WEBVTT - Corey Crowder 0:00:09.320 --> 0:00:14.880 Carola. She's a queen of talking. He was sown your man. 0:00:16.000 --> 0:00:18.239 She's only yes side. You got the snoop on the 0:00:19.160 --> 0:00:28.360 on the on side. No one can do within clide Carola, Carola, 0:00:29.640 --> 0:00:36.320 No one can do within Cli Carola Carolina. Hey y'all, 0:00:36.320 --> 0:00:39.800 welcome to Hyper Caroline Hobby. I am your host, Caroline Hobby. 0:00:40.240 --> 0:00:42.519 I know music, I know people, and I know the 0:00:42.640 --> 0:00:45.440 questions do you want to ask? So let's get hyper 0:00:46.560 --> 0:00:49.479 heads up. These are adults having adult conversations, so there 0:00:49.479 --> 0:00:54.280 could be adult content. Hey y'all, welcome to Hyper Caroline Hobby. 0:00:54.400 --> 0:00:57.800 I am Caroline Hobby. And this week we have Corey Crowder. 0:00:58.720 --> 0:01:01.520 He is a ball are a producer. He just produced 0:01:01.520 --> 0:01:05.000 all of Chris Young's album. He's also producing Cassidy Pope 0:01:05.520 --> 0:01:07.920 and he's a hit songwriter. He wrote I'm coming over 0:01:08.240 --> 0:01:11.520 and thank of you for Chris Young and thank of you? 0:01:11.600 --> 0:01:13.759 What could you wet with christ Young and Cassidy Pope? 0:01:13.800 --> 0:01:16.080 That was off the chain. And he just had a 0:01:16.160 --> 0:01:19.000 baby girl named Carolina Joy. We were talking about it 0:01:19.040 --> 0:01:21.000 in the interview and she wasn't out the oven yet 0:01:21.040 --> 0:01:23.200 and she just popped out a little sweet girl named 0:01:23.240 --> 0:01:27.600 Carolina Joy. So y'all get ready to welcome the amazing 0:01:27.720 --> 0:01:35.680 Corey Crowder. Hi, Corey Crowders. How's it going. Well, I'm 0:01:35.720 --> 0:01:37.800 so excited to be here with you today. I'm excited 0:01:37.800 --> 0:01:40.119 to be here and a lot of people. It's really 0:01:40.160 --> 0:01:43.760 exciting too because you're like my husband, Michael's doppelganger and 0:01:44.280 --> 0:01:47.400 brother from another mother. Yep, he's uh, he's one of my 0:01:47.360 --> 0:01:51.960 my best buds ever and y'all match the match. He's 0:01:52.000 --> 0:01:56.520 the long haired rock star version of me. Oh whatever, 0:01:56.560 --> 0:02:01.040 you are both ripped, yeah, yeah, shredded and I got 0:02:01.040 --> 0:02:06.200 that dad body right now? What is the dad bought exactly? 0:02:07.880 --> 0:02:10.760 Do you really want to Yeah, it's like, you know, 0:02:11.680 --> 0:02:15.320 pounds of extra loving you know, maybe a little man boob, 0:02:15.440 --> 0:02:18.440 maybe a little you know tie around the waist. Well, 0:02:18.480 --> 0:02:20.840 you have more people to love, Hey, there's a lot 0:02:20.840 --> 0:02:22.440 of me to love well, and that you have to 0:02:22.480 --> 0:02:24.799 love your wife, your son, and you have a new 0:02:24.840 --> 0:02:27.560 baby coming, so I just need more of me to 0:02:27.800 --> 0:02:30.119 get to give that. Yeah, that's why that makes sense 0:02:30.120 --> 0:02:32.600 to daddy sonic. I had this morning that just that 0:02:32.680 --> 0:02:34.680 was just to give love. It's all you could do 0:02:35.240 --> 0:02:37.320 sometimes it's the only option. Yeah, it was. That was 0:02:37.360 --> 0:02:39.639 all I had that was urban Juicer down the road, 0:02:39.680 --> 0:02:42.320 but Sonic was like, now, iurban juicer looks like I'll 0:02:42.360 --> 0:02:43.840 be just stressed out the rest of the day and 0:02:43.880 --> 0:02:45.680 then it might give you, like the runs or something 0:02:45.720 --> 0:02:49.560 because of that vegetable juice. Sonic definitely doesn't give you 0:02:49.600 --> 0:02:53.720 the runs, right, Okay, So I'm gonna start off with 0:02:53.760 --> 0:02:57.880 a few questions. All right, m are you ready? I'm ready. 0:02:59.520 --> 0:03:02.880 If you're for a song, what would the title be? 0:03:02.880 --> 0:03:06.160 Because you're a hit songwriter, so that's only fitting my 0:03:06.240 --> 0:03:11.600 life for a song. Uh, it would be a long 0:03:12.000 --> 0:03:16.400 the long and bumpy road. Why do you say that? Uh, 0:03:16.560 --> 0:03:19.800 it's been along with bump your own but awesome, it's 0:03:19.840 --> 0:03:24.600 been It's at least been scenic, right yeah, I mean, 0:03:24.760 --> 0:03:28.200 you know, the the two minute version is. You know, 0:03:28.280 --> 0:03:35.080 I started out playing bars. I'm from Georgia, small town Loganville. 0:03:35.640 --> 0:03:39.960 Um started playing bars, and then just like everybody, and 0:03:39.960 --> 0:03:44.320 then that turned into that turned into like writing for 0:03:44.480 --> 0:03:45.920 I wrote a bunch of TV stuff. I had a 0:03:45.960 --> 0:03:49.000 bunch of TV songs on TV shows, which, Okay, tell 0:03:49.080 --> 0:03:51.760 that story because that's really interesting, random and like it 0:03:51.800 --> 0:03:54.280 doesn't happen to everyone, right, So I mean I was 0:03:54.320 --> 0:03:56.360 just a kid who thought I was just gonna play 0:03:56.400 --> 0:03:58.920 bars for fun, and then I had music on my 0:03:59.080 --> 0:04:02.360 Space if you remember much Oh gosh, yeah, like dating 0:04:02.400 --> 0:04:05.160 myself now that we're old. I mean the fact that 0:04:05.280 --> 0:04:07.880 my space is like no young kids even know what 0:04:07.920 --> 0:04:10.880 that is. I know, well three MP three dot com 0:04:11.080 --> 0:04:13.320 was was my first. You know, nobody even remembers that. 0:04:13.320 --> 0:04:14.880 I don't even know what that is. So yeah, so 0:04:15.040 --> 0:04:19.080 why the same age? How you turned thirty three this 0:04:19.160 --> 0:04:26.440 year to twins? Um? So okay. So the guy from 0:04:26.440 --> 0:04:30.560 Buna Murray, which does like Real World road Rules, the 0:04:30.680 --> 0:04:34.159 Kardashians all that stuff. Anyway, he calls me and he's like, 0:04:34.240 --> 0:04:36.039 you want to be a cast member on Real World. 0:04:36.120 --> 0:04:40.200 We're casting like a musicians aspiring to do this, And 0:04:40.320 --> 0:04:41.919 I just knew what they were gonna do to me. 0:04:42.200 --> 0:04:43.960 They will put me on the show, and they put 0:04:44.000 --> 0:04:46.000 me they get me drunk, and they put like a 0:04:46.040 --> 0:04:48.920 bunch of beautiful women around me and make me look 0:04:48.960 --> 0:04:51.159 like the guy, the jerk that you know, and that's 0:04:51.160 --> 0:04:54.040 just not your personality. No, it couldn't be any less 0:04:54.080 --> 0:04:56.039 a personality. So I was like, man, I'm not going 0:04:56.120 --> 0:04:58.240 to fulfill the role you want me to fill. I'm 0:04:58.880 --> 0:05:02.400 so about you just use my music, And I was joking, really, 0:05:02.880 --> 0:05:05.440 how old were you at this point, like nineteen? Oh 0:05:05.480 --> 0:05:07.760 my gosh, okay, and uh and I just recorded stuff 0:05:07.800 --> 0:05:10.240 in my room, you know, just on acoustic and he 0:05:10.320 --> 0:05:12.440 was like, okay, I'd love to do that. And I 0:05:12.480 --> 0:05:15.039 swear from that point on, they just started using the 0:05:15.160 --> 0:05:17.440 crap out of it. So you recorded all this music 0:05:17.440 --> 0:05:20.840 and it went straight into like real world episodes. Oh wait, 0:05:20.880 --> 0:05:23.520 some of the things you had, Biggest Loser, MTVS, Real World, 0:05:23.600 --> 0:05:27.840 Bad Girls, One Tree Hill. Uh, yeah, that's crazy and 0:05:27.960 --> 0:05:31.479 TV places are that's like some serious dough for a kid. 0:05:31.720 --> 0:05:35.720 It was, yeah, and it's instant. It is instant. And 0:05:36.880 --> 0:05:38.920 because people don't realize, like when you get a single 0:05:39.080 --> 0:05:40.440 or when you write a song and it gets on 0:05:40.440 --> 0:05:43.240 an album of an artist, it might take years to 0:05:43.320 --> 0:05:45.359 release and then you might not even ever get a 0:05:45.360 --> 0:05:48.360 single or much money. Yeah. Yeah, you might not get 0:05:48.360 --> 0:05:51.000 money at all, um, especially because if you have to 0:05:51.040 --> 0:05:53.600 recoup from a publishing deal or something. Yeah, I had 0:05:53.680 --> 0:05:56.200 no publishing. I didn't even know what publishing was. So 0:05:56.279 --> 0:06:01.200 you're like rolling in dough at nineteen. I was paying 0:06:01.240 --> 0:06:04.479 my bills, but so it did kind of give me 0:06:04.520 --> 0:06:06.120 this like, oh my god, I could do music for 0:06:06.160 --> 0:06:09.120 a living. And so I ended up signing an independent 0:06:09.160 --> 0:06:12.360 record deal and then I didn't go so well, and 0:06:12.400 --> 0:06:15.280 then I just it was it was kind of a 0:06:15.400 --> 0:06:18.240 Christian based thing. But I really wasn't a Christian artist. Wait, 0:06:18.320 --> 0:06:21.239 wasn't your band called your first band called Farewell to Arms? 0:06:21.760 --> 0:06:26.039 It was? I was really into Dashboard Confessional and I 0:06:26.080 --> 0:06:28.360 wanted to be him so bad, so I was like, 0:06:28.640 --> 0:06:32.160 I just named myself something like a band, called myself 0:06:32.200 --> 0:06:34.280 a feral to Arms. It worked, I mean for that 0:06:34.320 --> 0:06:36.560 scene of music, it worked. Was that your first record deal? 0:06:36.680 --> 0:06:38.920 That band? No. I ended up going by Corey Crowder 0:06:39.000 --> 0:06:41.839 on the record deal. Um, but I wasn't a Christian 0:06:41.920 --> 0:06:44.480 artist and they were pushing me as one. It didn't work. 0:06:44.520 --> 0:06:49.080 I didn't I had no business being in that genre. Um. 0:06:49.120 --> 0:06:51.360 But anyway, it's kind of taught me a few lessons 0:06:51.360 --> 0:06:55.800 and ended up getting a developmental deal with Sony. Uh. 0:06:55.839 --> 0:06:59.080 That brought me back to Nashville. And back to Nashville. 0:06:59.200 --> 0:07:02.000 I lived to Nashville for like eight months when all 0:07:02.000 --> 0:07:04.680 the Christian stuff is going on, and it was I 0:07:04.760 --> 0:07:07.919 just I didn't know anybody. It was kind of depressing 0:07:07.960 --> 0:07:11.560 being here when you don't know anybody young and just 0:07:11.640 --> 0:07:16.440 like broke because it's so expensive here, just so broke, golly. 0:07:16.720 --> 0:07:19.240 I mean, me and Landy used to eat are like 0:07:19.920 --> 0:07:22.920 really nice meal. Was going to outback and eating French 0:07:22.960 --> 0:07:29.680 onion soup and free bread. That was really nice. Aren't 0:07:29.680 --> 0:07:32.400 you glad you had the hungry years though? Yes, no doubt, 0:07:32.480 --> 0:07:34.960 because it makes you who you are, it does. I'm 0:07:35.040 --> 0:07:38.760 very thankful for him. We're spoiled now. But they But 0:07:38.840 --> 0:07:41.600 I had a developmental deal that introduced me to every 0:07:41.640 --> 0:07:43.680 writer in town that I wanted, had ever wanted to 0:07:43.680 --> 0:07:46.280 write with. And it's such a huge writing community here, 0:07:46.480 --> 0:07:48.400 it is, and and the biggest part for me was 0:07:48.440 --> 0:07:51.440 just getting to know the people. Uh. And I signed 0:07:51.440 --> 0:07:54.600 a publishing deal with Universal and they just got introduced 0:07:54.640 --> 0:07:56.160 to a lot and it was like for me, it 0:07:56.200 --> 0:07:58.880 was like songwriting camp. Even though I had written, you know, 0:07:59.040 --> 0:08:03.520 three independent albums for myself, I didn't really know how 0:08:03.560 --> 0:08:06.880 to write a song. I just was just winging it. Yeah. Oh, 0:08:06.920 --> 0:08:08.920 by the way, why did you start writing songs when 0:08:08.920 --> 0:08:12.840 you're a kid? I don't know, I really don't. I 0:08:12.880 --> 0:08:15.480 had no big awesome story about that. I just just 0:08:15.480 --> 0:08:17.600 started doing it and liked it. Yeah, I played guitar. 0:08:17.680 --> 0:08:20.320 I took lessons as a kid. Um, I didn't even 0:08:20.360 --> 0:08:23.520 know I could sing good, like nobody, nobody in my 0:08:23.560 --> 0:08:26.880 family's musical so I had no idea and I started, like, 0:08:27.200 --> 0:08:29.440 I think our youth group at church needed somebody to 0:08:29.440 --> 0:08:32.000 play guitar, and they were like, do you sing it all? 0:08:32.080 --> 0:08:33.920 And I was like, I don't think I sing good. 0:08:34.440 --> 0:08:35.959 And then I was saying and they were all like, man, 0:08:36.000 --> 0:08:38.120 you sing really good. You have a great voice, like 0:08:38.120 --> 0:08:40.320 one of the best. Well at the time, I didn't know. 0:08:40.400 --> 0:08:43.040 I mean, you know, when you've never been told you're good, 0:08:43.120 --> 0:08:45.280 you just think you're just and you're not from like 0:08:45.280 --> 0:08:48.360 a musical community. Yeah, I didn't. I didn't have anybody 0:08:48.400 --> 0:08:52.679 that taught me. I didn't know. Uh, But so I 0:08:52.720 --> 0:08:54.640 started just writing songs just for fun, I guess. And 0:08:54.640 --> 0:08:57.040 then the real world happened, and then the development deal, well, 0:08:57.080 --> 0:08:58.960 then the first record deal and then the sony. Yeah, 0:08:59.000 --> 0:09:01.280 I mean it was definitely like I mean not to 0:09:01.400 --> 0:09:04.280 over spiritualize it, but like I definitely think it was 0:09:04.320 --> 0:09:06.640 one of those things that God had to kind of 0:09:06.679 --> 0:09:09.320 like create a few of those things for me to 0:09:09.520 --> 0:09:11.720 just or else I would have never believed it, you 0:09:11.760 --> 0:09:13.920 know what I mean, given you those opportunities that were 0:09:14.000 --> 0:09:17.240 kind of just pulled you in your undeserved Really as 0:09:17.280 --> 0:09:19.520 far as like I didn't work for him early on, 0:09:19.960 --> 0:09:22.600 it was just more you know, I think God's way 0:09:22.640 --> 0:09:24.880 of being like, Hey, here's yours is where you're going? 0:09:25.080 --> 0:09:32.760 I'm hello, We're in an interview. You think I'm joined this? 0:09:33.400 --> 0:09:35.520 Come on, say hi? This is you got to talk 0:09:35.520 --> 0:09:38.880 in the microphone? Is you have to tell us? One 0:09:38.880 --> 0:09:44.720 in lightning thing? This is Corey's publisher right now, you're 0:09:44.720 --> 0:09:51.960 on you say something right now. It's not Scott. Scott's 0:09:51.960 --> 0:09:57.400 has prouder moments in this. He's behind the scenes. This 0:09:57.440 --> 0:10:02.680 is the man making of Heaven interview. So we're at 0:10:02.760 --> 0:10:06.079 Corey's publishing company right now, and that was his publisher 0:10:06.160 --> 0:10:09.720 that popped in. Publishing companies are so fun. There's always 0:10:09.720 --> 0:10:14.120 cool people around the building. Songwriters are coming in like 0:10:14.480 --> 0:10:17.320 this place is a family too, because you know, kind 0:10:17.320 --> 0:10:19.600 of a fast forward a little bit, like you know, 0:10:19.760 --> 0:10:23.160 when I my deal at Universal ended, I haven't gotten 0:10:23.160 --> 0:10:27.319 there Sony first, Sony, I didn't my record deal didn't happen. 0:10:27.440 --> 0:10:31.720 I had a developmental deal. Um, it just never fully 0:10:31.760 --> 0:10:35.280 developed into something I delivered sides and well. And maybe, 0:10:35.280 --> 0:10:37.079 like you were saying, like it happened so young, you 0:10:37.120 --> 0:10:39.679 weren't quite fully ready for it, because you said, like 0:10:39.720 --> 0:10:43.040 you were talking about it was spiritual, like God had 0:10:43.040 --> 0:10:45.920 given you these things you weren't maybe deserving them yet 0:10:46.559 --> 0:10:48.840 to let you know this was your path. Yeah, and 0:10:48.880 --> 0:10:50.559 you know you were deserving him because he gave you 0:10:50.600 --> 0:10:52.560 the talent for it. Yeah. I mean, but you know 0:10:52.600 --> 0:10:54.240 what I mean by that. I mean there's people that 0:10:54.320 --> 0:10:57.920 just grind and grind. And when I I think, I 0:10:57.960 --> 0:11:01.839 associated writing and action and artists all in this like 0:11:01.960 --> 0:11:07.400 same hat um. But there I didn't realize that there 0:11:07.440 --> 0:11:10.560 was a career to be had for me in just 0:11:10.640 --> 0:11:13.640 writing and producing. Like I never considered that. I always 0:11:13.679 --> 0:11:15.439 thought like, man, I have to be an artist or 0:11:15.520 --> 0:11:18.480 else nothing or nothing. And then once I kind of 0:11:18.520 --> 0:11:20.840 started seeing the lighted the end of the tunnel, like 0:11:20.880 --> 0:11:23.200 I randomly got. Right after I got, I kind of 0:11:23.240 --> 0:11:27.480 lost my sony deal. I was still at Universal Writing UM, 0:11:27.600 --> 0:11:30.599 and Kenny Rogers randomly wanted to record a song of 0:11:30.640 --> 0:11:33.200 mine and so that was like the first moment where 0:11:33.200 --> 0:11:35.560 I was like, oh crap, like I could be a 0:11:36.320 --> 0:11:39.560 I could be a writer, Like only you know, like 0:11:39.920 --> 0:11:42.240 this is great, and that's kind of what spoke to 0:11:42.320 --> 0:11:44.920 your heart the most, right, Yeah, Because I mean I 0:11:45.520 --> 0:11:47.560 played shows. I mean from the time I was eighteen 0:11:48.200 --> 0:11:51.600 two seven when I stopped to being an artist and 0:11:51.679 --> 0:11:55.000 I was I mean, I played lots of dates, like 0:11:55.040 --> 0:11:56.920 I didn't do this whole weekend gig thing. I mean, 0:11:56.960 --> 0:12:00.600 I was going for months at a time, and and 0:12:00.640 --> 0:12:04.440 I never stopped getting nervous before I played. It's just 0:12:04.559 --> 0:12:07.360 so weird, like just you think, like over time you'd 0:12:07.360 --> 0:12:09.800 stop getting nervous. I didn't. I always was nervous. Did 0:12:09.840 --> 0:12:12.400 you dread it? Dreaded it as my least favorite part 0:12:12.400 --> 0:12:14.280 about what I did. Did you like it when you 0:12:14.320 --> 0:12:16.520 were on stage? I mean once I got a few 0:12:16.559 --> 0:12:20.360 songs in, it was cool, but I just it never 0:12:20.559 --> 0:12:24.400 felt like a natural spot for me. And so now 0:12:24.600 --> 0:12:26.439 it's just funny like now people be like, you don't 0:12:26.440 --> 0:12:29.439 miss me an artist. I'm like, hell no, God, that 0:12:29.640 --> 0:12:31.240 was no way I'd much of them to see my 0:12:31.320 --> 0:12:34.360 songs being so in front of ten tho people than 0:12:34.400 --> 0:12:37.800 be the guy totally. But I feel like we're talking 0:12:37.800 --> 0:12:42.560 a little bit before. Sometimes you don't know exactly what 0:12:42.679 --> 0:12:44.800 you're totally called to do. You just sort of start 0:12:44.960 --> 0:12:48.719 going towards a direction. And like with Nashville, there's so many, 0:12:48.720 --> 0:12:51.320 like you're saying earlier, there's so many different roads in 0:12:51.320 --> 0:12:53.720 this entertainment industry, but it's sort of hard to figure 0:12:53.720 --> 0:12:56.080 them out until you're just in it well. And part 0:12:56.080 --> 0:12:59.319 of it's too, Like you start going on, Man, I 0:12:59.320 --> 0:13:03.280 don't think I could get somebody excited about me as 0:13:03.280 --> 0:13:06.640 a writer. You know, you don't have the confidence in 0:13:06.679 --> 0:13:08.120 that yet. So you're like, I know I can get 0:13:08.200 --> 0:13:10.520 him excited about me as an artist, So let's do 0:13:10.640 --> 0:13:13.880 that and then let's just see what happens off of that, 0:13:13.920 --> 0:13:16.760 you know. And it's just I think sometimes you just 0:13:16.800 --> 0:13:19.000 have to go with what what you what you think 0:13:19.040 --> 0:13:23.040 you can break in with and then um. But but 0:13:23.200 --> 0:13:26.000 people like Scott and Liz so you know, and those 0:13:26.000 --> 0:13:28.640 are your publishers. Oh, by the way, Scott and Liz 0:13:29.280 --> 0:13:33.000 Punts and Liz Rose, who wrote Girl Crush is Corey's publisher. Yes, 0:13:33.240 --> 0:13:35.440 Liz became a good friend of mine because I started 0:13:35.440 --> 0:13:38.360 working with Jamie Lynn Spears right at the end of 0:13:38.400 --> 0:13:42.520 my universal publishing deal, and Liz and I became good buddies. 0:13:43.040 --> 0:13:47.160 And I'll never forget I was. I was like shopping 0:13:47.200 --> 0:13:49.680 around to publishers, you know, they're taking meetings, and I 0:13:49.679 --> 0:13:51.480 hadn't really talked to Liz, and I don't know why. 0:13:51.520 --> 0:13:53.720 I just didn't want to, Like I didn't want to 0:13:53.720 --> 0:13:56.440 put in an awkward position to say no because we 0:13:56.480 --> 0:13:58.720 were buddies and writing. And so we were in the 0:13:58.760 --> 0:14:01.719 studio with Jamie Lynn. You're cutting and she goes, I'll 0:14:01.720 --> 0:14:04.120 never forget. She goes, hey, I'm mad at you, by 0:14:04.120 --> 0:14:07.079 the way. I was like for what She was like, 0:14:07.160 --> 0:14:09.199 because you are looking for a publishing deal and you 0:14:09.200 --> 0:14:12.959 haven't talked to me. I was like, that's bullcrap, Like 0:14:13.679 --> 0:14:16.160 you knew I needed a publishing deal, you could have 0:14:16.200 --> 0:14:18.200 talked to me. And she was like, well, I want 0:14:18.240 --> 0:14:20.160 your publishing. I want to be I want to work 0:14:20.160 --> 0:14:22.520 with you. So I came and met with Scott and 0:14:22.880 --> 0:14:26.960 Natalie was here at the time, Natalie now married to 0:14:27.080 --> 0:14:31.240 Eric Paslay. I met them for beers and it was 0:14:31.280 --> 0:14:35.240 awesome and we started just kind of dating so to speak. 0:14:35.920 --> 0:14:38.920 And uh, and here I am this is I got married. 0:14:39.520 --> 0:14:42.160 We got married how's the marriage, man, We've had plenty 0:14:42.160 --> 0:14:45.120 of song babies together, which, by the way, we're kind 0:14:45.120 --> 0:14:48.160 of jumping everywhere. Corey's about to have his second number one. 0:14:48.920 --> 0:14:51.240 His first number one was Chris Young. I'm coming over. 0:14:51.760 --> 0:14:55.040 What that was a three week number one? Yeah, stupid, 0:14:55.600 --> 0:14:58.040 that's crazy. And now you're having your second number one 0:14:58.280 --> 0:15:03.240 with Chris Young and Cassidy pulpits to do it. Thank you. 0:15:03.280 --> 0:15:05.000 They played it on the A c m S, which 0:15:05.080 --> 0:15:09.080 was amazing. That so does that just freak you out 0:15:09.120 --> 0:15:11.360 with excitement when you hear it? Like when you saw 0:15:11.400 --> 0:15:13.400 it on a c MS that was really cool. I mean, 0:15:13.880 --> 0:15:16.200 first of all, to see it played was really cool 0:15:16.320 --> 0:15:20.120 and see in person. But we had two nominations, so yeah, 0:15:20.120 --> 0:15:22.240 what were the nomination I went from two years before 0:15:22.400 --> 0:15:25.080 sitting in like the cheap seats to being on the 0:15:25.120 --> 0:15:27.240 nominee floor and like walking the red carpet of Chris. 0:15:27.280 --> 0:15:30.400 It was really happen. It seemed to me like it 0:15:30.480 --> 0:15:33.920 happened really fast, you know, like I know too, maybe 0:15:33.960 --> 0:15:36.160 people here I've been a while here how many years 0:15:36.240 --> 0:15:39.040 now six this time, and I've been around, and I 0:15:39.080 --> 0:15:41.400 know maybe it didn't seem that fast to other people. 0:15:41.440 --> 0:15:43.880 But god, it felt fast to me, you know, yeah, 0:15:44.160 --> 0:15:46.080 just being Lane were walking the carpet and she was 0:15:46.120 --> 0:15:48.480 like whispering to me. She was like, this is weird. 0:15:49.080 --> 0:15:51.200 I was like, yeah, this is really weird. It's like, 0:15:51.240 --> 0:15:52.840 but don't act like it's weird. Just act like it's 0:15:52.840 --> 0:15:56.960 really normal. At least I saw Hobby, I saw I 0:15:56.960 --> 0:15:59.120 saw Michael like ahead of me, and I was just like, 0:15:59.440 --> 0:16:03.360 all right, comfortable, I'll see this isn't that bizarre. And 0:16:03.360 --> 0:16:04.960 I was with Chris, so Chris is one of my 0:16:05.040 --> 0:16:07.840 best friends too, so it was like, but it is 0:16:07.880 --> 0:16:11.040 weird getting thrown into those situations because you belong there, 0:16:11.120 --> 0:16:13.960 but like it's also like, holy sh it, there's Jason 0:16:13.960 --> 0:16:17.080 Aldean and there's like, you know, Keith Urban. But it's 0:16:17.160 --> 0:16:21.840 weird because your community is now becoming those people, and 0:16:21.920 --> 0:16:24.520 because you're kind of right, you kind of rise up 0:16:24.560 --> 0:16:27.080 as class as I feel like in a way, and 0:16:27.120 --> 0:16:29.800 now it's like that's your people. Now they need you 0:16:29.880 --> 0:16:32.200 just as much as you need them, and everyone works together. 0:16:33.080 --> 0:16:35.560 Isn't that weird? It is weird to be in that group. 0:16:36.280 --> 0:16:39.600 It it is when you think about it, but it 0:16:39.640 --> 0:16:42.200 doesn't feel very weird, you know. I mean because these 0:16:42.200 --> 0:16:46.600 are all buddies. Um, it is weird. It's weird. I'll 0:16:46.600 --> 0:16:49.160 tell you. It was cool for me. My mom and 0:16:49.240 --> 0:16:52.480 my stepdad came out to Vegas and they've never this 0:16:52.560 --> 0:16:54.720 is the first time they've ever been kind of thrown 0:16:54.760 --> 0:16:58.200 into this world where they get to like see celebrities 0:16:58.240 --> 0:17:01.640 and stuff, and you know, we were just like we'd 0:17:01.680 --> 0:17:04.800 run into like Colsondale, it's a buddy from Georgia, you know, 0:17:05.280 --> 0:17:08.160 and like we'd like we'd shake hands and I was like, oh, dude, 0:17:08.160 --> 0:17:10.560 this is my mom and my dead Rick, and like 0:17:10.920 --> 0:17:13.520 they were they'd walk away and be like that, and 0:17:13.520 --> 0:17:17.600 I was like, oh yeah, that just didn't like hit 0:17:17.680 --> 0:17:19.640 me because it was just another human that you work 0:17:19.720 --> 0:17:23.360 with it, you know, yeah, because we know what, even 0:17:23.400 --> 0:17:28.359 though it looks like this to the world, it's not 0:17:28.520 --> 0:17:31.000 very flashy. Behind it's really not tell me what behind 0:17:31.040 --> 0:17:32.600 the scenes look like. To you, it looks like this, 0:17:33.000 --> 0:17:35.720 which is a beautiful studio on a beautiful day. Great 0:17:35.760 --> 0:17:40.480 Matt computer, got all your bells and whistles. Oh, by 0:17:40.480 --> 0:17:42.520 the way, everyone, in case you didn't know, Corey Crowd 0:17:42.880 --> 0:17:48.680 is the man responsible for my theme song. Okay, Caralin, Yeah, 0:17:48.760 --> 0:17:50.440 I know, I felt very honored you did that because 0:17:50.440 --> 0:17:53.160 you're very busy. So my theme song was very nice. 0:17:53.440 --> 0:17:54.960 If I haven't told you, this is where I'm going 0:17:55.000 --> 0:17:58.560 to tell you. So We're in Vegas and Caroline is 0:17:58.600 --> 0:18:03.119 ever hanging out over this like me, Caroline just speaking 0:18:03.119 --> 0:18:07.400 about you in third person like Garth. You know. Okay, 0:18:08.080 --> 0:18:10.879 we were we were talking. I think me and Michael 0:18:10.880 --> 0:18:13.960 were playing blackjack or something and you were talking to 0:18:14.000 --> 0:18:15.800 Laney and you were like, I think you should name 0:18:15.840 --> 0:18:18.119 your baby because we're having a baby girl, and Caroline 0:18:18.200 --> 0:18:19.920 you were like, I think your name was Caroline. It's 0:18:19.960 --> 0:18:22.760 a strong name. We've I've never hated my name. It 0:18:22.880 --> 0:18:25.879 was my name, I know. So the next morning, me 0:18:25.920 --> 0:18:29.159 and Landy You're having breakfast and we're like, I was like, 0:18:29.200 --> 0:18:31.919 how how awesome is Caroline? I was like, she's so funny. 0:18:31.960 --> 0:18:33.600 She was like I love her and Michael, but my 0:18:33.720 --> 0:18:36.520 Landy is Corey's wife and she is one of the 0:18:36.560 --> 0:18:39.000 coolest chicks in this town. They're about to pop out 0:18:39.000 --> 0:18:42.560 their new baby. She's just a badass. She is beautiful 0:18:42.600 --> 0:18:45.440 inside and out. Yeah, I weigh out punted my coverage. 0:18:45.760 --> 0:18:47.840 You guys are a great couple. You are a power couple. 0:18:49.080 --> 0:18:51.640 She We were like, man, Caroline is a cool name. 0:18:52.119 --> 0:18:54.720 And then our waitress walks up and she's just like 0:18:55.240 --> 0:18:57.359 kind of exotic looking lady like she's like, I don't know, 0:18:57.480 --> 0:18:59.520 maybe a Filipino or something. I don't know, but she 0:18:59.600 --> 0:19:03.280 says in her name Texas Carolina. I love Carolina, And 0:19:03.320 --> 0:19:06.080 I was like, lady, you're gonna name of Carolina. That's 0:19:06.119 --> 0:19:11.119 the name Carolina, Carolina Joy. So it was totally inspired. 0:19:11.640 --> 0:19:15.760 I love. It was inspired by our conversation Carolina Joy. 0:19:15.880 --> 0:19:18.879 And then we started thinking. We started thinking. Me and 0:19:18.960 --> 0:19:21.159 Landy got married and we lived in South Carolina for 0:19:21.160 --> 0:19:25.119 four years, so we started and so I was like, 0:19:25.200 --> 0:19:27.600 Carolina Crowder sounds like a strong name. It sounds like 0:19:27.600 --> 0:19:29.679 she's gonna be a badass, Like what is she going 0:19:29.760 --> 0:19:32.399 to do something amazing? And it doesn't sound like a 0:19:32.440 --> 0:19:36.400 stripper names that I was worried about. It sounds beautiful Carolina. 0:19:37.440 --> 0:19:39.360 I want to cry. And so this is a cool 0:19:39.440 --> 0:19:42.160 night story too. So my mom's middle name is Joy, 0:19:42.240 --> 0:19:45.360 which is one reason why we were doing it. When 0:19:45.359 --> 0:19:47.840 people live up to their names totally, if you give 0:19:47.880 --> 0:19:50.000 her the name Joy, she's going to be joyful. And 0:19:50.520 --> 0:19:53.479 this is you're gonna you can give you chills. So 0:19:53.560 --> 0:19:57.520 we decide on Carolina Joy. Laney has a aunt that 0:19:57.640 --> 0:20:00.800 she was adopted, and she really didn't have any family, 0:20:00.840 --> 0:20:03.400 like her only family was lady's parents, and like she's 0:20:03.440 --> 0:20:07.360 always around, super nice Joy Harris. She was like the coolest. 0:20:07.400 --> 0:20:10.960 I mean, I just considered her an aunt, you know. Um, 0:20:11.040 --> 0:20:13.080 And so we told her. We were like, hey, you know. 0:20:13.119 --> 0:20:15.120 One of the reasons too we like Joy was because 0:20:15.119 --> 0:20:17.400 we were like, oh, Joy Harris, duh, Like how cool 0:20:17.440 --> 0:20:20.000 is that? So we told her and she flipped out. 0:20:20.080 --> 0:20:21.800 She was like because, I mean it felt made her 0:20:21.800 --> 0:20:25.640 feel like part of the family. Well, like two weeks ago, 0:20:26.000 --> 0:20:28.879 she died of a heart attack, like in the middle 0:20:28.880 --> 0:20:34.200 of academy sports, and I was like, this is this 0:20:34.240 --> 0:20:36.880 is unbelievable, Like, and we're about to have a little girl. 0:20:37.040 --> 0:20:40.000 Her name is Joy, you know, like Caroline Joy. But 0:20:40.040 --> 0:20:41.960 how amazing that you told her, I know, And she 0:20:42.040 --> 0:20:44.320 was so happy, like just bragging about at the beach 0:20:44.359 --> 0:20:46.720 and I was like, man, what a cool I mean 0:20:47.359 --> 0:20:52.919 terrible devastating, very hard for the family, but um, what 0:20:53.040 --> 0:20:56.280 a cool thing for her to have known about. So 0:20:57.119 --> 0:20:59.720 Caroline Joy, it's a super meaningful name and you're part 0:20:59.760 --> 0:21:06.120 of it. First off, Carolina. I've thought about the name 0:21:06.160 --> 0:21:10.520 Carolina before because it's so beautiful, like in Carolina, the South, 0:21:10.640 --> 0:21:12.800 North and South Carolina. There's some of the best cities 0:21:12.840 --> 0:21:15.200