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Speaker 1: I mean it's apologized Tory Kelly here on KISSFM for

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Speaker 1: my bad hair day.

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Speaker 2: It's very rough hair, Tory, sorry about that.

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Speaker 3: I think I think it looks great.

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Speaker 1: Well, you're always so kind and generous. You know when

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Speaker 1: we're having a guest on like yourself. We don't have

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Speaker 1: a guest every day. When we have somebody, we call

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Speaker 1: them companies coming over today to the house.

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Speaker 2: Oo.

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Speaker 1: We all get a little we do a little extra.

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Speaker 1: And this morning I used my new brush which was

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Speaker 1: a fail.

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Speaker 2: He's really having a morning. I mean, look at that.

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Speaker 2: That's weird and said it's rough.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, it's well, I think it looks I think it

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Speaker 3: looks good. I wouldn't have noticed.

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Speaker 2: Thank you. It's great to see you.

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Speaker 1: She's right now, Tory Kelly with this year one of

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Speaker 1: two point seven Kiss FM.

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Speaker 2: How many years ago do we meet you, Tory?

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Speaker 3: Oh my goodness, I mean you I've met when I

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Speaker 3: was sixteen on American Idol, but on the show. I

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Speaker 3: must have gone on the show in twenty fifteen. I

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Speaker 3: think when my first single came out.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, your life the world music in general, how it's

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Speaker 1: completely evolved.

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Speaker 2: Here's Tory Kelly's first audition way back.

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Speaker 3: Then, Oh gus, I got to do it. Oh why

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Speaker 3: much eighty is good in Kansas? Stay like one half cook,

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Speaker 3: it's one and more. It's going to semits moteen guys.

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Speaker 2: Sixteen, I even.

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Speaker 3: Get to the Yeah, I even get to the big note.

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Speaker 2: Well, we're gonna have you do it live. Go ahead.

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Speaker 1: When you listen to the sixteen, you and then you

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Speaker 1: think about the Tory Kelly that just performed on the

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Speaker 1: stage that we saw you at the Alani for the

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Speaker 1: idle contestants, how do you measure the growth? Like how

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Speaker 1: are you? I hear it, but like how do you

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Speaker 1: look at your difference?

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Speaker 3: I mean, even just hearing that, I feel like I

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Speaker 3: sound nervous, like I can hear the little quivers in

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Speaker 3: this is my this is my shot, Like I have

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Speaker 3: to be the best I can be. And I remember

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Speaker 3: in the audition area, and I mean the contestants will

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Speaker 3: will relate to this, but everyone was just singing all

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Speaker 3: the time at like so it created this sort of

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Speaker 3: hearing all these other singers and then you're like, Okay,

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Speaker 3: well I should be practicing too, but I don't want

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Speaker 3: to like ruin my voice like people would end up,

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Speaker 3: So anyway, yeah, hearing that, I'm just like it just

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Speaker 3: everything felt so intense, and I think now having the

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Speaker 3: you know when I think about, you know, being in

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Speaker 1: That, and she was just there in Hawaii. You can

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Speaker 1: see that actually on American Idols can be some Monday

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Speaker 1: on ABC and streaming on Hulu the next day. But

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Speaker 1: Toy came back to mentor the contestants, and I was

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Speaker 1: thinking about when I was going to see you, and

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Speaker 1: we hadn't spoken. Life is going well, You're in this

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Speaker 1: great chapter. Things are happening. You continue to have this

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Speaker 1: amazing energy and fans that just love you, right, fans

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Speaker 1: have this medical emergency, which is a real scare for you. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: tell me about music at that point and how you

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Speaker 1: just started to look at like differently after what happened,

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Speaker 1: because it was a blood clot, right or blood clots

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Speaker 1: in your legs and lungs.

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Speaker 3: I thankfully I was in really good hands and you know,

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Speaker 1: Anything differently with life after something like that.

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Speaker 3: The only Yeah, no, I mean I'm on like a

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Speaker 3: In some ways, I feel better than ever, I think,

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Speaker 3: I'm so happy this and that. But I think when

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Speaker 3: how fragile life is and how fragile we all are,

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Speaker 3: and you have you know, your friends and family and

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Speaker 3: this overwhelming amount of love towards me, and I was like, WHOA, Like,

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Speaker 3: I just want to cherish every moment. I think that

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Speaker 3: I thought my album was done, and then after it happened,

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Speaker 3: I was like, oh wait, no, I need a like

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Speaker 3: this song is missing. There was like two songs that

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Speaker 3: I added just because life felt different. High Water was

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Speaker 3: one of them, and then I have another song called

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Speaker 3: same Girl. And there's a lot of depth in those

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Speaker 3: So after everything happened, it was like, oh, this feels

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Speaker 1: Tory Kelly with this the album is called Tory Period

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Speaker 1: and here is a little high water that she's talked about.

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Speaker 2: Is something the mom for What am.

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Speaker 1: I?

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Speaker 3: No, I don't know what's on.

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Speaker 2: I'm glad you added this song. Yeah, we need we

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Speaker 2: all need this song, right, Yeah?

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Speaker 3: Yeah, that was that was my hope is like it

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Speaker 3: I hope now now that I've gotten this out of

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Speaker 3: my system, now, I hope that you know, and anything

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Speaker 1: And also thinking about what you said, we need to

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Speaker 1: not let a health scare take us to the place.

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Speaker 1: Yeah appreciation right, because it it does slap you in

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Speaker 1: the face and go, wait a minute, life's not so bad, right,

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Speaker 1: we need to all sort of and I'm guilty of

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Speaker 2: We take things for granted.

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Speaker 1: We should like take a little less for granted today

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Speaker 1: and be a little bit more grateful. And Tory, we

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Speaker 1: were grateful for your generosity. She already so good with

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Speaker 1: the contestant. They loved working with your It's probably such

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Speaker 1: a treat because she's been there, she's done it, she

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Speaker 1: did it in sixteen, and we have sixteen year old

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Speaker 3: Yeah, wow, man, I had such a blast. Honestly, I

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Speaker 3: I was like, I'm having nice fun. Yeah exactly. So yeah, man,

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Speaker 3: I was so grateful to be there and hopefully, you know,

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Speaker 3: give whatever. Basically, I was just really speaking for my

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Speaker 3: of like a full circle moment for me too.

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Speaker 1: You're awesome and you got to see Tory be in

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Speaker 1: this full circle moment. Also perform that song high Water

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Speaker 1: on American Idol It Sunday Monday, eight o'clock ABC, and

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Speaker 1: then on Hulu and her album check it out. Tory Period,

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Speaker 1: that's Tory story period. Okay, talks to you. Great to

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Speaker 1: see you, Thanks Tory, Thank you guys.

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Speaker 3: Good to see you, guys.

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Speaker 1: That song gets stuck in my head. To water, I

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Speaker 1: was about to sing, but you're listening to me.

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Speaker 3: You can't do it.

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Speaker 1: You haven't heard my fall set in the long time.

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Speaker 1: You need some backup. If you were gonna Tory question mark,

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Speaker 1: I'm in for backup. Come on.

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Speaker 2: Water, I'm going to charge.

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Speaker 3: I'm gonna need some some background vocals.

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Speaker 2: Now, I'm telling you Tory punctuation.

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Speaker 1: Next, I'm there. I didn't know it was in such

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Speaker 1: good voices morning backroom. Did y'all hear that?

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Speaker 2: You really crushing it? Very impressed? That was wow.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, Ruby, do you have a performer for your wedding?

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Speaker 1: Because I'm just saying, Tony's got me doing the What

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Speaker 1: am I doing?

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Speaker 2: Hosting? Officiating? Officiating? Oh my goodness? How what has special performance?

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Speaker 2: And a special performance for surprise comes in?

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Speaker 1: All right, I've annoyed everyone listened. Let's come back and

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Speaker 1: try and win you back with a drip to away