WEBVTT - Mallory Ervin 0:00:09.320 --> 0:00:14.920 Carola. She's the queen of talking. He was sown your man. 0:00:16.000 --> 0:00:18.480 She's on the side. She got the scoop on the wall, 0:00:19.160 --> 0:00:21.439 on the ones in side. No one can do with 0:00:21.720 --> 0:00:31.160 klie My Carola, Carola. No one can do with quiet 0:00:31.400 --> 0:00:37.160 like Carola this time Carola. Hey, y'all, welcome to Hyper 0:00:37.200 --> 0:00:41.040 Caroline Hobby. I am your host, Caroline Hobby. I know music, 0:00:41.159 --> 0:00:43.519 I know people, and I know the questions you want 0:00:43.560 --> 0:00:47.360 to ask, So let's get hyper heads up. These are 0:00:47.400 --> 0:00:50.479 adults having adult conversations, so there could be adult content. 0:00:52.200 --> 0:00:56.600 You guys, Mallory Irvin is in the house. If you 0:00:56.600 --> 0:00:59.520 don't know Mallory Irvin yet, then get excited. You're about 0:00:59.560 --> 0:01:02.240 to get to know her. This girl has more energy 0:01:02.400 --> 0:01:06.200 than the Energizer Bunny. She is the sweetest, brightest light. 0:01:06.720 --> 0:01:10.320 She was Miss Kentucky, then runner up to Miss America. 0:01:10.400 --> 0:01:12.840 She's been on The Amazing Race three different seasons. She 0:01:12.880 --> 0:01:15.920 has voted back a fan favorite, and now she's a 0:01:15.959 --> 0:01:19.959 freaking YouTube star. Her YouTube page has makeup to Toris, 0:01:20.000 --> 0:01:23.399 it has clothing, it has all of her wedding videos, 0:01:23.480 --> 0:01:27.520 her honeymoon, workout tips, cooking tips. She literally is your 0:01:27.560 --> 0:01:30.559 one stop shop for everything, and she is so much fun. 0:01:30.840 --> 0:01:40.720 Here is Mallory Urban spirit fingers, so sorry Urbans with 0:01:40.880 --> 0:01:46.000 me like old, I know, isn't that great? Which I 0:01:46.000 --> 0:01:49.000 have in the world to get a caroline. You're one 0:01:49.040 --> 0:01:51.920 of the few people in Amazing race history though, who 0:01:52.000 --> 0:01:55.280 has ever done amazing race three times. Well you would 0:01:55.280 --> 0:01:58.480 think there are times charm, but it was not real 0:01:58.560 --> 0:02:02.400 far from didn't quiet go as a planned right, it didn't, 0:02:02.640 --> 0:02:05.080 but like you know, you're close your dad too, so 0:02:05.240 --> 0:02:07.680 like my dad was my partner and y'all were team 0:02:07.760 --> 0:02:10.240 Yellow and Yellow and it was just awesome and like 0:02:10.280 --> 0:02:13.079 we almost want we almost wanted this. So how many times? 0:02:13.120 --> 0:02:14.960 What what place do I get? First time you did it? 0:02:15.080 --> 0:02:18.240 So the first time we made it to the like 0:02:18.360 --> 0:02:23.280 the leg before the leg, so maybe six six six, 0:02:23.400 --> 0:02:25.440 y'all got six. So y'all made it like the episode 0:02:25.440 --> 0:02:27.160 before the final right, So we didn't go to like 0:02:27.200 --> 0:02:30.440 elimination station or anything. So we made a race quester. 0:02:31.040 --> 0:02:33.960 We were the decoys, so we like ran the race 0:02:34.080 --> 0:02:36.079 to like fake out people so that if people took 0:02:36.080 --> 0:02:39.560 pictures around the world the right fans because it was 0:02:39.600 --> 0:02:42.600 the most follow amazing race and like follow the race, 0:02:42.639 --> 0:02:44.720 they try to keep up what they do do, remember, 0:02:44.880 --> 0:02:51.280 like fans do like in all these countries. Hey, hey 0:02:51.360 --> 0:02:54.280 guys that like you watched it too, there's a big 0:02:54.320 --> 0:02:56.960 fan world out there. So y'all were the decoys because 0:02:56.960 --> 0:03:01.000 we were So then we came home. We were at home, 0:03:01.120 --> 0:03:03.160 so you know, I've just done Miss America and then 0:03:03.200 --> 0:03:05.000 like we go straight into the race. So we come 0:03:05.000 --> 0:03:06.880 home from the race, and it's kind of sad that 0:03:06.919 --> 0:03:08.239 we didn't win. You know how it is like the 0:03:08.240 --> 0:03:09.639 first time and you didn't win because you were like 0:03:09.680 --> 0:03:11.520 all pumped up. It doesn't take a minute to recover. 0:03:11.720 --> 0:03:14.560 It takes a minute to recover, like physically and mentally 0:03:14.600 --> 0:03:17.280 and emotionally because you're like, all of a sudden, where's 0:03:17.280 --> 0:03:19.600 my camera crew following me around? Now I'm doing all 0:03:19.600 --> 0:03:21.560 these things that are going to be seen by the world, 0:03:21.720 --> 0:03:24.360 and like, yeah matter and so then all of a sudden, 0:03:24.360 --> 0:03:27.880 you're like nothing matters. Now what am I supposed to do? Exactly? 0:03:28.200 --> 0:03:31.120 So we were at home, like dejected in our house, 0:03:31.760 --> 0:03:33.799 and it was like, you know, a week after the 0:03:33.880 --> 0:03:36.000 race had finished, So it's still three months until it's 0:03:36.000 --> 0:03:38.480 gonna air. You know, you got it like that secret time, Yes, 0:03:38.960 --> 0:03:42.760 And the phone rings. It's Len Spielman, the casting director, 0:03:43.080 --> 0:03:45.400 and they said they would never do never do another 0:03:45.440 --> 0:03:47.080 All Star season ever in the history of the show. 0:03:47.200 --> 0:03:49.480 Why you said they would never, like they had already 0:03:49.480 --> 0:03:51.040 done enough and like they were going to do other things. 0:03:51.120 --> 0:03:53.000 You know how they always say that real dramatic, right, 0:03:53.120 --> 0:03:56.720 So I answered the phone and she was like, hey, 0:03:55.600 --> 0:03:58.400 when I would you and your dad be interested in 0:03:58.440 --> 0:04:01.120 do an All Star season if we want to do one? Um, 0:04:01.840 --> 0:04:06.320 you know, she's real, well, yes, yes, what to do? 0:04:06.480 --> 0:04:07.960 You know we're still in the half of the last one. 0:04:08.640 --> 0:04:10.360 So I run downstairs. My dad has no idea that 0:04:10.360 --> 0:04:12.880 it's even an option. As aid Dad, what's the best 0:04:12.880 --> 0:04:14.440 thing that could ever happen to you in your entire 0:04:14.440 --> 0:04:16.080 life that you never thought in a million years would happened? 0:04:16.080 --> 0:04:18.000 He said, amazing Races is havn't an All Star season? 0:04:18.000 --> 0:04:22.720 And we got cast? So you and your dad just 0:04:22.800 --> 0:04:25.240 loved it. Oh man, it was like our thing. But 0:04:25.360 --> 0:04:28.560 it was like, well, okay, I need to preface. You 0:04:28.640 --> 0:04:33.679 have so much energy. You do too, but no, you 0:04:33.760 --> 0:04:37.520 can like put so much energy into a lot of 0:04:37.560 --> 0:04:40.200 things at one time, Like I can do one thing 0:04:40.720 --> 0:04:42.640 and I can really give it my all and then 0:04:42.680 --> 0:04:46.400 I'm tired. But you can do it in a million 0:04:46.520 --> 0:04:49.599 different categories. So I feel like amazing races. Finally, the 0:04:49.680 --> 0:04:54.560 one thing on this earth that utilizes boundless energy. Yes 0:04:54.880 --> 0:04:57.400 it was good, but it's bad for like concentration and 0:04:57.440 --> 0:04:58.960 like being serious and stuff. But then that's where my 0:04:59.040 --> 0:05:01.039 dad came in. You are the perfect team. You're the 0:05:01.040 --> 0:05:04.279 perfect team. And like he's such a prepper, like you know, 0:05:04.360 --> 0:05:06.120 he's just climbed Everest this last year. He's here in 0:05:06.120 --> 0:05:08.440 the climate again. He said, you're just your dad just 0:05:08.760 --> 0:05:11.200 climbed not Everest for fun. And he's like, what hell 0:05:11.240 --> 0:05:14.440 does sixty? You just climbed not Everest for fun at sixty. 0:05:14.480 --> 0:05:16.159 It's not fine for the family. I'll tell you that 0:05:16.240 --> 0:05:21.279 right now. Okay, so you and your dad were made 0:05:21.279 --> 0:05:23.560 for masonaries. I always energy, and now your dad is 0:05:23.680 --> 0:05:26.400 doing crazy things like climbing every Yeah, so he like 0:05:26.520 --> 0:05:29.599 I was a wild crazy, just a wildcat that would 0:05:29.800 --> 0:05:31.440 kiss a text driver if I didn't have any money, 0:05:31.600 --> 0:05:35.160 or that would like run straight on. Well, my dad 0:05:35.200 --> 0:05:36.640 asked me to do that. Your dad asked you to 0:05:36.680 --> 0:05:38.160 kiss the taxi because we don't have any money. We 0:05:38.200 --> 0:05:41.840 don't any money, like kiss him. I mean, you talk 0:05:41.920 --> 0:05:44.560 about a serious man on the amazing He's like, we're 0:05:44.560 --> 0:05:47.800 gonna use everything we got to. Wevery tactic. So did 0:05:47.839 --> 0:05:49.720 you get some taxic crab drivers? I don't think I 0:05:49.760 --> 0:05:52.360 had to kiss that one, Thank the Lord. It wasn't gone. 0:05:52.480 --> 0:05:54.760 It was hot, it was slitty. Oh my gosh, I 0:05:54.880 --> 0:05:56.400 had like call me were all my hands? You know 0:05:56.440 --> 0:05:58.760 how it goes when you tell these stories to like 0:05:58.880 --> 0:06:00.640 normal people that don't get it. They're like, wait, what 0:06:00.920 --> 0:06:03.000 you were aware? And what were you Why were you 0:06:03.080 --> 0:06:04.960 doing them? Yes? I was raising around the world for 0:06:04.960 --> 0:06:06.960 a million dollars. You've never seen the show. Yeah, but 0:06:07.279 --> 0:06:09.560 um so my dad he's so awesome because he's like 0:06:09.600 --> 0:06:12.440 a prepper. Like he's got like the clothes line and 0:06:12.520 --> 0:06:14.600 he's got the packets of the turkey. He used the 0:06:14.680 --> 0:06:17.279 duct tape to like tape up the car. Yeah, he's 0:06:17.360 --> 0:06:19.600 just a pro. So. But then I think he just 0:06:19.720 --> 0:06:21.440 got this thing from the race. I think he got 0:06:21.520 --> 0:06:23.640 this bug in and like he had to just keep 0:06:23.680 --> 0:06:26.799 adventuring and adventuring and adventuring. So after a second season, 0:06:26.960 --> 0:06:28.839 I'm going to do all seven summits. He said before 0:06:28.839 --> 0:06:31.200 I turned sixty seven. Summits. What do you mean seven 0:06:31.240 --> 0:06:35.080 summits kill him? Okay, to Everest, like he's gonna do 0:06:35.120 --> 0:06:36.599 all the mountains. So he did all the mountains. He did, 0:06:36.760 --> 0:06:38.960 He did them all he did. Dad just doesn't say 0:06:39.000 --> 0:06:42.120 he's gonna do That's the thing that distinguishes you and 0:06:42.240 --> 0:06:44.440 Garrit your dad, from everyone else is you don't just 0:06:44.560 --> 0:06:47.680 like have these grandiose ideas. You have them and then 0:06:47.760 --> 0:06:50.000 you actually do them, and you don't just do them, 0:06:50.120 --> 0:06:52.400 you do them. Well, well, thanks, that's nice for me 0:06:52.480 --> 0:06:55.320 to say. But how Hotell, he didn't make it off 0:06:55.320 --> 0:06:57.640 one of these dang mountains. So he's going back, he's 0:06:57.680 --> 0:07:00.640 going back. What's wrong with I don't some something's wrong 0:07:00.720 --> 0:07:04.480 with him. Gary. You know, he says like he's like 0:07:05.000 --> 0:07:07.360 he's like something about climbing mountains. He just he loves it. 0:07:07.480 --> 0:07:10.000 He loves because you know, he's running these big businesses 0:07:10.080 --> 0:07:13.360 and he's just a very successful man. So he loves 0:07:13.400 --> 0:07:15.560 going on these mountains because he's just free of everything, 0:07:15.720 --> 0:07:17.880 like he can unplug or whatever. And he said, he 0:07:17.880 --> 0:07:19.400 always says this quote, and I think it's really cool. 0:07:19.400 --> 0:07:21.119 He's like, if you don't believe in God, climbing mountain 0:07:21.240 --> 0:07:23.000 He's like, there's something cool just on the top of 0:07:23.040 --> 0:07:25.680 that mountain. It's just it's just something different that he's 0:07:25.680 --> 0:07:27.679 never been able to find, like anywhere else doing anything 0:07:27.720 --> 0:07:31.120 else in the world. But like everest, okay, do it 0:07:31.200 --> 0:07:35.640 once lived a good job. Way to go, Gary, He 0:07:35.680 --> 0:07:39.640 did all seven but he said no, so he needs 0:07:39.720 --> 0:07:42.800 that huge rush. He does, so he lives for that, 0:07:42.880 --> 0:07:44.680 like adrenaline rush. You know, he's a piloty he does 0:07:44.680 --> 0:07:47.240 all these other You have that same need too, Yeah, 0:07:47.280 --> 0:07:50.120 but like I got some common sense about me to 0:07:50.160 --> 0:07:55.800 know maybe the body can't withstand this like more than once. 0:07:55.960 --> 0:07:58.640 So yeah, so he's going in September. He's going to 0:07:58.680 --> 0:08:00.800 do it again because he it like a hundred and 0:08:00.880 --> 0:08:03.680 fifty or something steps from the summit almost there. Oh, 0:08:03.800 --> 0:08:05.800 so he doesn't feel like he completed it. But people 0:08:05.840 --> 0:08:08.240 were like, because people everybody's done. They're like, Gary, if 0:08:08.280 --> 0:08:10.120 you keep going, you're gonna die. But people were like 0:08:10.480 --> 0:08:13.040 literally dying right, yes, like a lot of people. It's 0:08:13.080 --> 0:08:15.200 not even a joke, Like this is for real joke. 0:08:15.600 --> 0:08:18.160 So yeah, so that's my mom. I'm like, I talked 0:08:18.160 --> 0:08:19.440 to my mom. We laugh all the time, like he's 0:08:19.440 --> 0:08:21.480 gonna die. It's not funny, but he is. And my 0:08:21.600 --> 0:08:24.840 Mom's like, if the lord's going to take him, I ever, 0:08:25.120 --> 0:08:26.560 then he's going to take him on the couch and 0:08:26.600 --> 0:08:27.920 saying Now, I was like, no, you know, you can 0:08:27.960 --> 0:08:31.800 get a little closer to coming out, Mallory. I don't know. 0:08:32.040 --> 0:08:33.520 You just gotta pray for him. Do you just have 0:08:33.640 --> 0:08:35.840 to let it go? You can't worry about it. Yeah, 0:08:35.880 --> 0:08:37.680 because you know, he's always like, I'm not gonna stay 0:08:37.679 --> 0:08:40.000 at home and like get old, and like he keeps 0:08:40.040 --> 0:08:41.920 saying that I'm not just I'm not gonna let myself go. 0:08:42.120 --> 0:08:44.120 He's like, I have to have something that is so 0:08:44.360 --> 0:08:49.480 challenging and so physically, mentally emotionally taxing that it keeps 0:08:49.520 --> 0:08:50.920 me young, it keeps me a lot of He's me 0:08:50.960 --> 0:08:53.560 living for something, and I wish you'd choose something else. 0:08:55.080 --> 0:08:56.760 He's really gotten to the top of the top of 0:08:56.960 --> 0:08:59.439 what you could actually pick for that rush Like he's 0:08:59.480 --> 0:09:02.400 all the way up there. Okay, So you grew up, 0:09:03.320 --> 0:09:06.800 You're you're just like such a fascinating person. You are. 0:09:07.360 --> 0:09:11.840 You grew up on a compound with twenty three cousins 0:09:12.440 --> 0:09:15.840 and y'all all lived together. I need to know how 0:09:15.880 --> 0:09:18.400 your childhood looked, so we call it a compound. Compound. 0:09:18.559 --> 0:09:20.040 It wasn't like a weird compound. It was like a 0:09:20.080 --> 0:09:23.240 cool compound. And we just call it compound. Because so 0:09:23.320 --> 0:09:27.319 my grandparents lived, your dad's parents, your mom my mom's 0:09:27.400 --> 0:09:30.439 also lived in the same like county, but not on 0:09:30.520 --> 0:09:32.560 the same farm. So it's like out in the middle 0:09:32.559 --> 0:09:34.760 of nowhere. It's called box Ville population like whatever my 0:09:34.840 --> 0:09:38.839 family is at the time. And so my grandparents and 0:09:38.880 --> 0:09:41.400 then we all built houses around. So there's six siblings 0:09:41.440 --> 0:09:44.000 in my dad's family and then all these kids and 0:09:44.080 --> 0:09:47.400 I'm the oldest, and here's the oldest of all twenty three. 0:09:47.800 --> 0:09:53.400 I was the queen. I was the chief of Wow lord, yes, yes, 0:09:53.520 --> 0:09:56.480 I was the balls. Yes, you are the lord. I 0:09:56.480 --> 0:09:57.760 don't know. I had to like let go of that, 0:09:58.000 --> 0:09:59.439 Like how did you let go of that? Because you 0:09:59.520 --> 0:10:02.000 had a whole like army underneath you. I mean it's tough, 0:10:02.200 --> 0:10:03.760 and you can run a ship at that. I can 0:10:03.880 --> 0:10:05.760 run a ship because you know, you had places to go, 0:10:06.160 --> 0:10:07.520 Like you're not one of those people. I was like, oh, 0:10:07.520 --> 0:10:08.760 I don't know what to do, like you know what 0:10:09.000 --> 0:10:10.520 you want to do. Well, that's why I can do 0:10:10.559 --> 0:10:12.360 a lot of things that once, probably because I grew 0:10:12.480 --> 0:10:14.760 up in this where there was so much going on 0:10:14.960 --> 0:10:17.080 even though there was nothing going on. There were no restaurants, 0:10:17.120 --> 0:10:18.760 there was a Walmart, it was fifteen miles away. We 0:10:18.840 --> 0:10:20.400 had one high school in our whole county. I mean 0:10:20.440 --> 0:10:23.440 it's such a small town. But you know, we lived 0:10:23.480 --> 0:10:25.920 a worldly life when we were little, Like, you know, 0:10:26.080 --> 0:10:28.120 I think it was the minds of my family that 0:10:28.440 --> 0:10:30.240 you know, they brought things into our houses that like, 0:10:30.320 --> 0:10:32.719 it wasn't about where we lived, but you know, that's 0:10:32.760 --> 0:10:34.559 just this setting. It was just cool in the backyard 0:10:34.640 --> 0:10:37.440 my papa, but he's still life, still make a moonshine 0:10:37.440 --> 0:10:40.040 and bourbon. Like he's having his help, like make the 0:10:40.160 --> 0:10:44.400 mash for this for bourbon, like making family bourbon. Everybody's 0:10:44.400 --> 0:10:47.080 like into hunting and just all this awesome stuff. I mean, 0:10:47.120 --> 0:10:48.520 it was just it was a really cool way. Did 0:10:48.520 --> 0:10:50.640 you play with your cousins every day? Oh my gosh, Yes, 0:10:51.000 --> 0:10:54.120 we built things, We sunk things, we wrecked things, like 0:10:54.440 --> 0:10:56.280 all twenty three of y'all play every day? Did y'all 0:10:56.280 --> 0:10:57.920 divide up into groups? And it was like I had 0:10:57.960 --> 0:11:00.160 twelve siblings all the time. They were always like ten 0:11:00.240 --> 0:11:02.760 kids sleeping in your house and like everybody's like piled 0:11:02.800 --> 0:11:04.560 into other people's cars and you don't know where your 0:11:04.600 --> 0:11:06.120 child is, but you know that they're at one of 0:11:06.120 --> 0:11:10.600 their ants with somebody hopefully. Wow. Yeah, so it was fine. 0:11:10.679 --> 0:11:12.440 So do you just love going home? Yeah? I mean 0:11:12.480 --> 0:11:15.480 it's just you know, like when when you have an 0:11:15.559 --> 0:11:17.520 upbringing like that, like you always want to capture. I 0:11:17.600 --> 0:11:19.240 try to like bring it into my own life, Like 0:11:19.360 --> 0:11:21.920 my siblings live here, even though we live in Nashville. 0:11:21.960 --> 0:11:23.959 I'm like, we gotta keep this family thing going. Like 0:11:24.080 --> 0:11:26.160 just this last week we went to Veil altogether, and 0:11:26.200 --> 0:11:28.640 it's just my family is just all about just having 0:11:28.679 --> 0:11:31.160 the best time with our family. Like that's always been 0:11:31.200 --> 0:11:33.600 my best friends. Where my family. And you know, whether 0:11:33.640 --> 0:11:35.560 you have like a small family or whether you're married 0:11:35.600 --> 0:11:37.800 into a family or whatever, like make your family and 0:11:37.880 --> 0:11:40.679 like those your people, and I love that and have 0:11:41.000 --> 0:11:44.640 fun and enjoy other. Okay, So you said when you're 0:11:44.640 --> 0:11:45.959 growing up, you learned how to do all sorts of 0:11:46.000 --> 0:11:48.240 hobbies all the time, Like you just would pick up sewing, 0:11:48.360 --> 0:11:51.360 you'd pick up flying an airplane, you pick up What 0:11:51.520 --> 0:11:53.160 kind of hobbies have you just picked up? Because these 0:11:53.200 --> 0:11:55.320 aren't just like little hobbies like learning that you could lately, 0:11:55.400 --> 0:11:58.559 like you can do a lot of really complicated things. Yeah. So, 0:11:59.000 --> 0:12:01.040 I mean I think too when you have a creative mind, 0:12:01.160 --> 0:12:03.040 like you come from one thing to the next and 0:12:03.040 --> 0:12:06.040 the next and next. But not everyone does that really well, 0:12:06.160 --> 0:12:07.840 like you do well. Thanks. I don't know if I've 0:12:07.880 --> 0:12:10.640 necessarily done it well, but I've definitely done it. I mean, 0:12:11.000 --> 0:12:13.000 I just I was interested in so many things as 0:12:13.040 --> 0:12:15.959 a child. I always was like creative, creative, and like 0:12:16.040 --> 0:12:17.959 I love to sing and dance and act and you 0:12:18.000 --> 0:12:20.079 know all that stuff. But like when that got a 0:12:20.120 --> 0:12:22.000 little old to me, then I just start like picking up. 0:12:22.600 --> 0:12:25.120 I got learned fly airplane. Do you learn to learn 0:12:25.840 --> 0:12:28.840 and play an instrument? Or can you fly in land 0:12:28.840 --> 0:12:31.280 and air? I have a student license, so I learned 0:12:31.320 --> 0:12:33.760 in college because like you just need to learn a 0:12:33.800 --> 0:12:35.959 flan air plane even though I don't fly. Yeah, I 0:12:36.000 --> 0:12:37.920 mean that's a great thing to'll just learn how to do. 0:12:38.720 --> 0:12:40.360 I don't know if I could make myself. I feel 0:12:40.400 --> 0:12:42.520 like I just just do it for my resume. Sometimes 0:12:42.559 --> 0:12:45.080 you know, you can actually take it off and land it. Yeah, 0:12:45.120 --> 0:12:48.160 a small plane, but I'm a little rusty so okay, 0:12:48.200 --> 0:12:50.240 and then you just learned the ukulele. No, I didn't 0:12:50.240 --> 0:12:52.719 finish You didn't finish that one. Yeah, but like with 0:12:52.840 --> 0:12:55.040 the sewing and stuff, like if I'm not if I 0:12:55.080 --> 0:12:58.560 can't master it pretty quickly, I'm move on. You're moving on. Yeah, okay. 0:12:58.600 --> 0:13:00.640 So what are some other hobbies that you have? I mean, 0:13:00.840 --> 0:13:04.079 like obviously love beauty, everything makeup and fashion and stuff 0:13:04.120 --> 0:13:05.520 like that. Like I used to make my own clothes 0:13:05.559 --> 0:13:07.559 whenever I was little, and you know, stuff like that. 0:13:07.800 --> 0:13:10.480 And then like beauty, that's always been a huge thing 0:13:10.559 --> 0:13:13.000 for me, and once you got interested, you got you 0:13:13.200 --> 0:13:15.880 just owned it because like glam is so fun and 0:13:16.040 --> 0:13:19.720 like everybody, everybody loves makeup. Everybody loves like feeling beautiful, 0:13:19.840 --> 0:13:21.679 and that was something that you know, when I was 0:13:21.760 --> 0:13:24.360 ten years old, I remember like starting to do people's 0:13:24.360 --> 0:13:26.199 makeup and just like loving it. And even though I 0:13:26.280 --> 0:13:28.160 was singing, that was my main thing and stuff. I 0:13:28.200 --> 0:13:30.280 always had all these other hobbies, but that's one thing 0:13:30.400 --> 0:13:32.679 that's kind of woven into like everything that I've done. 0:13:33.280 --> 0:13:35.079 It helped me out at Miss America, which leads you 0:13:35.160 --> 0:13:37.760 to Miss America, which is so random. So explain to 0:13:37.840 --> 0:13:40.840 me how Okay, you grew up in the compound population. 0:13:41.280 --> 0:13:45.800 Family is where you live, and now you're like, okay, here, 0:13:46.320 --> 0:13:48.640 I am coming to do Miss America. So it's well, 0:13:48.640 --> 0:13:50.599 it's just really random. So I didn't do pageants. I 0:13:50.720 --> 0:13:52.520 was not you weren't a pageant girl. Okay, well how 0:13:52.559 --> 0:13:54.400 did you get into this? So I mean, and now 0:13:54.480 --> 0:13:57.280 how I was like, I'm sure you are. You're like five, 0:13:57.480 --> 0:14:02.079 like really five, like five, just five flat fat, fat flat, 0:14:03.559 --> 0:14:05.319 And like I didn't know you could qualify if you're 0:14:05.360 --> 0:14:07.520 just five, but you can't. Well you can because you 0:14:07.600 --> 0:14:09.880 can do anything. Well, So people, a lot of people 0:14:09.880 --> 0:14:12.600 don't know this about like you know, Miss America. It's 0:14:12.600 --> 0:14:17.000 about other things. It's not a beauty pageant. It's like talent. 0:14:17.080 --> 0:14:18.400 And I was a singer, and I'm like I had 0:14:18.400 --> 0:14:21.480 a good talent. You're great, but thanks well in the 0:14:21.520 --> 0:14:25.640 pageant world, I was good because everybody's good. You cant 0:14:25.680 --> 0:14:28.760 you got, but well thank you, so do you? And 0:14:29.240 --> 0:14:31.920 like that was a lot and then like swimsuit and 0:14:32.000 --> 0:14:33.960 honest age question and interview and I knew like I 0:14:34.040 --> 0:14:38.360 could do an interview swimsuit though, I mean you kill Yeah, 0:14:39.000 --> 0:14:41.880 well I got my dad's body the muscles and such. 0:14:42.200 --> 0:14:43.560 So if I can get all that fat off of it, 0:14:43.680 --> 0:14:47.640 then it's I'm going to go. So I was able 0:14:47.680 --> 0:14:49.480 to do that. Let you decided you're going to do 0:14:49.560 --> 0:14:51.360 Miss America, then you trade for it, and what happens? 0:14:51.400 --> 0:14:53.320 How do you enroll? How do you make it to 0:14:53.920 --> 0:14:57.200 actually getting to be the representative for your state? Yeah, 0:14:57.320 --> 0:14:59.440 like it's cool because it's a job. So I loved 0:14:59.480 --> 0:15:01.360 like speaking in traveling and doing all this cool stuff. 0:15:01.360 --> 0:15:03.200 And a lot of people don't realize, like the winner, 0:15:03.400 --> 0:15:05.480 so the Miss Kentucky will work for the Department of Agriculture, 0:15:05.480 --> 0:15:06.960 And I got to speak to like schools and stuff, 0:15:07.000 --> 0:15:09.760 and I don't like speaking. What are you talking about? 0:15:09.960 --> 0:15:11.320 I mean all kinds of things. When I have like 0:15:11.360 --> 0:15:13.520 an audience of eight hundred kids and like I'm already 0:15:13.560 --> 0:15:15.400 like wold and fun, Like a lot of these pageant 0:15:15.440 --> 0:15:18.200 girls are like no, no, not you. But like I 0:15:18.320 --> 0:15:20.520 had the best time. I'd be like get out of here, 0:15:20.560 --> 0:15:22.480 and like it's just fun times to put the crown 0:15:22.560 --> 0:15:24.480 on the boys and just like we're having the best time. 0:15:25.000 --> 0:15:27.760 These kids say the funniest things and ask the funniest questions. 0:15:27.800 --> 0:15:30.680 And it taught me how to like, you know, respond 0:15:30.920 --> 0:15:34.040 quickly and like and that helps me like you're in life. 0:15:34.560 --> 0:15:36.800 But um, but yeah, so it was random. It was 0:15:36.840 --> 0:15:38.640 one day and my dad was like, I think you 0:15:38.800 --> 0:15:42.040 should be Miss America. We're like on the way to church. 0:15:42.200 --> 0:15:44.200 That's how he talks or that's how you know. What 0:15:44.240 --> 0:15:45.960 I love about your dad is he doesn't just say that. 0:15:46.080 --> 0:15:48.520 He actually saysn't. It means it. He's like, you can 0:15:48.600 --> 0:15:51.360 do it. So I was like, okay. So then I 0:15:51.480 --> 0:15:54.120 was like, okay, I'll try. So I love how you're 0:15:54.120 --> 0:15:56.600 just like I do that. I did. Um, so you 0:15:56.680 --> 0:15:58.440 have to do a local pageant. I want my first 0:15:58.480 --> 0:16:00.320 local pageant. Then you go to Miss Kentucky. There's thirty 0:16:00.320 --> 0:16:03.400 two girls that qualified ago and it's first year for 0:16:03.520 --> 0:16:06.560 some reason, in a black velvet turn like cats suit 0:16:06.640 --> 0:16:09.240 and um, shoulder padded. Well. I was about to make 0:16:09.280 --> 0:16:11.200 fun of a SEQ when jacket look at me, Now 0:16:12.040 --> 0:16:14.080 look at you. Now have friends and shoulder pads in 0:16:14.120 --> 0:16:15.440 that one though, so I only have one set. I 0:16:15.480 --> 0:16:17.400 had two sets in that one. We're saying rocky top 0:16:17.480 --> 0:16:19.280 at Miss Kentucky for my talent. Clearly there were some 0:16:19.400 --> 0:16:21.400 things that I had figured out yet. But you know, 0:16:21.480 --> 0:16:23.120 you're just working out, you're just doing it, you're going 0:16:23.200 --> 0:16:26.240 all in, diving in. Yes. So I got top ten 0:16:26.320 --> 0:16:28.560 that that year, Miss Congeniality. I was like, okay, now 0:16:28.560 --> 0:16:30.040 I gotta come back. I gotta win this thing. Got 0:16:30.080 --> 0:16:34.200 real serious about it, really like stressed and like what 0:16:34.480 --> 0:16:35.720 do you think my hairs should be? What color do 0:16:35.760 --> 0:16:39.080 you think my dress should be? He you're getting detail? Yeah, 0:16:39.120 --> 0:16:41.240 And you know how sometimes you think like I want 0:16:41.240 --> 0:16:42.960 to do this, and then you listen to everybody else, 0:16:43.000 --> 0:16:45.960 but you're dying self when yourself is who like knows 0:16:46.880 --> 0:16:48.360 how are you gonna look the best? So I listened 0:16:48.360 --> 0:16:50.480 to all these people and I thought it was about 0:16:50.600 --> 0:16:52.680 being perfect and have everything right, and that is the 0:16:52.880 --> 0:16:55.560 most opposite from me. So that year I didn't win, 0:16:55.640 --> 0:16:56.880 and I thought that was the year I was gonna win. 0:16:56.920 --> 0:16:58.360 I was just gonna go Miss American, move on with 0:16:58.440 --> 0:17:00.920 my life. And I was fourth runner. And that was 0:17:01.000 --> 0:17:04.560 the thing in my life that happened. I've lost anything before, okay, 0:17:04.720 --> 0:17:07.080 and that was the thing that happened. Now I love 0:17:07.240 --> 0:17:09.880 to lose, tell me, because every time I've lost something 0:17:09.920 --> 0:17:11.960 in my life, like, not only is it like you 0:17:12.040 --> 0:17:14.800 come beg you try harder. But every time, like another 0:17:14.880 --> 0:17:17.639 door opened for me. Can I like focus on that 0:17:17.760 --> 0:17:21.320 for a second, because that is the thing in life 0:17:21.600 --> 0:17:24.240 that is very hard to learn in the beginning, like 0:17:24.359 --> 0:17:27.040 those first few times that you're learning that, like, and 0:17:27.160 --> 0:17:28.919 we talk about this, you do not have face planning 0:17:29.160 --> 0:17:31.159 hard and stuff like we've given in our all and 0:17:31.240 --> 0:17:34.040 it just like didn't well face plan for for us. 0:17:34.280 --> 0:17:38.879 It's all relative. But once you face plant and you 0:17:39.280 --> 0:17:43.080 realize that, okay, well shoot, that sucked, and this really 0:17:43.200 --> 0:17:45.680 is painful experience and I don't like the man in feeling, 0:17:45.680 --> 0:17:48.640 But once you survive it, it's like a whole new 0:17:48.680 --> 0:17:52.400 worlds the best, Like, thank God I lost, Like I'm 0:17:52.520 --> 0:17:54.320 so glad. Okay, so tell you why I thank God? 0:17:54.359 --> 0:17:56.200 What did that lead to? I mean, so like obviously 0:17:56.280 --> 0:17:58.040 then it led me to the next year where I 0:17:58.160 --> 0:17:59.520 like let go of a lot of things. It was 0:17:59.560 --> 0:18:01.440 my last you to compte for Miss Kentucky. This is 0:18:01.480 --> 0:18:03.440 the last chance I wanted to be Miss Kentucky. I 0:18:03.520 --> 0:18:05.399 wanted to be Miss America, Like I wanted to do 0:18:05.480 --> 0:18:08.320 all this stuff, and you know, I just kind of 0:18:08.400 --> 0:18:10.680 like let go of things. You like a song I 0:18:10.760 --> 0:18:12.680 wanted to sing everybody's like, you'll never win with that song. 0:18:12.800 --> 0:18:14.960