Speaker 1: Hey, guys, it's Kaylie Short and this is too much
Speaker 1: to say asking questions. Now tell it out you Yeah. Okay,
Speaker 1: So just a warning, the Audio Colony is not going
Speaker 1: to be up to its normal car this week because
Speaker 1: I am coming to you from the middle of nowhere, Texas.
Speaker 1: I am driving to Los Angeles, and I have left
Speaker 1: Nashville behind at least until I'm back in like two weeks.
Speaker 1: But the move is officially started. I'm very excited my cats.
Speaker 1: I've only thrown up about three times altogether. There's a
Speaker 1: little bit of a p incident. Um yeah, traveling across
Speaker 1: the country with cats, I wouldn't recommend doing it unless
Speaker 1: it's out of share necessity, which in this case it is,
Speaker 1: but they're precious and um yeah. So yeah, so we're
Speaker 1: I'm driving, Um, I'm about to go to Dallas spend
Speaker 1: the night there. I'm trying to do as much on
Speaker 1: the way there as i can while still like staying
Speaker 1: on a schedule where I could get to l a
Speaker 1: like as soon as possible. But I'm glad to see
Speaker 1: my aunt who lives like a little more of Dallas,
Speaker 1: and she'll get to meet my boyfriend Sam easier. He's
Speaker 1: sleeping um. And then where I have a couple of
Speaker 1: fun stops specifically, and oh, we're staying at this place
Speaker 1: in Albuquerque and it is a filming location for Breaking Bad.
Speaker 1: I did not believe Sam when I was looking on
Speaker 1: Airbnb and he was like, Oh my god, that's like
Speaker 1: a place from Bringing Bad. And I was like, no
Speaker 1: way they would have it in the title if it
Speaker 1: was like from No Shot and No Shot would be
Speaker 1: this inexpensive. And um, I read the description and it
Speaker 1: absolutely was so five points to Sam for that one.
Speaker 1: And then we're going to Arizona or to see the
Speaker 1: Grand Canyon for the first time, and then we're doing
Speaker 1: a couple of places that I've already done there. I
Speaker 1: actually really freaking love Arizona. I think it's so cool.
Speaker 1: It's very hot. But um, we're going to Sedona to
Speaker 1: see the Psychic vor Texas if you haven't heard of
Speaker 1: those incredible fun fact. Also, the word for Texas is
Speaker 1: not a word. It is only used in the context
Speaker 1: of the title of these Psychic Vortexes, but that's what
Speaker 1: they're called. So um. And then we're going to go
Speaker 1: to this ghost town called Jerome and one of the
Speaker 1: guys who's in the band Tool. It's a literal ghost town.
Speaker 1: It used to be population and now it's like under
Speaker 1: five hundreds, so it's classified officially as a ghost city.
Speaker 1: And there's like a bunch of ruins that still remain
Speaker 1: in like there's an old jail and there's still like
Speaker 1: a bed in this old eighteen hundreds jail. Very cowboy vibes.
Speaker 1: But one of the guys in Tool has a store there,
Speaker 1: and it's just like this like rock and roll store
Speaker 1: in the middle of a ghost town, and like people definitely,
Speaker 1: like tourists definitely go there. It's not like a unexplored
Speaker 1: ghost town, but it is very, very very cool and
Speaker 1: some getting to show say on a lot of these
Speaker 1: places they've seen while I've been on tour, and I
Speaker 1: really thought about that. And then we will get to
Speaker 1: l A. We're doing like mostly like Root sixty six
Speaker 1: after Arizona said that, I'll be really fun and then um,
Speaker 1: we'll get to l A on Saturday. Then then like
Speaker 1: this new phase of my life starts. But it's it's crazy,
Speaker 1: you know, like I'm in this interesting like mental space
Speaker 1: right now because Nashville is so important to me for
Speaker 1: so long and leaving it is hitting harder. I was
Speaker 1: kind of in a weird mood all this past week,
Speaker 1: and I think it's just because I'm realizing how much
Speaker 1: I've changed and how much my life has changed. My
Speaker 1: relationships have changed, and even my goals have changed, and
Speaker 1: so like, you know, looking at this big of of
Speaker 1: you know, I don't want to say change again. I
Speaker 1: can't think another word. Um, this big of a like move, mom,
Speaker 1: that's another good work for it. This big of a
Speaker 1: move is like really cementing how much and everything is
Speaker 1: different than it was when I was national years So
Speaker 1: we'll talk a little bit more about that. We're a
Speaker 1: different break. I would just like to apologize once again
Speaker 1: for the audio quality. There's a lot of construction happening
Speaker 1: right here. So it's just like Poplo city. I don't
Speaker 1: know what town I'm in, but it's a potlo city.
Speaker 1: And yeah, so all of that being said, like Nashville
Speaker 1: was such a huge, huge change for me from my small,
Speaker 1: you know city that I'm from Portland, Maine, which is beautiful.
Speaker 1: It's on the coast. It's amazing, but it's also like
Speaker 1: there's no music scene. Everybody knows everybody, everybody's related to everybody.
Speaker 1: And when I moved to Nashville right after high school,
Speaker 1: I was like looking around and I was just dumbfounded
Speaker 1: how big it was. And I was like, there's no
Speaker 1: way I'm ever going to explore this whole city. There's
Speaker 1: no way. And then you know, nine years later, I'm like, Okay,
Speaker 1: well I've seen I've seen quite a bit of it,
Speaker 1: and that being sad, I've seen a lot of the
Speaker 1: really good parts of it, but a lot of the
Speaker 1: really bad parts of it too, And I'm personally very
Speaker 1: excited to have some space from that because I want
Speaker 1: to be able to miss Nashville again. I want to
Speaker 1: be able to I want to be able to look
Speaker 1: at it and think fondly of it and not just
Speaker 1: be like hit in the phase with all these horrible
Speaker 1: memories and like relationships gone wrong and friendships gone wrong
Speaker 1: and all of this stuff that happened there. And I
Speaker 1: know that it's not all Nashville's fault. I mean, that
Speaker 1: ship just happens in your early twenties, like Perry it,
Speaker 1: but it definitely some of it's Nationals fault. And this
Speaker 1: is also my first time in since twenty four team
Speaker 1: because it's my first time. It's not playing songs oft
Speaker 1: for Deutsu at cmafest or playing Smifest in journal. So
Speaker 1: that's an interesting feeling too, because if you guys have
Speaker 1: ever been to Cifest and see me play, or you've
Speaker 1: been to my fan club party that I've had every year,
Speaker 1: it's such a special time. But I'm in this like
Speaker 1: in between, like am I doing country? Am I not
Speaker 1: this genre? Even matter? Do I have to pick? I
Speaker 1: don't know. I literally changed my Instagram bio yesterday too.
Speaker 1: I don't know, ask me later. And that's pretty much
Speaker 1: my life motto right now. But it's just weird to see,
Speaker 1: you know, this thing that I used to look forward
Speaker 1: to would be so like participate so actively and then
Speaker 1: just like not be doing it and instead to be
Speaker 1: moving now life. I don't think I would have believed
Speaker 1: you if you told me that this was going to happen.
Speaker 1: I'm even think I would have believed you. Like last year,
Speaker 1: I'm like, no way, And but I mean I made
Speaker 1: up my mind this past February. I was just like,
Speaker 1: I gotta do it, and yeah, sometimes you have to
Speaker 1: light your world on fire. Sometimes you just have to
Speaker 1: do it. And I am a big proponent of that.
Speaker 1: I think all of the best things that have happened
Speaker 1: to me have come from me taking a huge jump
Speaker 1: that scared the ship out of me and just like
Speaker 1: figuring everything else out later. Like, truthfully, can I afford
Speaker 1: to move to Los Angeles? No, I really can't. I'm
Speaker 1: a musician and I still not have not been able
Speaker 1: to tour like full time as I was able to
Speaker 1: uh pre pandemic. Um, I cannot afford to move to
Speaker 1: Los Angeles right now, but I just like to do
Speaker 1: it anyways, assuming everything will fall into place. And um,
Speaker 1: it did end up calling into place a little bit,
Speaker 1: especially with the whole like getting hit by a garbage
Speaker 1: truck and then getting a new car in talkinging some
Speaker 1: of the insurance prepare money, what you're allowed to do?
Speaker 1: You are allowed to do that, by the way, Um
Speaker 1: so that worked out about as well as getting hit
Speaker 1: by a dump truck could. But yeah, things fall into place,
Speaker 1: and even like Nashville, like I mean, I don't. Here's
Speaker 1: the thing. I have a friend who wants to move
Speaker 1: to l A. And he's been talking about it for
Speaker 1: a really long time and he's like, Oh, I'm just
Speaker 1: like waiting to have enough money and I'm like, dude,
Speaker 1: you are never You're never going to have enough money
Speaker 1: to move across the factory. You're never going to have
Speaker 1: enough money to do that. There's like what's the right amount?
Speaker 1: You know, you have to just do it and figure
Speaker 1: it out, and you might have to do ridiculous things
Speaker 1: for money, um, but you just have to You just
Speaker 1: have to do it. Like I mean obviously, like you
Speaker 1: have you know enough for like rent and like the
Speaker 1: gas to get there, but you just have to believe
Speaker 1: that it's all going to work out, because like, no
Speaker 1: amount of cushion is going to be enough to convince
Speaker 1: you that you can uproot your life. You just have
Speaker 1: to be convinced that you're gonna uproot your life and
Speaker 1: it'll all work out. And truthfully, poor people move across
Speaker 1: the country to Los Angeles every single fucking day so
Speaker 1: that they become famous and not pour anymore. And um, yeah,
Speaker 1: people make it work. It's like thinking it and it
Speaker 1: feels very very weird. So obviously, these past few episodes
Speaker 1: have been a little bit different than the normal format.
Speaker 1: You know, there hasn't been any interviews, and I haven't
Speaker 1: really been doing themed episodes because I've just been in
Speaker 1: move mode. But now that it's over and I can
Speaker 1: work out of a really cute little studio in l A.
Speaker 1: It was just fun. I got to do the Eve
Speaker 1: six episode there. That was fun. I felt so professional.
Speaker 1: It was like it was like big girl radio studio
Speaker 1: and had this guy the lead singer of like one
Speaker 1: of my favorite bands, and I was just like, oh,
Speaker 1: welcome to my mouth is like I've ever even been
Speaker 1: there before that Monday. But i am going I have
Speaker 1: a lot of really fun episodes planned, a lot of interviews,
Speaker 1: and I'm really excited for this next phase of the podcast.
Speaker 1: There's a whole other like lame for it to go
Speaker 1: now being between l A and Nashville, and We're gonna
Speaker 1: be able to tell more stories. I'm gonna have more stories.
Speaker 1: I already have so much ship plan for like the
Speaker 1: first week that I'm there. I'm like, bullish it. I'm
Speaker 1: gonna have I'm gonna have a lot of grey stories.
Speaker 1: So um, this is going to be like this is
Speaker 1: like a little This has been like a little intermission
Speaker 1: between phase one of the podcast and phase two. But
Speaker 1: thank you guys for sticking around and listening. I appreciate
Speaker 1: all of you so much. I appreciate um you listening.
Speaker 1: I'm so thankful to Bobby Bones and I Heart and
Speaker 1: the National Podcast Network and um Mike and Abby who
Speaker 1: were like relentlessly on this podcast and just always put
Speaker 1: up with me be late piece of ship. I mm hmmm.
Speaker 1: I never you know, I never overpromised. I never let
Speaker 1: anybody think that I'm going to be anything other than that.
Speaker 1: So I like to think that that gives me a
Speaker 1: little bit of amnesty there. Um. I still do believe
Speaker 1: it's something I couldn't should work on, but um, I'm
Speaker 1: very excited to see where this goes. And I mean
Speaker 1: not in the broadest sense of the term. But I'm
Speaker 1: going to get back to this several thousand mile drive
Speaker 1: and I will keep you guys updated and I'll see
Speaker 1: you next week. Thanks so much for listening. I'm paily
Speaker 1: sure and this is too much to say. Don't going
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