Speaker 1: Welcome to my podcast Loves Someone, where I try to
Speaker 1: share a little goodness, a little hope, a little inspiration
Speaker 1: with each new episode. And welcome spring, Spring finally here.
Speaker 1: It's been a long time coming, hasn't it. But it's here.
Speaker 1: Time to put the winter blues in our rear view
Speaker 1: and turn our faces to the sun. There is much
Speaker 1: to look forward to here on the farm. We've got
Speaker 1: three new baby lambs, four new baby goats, two new calves.
Speaker 1: We have a breed of cows called Highlanders, and two
Speaker 1: of the Highlanders have baby cows, both of them little bulls.
Speaker 1: The pastures have greened up, uh. The azelia blooms are brightening,
Speaker 1: the garden beds, that cherry trees are blooming. I've even
Speaker 1: got some early peas sending shoots up out of the ground.
Speaker 1: It's a season of new life, to season of fresh beginnings.
Speaker 1: I know that we are all eager to start a
Speaker 1: new chapter in life. In fact, the Eastern season seems
Speaker 1: a much better time than New Year's to make some resolutions.
Speaker 1: If you have enjoyed your own cooking, I'll let all
Speaker 1: too much. My hand is waving in the air over here.
Speaker 1: Oh boy, the COVID fifteen we call it, or maybe
Speaker 1: you haven't been as active as you need to be.
Speaker 1: Then accept the invitation of the longer days. Go outside
Speaker 1: and take a nice stroll. I've been trying to get
Speaker 1: ten thousand steps a day in um really frustrated when
Speaker 1: my phone shuts off because the battery's dead and it
Speaker 1: doesn't log my steps. I'm like, that's not fair. I
Speaker 1: did my steps. Maybe you should get a couple of
Speaker 1: planter boxes and try your hand at growing some tomatoes
Speaker 1: or salad, fixing some let us. You can't mess up
Speaker 1: growing let us, you really can't. Super easy. You will
Speaker 1: be amazed at how much better veggies taste when you
Speaker 1: raise them yourself, when they're picked and eat and fresh,
Speaker 1: when there's no chemicals. There's no comparison to that at
Speaker 1: your local grocer. Maybe you pick up a new hobby
Speaker 1: this year, painting or creating. I recently had a phenomenal
Speaker 1: guest on this show, Annie f Downs. She was on
Speaker 1: my podcast, Who's made a living out of encouraging people
Speaker 1: to have fun, to prioritize having fun, to make it
Speaker 1: an important and integral part of their lives and their families. Lives.
Speaker 1: Hobbies like gardening reading, photography, textile crafts, beating all these
Speaker 1: things that busy your hands and busy, Uh, keep your
Speaker 1: keep you your energy flowing, but quiet, the overthinking brain,
Speaker 1: playing games with family and friends cooking together. Uh. She
Speaker 1: had all sorts of great ideas water fights on summer afternoons.
Speaker 1: Whose fights things to strengthen the bonds of our relationships
Speaker 1: and bring purpose to life. It was a fun podcast.
Speaker 1: If you didn't catch it, you should listen in after
Speaker 1: you finished with this episode. But on this episode did
Speaker 1: I mention I have one of the biggest country super
Speaker 1: stars joining me today? How big you ask? Well? He
Speaker 1: is a three time Grammy winner, has sixteen Academy of
Speaker 1: Country Music Awards, four teen Country Music Association Awards. Just
Speaker 1: off the top, he's the most played country artist in
Speaker 1: radio since his debut in nineteen nine D two with
Speaker 1: two singles spending ten weeks or more at number one.
Speaker 1: Have you figured it out yet? Here are a couple
Speaker 1: of more hints. He is a faith full family man.
Speaker 1: Faithful family man who thinks two of the best qualities
Speaker 1: to nurture in oneself and others is to be humble
Speaker 1: and kind. I'm so pleased to be joined today. I
Speaker 1: Love Someone by country legend Tim McGraw, right after I
Speaker 1: sing a little love song to our podcast sponsor, who
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Speaker 1: this great work. Is this my sweetheart, Tim McGraw, How
Speaker 1: nice to talk to you. I am wonderful. How are you.
Speaker 1: I've missed you. That's good talking to you. I'm missed
Speaker 1: talking to you as well. It's it's been a crazy year, right,
Speaker 1: it has been a crazy year. How is faith? Faith
Speaker 1: is great? You know. The girls are great. They're spread
Speaker 1: out all over the place. We've got to California and
Speaker 1: one in New York. So we're bouncing around driving. We're
Speaker 1: driving a lot because we don't want to fly right now,
Speaker 1: so we're driving quite a bit to go visit girl.
Speaker 1: So they they've been there all during the shutdown. They
Speaker 1: were during the Christmas part. They were with us for
Speaker 1: about four weeks and which was fantastic. We we never
Speaker 1: left our house. We had all of our girls. They're
Speaker 1: a couple of friends who were who were trusted and
Speaker 1: tested and everything, and so we had, you know, a
Speaker 1: group of it was me and like eight women. No,
Speaker 1: no wonder, Tim McGrath, you are so good at sappy
Speaker 1: love songs. No I need I need to. I'm gonna
Speaker 1: cut a testosterone fueled, you know, rocking album next time.
Speaker 1: I think after after all this, yeah, sure you are sure.
Speaker 1: You are a couple of things. I want to talk
Speaker 1: about your big project, your new release that I can't
Speaker 1: wait to see because there's like the audio version, in
Speaker 1: the video version, your digital deluxe version number one album,
Speaker 1: Here on Earth. It's all coming together. You know. It's
Speaker 1: one of those things that when we holidays, when um
Speaker 1: Tyler Hud sent me Undivided, it's sort of changed our
Speaker 1: whole program of what we were going to do. Um.
Speaker 1: You know, we had a couple of singles that were
Speaker 1: that we're ready to go and songs that we're ready
Speaker 1: to go off the Here on Earth album, and then
Speaker 1: when we found this song, Tyler sent it to me
Speaker 1: and I asked him about it and he said, well,
Speaker 1: I want you to cut it, and I'm like, well,
Speaker 1: if we cut this song, I want you to do
Speaker 1: it with me. And now it's really the only time
Speaker 1: that we can do it because it's not going to
Speaker 1: make as much sense down the road as it does now.
Speaker 1: Now is when it's really sort of a cathartist and needed.
Speaker 1: But you must have had people, I know you have
Speaker 1: who have come to you and said, this song at
Speaker 1: this time was so instrumental in my life, because well,
Speaker 1: music has a way of doing that in all circumstances.
Speaker 1: By the way, I think that music has always been
Speaker 1: a healing bomb, a bomb for our soul in so
Speaker 1: many circumstances in our lives, but in this particular circumstances,
Speaker 1: it's a it's a matter of what is the best choice.
Speaker 1: The best choice is to move forward with finding ways
Speaker 1: that we can get along. That's what country has always
Speaker 1: been built on. That's what our foundations have always built on.
Speaker 1: Now that's what families have been built on. Families don't
Speaker 1: even get along, but we move forward with love and
Speaker 1: respect for each other and respect for each other's opinion.
Speaker 1: And that's what this song means. Well, I love it,
Speaker 1: love it, love it, love it, love it on so
Speaker 1: many levels. And I can't wait to see this, uh,
Speaker 1: this whole compilation because, like you said, there's a lot
Speaker 1: of delicious little treats gravity from the free solo projects.
Speaker 1: We want my favorite songs I've ever written, and one
Speaker 1: of my favorite projects I've ever been part of, And
Speaker 1: then to write a song with my wife and have
Speaker 1: it be the closing credit songs of one of my
Speaker 1: favorite movies I've ever done, The Shack, and what that
Speaker 1: means to people, and what that book has meant to
Speaker 1: people in and in turn, what that movie is meant
Speaker 1: to people, and then in turn after that what that
Speaker 1: song is meant to people? When I heard your sweet
Speaker 1: voice narrating it, and then you know you're part in it,
Speaker 1: and then and then the music, it just came together
Speaker 1: so beautifully. Well, it's it's such a special message, you know,
Speaker 1: in a lot of ways that it takes you to places,
Speaker 1: makes open your eyes the things that you may not
Speaker 1: have considered. And to me, that's that's the most beautiful
Speaker 1: thing about film in general and art in generalism when
Speaker 1: it opens your eyes the things that you may not
Speaker 1: have considered and put you in a position to question,
Speaker 1: you know, what are what are are the real things
Speaker 1: in my life? What are the things matter? What are
Speaker 1: the things that really moved me? What are the things
Speaker 1: that really that really are my eternal life? In a
Speaker 1: lot of way, how do you? How do you what
Speaker 1: do you look at as eternal life? Is that your
Speaker 1: family is or your legacy that you leave? What are
Speaker 1: the things that really makes you become aware and wake
Speaker 1: you up to what your soul is? And I think
Speaker 1: that that's what that book did. I think that's what
Speaker 1: that movie did, and and we like to think that
Speaker 1: that that's what our song did. Is being a part
Speaker 1: of it. So Here on Earth is available when, Oh
Speaker 1: you're asking our own guy, I'll tell you when, because
Speaker 1: my sister sent me the notes April six. You're smarter
Speaker 1: than you, way ahead of the game than I am.
Speaker 1: Here on Earth Ultimate Edition and Here on Earth Ultimate
Speaker 1: Video Edition. So is every song? Did you do a
Speaker 1: video for every song? Every song? There's a few things,
Speaker 1: you know, there's a few things on there that really
Speaker 1: wanted it and really stood out that said that raised
Speaker 1: it tan, that said that we needed to do something
Speaker 1: special for this song. So not every song has it,
Speaker 1: but we felt like it was a good idea to
Speaker 1: put as much as we could visually visual content on
Speaker 1: the record. And how many of those have visual content
Speaker 1: of your beautiful wife? Oh, Josh, I don't you know.
Speaker 1: I don't know that any of you. Oh my gosh, Tim,
Speaker 1: what are you thinking? Well? I know, I mean, I
Speaker 1: mean she can't. It's not just that she sings like
Speaker 1: an angel. But you you, you've done good. She is
Speaker 1: so faith ill Is is one of my favorite female
Speaker 1: recording artists of all times. And even though she is
Speaker 1: a knockout and and physically just lovely to behold and
Speaker 1: look at um every time I've talked to her or
Speaker 1: met her. She is as real and down to earth
Speaker 1: as anybody you could ever meet. On She's the best.
Speaker 1: She's the best all the way around. I mean I
Speaker 1: and I, like Brett Farve told me when Faith and
Speaker 1: I got married, he said, son, you way out putting
Speaker 1: your coverage, not just physically, but in every way. I mean,
Speaker 1: she is spiritually, emotionally, um as a human being, as
Speaker 1: an artist, in every single way she she exceeds me,
Speaker 1: and that makes me want to be better. Whatever you
Speaker 1: guys are doing, you're doing, you're doing it right, You're
Speaker 1: doing it well. And I think your your kids in
Speaker 1: your life is a testimony to all that we'll we
Speaker 1: we do have some great kids. I mean, we are
Speaker 1: really proud of our daughters and we're proud of the
Speaker 1: sprint that they have and in the way that they're
Speaker 1: willing to stand up for themselves and other people and
Speaker 1: for us that that's that's a testament to the in
Speaker 1: parances our kids haven't the freedom to feel to do
Speaker 1: the things that they feel. All right, what different paths
Speaker 1: have they decided to pursue. Maggie or a middle daughter,
Speaker 1: is finishing up her master's program. At Stanford, which is
Speaker 1: fantastic and we're still proud of her. And then our
Speaker 1: youngest is in New York City and she's an actress
Speaker 1: um sort of working a job now as a production
Speaker 1: assistant on a on a cable TV program and waiting
Speaker 1: for the world open up so she can pursue her career.
Speaker 1: So all slackers just you know, not really doing anything.
Speaker 1: I'm probably the slacker in our family. I got to
Speaker 1: get up every morning and motivate myself. Yeah, yeah, that's that.
Speaker 1: The slacker is exactly the word that I would attach
Speaker 1: to you, Jim McGrath. Not not when I look at
Speaker 1: all the projects you've been involved within, all the music,
Speaker 1: and all the charities that you support and and just
Speaker 1: all the goodness that you pour into the world, you
Speaker 1: were anything but a slackers. We feel so blessed and
Speaker 1: fortunate and and you know, we all know that anything
Speaker 1: good comes from working hard, and anything good will go
Speaker 1: away if you don't work hard. So we we we
Speaker 1: believe in working hard in our family and trying to
Speaker 1: do the best that we can for everybody around. And
Speaker 1: it's been a tough year. It's been a tough year
Speaker 1: for everybody. It works for us. It's been a tough
Speaker 1: year for our road crew, it's been a tough here
Speaker 1: for our extended family. So um we we and humbled
Speaker 1: in a lot of ways to see out there and
Speaker 1: see the hard work and the resilience and and the
Speaker 1: care that people take with each other. You know, when
Speaker 1: when we started, when all these things started happening, and
Speaker 1: and everybody's trying to social distance and trying to get
Speaker 1: music to everybody and still trying to to try to,
Speaker 1: you know, be present. I mean, how many times have
Speaker 1: you gone on Instagram and see some an artist singing
Speaker 1: in front of a fireplace? And I'm guilty enough to
Speaker 1: say that I've done it probably five or six times.
Speaker 1: I feel like we're all kind of in this limbo
Speaker 1: and in this negativity. And if I can pour some
Speaker 1: joy and pour some of God's love and faith and
Speaker 1: goodness into the world for half an hour an hour day, uh,
Speaker 1: you know, I want to do that. And it's been
Speaker 1: creative to see how people have come together, and especially
Speaker 1: the artistic community, to come together and put music forward
Speaker 1: and try to uplift people's spirits during all this time.
Speaker 1: But I can tell you you feel the same way.
Speaker 1: None of us can wait until we can go out
Speaker 1: and play a lot. I know, please, please please let
Speaker 1: us get back to our life. Because you can watch movies,
Speaker 1: you can do all sorts of things, but there is nothing,
Speaker 1: I mean, there is nothing that replaces live music in
Speaker 1: that collective experience that that happens when everyone sort of
Speaker 1: signs this mutual contract that they're going in and s
Speaker 1: spending reality for two hours and having a great time
Speaker 1: and what we need at what do we miss that?
Speaker 1: And I think that once we have a chance to
Speaker 1: do that again, I think everybody's going to go see everybody,
Speaker 1: even people they don't like, they're going to go see
Speaker 1: just because they want to hear love music again. Well,
Speaker 1: I can't wait for that. Thank you, Tim for spending
Speaker 1: this time with us. I know you've got a million
Speaker 1: things to do. Please tell your family. I send my blessings,
Speaker 1: I send my love, and I just I just love you.
Speaker 1: I appreciate you so much. I pray that God just
Speaker 1: blesses your heart with the deepest desires of your heart.
Speaker 1: H Well, thank you, Delia. It's always a joy to
Speaker 1: talk to you. And you've always been so good to
Speaker 1: us and and basons are loved. Girl. Send their love
Speaker 1: and hopefully we'll see Nanna roads and all right, God
Speaker 1: bless Bubbye honey bub by. Singer, songwriter, actor, producer, husband, father, friend.
Speaker 1: Tim McGrath has been a household name for several decades now,
Speaker 1: and yet he stays true to his own best advice,
Speaker 1: which is to remain humble and kind. The sharing of
Speaker 1: his talents makes life a little easier when you're listening
Speaker 1: on your way home from work, a little lighter during
Speaker 1: lunch with your family, more meaningful when you're dancing with
Speaker 1: your sweetheart on date night, and a whole lot more
Speaker 1: fun if you're lucky enough to attend one of his
Speaker 1: high energy live concerts. It is said of the Here
Speaker 1: on Earth Ultimate Additions that they offer a collection of
Speaker 1: songs brought together to create vignettes of shared human emotions
Speaker 1: such as love, relationship, introspection, and fun. I think you
Speaker 1: and I can agree that's exactly what Tim McGraw does.
Speaker 1: Not just Tim McGraw, but the music that he creates.
Speaker 1: It creates relationships, introspection and fun. Both are available on
Speaker 1: April six, you could pre order any time before that.
Speaker 1: Thank you for joining me today, My friends, take my
Speaker 1: last couple of podcasts, Guest advice stay humble and kind
Speaker 1: and never put fun on the back burner. Have some
Speaker 1: fun and join me next time I love someone