Speaker 1: been able to create that balance for yourself? Do you
Speaker 1: still have the intimate Brandy Carlisle and then like the
Speaker 1: Giants the Giant shows. I mean, I'm so obsessive, I
Speaker 1: don't really even know how to cater to the fans
Speaker 1: that loved me, you know, like my desires are still
Speaker 1: so strong to pursue my own heroes and I really
Speaker 1: love that my love of entertainment. That I just am
Speaker 1: like a little too obsessive to be able to see
Speaker 1: outside of that to really know how to cater you know. Um,
Speaker 1: but not not in a way like that I'm saying
Speaker 1: like I'm too much of an artist for that, because
Speaker 1: I care what people think and I just don't know
Speaker 1: how to do it. That's that's fascinating, because you know,
Speaker 1: I think it was David Bowie who said something similar,
Speaker 1: said something to the effect of, you know, don't play
Speaker 1: to the raft is remember why you started playing essentially,
Speaker 1: you know, and it's the idea of creating for yourself
Speaker 1: for the joy that you first had, and then that's
Speaker 1: you know, I mean, that's essentially why the people became fans.
Speaker 1: You've got a new album that is out now, and
Speaker 1: you've done something that a few artists were dare to do,
Speaker 1: and that is you. You've remade an album that was
Speaker 1: critically acclaimed, many regarded as as one of the more
Speaker 1: perfect albums. I'd love to know why. I mean, there's like,
Speaker 1: there con so many different versions of a song that
Speaker 1: can exist, and when you're an artist, like they exist
Speaker 1: in your head whether you get a chance to record
Speaker 1: them or not, like at any given time. But you've
Speaker 1: got an album, you've got one shot. That song is
Speaker 1: going to have one life. It's going to be heard
Speaker 1: one way. And um, I wanted to do this album
Speaker 1: as a revision of like, well what would what would?
Speaker 1: In these silent days? It sounded like if it was
Speaker 1: in Laurel Canyon in the early nineteen seventies, like what
Speaker 1: we what would? What will we do? Would there be
Speaker 1: four or five six part harmony? We have strings and
Speaker 1: lushness and melotrons and steel guitars and you know, we
Speaker 1: just did this. We did this at home, you know,
Speaker 1: for the love of it for for as a labor
Speaker 1: of love, because we wanted to hear what our album
Speaker 1: would sound like in that way. I mean, I still
Speaker 1: think that in these silent days is the right that's
Speaker 1: the right thing. That's the album I wanted to make.
Speaker 1: But I loved making that one. You You, you tell
Speaker 1: very personal stories in the album. Some of them feel
Speaker 1: like they happen to you, or they feel like everyone
Speaker 1: feels like they happened to them. You know, you you
Speaker 1: you connect with people in the storytelling of your music.
Speaker 1: And yet every time I've seen you talk about your music,
Speaker 1: it feels like you don't take credit for it, but
Speaker 1: you give credit to this larger idea of artists who
Speaker 1: have inspired you and what they've created, and you, you're
Speaker 1: part of it. And it's it's this beautiful, humble attitude
Speaker 1: that you have about music itself. It's almost like you
Speaker 1: you treat it like it's magic that just comes down
Speaker 1: and it's infused within you. When you when you talk
Speaker 1: about mimicking and the autists that that inspire you, Like,
Speaker 1: how do you see music that maybe other people don't, Well,
Speaker 1: I mean, I do see myself as an artist and
Speaker 1: I'm proud of myself as a songwriter, especially as a singer. Um.
Speaker 1: So it's not like a humble bragg or anything. But
Speaker 1: I am like a fan like so like I'm the
Speaker 1: kind of fan, like I waited outside your tour bus
Speaker 1: for an autograph, you know what I mean, Like I
Speaker 1: kind of knew where you lived, like I had. We're okay, okay,
Speaker 1: you went to a year you were like, I'm that
Speaker 1: kind of a fan, but you wouldn't go to the house. No.
Speaker 1: I would stop short of that because that it made
Speaker 1: my jover's licence till I was twenty. But but I
Speaker 1: I know artists like molecularly, I'm I'm interested that goes
Speaker 1: beyond just music, you know. And so I just never
Speaker 1: grew out of that. Even though it's my job now
Speaker 1: and I know there are people that feel that way
Speaker 1: about me, it doesn't scare me. And um and I
Speaker 1: still feel that way about my heroes. They're just kind
Speaker 1: of letting me hang out with them for some reason.
Speaker 1: And it's probably the greatest honor of my life. Don't
Speaker 1: tell my kids. I already I already love that. I
Speaker 1: really really loved that because because it comes across and
Speaker 1: and what's amazing is that your heroes are fans of you.
Speaker 1: One of the most amazing moments people have ever seen
Speaker 1: in their lives was when Joni Mitchell, one of the
Speaker 1: greatest of all time, just truly one of the greatest
Speaker 1: of all time, came out and say you surprised people
Speaker 1: with her perform Everyone thought Johny wasn't going to perform anymore.
Speaker 1: You know, we know that she almost lost her life
Speaker 1: and she's thought to come back, and then here she
Speaker 1: was on stage performing and it was with you. I mean,
Speaker 1: that is history being made. You don't do you ever
Speaker 1: pinch yourself and go like, I'm part of this. I
Speaker 1: still can't believe that happened. It was just a few
Speaker 1: months ago, you know. And in the fact that it
Speaker 1: was at Newport Folk Festival, which is such a monumental
Speaker 1: and storing place. She always has a plan. She knows
Speaker 1: what she wants to do, even if she doesn't say it.
Speaker 1: We didn't know she was going to do that. We
Speaker 1: we thought it was a jam. We didn't know that
Speaker 1: she was going to sing all the leads on those songs.
Speaker 1: She just started singing. We rehearsed the songs ourselves, and
Speaker 1: we didn't know whether we should stop or what we
Speaker 1: should do? You know, so we just sang with her,
Speaker 1: and then it turns out she completely took over the
Speaker 1: show and became the performer that we all know that
Speaker 1: she is. And I mean it was she didn't go,
Speaker 1: we didn't go to sleep the night we set up
Speaker 1: till the sun came up. Just just just love loving
Speaker 1: what happened. And Joni flat out loves to perform, and
Speaker 1: she's awesome at it. She's every good at it as
Speaker 1: a good at it's now and she was yes. So
Speaker 1: you know what when when those when those types of moments,
Speaker 1: when those types of moments happened, you know, everyone goes, oh,
Speaker 1: you should have been there. You you'll never get to
Speaker 1: see it again. But but I heard a little whisper
Speaker 1: that maybe something might happen. Yeah, we're gonna we get
Speaker 1: to talk about this right now. So after Newport, Jone said,
Speaker 1: I want to do another show, she said, I want
Speaker 1: to play again, and we got to thinking about it
Speaker 1: and we decided on a venue, which is The Gorge
Speaker 1: out in Washington State, George, Washington, The Gorge, Yes, you
Speaker 1: want to play there. It's one of the most beautiful
Speaker 1: venues in the world. It's like it's it's called Echoes
Speaker 1: through the Canyon. I'm going to play the first night,
Speaker 1: Joni and the Joni Jam. We're gonna play the second
Speaker 1: and it's a It's June ninth and tenth out of
Speaker 1: the Gorge. Joni Mitchell is going to play. You haven't
Speaker 1: been able to buy a ticket. No one's been able
Speaker 1: to buy a ticket to see Joni Mitchell play in
Speaker 1: twenty years. So this is enormous. And she's so excited
Speaker 1: because it's close to Canada and some of them for
Speaker 1: Canadian fans, so it's just I can't believe it's happening,
Speaker 1: but it's happening, and she is going to crush it.
Speaker 1: So if you can get there, I get that. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean you compend. Get the wow that's gonna be.
Speaker 1: That's gonna be intense. Um. After the break, we're gonna
Speaker 1: have a performance of Yours from the new album. And
Speaker 1: and it's interesting because the title of the track really
Speaker 1: hit home for me. You know, it's um, you and
Speaker 1: Me on the Rock, and it reminded me of just
Speaker 1: like you know, Bible study with your mom. There's always
Speaker 1: like the rock, you know, the foundation that you build
Speaker 1: you a house on versus the sand and you you
Speaker 1: you grew up in very in a very religious household,
Speaker 1: didn't you. Well, I don't know if it was the household,
Speaker 1: but I found religion around me, you know. It was
Speaker 1: kind of in the extremities of my family and some
Speaker 1: a bit in my household, and then I sort of
Speaker 1: found it later on in life in my own way,
Speaker 1: and it sort of came up with my own way
Speaker 1: to practice my faith. But the concept of you and
Speaker 1: me on the rock has been with me since I
Speaker 1: was about six years old, you know, going to Sunday
Speaker 1: school and sing and build your house on a rock.
Speaker 1: I love that you say, um, practice it in my
Speaker 1: own way, you know, because you've talked a little bit
Speaker 1: about this. But one of the many aspects of you
Speaker 1: that makes you so inspiring and phenomenal in many people's
Speaker 1: eyes is that you have you blazed the trail. You know.
Speaker 1: You you grew up, as you say, in a religious environment,
Speaker 1: you know, and you're proudly gay. You know, when people go, wait, Brandy,
Speaker 1: but but but it's religion. And and then country music
Speaker 1: has also had its issues with that, you know, just
Speaker 1: like some other genres like rap et cetera. When when
Speaker 1: you when you're performing and when you're putting your hearts
Speaker 1: out there and you're putting your your your life out there.
Speaker 1: Are you doing that as cathosis or you're doing that
Speaker 1: to help so many of the other people who have
Speaker 1: had the journey that you've had in your life. Definitely both.
Speaker 1: I can't not do it. I don't know how to
Speaker 1: not do it, since you know since I can remember
Speaker 1: I have to do that. I have to be in
Speaker 1: front of an audience and create, whether they like it
Speaker 1: or not, and to exist, you know. But also I
Speaker 1: do know how impactful it is because, like I told you,
Speaker 1: I'm the girl that waits outside your tour bus because
Speaker 1: I was so impacted. I needed that particularly, I needed
Speaker 1: quit your icons as a rural queer religious good. So
Speaker 1: you know, when I see you and me on the rock,
Speaker 1: it's a take on a Sunday School lesson, and I
Speaker 1: know that, you know it's it's about me marrying the
Speaker 1: love of my life, my wife Katherine, and having these
Speaker 1: two little girls. And I know that that's not exactly
Speaker 1: what Sunday School had in mind for me, but I
Speaker 1: do think it's what I do think it's what God
Speaker 1: had in mind for me and that I kind of
Speaker 1: wait to see the stunk. You so much for gennering
Speaker 1: all the show people being here. I really really appreciate you.
Speaker 1: Thank everybody. Run half in the Panion Hayes is available
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